skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked up the interior of a 1997 LaSabre, there's plenty of places to add a new button.

I don't think (but I may be wrong) that US law stipulates that the horn must be operated via the steering wheel, and modifying it is trickier for the reasons you mention.

You could have a custom horn via a pull chain, see e.g. [1].

Anyway, this was clearly ages ago. I only chimed in to note that there's often non-OEM fixes for car troubles that are much cheaper, and will pass inspections.

If all you need is a functional horn you can get a working one at a junkyard. Then all you need is to mount it somewhere, a 12V power supply, and a switch.

Even if you can't do any of this yourself paying a mechanic to do it would be a small fraction of the $1600 you noted, which presumably was a full steering wheel replacement (airbag and all).

1. https://www.lalightbars.co.uk/hadley-air-horn-pull-chain-kit...
Over time, my thoughts on prison have evolved. I no longer consider their purpose to be punishment, but instead simply segregating people from society who refuse to follow the rules of society. The segregation is enough punishment itself, more punishment doesn't need to be heaped on.
The drug in question is Singulair [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montelukast
gotcha - thanks!
They aren’t necessarily. In the US they just choose to manufacture them that way. If you look at other countries they are developing electric cars en masse that are SUPER simple and basic and are much more affordable.

What amazing to me is that the cheapest electric cars currently are ironically hybrids which are at least twice as complex as a gas or an electric car and a bill of materials to match. It makes no sense.

Don’t get me wrong I think plugin hybrids are the gateway to getting people on board with electric especially the septics, but at the same time it makes no sense that they are less than their electric equivalents.
What advantages do you have in mind? Why not just use C++, Ada, or Rust?
> Their average response was $62. When they were given more time to guess again, they increased their estimate to $96. They were still way off. The correct answer was $273.

I have been in rooms at SaaS companies where the fact that people forget to cancel the subscription was described as an important benefit of the subscription model, and a reason to set the price at something easily overlooked.

People are terrible at estimating or keeping track of their subscriptions, myself included. A couple years ago I painstakingly audited all my recurring subscriptions. Painstaking because I had to go through all my bank and credit account statements for a year looking for the services that billed yearly or semi-yearly rather than monthly. I had also drastically underestimated what they cost me, by about a factor of two in my case. I think of myself as being very frugal about this kind of thing, so it was a surprise.

But then I was able to save myself almost $1000 a year just by eliminating some unused subscriptions I had sort of forgotten. Not forgotten entirely, but services I sort of failed to think about as costs, because the monthly spend for them individually was so low. But once I thought about them as a yearly cost, and then about the total yearly cost for all these little services, that successfully (and more accurately) reframed the situation.

I didn't find unsubscribing or cancelling to be particular onerous. I do use Privacy.com now, which would make it both easier to track and theoretically easier to cancel. Ironically, Privacy.com is a monthly subscription (at the tier I use) but it is definitely worth it.

I told people about the $1000 a year "raise" I got by just trimming dead weight. I told them they should do the same exercise—make a spreadsheet, have a column that multiplies the monthly fee by 12, and think about it as a yearly cost instead—and they were all, uniformly, without exception certain that they already knew what they spent, and it wasn't really very much.

My advice: do the exercise anyway, it is worth it.
There is an implied steady state in what the program is doing. If it goes right from "loading" to "exit" then you need a more complicated analysis.

When you have that steady state, that definition looking at uncontrolled growth is more useful than trying to dissect whether the memory is truly unreachable or only practically unreachable.
Ken Lay of Enron.
> Previously these tradeoffs were not so harsh

What makes you so sure of this?
I’m here for the recommendations for apps to cancel subscriptions
To calculate the energy produced by a 1 GW solar power plant during a winter month in Germany, we need to consider a few factors:

1. *Solar Insolation*: The average solar energy received per day in winter.
2. *Day Length*: Winter days are shorter, so there's less daylight for solar panels to operate.
3. *Panel Efficiency*: The efficiency of the solar panels in converting sunlight to electricity.
4. *Weather Conditions*: Overcast days are common in winter, which can reduce solar panel output.

