skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Good. This was an idea that never made any sense to me. It’s high overhead/low-margin and requires infrastructure, sales and after-sales support that just aren’t aligned with how Apple does business.

Right. The electric car business took a wrong turn when most of the players decided that electric cars were a premium product that could be sold with huge margins. Tesla started there, and it seemed to be working for them. This led to excesses such as the electric Hummer, a 9,000 pound vehicle with sports car acceleration and a price in 6 figures. It's a great engineering achievement but a silly product.
It also led to electric versions of vehicles having a price premium around US$10,000 over the same model with internal combustion.

Then Tesla exhausted the fanboy market. Reality ensued. Price mattered. Tesla had to start offering discounts.

This is a big problem for some major car companies that bought into the high margin myth. Ford should have known better. Stellantis' CEO was running around saying that they were going to get margins like tech companies, partly by adding on aftermarket fees. That didn't work out.

Electric cars are doing just fine, and prices are coming down. That's a good thing. BYD gets this.

Having to compete on price scares Apple.
How many times can you pirate software that you only have to buy once?
Not sure about the privacy ramifications if that though.
No mention of energy? I think energy plays a big role because your movement and energy literally becomes less and less each year. At 80 you don't have much energy, forget about any other thing
This looks awesome. I had this exact problem just last week and had to write my own tool to perform the migration in go. After creating the tool I thought this must be something others would use- glad to see someone beat me to it!

I think it’s clever keep the tool simple and only copy one table at a time. My solution was to generate code based on an sql schema, but it was going to be messy and require more user introspection before the tool could be run.
>>> Amazon is a frequent visitor to the EU Parliament. In January alone, it had nine meetings with MEPs, including a meeting just a day after the hearing.

And what were the other 9? I hate when they say hand wave details. If they were to amazons benefit then state what they were. Otherwise it looks like you're tugging at facts.

https://www.aboutamazon.eu/news/policy/setting-the-record-st...

So thats both sides of the spin...
That reminds me of this McSweeney's piece by Google's Peter Norvig: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/stories-that-would-have-...
Groundwater is regulated at the state level, correct?
Rocket engineers have a sense of humor
Nintendo of America Inc. vs. Tropic Haze LLC (Switch Emulator Developers)
The EU is extending its interest and own power. Nothing to do with us the people, and in this case actually worrying.
Emacs keybinds are great. How do you move the cursor up, down, left, and right without them, the arrow keys? My pinky doesn't stretch that far, and if I have to move my hand I'm gonna lose time moving back because I need to find the articulation for my index finger. Vi bindings are even worse: you start typing and the text goes haywire because you're in the wrong mode.
They're in their "Balmer era". They'll emerge one day when they find their Satya. Their boring and often agonizing existence will continue until then.
Care to share the link?
> more tools exist today to censor, things like AI generating and reading subtitles for YT demonetization and algorithm deranking

I don't see how that justifies the government compelling you or I or IRC chanops or subreddit moderators or Twitter admins to say what the government wants us to say. None of those were used to ban the former president when he was engaging in the "political speech" of inciting a violent insurrection and encouraging it while it was happening.

> If someone makes a threat on a person or groups life online, or doing something illegal, then I agree it shouldn’t be allowed. But censorship today goes far beyond that.

And yet, the speech the government is trying to compel here includes, but is not limited to: insults; slurs; obscenity; spam; inciting violence; inciting insurrection; death threats; and more.

> The purpose of the platform matters

Does it, though? That seems like an arbitrary line drawn to avoid logical inconsistencies. Who defines what the purpose is? Who defines how it matters?

> The best solution to all of this would be to have block lists that people could opt-in or out of. Don’t want to see something? Subscribe to the block list.

Is it, though? This part of the post you replied to, bears repeating:

> Indeed, the "censorship" which spawned these laws was the banning of a dude actively calling for violent insurrection against the government, and receiving it, and continuing to encourage it during. That's the "political speech" the bill authors had in mind when drafting it. It's possible that the "censorship" in question is all that stopped the putsch from succeeding.

Blocklists wouldn't have prevented it. If you or I or Twitter don't want to aid and abet violence and insurrection, the government should not be able to compel us to do so.
Wait, you're right. I could've sworn I remember the ipod touch being first.

Now I'm wondering why it existed it all.
Added relevant context to the end of the submission title since the company name is not well-known.

A comment on Reddit is a good indicator on Nintendo's new angle against emulators: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1b1m6gt/comment/ksfi...

