skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The actual article: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/article...
Who uploads pics from their phone to their car??? Is that even possible?
I think a lot of people miss the obvious reason: it's cheaper. People seem to think it's some misguided attempt to make things better but really it's just that they've identified a way to cut costs.
The current generation is not ready to try permutation / combinations to debug things. This is not only for the software companies. It is everywhere.

Try to give them new challenges and allow them to solve it themselves without your help. Reward them. This will encourage some health competition.

If you have grown organically. Don't hire experienced developers and mix them with the team. If your team size is small, you can do that.

Good Luck !!
The description says S3. Does it also support GCS?
I was planning to get a Nissan Leaf (worst privacy among all manufacturers in the round up) but luckily stumbled on a BMW i3 instead. They have the best telemetry story by far, and it has a well-implemented jog wheel instead of a touch screen. Also, it has a carbon-fiber frame. It looks like a tall econobox, but handles extremely well.

The i3 has been discontinued and the new models have a touch screen in addition to the jog wheel, so it's possible the jog wheel on those is poorly implemented, and not enough to actually use the car.

I haven't test driven one of the newer models, but I'd carefully check the computer UI before purchasing one.

Anyway, I'm hoping BMW succeeds with their contrarian approach of having physical controls, and not treating their customers terribly, and that the other manufacturers follow their lead.
In many states in the US if your car lives long enough you get rewarded with exemption from emissions requirements!
Shouldn't emergency services be accessible without a SIM? On the other hand, using a SIM allows government to track car's movement.
Definitely. That's why so many cheap electronics come with touch sensors instead of buttons these days.
Civic doesn't (didn't?) have a hump.

It's for:

1. If the car is available in AWD, they don't have to make a new floor pan

2. Structural stiffness

3. Exhaust/fuel routing
Chinese meme-makers crown US Commerce Secretary as Huawei brand ambassador
My comment has nothing to do with severity or extent of tracking. I am highlighting OPs surface area of risk, given their exclusion from using Tiktok.
As dealer inventory starts to pile up, car prices are finally coming down. Anyone paying a markup in today's market just isn't doing their homework.
I've yet to pay MSRP or beyond for a car and I don't intend to start now!
Nope I killed that. We have Wiz.
Yugabyte looks very promising. Has anyone here put it into production?
This effects not only the movies we see, but also influences which movies get made in the first place. There's little telling what kind of anti-war movies we might have gotten, which withered on the vine because producers knew it wouldn't be possible to make the movie on a reasonable budget to the standard audiences have come to expect (e.g. real aircraft instead of mediocre scale models or CGI.)

Try making an anti-Navy response to Top Gun; you won't get access to real fighter jets so your movie is doomed to look like second-rate shit, while simultaneously requiring a huge special effects budget to even get close. Bigger budget for an inferior product is a recipe for a commercial failure, so it just doesn't happen.
Indeed, the market demand for Doom was basically pre existing. There was a sort of assumption this was what people wanted and what was preventing it to that point was the technology.

I am not sure you see too many situations like that. Spotting them in advance is much harder than hindsight.
I had the same thought. This was very unsurprising. I couldn't tell if that made me the idiot here.
who gives?
This works only for programs that are publicly available.
Someday, I hope, the general US voting public will get past this propaganda and become aware that they are an unwitting cog in a wheel of war and destruction across the world. We have been repeatedly lied to about how, when, and why the US engages in war, coups, and other violent actions disguised as "intelligence activities." These are powers the Constitution attempted to restrict to the people (e.g. congress), and not the executive branch.

One example, not many people know that Obama's administration unilaterally executed a 16 year old US citizen by drone. No trial, no rights, just killed by the CIA and military because his dad was a very bad guy. Trump did the same to his little sister years later.

Source: https://theintercept.com/2017/01/30/obama-killed-a-16-year-o...
The reason many food contain added sugar is because that is what people choose to buy!

It's really easy to avoid sugar if you buy raw foods and actually cook, rather than convenience food. It's also cheaper. The solution is education.

