skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This case exemplifies a broader trend we're seeing across industries: the tension between data-driven innovation and individual privacy. On one hand, collecting and analyzing vehicle data could lead to safer cars, more efficient traffic systems, and personalized services that genuinely benefit consumers. On the other, it raises serious privacy concerns and the potential for misuse.
The key issue here isn't just about GM or even the auto industry - it's about how we as a society want to balance progress with privacy. Do we want a future where every device is constantly collecting data about us, ostensibly to provide better services? Or do we draw a line and say some spaces - like our personal vehicles - should remain data-free zones?
Robot, please separate clothes by size and gender.
I'm not generally for hyper analyzed metrics gathering in this case (I don't like the privacy implications), but I'm generally for riskier drivers paying significantly more. Individuals should feel the costs of their driving more in the US IMO. I don't like heavily subsidizing people who drive so recklessly.

Maybe then they'd realize overly building car dependent cities isn't that great in the end.

Convincing risky drivers to pick an option other than driving seems great to me. I'd be happy if a huge chunk of drivers couldn't drive anymore. It would make everyone safer and save a ton of lives.
Yeah, I want to stress I'm not saying people shouldn't ever buy, but it's contingent on the circumstances and it's often overlooked that renting can make practical and financial sense. If you're going to settle down in a desirable area and not move for awhile, the benefits of buying make sense.

But: In most markets, the month-to-month carrying costs of a mortgaged home can be larger than renting (mortgage, property taxes, maintenance, HOA fees, etc). Historically over the long term it can make more financial sense to rent and then invest that delta (though it's contingent on actually doing that and varies by market, etc).

In Canada where I live, a lot of people did what you did, but are now under water in both the carrying costs as well as their home values being less than the purchase price and outstanding mortgage balance as we entered a real estate correction. This means they're stuck and can never move (mortgages in most of Canada are recourse, so the bank can go after you if you walk away). A lot of people also became landlords and bought homes or condos (using the classic anti-renting trope "I'm going to have some sucker tenant pay my mortgage for me"), but are now cash-flow negative with the rents they can bring in, but also can't sell. Enter the softening job market and those people are in trouble. This is before the risk of a bad tenant or sudden maintenance event.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with owning a home or even real estate, but far too many people tie too high a percentage of their wealth into it as a single asset class and they don't understand that there are actual risks. The financial crisis exposed and took advantage of the expectations people have of it.
Thanks, that's interesting about the difference being in the aftertaste between Prince and Moutai. Will see if I can find a bar selling the Wuliangye one.
Next, you'd hope that houses have proper ground wires instead of empty holes for the third pin. :)
Probably for the best, since it sounds like that could be used for DDoS amplification and/or reflection.

For example, if an attack could spoof traffic to get two different reflectors hall-of-mirror-ing each other, or using a botnet that spoofs traffic to get one collection of dupes to slam a single victim in response, etc.
Painting those of us concerned with privacy as "people prone to wild conspiracy theories" is a very bad faith take.

Please do not give the government any more power over me than they already have, thanks.
ErsatzTV is amazing. It’s actually excellent for settings up kids channels. You can configure start and end times and select a pool of content/shows/movies to pick from.

One nifty feature is that you can configure “filler” content to inject randomly between episodes. I used this to add short educational clips from a kids TV channel in the Middle East.
Your global model approach from Uber is clever. Have you considered how to communicate this benefit to smaller merchants who might be skeptical about having enough data?

I'm curious about the personalization aspect. How do you plan to balance the potential uplift with the risk of customer backlash if they feel manipulated?

The 1% commission seems steep for smaller merchants. Have you considered a tiered pricing model based on revenue or order volume?
Because the problem lies somewhere else which is not extremely basic. Relativistic effects are not the issue here.
https://security.stackexchange.com/a/96493
I would kill for a new dedicated iPod with a scroll wheel. I know you can buy them from specialty stores but it would be nice to have access to streaming through my phone.
Congress established the statute that gave the FCC authority.
Are there any ways to check the breach to see if my information is there, other than downloading it myself? I’m not sure of the legality of doing so.
Damn, didn't realize anyone had built one before. Good looking out.
It's abundantly clear that these companies are restricting what can be generated, sometimes to hilarity. Bing's image generator will straight up tell you this.
In regards to making a "S&P - company/sector" portfolio, how can you compete with other ETF issuers? I feel like you wouldn't be able to get an expense ratio close enough to other large ETFs for the risk weighted return to overcome it. You can maintain a low expense ratio that down weights a sector by combining ETFs. But instead of having a high AUM to reduce churn, that expense is on me.
Well then you're up against the wall of digital verification.