Let's make some assumptions for a rough estimate:

- *Solar Insolation*: In Germany, the winter solar insolation is roughly 1.5 kWh/m²/day.
- *Day Length*: We'll assume an average of 8 hours of effective daylight in winter.
- *Panel Efficiency*: Modern solar panels are about 15-20% efficient. Let's use 18%.
- *Weather Conditions*: We'll assume that overcast conditions reduce effective insolation by 25%.

Now, let's calculate:

1. The daily energy output (in kWh) = 1 GW * 8 hours * 18% efficiency * 75% weather factor.
2. Multiply this by the number of days in a month (30 days for simplicity).

A 1 GW solar power plant in Germany could produce approximately 32.4 million kWh (or 32.4 GWh) of energy during a typical 30-day winter month, considering the factors and assumptions outlined earlier.

Hit me up in 2040 when Poland’s first nuclear power plant finally opens a decade behind schedule snd costing the usual ~10x of the estimate.
Anyone know why the crater is romanized “shioli” rather than “shiori”?
I don't think so, you'd need specialized hardware to write to a vinyl disk. The sound of your voice interacting with the needle isn't going to leave a mark. And any record already has an audio track written on it anyway.
tl;dw: It reserves half the RAM only to keep a sleeping windows/linux there.
Mistrals biggest risk factor is the EU. The overzealous regulation could be stifling innovation, especially open source.
It seems like no one really knows

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Commercial_Airplanes#Mo...
> So, first break EU.. lol

But the party we are discussing here is openly anti-EU and would like that Germany leaves the EU.
Then I'm probably going to get 50 bucks from a class action against that insurance company in a few years.
Have they tried turning it off and on again?
He’s very popular and the Harvard stuff is just the latest. He’s openly on Twitter chronicled his project of getting people to lump every bit of political correctness that they find irritating under the umbrella of “critical race theory”, and then once he succeeded at that pivoted to doing the same thing for DEI.

Funnily enough, as an aside, I can’t imagine an easier place to propagate his sort of nonsense than a large, highly visible discussion forum that codifies assuming good faith into the rules and makes it explicitly against the rules to point out astroturfing, even if it’s obvious. Any platform that prides itself on an outdated idea of neutrality is easily weaponized by these bad actors.
People who frame others for a crime should be subject to the same sanctions as the crime itself.
> utility monsters

are specifically a criticism of utilitarianism, the people taking them seriously are doing so to say "and therefore utilitarianism is wrong".

Also, did you… fail to notice that I was also describing utilitarianism as naive, just without using that specific word? Because I was.

> mummification in an era where that was batshit

It was also an era when being gay or an atheist or supporting equal rights for women or ending slavery was "batshit".

And today we have Elon Musk, who many regard as batshit, but hey, SpaceX exists and probably wouldn't have gotten this far without him (it's not like the other billionaires in the new space race did any better than the old rocket companies they're trying to displace).

"Batshit" is a trivial, playground, insult. Even when it's true, it doesn't count for much, because it's so broad.
https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion158.html

" So brace yourself. In two years, you would open-up an AMS journal, and read an abstract that looks like this:

"Using Theory T1014, and Theorems Th100154, Th54135, and Th87651, as well as inequalities In54312, and In34567, we prove Conjecture C84231."

Please! Mathematics papers are hard enough to read the way they are written now, and this new policy would make reading them so much harder. It is true that few people read papers any more, and eventually, only computers will write and read papers, and for them using numbered-theorems would be preferred, so let's postpone this reform for another fifty years, when humans will no longer care how unreadable a mathematics paper is"
I don't think it's anything as sexy as some world-shattering AGI, etc.

Remember they are doing a lot of building and research on things other companies already do: cellular modems, microled, etc. This is probably where a large portion of these costs go: the refinement of production ready devices and the manufacturing processes/plant needed is incredibly expensive.
The perfect job doesn't exi-
A big part of that is simply in the meaning of "reserve". For something to be counted in the reserve it has to be a) measured, and b) known to be economically viable to extract.

