skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So this is only an issue if you get Tesla Insurance.

Yes, the headline is as ridiculous as you'd expect for one with "Tesla" in the title.

For those who aren't aware: Tesla sells its own insurance in some US states. Apparently it's a good deal (I'm not a subscriber and can't testify). And like some other insurers, they have integrated an automated driver behavior metric into the rate computations. Except in this case it's implemented as part of the car and has much more info available.

This is expressed to the user as a "Safety Score" in the Tesla app. Doing dangerous things causes it to go down. Apparently driving late at night codes as dangerous now (which... it probably is?).

No one's rights are being violated. Just buy standard insurance. No one's privacy is being violated that didn't already sign a contract to let Tesla monitor their driving.
> the insight into your mind that a private for profit company gets is immense and potentially very damaging when weaponized

How exactly?
My moral philosophy also amounts to "even if I try to be good, bad things will happen, so there's no point trying to be good."
Clarify something for me: If a DRAM chip is operated within its specifications, and suffers even a single bit-flip from this effect, is it not defective, either by manufacture or by design? Memory has a profoundly simple job, to return the data that was stored. Returning something other than what was stored is pretty fundamentally wrong -- either it needed more refreshes, or the specification should've prohibited repeated access patterns, or the memory controller allowed access patterns that were prohibited by the specification.

Are we all pretending this is mysterious and novel just because it would be uncomfortable to admit so much has been so wrong for so long?
I wonder what they do now, but part of your winning was to live in immortality by having a Polaroid taken and pinned to their winner's wall (or whatever they called it). Did they even get a free t-shirt? "I ate 4.5lbs of beef in one sitting, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt. (and constipation)"
For me : stop living in fantasy and start taking actions, getting other people excited about the idea and asking them to join me. It’s too comfortable to never let fantasy get in touch with reality. And once you do let it get out there I know what needs to be worked more on.
Awesome AI Coding List
> If you take "raw" steel and process it, you can look green from your operations...

I'm not sure the people complaining about Chinese steel imports are thinking about environmental footprint. It's all a chain of simplistic economic reasoning to complain that they import a product instead of producing it.
"Apple has implemented state-of-the-art security measures, and a breach in their security would be a rare occurrence with cataclysmic consequences" hmmmm. But I get the feeling my decentralized money just became centralized!
I've been using C4 as well and it's been working just fine. Sometimes I get confused about what should be a container and what should be a component (on large systems), but that's about it.
Wow, this is next level of killing living beings for pleasure.
From the get-go this seems much less abstract than C4 and that is not a good thing, since it makes diagrams less useful, much less readable and ultimately creates maintenance work.
From tfa:

> Concrete diagramming models are bottom-up, fact-based models that prioritize hard information over generalizations. They are ideal for creating diagrams with lots of detail, such as when diagramming existing systems.

(My emphasis)
Complete with 300 hour audio book version that describes each panel in the graphic novel.
GPT-4 with Plugins. Is it secure?
Probably closer to the latter than the former.
yet another reason not to buy an EV. nice. Keep up the bad work crapitalism.
I value this, which is why I use Cloudflare. It’s the only reasonable economical way to self-host my site in the current time while following security best practices.

With TLS it’s arbitrarily easy to overwhelm a target site that’s hosted on the smallest instance types at $provider due to the compute requirements of terminating TLS. Thankfully Cloudflare + LetsEncrypt makes it economical to host a personal site with good security without arbitrarily and suddenly high bills, constantly high bills, or my site arbitrarily disappearing off the web.