I know there's a fuck load of situations where the banks are 100% screwing the customer to their benefit, but there's a legit conversation about people who give out their passwords, or claim they did, when money gets wiped out.

If you meet all the requirements to identify yourself to the bank, at what point does the bank have to say "this is that person, and that transaction is legal".

Now granted:

1. With passkeys and biometrics and 2FA we've got a lot of better ways to make these accounts secure, and hopefully more idiot proof. I'm hoping we start getting rid of email/phone for 2FA as a valid option though.

2. The moment the police are treating it as an identity theft case, the bank should be required to pony up. I don't know if that's the case (and wouldn't be surprised if they fight it tooth and nail), but at that point you have a state or federal entity acknowledging this is not a legit transaction, and therefore you should be compensated by the bank, and they can get their money back from the insurance companies that insure against this kind of thing.
after the parent kills the children that were sending the commands to the slaves, it needs to wait to reap the zombies, because there's no garbage collection for the dead children. otherwise the process table might fill up from all the forking, like with a fork bomb. then stonith failover will nuke the server, unless it's on the blacklist of dummy servers

i wrote the stonith daemon in racket scheme because guile was too slow and was sometimes missing a heartbeat
> It's just soap, it's good for you.

Sorry, but I really can't tell - was that sarcasm?
> But AMD's implementation doesn't seem to have this problem

From an article:

> Does Zen5 throttle under AVX512?

> Yes it does. Intel couldn't get away from this, and neither can AMD. Laws of physics are the laws of physics.

> The difference is how AMD does the throttling ...

Further details in the article [1].

Discussed here on HN: [2], [3].

[1] https://www.numberworld.org/blogs/2024_8_7_zen5_avx512_teard...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41182395

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41248260
Can they add a big tax to it once it is disseminated widely or is it kind of designed against that happening?
This sometimes doesn't work out in practice because the scaling involved runs into a limitation your big-O model didn't account for. Typical examples are: The size of the machine registers, physical RAM, addressable storage, or transmission speeds.

If your O(1) algorithm takes an hour for any input, and the competition is O(n) it may seem like there must be cases where you're better, and then you realise n is the size in bytes of some data in RAM, and your competitors can do 4GB per second. You won't be competitive until we're talking about 15TB of data and then you remember you only have 64GB of RAM.

Big-O complexities are not useless, but they're a poor summary alone, about as useful as knowing the mean price of items at supermarkets. I guess this supermarket is cheaper? Or it offers more small items? Or it has no high-end items? Or something?
The French were the only Western European country to realize that the US did not have their best interests in mind when it comes to energy security in Europe.

History has done nothing but show that pursuing nuclear as a vital national resource was the right call.
Pyvideotrans – AI Video Translation and Voiceover Tool
I will drive it home in my iCar!
> Burning Man’s attendance has surged as wealthy festivalgoers, not all as committed as longtime burners to the festival’s principles of “radical self-reliance” and “de-commodification”, pack the playa.

Personally, this is what soured me on Burning Man. I felt that the nature of the event changed to something I'm less excited about. It seems like a weird form of gentrification. A sense that it has lost its way.
There's nothing right wing about this.
It should just work. The developer notes mention M1 (https://github.com/dougdonohoe/ddpoker/blob/main/README-DEV....), specifically around which java to install. If you are having trouble, feel free to file an issue.
If I were to set up a customized S&P500 (with some tweaks) and over time companies leave and/or are added to the index. Will those changes be reflected in my custom S&P500? In the months or years in the future will it buy or sell these new currently unknown companies?
Ask HN: Chrome's CLI is undocumented and unstable. Why have it? Whom is it for?
Some people have made an effort to document many of Chrome's CLI options, but officially all of this is unstable and liable to break without warning.