There are plenty of known deposits of unknown size and quality. They are just by definition not included in the reserve. As demand grows those will be explored and included in the total count.
I think the complaint was aimed at Sourcehut leaning on a sole volunteer for this service, not at Ludovic Chabant
Payoneer accounts in Argentina hacked in 2FA bypass attacks
Yes, the US FDA has tight restrictions on unpasteurized milk and cheeses, and France does not. Some French cheeses are straight up illegal in the US because they're raw and not aged long enough i.e. reblochon.
About 29minutes in is where it picks up after reading verbatim the status report from Drew.
>not understand anywhere near enough about intelligence to develop AGI.

LLM training is essentially training them to predict what happens next. When we combine this with multi-modal training (video/audio), they're being trained to predict what happens next in the world. As we feed them more and more data and make them bigger and bigger, they'll get better and better at this task. Given that predicting what happens next requires predicting what humans do, because humans are part of the world, if they keep getting better and better then they'll be able to predict what humans would do well enough that they're capable of thinking any thoughts humans could think, because that's a requirement for predicting human behaviour. So just by training them on this one label, predict what happens next, we'd expect them to eventually develop human-level intelligence if the loss keeps decreasing.
Specifically, there is no statute of limitations for indictable criminal offences, the equivalent of a felony. Minor offences have a limit of one year. Civil matters have a limit in many provinces, too.
You know at least 20 songs, from the Beatles to ABBA or Eminem. This is part of your culture because you heard them over and over.

We do the same but with cheeses.
Who captures Attention wins. Doesn't matter what the Quality of the content is. They get locked into 24x7 Attention capture arms races. Not participating is the equivalent of Coke deciding to reduce it's Ad budget to 0.
That's great info. I have an Adder laptop and both my hardware and software experience are poor...
We have to understand it to build it? That seems absurd. Did evolution understand it? I'll grant you that maybe we should understand it before building it, but it's absolutely not a requirement.

The reality is that your consciousness sits at the end of a gradient of intelligence that nature simply brute forced. Your conscious experience is more sophisticated than a dog's, which surpasses a hamster's, which surpasses a goldfish, insect, etc. There is no magic to it, there is nothing but more and more and more.

We will get to AGI eventually. We probably won't understand it. We won't apply it judiciously. And we'll probably argue for decades about whether or not it's really AGI, but it will happen.
The calvados beverage is not only made in the Calvados departement. There are 3 different appelations:
- regular calvados made from cider from different parts of Normandy
- calvados Pays d'Auge which must be made from cider of that eponymous Pays d'Auge area (which is within the Calvados departement)
- calvados du Domfrontais which is made from cider of the Domfront area in the Orne departement.
Usually when people discuss zoning it excludes things like industrial zoning and focuses on single family zoning vs multi-family zoning. In this case, yes, zoning needs to be deregulated. Zoning for housing should be zoning for housing and whether it is single or multi family shouldn't matter. But we should keep the industrial zoning from being put next to an Elementary school.
Well going off the article he’d at least not have a criminal record
Requiring someone to call to cancel your service is almost always a shady business practice to make it difficult enough that it's not worth their time. If it takes you less than 5 minutes to sign up, it should take you less than 5 minutes to cancel. If you can sign up without talking to someone, you should be able to cancel without talking to someone.

That type of practice could use some sort of regulation.
"uses more memory than what's efficient"

There is a hidden memory store using orders of magnitude more RAM than the live data. Why do we need to nitpick exactly how hidden it is? Are you going to be mad if I don't know whether it's literally inaccessible or not?
> People need to have personal responsibility.

Do people need to have personal responsibility when they operate a business? Why is responsibility any less there?

I think it's irresponsible to exploit other people's mistakes (unless they are a competing business, and not always then either). It happens incidentally sometimes at minimal cost, but at high cost or when it can be avoided, it's the businessperson's responsibility to not do it.

