skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is also somewhat easy to get a slow burn of a decline.

Somehow our expectations for birth rates are based on a period of a boom. Proper stats are not used for this purpose because they would clash with the prosperity narrative.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_Roman_Empi...

Sample ignored statistics. The baby boom was fueled by enormous fall in childhood mortality. Otherwise the growth rates are apparently near zero... Our negative percentages are likely a correction over the sudden boom, which is why we see a similar reaction worldwide. Regardless of the housing prices, income or other reasons. Even in the Global South.
Even ignoring the 2% different (which we shouldn't because that's stupid), Hertz themselves say the max charging fee for an EV is $35.
It’s not just a ridiculous fee, it is transparently the wrong fee.

> Can I Return My EV Rental With a Low Battery?

> Yes, you can. However, if you return your EV at a charge level below what it was at pick-up, we will change you a simple $35 Recharge Fee. A low EV battery can lead to delays and add to our turnaround times for other customers.

https://www.hertz.com/us/en/blog/electric-vehicles/do-i-need...

The story here is really that Hertz customer service is absolutely awful.

(and while 96% isn’t 98% this accuracy does represent a notable shift from gas cars. Usually if you’re within the same needle mark (e.g. 7/8, 6/8) the company doesn’t make you pay. Requiring 98% feels like a scam: they have charging facilities onsite to give the car to you at that level but you’d need to find your own charger within a couple of miles of dropoff to make sure you’re at the right level. They’re well within their rights to demand it of course but customers should be aware)
A sibling comment of yours claims this chargeback will result in a lifetime car rental ban
I can't really imagine how integration with them would work.

I don't want to speak for the Muddy people, but I wager they probably think chat app is kind of miserable experience. This instead tries to have a superior offering of something cleaner, easier to visualize where things are, and then move that "slack/teams" type convo to specific comments and tasks.
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Being able to do a chargeback is more accurately described as banks offering to arbitrate individual transaction disputes, not offering to manage the whole business customer relationship.
Probably both... However, the last several Apple ads have been tone deaf.

I would have gone with a synthesis approach. Say teleporting the items and "quantumly mixing" them into the new ipad.
Indeed, TensorFlow likes pushing everything to the GPU by default whereas many PyTorch DL implementations encourage feeding data from the CPU to the GPU as needed with a DataLoader.

There have been attempts at a PyTorch port of Parametric UMAP (https://github.com/lmcinnes/umap/issues/580) but nothing as good.
all (RF) navigational aids in aviation have a more code associated. It's actually required to identify them (by listening to the morse code/looking at the decoded morse code in your panel) to be able to use them for instrument navigation. So that means a big part of all GA flights and pretty much any commercial flight at any point in time in the world are using morse code.
I have, yes. I can describe it sort of like this:

Imagine you're watching a black-and-white movie on an old TV, and it looks kind of washed out. You fiddle with the contrast, and suddenly the movie looks much crisper and with better contrast. You're not actually seeing more colors -- its just grayscale -- but you can optimize it to give you more depth of perception.

That's what EnChroma does. It doesn't actually make you see red, but it heightens the contrast to make it stand out more.
Context. It means algebraic data type here.
This is in the works right now: https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2023/09/20/strong-arrows-gradua...
> This customer actually returned the car with a 96% charge, the same as they’d picked it up at.

It specifically states that the customer returned the vehicle with the same "fuel" level as when they rented it.
How could Hertz even claim the customer didn't fill the gas tank when the vehicle in question has no gas tank?

How fucking stupid is their customer service team?
Okay, fair enough. I'll elaborate. Here's why I don't think they're useful: leap seconds exist to align standard time with the sun. But humans are the only ones who care about sun alignment; computers don't. And the effect of leap seconds is so microscopic that it doesn't matter to humans, especially since the alignment is inexact anyway (solar noon is never at exactly 12:00 PM on any given day except at one particular line of longitude per time zone). For getting it roughly aligned, which is what humans care about, we already have time zones with fixed, rarely-changing offsets from UTC, which I am not proposing we get rid of.

Since leap seconds don't help for subjective human needs, and they _also_ don't help for computers, science, engineering etc. (if you care deeply about solar noon for some technical reason you should use something that tracks it more precisely than UTC anyway), I can't think of anything they _are_ useful for, except for saving our descendants thousands of years from now from having to change time zones when it drifts far enough to matter, which I think is a speculative and not very compelling reason.

I'd happily change my opinion if I heard a good reason for keeping them, so I object to claiming that this is "hubris".
Yeah anti cheat sucks overall tbh. I loathe giving kernel level access to a random video game’s anti cheat system.

