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The work they did with the New York state has absolutely been monumental. So monumental even 40+ years later people still prefer it to the newest creations. This campaign also re-emerged after 9/11 as a symbol of support, something most campaigns can only dream of.

So it absolutely was a part of saving New York's tourism. Was it the sole reason, absolutely not, but I think in response to the article's "hyperbolic" views you're swinging far too much in the opposite direction by downplaying what impact it did have.
On one hand I hate to belabor this point, but on the other I think it's actually super important.

Both of things things are true:

1. The relationships between parameter weights are mysterious, non-evident, and we don't know precisely why it is so effective at token generation.

2. An agent built on top of a LLM cannot have any thought, intent, consideration, agenda, or idea that is not readable in plain english. Because all of those concepts involve state.
For the love of open standards, just stop!

I love my car, it has a 1 din radio. Many years ago I replaced the tape deck with a unit that had a CD player. A few years after that, I had a 3.5mm aux jack and even a USB charger for my iPod Classic. After that - bluetooth baby. It works like a dream and it was like 30 bucks at walmart.
I learned from one of the comments on the post about AGE[1], "a PostgreSQL extension that provides graph database functionality."

[1] https://age.apache.org/
Ask HN: What is your experience developing apps to work with Bluetooth?
What issues did you run into? Were you able to find open source libraries to take away some of the grunt work? How deep did you have to dig into the bluetooth stack?

For context, I'm working on a side project that involves a game written in Unity that will need to talk to devices over Bluetooth LE (and ant+). What I've found is incredibly disheartening so far. I want the game to be cross-platform, but it seems that every platform has it's own bluetooth stack, and even within a given platform, there may be N bluetooth stacks (looking at you Windows). AFAIK, nobody has written an open-source library to abstract away the platform specific details and just let apps talk to bluetooth devices with their chosen service. Also, the official bluetooth docs are really good, but I'm surprised there isn't a Bluetooth SIG that writes and maintains official bluetooth SDKs.

I've been heads down in the weeds on the problem for a week now and I feel like just solving the device connection problem is going to be a massive undertaking. I'm hoping to hear some inspiration from others, or find some tools to ease the process. Seems like a lot of people run into this problem online, but nobody has a good solution.
It is mostly the consistency, not so much the severity, of punishment which fixes the behavior.

People don’t know the exact charges and likely punishments before they commit a crime, so they don’t game out exactly the risk-reward tradeoff.

However, cops generally know the likelihood of avoiding prosecution before they commit a crime. Fixing the disincentive to prosecute police officers for any small crime is 1000x better than doubling the theoretical punishment that is so rarely applied.
accountability does not guarantee future improvement, while an AI can be continuously retrained
I don't know off the top of my head but I'd assume that one could adjust the storage strategy and other performance tweaking to optimize for the expected use case.
Url changed from https://9to5mac.com/2023/03/31/gm-carplay-support-ev/, which points to this.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Low light might help with designing digital backgrounds since low dynamic range makes for simpler lighting design...i.e. you can get further with a few diffuse sources in the computer model. That will speed up rendering versus high dynamic range and more sources.

So it's cheaper and faster and movie making is a business.
Its so fucking funny when I hear this argument. In the country where I live public transport gives you actual freedom. Like the freedom to go out have a drink and go home even late at night without having a high chance of killing myself or others.

The reality is cars are an incredibly drag on personal finances and a huge driver of personal debt, and relaying on walking, biking and public transit would give these people a much higher chance of escaping from poverty.

The idea that you can't have good transport without cars in sububran environments is just idiotic. Like maybe if you are talking about endless soulless American style sprawl but even then its just difficult not impossible.

Connecting rural communities by trains and buses is also mostly possible. People might still need a small car, but having access to public transit is still a great thing that would help people.
Ask HN: Are leaders genuinely afraid of AI or do they have an agenda?
Is AI Fear This Century’s Overpopulation Scare?
Android Auto is crap. It only works with some Google allowed apps.
ahahaha those are great. Thank you! it gives me ideas on what other things to try and makes me feel less obsolete.

sumplete (https://sumplete.com/about/) really blows my mind, so it's nice to see some of the limitations of the system
Actually, that's a fairly typical thing to say to someone that's older, and has lived through those times.

And I am sorry. Things definitely used to be better than they are now, in some ways, and definitely used to be worse, in other ways (for example, it used to be a very white, very male demographic). It's not my fault that things went the way they did. Folks liked money, so folks built a culture that maximized profit, and eschewed humanity.

I am quite sorry about that, but it doesn't change the fact that it was not always so.

It's not in my personal interest to go about creating a slideshow on "how things used to be." I know what I know. I lived it. I ran teams, exactly like I described, and I was a proud member of very large, high-functioning teams that stuck together for decades without stabbing each other in the back.