Every one makes mistakes; you too. Forgive us our tresspasses, as we forgive those who tresspass ...
Oh no that is only 8 years from now...Cancelling all activities for next week and getting right on it...
Go get a Masters and hope to get an internship that converts into full time. Otherwise you are going to grind yourself into dust.
Cleanliness is also the cause that there were less and smaller holes in Swiss Cheese.

HN-celebrated Tom Scott did a video on it last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evV05QeSjAw
podcasts advertise this to me all of the time. I think it's called rocketmoney or zenwallet or something along those lines
> "Every time a customer buys a printer, it's an investment for us. We are investing in that customer, and if that customer doesn't print enough or doesn't use our supplies, it's a bad investment." - HP CEO

"No HP product could possibly be a good investment for me" - Any & Every Sane Customer
Serious lack of empathy in this thread, mostly by a bunch of incredibly wealthy individuals that have their life in order.

When a lot of people struggle with certain categories of problems, it's worth considering if those problems could be nerfed in some way rather than telling them just "get good".

There's definitely a huge slew of predatory billing techniques and dark patterns to get people to keep paying for services. These patterns should be documented and destroyed.

Having more accessible billing methods also makes life better for everyone (maybe except the company). Consider how absurd it is that only from California can you cancel your New York Times subscription online while every other state requires you to call in and deal with a retention agent. Let's not pretend this is in any way reasonable, it's straight up bullshit.

Sure personal responsibility is important, but there's no reason we should accept predatory and abusive practices from companies. It just makes reality worse for everyone.
You should look into the CRIME, BEAST, and BREACH attacks on TLS/SSL. They're related to using compression before encryption.

The TL;DR is that you generally should not compress secret data before encrypting, especially if part of the request might be reflected in the response.

If you look carefully at your browser's HTTPS traffic, you'll notice that dynamic data is never sent using HTTP compression, though static (basically guaranteed to not contain anything secret) data might still use it.
I thought it was ending in "ocom"

It just conveys this optimistic, futuristic attitude. Like you can do anything. The only limit is yourself.
This really captures how slow the web, and everything else, was back then.
Exactly. In fact around these parts, the more natural-looking, y’know local region grown apples are more popular. That’s what people are looking for. Not the bright red, big, more perfect apple-shaped ones with a kind of polished glean to them which were probably imported from abroad. People want those smaller red-and-green(-and-yellow) ones. (But they’re too sour for my taste.)
Ask HN: Did you pre-order an Apple Vision Pro?
I have never been this excited for a tech product in my life, and I am not a gamer or content producer, just a programmer. I'm usually a late-adopter when it comes to new gadgets, but this time I pre-ordered. I don't think I have ever pre-ordered a gadget before, ever. Anyone from HN feel the same?

I travel a LOT, so:

* I plan to make portable my entire 4 external monitor home office setup with a Mac Virtual Display + visionOS apps (mostly just Safari tabs or iPad apps), at least while travelling.

* Home theatre experience on the go is a big plus for me.

* Immersive focused environment for writing notes, planning, studying Anki cards, or other "focused" tasks also seems like a huge deal to me. I really focus better in immersive environments, which is why I often go to cafe's, parks, or someplace with a nice view to write and think. Now it looks like I can get that experience anywhere.

* Ability to put apps on my walls around the house and walk around while planning, thinking, and sketching would be a game changer. I love walking and thinking.
I think the issue you're zoning in on is that "not rich" is a loose definition. For some ppl it's "living in a small 1br apartment and not eating out", but for others it means "couchsurfing at goodwill of friends and stealing from chain supermarkets". One requires financial resources more than the other. How low someone is willing to go to be unemployed and low-status makes all the difference in processing the sentence, but it's left unsaid.
> All of them will make you go through a labyrinthian exercise to turn these alerts on, if they make them available (LOOKING AT YOU, CITIBANK)

How long ago is your experience with this from? I ask because I just got my first card from Citi within the last three weeks and was able to turn these on really easily before my card arrived. I actually have a notification for $16 sitting on my lock screen from them as I type this.
216! Yes! I has totally blocked memories about that. I think I built my first website in 1997, and it was wild what we had to do back then.
Most of them will, particularly the sketchier ones like online dating sites.

