skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hertz completely fucked up renting an EV. There’s zero question about that, but pick one up at 80+% bring it back at 5% should definitely be the plan to pull it off successfully. If you can’t guarantee the car is mostly charged I’m not going to rent an EV.

> per 4 flights

> it might be one per 10 flights.

Both of those seem like massive overestimates to me. I’ve flown for business and pleasure and never rented a car after flying. My sister probably does 100 flights a year and rents a car once or twice when traveling with her husband. I know plenty of people who’ve completely given up on renting a car on vacation.

Uber or public transit is just far less of a hassle, and when visiting family why have a car? Run the numbers for 1.5 hour long Uber ride vs 4 day car rental and you might as well just relax.

Further most travelers aren’t going to rent for as long. Few business travelers are going to use a car for a full week but repairs or finding a new car takes a while.
You have to admit that expecting general LLMs to automatically be domain experts everywhere is kind of a dumb thing, though!
> This doesn't have anything to do with recursion.

recursion is compressing the domain so small it eats itself, crafting a small set of function is mirroring this, kinda like grammars

> You this doesn't have anything to do with recursion.

> I think you mean, they iterate for you. They don't use recursion.

afaik map and fold were defined recursively

...
foldl f z (x:xs) = foldl f (f z x) xs

albeit accumulative recursion (maybe that's what you mean by iterating)

> I really don't understand all this. You know most iteration is done with a for loop right?

that was what i was pointing at, iterators are not encapsulated enough

> This seems like you're trying to write a satire of someone soaked in haskell. Everyone is else is just writing for loops and moving on.

I'd appreciate if you didn't make it personal. Also, you forgot ocaml, lisp, prolog.
You did not need to stay at the blacksmith’s for hours to get a can of gas which would carry you to the next supply location.
Debit cards get arbitrarily rejected. Some gas stations won't process them. The IRS ID verification for Covid stimulus wouldn't work with debit.
Show HN: Kubectl port-forward on steroids – menu bar GUI built with rust and ts
I think it's that most actually useful smart home stuff was very quickly saturated. It is great to be able to adjust my lights easily. It is great to turn my TV off in the other room. It is great to have a robot vacuum.

But a smart coffee maker? A smart clock? A smart dishwasher? All this garbage ended up being gimmicks and it ran out of steam so quickly.

I hope the things that are useful continue to get support as the big players abandon smart home expansion.
actually, this is the description of chairman Xi.
From what I hear, it's a nightmare to get Siri to know what light you want to turn on. Unfortunately it seems like apple is trailing the pack in the smart home area.
This depends on where you live, in some countries I believe they don't even exist, but I can speak for the UK where interest only mortgages are meant for landlords, you basically get a mortgage with a minimum of 25% deposit, none of the principle is paid off at any point, you rent out the property and collect the difference between your interest payment and the premium the tenant is paying.

They are normally inaccessible to people who don't already own their own property, even more so by the nature of the higher than usual deposit required, so it's an investment vehicle for already well off people to leverage more money into property and extract money from tenants

It puts upwards pressure on housing prices because you don't just get the family that wants to own a home or the occasional landlord who wants to own and rent out a second holiday house, it's a purely synthetic financial product that lets you take a house out of the market and arbitrage on the difference between your interest payments and the tenant's rent

It is not uncommon for people like this to own tens or hundreds of properties in their portfolio this way, and these are the people crying first and loudest when interest rates go up because their rental yields can no longer cover the interest only payments on the houses they "own". Whatever happened to being on the hook for bad investment decisions? They think they should get special treatment because they're providing a so called service to the tenants
It's the art of making the juggling with swords seem safe and easy while making a daily commute through a minefield of UB seem routine.
I Receive a Letter from a High School Student
Budget/Avis is getting there. I had an absolutely horrible rental at O'Hare about five years ago. Rattles and squeaks and probably 50,000 miles overdue for an alignment.

