skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if they had to ultra-optimize the aerodynamics so all the cars look like the same bar of soap (they don't have to), they could still at least paint the damn soap a different color. But, no. All you see coming out of the factory are white, silver, gray, black, the occasional red and the occasional blue.

What's driving this? That's what the article is about. Is it actually pull from customers, or is it push from the manufacturers? Is it: people all actually demand boring white soapbar shaped cars -> companies make boring white soapbar shaped cars? Or is it the other way around: Companies are economically incentivized to offer only a small number of colors and styles -> customer really doesn't have a choice -> customer buys what's available -> companies think that's what they really want because of their purchase choice.

Same with the AirBNB look. Do people really like it, which translates into more rentals copying the look? Or are the landlords just uncreative, all copying each other, and that's all that ends up on the market? Or is something else driving it?
You're thinking of the old Musk. He used to be a force for good before his mental break, which I timed when Grimes left him for Chelsea Manning and his oldest son came out trans. That's why I used the words "it's getting to be". Everyone is entitled to a mid-life crisis and Musk is no different, but supporting Putin seems a little extreme to me.
First, you seem to be confused. This is TAG, not Project Zero. TAG tracks government-backed attacks in the wild. It's not theoretical vulnerability research, it is about actual humans being hacked by authoritarian governments right now.

What would you have them do? Ignore the iOS vulnerabilities and leave the iOS users unprotected? That'd be a great look...

Second, this is a really bizarre complaint given this very submission is reporting on both Android and iOS. Even if there really was security research being done with the specific goal of negative marketing on competing products (a claim you make with no evidence, and continue to double down on with no evidence), this submission would be a very bad example of that.
There are some words in Scots Gaelic that describe a particular quantity of a mouthful of whisky, but they don't mean a lot without context.

There are other Gaelic words for different types of rain, but only one of them - "uisge", which just means water - is printable, the rest being varying degrees of quite rude.
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LMAO. Good luck with that.
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As much as some openly oppose the idea, and others secretly do, we really are just a single species with fairly uniform tastes.
Netherlands. Very dense cities surrounded by farm land.

One of my friends is an engineer for food manufacturing equipment. Another for payment processing, and another as a bike mechanic, and another builds gaming rigs (think sim rigs).

I don’t think I know anyone who works in tourism.
Can you please fuck off from HN with your obviously GPT-generated trash comments? Thanks.
They economy is doing great. The problem is that 40% of the income in the US goes to the top 1% of people. That needs to change in order for the US to get its middle class back.
I enjoyed reading this, but was left with the same feeling that i had at the end of the 1983 film WarGames, namely: "...the only winning move is not to play..." I acknowledge this post is not exactly saying that...but it still feels a little flattening to arrive at that point. (With all apologies and respect to the author, i'm referring to my feelings on the suggestions, that's all.)
Eh, there are other options for this that are more mature and more likely to be supported in the long run. The Citus columnar store extension has been around for almost a decade.
AI-assisted programming tools have already increased my personal coding productivity to the point that they've made me more ambitious: I'm building whole projects that previously I wouldn't have committed to, because they would have taken too long (just past my "worth-it" threshold) otherwise.

Wrote about that here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/27/ai-enhanced-developmen...
It is well worth spending time with various editors/IDEs as YMMV.

Currently we have a really great choice of IDEs/editors (and supporting tools) not just for python, but most languages and workflows.

It's also worth noting that your choice/usage of IDE's should be considered along side other tooling you have, for example if you have a CI server or actions on commit that do code quality checks, then you may not need to rely on (as much) code quality features of your IDE, or maybe you have some great scripts that run pylint, flake8, mypy, jedi on your project and create you a nice report.
There is nothing wrong with supplementing your editor/ide, don't be a martyr to a specific IDE/editor.

My current personal favourite is Pycharm.

I've only been using it a few months on a 17939 loC existing, new to me project.
The biggest thing I am liking at the moment, is the ability to view/pin multiple search/problem tabs and have them in their own search/problem windows.

I am finding code quality inspection (errors, warnings linting etc) and refactoring are significantly more detailed than VSCode with pylance and have a few examples where pylance gets things wrong with its inspections, that Pycharm gets right.

I am finding once a project is loaded and indexed (which is very slow compared to
VSCode/pylance), the performance is comparable.
The only place I have found better documentation is the Gentoo wiki: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Main_Page

The Gentoo wiki illustrates to me that Linux is about constructive solutions, not crowd sourced testing. If I have a Windows problem, I Google for the magic incantation that was inferred by a thousand desperate disparate voices. If I have a Linux problem, I learn about the components I am using, and how they are intended to behave and fit together.
Nice...but when the whole country is ~50 miles across, with one major city, and a population density of >600 people per square mile..."make public transit work well" is a pretty low bar.
I’d argue that convergence _is_ soulless-ness and cars present a great example of the point.

The “soul” of something that is inanimate is the qualities that make it memorable or stick it in our mind with some manner of tactility. Not literal tactility but the nature of how you can visualize something so clearly it’s almost like you can touch it in your mind.