It is worth it to them to let you cancel a subscription rather than have to deal with chargebacks, lawsuits, bad publicity, etc.
She was happy to lead witch hunts against professors that did research that didn’t support left wing positions.
I used YNAB 4, but gave them up for ethical reasons when they started charging yearly for their web app that was worse than the stand alone app (and the stand alone app was a cheaper one time payment). I just didn't want to see a company succeed by purposely switching to a worse but more expensive offering.
If I watch 1 hour of Netflix a month and you watch 300 hundred hours a month, should the government mandate that Netflix charge you 300x more than me? If not, why should the person who watches 0 hours be treated any differently? Ultimately Netflix is creating the plan and publishing its details, and we are all opting into it willingly. Whether we get value from it or not is for us to decide, not the government.
She's the president of Harvard. She should be more competent, at thinking, and at politiking.

"Mr. Stefanic — we deplore antisemitism in all of it's forms. Any harassment, especially that which is motivated by bigotry is an obvious violation of our code of conduct."

not

"Hurr durr it depends"
That doesn't really follow at all.

It may result in something that is even better at faking the appearance of intelligence, but LLMs and similar stuff fundamentally lacks various features that make them not capable of becoming human level intelligences.
This has been useful for me
https://www.manualslib.com/
Are these lands pre-cleared for building, no additional environmental review? Can they also pre-clear transmission corridors to connect these solar panels to the grid, no additional environmental review and a promise to exercise imminent domain?
As a Christian, I have learned to be in my guard when business partners tell me about their Christianity.

Or any other way of signaling their self-proported ethics.
That's weird, I thought I was a customer not an investment. In general of course, with HP the shenanigans have been obvious for a while.

It's nice to see people saying what they actually believe out loud. Refreshing.
At the very least, when compute passes a certain threshold we are just gonna be able to simulate human brains.
Cabinet members at least are, as they can be impeached. GOP House is "trying" to impeach the current Sec of Homeland Security.
This is why M series chips "feels" faster
The thing is, such an emulator exists, MacOS itself uses it to run old x86 MacOS apps transparently. Why is that as soon as that app happens to be, say, VMWare, the OS suddenly says nuh uh, not gonna do it?

The technology works, I run AAA x86 games on my Mac Studio via Crossover. Sure, the performance is a bit limited, but it's limited by the nature of an integrated, albeit fairly powerful, GPU. It works surprisingly well considering many of these games are targeted at, say, 1000-series NVidia cards.

But wanting to run a 8GB Linux instance so I can run a local dev environment is an impossible ask? (Before anyone asks, no, ARM linux isn't really a viable solution for...reasons I don't feel like going into but are mostly boring and technical-debty).
It depends a bit on what you call "reading" (i.e. whether you are reading passively or actively). If you stop and think through each proof yourself before reading the one in the book, that more-or-less turns the main content into a series of exercises.
Why are you monocropping grass?? Plant a meadow. Make hill mounds with grass clippings. Plant a hedgerow.

Seems like we decided arbitrarily on the most destructive form of yard that has secondary effects of causing scientifically proven damage to humans around us with sonic blasts from our leaf blowers.
this is exactly how GIFs should have remained. The new generation calls these "stickers" which are all over Tiktok and Snapchat, and they're all Canva-made identikit garbage.

It's sad to think that GIFs that still remain are movie/TV scenes that are clipped to use as reactions to online comments.
A couple favorites that haven't been mentioned:

'An Introduction to General Systems Thinking', Weinberg, and he's got a dozen more worthwhile books behind it.

'The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situations', Dietrich Dorner
Is it open sourced?