Last fall, I got an almost new Mazda SUV from Avis. I was 3 miles down the road when a Service Engine Soon message took over the entire center of the dashboard. I hope they got it serviced after I returned it the next day.
Amazing if YC backs this one too
Dan Williams on Social Learning
Yeah this is a good option if you'd like something to deploy yourself! You can also build an AMI from GitHub's upstream image definition (https://github.com/actions/runner-images/tree/main/images/ub...) if you'd like it to match what's available in GitHub-hosted Actions.

With Depot, we're moving towards deeper performance optimizations and observability than vanilla GitHub runners - we've integrated the runners with a cache storage cluster for instance, and we're working on deeper integration with the compute platform that we built for distributed container image builds - as well as expanding the types of builds we can process beyond Actions and Docker, for instance.

But different options will be better for different folks, and the `philips-labs` project is good at what it does.
The article doesn't explain how the backlinks part of the scam works.
That ruling doesn't say that AI driven art is not copyrightable
Do you have any good links to support the idea that this has been repeatedly demonstrated?

I've had trouble finding high quality sources of information about successful applications of fine-tuning to add knowledge to a model.
... the obligatory "historical context" nobody asked for.
>It boggles the mind that there are half a million microsats planned for launch in the next ten years.

Great for Space X, they're creating a need for more space telescopes..
There's no legal threat here. It's all fake.
Most places won't actually put gas in a car you bring back with less gas in it either, they just mark that it's at 3/4 or 1/2 a tank and you need to bring it back with the same amount of gas or they charge you.

And presumably it's just pure gouge often because people will overfill.
Yeah, think of the most loud live concert you’ve ever heard, to the point where your ears physically start hurting, but make it even louder.

22lr rifles go at around 140dB, and large bore rifles and handguns go above 175dB. Meanwhile, the loudest concert ever was sitting at slightly under 130dB (Manowar in the 90s, not sure if their record had been broken since then).

Definitely take care of your hearing. Even at much lower dB at large concerts, you cause some amount of irreversible hearing damage. And even at much lower volume than 130dB, your ears start physically hurting from the sound pretty bad. Aftering hearing a typical gunshot without any ear protection just a few feet away from you, you might just not want to come back to a range ever again.

TLDR: wear (appropriate type for the specific task) ear protection to concerts, gun ranges, and while riding a motorcycle on highways, you will thank yourself later.
Machine Learning on Blockchain Data: A Systematic Mapping Study
I'm working on some porting-apple-code-to-Linux and it's quite a pain, many info is proprietary so google/chatgpt won't help you, neither does apple, there is no tech support, posts to its community forum has been zero responses for the last year.

While I understand many love development with Apple, I decided never to touch anything to do with it. Linux, even Microsoft, are much easier to get things done and not locked up to a closed ecosystem.
I really do want smart home devices! My biggest issue so far has been stability and interoperability issues between each vendor and system. Those things have gotten better, but are still a headache. Apple is in a pretty good position to solve those pain points (at the cost of buying new devices (Apple brand or Apple Certified maybe?). Or maybe I need to dive deeper into HomeAssistant...
Pretty sure pigs eat grubs the find when they root in the dirt.
I see it as the potential 'Next Apple Car'
Current case law suggests this song would not be copyrightable in the US.
Probabilistic time series forecasting w compositional Bayesian neural networks
That depends. You’ll start encountering dark patterns when the address bar and underlying Safari browser appears and ruins the experience.

PWAs are the alternative App Store we need, not a just a bandaid.
The linked original article does. https://www.404media.co/a-law-firm-of-ai-generated-lawyers-i...

> In this case, though, the email didn’t demand that the photo be taken down or specifically threaten a lawsuit. Instead, it demanded that Smith place a “visible and clickable link” beneath the photo in question to a website called “tech4gods” or the law firm would “take action.”
> It's simple, and mostly no-nonsense.

Yeah, that's the other reason I like it: I rarely have to think about it. Both paying off the monthly balance and cashing out the rewards are fully automated.

