nanidin

Commute time is one of the killer apps of WFH.

Include Instacart in that group that charges more than the price on the shelf at the store, then adds on service and delivery fees on top of that.

Google Authenticator is completely offline isn't it? How are accounts / 2FA material at risk of lockout by using Google Authenticator?

The commenter I responded to initially wrote as if they actively seek anonymity by taking several inconvenient steps every time they shop, even when they presumably have nothing to hide. I wanted to understand what drove that behavior and if it was worth it.

They don't have to articulate it, but inability to articulate might be a sign of overcautiousness / paranoia that is having a negative impact on their life.

If one has something to hide - then sure, take extra steps to be anon. Otherwise, why put yourself through so much trouble?

My 2022 Model Y didn't require any calibration to use autopilot after initially picking it up. IIRC there were 7 miles on the odometer at the time.

> I'd say Auto Lane Change is worth $1,500.

What does that work out to, in terms of dollars per lane change for the duration of ownership? Would you feel the same if you were feeding dollar bills into a feeder each time you changed lanes? Quarters?

Auto lane change is the only feature I value out of EAP / FSD subscription and I can't justify $200/month because it works out to multiple dollars per lane change.

So the threat model is to prevent insurers from gaining knowledge that you buy 5L of sugary soda per week?

I agree there is some privacy concern, but I am having a hard time articulating how or why that data might actually impact a person in a net negative way.

What is your threat model? Are you buying incriminating goods at the grocery store? What do you gain by putting yourself through all that? Or what are you preventing / protecting yourself from?

The safety score stuff is no longer relevant for FSD beta since circa November 2022.

(in the most literal sense).

And they seem to be sent by aliens.

Citation needed.

I think it's useful to replace "AI" with "app" any time you encounter it in the wild. AI is a set of computational techniques that is very broad. The problem with considering "the AI" or "an AI" is that people have in mind some kind of AI agent and that isn't really the case.

AI is also not well defined - day one of my AI course in university opened with "What is AI?" Generally once we figure out how to do something using a computer, we decide that's not really intelligent anymore so the implementation isn't AI. An example of that is the minimax algorithm - it's featured "AI: A Modern Approach"[0] but it isn't really something people think of when they hear "an AI".

[0] https://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/contents.html

Too many bonuses and SLA contracts depend on the “status” for it to be a reliably self reported metric.

When I was in one of these positions, I negotiated bonuses to allow for some failures specifically to avoid this type of conflict of interest. I think it’s also mentioned in the seminal SRE book published by Google.

The nuvifone was based on embedded Linux and the UI was implemented in a mix of Qt and possibly Tcl/Tk. I’m not sure how much Android played into things, but there was definitely inspiration from the iPhone. It was the first phone Garmin put out.

Apple Music subscription is $12/month and it allows full downloads of songs.

The things you mention after “For [the(sic)] example” are called features and they are considered as dimensions of the data. Layers are not strictly related to dimensions.

I'm guessing it is a lack of data - when I search for a book I'm currently reading (The Discovery of Slowness), there are no results.

MS Office search doesn't show me where in the menu the item I searched for is located - if I rely on the search, I haven't learned where the thing is in the menu.

I think Apple’s approach to menus is preferable - one can search and it will highlight places in the menu where the term appears. Usually I know what I want to do, I just don’t know where it’s located in the menu.

For MS products I end up Googling how to do something and invariably get instructions for a slightly different version with a menu layout that is also slightly different and work it out from there.

This resonates with me and my use of Siri. As soon as I get outside of the common tasks I use it for (setting timers, unit conversions in the kitchen, turn on/off the lights), I’m either spending time trying to come up with the correct incantation or pulling out my phone to get to an app that does it better.

Yes, and this is exactly what I proposed to my senators and representatives.

I contacted my senators and representatives about how the IRS should classify tips made before service. I got a call back from my senator’s office. The reasoning I presented was: that automatic gratuity for large parties is taxed differently than actual gratuity in some jurisdictions (why those have disappeared in most places), and that since the tip is used to determine order priority it is not a tip but is instead a bid for preferential service.

I also went through a call to get back a tip I made on a Chipotle order (DoorDash I believe) up front after the driver failed to find the address and then chewed me out after driving through parking lots for 5 minutes.

IIRC the difference when applying for insurance on the healthcare marketplace for 2023 was like $5/month (out of $700 total - so less than 1% more).

How does the $500 compare to your assets at risk in these schemes? I.e. are you picking up pennies in front of a steamroller?

I run my own mail server + spam filter, so I'll chime in. I have seen a high uptick in spam making it to my inbox in the last two weeks. I primarily rely on Spamhaus blocklists + a Bayesian filter trained on old spam.

The uptick I have seen is going from 0-2 spams making it to my inbox to 10-20 spams making it to my inbox. When this has happened in the past, I have assumed it is spammers bypassing blocklists by finding new hosts, or by spammers finding a clever way to beat the filter. Usually after these big upticks, they drop off again suddenly, which makes me believe that it was a blocklist bypass and not a filter bypass (my filter is pretty weak and hasn't been retrained/updated in many years.)

Rewriting COBOL in javascript would make the codebase accessible to a larger pool of potential engineers who are also more likely to be up-to-date on best practices (as opposed to an engineer that has stagnated in COBOL for 30 years.)

I'm not sure a rewrite is warranted, but a system isn't maintainable if there aren't enough people trained in the particular language / tech stack.

I just checked Canadian eBay recently sold and there were several that went for 1000-1100 CAD in the last week.

The homepod had too much bass for me to comfortably use it in my apartment. At a decent listening volume, the bass was overwhelming. EQ only worked for music streamed via Apple Music at the time. They have added a "Reduce Bass" to the settings for the homepod now, but I returned mine within the 14 day return policy around the time the original homepod came out.

I switched my Alexa devices over to homepod mini's after one too many "by the way" suggestions by Alexa. Homepod mini has decent audio but I wouldn't use it for my primary music listening.

If you care for music quality, buy a decent portable bluetooth speaker and carry it with you from room to room - there is a lot to be said for the flexibility, and you can also toss it in your luggage when traveling.

I find my time on HN would be better served with an option to hide green accounts with "throwaway" in the name.