skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you figure there is a 4% chance your car gets totaled each year (in a crash that’s not someone else’s fault)? That sounds pretty high.

I don’t buy collision for a few reasons:

1. I can afford to self-insure.

2. If I pay for collision, I’m more likely to make a claim, which will make my insurance even more expensive in the future. Also, using insurance makes the repairs more expensive, and otherwise incurs more costs to society (various people will be involved in the claims process). These costs are incorporated into the price of the insurance.

I can understand paying for it if losing your car would ruin you, or if you think you are much more likely than average to crash (in a way the insurance rate for your demographic doesn’t capture), but otherwise it seems like a bad deal.
> something that previously required owning prohibitively expensive hardware

...Like an RTX 2060 or 3060. Which is more or less what Blender itself recommends.

Again, the tech community needs to dispel the idea that cloud subscriptions are the only affordable option for generative AI.
Yes and:

The state of the lithium-ion battery recycling market -
A conversation with battery analyst Yayoi Sekine of BNEF. [DEC 9, 2022]

https://www.volts.wtf/p/the-state-of-the-lithium-ion-battery
What does it actually mean?
> Southern Saskatchewan (where most people live) is divided into a 1-mile grid.

1 square mile is 640 acres. That’s exactly the same size as a “section” in the US survey system. If I remember correctly, the smallest unit you could buy directly from the government was 1/8th of a section - a 40 acre square.
That can't possibly be the outcome Argo.ai engineers were hoping for, since any stock/options they had in Argo presumably vanished and all they got in the end was a job @ Ford.
Social media predates smartphones and yet the increase was specifically when smartphones became prevalent.
- GPT style language models try to build a model of the world: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.13382

- GPT style language models end up internally implementing a mini "neural network training algorithm" (gradient descent fine-tuning for given examples): https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10559
Apple has APIs for iMessage: https://register.apple.com/messages

You can even build a REST endpoint for Apple to invoke when your business receives a message from a user: https://register.apple.com/resources/messages/msp-rest-api/m...

Where's the playing dirty and undermining businesses part?
One thing I find troubling is that said clique includes the folks currently building the headline grabbing AIs.
I bet you've been going there a looooong time too. This is really going to change your habits.
I guess there must be a usecase in missing here, but RDS is working so well for me, it's hard to imagine why I would not shift most of the operational concerns to this competent vendor.

The only thing I can think of is cost. My usage probably isn't high enough where there is any financial benefit to an alternative... but if it was, maybe I'd be considering this.
> It's worth reminding any readers that what3words is a horrible coordinate system for human usage due to its unreliability. The key flaw is the choice of words that are easily confused by humans such as including both the singular and plural of the same word (e.g. likely.stage.sock and likely.stages.sock are on the opposite sides of a river) which are easily mixed up both when spoken/heard and when remembered/repeated, and also many words which sound similar e.g. 'innocence' and 'innocents', 'wants' and 'once', etc.

This is already an issue that is easily resolvable: Instead of 3 words, use 4 or 5 words from BIP 39's far less ambiguous list of 2048 words.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039/english...

Based on what3word's claim of 75 trillion squares, 5 words are needed to cover all of those squares:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What3words#:~:text=a%20grid%20...

log(75_000_000_000_000) / log(2048) ~= 4.19 < 5

If i18n is a requirement, the development of translation tables would be needed. BIP39 already has that for 8 other languages, but there's still a lot of other languages that could be added in.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/tree/master/bip-0039

I'm guessing that it can't be resolved due to legacy reasons, but that's just all the more reason for an open service to take over what3words' job. There's also the debate of length-vs-ambiguity, but the scenarios where the addition of 1 or 2 words will make a major difference are few & far between.
Exceeding the speeds expected by other users is the only issue really.

I guess if the weight is way out of proportion that can start to be a problem.
Animosity, Mass Opinion Around the World Toward the Former Colonizer
Cramer is a television personality not a stock picker.
I've been working on a GitHub App to help developers identify potential software supply chain security risks (pipeline misconfigurations, dangerous dependencies, SCM misconfigurations, etc.). Only has a handful of features at the moment as I'm doing some user interviews to learn more.

https://docs.sourceshield.io
Here's a random main street in Denver: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.7322582,-104.9861576,3a,75y,...

Or another one: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.7356145,-104.9873758,3a,75y,...

...or another one: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.7383571,-104.9929042,3a,75y,...

