skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was able to figure everything out fine eventually. I'm just accustomed to normal car UX. It doesn't matter if it's a Toyota, Honda, GM, Ford, whatever: I can get in a car, take ten seconds to have Carplay working, and the rest of the controls are completely intuitive without any mental effort. I don't have to navigate through on-screen menus to do literally everything. The established auto manufacturers learned these ergonomics lessons over the past 50+ years, and things are designed based on that experience. Teslas just don't have that ergonomic finesse that you don't notice until it's not there. If you feel like you're doing sysadmin work to operate your car, the designer screwed up.

Tesla didn't cram everything into a screen because it's the superior ergonomic design, they did it because it's cheap. It definitely feels cheap and very mentally cumbersome.
We already have software archaeology today. People who are into software preservation track down old media, original creators, and dig through clues to restore pixel-perfect copies of abandonware. It's only going to get bigger / more important with time if we don't concentrate on open standards and open source everywhere.
I started rolling my eyes at "reader surveillance is a deeply intersectional threat", and it didn't get any better from there.

A whole lot of platitudes and speculation about how women and minorities are hardest hit, but essentially no actual information on who is doing what with which bits of data.
More than 10k research papers were retracted in 2023 – a new record
> The number of retractions issued for research articles in 2023 has passed 10,000 — smashing annual records — as publishers struggle to clean up a slew of sham papers and peer-review fraud. Among large research-producing nations, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Russia and China have the highest retraction rates over the past two decades, a Nature analysis has found.

> Nature’s analysis suggests that the retraction rate — the proportion of papers published in any given year that go on to be retracted — has more than trebled in the past decade. In 2022, it exceeded 0.2%.

> Among countries that have published more than 100,000 articles in the past two decades, Nature’s analysis suggests that Saudi Arabia has the highest retraction rate, of 30 per 10,000 articles, excluding retractions based on conference papers. (This analysis counts an article for a country if at least one co-author has an affiliation in that country.) If conference papers are included, withdrawals from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in New York City put China in the lead, with a retraction rate above 30 per 10,000 articles.
GitHubUnwrapped 2023 – Your coding year in review
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Source: https://github.com/remotion-dev/github-unwrapped-2023
Think they're referring to the people that refused life saving treatment because an orange man (that themselves received the treatment) told them not to get it.

Just a guess though.
nice cube bro
As vore's reply points out, HN does not have a no politics rule. If you want to know how we think about this, there are lots of past explanations at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... If you look at some of those and still have a question that isn't answered there, I'd be happy to take a look.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869 for the history of "HN is getting too political" perceptions.
Doesn’t the third party doctrine and/or ECPA only require a subpoena, especially for old, partially delivered notifications? It seems like Apple and Google are daring law enforcement to sue so that they can establish a stricter precedent.
This is exactly the same thing used in cash vaults in businesses. The idea is that the robbery doesn't even happen in the first place when criminals work out there is no way you can coerce people in to giving up the goods.
Gotta mention Succession as a very recent example of great TV and great season finales.
I'd say you're pushing from flippant to disrespectful on the who and how of this being done. Starting with you've got Addenbrooks and Guangzhou hospitals collecting the foetal material that will have been lovingly donated from some of the most distressed members of the British and Chinese population. The pipeline although commodity came from a new startup Enhanc3D Genomics Ltd (inc. 2020). Over 15 labs worked collaboratively to build the atlas of results, because the expense in human time alone far exceeds what could be done in a single lab.
Someone showed embedding similarity is not enough to find data leakage.
There's no such thing as a neutral site. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38620928 and my other comments in this thread for more explanation.

I can always be contacted at hn@ycombinator.com. I don't know if that counts as private DM or not!
SF Supervisor Dean Preston: homeless crisis is absolutely result of capitalism
Computers that can reliably write programs / higher-order logic has long been one of my big fundamental bars for useful AGI. It will clearly get better, but for a lot of what knowledge workers already do... The bar has been cleared, and now engineering is playing a much easier game of catch-up.

(Hi Jeremy!)
It's like exponential growth, whether that's in a petri dish or on earth. It looks like that until it doesn't. Singularities don't happen in the real world. Never have and never will. If someone tells you something about a singularity, that's a pretty perfect indicator that there's still some more understanding to be done.
> For reliable software in C++ it is pretty common to have alternative integer type implementations that provide different fully defined behaviors and guarantees than the default integer types. This became legitimately transparent around C++17 IIRC. It is more or less drop-in and mostly produces optimal codegen. Also a good way to eliminate irritating integer behaviors inherited from C.