Bad actors poisoned the well (thanks China), and now here we are. I, for one, appreciate greatly what Cloudflare has done for the indieweb.
The one that posted “I’m a nazi” among other things while employed there. I'm not being vague, that's the direct quote you can google. They were GNAA president (taking over for weev, the dailystormer admin), there's your ID.

weev also claimed he had another (different) sympathetic insider at cf supporting him with dailystormer or other activities, btw, but that's unverified
No more so than any other car of the same price, in my experience. I mean, yes, Teslas are expensive so collision coverage is expensive. But no, they're not particularly expensive to repair in context.
Canada has a large and healthy wolf population, especially out west. The Manitoba wolf population numbers in the thousands and it’s also got one of the worst feral pig problems, according to the article. Maybe the wolves just can’t deal with them.
This is by far the easiest intro to using haskell the best fp using nix

Nix seems like alien language but it starts getting easier with usage

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.direnv

i was looking for a package manager that replaces the old paradigm, and after reading up on nix i hopped into its community only to find out they're mostly Haskell people using it instead of cabal, which is the exact reason i was looking for a new package manager to begin with

And configuring direnv based on the article

To make it so lazy that every time you cd into a directory your nix environment is automatically loaded this is pure functional programming magic
I agree. I also don't think there is a single perfect programming language yet.

I do think however that programming languages and libraries are the assembly language for AIs to interface with legacy systems targeting human usage.

So it's important for these to be easily understandable.

Go fills that sweetspot better imo. Until something else appears perhaps.

But you're absolutely right that we should make sure to still improve these languages and it is right to worry that LLM don't incentivize new languages (smaller code corpus, less data?). As for Go, it is improving steadily so I'm still confident in that regard.
So until you get in an accident your insurance should be $0.00?
>In Texas we trap them, blow them up, shoot them from helicopters

This is exactly what we in Europe imagine Texas to be like. I'm not disappointed.
It's nothing that increased farming won't solve. Farmers will efficiently eradicate any pest in their designated areas.
I get it, it's really annoying that there are different formats.

In fact I once nerfed a small database by importing a bunch dates from a csv in the wrong format.

But honestly both formats (M/D/Y and D/M/Y) are wrong, as clear from the clock example: dates should be big-endian; Y/M/D.
Seems broken on mobile? I just see a black bar. I assume from the description it has the hours/minutes/seconds in a weird order
> Getting to know page builder doesn’t make you a developer (leave the job to a professional).

Not only is it naive but based on the sad, self-centric failure to understand the original purpose of the web as a means for publishing hypertext.
No those initials were already taken by Atlassian Software Systems. They seem to have lodged the paperwork with that name in 2002, and to have dropped it later on (they rather went with TEAM when going IPO in 2015), but back in 2010 when I applied, there was a book (collection of news articles) in the waiting room for candidates titled “Atlassian Software Systems”.

Great guys.

https://youtu.be/VfyUbuFoiBU
> (either through a “whoops we got hacked” moment or intentionally for the next level of adtech)
> Pigs are dangerous. They’re mean, dirty, and can wreak havoc in ecosystems. Coming across a feral pig is dangerous, and they travel in squadrons so it’s likely you’ll cross a handful at a time.

Sounds a lot like humans.
This has nothing to do with explosives. In case you wondered.
I don't know whether you could call it proper Anglish - I called it Ard English to signal that this was my own independent research and that I wasn't deliberately following any given guidelines for Anglish. But it is indeed in the same spirit, yes, and I would not hesitate to share my word choices if there is interest.
Nestle uses appx zero water. 58M gallons, according to this article, which is equivalent to about 181 acre feet.

Agriculture measures their water in Millions of acre feet! (MAF) They use dozens of MAF per year.

Nestles use is not so much as a rounding error. And the water they bottle is used for it’s highest imaginable purpose - drinking.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/27/california-n...
Meditation can be good, Sam Harris and the rest of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_dark_web are not.
Seymour Hersh and John Mearsheimer in Chinese Media
Are they cancelled in US media?

What does it mean for their reputation?