All I have to remember to do is save a copy of the annual summaries at least once every 3 years, because they don't let you go back farther than that.

I try to keep most of my finances "on rails" like that where bills, savings, etc. just happen automatically.
I'm not holding my breath after seeing their stock price.
They should just fix Siri and iTunes. Siri is shockingly useless. If Siri were even a little more useful I would get a Home Pod but it's utterly useless for most things except setting timers and turning on lights.
Wait this is crazy. What's the legitimate use-case? Man I would hate to work on codebases that have these invariants violated.
MIT License text performed as a "sad girl piano ballad" (AI)
I want something that cleans my bathroom and toilet. I will buy it for my business and will pay 20-30k/year.

Also, something to Clean my dishes (Load in the dishwasher, turn it on, and put it away).

Doing my laundry - load, wash and fold. Mow the lawn.
That is a someone; but the term in question is "insider art". If that someone makes art, that gets labeled "insider art". Without knowing who made some art, in what circumstances, can we reliably test a work of art to tell whether it is insider art or outsider art?
this is hackernews, not facebook
It's probably repeated by every graduate student in the area. [Not my area, but it looks like an elementary boring step to give them as a first task.]

Also, a similar experiment and calculation was repeated for the muon. The diagrams are very similar, so I expect them to compare them. [There is a problem with the g factor of the muon. IIRC it's a 4 sigma error, so it's definetively interesting and many persons in the are looking at it.]
I use plotnine whenever I need to make (static) plots in Python. It's really quite well done, a close match to R's ggplot2, and more feature complete than any of the other Python grammar of graphics packages I've tried.
Cory Doctorow on Kagi Search
You're not wrong, I'm mostly joking here because its a little funny to think about the bureaucracy of spycraft and malice.

Not James bond stuff, no beautiful high value targets getting seduced, its just some guy with ADD that spent about 15 days too many bike shedding and botched a critical deadline.
Look at the forward looking automotive 4D (distance, speed, azimuth angle, elevation angle) radar systems. The new ones work at around 80GHz, and the entire thing comes in one integrated, tiny package, 16x16 phased array antenna already included with the MCs and FPGAs on the same board.

To go from those 4D radar maps to a voxel system requires a whole lot of software, of course.

The end goal seems to be to beat LIDAR on price and reliability (turns out moving mirrors don't like years of constant vibrations), while delivering enough resolution for self-driving.
Furthermore, at a rental car center, you're not just swinging in and swinging back out. It could change of course but they're setup that once you drive in, you're returning the car. (Re: comments about rental car center being the charger of last resort.)

(I had a friend joining me on a trip a number of years back. We wanted to add them to the contract once they arrived. I had to patiently explain that we could do it with a company that also had an off-airport location but we couldn't drop by the car rental center at the airport. I've had other experiences with how car rental companies really don't have good mechanisms to change things once you've signed and initialed the contract.)
Spotted on X from @goodside: https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1775713487529922702
> continued to write files until there was just 41K free on the drive

As somebody that has managed several times to lock myself out of my user session by this (and had to learn how to enter again by several means); couldn't they start deleting any files with less than this size and increasing slowly the space available one logfile at a time?.

Just wondering.
As another commenter alluded to, good Smarthome tech becomes an appliance, which isn’t a desirable high margin business, and bad tech becomes a nuisance which is also not a desirable business.

That’s why Google is slowly getting out of it and shifting their focus from Nest. That’s why Apple never did much beyond a few speakers, and it’s why Amazon is right at home in that business (but even they’re getting out of the money-losing voice assistant aspect).

Robotics… seem like a miss to me. Very few tasks at home are as simple as vacuuming, but maybe I just lack the creativity and vision. Apple surely has some great tech left over from the car R&D so who knows. Apple is unfortunately not great at a “communal” perspective when making things.

