skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple already made the smart “move” by moving very slowly in the “smart home” game, even though tech bloggers ripped them all the time whenever a new Echo or Google Assistant device was released.

Now rather than deal with all this cruft, or deal with competing assistants (e.g. why the fuck does Google Assistant still exist if you have Bard???) Apple has the runway and the capital to make this type of LLM upgrade to Siri and the well-maintained ecosystem.
Red flag questions to ask in a Linux interview
Thoughts on my list? What "green flag" questions do you like asking?
I never understood Title Insurance. Isn't the whole point of a lawyer handling the transaction to look for potential gotchas? As opposed to just rubber stamp it and let the insurance handle it if something does come up?
Wow that was fast! https://github.com/pola-rs/polars/pull/12517
You can also find some quotes from Obama saying “those jobs are just not coming back”.

The tiny amount of manufacturing they have tried (and mostly failed) to bring back pales in comparison to what the US used to produce.
Try texting an iPhone user a picture or video and look at the garbage they receive from you.
Propelling 1500kg around at speed just to get a 80kg human somewhere, doesn't seem super efficient, (apparently electric bikes are around 30 kg).
Arguably voice assistants are still ahead of their time. My Alexa is handy for a few things like setting an alarm--though I still want to set a backup for something like an early morning airport pickup.

But for an interaction in the car to see some available podcasts and play an episode? It's just not "smart" enough. And you go through a few rounds of frustration trying to get an assistant to do something and you just stop trying.

There are specific use cases. E.g. my dentist uses one as a timer especially when he's gloved up. But generally they're pretty optional.
I don't agree on the buyer side. I've been involved in purchasing three homes, and while I did find my realtor's help valuable, most of the work to narrow down listings fell to me. Even when my agent pro-actively pushed listings at me, most of them I had already found on Redfin or Zillow.

The offer process can be a little confusing, but ultimately it's a bunch of standardized forms that everyone should be allowed to download from some government agency or whatever.

The negotiation process is in some ways more frustrating when having to go through intermediaries. The only value the realtor provides there is frankly pretty shady: often the two realtors (who usually know each other and have a cordial relationship) will share information about their client that they really shouldn't. I've benefited from that type of information, but have felt dirty about it.

Ultimately all the legal stuff is handled by a title company (and/or a lawyer), and the realtor isn't involved there.

I think the main places where you can get a better outcome with a realtor are due to industry protectionism, not anything inherently difficult about the process that requires a trained, licensed agent with insider information.
Of course, many people forget that there are folks living in villages / remote areas like you.
> probably honestly just providing free swaps

There has to be a way to do the subsidizing thing that doesn't pay people who have a car to continue having a car, over people who haven't had a car and/or will stop having one...
The distinction you're trying to make isn't recognized in the eyes of the law, nor really anyone else for that matter.

The warranty disclaimer in virtually every software project, regardless of license, has been around for decades. The text has been fairly anodyne except with the recent wave of parasites killing their host and trying to snake their way out of it.
I'd argue it's with the spirit, it's just that the vulnerability resides within your employees rather than your systems. Both are worth a call out and correcting. It's arguable how much either is worth, that being said.
not to get us too far off track, but unicycling is WAY less efficient than walking.

For those that have never tried it: it's like trying to go for a jog while maintaining a three-quarters-squat posture.
related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
Probably NAS transfers or similar.
I'd liken it to feeling tired of feeling bad. After so many cycles of negative emotions at some point the brain gives up and embraces the thing it "knows" but hasn't internalized because it's the only way to escape to greener fields.
20k miles in 5 years of ownership? That's well below average mileage (13k miles for 1 year is average).