I’m getting a bit spacey here but let’s get concrete: Jeremy Clarkson often posited that a car tended lacked soul if it was refined and well put together. Often, he felt like older Italian cars, with all of their questionable design decisions were very soulful, because they reflect the fact that people, fallible human beings built it. It was a product of them, as much as a piece of art is purely a product of its artist. It’s why a Van Gogh has soul but a Van Gogh replica does not.

The effort to make things perfect and completely refined with no strange decisions removes the humanity from them. Renders them soulless.
> But Australians don't generally realize they sit on the same ground as Papuans.

What? Of course we do.

We're the colonial power even, you think we haven't noticed them?
I get that you're stressed out and overworked, and I don't mean to add to it, but you seem to be confused between having an academic career and killing yourself. You're doing authors, editors, and yourself no favors by taking on load that you can't handle.
That's a fun problem, here's a half scientific way to solve it: given a dictionary for every pair of languages, the "most succinct word" is the one with the longest definition in other languages.

Technical terms like "quantum electrodynamics" are usually imported with minimal changes, and if you ignore foreign words you'll see a lot of languages more or less disappear (cough english cough). My guess is that the most succinct words by this definition would be very specific to a culture, like "fourth amendment" or "Purim Torah".
Login screens in the apps I build. I love animating the response. If there's a success, fade out, fade in a welcome screen, maybe a fun spinner... It's the door to your app, so it feels like it's time well spent. It gives the feeling of sophistication if done tastefully and well.
Only vehicle I experienced freedom with was bicycle. Car is further from freedom. Driving in line of cars or finding parking place is not freedom. You are not completely free with bicycle either but everything is more instant with bike. Motorbike is close but since it is so heavy it can be bit of burden.
My expectation is that costs for these simple tests will become competitive as physicians become more and more scarce -- if the person doing your blood test is no longer an expert, and is just feeding it into an off-the-shelf machine, then there's a lot more flexibility in cost-cutting.

(In fact, my local hospital has pretty great lab prices for this exact reason, so I'd assume this kind of price competition for simple tasks might already be a thing in some urban areas.)
> A walk only city is not a pleasant place to live

There's plenty of towns and small cities in Europe (specially the "center") that could be considered walk-only and people are pretty happy there, for example Toledo (Spain) or Venice (Italy).
If you replace "AI" with "self-driving" throughout the open letter [0] then it still makes a surprising amount of sense (and of course any the incoherent bits can be smoothed out by ChatGPT if you prefer).

However I doubt Musk would have signed that version...

[0] https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experime...
>going to scale threatens people’s long-held beliefs, ways of life, and livelihoods, many of which will be altered, if not made obsolete.

This is the biggest challenge. You can't teach an old buyer new concepts without ramming it down their throat. The biggest transition hack will be training mechanics to become EV-focused. We have about 40 years of mechanic knowledge to churn before their knowledge retires with them. Eventually, fixing engines becomes cost prohibitive, and the roads will grow silent. Only then will the throat-ramming process be complete.
How is that a trap? Would people be better off if they wanted different things than "the West"?

Are Japan and South Korea part of "the West"? Looking around my home I see a lot of stuff designed in those countries.
This is essentially what the Chevy Volt was. It ran as an EV until the battery ran out and then the engine kicked on to keep the battery charged.
As you probably guessed, Snapchat doesn't really get deleted. I sat as a juror on a case where some of the most damning evidence was a Snapchat the police obtained from the company following an armed robbery and car theft. Some people are really poor at planning and covering their tracks.
Food is tasty and no amount of your religious preaching is going to change that.
If the Chinese have all those Western tech execs and AI experts in their pocket, they don't need time to catch up...
Article neglected to add that all the online writing is the same.
Hey Hoppla, I missed your comment asking for my paper on the useage of Rust and Golang (among other programming languages) in malware. Anyway, you can download it on my website at https://juliankrieger.dev/publications
An old mentor of mine used to say: "If they ever invent a miracle drug, it will be aspirin"
> universally regarded

I disagree.
My snap version of Firefox on Ubuntu kept bugging out my plasma taskbar too. Consistently reproducible, and annoying until I figured it out. I uninstalled the snap and manually added it through apt.
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I agree.

Tracking is bad.
But having a telemetry on the usage can drastically improve the solidity of an OSS project, especially if the usage is growing vertically.

As I pointed out, the OSS project right now have no information at all about the usage of it
Not just that. For huge part of Polish population new EVs will be unaffordable. ICEs got more expensive in the recent year, but that still much lesser than EVs.
I fear LLMS/Image generation will only make this worse. I imagine many people now type in "please list for me 10 ideas for a mint gum tagline" for a spark of inspiration, or will generate mocks of art using sketches fed into an image transformer. The thing they don't think about when doing this however, is that it's just operating on what it's been fed, while if people from another brand do the same, they'll also get a similar result. I guess we've outsourced inspiration and now have to deal with the consequences.
That’s the nature of any long-tailed distribution.

The lie is that anyone can become a 10x [insert thing here] just by trying harder. Self-improvement is a real thing, but everyone can’t be 10x or 6-sigma or world class.