Seymour Hersh: I am very used to the stupidity of my government

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_nbbAMMfLc

Exclusive interview with Prof. John J. Mearsheimer on Ukraine crisis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4s7T-TLp6k
You got spun badly by a deliberately misleading headline. This is insurance coverage. Lots of insurance providers, including Tesla, offer an opt-in driver monitoring discount. If you don't want it don't buy the product; it's got nothing to do with the car except for where the telemetry comes from.
It / OpenAi are not "deciding what is good and bad for us", it is deciding what services they want to provide or not provide.

Your pontificating is doing more "deciding what is good and bad for us" (grousing about it's inability to identify the pornstar you're horny for today & dressing it up as some kind of moral high ground) than it is.

There are plenty of open source LLM and "AI" models or research to build your own. Go select one and train it on the large body of porn works out there on the internet and you'll likely make a fortune from this "missed opportunity" that OpenAi is leaving on the table.
But it is. "You're concerned about your data when using ChatGPT but you're probably using Google so your concerns are invalid"
Don't get me wrong, I do had a couple of ideas and validate with rigor, some of them really had a little traction. But when I think, do I want to dedicate my soul to this problem for the next 5-10 years I think is not really worth it or I'm not impacting people life in any major way.
Whoops, I meant directly integrated into the IDE*
I've 4 exits and ~25 failures under my belt, and I'm dealing with the exact same problem; However, over the years I've come to enjoy every single project that didn't work out more and more because failure is the default, and valuable information for the next attempt. And as long as you keep the surface area for luck to strike wide enough at any time, you're gonna make it through somehow.

Can't agree that loving the problem is a prerequisite, but more of personal trait. If you work on something that's boring AF and still can deliver best-in-class because the result ($/fame) is what you're ultimately after, there's no need to get high on your own supply.
People are still going to apply to work in Google in droves. No need to be so melodramatic.
Meh, I gave it a good faith effort but found it lacking everytime I tried something that is not a standalone function. Even then, it sometimes was confidently wrong. Almost every time I was disappointed with it's answers so I don't go to it so much anymore.
That's one reason why I have no interest in purchasing a car or even getting a driver's license. If I can live in a walkable area with public transit and just walk or take the train/bus everywhere, I can save an enormous amount of money by not owning a car. If you're not using a car on a regular basis, it is probably much cheaper to just sell the car, cancel your insurance and use Uber or Lyft when you do need a car.
I believe the set of people who complain about the “dating market” and the set of those who believe dating is a market is the same set.
I haven't really started using it, but I'd like to.

I have a PDF file of every web page I've ever read/found interesting since the last century. This collection of about 70,000 files turns out to be a massive database of things I'm interested in.

I'd love to have an AI analyse this collection, and do things with it. What, exactly, I don't quite know - recommend other subjects that are similar, find aspects of the things I'm interested in that I don't know about yet, maybe even find similar sites to those found in the PDF metadata that would fill in gaps in my knowledge. Not sure yet how that will work, but I'm thinking about it regularly - usually whenever HN prompts me with Cool AI Thing of the Day™ ..
Iso8601 for the win!
Ask HN: Is Gmail/Google Workspace getting slower?
I am getting the impression that gmail is not as snappy as it used to be. Like it takes longer to open the page, to search for emails, and to open an email draft. I will not have time to migrate to another email platform anytime soon, but I am thinking about it. For the time being, I wonder if it could be something else. Maybe I have too many old emails? It's ~7,000 at the moment, that should not be too much. Or maybe it's my connection. Or maybe I have just been reading too many negative things about google, and I start imagining things?

edit: Just checked, and it takes 12 seconds to launch it.
> A writer/artist/whatever can make some money off a work for two decades and then their work goes to the society that enabled its creation.

-- Signed, Not an Artist.

