skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I just cynical or is that more of the usual suspiciously specific kind of denial? I ain't no lawyer but I gotta say my peace to find out if'n I'm wrong. Someone help me out on this one if there's a lawyer in the house. https://platform.openai.com/docs/data-usage-policies

>OpenAI will not use data submitted by customers via our API to train or improve our models, unless you explicitly decide to share your data with us for this purpose. You can opt-in to share data.

OpenAI won't. Don't mean nobody else will. Microsoft or another subsidiary Microsoft opens, or sell it so someone else does. There's no statement claiming there is no transfer of that sort. Only restriction of de-identified data to a maximum of also 30 days for contractors and sub-processors.

So OpenAI won't retain the information, nor contractors. Don't see why Microsoft can't, because Microsoft ain't either of those. So I went to see what their privacy policy says on transferin https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy

>We do not and will not sell your Personal Information.

Don't say "we will not transfer your personal information". Only "we will not sell it". Don't say "we won't sell the de-identified information", only what's the "personal information" which I assume just means yer name and exact location are stripped and whatnot. All of this still, to my eyes, fully allows Microsoft to siphon data from OpenAI including personal information. Because it does NOT say "we will not TRANSFER your personal information".

See also section 3 of the privacy policy "Sharing and disclosure of personal information",

>In certain circumstances we may share your Personal Information with third parties without further notice to you, unless required by the law, including without limitation in the situations below

So the three examples given are just that. Examples. Could be a lot more, could be a lot less.

>Vendors and Service Providers: To assist us in meeting business operations needs and to perform certain services and functions, we may share Personal Information with vendors and service providers, including providers of hosting services, cloud services, and other information technology services providers, event management services, email communication software and email newsletter services, advertising and marketing services, and web analytics services. Pursuant to our instructions, these parties will access, process, or store Personal Information in the course of performing their duties to us.

Seems to me Microsoft could easily squeeze in them elephant sized holes for all/any of the above plus "other information technology service providers". Or in any of the unlisted "certain circumstances" because they're given without limit unless required by law, and US law on that would let the cows in if used for a door. Same goes for OpenAI transferring to be owned by some other company, which the TOS allows your personal information to be transferred to as well.

A relevant lawyer can probably whack some sense into me but far as my ignorant figgering goes all these words don't mean squat and aren't intended to really mean squat by very careful design.
Sure, a long haul semi with multiple drivers is a use case that won't be filled by electric trucks anytime soon. But that's a fairly narrow niche. Even on long haul routes it's pretty normal for trucks to have only one driver and stop for several hours for a rest. With a megawatt charger and 500 miles of range on a charge, even long haul trucking is just a mild engineering problem.

For in town trucks the math works out very well, and very quickly. Which explains why there are already multiple entrants into that market niche.
I made a KSP controller about 7 years ago. Even made it to hackaday. http://www.sgtnoodle.com/projects/kerbal-control-panel/

One time we played Artemis in the two mission control rooms at SpaceX. It was nice having professional headsets. My team was winning, until someone on the other team used the IT system to shut down our computers!
Not to mention XboxX and PS5, both use flavors of the AMD APU/iGPU. Sad that cheap consoles have better memory systems than any normal AMD/Intel box short of a Xeon, Epyc, or Threadripper.
It sounds like Eleven Labs to me. Either that or Azure TTS is better than I realized.
They aren’t necessarily threaded, but if you care about Numpy performance on an Intel chip at least you are already using MKL for Numpy’s BLAS, and MKL’s gemm is threaded.
I think the problem with long haul trucking is just getting the range. Are we close to having enough battery capacity to allow drivers to meet their hours-per-day limits? If not electric won’t be economical for operators.

Local delivery is a much clearer fit for electric, even in the short term. We see that here.
Bing Chat Quality Update
At least the AI reads the articles! That's more than the humans on the flesh-and-blood "Hacker News"
Built a PWA (+ TestFlight) to search, browse, and generate Stable Diffusion images: https://app.pica.so/

Fun to build, mostly just thinking through the UI, catching up with all the new AI models coming out these days. Would be a ton of work to really polish and monetize an iOS / Android app like this, not interested in taking it much further.
> Look at price/earnings ratios. They have crept up from the 80s which means investors are willing to pay more for each dollar of future earnings

This doesn’t come anywhere near passing the sniff test.

There are plenty of companies with very bad business models that still have a decent stock price (Spotify, Uber, Lyft).