There is no such thing as healthy food, only a diet which is healthy. You can eat so called healthy foods, but if you eat ecess calories your diet isn't healthy for you!
> the world is run by a bunch of jokers, no different than me

Your (our) lack of audacity is the only difference.
> Let me guess... you're using SonarQube too?

You are an oracle. That thing is such a super pain in the a##, it has so many false positivies all over flagged that, I have to spend immense hours reviewing garbage failures on daily basis.
It wasn't repealed, it was amended[0] to allow the US AGM (formerly BBG) to broadcast in the US - in other words, VOA, RFE/RL, RFA, etc. Still pretty easy to look out for.

[0]https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/5736...
Clearpath Robotics Acquired by Rockwell Automation
The problem is when the data is related with foreign country that's been asked by the US govt.

Can apple not follow it, and will they protect it? Maybe someone with better knowledge on this topic can answer.
Same here, I bought mine just as pandemic car prices plunged. It's not my primary right now but it might just become it. It's sad because I'm a car guy and I like some of the newer tech and all, I just can't stand all the markups and spyware and most of the time I just don't want to bother debugging my ride.
My dad, who's a fairly recently retired techy, is the only exception I know. I'm assuming it's based on perceived safety and less need to take his eyes off the road.

Granted, he took a long time getting a smart phone because they weren't allowed in his secured office, while dumb phones with no camera where allowed longer. On the other hand, he's also automated his home (a few times with updates), so it's really the one weird outlier.
Are the kids having fun? Does the train slide around the track easily enough?

Duplo, while expensive, is a consumable, if you look at it through this old man's eyes.

Now that that's out of the way, I love all the answers here.
I can reword it because I've seen it written before. I am not sure if I believe what they are saying or not, and have no real desire to get involved on either side of the argument going forward.

Rewritten:

> A large percentage of real estate is being purchased as investments and geopolitical hedges by extremely wealthy individuals. In many cases, this can be be literally to assist in money laundering. This effect is especially pronounced in "global cities" (NYC, London, Paris, LA, Singapore, Tokyo, Shanghai, etc.), and especially in politically stable countries (So that probably excludes Shanghai). These are usually left empty, because income isn't their primary goal. This is considered to be a significant effect because the property types are those intended to be purchased by owner-occupants (e.g. condos), and therefore the supply is consumed. The complaint is not that the new owner of a massive apartment complex is a different major corporation/rich person. Really rich people will prevent any form of correction to the market so they do not lose wealth.
I'm on the side fostering that change. Ever since I got a Mini Countryman with a ZF6. I was forced into an automatic because the car was a hybrid, and now I wouldn't go back to manual.

The car was a little janky from a dead stop, when running solely on gas. I probably would miss the precision for maneuvering you get with a clutch. I didn't, actually, because of the electric motor doing these operations perfectly.
Contagion also compressed time quite a bit because it’s a movie meant to entertain. It couldn’t show the long months of research, development and testing that actual science requires. Still a great movie.
Calculate smallest coinage (in terms of value of each coin) amount and progressively replacing them with the next higher amount? 2x1 cent -> 1x 2 cents, 2x2 cents +1x1 cent -> 1x5 cent and so on, maybe?
Fortunately this is a problem that can be solved the same way as regular desktop apps, ie not purging but having a diff based auto updater.
On an iPhone it opens the stocks app into that article but with a paywall for Apple News+. Interesting that the desktop behavior is to redirect to wsj.
>no point of return

Considering we're talking about an event that happens every ~140k years by definition there will be "a return". Just like there will be future ice ages.
“The Correct Way to Speak Bristol”
It’s working guys
This is the main reason I don't bike / jog to work. I shower in the morning, do my hair, etc. etc.; I fear getting into work sweaty & stinky & disheveled would be a bad look.