I didn't know this. I can imagine you can create your own integer types as wrappers over existing primitives, and define them so that, e.g., on signed overflow, the program aborts or wraps (and your signed integers are actually a wrapper class over unsigned integers, but with operator overloading so that they act like signed integers). Is that what you mean? If not, could you show me what you mean?
TinyStories is pretty close (but synthetic). It’s been used to train a few tiny models.
> There’s also far less chance of being behind a family with strollers, or someone in a wheelchair, which also slows things down

Unless you fly out of MCO (Orlando)…
> Of course, the fact that these communities had existed within the Arab world for centuries itself belies the notion that the Arabs wanted to exterminate them "for Allah". As anyone with even a passing knowledge of history can attest to.

Let’s apply that argument to eg mid 20th century Europe. Let me ask you this directly: are you denying the holocaust?
You're asking for something like the GDPR.
models trained on gpt output might be more distilled and specialized but it wouldn't be improving generalization
> Phi-2: trained with 1400B tokens.

Where did you get the information. Not doubting you, just I couldn't find it.
I got access to Waymo recently and it is astoundingly good, it has replaced Uber for me (in SF).

I suspect it will be some time before we can get insurance policys for privately owned autonomous vehicles. If Google own the car and wrote the AI software then there’s only one party who is ultimately responsible should a collision occour. This is more complicated if you privately own an autonomous vehicle which is in an accident. Does the AI share culpability with the owner? How will insurance claims work?

Tesla requires users “maintain control and responsibility for your vehicle” while autopilot is on, and it feels like that is a CYA hedge should autopilot fail (“see, we told them to stay in control”).
Super low cost of living on a tech salary? Sounds good to me. But if that doesn't work GM has the Cruise offices in San Francisco that they'll have to find some use for. GM proper also has offices in North Hollywood and Pasadena. Cadillac famously used to have offices in New York for the prestige, but Cruise still does AFAIK.

I'd bet that the problem is absolutely going to be more of a bureaucracy and salary issue than a location one. GM is a hilariously broken company and I can't imagine an enjoyable one to work for.
> "blood money"?

Software patents are math patents, and math patents are not legal under US law, yet the USPTO continues to issue them. Many standards organizations require you to open the patents to anyone implementing the specifications managed by that organization if you wish to be part of the committee and introduce your technology to it, and the relevant policy here is a joint ITU-T/ITU-R/ISO/IEC governing agreement to do so.

3GPP was developed as a way to sidestep such mandatory agreements, while still being an ITU-managed spec. The company that is gaining the most advantage from this loophole is Qualcomm.

> Google "did" secure a win, didn't they? They took their ball and went home. They decided to take the Samsung Exynos SoC and modem for their flagship phone.

Yes and no. Google and Samsung are jointly putting pressure on Qualcomm that Apple couldn't. Both of them have patents that are part of the LTE patent pool as well, and key ones that would cripple Qualcomm if either of them pulled out.

Apple, through their Intel LTE acquisition, did not have as much leverage, even though Intel was the only other company was ready to compete in the 5G space and had patents relevant to 5G.

I believe Qualcomm, if they wished to push the issue, could also force both companies to settle. They may do so in the future.

> ... because they're better than the competition - including their acquisition? Is it your contention that Qualcomm somehow forced Apple to pick them over their own?

I do not believe so. Most of what was wrong with the first post-acquisition gen modems was Intel mismanagement of the product line (the same way they do to every other product of theirs). LTE benchmarks of the iPhone generation that contained both modems (and it was a random chance on which was in your phone) were mixed. Sometimes the Qualcomm modem was better, sometimes it was Intel.

It would be a shame if Apple abandoned the product entirely, and I don't think they did. I think this is part of the settlement. So, yes, to answer your question, I believe the settlement requires purchase of Qualcomm modems for x generations. The details of the settlement are not entirely public, other than there is a 2 year supply agreement.

You don't drop $1B on an acquisition just to get their patent portfolio and then settle and give up forever. You double down and continue working on polishing up that acquisition while the conditions of the settlement expire. I think in 2-3 generations we will see the return of the Intel modem; if we don't, I think Apple should go find themselves a new CEO.
working as intended. won't fix. <closes ticket>
That is a list full of interesting companies. In Europe, all we get is a handful of nameless blockchain companies. Has the memo not reached this continent yet?
If the average interest rate is 250% then 70% of them could default and I'd still make money.
Please don't post like this here. It's against the site guidelines, especially on a topic this fraught.

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> As luck would have it, the protesters went directly to the floor holding those particular records and set them on fire.

It was a coincidence. I bet they had perfect clothes.
You can try Raytheon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System
Right, so the algorithm that trains the neural net can be explained (autodifferentiation, backprop etc) but the neural net's functioning itself is billions of parameters which we absolutely cannot fully explain how it makes decisions
It has an aux cord so you can plug in a cell phone. Or you can use a USB drive to transfer files to the internal hard drive. The lack of Bluetooth Audio is the greatest flaw of the system.