Strive, reach, sure… but ultimately, just make sure you live your life. You only get one, and the clock’s ticking.
There is basis for my postion and point of view. You can see their cold wallets and inspect the wallets for Binance moving funds. If what you stated were facts, we would most certainly agree. But the thing is, they are not true. See data below.

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Of course it's smart. I reflexively exclude dog from my diet too. Dung beetles and crickets will be way down that list.
> they would feel less need for things like Tailwind or CSS-in-JS.

Why do people keep mentioning Tailwind and CSS-in-JS in the same sentence?

And no, Tailwind would still have its place even if Svelte appeared first because instead of writing the same styles everywhere you'd still want to extract them into a file, and have sensible defaults for them.

Oh look, Tailwind does exactly that.
The problem with that argument is that once you've sufficiently "tried it," you've put so much effort in that you're stuck with it, and since there's no way to eject, you're more willing to justify it to yourself as worth it. This is stockholm syndrome.

You're right I should try it, and maybe I will try it on some throwaway project eventually, but it's not a priority and I have no interest in adding it to ongoing production projects.

I was very open about the fact I haven't tried it from my first sentence, which was "here are the reasons I have no interest in trying tailwind."

I would have more interest if someone could explain a compelling problem that I recognize and that Tailwind solves. But nobody can do that, it's all just "you have to try it [and learn our initiation rituals] and then you'll understand!"
I'm not gonna have a peer reviewed journal article for you or anything. I learned this in the food safety class you have to go through before managing a kitchen in a lot of jurisdictions.

> stewing over many hours seems like would work fine.

It won't! Good luck with it though.
How would you differentiate "true" convergence, where everyone agrees a certain idea is superior, vs what you seem to describe here, a sort of imposition of ideas?
You’re an absolute fool if you trust anyone at OpenAI either.

“AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies.” - Sam Altman
It's still done in some French cuisine/hunting practices, though much less common nowadays: "Faisandage", where small game can be left to rot in a relatively controlled way for months: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_de_la_viande#Matu...
> Italy has a far-right government, which is extremely open to lobbying from that sector

Ah yeah the left never takes lobby money. If you want to make a point, try not to make your bias so clear.
It's still better than nothing ain't it?
It may be worth doing an exercise:

Imagine your dream role at this company. Is it possible for there to be a role like that at this company? What’s the closest thing? What would it take to move into that position? How would you communicate that to your manager?

Also, this may be a good opportunity to zoom out from work, and address other problems or issues you might have in personal life or even pick up a new or old hobby. Do your job, but remember it’s work, nothing personal, simply “clock in” and “clock out”.
Static vs dynamic linking is the core of the packaging debate isn't it? Like, distro maintainers say that dynamic linking is better because it lets them swap out libraries underneath the app in case of like security vulnerabilities and stuff. Devs don't like that because inevitably minor version changes break stuff unexpectedly, plus devs prefer to use shiny and new libraries that distros often don't have. Containers were IMO primarily a packaging and deployment solution, and container-style package formats like flatpak and snap are efforts to force distros to use static linking and stop breaking the app's libraries. IMO distro maintainers should realize that their advantages in security aren't as useful as claimed, and their claimed advantages in distro coherence are only relevant to maintainers, not devs and rarely users.
That sounds more like Canonical marketing-speak, than Mozilla. My guess would be that it is Canonical who approached Mozilla for snap support, and Mozilla said yes.

Meanwhile, Mozilla still maintains ppa (mozillateam) with apt version. There's also Flatpak version, which delivers what snap promised.
I’ve been considering switching and haven’t used fedora in years. I’ll have to give it another chance. Snap has seriously annoyed me.
I do know Microsoft lied and led everybody to believe they were completely on-board with OS/2 and were touting their codeveloping relationship with IBM. It was totally believable since Microsoft and IBM were joined at the hip with the PC and DOS.

Later we found out that while Microsoft was saying one thing in industry press releases and conferences, they were preparing Windows 3.0. I've never trusted that company since, and they've never failed to meet my low expectations of them.

Thing is, I remember a very different Microsoft. They used to be a great company. Then they made a deal with the devil in the 1987 timeframe and they've been evil ever since.
> In one camp, we have people at organizations like Microsoft/OpenAI, Google, Facebook, and maybe Baidu that have successfully developed and trained large-scale AI systems with hundreds of billions to trillions of trained parameters. People in this camp are not too worried about societal risks, but I wonder if it's because to them the rapid improvement in AI capabilities look like a shiny rainbow with a big pot of gold on the other side.

Maybe I am too naive, but they may not trying to do it only for "the money", but for the historical achievement (and ego thing). If GPT is as succesfull as we all think it will, Sam Altman will be remembered alongside big names such as Da Vinci and Mozart. The revolution of GPT will be 10 (or 100) times the computer or the internet. I am a bit against/scared of IA (check my post history), but having the opportunity to become the father of one of the most (if not the most) imoprtant revolution in centuries... I am not sure I'd say no even if it has ethical issues. We are all humans after all...

[] If it is worth to be part of an encyclopedia if there aren't any humans left to read it it's another discussion ;-)
Since PostHog is a commercial user-tracking product, such an argument seems rather self-serving. And justified by utilitarianism? In a moral swamp then ...