skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You probably turn your TV and Nest on less than once per year. It's much easier for always on devices to update when they're not in use than an item like a scooter, which when it's off, it's actually off.

That said, I don't know why you would ever connect a transportation device to the internet. All of my vehicles are too old to connect to the internet, but when I finally have to replace them, the first thing I'll do is physically remove the Wi-Fi/cellular antenna
Yes, and if you ask the CFO about the best way to increase profits, the answer is always to fire all your staff. That doesn't mean that that answer is the most optimal solution.
> Doesn't require tracking of individuals.

Only if you maintain your own ad inventory, instead of using Google/Facebook ads like 90% of online advertisers do. And neither of those platforms work without installing their scripts on your site.
Show HN: Turn your Chrome new-tab page into a clean, distraction-free notepad
I've built a Chrome extension that transforms the new-tab page into a quick note app. Whatever you type is automatically saved and synced by the browser, so no account is needed. The extension supports markdown and keyboard shortcuts for text formatting.
(The article goes a bit above my head so my excuses if I am a bit off-topic)

There is a form of query plan caching in PG: for prepared statements, if PG determines that the actual value of parameters won't affect the query plan much, it uses a "generic plan" so that it reuses the same query plan for every execution of the prepared statement (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-prepare.html, see "notes")
Thanks for the heads up! I'll attend to that!
I live in Western Massachusetts and I can confirm this is objectively false. We have a ton of ticks here. You won't get lyme if it's on you for a few hours but if you get one on you and go to sleep you can get it by the time you wake up. It's more the longer it's on the more likely it is, but you absolutely can get it if it's been attached for only 12-18 hours.
To this day, I still remember my ICQ number from back in the nineties. However, unfortunately the same doesn't apply to the password and I can't seem to be able to reset it.
Holy shit, that's a real thing and not just a meme? They don't let you cancel the update because you need your car to get you from point A to point B?

That's, uhhh, really bad.
Frankly, judging HN accounts based on total karma, and not based on comment/submission history, real world credibility, etc…, is bizarre. (I’ve never encountered before someone who genuinely believe this)

But I digress, Did you read my comments to the end? If so, and you still decline to check, then here’s the gist:

The ‘knowledgeable’ comments are likely confabulated by someone who has never even picked up a bonafide economic statistic publication in the original Vietnamese, or made even a single inquiry to an actual decision making entity in Hanoi. Maybe they are half true, being generous.

If pointing this out counts as ‘hostile’, then I don’t care enough to address this claim, but I’m glad to be doing a public service for those who would have been misled.
Most recent major feature release has it now (I don’t know what they call them anymore) but it showed up in my taskbar after an update maybe just over a month ago.
Show HN: DisDos – make an online community for your audience
It'll now take them 2-3 weeks to get the details.
Why would a MAC address duplication "lock up" your whole network? I would guess that at worst that particular laptop would either intermittently get packets or not get packets at all. Which is bad, but not a "lock up". Other stuff should still work.
Not a deprecation. I'm talking about undocumented changes in supported APIs.

Every single release may have been an exaggeration, but I was at the company three years and saw this happen more than once.
>a generation didn't prepare appropriately for old age

This will have a snowball effect because their children will need to support them and save less for their own retirement, then their children's children and so on.

In all fairness, it's tough for most people to save with massive recessions/depressions with mass layoffs every 10 years and near zero interest rates on savings accounts for 20+ years now. Add to that wage pressure from offshoring and things like NAFTA and 2-3% regular inflation targets.

Also, the government won't keep social security payments up with inflation and they tax it. Just more ways to keep the people down. If only we spent the $34T we now have in debt since the 80s on something less frivolous.
The positive side of wanting what others have is called inspiration or something like that, "you inspire me to work hard so I can be like you" etc, nobody calls that envy.

Envy is purely negative in a social sense, it makes you fight people just because they have stuff you want. It is beneficial to your own genes but not beneficial to humanity.
It is FUD to state that 1.4V damages CPUs without citing evidence to support that statement.

Personally, I have a 14700K in my desktop and my laptop has a 12700H. Both routinely push 1.3~1.4V under load operating according to spec. If that is causing damage, I certainly would like to know and I asked for citation. I see none after prodding, so as far as I'm concerned it's FUD.
Mystery in Japan as dangerous streptococcal infections soar to record levels
If I've learned one thing from 30 years in software it's:

Minimize the number of things in your life that need software updates.
I've created hundreds of accounts since the mid-1990s. The only two accounts I can think that fall under your description are MySpace and LinkedIn (the latter I joined shortly after it started, and I suppose my MySpace login still works but I haven't tried it in years).

