skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting to see a post here that flips the script a little, focusing on the negative consequences of growth-at-all-costs for those attempting to create good journalism and reviews as opposed to those seeking to consume them. We don't get that perspective often on a tech-focused site like HN.

It is bizarre that new media companies are funded, staffed, and run with the expectation that they'll scale and profit on the level of successful tech companies. Original, credible content takes smart, trained people time to produce, and you can't scale the business without scaling the number of such people doing that work. You can't automate or leverage AI to cultivate trustworthy news sources or investigate a corrupt sheriff's department. I don't know what business model would work above the micro Substack-funded level, but it's clear that the one that keeps being tried never will.
> I’m guessing that most of Ferrari’s market value comes from the brand compared to future revenue or IP

See what Rimac did, it is a good example that starting a luxury sports car company and be successful is possible nowadays, and talking from the ignorance it seems to me easier than the past. If that is what apple wants or needs is a different story.
ah. thank you. that might explain it.

I'll try the app next time, maybe that bypasses some check.

Or better, next time I submit, I'll use website regularly, and if it flags as dupe, I can switch to app and see if it bypasses the check.
> The second sentence (context/problem/solution) is important for helping the candidate keep their initial answer focused—otherwise, they are more likely to ramble for a long time and leave less time for you to... Dig into details

How about, instead of asking "Tell me about a time you...", and you presuming to understand the situation so well that you can make judgments about nuance based on the off-the-cuff example you asked for, and trying to cut them short from "rambling"...

You instead ask them "Say you have a situation like X; how would you approach it?" And you can change the situation by adding information, "What if the report responds Y?"

Then both people are operating from closer to similar information about the situation. (Though it's still possible that the interviewee understands something about these situations in general that the interviewer doesn't.)

This also avoids dredging up past unpleasant situations (someone with more experience will have handled more unpleasant situations, but that doesn't mean it doesn't invoke a somber mood, if they're not acting or oblivious).

It also means they don't have to also think about how much they can say under NDA and being discreet about personnel matters (while a poor interviewer might take hesitation or choosing words carefully as interviewee trying to put themselves in the best light or keep a fabricated story straight).

An expected objection to this approach of spinning a hypothetical situation is that candidates might just say what they think are the correct answers. But knowing the correct answers is at least half the problem. And what do you think many candidates are doing in the interview anyway, if they are the kind to know the correct answers, but not follow them in real life.
Ugh, Apple doing generative AI. At least the car idea was interesting.
I understand 404media's reason. And I also really enjoyed their work and have submitted them here in the past. It is really cool what this small team is accomplishing and I hear they are already profitable. But HN Guidelines do not like Hardwalled articles[1]. I was wondering if there was a workaround as to lessen likelihood of flagging in the future.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38259246
It even sells goods at Xerox prices!
I wish they would get into medical devices, especially for consumers. Apple is really good at making interfaces for technology. Imagine an Apple version of a CPAP or a diabetes sugar monitor/artificial pancreas.

Hopefully some of the SPG group was/is/will be working on this.
I had to make a title adjustment due to character limits. The original title read "PlayStation is laying off 900 staff across Naughty Dog, Insomniac and other studios". I felt Sony was an appropriate replacement for PlayStation.
Right. Google has microservices, in a monorepo.
> Did nobody with practical experience with arrested landings look at the arresting hook design prior to this?

I mean... it's very likely that the answer is no. The last new carrier aircraft made was the Super Hornet - and that design was basically done by 1995 (the F-35 tests in question were in 2011/2012). That expertise would also be at McDonald Douglas/Boeing. Northrop Grumman has a long history of carrier aircraft development, but it would have been long dormant by that point.

I'm sure there's all sorts of reasons the model's inaccuracy wasn't caught before hand, but sometimes... if you're given a model that's someone says that's been V&V'd, and it produces a result that's only a little weird, you just go with it. There are only so many things you can add extra testing onto in a project. Sometimes you choose wrong.

