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There is (since 2023) a train that connects directly from Grand Central to JFK AirTrain.

This demonstrates three problems, in order of severity: 1) The answer is hilariously wrong. 2) The LLM doesn't (can't) know the answer is wrong - it happily spits out garbage. 3) N…

Step 1: get it to zero Step 2: -Werror Step 3: there is no step 3

To be fair, 'Daisuke Toyoda, an executive in charge of the project from the automaker’s founding family, stressed it’s not “a smart city.”'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer%E2%80%93Moore_string-sea...

It goes back ever further, Java 1.2 was marketed by Sun as "Java 2". https://web.archive.org/web/19991010063140/http://java.sun.c...

Google Twitter-bis was called Google Buzz. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Buzz

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/159jojs/scienti...

On iOS you can easily check what permissions an app has in Settings. For instance I can see I have granted Instagram access to location, microphone, camera, photo album. Threads ha…

Previous discussion on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36640720

Does this link work for you? https://www.threads.net/t/Cu2Ps0mJ4Hv/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA...

Oh god, why am I about to defend zucc? Anyway this article seems to be 100% wrong. 1-5: True but not dark patterns. Yes they are using the IG user base to bootstrap the threads use…

Some examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2007385

The "source" of that Ben Rich quote is a MUFON article by Tom Keller, more amazing quotes: https://www.columbiatribune.com/story/opinion/editorials/201...

Well I have good news for you: you won't need to change your phone! Because they aren't supporting Android Auto either.

Also getting rid of Android Auto, according to the original source: General Motors plans to phase out widely-used Apple CarPlay and Android Auto technologies that allow drivers to …

Yes, many cars with various levels of self-driving are available. Almost every car maker now has basic lane following and adaptive cruise control. Some add navigation, lane changin…

Based on https://www.bhtp.com/blog/safest-places-to-travel : Berkshire Hathaway Travel Protection has a long history of asking travelers where they’re going, why they’re traveling,…

And the suggestions will restart in a few days. What we did is add "stop by the way" as a custom command to our "goodnight" routine, so the thing is reminded every single night tha…

I worked on a project (not cars, phones) where we replaced an older model that was operated through buttons and LEDs with a newer model that was just a giant multitouch screen. Sur…

There's another reason why touchscreens are used. It breaks up one of the "long poles" in the project schedule. Hardware buttons and switches have to be designed, tested, re-design…

Why can't I search by restaurant name / type? It's just an endless list of restaurants in my zip code? And why can't I search by food? Like show me all the restaurants near me with…

Mnemonic: “What you have to what you want”

My theory is that one of the inputs to Google's ranking algorithm is now "how much money would we make from this click?" A click to SO has a small number of ads which are obviously…

Chesterton's fence.