I made a rare (for me) mistake early on, using the same password for Facebook that I was already using on MySpace. Fortunately, I did not use the same email address, so that password was of limited use to anyone else. These passwords have since been changed, of course.
It's a good overview, but I think there's one important aspect that's not discussed.

We're looking at AI competing with the jobs that programmers do today, but it's likely that these new AI tools will change software itself.

I mean, why have a complicated UI with design/validation/etc when you can just tell your phone you want a plane ticket to Paris tomorrow ?
I'm just going to guesstimate that at least half of the apps we use today can be done without a UI or with a very different type of UI+natural language.

Add AI agents that are fine tuned on all your personal data in real time (eg. photos you take, messages you send, etc) which will end up knowing you better than your mom. In a company setting, the AI will know all your JIRA tickets and Slack/Teams conversations, e-mails and so on.

On the backend, instead of API endpoints, you'll have just one - where the AI asks you for data piece by piece, while the client AI provides it. No need to program this, the AIs can just figure it out by themselves.

Definitely interesting times, but change is coming fast.
I don't think it's necessarily what consumers want. Sometimes it's what business owners want (eg when they retire and sell), and consolidation gives the new owner the benefit of local monopoly or decreased competiton.

Absolutely no one in my area likes trends in veterinary care, for example, but there are only so many options.
Can Google really complain? For years they bundled Chrome installers that set the browser as default with other random software. And every time you visited Google with Internet Explorer or Firefox, they told you to "upgrade" to Chrome.
That sounds like a problem from twenty years ago.
Firebolt React Framework
Lifespan is a factor in depreciation, not the other way around, although many people believe it is, i.e. depreciated equipment may still have usefulness though some people (businesses) rush to replace equipment once it's depreciated.

In case of real estate, depreciation offers income tax deferral because real estate retains much of its value and sometimes even appreciates despite being fully depreciated. It may be a part of or analogous to the borrow and die scheme of tax avoidance.
So there could never be a new provider or a new protocol because AI wouldn't be able to use them or create them.

You can just make websites on pre-approved list.
But this is not website related but on the OS level.

MS even shows a message if you want to revert your choice.

>"Wait-don't change it back! If you do, you'll turn off Microsoft Bing Search for Chrome and lose access to Bing Search and wallpapers,"
my e-reader is not connected to a network. neither is my television.

my laptop’s traffic is regularly monitored both on and off device, and i also have root on it. it’s not spying on me- i know because one actually has to check these sorts of things.
Pixi's Multiple Environments Implementation
At the same time the Polestar 2 is an example of a modern EV built using a legacy mindset, and it is great and spends way less time at the mechanic than my colleagues Model 3.
I hate this framing of humanity as a “fundamentally destructive species” it’s a meaningless sound that people make with zero serious thought given to it. Exactly which species are not destructive? All animal life must consume other life in order to survive and exactly zero of them have any inhibition that would prevent them from maximizing their consumption and reproduction at the expense of all other life if they could. Humans are the only species that cares at all what happens to other forms of life and makes efforts at our own expense to limit or temper our impact. The only reason the world around you seems even remotely safe and comfortable is due to thousands of years of sustained human effort to make it so.
Geospatial DuckDB (2023)
01010000 01110010 01100101 01110100 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011

Not worth translating, it would lose its je ne sais quoi so to speak
>Problem is that unknown unknows are not actionable.

How about carefully testing something new, especially something that one ingests? As far as I know no such testing is done, if it's done, it's done with the goal of gaming the safety standards that may be expected of the product. You cannot fix an ignorant, corrupt society.
I still know my password. :)

I did have someone try to take it over about a decade ago, but the email it was linked to was still active, so GL!

Apparently, a 6digit address is worth about $50 on Ebay, or was the last time I checked.
This is the inevitable outcome of picking cheap-fast from the cheap-fast-good PM triangle. Unfortunately for some customers/users, their concerns were left out of the conversation and their PII is the cost.

I’d be wary of any company listed here that made that decision and hasn’t changed leadership, as it has been proven time and time again that many companies simply don’t care enough about customers enough to protect them. History repeats itself.
>"see the world for what it really is"

Well, what is it? Do Enlighten. This seems like just angry ranting.

Half of your complaints are just free-market. Republican's love free-markets until prices go up, boo-hoo.

Republican's and Defense industry love wars.

High Speed rail, without looking, I'd say geography and real-estate prices.

1M for traffic lights? Maybe high, is 500K ok? It might be high, but it isn't 100X high.