Let's just agree to disagree, then, eh?
I once helped someone create a monstrosity of an SVG - they exported a flowchart SVG from Visio that would show the current state of different steps of a project. The status of each step was stored in a SQL database. I helped write some JavaScript inside the SVG that would create an ActiveX object that would open up a ODBC connection and execute a SQL query to get the latest states, which would update the colors on the flowchart every time you loaded the SVG. It would obviously only work in IE11. Plaintext credentials stored right inside the SVG!
Yeah, this is Yud’s argument, but I just don’t get it. Does the technology to end the world by sending a couple emails around already exist? If so, why hasn’t the world ended?
Ford is probably more of a tech company these days than Google is.
This should help:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230329124453/https://github.co...

Check line 45
Yep, similar story as well from me, as I'm sure anyone who was doing software in the pre-cloud, pre-Docker era has...

Worked at a consulting firm doing enhancements to a legacy hotel reservation system, and we had just finished our latest feature, which was integration with another, even more legacy reservation system (Visual FoxPro, yum). This was old-school consulting style, so we developed internally with our test systems and no access to the real systems, then shipped over an installer .exe and let the client, who ran ops, handle the installation and deployment into IIS. We built it, they deployed with no issue, test reservation worked, easy.

A month later we got a report that about 20% of online reservations using this system were failing. Everything was working on our test systems, and it was working 80% of the time on their systems, so we assumed that it was a weird race condition with our booking service, which ran mostly asynchronously. We added a ton of additional logging to that service to try to figure out what was going on, sent them an updated version to deploy, and waited a bit.

A week or so later I went over to the client's site to look at their production systems with their ops person. They had 5 servers servicing requests. We looked at servers 1-4, everything seemed fine. Open up server 5... wait, where's the log file? Process was running, IIS was responding, but nothing was coming out. Check the permissions on the folder, and lo and behold: the fifth server had a typo in the permission ACL entry for a folder needed for the legacy integration, which by fortunate coincidence was also where we had set the log files to write. Fixed the typo, the problem instantly went away completely.

And being a consultant/client relationship, of course there was a lengthy legal dispute afterwards about whose fault this bug was, as that determined if it was covered under the original statement of work or we could charge more for it... one of the experiences that made me realize I needed to be working for a product company, not a consultancy.
> The future our father's made for us starting in the 1980s is barely live-able.

> If there is no hope for a better brighter future, people opt out.

We’re trying to make existing economic models work when the human population has doubled in less than a decade. It’s untenable.
it's called 团购, which is literally (group buying)

they just buy in large quantities and resell at slightly lower price than consumers can get individually
Isn't it almost guaranteed that someone will at some point subsidize the cost of audiobooks or the audiobook subscription by adding ads?

> _Could_ audiobooks be the next frontier for advertising?
I still see tons of people claiming Windows 7 runs better for them, but the WDDM updates have made Windows 10 far smoother for me, at least on a non VRR display.
Yeah car companies are never even gone consider or think about alternatives.
For reference, Steam still reports Windows at like 96% and Linux at like 1.5%.

So that 20% is of the 1.5%, so about .3% of all steam users are on SteamOS Linux.
Also of note: this decline only continues as long as the Fed actually cuts rates. If they don't, these long-term bond yields make no sense (why would you lend money for 10 years at 3.5% when you can lend money for 3650 successive 1-day terms at 4.75%?)

The logic behind this seems a bit circular to me. Market participants accept lower long-term bond rates because they expect the Fed to cut rates in the future. They expect the Fed to cut rates because if they don't, there will be a financial crisis. There will be a financial crisis because long-term bond rates are high and banks are underwater on their bonds, except that bond rates are declining because the Fed is going to cut rates, because...uh, why is there going to be a financial crisis again? What reason does the Fed have for dropping rates? It's very much an "appeal to consequences" fallacy - some bad outcome is not going to happen because that would be bad. The world doesn't work that way.

IMHO the market is wrong, and the Fed is not going to cut rates. They've gotten too accustomed to being bailed out, and the Fed is on to them, and so they're not going to do that again, at least not in the form that the market expects.
> Insofar as it addresses Hispanics and Asians, it does so by putting them in the “black” column—victims of oppression in a system of “white supremacy.”