But further, if you want to talk about lifecycle, then why not consider a used Model S (or other ev) with 20k miles? It's not like EVs suddenly explode and need to be junked after 20k miles. The CO2 payoff period for an EV is around 25k miles, after that every mile driven on an EV ends up being less emissions wise than a regular ICE. Add to this the fact that EVs have extended lifetimes compared to ICE. 300 or 500k miles is more than possible with today's EVs.
@thevibesman Hi, would he be open to working with an mobile app development agency?
Yeah, the issue is more that there is substantial friction in paying any amount of money, especially in poorer countries with no access to e.g. banking or payment cards. I'm sure no one here, and few people even in comparatively poorer countries, would object if Signal/their messenger of choice cost 0.60$ per year to use. The problem is that making the service have a ~1$/yr price tag (as WhatsApp once had) is itself a barrier to a huge portion of the target audience.
I don’t think, that we’re getting back to the tech level of 1960s in Soviet Union. There were cars for important people and government. The rest lived in the big buildings around factories.
Fully agreed. And while everything you said is super important and true, one piece that really makes me pumped about this movement to ditch cars is more around quality of life.

If you have to get in a car and drive to a parking lot somewhere to get groceries, commute to work, go out with friends, get healthcare, etc. You will obviously live a less healthy life both physically but also mentally because of it. Walking is exercise, it's something we were all evolved to do and it keeps us healthy physically and mentally. It also encourages community when everyone isn't surrounded by a metal and plastic multi-ton machine. I recently moved to a walkable part of my city and it's actually amazing how much it's benefited my life. I say hi to neighbors and people who walk routes like I do, I get fresh air since not every street is filled to the brim with cars, but honestly one of the best effects is silence. Cars our LOUD. Even electric cars unfortunately, it really has little to do with the sound of the engine at speeds like 30mph, it's more about wind and tire noise. Meanwhile, people walking, biking, or on scooters are silent and it's brought me a lot of peace.
> Take Firefox for example. It has extensions, but they're intrinsically limited by the fact that they're sandboxed and can only interact with the browser through a limited API.

That's design, a choice. It used to be different in old Firefox, and other browsers are different in that aspect even today. But to be fair, I mainly meant the page-context, not the application-context. Most normal web browser support userscript, bookmarklets and debugging some way or another. Or should I say, still. Because this is a bit in decline. And if you take something like web- or electron-apps, the page-context becomes the app itself. All just a matter of implementation and architecture.

> There fundamentally is nothing you can't do through the configuration.

You can't patch the C-core, can you? Another necessary implementation-detail.

> Precisely because Lisp is a dynamic meta-programming language, which is the ideal paradigm for this.

It was ideal when Emacs was created. Today, we have many alternatives.

> You gain nothing in extensibility,

Except more ability, more heritage, more users... At the end, it's all a matter of managing the tradeoffs, the implementation-details.
IANA automotive engineer, but I would assume that injuries from car-vs-pedestrian collisions are mostly due to impact velocity, and not due to momentum.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the higher-mass electric vehicles are more dangerous to other cars when involved in car-vs-car collisions, though.
Why is that worse? Isn't WhatsApp a better alternative?
Have you considered that they might have a reason for that? You act as if control has no value to their mission.

Controlling the platform allows them to continue to evolve it while maintaining the convenient and spam-free user experience that users enjoy.
the AI will just be integrated into the speakers/devices making them more useful. I see this space actually growing.
Something I’ve thought a lot about is why don’t we have more support around golf cart and golf cart adjacent vehicles? They are fairly cheap compared to a car, can be BEV, drive around on most city streets, fractions of the weight and danger to pedestrians etc.

I know it doesn’t work in a lot of areas due to weather etc, but it seems like an obvious stop-gap solution.

It is also kind of “cool” to drive around in a golf cart
> To some extent, those are kind of the same thing.

They are not the same thing. They are not even "kind of" the same thing, for any reasonable definition of "kind of." That should be obvious, because a lie is language, which is pretty close to the opposite of knowledge.

I mean no offense, but your hedging words are doing so much work that I think your statement counts as bullshit.