It does have a "cradle" in the center console to connect a phone, I believe audio is supported by that. Unfortunately it requires an adapter and 2010 was the era of phone minification so there's not physically room for modern mega-phones to fit between the cradle headers, even if BMW kept up with adapters. There's also an iPod adapter but it uses the 30-pin plug. I haven't tried plugging in a regular 30-pin to USB A plug to the console USB port, that might work as well.

The navigation functionality is far superior to anything else I have seen.
koreader is great, I have a (very) hacked up pinenote that runs koreader, and the reading experience is very good. It's also extensible enough that you can easily port/customize it to new devices or hardware.
I only buy physical books. Not trying to be sarcastic here, but I have yet to find an E-Reader that gives me the same relaxing feeling that looking at ink on paper does at the end of the day. For the the library-in-one device convenience hasn't outweighed the disconnected simplicity of reading a book.

After spending a work day staring at a screen I have zero interest in looking at at yet another display.
I think the answer is, that in sexual matters part of our brain is hardwired to attach to individual humans.

Subscriptions create an incentive to keep consuming a particular resource, you don’t need that incentive if your audience already gets an oxytocin/dopamin kick just from seeing your face.

The other industries that got that right are far more morally questionable than pornography:
Big Pharma and computer games.
The threat is not AGI. The threat is what humans will do with the pedestrian, dumb "AI" of today.
The tragic aspect is that they spend inordinate amounts of money on this software with nothing to show for it. The money is spent so poorly and ineffectively, while trying to cut every inconsequential cost corner along the way with the output being micromanaged by people that don’t understand software, that if you directed a fraction of that money at a small team of highly paid and experienced software engineers you’d likely get a brilliant product.

Automotive OEMs don’t work that way, they spray money at hundreds of the cheapest engineers they can get away with and hope something good comes out the other side. I’ve seen it over and over. Their problems could be solved by paying a small team of excellent engineers proper Silicon Valley wages. It would be cheaper and produce a better product, but they don’t think that way. The concept of a highly paid software engineer is objectionable to the executives in that industry.
https://twitter.com/pfau/status/1674766269113937920
I've got abandonware in my Ford. It's got a bug in the Bluetooth stack which makes it unusable with my new phone. It's never going to be updated, so out of 2 users of that car, one can't play media and the other needs to deal with occasional infosystem crashes that require a full reset and re-pairing. You may be lucky today, but as years go by, you'll find some bugs too.

As Bluetooth standards evolve, you'll want non-recall updates in your car.
How about Spotify?

Apple Podcasts is coming in the next (holiday) update in +- 2 weeks (seriously)...
> To end this, I usually come to HN to escape from the horrors and constant negativity of traditional news.

I completely share your sentiment, but I don't believe HN ever offered that. I wasn't here for long but I often see posts about current events or uncomfortable subjects (cancer is one of mine for example), although they still represent a small minority.
I do not own a Tesla, but I've seen videos that told me that you pretty much have to use it's in car navigation system, for good reason: it factors in your route to give you an accurate range estimate, otherwise the estimates can be (significantly) off. That's important given that even the best electric cars have shorter range than gas cars, and there are far fewer recharging options than there are refueling options.
I certainly would insist on it. CarPlay and its Android counterpart are a far sight better than the infotainment systems the majority of cars ship with to begin with, plus they won’t have problems like their navigation data becoming outdated with updates costing money.

My car dash should be the “dumb TV” to my phone’s “streaming box”.
understanding of what that "last thing I did" isn't session specific, like "adding an if block and a long comment describing what that block does" is semantically two last things I did, the fact that they're happening within a single insert session doesn't help. And I don't really need too keep it in my head, a solved undo would make it visually obvious to free my head

The alternatives you suggest are bad:
1. This is no undo, so then it's not part of redo

2. Why would I ever want 3 undo points if I indent my comment a bit by 3 spaces?
Your comment broke the Assume good faith part. If you begin a comment with "Not sure if you're honest or poisoning the well", you're already on the wrong side of HN's guidelines. If you do that on so inflammatory a topic as this one, that's definitely flamebait.
CoP isn't really about engineering refinement to eek out the best efficiency. In fact, we have known how to get really close to the Carnot limit for nearly 100 years. The Carnot limit for a fridge in room temperature is a CoP of ~20.

However, getting close to that limit requires huge evaporators and condensers, big pipes, large amounts of working fluid, and multi stage pumps. All of that costs money, and historically people didn't care much about efficiency if it means spending more money.
It's hilarious just how bad OEM car software is. One of those many moments in my day to day that I realize how bad 90% of software we interact with is absolute trash.

ATM machines, credit card readers, parking meters, TVs, microwaves, ovens (really any appliances), phone trees, any kiosks, etc.