Anyhow, consider that the model results were probably exactly what they were expecting. Remember that the designers would be honing in on the shorter tailhook. You can imagine their mental model going - "ok on legacy aircraft, we have flatter tailhooks because there's enough time for the cable to settle". And then going "ok, with a shorter tailhook, there won't be enough time to settle". And then their model comes out and say "ya, with the shorter tailhook, it won't have enough time to settle - it'll be UP IN THE AIR". Whereas reality is "ya, with the shorter tailhook, it won't have enough time to settle - it'll still be displaced DOWN".
https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/vision-s/vehicle2.html

But seriously, I don't think that we should discount what China's auto manufacturing could accomplish. I am old enough to remember jokes about Japanese automobile quality and innovation.
Huh, optimizing is special. Most of the time people in highest positions just unravel and crap out.
They mostly compare it to the base SDXL. There is only one comparison with a community finetune on page 12 (RealStock v2, I suppose the one from Fooocus) and they don't even link to the model. I would like to see more comparisons with community models based on SDXL since they usually generate better images
Apple has the data on how many iPhones are being used by drivers, while moving, and how many are involved in accidents. It's almost like if you had a handgun that had a camera on it that knew children where on the other end of the barrel, and had the ability to not fire when the shooter pulled the trigger. Apple knowingly put a tremendous amount of senors on a device that distracts drivers. The class action lawyers haven't figured this one out yet, but give it time.
The only way it could possibly work was always as an apple branded model under the umbrella of another manufacturer, with their support and dealership network. Think polestar being its own brand but using Volvo workshops for servicing and support, as well as using a lot of Volvo parts internally. I can imagine an Apple car that's just a really fancy version of an existing car, with their own infotainment.
Any guide or blog post on how to interview that doesn't compare interview notes to performance reviews after hiring someone is basically bullshit.

Anyone can write a blog post about what they think is a good interview but there's no empirical proof that their interview technique works.
A friend used to drive an M3, so I’ve heard plenty about their pricing and how often parts had to be air-shipped.

My point was simply that I don’t think an Apple car would sell for a notably different price than other premium brands.
> But if you buy a v4 /24 from some reputable or old company and get it assigned to your own AS

Doesn't that have an extremely high barrier to entry? A legal entity, significant ongoing fees, and some infrastructure?

I'm under the impression that this is entirely out of reach for anyone just trying to run an email server at home for personal use. I would love to be wrong!
You can make up for a lot of smartness by having a smarter model generate all the text you put in that giant context window.
Oh, just like Linux? https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds...

I have a feeling that's not the best metric, but go off.
Is it feasible to run this on something large like Solvespace[1] (CAD) which is ~5MB executable? Or would we just get an insanely long list of issues?

[1] https://solvespace.com/index.pl

There are hundreds of numerical algorithms in there, and we have some bugs that might be related to this kind of implementation error.
of course, drac does make it much later in the 20thC in kim newman's books, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_Cha_Cha_Cha
It is because this debate is not about your life, but the life of the masses.
What is the standard screen reader rendering of a line chart? (Now realizing I’ve made a lot of inaccessible charts in my life…oops.)
> AI, generative or otherwise, is going to be their next failure.

Just look at how retarded Siri is. Same goes for Alexa.
Apple had a huge lead on this with Siri, and then let it stagnate - actually devolve - instead of throwing money at it to develop it further.

My guess is they'll try to turn VisionPro into some kind of generative gaming system.

Text/image is close to being a solved problem, video is on its way but still not great. Both will be impossible to beat from a cold-ish start.

I'm not convinced Apple has the hire-power to attract the best people for any of this.
Small nitpick but almost every car today still has brakes that work via direct force vs by wire.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake-by-wire
Tasks are run on ECS with Fargate. If you setup your server with a load balancer, which is required on ECS to point DNS to the server, then the load balancer will wait for health checks to pass before switching over to the newly deployed tasks. ECS with Fargate is reliable in my experience, and Beaker Studio uses an alternate installation of itself to deploy itself, so everything is dogfooded. A big drawback imo is that AWS is expensive and Beaker Studio does not attempt to hack its way around their pricing. Right now I'm not billing users (within reason) who provide feedback, so please feel free to sign up and email me your notes.
You all should checkout https://www.maximiliankiener.com/digitalprojects/time

It explains and illustrates why time flies so well, love that site.
> Those who are censored are free to make their own websites to host their speech.

I'm very sympathetic to this argument. Seems fair to me.

