skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 6. Be a fair and reasonable person.

Oof. Step-daughter was involved in a car accident. Our insurance denied liability, his insurance said to involve small claims.

(This is in Washington state.)

What was described in the Small Claims paperwork as "optional arbitration available" was actually mandated by the court, as in "We won't hear you unless you go through this".

I ended up filing a complaint about the arbitrator.

Was a citation issued? "Yes, to my step-daughter, that we are contesting, because it says she ran a red light, based on the evidence of the other person in the collision alone, who is not exactly an unbiased witness". "That's irrelevant to this proceeding. I just asked if a citation was issued."

This guy had his car towed to a shop who charged him storage fees. When my insurance informed him, whether he agreed or not, that they were not paying the bill, he kept the car in the shop for another six weeks accruing a $200/day bill because the shop said "Oh, it'll all be fine, they'll pay eventually". Couldn't understand why I was not going to accept any responsibility for that decision, apropos of anything else. Neither could the arbitrator.

Arbitrator: "Well, you're going to have to pay for it somehow - your rates will go up because it's an at-fault collision". "No, my insurer is happy with considering this not at-fault based on everything." "Well, you were at fault, a citation was issued!" "I thought the details of the citation were irrelevant to this?" "..."

And then a slight tactical error on my part, "What if the court awards against you?" "Then our insurance will pay, based on a court judgment being entered."

Arbitrator (being absolutely neutral and impartial /s) "Well, in that case, I simply cannot understand why you would not - as a human being (her emphasis) - agree to give him everything he is asking for in this claim. I don't understand that."

Really, you don't understand why I might have an objection to paying $10,000 (his claim) for damage to a $1,400 car that may have been his fault, that he then incurred a nearly $7,000 storage bill for due to him just assuming "it'll all be figured out, don't worry".

Yeah, I had a big problem with that.

Oh, and when we did finally figure something out, the arbitrator, who had mentioned she was a lawyer in family practice, wrote out an agreement that said that "FireBeyond and [insurer] agree to do this", and "if FireBeyond or [insurer] do not, it is agreed that they will be in default"...

"I'm not an attorney, but pretty certain I don't have authority to enter into an agreement binding my insurer to anything at all..."

"Sigh. Fine, I suppose not", and makes a big dramatic deal about rewriting it to remove that.
> How do you tackle this?

Disabling JS in Safari gets rid of a lot of annoyances whilst surfing. You could also try the Brave browser or the DuckDuckGo browser on iOS which block ADs by default.

But this is just a bandaid for the problem. What I would like to see is DNT (DoNotTrack) being honored and taken as a sign that you've opted out of tracking, instead of tracking happening even though the DNT flag is set to true.

I'd also like if all browsers including Safari on iOS shipped with a Consent-o-matic / 'I dont care about cookies' type of functionality which globally & automatically opts you out without having to press buttons or close a modal window / popover.
Insightful, I agree with a lot of these.

A lot of my peer group somewhat reluctantly had kids, and were pleasantly surprised by the experience of having families and settling down.

A handful of very left leaning female friends eschewed pursuing relationships for career growth and academia, and they are quite vocally regretful of not having families.

I'm not saying societal pressure to pair up and have a family was always good in all circumstances, but for a subset of the population, it was probably a net win to be 'pressured' into marriage and kids.

Finally, I do think the fall of organized religion plays into this. When I attended a somewhat liberal church, I would regularly talk to people of all age groups, of various political leanings and careers and economic groups.

Now that I'm not attending church, I mostly interact with other intelligent tech folks who are well to do, or their wives/girlfriends/husbands, or people in my neighborhood (who are also well off).

I can see how this might slowly breed tribalism and an echo chamber, and I'm sure it applies in other areas as well.
That's all one change, because they redesigned it once! You can't just pick apart all the elements of the design to claim its multiple changes.