https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/

So what is the intended use of these options? Are they only for Chrome's developers?
> same court that removed rights from half of Americans

when laws are made out of Congress, they can be struck down out of Congress. if it's important enough, ask your representatives and senators to turn it into a proper law.
Yes! I really wish they would at least set up /pulls/:id to redirect to /pull/:id
As an aside, I wonder if places like the UK with a lot of antiquated plumbing are responsible for more than their fair share of safecrackers? Every time I see a heist movie with someone crouching, grimly turning a dial an almost imperceptible amount I think back to the last B&B shower cold tap I used. A few degrees turn can often mean a large and uncomfortable temperature change.
Stacking molecules like plates improves organic solar device performance
looks like legitimate salvage to me...
As a non-mathematician, I'm confused how category theory relates back to formal systems. Is it its own formal system, or is it built on top of ZFC or type theory? If it's built on top of something else, what sort of algorithm would tell me whether the DAG that constitutes a proof from a set of axioms to a theorem involves category theory or not?
I noticed you have a BTC address listed. I showed your app to my friends and one of them who doesn't have an HN account asked if you have a "Solana" address.
AltStore PAL receives Epic Games MegaGrant, will no longer require subscription
Fascists are lesser faction but if the society is bitterly splintered, they maneuver their way to power. For example, if a certain country has 2 major parties each supported by ~50% of population and no voter of one party can ever muster to vote for another for any reason, including to protect their future voting itself, then fascists do not need to metastasize to 51% of population, they just need to metastasize to 26%. Adjust to the number of parties as needed.
With ̶S̶t̶a̶r̶l̶i̶n̶k̶ small satellites like cubesat and other wireless technology, it will soon be feasible to bring your internet service directly to the consumer without an ISP in the middle at all.
I've had baiju that's more herbal before as well. generally good baiju should smell floral.

The big problem with Baiju is that most people, at least in the US, are trying the equivalent of Smirnoff / cooking grade stuff because it's cheaply sold at asian marts.

Fen Chiew (https://www.totalwine.com/spirits/baijiu/xinghuacun-fen-chie...) is decent stuff that I've bought at a Total Wine in Socal. You can also go to somewhere like a Ranch 99 and look for a mid tier bottle. Whatever you do don't get the "Red Star" brand (google for pics), it's bottom of the barrel stuff, the "Popov Vodka" of Baiju as a rough analogy :)
Digital x-ray has changed everything so much. Slap the Wi-Fi enabled plate under someone, click click, image already up on the screen and doc's reading it.

I (almost) broke my ankle and had to go to the ER to have it looked at and it was during a system downtime -- the doc did just that alongside the radiology tech from the machine's console instead of from a PACS workstation.

In a masscal event on one of these systems there's typically an 'emergency entry' option that lets you just input patients manually into the system and start shooting, so instead of the normal paperwork process they'll just image first and reconcile later.
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And looks like this hurt people on HN.
Why do you say that? The 429 edge status code implies quite strongly that the client gets 429s as well.
Maybe a raclette machine?

https://www.amazon.fr/raclette-electrique/s?k=raclette+elect...
> Firstly, the entire port of insurance is to spread risk.

I think that definition is incomplete: Insurance is to spread risk equitably.

That means accounting for disparate probabilities and disparate impacts. For example, consider "house burns down" insurance, where premiums depend on whether the house is/isn't near a wooded area, and whether it is a cheap/expensive house... And yes, also whether or not the homeowner has a passion for homemade fireworks.

> If the the market for insurance is "too efficient" at determining who is high-risk and who is not, then it is no longer fulfilling its social function.

While I agree that various dystopic outcomes are possible, the problem is not better knowledge about risks itself. Improved information about the dangers we're trying to avoid or fix is--all else being equal--always a good thing.

The real problems stem from those other no-so-equal factors like:

1. Imbalanced power relationships. (Strongly implicated in the rest of the list.)

2. Opaque decision-making that cannot be reviewed or appealed.

3. Information not being fairly discovered/shared. (Customer hides known higher risk, insurer hides lower-than-expected risks to squeeze out more profit, etc.)

4. Bad contracts which pull the rug out from under people because of how they handle changes in knowledge even when risks haven't actually changed. Imagine health-insurance which covers Giant Monsterification, but later a test reveals patient has Godzilla genes, and now the customer is dropped... Even though the originally-covered probability itself hasn't changed, only our knowledge about it.
I don't have access to the full article, but ... it's basically just a screen that can swivel to follow you? That doesn't sound particularly exciting, interesting, or useful.

> The company now has a team of several hundred people working on the device, which uses a thin robotic arm to move around a large screen, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
This is also one upside of functional programming over OOP that I think doesn't get mentioned often: No need for naming classes and stuff as inherent part of writing valid and structured code. It's part of the taxonomization issue.

By naming something, we make it a Thing. It forms a shape in our minds. However small, it has a history and a purpose. It has relationships to other Things. Its identity is now something we take custody of, by continuously interacting with it. This can help in the smaller context but does not scale.