CEO's get golden parachutes way bigger than the lowly civil servant driving a used car making 50K.
It's not website related but on the OS level, the latter is worse.
From MS's POV they have just replaced the HTML renderer in Outlook. They just took the opportunity to drop some hard to maintain legacy code (COM compatibility) and "improve" the UX in ways people predictably hate.
Cisco Completes Acquisition of Splunk
Yes, I have a proper car from a real car company. They shipped working software the first time and "updates" are actually recalls for which the owner is notified, at the time of annual service for minor issues, or by mail for major issues.
The images for Figure 2 are reversed. Both the caption and the description in the paragraph below refer to the bottom image while describing the top one.
Indeed, and right now it's the only possible way since it remains in a single session, doing otherwise would be very hard.
I never said anything like “this is clearly not Boeing’s fault”, I said it likely isn’t the fault of their recent QA issues, as in I’d bet money on this being someone failing to inspect and replace a part on schedule over it being a poorly made part of recent manufacture, or for that matter a badly specified maintenance schedule. Of course I could be wrong, but my guess is that when the full report comes back the onus will be on whomever didn’t follow the schedule rather than on the OEM.
I'm not sure. I would hope they let you cancel the update. It's entirely possible my friend is an idiot.
What are some alternatives for US-based passengers? In my experience Uber and Lyft pretty much have the mindshare of rideshare options
>do they believe the things they say?

Sure, but most theories are wrong and it can take a lifetime to find out beyond a doubt when the only worthwhile measure is 20/20 hindsight.

So give them a break, somebody has to commit their life (and substantial mathematical ability) to completely wrong theories, and it's a whole lot more of a sustainable career if they can develop some kind of a following to accompany them along in their journey.
> Being intentional about this idea can help you decide who yiy want your future self to be, and help you get there.

To what end? Oftentimes, that tale goes like: "If I do this, I can get more money." Or: "If I do that, I can get a better partner." Once you get what you wanted, it's no longer what you actually want. One solution has caused ten more problems and you never feel any better really, other than for very short fleeting moments.
Lawrence, is Optery's subscription cancellation 100% self-service?

Onerep's dark pattern: https://imgur.com/a/e5pZyrK
This explains a lot about my computer experiences over the last few years. I've been buying absolute top end hardware, and been consistently running into a plethora of absolute weird technical issues unlike any of my previous experiences. I even had to rma a 12900ks directly with Intel after it couldn't run at stock settings bug free.
increase-left-volume;
increase-right-volume;

inside a function that can be preempted
Thank you - I thought it was common knowledge that we did that.

Can totally trust the Swedes not like their formal members of an alliance of ours or anything like that - I think we can clearly chalk this up to an "act of sabotage" and let that be the end of that
I'm not sure if $1.40 per mile is working well below the poverty line. At freeway speeds this is over $90 per hour.

If the previous prices really were bad wages, then Uber and Lyft would be having a hard time finding drivers.
3D Vision-Language-Action Generative World Model
There are only 39 licensed cab drivers in the city (as opposed to 1900 drivers 10 years ago). The sudden crash bang will be interesting as ride-sharing has become such a part of city life. I'm not familiar with what wage Uber currently pays their drivers. Leaving every city that demands a minimum wage, can't be their long-term plan... can it?
My self-hosted web and email goes back to 1997... still in use. (vsta.org)
Zoom asks if you want to update after a call, which seems the best time for it to me.
> If you store any kind of data about a visitor to make their life more convenient, is that tracking? Shopping carts? Notification preferences? etc.

These are first-party cookies as they're served by the host domain, so they wouldn't need an opt-in under GDPR. Site owners should try to limit that to core functionality, like updating shopping cart state as you navigate from page to page.

> It's actually a bit ironic to ask visitors if it's ok to track them. If they say no, you have to track them to at least remember that choice.

That's not how it works. The cookie banner opt-in asks if you want to accept cookies aka tracking. If you say no, no cookies are downloaded, so the site has no idea that you have visited it. So the next time you arrive on the site, it will provided the popup again, as though it's your first time visiting.
Rumble Cloud
I've never had a terminal crash, except Windows Terminal.
Somewhere I saw an observation that the SF trope of "humans discover ancient technology, attempt to use it, hilarity ensues" fails suspension of disbelief for contemporary audiences, because we all know that right after the protagonists discover the ancient alien tech and switch it on, it'd be bricked for a good part of the next decade trying to retrieve and apply patches dating to when the Myriapoda first walked on dry land...

Last update applied at z=???
Looking for updates...
Update server found [Alpha Centauri C]
Retrieving updates... 0% of ??? YB
It's troubling that these business models aren't viable unless you pay the drivers less than $15 an hour. Especially with no benefits. That is very little these days.
On the ethics ...

Kentaro Toyama talks about technology as an amplifier for human intent.

Just as you could tighten a nut with your hands, you can tighten it so much more with a wrench.

Whether that nut is employed in a machine that will bring bounty for a village, or it's employed in a machine whose output by law belongs to its private owners is entirely up to the inhabitants.