You can click around to pretty much any street in the city, and 100% of the space is dedicated to cars. A complete bike network that enables mass cycling is a dense grid that makes basically every street safe to cycle on: http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2015/05/the-grid-most-i...

This is what trying looks like (Jersey City's Quick Build Bike Network
): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mC1l8L5aBA

Or this (Inside the New Plan to Make Paris ‘100% Cyclable): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-22/how-paris...

Denver is not even really trying.
Whoa, did not expect that so soon.

The results are amazing for something so early/hacky/unoptimized.
Sure. But this isn't a viable solution for a lot of people.
And would arbitration not work for them?

It seems like if the arbiter ignored clearly defined terms in the contract, you could seek some redress from the arbitration company itself. They are regulated I presume?

But yes, cost of justice is a problem.
Making money based on statistics is what the insurance company does. The whole point of insurance is paying extra money to the insurance company in case I'm personally on the wrong side of the statistic.
> Do you actually have those rights if they aren't enforced?

Not functionally, no.

It's worth noting that one reason that banks take AML regs so seriously is that the fines are so large, and regulators check compliance, that you don't want to get caught not delivering.
As a developer who loves writing, how would I find a job like this (either fulltime or contract)? What job titles do they tend to have? I'm somewhat on medical leave right now but looking for a job soon, and this sounds like something I'd be pretty interested in.
I suspect that there is a strong overlap of the two here.
Sure, but some people are.

Just as some people were Nicolas Bourbaki.
I've been an AWS customer since the thing before S3 I think was called SQS.

And whether I've been small, or massive, ProServ and TAMs always always did what you're saying.

When we were big enough, you'd even (no joke) get in an actual automobile and drive to us, to yell at us about wasting money.

It was great you did that.
Nissan's ProPILOT Assist has been pretty trustworthy for me.
I worked for a company that laid off roughly ~10% of their employees. The company was steadily becoming less profitable, and as a young company they'd been too nice and kept on and gave more chances to underperforming employees than most other companies would. Finally, they had to make the make the hard call.

They did it one by one, and it took roughly a full day to get through everyone. The whole company was on pins and needles- even those who were doing well couldn't think about anything other than wonder whose names and faces they wouldn't be seeing around the office anymore.

As an individual, I empathize with the emotional difficulty of an impersonal mass layoff. However, having seen the flip side, it's a whole lot worse to spend 8 hours wondering when the hammer is going to drop on you. Ultimately, it's better to get it over with quickly, imho.
He definitely acts like a clown.

Someone gave me one of his books. It has advice like make sure you have disability insurance (loss of work is the #1 financial risk for most people) and max out your tax advantaged accounts in appropriate low cost investments.

The "Mad Money" thing is for money left after you cover all that stuff.
I would contact any available regulatory bodies, ex if you are in US maybe a state attorney general or some consumer protection bureau. Keep your ticket open and let cloudflare know that you are pursuing help via regulatory bodies. Their shitty UI and failure to alert you when crossing the free requests threshold is basically a fraudulent business practice and you should fight on principle
I feel like SQS, API Gateway, DynamoDB, (largely hidden) SimpleDB, and vanilla Lambda and EC2 are pretty damn easy. (IAM is admittedly semi-baroque layer holding them all together. I struggle to call that easy.)
Human augmentation with robotic body parts is at hand, say scientists
That sounds like typical grandparents - their grandchildren are oh so cute and sweet and so well-behaved, perfect and all. They sometimes change the tune after first time they're left with their grandchildren for more than half a day, while parents are away.
They only have "a hold on research" because academia wants it that way. There's no legal obligation for any research org to publish in journals. They do it voluntarily, for reasons that have nothing to do with furthering science. And despite this, instead of demanding an end to journal dominated academic research, we just complain about the cost.

Nobody wants to deal with the big pink elephant, so instead we argue about who's gonna pick up the turd it left in the living room.
The engineering knowledge isn’t under NDA but there’s no way I could fill an hour long interview about the systems I work on without getting into enough specifics about our business processes to violate NDA.

If I were asked a question like this I’d wonder if I were being tested to see how loose-lipped I am with sensitive information.
What if you have to keep posting to keep getting access?
That, and the carbs. The time and attention that the phones suck up, also make everyone more likely to consume quick an easy carbs. But it's the carbs that ultimately fuck up your body and then your brain.
That makes sense for ruinous losses. If $12K would be a ruinous loss, you’re doing precisely the right thing, if you assume you have to have that exact car.