Edit: thinking about it more, I think your comment shows the particular kind of bullshit that often characterizes tech people's thinking and is so useful for hyping shit (e.g. take something hard, lossily reformulate it into something easier but vaguely similar, solve the easy thing, then declare you solved the hard thing).
Signal also fell over flat when the whatsapp outage happened a couple years ago. It's just difficult to handle spikes in demand.
Haha, I had the very same idea when I needed a similar job to be done. There are many concerns though, as quick $20 could become an evening job (i.e. 3 hours instead of 5 minutes), as some extra info may arise, and you being not qualified enough may think is ‘quick and easy.’

Although in an ideal scenario that’s a really great idea, as quite many people (I believe) may be in need of such services.
Bedrock is an AWS product, and is relatively simple. Its AWS's strength, infrastructure provisioning and compute operations. I'm sure it works very well. I'm not saying all of Amazon is bad, the scale and reliability of AWS is an engineering marvel
On facts in the wikidata dataset? sure.

But if you think this will stem the tide of LLM hallucinations, you're high too. LLMs' primary function is to bullshit.

In chess many games play out with the same opening but within a few moves become a game no one has played before. Being outside the dataset is the default for any sufficiently long conversation.
Help me out, who needs this and what are some usecases for such high accuracy/resolution. Genuinely curious.
As far as I can tell, the psychology stuff Damore quoted (big five), replicate just fine. What fail are the stuff that we want to be true, e.g. growth mindset.
California strikes another blow against rooftop solar
World of Commodore 2023 coming up Dec 2 and 3 in Toronto
> Genuine question, not trying to be snarky: isn't JS a great way to address most of those concerns that you list?

I genuinely don't think it is - Javascript is just a language. Why not implement Async I/O and WebWorkers APIs in Elisp? Why complicate things with an entirely new language?

And with Elisp native compiled on most platforms, it seems doubtful WebAsm is going to make a noticeable difference in performance.
Not OP but I have essentially the same bike (Packa) with kid bars on the back. I throw a big Home Depot plastic storage crate into the bars, then 4 bags of groceries go into the crate. 6+ if you stack and bungee them. Plus another bag in the front basket.

If the kids want to go to the store then the crate goes on the bike trailer.
Given the subject matter and year, this was almost certainly in the context of Russia's lobbying against giving Ukraine and Georgia NATO MAPs in 2008, a lobbying effort which (perhaps in part due to Burns’ advice in the letter) was successful—NATO acceded to Russia's demands in the hopes that so doing would, as Russia claimed, promote peace and stability in the region.

Russia then immediately invaded Georgia, which may go some way to explaining why some NATO leaders became quite disinclined to grant Russia the same kind of Chamberlainian accommodation thereafter.
Ah, I misunderstood you completely, I thought you were saying that Germany had more renewables than it needs.

Hopefully we build better ways for storing large amounts of energy.
Recently switched to Home Assistant to control all my Hue locally along with a bunch of other devices. It was a pain in the beginning and I was cursing HA. 2 weeks later, I love it.
please no!

The cost of now having unknown false data in there would completely ruin the value of the whole effort.

The entire value of the data (which is already everywhere anyway) is the "cost" contributors paid via heavy moderation. If you do not understand why that is diametrically opposite of adding/enriching/augmenting/whichever euphemism with LLMs, I don't know what else to say.
>>> People working at factories with families have to make economically smart decisions.

The poor and lower class alone didn't make Walmart a retail titan.

It was the middle class who launched walmart into the top spot and fortunately for them, compared to their lower income peers, they did not have to make those life or death cost saving decisions but chose to like when they wanted a new flat screen TV or niche kitchen appliance

These purchases werent truly necessary and id even argue whatever perihperal like a tv and kitchen aplliance they had owned was in working condition, maybe not the top of the line cutting edge device. So this wasn't truly a needed product except for upgrading for the sake of upgrading that the middle class started splurging on the idea of a discount being presented.

