skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Millions of people don’t wear Meta Raybans yet, and headphones aren’t generally recording me without my permission.

In CA, recording me in a setting where I have the expectation of privacy is illegal, unless you have asked my permission first.

So yes, the law tells that to “millions of people,” if that many people decide to start recording conversations.

That has nothing to do with using an AI assistant that only listens to your voice and doesn’t store the recordings.
My water bill is $200/quarter.
Anatomy of a B2B Payment
A majority of forums turn to shit, but some thrive. HN is one of the best examples out there, especially as it's public with no wall.

What's the magic?
> Elon publicly announced he was going to do a massive contribution to Trump's campaign fund

I don't think he has publicly announced anything like that. Actually, he denied it.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/24/e...
I hadn’t even made a single transaction before I got banned, so presumably there was something about my email address, phone number or postal address they didn’t like. I was registering in the UK with all UK details etc. something tripped, but I have no idea what. Upon contacting PayPal’s executive complaints team using details I found on Reddit they decided to do a whole bunch of KYC and reverse the ban, but they were adamant that it was irreversible when I initially contacted them using their normal phone number.

To this day I have no idea why (and it wasn’t clear to me that the complaints people even knew), just that something flagged in their automated system.

There are always false positives with this kind of thing, and you can only hope that you don’t become one. I’m lucky that it was possible to fix my issue but as automated decision making becomes more common there will be increasingly large numbers of people who are just arbitrarily denied access to services with absolutely no recourse.
Water billing is indeed nonlinear with no cap. I had a surprise $3000 excess water bill due to a broken connection at the meter. Followed by a $3000 excess sewer bill (!) because the assumption is if I used $3000 of water, it must have gone down the drain. However, if you demonstrate to an inspector that the water must have leaked below ground (as in this case) there’s a process for getting the second charge waived. Unfortunately the leak was on our side of the meter, so the first charge was correct, though we got partial forgiveness.
>The real reason Tesla is suffering is because they've not delivered on innovation, quality, or price in a long time.

Isn't that also because of the actions of its owner?
It's for HSTS: HTTP Strict Transport Security

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security

So if you're wget-ing a file from a server that uses HTTPS and HSTS, but you only specify http:// (or no protocol at all), then the next time you wget from that server, it will automatically change the URL to https://
Amazon Cloud CEO Says Human Developers Will Soon Be a Thing of the Past
I grew up in the redwood forest and I do not always have enough time in my life to go back to them. I would love a vision pro experience where I can be in the redwoods! I think for me the teleportation experience is more important than gaming, tho gaming is rad too (I loved Half Life Alyx on my Index).

Do you know if there are environments available that are in the redwood forest?

Also does anyone know what kind of money someone could make publishing these environments? I have some videography experience - I would be inclined to rent a high end VR camera and create some captures for Vision Pro, but it would be nice if I could sell them on the app store and earn enough to buy a Vision Pro.
Okay, what are the reasons?
Deploy NATO troops into Ukraine.
Getting a US visa without a degree will be extremely difficult, and so migrating may not be an option for you.
The political party that ignored Tesla’s accomplishments because of union politics?
Was it not the mission of Tesla to make electrical cars an alternative to cars running on petrol? To me this was achieved. Bmw or Tesla, i do not care about that too much. But we have an alternative. Great!

And politics, well, only for people who do not agree with him it is an issue. But that's normal in politics, is it not?
Is this similar to brev.dev?
Nah the manual and specs are pretty clear on the limitations of the mode and how it works.. I personally find it pretty useless, but it's easy to just ignore it entirely since it's a dedicated mode on the dial.
This is true in some bubbles.
The fun part is, as far as I understand it, the EV tax credit as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, did eventually include Teslas - even though Elon wasn't invited to the initial photo-op announcement party thrown by the White House due to the lack of unionization at Tesla factories.

On the flip side, support for the EV tax credit will probably be phased out if Trump wins according to recent articles I've read.

