johnnyo

So, you gave someone your credit card number without understanding how or what they were going to charge you for?

I don’t think so, because their are always ambiguities with CSVs

Do they have a header? Is the data properly escaped? How are blank values at the end of the row handled? Etc, etc

Amazon shipping in my area used to be 2 days, but no longer.

Now it’s generally 4 working days, sometimes more.

Almost all the services I’ve used Amazon for in the past keep getting worse. Prime shipping, video, Amazon music, etc

More specifically, the total revenue of ads + the people willing to pay $3/month is greater than the revenue lost when people cancel their service due to ads

Because it’s more profitable to have something that is paid for AND has ads.

Same thing happened with cable TV when it first came out, it was advertised as ad free. Then it filled up with ads, and the streaming services came along promising no ads. Now the circle is repeating itself.

Here is the NYTimes in 1981 on the topic https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/arts/will-cable-tv-be-inv...

The article mentions the ads are expected to bring in $3 billion annually.

Even if the lawsuit is successful, I suspect it will cost Amazon much less than what they are projecting to make.

So, the model is bad at helping in this particular task.

How does this compare with a control of a beneficial human task? Like someone in a lab testing blood samples or working on cancer research?

Is the model equally useless for those types of lab tasks?

What about other complex tasks, like home repair or architecture?

Is this a success of guardrails or a failing of the model in general?

My understanding is this is why some old TV shows aren’t streaming despite interest.

“WKRP in Cincinnati” has so much music in the episodes that the licensing costs to stream it today would be prohibitive.

I think the interest here is less about how it was used in the past, and how it might be used in the future.

With changing landscape of laws related to things like abortion and transgender rights, people are rightly worried that a zealous prosecutor in one state will subpoena for records of things like abortion drugs or hormone blockers, and use that data to start harassing or prosecuting people.

It sounds like it would be feasible for a prosecutor to ask for a list of all patients currently prescribed hormone blockers and then open child welfare cases against all those families across an entire state.

I had a similar problem with Nvidia drivers. My boss purchased some laptop with 3D glasses and drivers and wanted me to get our custom software working on it for a cool demo.

I read the docs, implemented the right calls, but no matter what I did, I never could get the stereo to kick in. Finally, I renamed our app to doom.exe based on an obscure forum post somewhere, and it immediately worked.

I think the driver had whitelist of games it worked with, and only enabled for them.

How is data secured and protected?

Is the company collecting all my prompts and responses?

I don’t see a privacy policy or anything like that linked on the main page.

You absolutely do collect identifying personal information, which is why I gave up and deleted the app.

It’s not anonymous when you know where I live, my birthday, and gender. There is only one person that matches those three data points.

And setting up an account on Apple with a privacy address asks me for my birthday, my gender, and my home address

Certainly doesn’t feel anonymous

Good luck when the govt subpoenas your records chatting with an AI lawyer, since it’s likely not protected by Attorney Client privilege.

I wonder if the whole family sharing a thermometer increased transmission.

I doubt it was fully sterilized between uses.

To be clear, its not a sudden change. It's been written into the law since 2017 that it was sunsetting.

People incorrectly assumed that Congress would extend or repeal the sunset. But its not like the tax law was changed on Dec 30th and put into effect on the 31st.

The headline is a bit misleading. It's nothing the AI did, it was a misconfiguration of the website itself.

I guess this is the answer to this post from 3 months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33735503

"Wi" was An early player of the game that was the a victim of the bug. His character's name was Wi, and the bug was named after him.

I remember people theorizing it was due to a short name (only 2 characters), and so would create longer usernames to try and avoid the "curse"

One reason door close buttons don’t work is because many places have a minimum time the doors have to remain open under ADA guidelines.

Once that time has passed, the door close. So there is no window in which the button would be useful.

Yes, Warhammer tries to give their stuff unique names for copyright reasons.

They aren’t Space Marines anymore, they are Adeptus Astartes.

And the Imperial Guard? Those are Astra Militarum.

Assuming the US, if someone dies without a will, their estate goes into probate, which is a legal process to determine who inherits.

I suppose it would depend on jurisdictions, but I’m not aware on anywhere where an employee would inherit anything.

The article actually defines it as $100 profit per superfan (after expenses)

Quoting from the article:

> First, you have to create enough each year that you can earn, on average, $100 profit from each true fan.

The focus of the article is on a parent complaining they didn’t get notified about a certificate their kid received.

Yup, their complaint is that they wanted a separate email to *parents*. Its kind of ridiculously petty when you see what the actual complaint is here.

I have a lot of sympathy for school administrators and school board members. They deal with this sort of stuff from parents all the time.

You missed the even dumber part

> National Merit hadn’t included enough stamps on the package, but nevertheless it got to Bonitatibus by mid-October

The parent is basically complaining that the school didn’t drop everything and make handing out certificates to 240 students their top priority.

They were handed out to student a few weeks later

The argument doesn’t stand on the merits.

They begin their article with the thesis that the school is “withholding awards” from Asian families.

When you read what actually happened, the school gave certificates to all student in mid November.

One parent is mad because the school didn’t separately notify the parent separately, and they didn’t do it “fast enough” so their kid could list it on an early college admission.

On its merits, the argument falls apart under analysis of the data.

I was a National Merit scholar, FWIW.

It’s not really a “prestigious award”. According to the article, 240 kids at the school got the same thing.

At my large high school, lots of kids got it too.

Yeah, if you drill down into the actual sources, that appears to be what happened.

The school got a stack of certificates. They sat on the principals desk for a while, then they sat with the guidance counselor or homeroom teachers before being passed out.

The parent is basically complaining because:

1. They didn’t notify the parents via email.

2. They didn’t find out in time to put in on an college early admission application.

3. The school didn’t make a big deal of handing out the awards in an assembly or similar.

This sounds more like a complaint from an overbearing helicopter parent than any sort of issue that HN would care about.

As a parent, the chances a piece of paper given to a kid in homeroom makes it to the parent are probably 50% at best. Probably lower.

I know when I was a student, it was probably below 25%