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by randyrand 5d ago
An important detail, according to the driver he didn't force her out. The girl got out after he pulled over to argue about / inspect the vomit and assess the situation. "Tran argued that he responded reasonably to a perceived
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by randyrand 5d ago
The driver that actually killed them wasn't part of this arbitration. This is arbitrating the lead up.
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by randyrand 5d ago
ESH. Everyone sucks here. The person that hit them. The driver that dropped them off. The girls drinking to the point of stupor. Uber for not training drivers enough.
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by randyrand 5d ago
> The situation may have been avoided if Uber had this strict clause in its onboarding manual to never stop the car or drop the passenger at unsafe spot. You think they don't?
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by randyrand 9d ago
IMO it's primarily because it's a bad name. Names are important, as they reinforce your mental model. Reduce means to take away. But reduce isn't taking something away . It's combining multiple things into one -- squeez
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by randyrand 10d ago
For a critical bug fix, a week can be a very long time.
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by randyrand 10d ago
“Bearing” is not how products are priced. You need to think in terms of supply and demand. The demand is there, but the supply is also going to skyrocket. Free open weights models will contribute to supply too. There will be a new equilibri
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by randyrand 12d ago
JpegXL progressive decode is way better than AVIF: - it's first image is way earlier: 2KB vs 8KB - from 8KB to 100KB it's blurrier than AVIF, but it's more pleasing to look at and less blocky than AVIF. I highly prefer it. -
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by randyrand 13d ago
iOS accessibility shortcut: 3 taps on sleep button inverts the colors of any website, if you set it up.
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by randyrand 13d ago
How about this: stop connecting safety critical systems into the internet. This is what we should’ve been doing a long time ago.
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by randyrand 15d ago
It matters, for now. - I prompt better when I can understand the code, when necessary - I can catch wrong assumptions it made more easily - Good code helps the AI too, AFAICT
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by randyrand 15d ago
For anyone wondering, it's 2.4K lines of code. Very small, but yes AI is very impressive.
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by randyrand 17d ago
This scenario is not at all uncommon. Brent Underwood has spent $30K+ trying to get water on his land: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atKOoMvLmTA&t=1s If we are going to have a government promised right to water, we ca
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by randyrand 20d ago
It needs more qualifications IMO. "reasonable access" perhaps? I mean how would you handle someone who drives their car into the desert or climbs to the top of a mountain and demands water?
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by randyrand 20d ago
I'm not sure what a right to water really means. A lot of rural cities don't even provide water. People have wells and you pay for them yourself.
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by randyrand 21d ago
That’s not how things are valued. That’s moreso how the absence of something is valued.
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by randyrand 21d ago
What comes after “the dog”? Does it complete the sentence? If not then it’s not a next token predictor. Or at least not a good one.
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by randyrand 23d ago
This article is trash, but this ruling is just about the outputs of AI. For use as training data you still need some right to it AFAICT.
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by randyrand 28d ago
Every device requires a random product key issued by apple and they’re not supposed to be reused. No good way to get around that except buying an Apple device and taking its key.
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by randyrand 29d ago
If all they do is raise the price, then the reason doesn’t really matter. Those people are willingly buying the product for that price. If the money was earmarked for import taxes, like it often is for sales tax, then there could be ground
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by randyrand 1mo ago
Their USPTO is still pending, so we'll see. But yes legally they have good grounds to continue DBA as Twitter.
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by randyrand 1mo ago
Well, I was confused. New Twitter got big coverage today [1] and then more Twitter related news on HN today too. [1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/new-twitter-laun...
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by randyrand 1mo ago
Is this referring to the new Twitter company that recently launched ( https://twitter.now )? If not, then this is just going to lead to confusion.
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by randyrand 1mo ago
For most products the LED is not a simple on/off indicator. It signals device state, user confirmations, ota updates, etc etc etc. I’m at a loss for how you would signal all of that without a GPIO.
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by randyrand 1mo ago
I don't have kids and live in the city.
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by randyrand 1mo ago
As an American I agree. Low taxes, let me live and make my own decisions.
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by randyrand 1mo ago
Yes the security guard’s footage would have copyright protection. However, a security guard is also typically paid and under contract. It’s a commissioned work. Same as when hiring a software engineer.
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by randyrand 1mo ago
No it would mean the license does not apply to the parts of code written by AI.
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by randyrand 1mo ago
That was a terrible ruling. It should be about who got the camera there and set it up, not who pushed the button. With automated recording (dashcams) there isn't even "a button." Hopefully no judge uses that as precedence.
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by randyrand 1mo ago
They should continue this line of thinking even further. Start charging people for all facets of their life. Use access to their iPhone as leverage.

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