I think a big issue no one talks about will be robot storage/garages. It’s already an issue for Roomba and anything bigger will be a no-go for many households. That is probably apples best chance - make it pleasant to look at and a status symbol.
At least last time I checked, Teslas had rather anemic battery heaters. IIRC they’re around 6kW.

6kW is not enough to make a big dent in required mechanical braking, and it’s also not enough to quickly heat the battery pack, especially when operated intermittently.
Yeah, GitHub's runners, especially the ones with >2 CPUs, have surprisingly long start times!
Reminds me a little bit of Catholic mass when the priest "sings" some of the sections. There is no consistency, no cadence, but their voice goes up and down. It's high-effort talking.

I wonder if these models would do something better if the text were poetic or punctuated differently.
It's like the reginal words for soft drink. Soda, pop or coke: https://www.businessinsider.com/soda-pop-coke-map-2018-10
Here's mine: https://www.amecy.com/404
Off-topic, but your comment reminded me of evergreening of medical drug patents [1] (example at [2]): when a pharmaceutical company's patent on a drug is close to expiring, the patent holder makes a minor change to the drug, patents the changed version, lets the patent on the unchanged version expire, and uses the new patent to sue anyone who makes or markets a generic version of the old drug. The patent on the changed version of the drug effectively covers the old version. The changed version of the drug is simultaneously different enough from the unchanged version that the pharmaceutical company can successfully apply for a new patent from the USPTO and similar enough that anyone who wants to make a biosimilar of the unchanged version can still be sued for patent infringement. The drug patent abusers eat their cakes and still have them.

The new patents shouldn't be granted in the first place, since one of the conditions of getting a patent on an invention is that the invention be novel over what has already been invented.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreening

[2] https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/10/thanks-to-evergreening-a...
CXL supports cache-coherent memories and even the numbers claimed in marketing materials are ~5x when it comes than DDR5 access times measured on desktop CPUs in microbenchmarks. It's still a lot better than having software handle the coherency protocol and could be really useful to allow either very large ccNUMA systems or memory capacity and bandwidth hungry accelerators to access the host DRAM as long they can tolerate the latency e.g. something along the lines of a several SX-Aurora cards hooked into a big host with a few TiB of DRAM spread over ≥16 DDR5 or later channels.
I like smart devices for their automation potential. I use smart plugs to turn on and off lights, coffee makers, grow lights, heating mats. The ability to quickly program a plug to turn on every morning at 10am and turn off again at 10pm is valuable to me. It's even more valuable if you get into hobbies like aquarium keeping where you can automate lights and fish feeders.

Yes, you can do all of these things manually, but are you good at keeping a flawless schedule? It may not matter if you forget to turn on the coffee maker but it matters a lot if you forget to feed the fish. And you won't always be available to handle these things every single day, unless you work from home and follow an extremely rigid schedule.
Not to go too off topic but I'm extremely interested in the throwaway comment about holding enough equity in your service provider of choice to justify calling investor relations when you have an issue. Is this a real thing that people do? If it works it sounds like an amazing life hack but I have my doubts how much influence they would have over the "real" support.
This is what you said:

still have no path to stability.

But what you seem to keep trying to argue is that solar and wind don't work because they aren't 100% of all electricity generation.

Meanwhile they are profitable and as they expand, less coal and gas electricity needs to be used.

https://electrek.co/2024/02/06/eu-coal-and-gas-collapse-wind...

Have you noticed you have no link and no evidence in any of your posts? That's because what you are saying isn't true.

This has nothing to do with “solar makes money when it’s on”.

It has everything to do with that until demand and price isn't highest during the day.

Solar and wind are unreliable sources of electricity and have to lean on dirty energy to give people a reliable end result.

And before, it was all dirty energy.

Coal generation fell by 26% in 2023 alone.

https://electrek.co/2024/02/06/eu-coal-and-gas-collapse-wind...

It’s a colossal fuckup globally and every new coal and gas power plant being built has solar and wind advocates to thank.