> It seems like at least part of their approach to the lawsuit is going to be specifically that Tears of the Kingdom was pirated early and played on Yuzu and that Yuzu saw a large increase in Patreon revenue at the time. They will likely hope that discovery gives them somebody putting something in writing that explicitly connects the Patreon jump to TotK piracy, and hope that is enough to either argue a case or scare Yuzu into believing they have a case that they were linked to/knowingly profiting from copyright-infringing uploads, rather than simply being a legal emulator. I don't think that approach was utilized in previous emulation lawsuits.
Having worked at a car company, this is categorically false. Cars have thousands of moving parts (even EV's), are expected to operate reliably for a decade, represent the second most expensive thing most people will buy and any mistakes will kill people.

If it were easy, we'd see a lot more profitable car companies.
Providing you keep as much of the bitcoin you mine as possible.

If you sell it all for cuck bucks, you're not gonna make it.
It's what happens when any company gets big enough and starts monitoring competitors vs. innovating. I love working for startups that get bigger and bigger, but this eventually happens. It sucks the fun out of working there.
Could you point me to evidence what you just wrote is true?

I just asked mistral 7b to provide 5 sentences that end with Apple. It couldn't do it. I then provided 5 examples generated from ChatGPT 4 and asked it to generate 5 more. It still couldn't do it. 10 ChatGPT examples- still couldn't do it.

You seem to be saying the models can generalize on the entire context size, that I should keep provided examples up to the token limit because this will make the model smarter. Is there evidence of that?
They already realized that. New cars are owned for an average of 8 years before selling them [1] and that number has been increasing with the rise of new car prices. It’s one of the reasons the US peaked on new car sales in 2017 and might not get there again this decade.

[1] https://www.iseecars.com/how-long-people-keep-cars-study
Yes! The best part of:

> without needing to configure separate certificate infrastructure or Letsencrypt/acme.

is not only that your deployment is simpler, it also scales better and is more robust to failures. It can tolerate external factors more robustly.
Lobbying is a core pillar of democracy. Yeah, I know, I dont like it either. But that's reality and no amount of prohibition will stop humans from being human.

The solution is clear: everyone needs to lobby for their interests and the people should all fund (crowdsourcing) organizations that lobby for politics they want done.

Transparency of lobbying, while benefitial is not a solution.
I still don't understand why Google publicly removed "Do No Evil" from their company. It's one thing to not follow it but to actively remove it feels weird. Like they wanted to say "HEY Y'ALL GET READY FOR EVIL!"
What's the best Emacs-Vim hybrid now, with a Vim keybinds and modal editing interface to Emacs? Doom? Spacemacs? Or something new?
I have serviced a car, but not a BMW since I don't shit money.
> It essentially created the whole foundation how all the mobile phones went. It was a completely new consumer category of devices.

I was already using smart phones, handhelds, tablets, etc, for years before the iPhone. Apple entered an existing category.

The iPhone wasn't even the first capacitive touchscreen phone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada

Back in 2007 it was not seen as a completely new category or truly original. It was a variation within an existing category. At the time we did not think it was revolutionary, but of course it became the new standard.

Before they became an "iPhone company" they were an "iPod company", and that was also an existing category when it launched.
I feel like companies would have difficulty hiring employees if they treated the opening interaction with the same hostility they end it.

You're not wrong FpUser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6BYzLIqKB8
Who can confirm this though?
The EU has some pretty strict rules around transparency in lobbying (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/at-your-service/en/transparen...). It sounds like meetings between MEPs and interest groups (lobbyists) need to be documented pretty thoroughly. I imagine it’s probably easier for MEPs to meet with lobbyists in the parliament as opposed to outside of it, or maybe there are even rules that discourage such outside lobbying.

As the article notes, Amazon did meet with MEPs pretty frequently in the parliament buildings, suggesting that this ban will have some impact on their lobbying efforts.
I get what you're saying, however I don't think that's true:

> the goal was to reach the holy grail of a fully autonomous vehicle

Otherwise, why release a device like the Apple Vision Pro? It's also very far from the holy grail of AR/VR.

It's very heard to beat the state of the art. It's almost impossible to surpass it by some unbelievable margin. It seems very unlikely that fully autonomous driving was the goalpost for going to market.