(Most artists are paid an absolute pittance for their work. Most work at least one other job. Almost none make even a basic income. I feel artists should have the benefit of the income from their work for their natural life, unless they waive their rights. That said, companies have sorely abused and influenced copyright law to the point that the advantage is highly asymmetric in their favour and that certainly needs to be addressed).
You got the point :) As I'm stating in the Value proposition chapter, the catch is you have to "trust" Apple. Is this the best thing to do? Overall, no. But, may it help spreading the adoption of crypto (in general) and non-custodial wallets (in particular)? Maybe yes :)
So many people want this though. It’s very depressing. During the lockdowns there were people who reluctantly complied but many others (even here) were so happy to be under control. They relished the thought of someone else making all the decisions for them where everything was forbidden except what was explicitly permitted.

A huge part of society just begs and begs for subjugation.
Based on the author’s name, I think the audience is likely exploit developers. If you’ve found a memory corruption vulnerability in a program written in C/C++, you’ll likely need to have fine control of the heap in order to achieve control of execution. For example, imagine you’ve found a heap overflow, meaning data is being written outside the bounds of an allocation into an adjacent allocation. In that case you’d need to understand where glibc places each allocation so that you can control which object gets overwritten.
By not using it
Do you expect raises at work to cover inflation at least?
I’ve never seen rabbit in a U.S. grocery store where I live, nor on the menu in any but some very ethnic Chinese restaurants.
The city and the forest and two different places.

I don't think we should be gardeners of the whole biosphere.
They have leverage over Cook, as he is still primarily a business executive and will not do any moves which would jeopardize the bottom line and the fantasy of infinite growth.

Apple has not released a single new concept since Jobs passed away. They can and will be overtaken by someone who won’t sell their dream to AppleCorp.
YouTube’s chaotic rise to world domination
how do you downvote on HN?
Generally yes. I do this 10-12 hours per day, and I'm tired at night. Also, somebody once asked me to write a video game in 2-3 hours on a laptop that I'd never used. I did it, but they didn't really have a position. Was a huge waste of time-unless they've invested in the relationship, it feels exploitative
The monkey’s paw curls, and Americans adopt this time format as well just to spite the rest of the world for complaining about their preferred date format.
My response to this is "eh whatever". Insurance companies have the right to do things like this, and you as a consumer have the right to pick up the phone and get a policy with the different company.

If I had to guess, this "feature" will be killed soon after public backlash. Likely it was thought up in the depths of product management and will get yanked once the rubber hits the road and they realize people are not going to put up with it.
I’ve run a service that pissed off free users by charging for things that used to be free.

It increased revenue and decreased costs from the tiny percentage that actually left. I think it’s win/win for any business that doesn’t rely on network effects.
You are asking in the wrong place. HN is filled with the idea that every moment of waking time should be dedicated to hustling, doing startups, being productive... in short, work.

Unsurprisingly people here are telling to double down on following your ideas.

Such attitude is very effective at creating burnout.
You need to have more karma points. I don’t remember the exact number, but I think it’s either 50 or 500.
If the engine in your car stutters once in a while… is it defective?

If your LCD monitor has a dead pixel, is it defective?

That is a question of quality.

Rowhammer showed that what previously was acceptable quality is no longer so.
British PCs of the 1980s
That’s not my point. Maybe it is parroting a solution for something it has seen before, but still capable of writing solutions to problems it has not seen before when they’re well specified.

The presence of contamination does not mean the general capability is intrinsically poor.
I'm in the UK and they've always asked how many miles I expect to drive during the policy. I just bought a policy today and for the first time they asked if I drive during peak hours. This is not a black box policy - they can't directly monitor either of those variables. But if I make a collision claim then they will ask where and when it occurred.
GPT-5 Public Launch Expected in June
A lot of Teslas that come my way (at night) are blinding me. I suspect that the autopilot or some other assist-system it turning on high-beam whenever possible, and sometimes doesn't turn high-beam off for opposing traffic.