Those who bike / jog to work, how do you work around this?
Heat waves in South America have been ridiculously bad as well, even in winter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_South_America_heat_wave
It uses FUSE and there's three types of Kernel cache you could use with FUSE (although, it seems like gcsfuse is exposing only one):

1. Cache of file attributes in the Kernel (this is controlled by "stat-cache-ttl" value - https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcsfuse/blob/7dc5c7ff...)
2. Cache of directory listings
3. Cache of file contents

It should be possible to use (2) and (3) for a better performance but might need changes to the underlying fuse library they use to expose those options.
Perhaps the Chinese government funded this very article?
I highly recommend anyone interested in the question of whether Legos can bend to watch some videos from this channel: https://youtu.be/lp7cFcnJCH4?si=eYMf8rcTpv_2DD-B

Some amazing "illegal" Lego creations there.
Ok. I read it, thanks. I plan to continue using GPG.
At least as far as ECUs go, almost every after market ECU I’ve seen doesn’t control OBD II or the CEL (or does so very minimally) and is therefore immediately in violation of not conforming to the requirements to retain OEM level behavior. Fuel mapping is more grey, largely due to the ability of some OEM ECUs to be reflashed and thus retain OBD behavior.
‘Complete’ models of human embryos created from stem cells in lab
lol - if they were only that altruistic. Toyota doesn't make the tech, they buy modules from suppliers and integrate the tech. Better hope someone doesn't come out with a fancy super module that has everything integrated because there will be no disabling it as soon as that happens :/

Don't forget Toyota was the manufacturer that was going to charge a monthly subscription just for the key fob (!) to work until they got a massive backlash over it. A freaking key fob that doesn't use cellular or the cloud at all - it's 100% local between the fob and the car. And don't think for one minute that they won't try to sneak it back in.
Have to agree, though I thought it was common knowledge (at least in circles such as this) that the U.S.A. government does this? Didn't they admit as much long ago?
Mapping Diversity (30 European cities and 17 countries)
Beyond SpaceX: The Rising Stars of the U.S. Rocket Industry
I drive a Prius and while the actual implementation of the touchscreen leaves a lot to be desired (dodgy software and usual issues with obsolescence), I do like the way it splits between touchscreen and buttons.

Buttons: all car controls, audio volume and selection, temperature.

Touchscreen: GPS, setting radio presets, changing climate mode.

Now, it's not perfect -- there are some climate options I'd like on buttons. But in general that's pretty good.

The big flaw is the lack of upgradeability. It felt a decade old, stylistically, when it was new, and it will never get newer. You can't even pop in a new car stereo to replace the whole thing anymore - and it's a massive chunk of the dash. And has no support for Android Auto.
the android app is mostly usable, but still crashes at least weekly, and every once in a while requires a restart.
The other thread delivers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37406265
That's because in car GPS tech has historically been absolutely atrocious. An example: 2008-2012ish Toyota Camrys had a GPS system that used a DVD for map data. Not only was it out of date immediately (and cost $150 per new DVD from the dealer), it was insanely slow.

Nowadays, there's a few companies that actually seem to do a decent job of GPS in the car itself: Mercedes has a good tech in their new EVs that seems smooth. Android automotive (not auto) cars have built in Google maps such as Polestar, the new Cadillac EVs, and some other Chevy products do well. Although it's not much different than just having an android phone with android auto. And, of course, Teslas own system which is all inhouse.

There's little reason to use a phone in the traditional phone holders if you own one of those cars.
+1 gumroad
It’s a toughie. Many countries have mastered reprocessing, but fabricating fuel is another thing, only France and Russia have been successful at that.

The U.S. has been hung up a problem that was encountered at the place Karen Silkwood worked at which is (1) people have to handle plutonium pellets with their fingers, (2) the high energy ball mill used to alloy plutonium and uranium oxide makes carcinogenic plutonium nano particles, and (3) you can’t completely control the plutonium dust such that workers can work without respirators.

France says “just wear respirators all the time”, the US says “that is not a safe workplace”. After decades it came out that plutonium workers really do get lung cancer at an elevated rate in France.