There is zero evidence for this. Even the things you wrote here don't connect to this wild and ridiculous assertion.

Again, you have no numbers, no data, no links and no evidence because what you're repeating is nonsense propaganda. You can keep saying the same things that aren't true, but if you try to move past bleating the same claims, you will need to look up real information and you'll find that it doesn't say what you are making up here.
I'll try to give a serious answer, even if I suppose yours was a nice joke :)

Music is a language, even if with no semantic. It has conventions, dialects, a syntax, a grammar. There are multiple dimensions a musician uses to convey what he wants/feels: just like an actor has to control at the same time its voice, posture, interplay with other actors, so a good musician is aware of the structure of the piece he is composing/executing, the relations between the various subparts, how the musical discourse progresses in time, besides agogic, dynamics, sound color.

All of those aspects are continually perpetually compared against the conventions of the genre, mixed, evolved, strictly followed or balatantly negated.

This is something that normally a professional musician takes decades to master (apart from musical geniuses).

A listener takes less time to educate himself to appreciate those nuances (but not too little: let's say ~years). Once you develop a taste, it becomes very obvious to see through the spectrum that goes from bad quality tunes to musical artistry.

I see nothing musically interesting in this (wonderful) PoC of speech synthesis.

Just to be clear: I did not see anything particularly stunning even in Google's Bach Doodle from some years ago https://doodles.google/doodle/celebrating-johann-sebastian-b...
That exists today. Apple's Homekit is the only real solution for a smart home that doesn't send everything to/from the cloud.
I know being late to the game and doing the tech "right" in terms of design and usability is kinda Apple's thing, but lately it seems like they have been only picking areas that weren't successful for a reason, like insurmountable technical difficulties or lack of customer interest, and no amount of Apple's design or marketing magic can fix that. See – self driving, AR/VR, smart speakers, folding phones, now home robotics. I know for a fact that they have been hiring a bunch of engineers from Google's Everyday Robots division (which shut down last year), but I really can't see why the same people will be successful under a new corporate overlord.
I updated it, Thank you
Between the Massachusetts Right to Repair Act and requirement to accept cash (Part III, Title IV, Chapter 255D, Section 10A), that state is looking more and more like the right kind of place for me to land once I'm done doing the FAANG thing. Convince me otherwise.
Maybe a geolocation issue, but this one keeps on redirecting me to a whole different URL [0] with no taco face :(

0: https://www.yum.com/wps/portal/yumbrands/Yumbrands/company/o...
The purity of good ideas always get co-opted by cynical actors wearing the clothes of the ideals without having the ideals themselves. At the core, all these good ideas have in them a spirit of cooperation and trust. The trust is eroded over time to exploit the cooperation inherit in it while not incurring the cost of participation.

At that point, the words lose their meaning. You can see this worldwide with "democratic republic of" or, in our industry, "agile". Whatever meaning they once had is gone and will not return.

In order to avoid this problem, you need to either use the entire expanded definition to be precise or create a new word that is associated only with your community.

Expanding the definition of a shorthand, like "open", you never really achieve much because culture lives in the shorthand. Only true believer types like Stallman will insist on it for any length of time.

Therefore, whatever comes next in the non-cynical world of software would have to come from a new movement with a new vocabulary. The new values always rhyme with the old but are expressed differently to more directly disarm the new cynical malignancies that have killed the old good ideas.

The struggle is a forever arms race against parasitic participants in the global iterative prisoner's dilemma we're all playing.

It's not about what is called "open". New words with new community values need to replace it.

Open is dead.
I thought about renting one but their policy is you have to return the vehicle charge to the same level they gave it to you (or they charge you for a full battery). I hate this policy with gas cars but at least filling gas is fast.

With electric cars, is the expectation I charge my car 30 minutes while trying to make a flight? It just doesn’t work. Hertz didn’t try and make their policies work with Teslas.
That's about there not being a charger in the lot that the rental company uses as a matter of course when rentals are returned to them.