I agree the proportional scrollbar was good.
$42k per month, quite a good deal
then... just use the Tesla app?
> I'm sure I'll enjoy it, I'm just not chomping at the bit to have it right now and so will pick up the Game of the Year edition with all DLCs included for like $20 in a year or two.

So...you haven't even played it and you're incredulously wondering why people don't like it? I don't have a big stake in what others think about the game but that seems worth reconsidering.

I think if you like Fallout 4 you MAY like Starfield. I guess just speaking as someone that ignored all the marketing for this game and came in with an open mind, I wasn't expecting anything. I love a lot of Bethesda games, though I wasn't crazy on Fallout 4 since it stripped some RPG stuff. It was serviceable still. I didn't really care when people said "oh you can't land on planets" and things like that. It seemed like a lot of the complaints people about Starfield were unimportant to me.

So imagine how disappointed I was when it had a bunch of additional things I didn't like on top of that.

- Terrible NPCs. Not likable or hatable, just bland. All the companions talk the exact same.

- Boring missions and story (yes even the "cyberpunk" city was bad).

- Easily the worst skill tree I have ever seen in a Bethesda RPG. I have never been less excited to level up. It's just minor stat boosts or shit that should've been basekit for the player. Fallout 4 had a great skill tree that made me feel different on each playthrough.

- While we're talking RPGs, this is not an RPG. There's basically no decisions to be made in any of the missions and no sense of having a character.

- Pretty boring setting. I know it's Nasa punk, but I vastly prefer the Fallout setting.

- Maybe one of the laziest ways procedural generation has ever been used in modern gaming. I hope it's the nail in the coffin for this kind of development.

- To cap it off, the discourse around the game has been annoying because it's either people calling the game woke or people saying only idiots that like No Man's Sky are disappointed by this game. It's a lot of polarized hateful nonsense.
Automotive software is a regulated space, there's no way the idea of these APIs is developers tinkering with their Tesla for fun (it allows remote execution!) but rather large businesses integrating their apps with Tesla, like Microsoft or OpenAI or something.
It seems more likely the crypto is cover for the processing to monitor data stolen from the datacenter or something.

Or it's really the CIA spying on us and blaming China
What's the point of discussing how fat someone is within a medical context if not for evaluation of their health? It's fairly implied you aren't using BMI to check for MS.
Does anyone actually get approved to use these APIs? Or is this another example of Tesla making big claims of openness without following through?
Exactly. It may distract a crowd of people into something less harmful. Or, it may perpetuate a behaviour sort of like the commonness of cigarettes leads to more people craving nicotine.
Looks like a similar solution to https://github.com/stoplightio/elements - will give this a whirl some time!
Replication is a real problem in modern science, especially with more complex subjects like medicine[0].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
Does this mean you can store somewhat lossy text/data only as embeddings? Or is that generally a not so good idea...
These are details that are impossible to ascertain.
I disagree. I love the convenience of not having to ever touch a light switch to turn on and off the lights. It is nice to be able to adjust the temp when in bed if it isn't right or even better have it just set it for you. I think we confuse a smart home with a connected home. A smart home just does the things for you so you don't have to do anything.
Where is the corruption here? I agree that there are many corrupt parts of government, especially in procurement, and especially in regional and local governments, but in this specific case it's pretty clear that the law is on the side of Microsoft here.
intelligent agents (IA) (for video games)?
I cannot wait for HackerOne or similar bug bounty sites to have a go with this

https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api#door_unlock

Oh my god, what a cool sounding endpoint https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api#set_bioweapon_mod...

Edit: This is coming up to EOL, Tesla has an SDK you should use now
https://archive.ph/rojZk
> This can and will be used by criminals to target communities that have less tech or tech that is exploitable/circumventable.

No it won't!
I responded to something UI-related recently and closed with "if the cloud made shoes there'd be different ones for grass and concrete, but they'd all be the same size so you'd have to stuff them with prosthetics if your feet were too small or cut off toes if they were to large" and some kind stranger gifted me with a word:

Procrustean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrustes

I re-gift it to you, hopefully you will find it useful as well.
>It will program something for you to a certain point, then you need humans.