Yes I know that you can’t have a P/e without a profit.

And some of the most valuable companies are in the oil industry extracting non renewable resources.
I've never seen mail being delivered at night, in any country I lived in.

Plenty of time to recharge vehicles.

If anything, local delivery vehicles are the best thing for EVs as they're inherently daytime use only.
I've been using this for 4-5 years.

I don't need bells and whistles for note taking.

It's just a bookmark I open, and reliably syncs across my devices.

I've never looked for anything else.
You have to have discipline and desire. Drugs and therapists can’t give that to you. A strict routine helps. Being accountable to other people helps.
> Perhaps I am misinformed.

No, but also yes.

The grandparent commenter is correct in saying 99.99% of US rail is designed entirely around moving freight. And I’d usually agree it does it well, but the system seems to be breaking down fairly publicly of late. Regardless, it’s essentially an apples to oranges comparison vs European/Asian passenger rail - a (very poor) reverse analogy would be to fault hyper regional business airports for not facilitating giant cargo planes.

Everything else you mentioned is basically correct but a large portion of the dysfunction is due to the specific need to lay new rail to get around the freight priority system that dominates essentially all of our existing rail lines. States are trying to roll out modern dedicated passenger lines but the projects keep getting derailed (pun intended) by politicians.

The Acela dedicated passenger line in the Northeast is (possibly) the only place in the country where you can make a reasonable comparison to the rest of the world.

And having ridden both Acela Express and Eurostar in the past decade, my opinion is that Eurostar is a very clear winner but not quite as obscenely as most people would expect.

Eg: The Amtrak cars are MUCH comfier but the train runs at approximately half the speed of Eurostar (Acela is supposedly capable of 135mph but it only hit 125ish when I rode - I clocked an avg ~90mph vs avg ~180mph on Eurostar iirc). No freight priority issues, etc. Still extremely last gen feeling, but more in a “this can be fixed” way and less in the “well this is utterly hopeless” like the rest of the country.
Lil B said it's both: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Based%20God
But only because he changed the meaning. Didn't realize there was an older one too.
My vendor’s products haven’t harmed me in any way I can identify but if they did that would be good cause for me to reconsider them. That would also be good cause for your analysis of “Stockholm Syndrome”.
Back in the day I went to the same bagel shop every morning for the commute. I'd tip by giving all of the counter guys/gals mini-champagne bottles at holiday time. Put a smile on their faces and prorated over 250 days was next to nothing for me to spend.
Statements like that don't really answer the question. Other reporting on this has said that 75 locations are currently getting build-outs for charging stations. [1] The actual question is where these will be built. Answering "the parking lot" isn't actually helpful to "where".

[1] https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3879040-usps-t...
Along with having some pretty goofy sound packs, https://youtu.be/xpvQ1Y27t70 in particular that to me is super eerie.
I have bridge in Brooklyn to sell you
Interesting. I know that in the 150 years or so that followed the people who called themselves Newtonians did believe in instantaneous action at a distance, and that this was the dominant understanding of mechanics until Faraday and Maxwell. But it would not surprise me if Newton's own views were more complicated.
> I wonder what the functionality of that big nose is.

In addition to crumple zone, that's where the wheels and steering gear is. And it's a handy place to stuff things like air conditioning and such. The alternative would be a much higher cab floor, which isn't an ideal choice for a mailman who probably gets in and out quite regularly.
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Agreed. The power of SD is actually in its diverse styles. You should be able to aim at any specific style in latent space and get it. This is in contrast with Midjourney, which heavily favors sci-fi modern style.
I am also interested in OCaml, so thanks for sharing this. I’ve heard it’s higher level than Rust and has GC. I’ve spent most of my career using Java and after a few weeks of Rust I love many things about it but feel managing lifecycles and ownership might be too much for me.
Over-provisioning vehicles has a capital penalty and requires staging areas that don’t already exist.
I believe that may get fixed eventually, not 100% may be at least 80%.
Played on pc, so didnt have all the issues console players had. Mostly bug free, and the story was great. Rather enjoyed the Panam romance and story line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XE7Mgk23i4
Now that’s what I call weight loss!
I prefer uber-esque
> Ethanol vapor appears to be important in habitat determinant and Baudoinia species may occur in association with natural fermentative processes, such as seasonal fruit drops, bogs, natural composts, etc. [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudoinia_compniacensis
Buffett: Generational wealth isn't what it used to be
I'm getting a bit of John Malkovich vibe from the host, probably from the emphatic pronunciation.
Yeah I'm torn about this- I kind of agree I'd prefer this to be a more direct information transfer. But I also think that a conversation between two knowledgeable people on a subject can add additional insights and can be more entertaining to listen to: That's what they are attempting here, but I agree this sort of dynamic is still too hard to manufacture from whole cloth in 2023.