Can someone with a Tesla shine some light on why this happens?
Thanks for the feedback sacheendra.
You are right about the lack of documentation, starting with a proper README, definitely on the top of the TODO list.
Still working on testing the structural Verilog language support, then will soon focus on documentation.
If there are developers around willing to early test structural verilog support or Naja: C++ netlist data structure, don't hesitate to contact me.
One thing to note: Naja-Verilog and Naja interact but are not tied: Naja structural verilog parser can be used to build any data structure or in any project needing structural verilog support (Yosys or Vivado synthesis outputs for instance).
10% inflation on government bonds that were trending at near-zero interest rates is definitely half a win. Even very long duration bonds had very low rates. It does require salaries and therefore the tax base to keep up with inflation.

> Or is this a follow on from recent currency wars

What currency wars? The "gas wars" are far more significant.
This is actually about extracting iron from ores and other sources of its oxide, as opposed to making steel from metallic iron and scrap steel.
Objective truth exists.
It's amazed me that the first 50 years of computers were "this is how to structure memory for operating systems" and the next 30 have been "hackers take advantage of all of that so we need to do a bunch of convoluted stuff just to try to thwart them." Kind of unfortunate that so much energy has to be spent on this work, but I appreciate that it is.
That will be a surprise to all of the people investing lots of time giving you continuous updates and improvements.
> just please don't kill anyone in the process.

Ah, there's the rub: How to define "anyone."

(In my 1960s Catholic family, my parents encouraged us four kids to discuss issues of the day at the dinner table. One night the discussion was about abortion, and specifically, when does a fetus become human. My dad joked that he often wondered whether fetuses didn't become human until they could cut their own meat ....)
>Not sure how you'd ever get rid of them

Same how Australia fought the Emus in The Great Emu war

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wms8ZEtVQhg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
Drugs and Alcohol Don’t Make You More Creative, Research Finds
LibGen's selection of these kinds of books is nowhere near that of the Internet Archive.

I guess I'm going to have A LOT more interlibrary loans in my future.
I'm seeing the same issue in Safari on macOS.
The wolves and the pigs might not live in the same places. Manitoba is huge.
Good thing one of those is required for civilization, ye, life itself to function, and the other is wrapping water in a plastic container. Certainly agriculture must use water more efficiently, but let’s not compare apples to oranges.
So your argument is that no shopping is an inconvenience, not an imposition? I ask because you did the same thing you're arguing against, and yet failed to provide any counter examples.
Why not use a bank account for receiving ACH transactions?
Blossom book house <3
It’s a famous old joke, about how people just want to complain. The joke is that these are probably repeat visitors who make the same complaints every time. It’s bad, and we want more.
This is almost point for point with Progressive's Snapshot program which has been around for years. Progressive also publishes what their rating variables are but you gotta dig a little bit more for the info: https://www.progressive.com/auto/discounts/snapshot/snapshot...

Its pretty hilarious that this is worth a tweet or a hacker news post, because its a hot young tech company catching up to what a stodgy insurance company figured out a decade ago.

Usage based insurance is a choice. There are plenty of options on the market to be rated traditionally. Kudos to Tesla for being transparent about their rating variables and calculation and not burying it 5 clicks deep in FAQs
I think you have some delusions about competitive programming. Now lets debunk them.

If you looked at the Putnam results this year, a good amount in the top 50 were competitive programmers (let alone top 500 which was filled with names on Codeforces). This is just America and Canada which aren't the strongest countries in the world when it comes to competitive programming. There is a significant amount of medalists in IMO who won gold medals at IOI.

Now 1) is definitely true. In the last ICPC, no team could solve D (including the winning team consisting of an IMO gold medalist, despite 19 tries).

Here is another example of a tough problem. It was so difficult that the solution to this problem was a published math paper!
https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/109707#comment-977862

Now to debunk copying and pasting library code. Take a look at this blog.
https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/112021

If you think just using some library code is competitive programming that takes 10 minutes to solve and mapping to some well known algorithm you most likely have never done it to any serious extent. In that case, provide more informed opinions then saying it is the same as leetcode.