Despite that, the Kerr-McGee factory that Silkwood worked at was successful at making fuel for a fast reactor, the UKs attempt to fabricate fuel from plutonium powder made at Sellafield failed to attain the required quality.

There are other ways you could make fuel, particularly as a metal instead of an oxide or dissolving it in a chloride salt but those are much less developed than oxide fuels. The LWR is a bird in the hand and can consume plutonium to some extent, fast reactors can consume it much more thoroughly but are not so developed.
Where does Amazon claim a “100% success rate” or that humans are never used for review behind the scenes?
There are legit security researchers out there, doing good work and finding real issues, but the vast, vast majority are … not that. If you open a security bug bounty program, for example, you’ll mostly get either auto-generated garbage like this, or just super generic non-issues like exposing numeric ids to clients, using anything less than the strictest CSP headers, etc.

I’m actually surprised there aren’t MORE bogus CVEs out there, based on my experience with bug bounty programs.
Yup, thought a similar thing.
The major brands won't do it, there's no money in it for them to do so, and there's so much regulation, regulatory capture that it's virtually impossible to start a new auto manufacturer without having billions of dollars of private equity to flush down the toilet on it, to target a very small fraction of the market that would want such vehicles, and such a company would just be quickly regulated out of existence if it was ever actually created.
It was long ago, maybe 2009ish? Developer salaries were actually going down, IIRC, during this time. Likely due to companies exactly like this one and pivoting to more digital solutions. 100+k was very rare outside of SV. Adjusted for inflation, 30k is roughly equal to about 40-50k in todays dollars.
Noticing this too
Cory Doctorow: Burning Man Is Always a Challenge, but This Time Is Different
Random twitter link from a random person? Google is good if you add 'forum' or 'reddit' to the query
In case anyone is wondering, volume five is "forthcoming":

See: https://geography.wisc.edu/histcart/

and: https://geography.wisc.edu/histcart/volume-5-cartography-in-...

Only volume 1 came out in 1987; volume 2 was published in three books from 1992 to 1998; volume 3 came out in 2007, 6 in 2015, 4 in 2019.

academic publishing allows for out-of-order execution.
Yes on arm. Sorry I meant the cpu (x86_64) not a cpu. :-D
https://archive.ph/2023.09.06-103654/https://www.nytimes.com...
Processing is still significant, as it includes the use of food additives to extends the self life and maintain quality. Salt is also a big component, as it flavour enhancer.
The last section on "Don't smear political institutions" is ever more relevant today.
The robot operating space should be fenced out or should have a proper collaboration defined.

The future is going to be more robots work in parallel to humans and collaborate. Robot manufacturers should ensure the collaboration between robots.
…what? Without any other context on what they’re working on or the size of the company, an extra developer of cost is automatically reasonable?
> SUV

That's a big safety and pollution problem in itself.
After the end of the vietnam war, the pentagon embarked on a deliberate program of propaganda as the attitude towards the military was at an all time low. This has only only involved hollywood (Apocalypse Now was filmed in the Philippines with Philippine military gear because the Pentagon wanted script control) but also professional sports, who get billions a year from the pentagon these days.

I understand that (and why) the military's reputation was at a nadir, but they have gone too far in the opposite direction. Even in WWII when people depended on the military for what they thought was an existential battle, the general attitude was one of SNAFU, i.e. "sure, it's incompetent and fucked up but it's the best we've got so let's try to make it work". A healthier attitude.
They however still have access to the JS context and thus the authenticated session when you are on the website. They can most likely exfiltrate all the data visible on the page and maybe even the auth token for further server-side misuse after you've closed the page.
I wonder if studies support the effectiveness of doing anything productive. Exercise is good because it's easy to quantify the result: I ran 5 miles or I lifted 5,000 lbs (cumulative) in that workout. Or I went X more distance or faster than last time. I can feel the results of that effort in my muscles and lungs.

But I've also noticed that simple stuff: I did the dishes, I folded a load of laundry, I fixed a leaky faucet, whatever. Anything that has an achievement or makes an objective improvement makes me feel better. I can see the result of what I've done.