On the other hand, the banter on this podcast is still less cringey than my local TV news, which is a compliment.
Regen braking plus zero-cost idle. Electric is at a clear advantage for local delivery.
Yep. I wouldn't be surprised at all to find that in real life HVAC accounts for half or more of the total consumption on a typical stop-n-go route.
Yeah, that is a quite substantial change! I was kind of expecting something much smaller - eq. measurable but not really significant.
I was thinking the same thing, which leads me to say "This is where I came in." That is to say, I have seen what happens next. Maybe it time for retirement.
For another point of reference here - Palo Alto's annual city budget is over $900 million.. $150M over 8 years represents at most 2% of the budget over that time frame. They're already planning much of that work, and big portions are already included in their annual capital budget, so realistically, the net increase is maybe 1% of the budget? 1.5%? It's a serious amount of money so should be appropriately weighed, but to pretend like it's fantastical is just disingenuous.
> Services can often be run more efficiently in private hands but ...

It's not because it's private. It's because it's forced to compete. You can't just transfer ownership of a monopoly into private hands and call it privatisation. You need to split it first, sell parts to adversarial entities and prevent them from buying each other.
I love how every response sounds like an advertisement.
I’ve been asking this for a few years now - how is Waymo ever going to be profitable, let alone worth billions? It seems like their opportunities to license the tech to actual car companies are pretty limited, as most of them seem to have competing efforts (and it’s not like any of them are so wildly profitable that Waymo could somehow capture much of their value). As an actual taxi service, it’s both hugely capital and labor intensive (even if you don’t need drivers you need all kinds of maintenance workers and cleaners), low margin, and you’re competing with Uber, Lyft, regular taxis, the bus system, etc. If they’re using custom, low-volume cars they need to have super high utilization rates to be profitable, which means you can’t have lots of idle cars to accommodate surges and things. Meanwhile they’re burning through billions of dollars and are like 15 years in with no profits in sight.
I really don’t understand the downvotes, but the full version of that famous quote is “do things that don’t scale right away.” Not “do things that don’t scale and will never scale.”
When you start low the delta is small. The countries that start high have the farthest to fall
how well did it work?
We should of course just eliminate tipping as a standard practice and just pay people more, but I imagine then there'd just be a lot of belly aching about how expensive a coffee is now and it was better when they could just not tip but feel justified because they still thought the coffee was too expensive.
No, you made an irrelevant and dismissive remark under the “guise” of an answer. Lazy.
Reading the submission headline, I thought this might generate the podcast using comments.

I've found myself wanting to listen to HN comment threads, as I'm one of those people who derives more value and entertainment from the comments than I do from the actual submissions a lot of the time! I envision a voice-controlled way to navigate through threads too. Basically an accessibility narrator on steroids.

I wonder if anyone else has ever been interested in something like this. Getting good voices to read like this podcast would make it that much more fun, so thanks for getting me really hot and bothered :)

Guess if no one does it soon I'll have to build it myself!
It sounds very realistic. Most realistic I know is Eleven Labs.
The one that’s driven me crazy lately is when Siri tells me through my AirPods that I left something beind. It always pronounces the “St.” in the address as “saint” instead of “street”, and I can’t understand how it would do this by accident.
Implementing a battery-swap system at major truck stops seems plausible. The semi would pull in, its battery pack would be pulled out by a light crane and slotted into a charging unit, and a fresh pack would be installed, no stop-over time needed.

I also wonder whether semis on certain well-defined long-haul routes (I-80 etc) could be partially automated, such that the driver could sleep in the back of the cab much of the time. Not sure if the technology is really there yet, though.
At first this seemed surprising. Until you think about it more in-depth, port 80 is very much a privileged port that most applications don’t have permission to host on. Additionally, servers typically can have multiple HTTP services running in parallel and since you obviously can’t run two separate servers on the same port, it makes sense to avoid this conflict by running services on specialized ports. I don’t believe the intention for most hosts is to keep the service secret by running it on a non standard port.
You mean the tech workers who make anywhere from 4-8x the median wage in America and even 2x-3x the median wage in their local market?