So then it seems it's not necessarily business logic but more about personal ego, etc.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41309242 3 points by gemanor 2 days ago
r/TrueFilm is much better imo. Far from perfect, but it seems much closer to "HN for film nerds" than r/movies.

Still, a new community that isn't beholden to Reddit's quirks and whims is always welcome.
This is good news for Apple because their foot is not going off the pedal and now can create more firsts which can lead to more standards gearing toward them
Funnily enough this is actually an effective way of doing things with Meta.

See: https://www.engadget.com/how-small-claims-court-became-metas...
I’ve heard it’s actually quite useful for the slightly unusual use case which is film scanning, particularly for formats larger than 35mm. Then you’ve actually got the raw resolution and the controlled environment for it to matter. Otherwise, yeah, pretty much a gimmick.
There's wanting a Tesla and ignoring Musk, but there's also "should we consider a Tesla?" answered by "No, I don't trust him and anything he's associated with." We didn't look at Tesla when we bought our EV two years ago. There were other reasons than just Musk's personality, but it was a definitely a factor in ignoring the brand.
Been using it for months, really like it!
I have a DM42 (which I absolutely love) and to be honest I'm a bit disappointed in battery life. I think it lasts a few weeks at best, and I know the battery is almost done when it starts resetting to the splash screen with a beep when I turn it on. The easy workaround for me, since it basically stays on my desk all the time, is to leave it plugged into a USP port. I noticed another comment saying the battery life is excellent so maybe mine has an issue, or my custom SI units program/menu sucks down the battery life!
The case for me was that it was a strong influence, but not the only factor. I cancelled my Model 3 order due to some of Elon's actions and words, but I was already on the fence due to concerns about quality, etc. If it had been a slam dunk purchase, probably would have followed through (there are products I still purchase despite terrible politics of the owner/company)
My understanding is that one can download without seeding/uploading; is this inaccurate?
I think big and high vehicles would have come into vogue regardless of government fuel efficiency standards.

People like sitting up higher, people like being the “bigger” entity, and of course, protecting one’s self by being bigger.

The US has large roads, parking lots, a driveways, advances in fuel efficiency, and low fuel taxes to enable this indulgence.
No they just released 12.5 to hw3 yesterday
Yes that's what we're told, without evidence of any kind.
You didn't care about this five minutes before you read it, you probably stopped caring about it five minutes after you wrote this.
Better at self driving. A lot longer in miles per critical intervention
On the other hand, flutter has plenty of state management options :) - https://docs.flutter.dev/data-and-backend/state-mgmt/options - it's like living in the US, you don't like how your state is managed - move to the next one!
Posted last week: ImRAD is a GUI builder for the ImGui library

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41261426
BYD is already way ahead.

https://evmarketsreports.com/byd-and-tesla-lead-the-global-e...

(except if you really were focusing on single model sales, but I'm not sure it's relevant)
>Just check that the VPS provider doesn't forbid torrenting/etc. in their ToS
They almost always do. But many of them forbid only in tos, and not exactly do something about it
At least down here, there are few options that are not electric to some extent. Every brand has at least 2-3 fully electric cars, and the rest of the lineup is hybrid. Suzuki has Jimny that is not (yet?) hybrid, and maybe BMW and Mercedes have some non-electric (to any extent) options, due to the sheer size of their roster.
I’ll argue that while wonky sometimes, ECS is pretty decent. Especially once you use fargate.
You gotta' increase the info-density.

Grab HN's stylesheet https://news.ycombinator.com/news.css?CEh26wiAG7FUlVHVtVAw and maybe look into an even more info-dense landing page like Brutalist Report: https://brutalist.report/
By % of failing mandatory inspections in EU.

> Also poor quality of what?

Basically anything other than battery or motors. Interior build. One big touchscreen to make anything as cheap as possible. Brakes. Suspension.