Short of dedicated hardware (Xbox/ps) I’m not sure what else could be done.
Ask HN: Have you done the Hoffman Process? What was it like?
Hey HN,

I’m going to the Hoffman Process [1] retreat soon and I’d love to hear if any of you have done it already and how your experience was. For those who haven’t heard of it, it is a week long retreat for working on yourself and your pain, trauma and negative patterns that you’ve picked up over time. One week of lots of reflection, meditation, and complete reset from the outside world.

A close friend who had done the program recommended it and just going through the pre-process writing work they gave me has been tremendously helpful. I’m cautiously optimistic about the outcome of the whole program but have heard only great things so far.

Have you been? How was it for you? What was the most insightful/challenging part of it?

[1] https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/
I think we're going to see different AI tools optimized for different stages of the development workflow, with developers assembling and using a collection of them, just like they currently assemble a collection of tools for different tasks within the stack (backend language, frontend language, database, cache, infrastructure, etc.). It's unlikely that there's ever going to be one AI coding tool to rule them all.

As someone building (and frequently using) an AI coding tool that is very much focused on development time[1], I still also use GH Copilot and ChatGPT plus heavily as well. In a team setting, I could definitely see using my tool in conjunction with Ellipsis too. A feature built partly (or entirely) with AI still needs PR review. And an agent focused specifically on that job is likely going to be better at it than an agent designed for building new features from scratch.

1 - https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/us-revokes-intel-qualcomm-licens...
Being Huawei is suffering.
The tech is really hit or miss sometimes. I have a pump that used to panic error out on a misused bluetooth connection, forcing you to set it up again.

Eventually the app developers fixed it but, for something that’s supposed to run 24/7/365 without fail it really rubbed me the wrong way.

On a slightly tangential note, I am interested in working on something better although not hardware inclined, so please reach out to me at my username @tutamail.com if you are interested.
Pretty much always. One exception might be the expansion of the universe
> all its ideas were absorbed into Stockfish

don't think that is true, Stockfish incorporated NNUE techniques through a fork
https://www.chess.com/news/view/stockfishnnue-strongest-ches...

being transparent with the setup of your invention is always a good thing.
Yes, 96% is different from 98%. If that delays the next customer, the cost to hertz is real.
The future is going to be filled with a lot of bureaucratic red tape people will need to jump through to get rid of questionable bills.

I argued a hospital charged my wife too much for a 5 min procedure. ($2900 bill)

after many back and forths, they lowered it to 2800, then to 2000, then 1800, then 1400, then just wiped it all away.

Just bureaucratic red tape all over the place.
The car was returned with the same battery charge level (96%) that it was picked up with. This isn't a matter of "fuel" being either electrons or petroleum, which is something that the article fails to address.
Any way to read WSJ articles?
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I would have to disagree, the main issue with FISA is not only that allows the US Government to do warrantless wiretapping, it forces citizens who are business owners to facilitate that wire-tapping (which is already legal but only for a small subsection of types of businesses like telephone and internet companies) and FISA expands on the definition of these kinds of businesses without openly defining what that expansion is, the FBI can just make that determination without any due process, foresight, or reasoning. This is hugely detrimental to all Americans. They could go to any business and force them to wiretap their wifi or turn over ALL user records. The fact that there is no transparency at any level and that they are quietly pushing this through is damning. If they want to expand the definition of what FISA allows, they should do so in the open.

The Majority Report had an expert on to talk about it, you can google it, its the first link under "majority report FISA"
Quietly? Well, what did you expect? A big press release saying "ATTENTION, NO MORE JOBS"?
Please don't forget Dart!

https://medium.com/dartlang/dart-3-1-a-retrospective-on-func...
It's the cones in the eye -- they have a defect and make them less receptive to red wavelengths. If you gene-edited them, you could have new cells without that defect.
Everything in this article implies a lack of understanding of the more common use cases for Parquet - data sets that exceed typical single node RAM sizes. The article would make more sense titles "Large Buckets of Parquet Files Are Awful on a Laptop".

Don't read Parquet into memory in one pass. Use an engine that can scan it, ex. Spark.

PostgreSQL and Clickhouse have their own storage engines, and bulk importing _large_ volumes of data no matter the format (Parquet, CSV, JSON) will present challenges.

DuckDB is meant to be a single node engine. If your data size exceeds RAM, its going to be a problem.

If your data is not partitioned appropriately for its size, that is a problem with the people who created it.
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Will this enable me to slowly, over time, add a back door without anyone detecting it?
Ellipsis uses BUNCH of LLM agents internally. If you built your own code generation LLM agent you'd need to also build a way to execute the code that the agent writes, which is a bit of an engineering headache.

We handle this, the result is that if you set up a Dockerfile, we promise to return working, tested code: https://docs.ellipsis.dev/code#from-a-pr
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Genetics would not impart all personalities, but generally would impart many autistic spectrum traits - which covers a large swath of social interactions - however keep in mind autism is so many genes that a parent may have a completely different reaction to something than their child, and the fact that there is a second gene pool.