During that time, as TVs improved year over year I knew several families who would trade theirs in for the yearly imorovement almost like an iPhone upgrade.
I haven't seen any sort of argument for why it would be secure. I guess it's probably no worse than the other common banking practice, one-factor auth using a 4-6 digit numeric only password.
I was thinking about the number of technologies that came out (essentially) fully baked and haven't seemingly improved since.

I had the thought while grumping at my Alexa. I say the same phrase every day, and every day there's a 50% failure rate. I keep looking for phrases that it can understand better than the ones I've cycled through, but they all suck.

But Alexa, as shipped, was pretty great. The fact that it hasn't seemed to improve at all since confounds me. The reports of the high body counts in the division surely attest to the lack of focus or interest in core Alexa skills. All those product and integration priorities were on the wrong product stack layer.

Same with: iPhone typing, Siri, Tesla software (and beyond FSD -- the only thing that seems have happened in the 2 years I've owned my vehicle is the addition of Apple Music), Apple Watch, etc.
I take it you didn't bother to read the words commute and job, which implies travel to a workplace to conduct work. While you can combine a commute with a trip to buy groceries, if it happens to be on the way, and drop off/pick up kids at school, if it is on the way and the schedule works out that way, for most that's simply not reality. Note that my post said nothing about giving up one's vehicles, it only mentioned commuting trips for work. Don't add things to comments that aren't there.
Yeah, I have a friend whose family switched from dial-up internet to DSL only in the mid-2010s.
I also live in San Diego, and have gone between Pacific Beach, La Jolla, Clairemont, Mission Valley, Downtown, and even as far as La Mesa or National City via e-bike (sometimes also using the trolley / light rail).

Is it convenient? No. Is it outright impossible? Absolutely not.

Work can, should, and is being done by the city to improve bike safety, and that’s a crucial factor that should be supported more. e-bikes are surprisingly capable at navigating the clusterfuck of US urban planning, however, so I suspect with effort we can massively improve and make this more viable. (This also includes densifying neighborhoods so you don’t have to cross the city for something you need).
I agree, brilliant book.
Delhi turns to artificial rain to ease air pollution crisis
If someone is trying to guarantee they will put you number 1 in 2 or 3 weeks be cautious. What's your budget for SEO?
> I can't get to the English Channel and across it at any time for twice that.

Eurostar St Pancras - Lille €144 Monday evening. But I agree that the prices of air vs rail are way out of whack.

https://www.eurostar.com/search/rw-en?origin=7015400&destina...
Seconded. Parhami and Ercegovac ( https://web.cs.ucla.edu/digital_arithmetic/ ) are my personal go-to digital arithmetic references.
Misleading title. Pay RIAA $3.3 millions.

Not paying artists.
Vagrancy is not a particularly American crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagrancy_Act_1824
>Sure, their creation is held behind legal walls in order to create, by definition, an artifical scarcity from which it derives its monetary value. If it was not protected by such a wall, and was not scarce, it would have no monetary value.

That's... not artificial scarcity. By definition (and using your own words) it is actual scarcity.

A person's performance -- which is more than just their voice reading lines -- is not held back behind some imaginary wall. It's literally limited by the hours in the day, the person's ability to get from place A to place B, etc.; it's not like David Attenborough is a Santa Claus figure and can be in California narrating a documentary and in New York providing some random dude a personal voiceover for his life simultaneously.
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Because if they suffer a serious injury they are going to drain hospital resources from people who did not cause their own disease/injury, possibly become a permanent disabled person on the public dole, and in general raise the cost of health care.
> Now it's forced to develop its own lithography machines and software. It's a massive own goal by US politicians.

Erh, "forced" yes, but "develop its own" is not. Except you call stealing IP is "develop" too, e.g.:

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/engineer-who-fled-charges-of-ste...
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/5/4/taiwan-is-trying-...
The issue is really in the "assistant" term. Their voice recognition is good enough for English speaking people without heavy accents. But they're terrible actual assistants beyond some rote command relative to all but the most dim-witted human.
You should not be surprised. A lot of us are DIYers, and see no need to pay someone to do something we can do ourselves. Running low-voltage ethernet through an attic or crawlspace is within the skills of anyone with functioning limbs. There is zero reason to pay someone to do it.