EVs literally have less wearing parts by design and somehow they managed to made these few ones worse than on average.
>best self-driving ability

That's a useless superlative unless it's level 5.
merde_json should also be relatively small.
Depends on how good the alternatives are. HMC, BMW, etc have some great options.
"HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more."

https://github.com/httpie/cli
On the flip side, targeting developers tightens the scope quite a lot! If nothing else, it massively increases the chance your target audience can at least get by with left-to-right text and 7-bit ASCII...

Cornut recently did a 10 year retrospective of Dear ImGui: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/7892 - an interesting read for me, as a Dear ImGui library user for many years now, but worth your time I think even if you aren't a user yourself. There is a specific section about the scope of the library: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/7892#issuecomment-22...
> These issues don't exist in languages that aren't built on a marsh.

Unsafe casts exist in almost any GCed strongly typed language. You can unsafe things even in Rust, if you want to. Author of this code has deliberately made a choice to circumvent language's limitation and forgo it's guarantees. We have been doing it since undefined behaviour in C, how is that Typescript's fault?
I have absolutely no idea how much I pay for water, but vaguely think it’s probably between 0 and 100. Why does knowing it’s small mean you can predict it precisely, in a world where auto-payment exists so you never have to actually look at your bills?
If it is true, then AWS can fire all of its developers in the next two years or so (the time frame he gives in the article).

If it is not true (likely), he is just trying to sell the new AWS AI products.

If the AWS AI is so good, they can dogfood it and show the world how they have used it to replace AWS developers.
I disagree. This is the "millions of monkeys writing shakespeare" situation, but applied to procedural randomness. Tuning AI models and shifting weights might augur out some form of truth eventually, but it's always inferior to informed judgement. It's not an underestimation of technical progress on my behalf; it's the application of risk-management in the real-world. AI is expressly not like a nuke, it's spinning the wheel on a randomizer of language the entire world has had access to for centuries, hoping to discover some self-evident truth that will distinguish itself from the garbage. The "theory" is non-dangerous. The apes aren't getting any closer to blowing up the world, as long as they're stuck on the typewriter.

You have to prove to me that an exploit vector exists for a rogue text model. You have to pull up the "Trusting Trust" of AI (of which none exists). The fundamental theory of AI exploitation is "iunno man, reddit said it eats the world" and I don't find it scary at all.
I think it should be the opposite. If you buy a cheap thing and suddenly start feeling uncomfortable using it in public, you can just buy another cheap thing. With expensive things, you want to play it safe, because replacing it will be expensive if you start having second thoughts.
The issue is control, i.e., who controls whether it is installed or not and whether it is on or off.

As we saw in the recent US v Google decision experts are teaching courts and the public that pre-installation and "default settings" are in effect a means of control.

In theory, any software or "feature" is a "good idea" as long as no one is forced or tricked into installing or using it. In practice, so-called "tech" companies strategically pre-install and remove or obfuscate consumer choice.
Not exactly. Brev.dev helps you set up a Jupyter server, but you still need to set up your connection to it yourself. It's also mostly designed to run on the browser.

Moonglow abstracts over this, so you don't need to think about the server connection details at all. We're aiming for an experience where it feels like you've moved your notebook from local to cloud compute while staying in your editor.
Wine 9.16 (Dev) – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS
Is just too pricey and a bit cumbersome for masses, the tech is good and we could all use it even just for some experiences that can only be done in VR
> Rust should have Jason built in.

I don't think this is a reasonable approach. That's just a way to introduce bloat. Importantly, std does not differ from other crates, except for stability guarantees, so there would be no positive here. All it does is link the library's release cycle to the compiler's. (In fact, rustc-serialize used to be built-in, so Rust tried to go that way.)

But also, serde_json isn't large by default. I'm not sure where you are getting those numbers from. serde_json isn't large, serde isn't large. They both have very low MSRVs few other crates support, so in all truth they can't even have many dependencies.
CEOs tend to claim all the success so it's fair to blame them for all the failure.
The i3 was such a great city car, well ahead of its time. Such a shame that they have apparently abandoned the EV design ethos embodied in that car (and that car alone) in favour of bloated luxo-barges. Tell me that your EV strategy is about brand greenwashing without telling me it’s about brand greenwashing.