For the most part, those genes have massive effects on hormone levels during development which has a huge affect on personality. In general this is why the linkage between personality and heredity is so hard to track.
The last time I rented a car I was hit with two bogus extra charges, both of which I disputed successfully. I assume this got me put on a "no rent" list with the company, but dealing with the situation left such a bad taste in my mouth that I won't ever rent from them again regardless. I imagine it's the same for many if not most people in that situation.
Congrats on the launch - seems like a neat product. A few questions: 1) It seems like you iterated on a bunch of ideas that landed in this - what were some interesting features that the team was really interested in that you ended up killing? 2) What were the most non-intuitive hard technical challenges? 3) Have you successfully ended up having someone give up on Slack to use this?
I've had plenty of "not refueled" disputes with car rental companies over the years, but since these transactions were always done via a credit card, these have never caused me any actual issues, other than having to forward my initial denial email (with a fuel gauge picture on return -- protip: always make one, and one of each side of the vehicle as well, to ward off damage claims!) to the card issuer.

Other than "yeah, Hertz has really lost the plot" and (with a nod to lobste.rs) "Hacker News is not customer support for your car rental company", there doesn't seem that much to discuss here?

(And for the record: Sixt [a major-ish car rental company] in .eu requires EVs to be returned with at least 80% charge these days, and will have an add-on fee otherwise [so: take a picture of the dashboard upon return!]. Not, like US$277, but a fee nonetheless)
I think most people would agree that 98% and 96% should be considered equal for this purpose. It's certainly close enough for gas tanks that don't have such precise displays, and gasoline is more expensive.

If I charged the car and lost 2% while driving to return it, I also would be furious at being hit with the fee.
Except they didn't - TFA says they picked up at 98% and returned at 96%. There is no reality where 0.98 == 0.96... even if the difference is ridiculous - it is a difference.
There's tons of optimization work left, but by it's nature optimization tends to push the limits of what we currently have, and rarely allows for substantial improvements.

There are some major limitations to LLMs that aren't going to be "optimized" away. At the end of the day LLMs are Monte Carlo samplers over a latent, compressed representation existing human text data. Many of the tasks people hope LLMs will achieve require major leaps in our current understanding of language modeling.

One great example limitation (which shocks me sometimes when I think about it): generating output is still ultimately stuck in looking at the probability of the next token rather than the much more useful, probability of the generated statement. There are techniques to improve this, but we're missing a major piece of generating highly probable statements with no hint about how to really get there. Consider how you might write SQL. You conceive of the high level query first and start sketching out the pieces. An LLM can only look at each token and can't, statistically speaking, think in terms of the entire query.

Personally I think LLMs are very underutilized/exploited for what they are good at, and there is way too much focus on what they can't do. Hopefully we'll dodge an AI winter by using LLMs to solve the wide range of classical NLP problems that make many tasks that just a few years ago nearly impossible, rather simple today. Unfortunately the irrational hype around these models makes me skeptical of that scenario.
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Stupid enough to have many customers arrested for stealing cars (that were obviously not stolen):

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/06/1140998674/hertz-false-accusa...
Yes, in an alternate universe it would be gratifying to see a high court that wasn't captured by far right ideologues that was willing to take another look at precedent establishing decisions of the past that rolled back freedoms and privacy and say, "You know what, the facts that supported FISA, the Patriot Act, etc., were falsely manufactured for political reasons, and actually now that those falsehoods have come to light we think it's time to admit that those decisions were unsupported and should be reversed." But I expect the opposite for this universe.
Well, maybe using an LLM as a support agent is not going to be so easy as people thought.
You answered your own question: it depends and the context and is confusing imo. Both are very common in compsci
I assume they only have a few pre-written answers they can give and they have to pick between them…
That's exactly what I'm trying to say! By virtue of its being able to seriously injure you, software controlling an insulin pump is safety-critical software. This should make it more like an airliner's fly-by-wire system than like a toy rc car's. Not in terms of complexity or resource usage, but in terms of development philosophy and rigor.

Safety critical software wants to be simple and self-contained. I don't work on medical devices, but I have worked with safety-critical software before. While I know compromises are always made in practice, I would naively expect an insulin pump's remote control to be a few hundred lines of very-intensely-vetted C running on the bare metal of a microcontroller. I don't understand what a general purpose OS (!) connected to the internet (!!) is doing in a tech stack that someone notionally had to prove was safe under a wide range of circumstances.

It may be paranoia arising from my particular background. I just find it very surprising that the sheer number of layers in an app is considered responsible and appropriate engineering for the use case.
That's a bad summary and defines common sense, as stated. The situation where more clicks won't lead to dissatisfaction is when results are progressively disclosed. If you can design your UI to achieve the same thing with less work and without overwhelming the user you should.

https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/progres...
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> Would genetics lead to some personality disorder that are common in a family, and would that lead to similar personalities?