I’ll play the smallest fiddle for those who didn’t save during the good times.

Yes, I work for $BigTech and I save a significant portion of my income.
That was 100MYA though.
Hard to fit Amazon packages on a tricycle, Mate.
> even HTTPS leaks the requested URL

It does not. In the olden days the host name was leaked, but with SNI even that is gone. Anything past the first "/" is never and was never sent in plaintext in HTTPS
Pro tip for people who make fonts:

if you have a webpage for the font, include quality, high resolution pictures of the font.
According to the USPS, "The longest rural delivery route is in Clarinda, IA. The carrier travels 181.4 miles daily and delivers to 234 boxes." It seems like most electric vehicles should have no problem covering that in a single trip and I assume this was something they tested before ordering.
Yeah, it is in fact promoting it. These kinds of things just makes me reluctant to buy any food/snack/drink that is not from grocery store or its in-house deli. So far I have not seen this forced tipping there.

I think the day is not far where there will be tip for paying tip because tips cause extra calculation for businesses hence they need to be tipped for processing tips for you.
How soon can we start hitting Mars with diverted Kuiper belt objects?
This may already be possible. But if not the capitalist in me says that upgrading thousands of post offices and their associated grids will create a lot of jobs.
> which was projected to save ~$1.7m annually

Did it?
Yep, didn't know about the crack meaning. Based God made it what it is today.
> it doesn't apply in places where only adults are allowed

Like...in public.

Or in many other places where someone in drag might be.

Or in most places that a trans person might be.

Drag performances are not inherently sexual, and are not inherently intended only for adults. The idea that they must be sexual in nature is part of the propaganda being spread by conservatives to try to invoke the "think of the children" effect.

There are a number of places that have "drag reading times" at libraries that are very popular, just as a quick example.
Haha, true.

It might be easy enough to do this sort of thing on the user side anyway, in Artemis Spaceship at least you can of course just use multiple stations if you want. So you just need a ship without too much going on, I think.
Over half of Ontarians plan to cancel Netflix over password sharing crackdown
I don’t know what a subjunctive is. Maybe that is what caused the confusion.
Here's a list of March whoishiring posts with job compensation listed in the post https://grepwhoishiring.com/
Analysis of customer feedback on behalf of consulting clients (hence the deadline where downtime wasn’t acceptable).
These are good points. We already have residential chargers which coordinate to share power, so it's very likely that any business-grade charger will have similar capabilities.

I do think swapping batteries is unlikely, however. It adds a lot of complexity, and if the typical route is only 25 miles long then a battery swap is overkill.
Second this. The simplicity of getting a site up and running with surge.sh is just unmatched.
Why would anyone tip a fast food restaurant? It’s bizarre they even ask.
> I'm not kidding, the robot would follow it's route and beep in front of an individual's office when they had mail on the cart.

The future I was promised... sigh.
They don't allow different comm. protocols between vps.
For other people who want to see

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Well, they decided if they charge 20% as tip they will be fine dining establishment. I mean this does feel like a fine to me.
The nation should subsidize package delivery to remote locations? I'm sure there is a good reason why, but I can't think of an example.

I can only hope their lack of profit motivation will make them stop taking money from bulk mailers.
If you use temperature 0 with an API call it does not hallucinate much at all especially with a good prompt including the information you are asking about.
The newest “mail truck” in the US is pushing 30 with a 40 year old design.

No AC, no airbags, no ABS breaks… how can anyone insure this or have it pass OSHA regulations?

https://www.hotcars.com/grumman-llv-brief-history/
try this: https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/hackernews.fm/rss.xml

(extracted from the apple podcast link)
I still don't understand how the game is driven itself, maybe this is more for people who are already familiar with bridge Sims?

Do you purchase campaign models and then have a virtual dungeon Master interact with all the players to present scenarios in more of a DND style?

Or is this kind of stuff automated and there are levels that are connected to the bridge sim?

EDIT: never mind I read the article itself, I don't know how early in development this is but some kind of demonstration would go a long way towards promoting this project even if the demonstration is bare-bones and impromptu.
EVs are still not campervan ready unless you have no plans to boondock (i.e you will always have a connection to the grid when you stop for the night).

If you use solar for recharging, best efforts (with a huge unfolding PV array) get you maybe 100 mile hops. That might be enough for some folks, but it's probably not going to be generally satisfactory (and, btw, it is a huge PV array that is required).