Can you point to CRT works that do this? I'd like to read them.
all banks in the western capitalist regime will fail with the exact same problem.

there is no modern western bank that is capitalized 100% - if everyone goes to every single bank and withdraws their money, the entire western economy collapses.

it's up to the depositors (the customers) to know that if they withdraw 100% of their cash, the entire system collapses.

as a human living in the current era, you either buy into this, or you go and live in a compound with gold bricks and weapons stashed in the basement, or you become a cryptobro, or you become like Russia and start wars to gather resources and land.
It used to be that way, now you can set a spotify account per driving profile
Also if you don't care about accuracy at all. my_cos(2 * M_PI) = 0.9965. my_cos(4 * M_PI) = -2917.7144 (!).
Isn't that a large issue in their housing market at the moment? I believe many developers have run out of money due to the pandemic and their residential building projects have staled out. A lot of everyday people have seemingly lost all of their savings through these schemes.
It isn't alarming that the institution in charge of money is in the hole by a huge amount? The dollar amount isn't the real issue; but rather that they've done such a poor job at it.
> I don't know much about finance

Banks are not piggy banks. They don’t just pile the deposits into a vault. They estimate how much money is likely going to be whitdrawn in a certain period and invest the rest. That means that the bank might not be able to pay out all the money they owe if a large percentage of the depositors all at once request their deposits returned.
> Should individuals also count mark to market losses in their savings?

If there's a reasonable chance you'll have an urgent need to sell that CD well before it matures, then yes, otherwise probably not.
Glad that they're making these announcements ahead of time so I know not to consider a GM vehicle.
My bet (being British) is that Brits have lots of culturally-close New World countries to pick from. The US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, all culturally close and English-speaking. Someone from Germany or France have far fewer, if any options, especially if you count out bordering countries.
Considering how few drivers they will have in their cars, they can just capture this data with pen and paper manually.
I've participated in something like this for chicken feed. Someone makes a spreadsheet, collects payments, and sets up the order with the vendor; it gets delivered via a regional freight carrier (less than truckload), everybody shows up and picks up their stuff. Rinse and repeat once a quarter. No real bidding process, everything is at a fixed price, but better than retail.
Do you have to have a Google account to use the car?
tbf to Adams, he did really well in the primary in some areas, driven at least partly by his hard on crime image. His success in Brooklyn could possibly be attributed to his connection to the borough, but the Bronx? Adams was the overwhelming choice in the Bronx, and from speaking to many Bronxites, they absolutely wanted to see more cops on the streets and cops on the subways.
They're a great resource for laser hair treatments lol
If you want a perfect example of selling shovels during a gold rush, look at Equinedge.
I always travel with a phone mount in case my rental car doesn't have CarPlay.
There's nothing novel about highly contagious respiratory virus? We have had disease since before we were human. The novelty is how swiftly and comprehensively we reacted (I'm not dismissing the problems with our reactions and responses, just pointing out the upside.)
Are they trying to ruin their sales to rental car companies?
How to Choose When All Your Options Are Good? 5 Opportunity Selection Criteria
(5 min read) As a mid-career engineer, micro-business owner, & parent of 2 the opportunity cost of anything I do has never been so apparent.

Each passing year brings more fun opportunities, resources to work with, ideas to investigate, & productive work to carry out than the previous year, to the extent that my primary constraint in life is time.

There is not enough me to go around! A good problem to have but a problem nonetheless.

So I came up with a selection system to help sniff out the best uses of my time and I thought I’d share it with you!
i keep emphasizing this: i don't think we'll be programming any more down the line, i think we'll be engineering with an AI assistant like tony stark. obviously i could be mistaken but it looks like things are heading in that direction.
In many vehicles, CarPlay and Android Auto appear within a panel on the overall interface, they don't have to take over the whole UI.
The truth is that most people have never given them a chance or even learned how to hold the Steam Controller properly. The touchpads are way more precise for, e.g., FPS games than analog sticks ever could be, but on many games you need to take the time to configure a good profile to get the most out of them, which is the main part of why the Steam Controller failed.

But the inputs are more precise and the ergonomics are better. If you are using a Steam Controller correctly, your fingers (including thumbs) never scan over different inputs on the controller at all. Each rests over a single input among the touchpads, shoulder buttons, triggers, and back paddles. There's just nothing like it, either in terms of comfort or precision.

The Deck layout doesn't require any fiddling or for people to adjust their habits, but it can't reach the same heights as the Steam Controller.

It's cool whatever way anyone likes it— both kinds of controllers should exist. But for that to happen, Steam Controller v2 can't be Deck-based, because it doesn't fill the same niche.
Yes, this era[1] was particularly rough for NYC.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_New_York_City_(1946...
Makefile is like Bash. It's effective, ubiquitous and pleasant to work with simple logic.

In my case, if I need to scale to a more complicated problem, I would use Rakefile and Ruby (in replace of Makefile and Bash).
Looks like they will offer some sort of customized Android Automotive, which is awesome, but restrict casting from your phone?

Seems really short sighted, I feel most folks would use the built-in stuff but having the option to cast from a phone is a must have escape hatch.

Wireless CarPlay on our Bolt EV is one of the best features, sad to see that go.
Jason Thomas, former CoScreen CTO here.

I am an avid Synergy user, and what they have accomplished in terms of direct mouse/keyboard input synchronization is very impressive, and I use it on a daily basis.