To some extent, yes. "Personality disorders" are caused by a combination of genetic predispositions and behavior. For instance, someone with a high level of sensitivity might learn from their parents and the environment to become anxious.

> I would also guess the definition of personality could be rejected by skeptics

The thing to understand about psychology is that all the lines are arbitrarily drawn, and other cultures have traditionally had other labels than the west does. There's honestly no escape from the arbitrariness of it, but it helps to come up with some sort of system.
Different countries, different companies, same shit. I have hired a few cars when on trips over the years and always dread the whole upsell crap, then the check for prior damage stuff, then the return etc. So far I have had extremely negative experiences with two of the big name companies and I vote with my feet and go to their competitors, but I’m running out of options…

Does anyone know of a ‘good’ car hire company that isn’t out to take advantage of the customer every way they can?
You are right. We came in letting hosts open experience stores in Airbnbs (try on an Oculus at a hosts home). Difficult to attribute our sales so we moved on.

COVID hit and we had the itch to look at the browser in a different light. Building a browser seemed intimidating...but it was quarantine. Long story short, built a few different ideas and here we are :)
Ask HN: Are Firebase and GA useless for mobile app analytics?
Do I need Firebase and Google Analytics, or something else? Is what I'm currently using not enough?

I have a mobile application on iOS and Android.
- I view Android data in Google Play Console.
- I view iOS data in App Store Connect.
- I track product metrics (events) in Amplitude.
- I want to integrate AppsFlyer to track advertising sources (attribution).

Thank you in advance, I'm really stuck
And it appears Hertz did correct the overcharge. The entire article is a huge waste of time... trying to be sensationalist about some sort of one-off billing error.
No, but maybe if your widely adopted, poorly supported open source project uses Ellipsis for code reviews we may be able to catch that type of hack ;)
The linked source this article was using states: "You might ask, maybe Hertz was charging Lee for having to top the Model 3's battery upon its return? According to the final receipt, the customer gave the Model 3 back to Hertz with the battery 96% full, the exact same state of charge it was picked up with. And, even if Lee hadn't done that, the maximum fee should've been $35"

https://www.thedrive.com/news/hertz-is-charging-tesla-model-...
Peculiar how that Wikipedia article omits a crucial word in its condensed summary. I'm sure this is an honest error, since nobody would ever use Wikipedia to try to push their own agenda.

Anyways, lets look at the law text. This is from paragraph D of article 2 of the law:

> ისეთი იურიდიული პირი, რომელიც ერთპიროვნულად ან სხვასთან ერთად ფლობს ან/და იყენებს მასობრივი ინფორმაციის საქართველოს სახელმწიფო ენაზე გამავრცელებელი ინტერნეტსაშუალებისთვის განკუთვნილ ინტერნეტდომენს ან/და ინტერნეტჰოსტინგს და ...

Crucially, as in paragraph C which refers to legacy media, this explicitly says მასობრივი ინფორმაციის which is mass information. This is referring to things like news websites, not any company website.

Oh, and happy Victory Day!
As it has been said before, Hertz Hurts. It used to be a dominant market player but over time, declines in customer service and quality has damaged its brand. Its disastrous experiment with Tesla might have been viable had the company not been Hertz.
Humans didn't care either until very recently, when it became apparant just how much capacity we have to drive other animals to extinction. Our ability to destroy is many orders of magnitude beyond any other animal, so having at least a little more restraint is basically a requirement for a sustainable society.
The personality metrics they're using are the Big-5. The Big 5 has good test-retest scores (if you take the test a month apart, you're likely to get the same scores). Big 5 is used in a ton of psychological studies now.

If I had to bet on nature vs nurture, I'd place bets on nature. Separated twin studies seem to suggest genes are a strong determiner. And if you've ever met a kid who stubbornly prefers to be introverted or extroverted-- it often has nothing to do with how adults are treating them.
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> Is the fee ridiculous? Yes. Did the customer agree to return the vehicle at a specified "fill" (read: charge) level? Yes. Did the customer not return the vehicle as agreed? Yes.

This is Hertz's recharging policy: "You can return your EV at any charge level and we’ll recharge it for $35—or just $25 for Gold Plus Rewards Members. Or, return it at the same level as pick-up and pay $0."

They got the car at 98%, and returned it at 96%, so... no, that's not at all what this is. I don't understand why you assumed it was. Maybe they would charge him the $35 for returning it 2% down, but that's not what happened here.
"bare arms"

The Constitution, afaik, is silent on the matter of shirt sleeves.

However, a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.

The crime is that the States have given up on forming those well-regulated militias and that we have a continuous standing army in a Military-Industrial-Congressional complex whose corruption boggles the mind.
Popular influencer or pop science writer has become a contrarian indicator for me.