But then Cloudflare, and any host big enough to withstand DDoS attacks, is strongly pressured by seemingly most people on the Web and in the US, to kick "bad websites" by "bad people" off their platform. So we can't just let bad people have their own website which we don't visit? I kinda wish we could. If most people hate that bad people can have public websites, just say that this is the best we can do, at least they're not on your parent's facebook/twitter.
This is interesting. Not the product so much as the trend of
independent or free open source products reaching a stage of maturity
and quality and then "federating" to give horizontal integration to
other "fediverse" products.
Yes, but that would more appropriately be called cultural identity or nationalism, it isn't race-based. The English and the French and many other European countries each have very strong cultural identities. The French would equally oppose abandoning their own culture for English, or Japanese, or African cultures.
I feel like this article is missing one of the most useful idioms of parameter packs which is when you want to accept a variety of parameter types to a non-template function. You can stuff a parameter pack into an array/vector of unions/variants which is quite useful! For example it's the way to implement std::format which is based off Python's string.format().

using FormatArg = variant<int, float, string>;
string FormatArgs(const char* fmt, const vector<FormatArg> &args);

template <typename... Args>
string Format(const char* fmt, Args&&... args) {
vector<FormatArg> expanded_args = {args...};
return FormatArgs(fmt, expanded_args);
}

int main() {
cout << Format("Hello {} pi {}", "world", 3.14f);
}

https://godbolt.org/z/v5zo99aGe
In the specific case of Mr. Powell, I would agree that his skill set is primarily in the management of procuring and integrating of new engines from engine vendors into new airframes, and in the detail design of engine accessories and externals, and he is not experienced in the design of internal turbo machinery. And that's where the high risk for Boom is.

However you would be completely mistaken to think that Boeing, and Airbus, and my friends down there with Embraer, do not have people who actively pursue and develop the core technologies needed to develop, analyze, and test all types of turbine engines, even if they do not result in market products. It is a necessary tool in order to evaluate offerings from the different competitive engine vendors. And at the senior level of engineering, there is basically a revolving door between the airframe manufacturers, the engine manufacturers, and a few of the high-level engineering focused airlines. People are constantly jumping around between them, there is a lot of cross-pollination going on.
On a related note, when I re-watch shows from the 1990's or even early 2000's it's amazing how many problems would be solved with a simple cell phone call or text message. Buffy the Vampire Slayer would be a much shorter show if the gang could just text instead of wondering where the others were or if they knew some key fact.
Its a deep rabbit hole that led us to the current AI craze and will lead use to AGI in 2025.
Some office furniture retailers have outlets where they sell second hand stuff at slight discount. This often comes with some level of warranty and might have even gone through proper refurb process.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39528000
> One that isn't tied to a specific platform, or preferably even a specific company, and that I trust will still be around until I'm done programming.

That is Geany[0]: no opinions, no company affiliations, no editor wars. It has been around forever, works on everything, and is open-source.

[0] https://geany.org/
There's always going to be the debate between entrepreneurship vs "intrapreneurship". Whether large companies can successfully develop what amounts of startups in-house with separate R&D labs vs buying startups.

aka The Innovators Dilemma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator's_Dilemma

The solution the follow up book to this one ^ was to build isolated teams that are flush with the resources/capital of the parents but aren't at the whims, or constant meddling, of the parent company's management class / stockholders / old ideas.

For all the effort Google/Apple/Meta/Xerox/Bell/etc put into their internal moonshot divisions the whole concept mostly hasn't been very successful.

But at the same time they also haven't been great at buying young up and coming startups either, often ruining them the second they arrive by the same impulses which demands R&D moonshot teams be isolated from the host.
Show HN: I made an easy-to-use plug-in for sustainable coding
Except plants increase the humidity, exasperating conditions.
This is no longer the case. They have bypassed the postal system in my area entirely. My packages in a major US city are delivered via courier. Epacket type shipping you are referencing takes like 1-2 months while their privately arranged transport took 6 days from order to my door.
Have you actually used Siri? They are absolutely garbage at anything even remotely resembling the basics of AI/LLM related after spending a decade on it.
>This was an idea that never made any sense to me.

I mean, for Apple, it absolutely makes sense.

Electric vehicles are relatively straightforward to make. Everyone and their mother are producing some sort of electric scooter/dirt bike these days with new companies popping up every month. Furthermore Tesla has proven that for a lot of people a car is simply an appliance.

Apple could easily outsource most of the functional development and design and certification, and then focus on their core competency which is aesthetics and marketing and integration into iOS ecosystem, which would be a winning combo economically.
It seems like a lot of local companies started selling this 'cheap bullshit' at super high profit margins. They won't be around long once people catch on to the game.
Everything environment, health, wearables related is Tim Apple.
Zero Dependency Club
The author thinks that Helsing & company killed Dracula... and that is certainly the narrator's desperate belief. But as Fred Saberhagen pointed out in his more modern telling of the tale, Van Helsing himself maintains Dracula must be staked, decapitated and have his mouth stuffed with garlic to perish. And yet, despite this and despite knowing that Dracula can turn himself to mist, the heroes are content with victory when, in the shadows of sunset, they stab and cut Dracula with steel knives and he turns to "dust".