Note that I don't get this from video games, social media, etc. Maybe some people do, but those things just feel more like escapes from reality. That is the difference for me. Sitting here reading HN occupies some time, but doesn't make me feel any better (in fact often I feel worse because I'll start thinking about what else I could have done with that time that would have been more productive).
Charter Spectrum Customers Lose ESPN, ABC Channels Just as NFL Season Heats Up
> Anti-backup, Anti-I-don't-have-a-cdrom-on-this-machine, Anti-I-lost-the-stupid-dongle, etc.

All perfectly understandable to me. But from the perspective of the people designing the anti-something system, wouldn't they call it piracy?

We can argue if piracy is a charitable enough name for bypassing copyright protections but that's irrelevant in terms of whether or not that is the thing the software provider is trying to do.
Humans run at approximately 100W, for 2 H100s you're looking at 600W-1400W. Plus humans have a much larger variety of capabilities. And they're more fun.

So you're paying ~10x the power costs to get worse, unverified, illogical answers faster when using LLMs vs humans. Which then have to be checked and revised by humans anyway.
Cyc was ahead of its time in a couple of ways:

1. Recognizing that AI was a scale problem.

2. Understanding that common sense was the core problem to solve.

Although you say Cyc couldn't do common sense reasoning, wasn't that actually a major feature they liked to advertise? IIRC a lot of Cyc demos were various forms of common sense reasoning.

I once played around with OpenCyc back when that was a thing. It was interesting because they'd had to solve a lot of problems that smaller more theoretical systems never did. One of their core features is called microtheories. The idea of a knowledge base is that it's internally consistent and thus can have formal logic be performed on it, but real world knowledge isn't like that. Microtheories let you encode contradictory knowledge about the world, in such a way that they can layer on top of the more consistent foundation.

A very major and fundamental problem with the Cyc approach was that the core algorithms don't scale well to large sizes. Microtheories were also a way to constrain the computational complexity. LLMs work partly because people found ways to make them scale using GPUs. There's no equivalent for Cyc's predicate logic algorithms.
https://csimarket.com/Industry/industry_Profitability_Ratios... has some good data, as you see we’re talking mid to low single digits net, low teens gross. To your point, this is an increase that happened during the pandemic, interestingly.

Dealership margins, as I recall, are 10-20%, also not great.

Mfg margins have come up during the pandemic, interestingly, but historically have been very low[1]:

> While estimated aggregate industry operating profit margins are 6 to 7 percent (Exhibit 1), large variations in profitability exists across companies. For instance, some European niche, luxury companies make double-digit margins more akin to those of high-tech players, while mass-market (or value-focused) OEMs make 4 to 5 percent.

[1]: https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKinsey/Industries/Automot...
I could be wrong, but I thought the llama 2 paper explicitly called out 1 epoch and that more than that caused over-fitting in their other experiments.
Cost and risk are a major factor in how things are dealt with. Ebola mobilizes different responses than most diseases and so kills fewer people. Armed gunmen regularly attack the pentagon so it’s well defend against lone gunmen.

The vast majority of government buildings aren’t well protected because they don’t need to be.
I used to think this. But the quality and integration of the infotainment in new cars, for example Tesla, is so much better than any extern unit I have tested, that now I really appreciate the systems coming with the car.

I used to change the unit, amp and all speakers. Now my new car is just working nicely unmodified.
In those same groups that made those VHS tapes, there's a theory on the name Hollywood itself. The wand that Merlin used to cast spells was made from holly. This was a core part of their evidence that the movie industry is meant to keep the populace under the spell of their illusions, or some such logic

Sadly, I have way too much familiarity with these VHS tapes and 'zines and radio programs. Once the internet took off, it was like gasoline on a fire for the spreading of this stuff.
My solution was accountability to another person: a trainer.

Pay a trainer for once/twice/thrice weekly sessions.

It is easier to skip a workout when no one else knows. I found it simply easier to just go rather than to make an excuse for the trainer.

It was worth the cost for me.