If the device registers my touch within 500ms that's usually enough to impress me at this point.
Not saying I disagree, but where does the 20,000 overwhelmingly civilian number come from? One of the things that seems really difficult about Hamas is from my understanding, they do not wear a uniform and shelter amongst non-combatantants.
Hard to believe apple’s postering about privacy when it takes this showing up in the media for them to harden up their policies. Seems like they only care when people know about it…
The Harkonnens and Sardaukar did use artillery in the book. Hawat discusses this with some Fremen who captured one, and who seem familiar with the existence of projectile weaponry (which makes sense, as Fremen do not use shields, and the Harkonnens know this). (EDIT: Not to mention Fremen use rocket launchers in the battle to retake Arrakis.)

I don't think the book mentions missiles per se, but I don't see why those wouldn't have been useful in warfare? Not every building can be covered by a shield, and shields require power sources. (This is a plot point later in the book.)
Neat, I noticed it gave me wrong data though, and when I asked for the top 3 rows it provided the wrong value, due to not using UTF8 - Asking ChatGPT to use utf8 support fixed it, perhaps update it's prompt.

Check out https://chat.openai.com/share/34091576-036a-4e82-b4e3-a8798d...
It is not for dynamic logic, it is more like a code generation tool. The inlined output means that you don't have to rerun the embedded code every time, which is useful for many cases where templating as a part of the build process would be inadaquate or cumbersome.
Well some might argue that every episode is the same formula. Watching season 2 or 10, you’re like watching the same thing over and over.

Not really thinking it’s a big problem personally, lots of shows follow very similar formula, but I did end up stopping to watch after a few seasons as I did get tired of it.
FCC affirms its earlier denial of SpaceX's application for $885M in funding
I wrote a thing like this once, only it would find any matching multiline regex, send it to any external command you wanted, and substitute the result. That way you could replace any text with any kind of processing program depending on your needs. Too bad I wrote it at work, was probably ditched when I left.
It’s not just about the length of the lines. My wife and I take one way trips across the country while I work remotely…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36767599

My backpack has two computers (work and personal), an iPad, a portable USB C monitor, a keyboard and a mouse depending on the airport without PreCheck, I have to take everything out and put it in separate bins

Not to mention taking my shoes and belt off.

With precheck, I just dump everything in my pockets into a back pocket of my backpack and go through.

Not to mention with Clear I even skip the precheck line and get go security faster.
Punish how? What can I do after I bought a car which I intend to drive for at least the next 10 years?
Few? Which ones (apart from Tesla) don't?
> blatant rule breaking comments can’t even be reported

You can flag rule-breaking comments and in egregious cases, email us at hn@ycombinator.com. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Wake me up when you can open the glove compartment without drilling down a menu on a touchscreen because that is certainly not what I call good UI.
Crypto Market: Unique Way to Spot Dips
It's funny that Bruce Sterling described a similar kind of schism in one of his Long Now Talks ("The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole"), and said that one of the best ways to derail meaningful progress towards such a technological singularity would be to split the world into two warring, cultural cliques.

https://longnow.org/seminars/02004/jun/11/the-singularity-yo...

Also, hilariously, the other way to derail such progress would be to commercialize it. Runaway self-improvement for its own sake, after all, doesn't have an intrinsic business model.
Can't give anything but acceptance of civilian casualties when the Hamas gameplan is literally to attack from civilian areas.

At the end of the day, Hamas is deliberately putting civilian lives in the line of fire, and are wholly to blame for this. Chastising Israel for deaths caused by this strategy is as good as legitimizing attacks from civilian territories, and will only increase this in the future.

This is considering that Israel had done a degree due diligence in harm mitigation (roof knocking, evacuations). Contrast this with Hamas, which deliberately attacks civilian areas.
This?

"Selected user account does not exist in tenant 'Microsoft' and cannot access the application 'd7304df8-741f-47d3-9bc2-df0e24e2071f' in that tenant. The account needs to be added as an external user in the tenant first. Please use a different account."
It’s honestly not bad for what it is - the aftertaste is a little chalky but they’re relatively small (about the size of a shot).

As for effects, it’s maybe “cleaner” than the jittery that comes with large amounts of caffeine, and certainly easier on the body than kratom if you’re not adjusted to it. For a gas station stimulant it’s pretty decent imo.
If it were up to me, I'd mandate that all cars are required to have a HUD. HUDs are insanely useful, mainly because it doesn't require the driver to take their eyes off the road for directions or for checking their speed.

Elon refusing to put a HUD in the tesla's is one of the reasons why he shouldn't be the CEO of anything, let alone a car company.
http://www.astronautix.com/l/lesalunarbase.html
For stability, the poles should be in the left half of the plane.