One example is organization of e-mail. The traditional inbox approach makes you create folders. You have to give name and meaning to each of these. Organize them into trees of subfolders. Contrast this with the search-based approach popularized by Google and notmuch - tags/labels are optional but in general you have "an ocean of mail" which you search on an ad-hoc basis[0].

I think the OPs point can be taken further. That there's an inherent human instinct to want to name and create Things and that it's beneficial to be aware of and overcome this instinct.

I have a bunch of useful code and scripts spread across a couple of libraries. I could hypothetically break out anywhere from a handful to dozens of focused individual repos with a fancy Name. Make them into npm packages, give them each a logo, maybe even separate websites and chat rooms[1].

At the extreme, look at the pathological Clueless-driven big-tech with a gazillion Projects, Initiatives, Frameworks, Processes, Working Groups, Epics, Task Forces, Swim Lanes, continuously churning through birth and death. The meta-abstractions start to run the show.

[0]: I happen to prefer the mailbox approach myself! Of course the taxonization and structuring is not all bad - here the history and meaning is inherent and useful. My point is rather that it should be applied consciously. And in my mailbox, as opposed to in much of the software I write, the Things and their forms are entirely self-inflicted (hello NSA) and not something hoisted on the minds of others.

[1]: This is apparently fashionable recently among 10x Open Source GitHub Rock Stars. It's also particularly a disease in crypto with all these "Protocol"s each spawning their own fractal universe of Things.
Wireless laser power transmission: Recent progress and future challenges
You are conflating big tech companies that run models for you and companies that provide you with models to run.

SD whatever doesn’t know what porn is, but it is trivially fine tuned to churn out porn every day.
Would mineral deposits be sufficiently large and conductive that they would cause an actual issue between components?

They would probably represent nothing more than minor stray resistance/capacitance.

Assuming it was conductive enough, a scales bridge between higher voltage parts would just represent a path of material a few microns thick that would vaporize as soon as the toaster would be plugged in.

For other electronic devices, any component with a hole, like a microphone, barometric, humidity sensor, or mechanical (HDD), is more likely to suffer a more permanent fate. If water gets inside a relay housing, chemicals from the washing liquid may damage or gunk the contacts and reduce their life. LCD screens, glued parts and thin plastics don't fare well in dishwashers either...
One channel I always appreciate wherever I go, is the low budget non-profit hobby regional channel.

Would love to see people just working on projects they have around the house, not taking things too serious.
Right, I'm sure it has nothing to do with the plethora of "shocking" tales regarding these water heaters.

I can count on zero hands the number of times my shower has given me a jolt, even a minor one.

We mostly see these types of devices in relatively poor countries without the means to install more modern and safer alternatives, such as whole house water heaters.
This seems like something that could be automated with code? It feels like a genuinely useful way of solving highlighting for most common use cases.
XG Mobile Station: an open source eGPU dock
TV Channels frequently did this game with satellite TV providers and usually came out on top. I suspect Netflix has more leverage than most streaming services do.
Unless I misunderstood (which is entirely possible, not a crypto expert) that article is answering a different question: whether adding random delays can thwart timing attacks. The GP was asking about implementing a constant-time delay.
GFI vs. GFCI: What's the Difference?
Congratulations on the launch! Wishing you the best of luck.

Q: why only US residents? Other brokerages in the US take in non-US residents (in my case, not even a US person).
It doesn't even have to be safe. Why are we so worried about bacteria soup when millions drink carbonated chemical syrups every day known to cause a variety of diseases?

People will respond to anything you can market effectively and sell for cheap. You're not targeting their analytical brain, just their primitive taste buds that can be easily manipulated.
It’s fully believable that the architecture behind SD3 requires more parameters to perform at the level of 1.5 though. SD3 does genuinely do “better” than 1.5 by many metrics it’s just that it is simultaneously really bad.
I think there is a fee for application for access to NFC. Only certain applications are allowed, for which payment is one and building access is another.
I think about naming of things all the time: how they make some things easier and other things absolutely awful. My two recent hang-ups: Agile with capital A. If we applied the principles of Agile without naming the process would software engineering be at a better place? I think there is a case to be made for not naming such things but just describe the principles of the process for a better, un-enshittified outcome.

The other is ROC (receiver operating characteristic) used in statistics and machine learning. The current usage is very divorced from its original meaning (related to radars as I understand) and it sounds very stupid when used in its current context. It is just a simple ratio of a few statistical measures. I think using such names actually makes things even less understandable.

On the other hand, definitions (ie, naming things) is very useful in math and other disciplines.