Will the villagers band together and build their own machine?

Or will the authorities give the private creator of the machine exclusivity of the land the machine runs on and its output, leaving the villagers bereft?

Whatever state our world is in is a result of our peers decision, not "good" or "bad" technology. Humans will legislate: "good" and "bad" uses are up to them, and later on up to the executive and judicial system.

Pro-social (*not the same as socialist) cultures will share the wealth, others will hoard it, and you get the effects you dread: unemployment, poverty, etc.

Now, a better question is: is a technology too powerful or misunderstood that it might be misused, regardless of the creator's intent?
This kind of take is just, let’s put it mildly, shallow.

We never complained about CAD systems replacing people who were drafting blueprints manually, not to mention all kinds of automation tools that replaced factory workers.

Why should AI coders be the same? If you can automate it, humans shouldn’t really be wasting their times on it.

There is nothing intellectual in pulling someone’s code from github to piece together some software by copy-pasting snippets.
> they did not believe we should have support for developer products at all

That explains a lot.
Laplace and z-transform are widely used in control systems and signal processing. Both are more general forms of the Fourier transform in continuous and discrete time, respectively.
6 degrees of separation between bacon and anything else.
Intel beats AMD on idle consumption though
Not just bankers. REITs also don't invest in groundbreaking endeavors, or do they?
"It just works" ... not
One pretty understandable reason for a transportation device to update itself is for new GPS ephemeris data. I think it would be cool if there was a device protocol that somehow securely promulgated such data from devices that are expected to be well-connected, like your smartphone, to "things" that are not, like watches and cameras and scooters.
While I disagree with much of what is expressed here, I don't think the downvotes are necessarily deserved
Not if the claim contains "ever". They would need to prove that Windows 11 has fewer vulnerabilities than e.g. MS-DOS 6.22.
>> 2) My car. Even though it can update over wifi, and by other means, it never tries to do it unbidden.

Today. That could change tomorrow. We already have forced updates for popular operating systems. Mandatory "safety" updates for car software will come one day.

I'm waiting for the day that different states implement different software rules. Imagine if Nevada implemented speed-governors but Texas didn't. I see a world where everyone has to pull over at the state line to allow their car to reconfigure software in order to accommodate local rules.
'Accept' and it's enthusiastically memorised for all time. 'Decline' and it has selective memory.
We live in a shitty utopia
The only time I had problems with a win10 update was the fiasco when an update broke veracrypt. But that was pretty annoying.
This is the argument against only having a Stripe terminal in your shop. I'm sure some of them would need therapy after making change for a $50, which is sad on at least two levels.

But most places I've lived seem to have plenty of non-IoT cash registers, and it's not infrequently that something is wrong with their card system, EBT is down, etc. That the financial district Sweetgreen won't be able to take my money is a risk I'm willing to assume.

It's a much bigger deal when you're walking (or in rural America) and are faced with an hour+ trek to another store (or pay $3.75 to get $20 out, assuming the ATM works). I've also had unexpected overdrafts that affect only my account, and having a couple hundred to a thousand-some dollars of cash in my house has saved me numerous times.

Fuel options with no electricity do in fact involve talking to some guy named Jim Bob, Buddy, or Mack, who is gonna want cash or raccoon pelts, not more canned goods or bread (he has plenty already, and I'm all out of raccoon pelts).

Which brings me back to my original point: in any real catastrophic event, it's going to be other random people you're dealing with, not the IoT devices of faceless corporations. And most are not gonna want to negotiate raccoon pelts to fuel oil (or gold shavings, for that matter).
transition period might be turbulent. If the AI would start with automating and mass production/construction of housing, cars, food and cheap electricity then that would be a better solution than UBI, but looks like we starting with automating creative jobs. There is some hope with current progress in robotics though.
On the subject of Google nagware, the most egregious one to me is trying to use Google on iOS safari without logging in. It repeatedly runs a popup that covers >65% of the screen asking you to sign in.
I mean it currently isn't.

The Cookie banners aren't from the browser they're really from the site.

That said, it seems fair to require the browser vendor to implement it. The browser is the one that exposes a method to store data on the machine (ex. Cookies, LocalStorage) so it seems fair that they should know the user wanted data to be stored.
Maybe your shopping cart is served through a third party domain, like a Shopify iframe or something?
Yes. The distribution of information is indeed a complex problem, as graph theory shows us.

Regarding science is about one standard deviation further than software development in complexity. It's not necessarily a trade off. On the contrary, software applies scientific breakthroughs.
But there’s been no detection of dark matter whatsoever, ever. The fact that people cling to this theory is strange because the most basic evidence, ie. viewing it, doesn’t exist.