I can say however, it's very different than CoScreen and what CoScreen seeks to achieve, and is performed in a technically different manner.

CoScreen injects mouse interaction and keyboard presses directly into a window on OSX (if it isn't a weird type of window like an emulator, or something that captures and handles input on a very low level).

Synergy simulates mouse movements/events directly over windows, interfering with the position/location and current state of the remote cursor. It's much more like a remote mouse-driver for a lack of a better comparison.

In many ways this is more performant, simpler, and works on a wider variety of windows right out of the box.

On another level it interferes more with remote users, and prevents multi-player collaboration.

I definitely could see us producing a mode that is LAN focussed and which provides synergy like behavior, but the current remote collaboration is really geared from a UX perspective around multi-player in CoScreen.
First I've heard of this and am glad others realize screen sharing and video conferencing are not a commodity just yet.

Curious how this compares with Pop (of screenhero lineage)
Right now typical usage is < 100 MB per org, but theoretically it could infinitely scale with auto-scaling. And yes heres a new link: https://discord.gg/JCqEzCZ4FM, should be updated on our site as well
I am from Ajmer, India. Good to see my city name here. :)
That does change the math, but again, the buses aren't usually going that fast (I'm sure their average speed is far closer to zero than to 60), and like I said, they are much more engaged, constantly stopping or changing lanes. There's much less chance of the bus driver nodding off on a quiet stretch of highway.
They're not going all-in with Android or abandoning Apple, they're phasing out both CarPlay AND Android Auto in favor of something entirely new (that just so happens to be built by Google).
You compared an off-road vehicle with a crossover. Following your logic my bicycle gets 50 miles per kWh. So my technology is better than Tesla's.
I think you have a hardware defective dock. Try an RMA. No reason you should be having power issues unless you are powering a usb-c display or some other high drain device off the dock.
I would never buy a car that did not support both Android Auto and CarPlay. In fact, that is why I did not buy a Prius.

The software in a Chevy Bolt EV is unbelievably bad, taking several second to respond to presses of the power button, which means your awful experience starts from the moment you get in the car. I suggest that GM mercifully assign each and every member of their software division to literally any other non-software role, and let someone with good taste take over.
They're spending all their savings on a Costco run?
I had difficulties learning OOP, I always preferred a more functional style, despite "consensus" needing 20 years to catch on that functional programming alleviates a lot of the issues we have with OOP.

Learning F# it instantly clicked.

OOP learning issues IMHO are intrinsic to the style, because it's just so seldom helpful in making programming easier.

Design patterns are just a symptom of this issue. That OOP is just a misunderstanding another.

"Real" OOP as practiced in Erlang/Elixir is quite useful.
Thanks! Looks like that one was posted later; plus the URL isn't responding; so we'll merge those comments hither.
I don’t know why you are downvoted.
Judging by sibling comments, there's some kind of ambiguity here... I assume when you refer to "a big Costco run for everyone" you are talking about purchasing groceries, household goods etc on behalf of a group of people who already live in a large residential building. Not, as the first sentence might imply, a group of people coming together to buy the building itself?
So, you’re content with GPT-4 killing 60% of humans to create paper clips as long as the matter is hotly contested and actively debated within its matrices?
How much would you be willing to pay for an account for which that was always true?
>We have at the upper end 10-50 years before most of humanity will likely be dead

I've been hearing that the death of the planet has been 10 - 30 years away for the past 30 years. We're still here.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35385075, which was posted a bit earlier (and has a URL that's currently responding).
Android Auto = uber janky
Why are people messing with truckers? Truckers have it very rough right now, they want to drive, just let them work. Without truckers, America grinds to a halt.
A lot of "doing cool shit" 20th century development in the US happened outside of NY. Hollywood and aviation in LA. Tech in various places (Texas Instruments, for example, before Silicon Valley became THE place). Automobiles in Detroit. NY wasn't necessarily "uncool" the whole time, but there was definitely a time late in the century where it felt like it could've gone a similar way as Detroit, and became a completely hollowed shell.
> Fed has also agreed to buy the worthless bonds from banks

Not worthless, worth less. The Fed has always let banks borrow against Treasuries at the discount window. The discount is to their fair market value. They created a new mechanism, the BTFP, which lets banks borrow against the face value of their Treasuries at a higher rate [1].

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/mone...
The example I gave above, where it did remarkably poor math (e.g. one task that took 1 hour and another that took 2 hours and the total was 6 hours) was with GPT-4.
LMAO!!!
I remember downloading it like 10 years ago and I got notifications for just random things like a dog day spa, 2 hours away or some 6 am zumba class on the other side of town.

It was basically that giant coupon book you get in the mail that you just throw away
This is very nicely done. I run a training group and I will use this for my students. Thank you for posting this resource.