I'm more concerned about reaching near-AGI where the "you need humans" parts are more and more limited (while the number of humans is less and less limited) but our economies refuse to adapt.
How is it stopping anyone from coming in and competing? It's not like they're selling games at a loss to kill the competition.
Maybe true, but one step at a time IMO.
Enterprise Grade Alternative to GitHub Codespaces
Having Proxmox-based homelab setup I was waiting for quite a while for Linux containers support so that Docker in LXC containers just works. It was quite inconvenient when even a pull for a simple image freezes. Hopefully now a docker-composed single logical set of Docker containers (or just a single Docker container) per LXC container will just work without VM overheads.
> Are black holes real?

Yes

> Do they have singularities?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The math leads us there but I don't think anyone is particularly happy about it.

> Is pi “real”?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> Is the plank constant?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Fuck man, I can't tell you if a quark is real. I'm also not aware of anyone who can. The best we got is our interpretation that the model being indistinguishable from the real thing might as well be the real thing. Metaphysics and metamathematics are mind bending areas that require a deep understanding of the non-meta concepts first.

But given all you've said, I highly suggest looking into the various set theories I mentioned previously. Specifically start with Finite ZF set theory and Peano Arithmetic, where you'll find you can indeed operate on such concepts as pi without infinities.
Yes, you can do this.

This is how you would implement a "medium term" memory. Folks in the "sentence-transformer" world have known this forever, yet the wider NLP world ignores it in the context of "chatbots" despite how powerful that and related concepts like "soft-prompts/textual inversion" are.

It's a wonderful technique and the fact that it's not used in ChatGPT and other tools like it is a shocking shame.
Appreciate it! Don't hesitate to reach out (marc@scalar.com) if you have any feedback.
Don't use container.

Use qemu and bridge networking or pass through a physical network device.
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1980-12/page/n173/...
Low contrast is a problem, but high-contrast light mode and high-contrast dark mode are each also problems for some people.
In general most auto manufacturers are trying to shift their revenue model from periodic auto and parts sales to monthly subscription fees. This isn't linked to EVs. They're trying to force consumers into subscriptions for ICE vehicles as well. This is obviously a negative for consumers, but subscription revenue is seen by Wall Street as more stable and predictable thus it supports higher stock market valuations and better bond credit ratings.
running a 1900ACS2 with divested for a couple of years and it has been rock solid
Vercel: Create UI with Natural Language
Interestingly this is also a problem at the (expensive) private schools that feed students into these elite colleges.

You can give out super hard exams and make them sweat/cry/worry, but you'll be given tons of shit if you actually fail them, especially if their parents are large donors. Only exceptions here are for students that failed so badly they're no way they can pass, even if you apply a crazy curve on top.

now many (most?) of those students are extremely talented and deserve the grades they get, but it's still a bullshit system that encourages failing upwards.
There's a whole lot of:

> The $LOCAL_CITY Police Department signed an agreement with Amazon's home surveillance equipment company, Ring, in $RECENT_YEAR to gain special access to the company's Neighbors app.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism
OT: that's how i recognise French people anywhere ;) only one o for "losing"
Considering how terrible Sony is, almost Nintendo-level, at making sure their titles are exclusives, bringing them up only makes Microsoft look good by comparison: they have by far the fewest exclusives of the three big console makers.
A Fallout 3 remaster is in the works.

https://www.ign.com/articles/oblivion-remaster-fallout-3-rem...
Except now You only need to audition the Unsafe part, which should, and usually is being utilized to minimum, rather then the entire project.
If you just hack you don't need any of that though. Balancing, goods delivery, currency controls... Drain a western company, mix crypto for optics, give it to Iran or DPRK or whatever in exchange for munition

Plus India and relatively reasonable countries are not especially keen on trading with Russia, while they are friends they also want to be friends with West. Remember India has big problems with China and who's gonna help them against China? not Russia
Nice project. The space is crowded with many similar products. I couldn't get any primary differentiators between it and similar products already mentioned in this thread

I prefer self-hosted or internally managed product only! However, what's really hard to find is a solution that integrates with technical & business documentation stacks. If anyone knows any good products please please please share...