They seem to be really focused on chasing the Boomer demographic. I’m a happy former customer (twice over) but wouldn’t consider anything in their EV range - which means I wouldn’t consider buying a BMW again at all unless there’s some sort of radical strategic change.
SciGuySpace: I'm now hearing Wilmore and Williams will come back on Crew Dragon
Indeed, it was a backronym. I'm glad they finally got rid of it, because it was untrue, and because it continues to be the source of unpleasant exchanges online.

Wine doesn't emulate hardware, but it absolutely does emulate the Windows runtime environment. (In fact, it wouldn't work very well if it merely implemented APIs based on a spec instead of emulating observed behavior, since some of the bits required for compatibility are undocumented.)

Unfortunately, that phrase was in fashion at a time when a lot of people first discovered Wine, so there is now a generation of enthusiasts incorrectly chiding people who refer to Wine as emulation. And, of course, others who see this happen and don't know any better sometimes go on to perpetuate it themselves. Makes me sad every time it crosses my path.
I did some digging.The title is misleading -

YTD Tesla is way ahead - https://imgur.com/56eG7CN
Actual Numbers - BMW registration for the month of July 2024 were up by 300~ cars.

Original Source - https://www.jato.com/resources/media-and-press-releases/bmw-...
Quoting this comment -

streptomycin-
Yes https://i.imgur.com/ZNv1AyD.jpg
Although BMW is making some nice EVs and they are selling more than they used to, the headline is misleading.

ultrablack22 - Tesla produce a lot of for the EU in China. They have a schedule where for each quarter, months 1, 2 and 3, in Month 1, they produce cars. In Month 2 they sail them over from China. And in Month 3, they arrive and are sold.

BMW managed to overtake Tesla in the first month of Q3, barely. When Tesla really had no cars for sale.
Since the whole system relies on people seeding, even if this may be possible technically, clients don't tend to support it as a feature.
These statistics include plug-in hybrid gas cars (PHEV), of which BYD sell a lot, and Tesla do not make at all.

> "The company’s (BYD) success is driven by a dual strategy of producing both fully electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs)..."
> And politics, well, only for people who do not agree with him it is an issue. But that's normal in politics, is it not?

50% is a big chunk of your target market to piss off
> But that's normal in politics, is it not?

Excluding a part of the population for no practical reason at all is bad business. But when the politics becomes extremist, that share becomes huge, and it becomes disastrous business.

Some people are motivated enough to lose business for their principles. But the guy's principles is "big business is right"... I'm not sure what he wants to achieve.
GPU time
People are using it as a buying criteria. (I cancelled a Model 3 order and went with a Kia EV6 instead) That said, confirmation bias is a real thing. There are those who are convinced Bed Bath and Beyond went under because they stopped selling My Pillow.
Idk, "people with disabilities use the web" still matches up with the content of the article to me
Because they invested billions of dollars into making said devkit and despite seeming promising the actual general usefulness of it was still extremely unclear, so it was down to 2 choices: a) kill it, or b) ship it and see what happens when the rubber meets the road.

Arguably Apple has never done b) before, but then again they’ve also never poured billions into a R&D project like this before. (The only other example that comes to mind is the car, and that one got killed, so maybe they were loath to kill the two billion dollar science fair projects at the same time).
More models is worse. Anyways theres two mass market cars, one got a refresh recently the other next year
Github has a similar feature that’s free for public repositories IIRC.
Lots of businesses make less than stock market index returns. You can be a builder that doesn't want to beat the S&P and still support your family doing it. Not everything has to be about massive accumulation of wealth or "growth at all costs". Plenty of people are OK doing a day's work for a day's creature comforts and leaving it at that.
If only Crown Copyright worked like the US system where the output of the government was generally considered public in almost all cases.