I don't really understand people who pay others to do every little thing they need done around the house, but I suppose they have different values than I so live and let live...
Plenty of places in the Northeast are potentially great for this. I live in a suburb of Philly, there's a train station into Philly a mile away, a major shopping center also about a mile away, a downtown area with lots of shops and restaurants, and two neighboring towns with similar downtowns. The schools are within easy walking or biking distance. The infrastructure is pretty hostile but the distances are perfectly reasonable for cycling.
I've found gtp4's replies considerably less bullshitty than the average human reply on Twitter/X.
I don't have a cargo bike, but you can fit a surprising amount of crap in a milk crate strapped to a bike rack. Especially if you have a pannier on the side (they even make some grocery tote bag style panniers)
Except the high value jobs is in support of low value areas. Of which if those are outside your country then you are hosed.

For example google extracts value from sellers. If those sellers themselves sell product made and developed in china. Then soon enough the Chinese system will move up the chain by use of competitive regulatory, skill, and supply chain advantages
Robot will clean your room for you – and will remember what you want
My biggest frustration with bikes here in the US is the lack of security in high traffic areas.

The fact that law enforcement doesn't seem to care about stolen bikes is a huge hurdle in my desire to bike to the store, leave alone paying thousands for a decent e-bike that I'd be even more worried about.

I say this as an avid cyclist.
I generally agree with you and its how I operate, but then you see Apple who strictly requires engineers to follow design/marketing requirements to the pixel -- and they are the most successful consumer business on the planet.
Wife and I did our shopping on a Vespa for last few years before it got stolen this summer. We really enjoyed scootin around the city and were going to many more events since parking became a nonissue.
For me, that move in game 2 marked the official start of the Singularity, although in one sense it's all the same exponential curve we've been riding since, well...

That's the neat thing about exponential curves, you always feel like you're at the fun part of them.
I think that that’s not only incorrect, it’s exactly what we are going to do and it will be fine.

Also self-driving cars would help quite a bit if they actually work. It’s only been just a place to park money because they don’t yet. No technology is a solution to anything until it actually exists.
We’ve had a Tern GSD for a few years (1500 miles, bought at 400) and absolutely love it.
We have both a Google thingy and an Alexa in the bedroom, used almost solely as alarm clocks. I use Alexa, my partner uses Google.

Alexa works just about perfectly, setting, unsetting and snoozing alarms as needed. But Google is almost comically incompetent. "Hey google, set an alarm for 4:20 am" -- "Alarm set for 8 pm".

When Alexa starts ringing, I can quietly say "stop" or "snooze". To get Google's attention when it is making noise, both of us have to scream at it more ofte than not.
Just like it was a very uncomfortable situation when Anderson sued Microsoft over the term windows?

Canonical is selling a piece of software, supermicro a line of servers.

And based on their own site it isn’t trademarked. Notice there’s no r next to the microcloud server but there is next to microblade.

https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/blade
> To help achieve independence from foreign suppliers, the initiative encourages increased production in high-tech products and services, with its semiconductor industry central to the industrial plan

Based on where SMIC is at right now, they’re not doing too great on this goal.
Yes, my city is one of those. Sadly it leads to a death spiral. The bus sucks, so nobody rides it, so the bus gets no money, so they cut routes, so the bus sucks more, so fewer people ride it.......
> - Good ebikes cost as much as my 2007 toyota

Car manufacturers are operating on razor thin margins and intend to recoup some of it elsewhere... or at least I've been told.

I agree that the price of ebikes really doesn't seem to match their value. They are in the same price range as electric mopeds, which have a much bigger battery, need more material to build and have to abide by more regulations.

Is it because the target is a rather young white-collar worker who live close enough to their office and is thus richer?