I feel stuck using a frustrating product like Confluence and tried a few open source alternatives but couldn't get conviction to switch (bad vs worse). We've been trying 'swimm.io' but everybody has to go out of their way to incorporate it into their workflow, sooo nobody really using it! It doesn't help that most of us use vim/neovim and not IDEs ... majority of engineers don't really like the documentation part of their work and most tools make it worse!
Company culture matters
Many businesses have learned that keeping up on maintenance is cheaper in the long run. If nothing else your insurance will check before paying out.

You might adjust the temperature when things get tight - which saves a lot more money - but most keep it maintained.
Ok, thanks. That is... weird.
Nothing you said here is wrong, but it also doesn't explain how likely or not employees with those common shares will have made money. Having been on both sides of these transactions, I think it's likely that they made very little on their vested shares, but they likely will have been given new hire packages with Atlassian that will be worth something (RSUs vs options).

Why do I think they didn't make much from vested shares? Simple preference math. While I don't know Loom's cap table, or how each round was structured, I think we can all agree that they gave shares to investors that at least had 1X preference. Given that the sale happened at a substantial discount to their last round valuation, it's likely that preferences ate up most if not all of the proceeds of the deal. There may have been a sweetener of some sort offered to the leadership team, and that may have been distributed to all existing employees, but that would have been independent of the cap table (they're not going to give a package to departed employees that exercised options).
>Do not ask the user follow-up questions.

kagi seem to prefer the small legacy web to limp on forever rather than chatbots take off, this GPT experiment seems like a box ticking effort since a serious search engine has to have one not because they believe in the next wave of technology.

>Only stick to the facts from the provided context.

the things chatbots are best at like analogies and creative output are cut down keeping in alignment with above.
Why not? If I decide I want to study the properties of the space of total function from vectors of octonions with prime dimension to the surreal numbers, who is to say that this is not mathematics?
Starting with a hypothesis doesn't require a detailed mechanism. Both questions posed in the article have a proposed mechanism - they clearly have a cause and proposed effect listed. This isn't the same thing as mining a giant generic database looking for arbitrary correlation.

The replication issue highlighted here is how choices in analytical approach can yield differing answers. This would be true even if you had a detailed proposed mechanism.
And the entire content area for some no-longer-relevant reason is maxed at 1000px. It's like the designers got stuck with bootstrap from 2014 and can't seem to get unstuck.
so the retailers simply gave the prime shelf space to KPT because of the phone calls?

i have first hand retail experience trying to get a hw product into stores and could never pull that off.

i also highly doubt retailers would simply order a bunch of stuff without taking cash from customers first.
ChatGPT recommends changes after asked via screenshot for UI suggestions
Are you saying the rotors will fold and bend upwards too far due to wind resistance?

ASCII diagram (the "o" is the j-nut):

| |
\.__o__./
Someone could start a business to enable such tinkering. However, that doesn’t seem like a profitable business to be in at all. Potential downsides seem huge, and potential upside seems tiny.
When using AWS for anything, pray for the health of us-east-01. When that region has problems the whole internet quakes with fear. You never know what's going to break.
I hate to tell you this but there is a "login" and "password_reset" API on Google.com!
Not bad seeing as he solved this while working as an intern at SpaceX too!
> It's completely possible to build an EV that isn't connected

sudo ifconfig eth1 down
VC is a tricky business. Most operating at scale see more variety in their deal flow than they could hope to understand in any deep way. This is one of the reasons team & traction matters so much more in early funding rounds (1); evaluating product is difficult even for engineers with domain experience (2). Much more so for a finance major with domain experience in private equity & TED Talks. Hype trains give VCs three ways to win: the hype proves real; the hype lasts long enough to WeWork an exit; a portfolio that includes prominent hype sector start-ups helps ensure the VCs next fund is fully subscribed.