I just checked the status of OS maps copyright and it looks like a Dumpster fire:

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/governance/crown-copyright
Imagine you have no will.

Each series of words and arguments is equivalent because no understanding actually exists.

There is no mechanism behind picking one series of words over the other because a random number generator is behind anything.

You can’t trust such a system to produce any logical outcome, therefore free will (embodied understanding and decisions etc.) is required to conclude that free will doesn’t exist :)
I’m personally unconvinced. I test drove some current models a few days ago. Some observations:

1. They have cut costs (or adjusted style?) in highly dubious ways. The forward/reverse selector is gone in most new models, replaced by a swipe zone on the touchscreen that is only present some of the time. The 3 and Y require looking far from the road to see whether you’re signaling left or right — coupled with the turn signal stalk not physically staying in place when signaling, there is no good way to tell the current state of the car.

2. Self driving has taken a step change, IMO into the uncanny valley. A couple years ago, FSD was bad and could maybe go a block or two between failures. Now it can go multiple miles before it screws up dramatically. This seems quite dangerous — it’s hard to be ready to rescue the car when you don’t expect it to mess up.

My overall impression was that (a) new Teslas felt like video games, not cars and (b) the older models, circa 2020, with new software seem genuinely superior to current models.

I have an old Tesla that I like quite a lot. Even notwithstanding Elon’s behavior, I do not want a new Tesla.

P.S. has anyone seriously contemplated the way that water drains from the Cybertruck hood? If they copy that design to other models, I can only imagine they will have huge upcoming warranty/rework/lemon law costs.
is this the same thing Avi Schiffmann is peddling ?
I can't believe Github processed this incredibly spurious DMCA request that didn't even detail what was being infringed beyond some vague "anti-circumvention technology". Plus it checks for archived and cached versions of an article so that somehow makes it circumvention?!

The author has already been kicked off Gitlab, so I'm not sure where else realistically they can go that wouldn't fold to copyright holders. Sourceforge? Launchpad? It's almost like it needs to be self hosted on IPFS or published on Bittorrent.

They haven't posted any updates on Twitter yet, but this is it:
https://x.com/Magnolia1234B
Why don’t you want to do caps?
The mission of Tesla is to maximize value to its shareholders
The "how" is the thing that adds interest in this case. We are hopefully all cognizant of the fact that disabled people exist and (need to) use the web.
AWS is something like an insurance service. We all pay more so that they can forgive the people that mess up xD
He's extremely constrained in what he can donate directly to the campaign. Direct donations are limited to something like $4000. These donations are closely monitored.

If you want to spend millions you have to give it to a super PAC. The difference is that the super PAC cannot coordinate directly with the campaign.

That part is not super closely monitored, and the fig leaf of separation is nanometers thick.
This looks useful, I usually use guestfish to put files into the image before flashing but this could be a lot more flexible.
Many (not all, obviously) boomers will never buy an EV because of identity politics in the midwestern United States. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is true elsewhere as well.

Why they’re not pumping out $25k 250 mile range city cars for millenials and gen z is a mystery to me.
Unlike other brands, their EVs don't look much different than their ICE cars (though their earliest attempts, like the i3, were definitely nothing like what they sold). I'm pretty sure this is intentional; they're trying to replicate the BMW experience, and make it less about the drivetrain.
We have a EU-resident dev and tried that with Facebook when our app was disabled due to a bug on their end for a couple of weeks. There's nowhere to actually initate the process, as far as we could determine. Every avenue got a "not our department", even the clearly appropriate ones like the "got a question about our privacy policy? email privacy@fb.com" sort.
I've been a programmer since the 1970s. This bullshit theory gets trotted out every few years. 50 years in, and there are more and more programmers, not less and less.
Meta isn't treating NSFW stuff as a first class citizen either. Most VR porn apps have a roundabout way of accessing them. E.g. you have DeoVR which is absolutely, 100%, intended for normal content consumption and it's just a coincidence that its video protocol is compatible with SLR.