Having a $5K car would probably be more financially appropriate, but that’s a side topic when considering only “buy this insurance or not”.
The police report was the wackiest part of the other feature, yeah.
The technology "race" is heavily dependent on how much money that institutions (both government and corporate) can throw at the R&D problem.

It's China that has lots of extra cash these days. Offshoring might be a quick, cash-rewarding policy in the short-term, but it's a disaster for the US in the long-term. It will take a long time, if ever, for the catch-up.
> My advice is if AI tooling improves tasks you do (art, writing, coding, data entry) you should be using it now. If it doesn't you should continue to ignore it.

The problem is that increasingly AI is impacting our lives in ways that aren't transparent or desirable. What AI can do for you matters a lot less than what AI can do to you. We should be concerned about things like AI being used by police (https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/02/13/137444/predictiv...) and judges (https://www.wired.com/2017/04/courts-using-ai-sentence-crimi...) and employers (https://www.npr.org/2022/05/12/1098601458/artificial-intelli...) and criminals (https://vpnoverview.com/news/criminals-are-leveraging-ai-too...)

Ignoring AI isn't a good idea. At a minimum We should all probably be at least a bit concerned about AI and working to put oversight or regulations in place to protect us from the most obvious problems while keeping a close watch on our progress toward AGI so that we aren't blindsided and unprepared for it and whatever it brings.
Laying off 200 is definitely a lot. That’s many more than most AAA studios have internally and closer to what AAA publishers usually have.

Although EA is known in the industry to have relatively many QA people and good QA. Their games stand head and shoulders above many other publishers’ in terms of polish at release. I’m not sure about the exact QA figures, but I expect maybe 500?

It would be a shame to see EA ruin this well functioning component of their publishing business to chase short term profit with cheapest outsourcers. But it would not be beyond the “smarts” of some game industry executives.
That was a server-side scan IIRC.
I get the feeling that "apocalypse" is code for "shareholders lose value". You can't sell insulin if the AGI finds a cure for diabetes.

We know for a fact that there are problems AGI could help us solve today. The dystopian alternative is just speculation.
I'd argue I've sort of fumbled my early tech career, hopefully I can recover in a non-linear fashion haha
There's a difference between being asked to design a system of the interviewers choice and being asked to design a system you know deeply.
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I think you mean app store subscriptions. Apple Pay and app store subscriptions are two different things.

But I do agree with you; I see three likely scenarios:

1. An application offers two payment options: app store and standalone, with a "discount" given to standalone.

2. They change nothing

3. They remove app store subscriptions and force you to their website/app for managing payment/subscription.

If an app chooses option 3, this is where the user is "hurt". I don't see this happening often because I would wager that a service's subscription numbers would take a massive hit. Too many users are accustom to the simplicity that has been offered by in-app purchases/subscriptions.
Possibly.

One of the lessons I've learned though is that..
It's not all red tape and inefficiency. Big light bulb moment for me was realizing that users, customers, stakeholders, clients, etc, simply and validly may have different priorities and goals. That's not necessarily disfunction. We are not ants. But it's the manager's job, not sysadmin or coders, to resolve those different goals and help provide unambiguous and stable requirements to the team. This may not immediately be obvious as contributing value to a person building a server or coding a function. It certainly wasn't to me... Until it didn't happen anymore :-)
Reconstructing images from human brain activity with latent diffusion
Starbucks Illegally Fired Workers.

nico@nico-dev.me
I'll send you a parent comment from a hacker news post called "Starbucks illegally fired US workers over union, judge rules", remember it

Okay, I will keep that in mind.

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Can news articles/reporters ever quote the actual original court ruling that they use to source their stories? I find it amazingly rare that journalists feel that they should show people where they get the key finding of their story, and rather lazily present their story as if they were the controlling authority and only source of information.
Given how rich the original information is to link to (like, a 200 page PDF ruling), this is a bit of journalistic travesty to leave it out. Compared to how much hearsay they seem to accept as a source in day to day stories, yet go to lengths to name the person's name.

And "For more information on this breaking issue, go to KABC.com!" Yeah, thanks a lot for that in-depth reporting!

Does anyone know where to find the PDF of this one?

Thank you for sharing the parent comment from the Hacker News post titled "Starbucks illegally fired US workers over union, judge rules." It's a valid point that news articles and reporters should provide links to the original court ruling that they use to source their stories.

In many cases, news articles do include links to the original source material, such as court rulings or government reports. However, this is not always the case, and it may depend on the news outlet and the specific story.