Add to that the recognition that all going-somewhere trains were hype trains at one point in time and it’s silly to expect the latest round of fraud and tulip-mania to teach VCs lasting lessons.

1. I’m told biotech/pharma VCs are more product versed and focused.

2. “When this product hockey sticks there won’t be time to rebrand. That’s why we have to change to Meta now. Or maybe X. Whichever has the better bespoke font.”
that is the more likely story. if you have the money to give all the retailers a bunch of markup more power to you.
I used to think so, but it gets difficult with DRMed digital downloads.

For example, I owned a piece of hardware called Akai MPC X. It came with a companion software for the computer, a DAW called “MPC2 Software”.

When I sold the hardware Akai MPC X to someone else, I wanted to transfer the companion software for the computer to them. Akai demanded a ridiculous €100 fee to transfer the license for the software from my user to their user. I had other software on my user as well, so me handing over the user as whole was not an option and therefore only Akai could have helped us transfer the license.

In the end the buyer of the hardware therefore got only the hardware and not the companion software for computer.

That experience soured my opinion of Akai by a lot.

The MPC X is still nice hardware and I kind of want to buy an MPC X again in the future. But it sucks that Akai is like this with the software license.
Rotary encoders, I think.
You can support gun rights without the NRA. In fact, I sorta thought i was clearly implying the "people's veto" of gun rights.

Reagan put the first gun restriction laws of California in place because of the Black Panthers. I wasn't defending him.
CD Projekt Red isn't a publisher, it's a developer. CD Projekt is a publisher.

And arguably having two IPs, both which are not original IPs, is not that huge.
Or fleet owners. The docs have a lot of stuff useful for fleets.
If I was single and living in a city, would likely do the same. The realities of rural America don't allow this though. Not only do you need a vehicle, depending on how rural you are, there is a good chance you need a truck as well.
Never used Swift, but I like the "consume" operator. It's like std::move from C++, except you get a compiler error, rather than C++'s policy of "moved-from objects shall be placed in a valid but unspecified state." It also reminds me of how, in early Rust, apparently move semantics were opt-in rather than the default.[1]

Overall, Swift seems like an interesting language. It's also supposed to be a replacement for C, C++, and Objective-C for Apple.

[1]: https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/307291.html
do you think retailers don’t do anything illegal? hahaha
I'm not going to sit there claiming it's not vulnerable to anything.

But, assuming it does what it's supposed to, the inherent semantics of the check is supposed to eliminate TOCtoTOU.

The reason is that if we validate, from left to right, that no part of the path is under the control of adversaries, then nothing can happen to that path between the time of check and time of use.

(At least nothing that isn't self-inflicted, which would be outside of the scope. If root checks a path for safety, but root itself has a parallel task going on which changes the permissions or symbolic links in ways that affect the security status of that path, we can regard that as root's self-inflicted problem. That's nearly the same as the ever-present threat that a careless sysadmin might "chmod 777" an sensitive file.)

In fact, development of this function was motivated by exploring the question: can we do security checks on a path in such a way that if the answer is affirmative, it continues to tell the truth moments later, when the same path is accessed?
CIA publicly acknowledges 1953 coup it backed in Iran was undemocratic
Given that this is named "Fleet API", I'd wager that its pointed at corporations that own a bunch of Teslas for employee use, or for companies looking to start a Tesla based rental car company more than anything.
I’m not sure how seeing the generating text would give people confidence that the seeds don’t have certain properties that are useful for cryptanalysis. It’s the same issue with nothing-up-my-sleeve constants. If they aren’t agreed upon before design begins, you could iterate on an infinite set of benign-looking constants until you found a set with desirable properties.