Fun article though, even with that small "mistake". :)
they're growing experience with regulated markets -- but with a privacy/medtech slant.

Of the two, I'd probably rather fight with the FDA versus the NTSB, though.
The user was asked to pay 20% then 5k on a service that's called "free" but has some extras which actually cost money.

After this the CEO comes along and says that the policy is actually not to bill for this kind of event... But the company actually tried to bill this user 3 times... soo it all stinks really.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/26/putin-ukraine-...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/14/nato-chief-reb...
An Apple that doesn't attempt something because it's hard is an Apple that is going to fade. There aren't many trillion dollar markets; I think attempting to break into cars was probably the most accessible of the trillion dollar markets to Apple. What were the alternatives? Oil? Real Estate? ...?
I found McCarthys style of writing to really frustrate me. I think it really took me out of the book to read and try to piece the way conversations were going. I really, really didn't enjoy reading that book.

I read it a LONG time ago, and I know how popular it is and I've read just about every post-apocalypse book I can find, my favorite being A Canticle for Leibowitiz.

So I checked out the 1* Amazon reviews and there are some really funny ones written in McCarthys style - https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/0307265439/ref=acr_dp...

edit: I didn't say what book, The Road. I do believe someone has told me to read Blood Meridian, but I haven't tried.
Perl isn't a shell!

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/01/why-a-new-shell.html#a...

It also doesn't have any incremental build tool builtin. (not that it should, and not that Oils does)

It does have awk though!

Though these days I see both awk and make much more than I see Perl. Something interesting happened there
>>for example, when you press the brakes there isn't and hasn't been for a long time a direct connection to the physical brakes

I'm sorry but you're getting it completely wrong. Brake by wire isn't legal anywhere in any market of the world and consequently there are zero cars implemented this way - every car currently on sale everywhere has to have a physical connection between the brake pedal and the actual brakes.

Throttle by wire on the other hand - sure. Nearly all new cars only have an electronic throttle.

Steer by wire is making progress, with Lexus making the first road legal car that has a steering wheel that's fully disconnected from the steering rack, with only electronic control.
Rocket euphemisms are so silly, "one engine failed energetically"
Being able to set a soft limit (email me when I go beyond it) and a hard limit (shut down my service) seems like a very simple solution. How is it not a thing in 2024?

Also, being at the mercy of a CEO and their understanding is a no go, whether you're a company or an individual. We want to be 100% sure we're not going to get bankrupt when using a service. "Don't worry, our policy is to usually erase the debt" is not an appropriate answer.
The poster is a ML PhD candidate in EMEA. The market there sucks worse than the US rn (which itself ain't that hot)
If AGI is defined as a AI that can replace most humans at most tasks, it would be worth money if it's cheaper than paying humans. So instead of a Marvel film costing 100 million to make, if an AGI can do it for 30 million it's worth tens of millions of dollars. Of course society might eventually collapse from mass unemployment, but corporate owners would live like kings until that finally happens.
Why? Plenty of companies and products kill loads of people or at least are involved in slave labor and environmental damage and their stocks are through the roof and their products fly off the shelves. See Saudi Aramco, Chevron, BP, H&K, BAE, and Nestle.

Do you think Apple and consumers are gonna grow a conscience right now?
for stuff I use similar self-hosted solution:
detecting when kid lessons are available on local portal.
but to be fair cheapest option here ($200) isn't usable for non-business usage

Ps: context why I need automation for such thing: those lessons are really popular and are announced at unpredictable time / there might be another spot when someone resigns
It didn't condition us, it reminded us that intellectual property is a social abstraction that flows against nature
The issue here, although easier due to moving second, is that Apple don't seem to really have a software culture, and this is pure software in multiple limits.
Lyn Alden: February 2024 Investing Newsletter – Economic Re-Acceleration
If Apple’s grand plan is convincing large numbers of people to stick a $3000 clunky ass rectangular box to their face they are in serious trouble.
Yeah, I stopped using the MIT license moving forward some time ago. There’s no benefit whatsoever to the author, and there are perfectly permissible licenses that one can still use without allowing others to walk all over you.
Pipelined Query Language