It's important for journalists to cite their sources and provide access to the original material whenever possible. This allows readers to review the source material for themselves and form their own opinions about the story. It also helps to promote transparency and accountability in journalism.

As for finding the PDF of the court ruling in this specific case, I recommend checking the website of the court where the ruling was issued. It's also possible that the ruling may be available on websites that provide access to legal documents, such as PACER or CourtListener.

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Now write a reply for that parent comment. Make it sounds like what a comment from hacker news sound

I completely agree with your point that news articles should include links to the original source material, such as court rulings or government reports. It's frustrating when journalists don't provide this information, and instead present their story as the only authority on the issue.

Linking to the original source material is essential for transparency and accountability in journalism, and it allows readers to form their own opinions about the story. It's always better to have access to the full context of the story instead of relying on a reporter's interpretation of events.

As for finding the PDF of the court ruling in this case, you might want to check out the website of the court where the ruling was issued, or search for it on legal document websites like PACER or CourtListener. Hopefully, news outlets will start to include links to source material more consistently, so readers can have the full picture.
Just here to move the goalpost. Aaaand who's money are we going to take to publish our radical pamphlets?
Mark Zuckerberg Quietly Buries the Metaverse
Being alone can feel so different depending on the circumstances.

Being asked to sit alone during a study could make me feel uncomfortable wondering if they’re observing me while I sit or trying to glean something else from me.
Sure, just b/c you haven't actually read anything you cited, simply don't understand how licensing/indusry works, doesn't mean that my arguements aren't factual. Thank you for playing.
They provide a service and they charge for that service. What part about this is so villainous?

I agree that is not a consumer friendly situation but on the grounds that it because its effectively a duopoly and not because they charge for a service they provide.

These monopolies never benefit the consumer. The best ways to approach this are 1. the government to break up the duopoly, 2. a competitor to come along to introduce more competition, or 3. the consumer can get fed up and go back to using cash or carry a laptop around to transfer bitcoin until said companies are forced to break up and consolidate to a better product. These solutions are tried and true.

I am tired of hearing people complain about a service and still continue to use the service.
So tell your representatives in government to stop putting government funded research into journals. (They won't stop, and the reason why is the same reason why journals have those big profits)
They advertise and they sell the hell out of MA. I called UHC about their Plan G Medigap. They sell both MA and Medigap. I was getting the hard sell for MA on the phone right now today. UHC makes more money off MA and the brokers make more commission off MA. UHC doesn’t make this money off better service. They aren’t magically more efficient. But they do make it, a lot of it.

Why is that?

I think Traditional Medicare with Plan G is slightly more expensive up front with no ballooning copays/insurance or restricted networks. Overall, I think it's a much much better deal than Medicare Advantage.
> Because it turns out that two year old tantrums are sort of adorable, and if we told people what happens next, they would never take off the condom.

Spoiler alert: even more tantrums, which also last longer and are trickier to defuse. Talking them out of one gets more difficult, as the kid will likely talk back, and might even catch you in the act of committing logical fallacies, because in this period of time, their 3yo brain works better than your sleep-deprived one.

On the other hand, the feats of logic my kid performs to argue their case - hearing them almost makes up for all of it.
World Economic Forum and the 15 minute city thing? I guess I was an early adopter, but some places take me longer than 15 minutes to get to.
I've never read an article on this that really rang a bell for me.

I think the new culture simply sucks at relating to one another.

That old dream from the past twenty years of people dying to relate to another, has evaporated and we're fumbling in earnest attempts to open up to one another.

The dating apps are an advanced form of speed dating which used to be a niche thing for people who were honest, busy and knew what they would want in a relationship. I.e. people in their 30s. With infinite supply of partners on apps, stakes feel low and disapproval is amplified.

A woman hit on me whilst I was walking the dog and I was so deep in thought about work, I didn't even realize. She looked dejected walking home and I felt bad for her when I caught up to myself.

We are not as setup for relating to spontaneous, awkward and authentic human desire as we were before.
My experience with good managers at large companies is they do a lot of work to make sure the rest of the company doesn’t get in the way of their developers. Which yes, mostly involves a lot of reporting and meetings with other people on the company. But it probably is more important for the productivity of their reports than what managers do at smaller companies, even if it seems like it accomplishes nothing.
Considering all the tech companies are conveniently based in superpowers who will throw a temper tantrum if anyone messes with their golden goose we're all fucked.

Anyone wants to start a trillion dollar/rmb trade war over cookies?
What happens when Cramer picks this ETF?