Much more likely, the project failed for more mundane reasons -- they figured out their EV would be somewhere between a Tesla and a Mercedes on the luxury scale, but with better integration into the Apple ecosystem. When the market for EVs cooled down and many traditional car companies already launched EVs, it became clear that they're both too late and entering a highly competitive market with small margins.
You can rate limit HTTP requests (agnostic of specific HTTP versions): https://github.com/mholt/caddy-ratelimit
It's a little creepy: Tech worker's wife didn't want Apple Vision Pro in wedding
Question: Who is the actual brain at SpaceX?? They must have at least one mega-genius level engineer / project manager with a lot of authority to have progressed so far.
Yup my bad, I meant ACI, not ACS.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but these are actually not close to Cloud Run. Cloud Run's differentiator is its scaling metric; it scales with incoming requests, and has strict configuration to assert that each replica only handle N concurrent requests. You could maybe get something like this set up on ACI or Fargate, but it'd require stringing together five or six different products. You can also definitely wire up those to autoscale on CPU%, but (1) this is not scale-to-zero, and (2) CPU% kinda sucks as a scaling metric, right? Idk I've never been happy with systems that autoscale on CPU%.
On the other hand in Sheffield there was a huge movement from residents to stop the cutting down of trees. Everyone I know there supported it.
Hopefully you didn’t type all of that on my account, because I can’t possibly read or respond to this type of thing. Good luck in your pursuits.
Yes, send up the robot miners. Plow the results onto the moon a safe but close distance to a base. Manufacture parts in lower G and far easier vacuum (it's super useful for MANY industrial things). Possibly even use solar collector ovens to melt/cook.

Returning bulk products to earth might not be viable in the short term, but this could really bootstrap what we do off planet and I'm hopeful it might eventually make space elevators viable which would open a lot of options.
Learn how to parse and store Base64 files when sending pure JSON requests to your Laravel application.
I agree with the other commenter that the specific shape of the cross section of the wing is overemphasised in almost all material including this one. Any shape longer than it's thick will, at a reasonable angle of attack, provide lift.

This article did provide a barn door model also, but it was quite far down.

The shape is mainly about efficiency and increasing the range of reasonable angles of attack, and then further nuances.
Phones are just networked computers though.
Pretty impressive. I was curious how they made the whole thing so I went to look at the source for the images. It's mostly in one 10000 line JS file which draws all the graphics onto <canvas> in JS, plus a bunch of WebGL that goes over my head. The code looks like

function draw_car(ctx, rot) {
ctx.save();
let sc = 0.04;
ctx.scale(sc, -sc);
ctx.lineWidth \*= 1 / sc;
ctx.translate(-286, -51);
ctx.beginPath();
ctx.moveTo(463.93652, 9.89137);
ctx.bezierCurveTo(462.12793, 6.72347, 461.22363, 3.5344, 461.22363, 0.32417);
ctx.bezierCurveTo(447.58911, -1.16177, 434.20691, 2.81333, 434.85754, 5.10777);
...

I wonder what their workflow was. Surely all those curves weren't programmed by hand?
Uh, they should apply to the 350 million Americans that this government represents.

What is your point? Iran is free to tell Google to take a hike if Google censors their calls to violence. Germany is free to tell id software to remove the swastikas or hit the road.

This isn't hard. Don't pretend it is.
It would be great to see, if they pull it off. I suspect that Apple's desire for control and curation (as well as limited liability) will prevent them from making an effective "one size fits all" model, though. Considering that local AI isn't a paid service or a system-seller, it makes more sense for Apple to double-down on software support rather than trying to Sherlock the world with their own model.

Time will tell what the future holds, but I sincerely believe it's too late for Apple to ride the AI bubble. The iPhone is their last stand; they need to deliver a competitive AI experience, ideally one that's open and supports older hardware models. Their work is cut out for them.
> I was always rather puzzled by the car. I can’t see them ever competing even with the small makers like Jaguar or Polestar or Lamborghini. They’re certainly not going to take on Ford or Mazda or Honda.

Why were you puzzled? What is so impossible about making a car from scratch, then making money on it? I don't own any Apple products, but I know they could do it. Yes it's difficult, but a lot of the difficulty comes from a lack of resources, not something Apple is worried about.

I find it really interesting that you (and those who did not contradict you) choose to form this opinion. I suspect Apple shares it. But to me it's a missed opportunity combined with a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's probably the lack of this very characteristic that makes Elon so successful. He never lets FUD get in the way of his goals.

There are some companies out there who don't seem subject to these artificial limitations, at least, at certain points in their history. For a while Mitsubishi made both cars and televisions. Panasonic made both batteries and bicycles.

I think what really separates winners from losers when it comes to developing a product and selling it is the willingness to set aside artificial limitations and really commit to beating the competition. Core competencies matter more for companies who are no longer interested in growing. Apple definitely wants to keep growing. So if Apple really was putting R&D money into cars and then quit, then I see this as a failure of Apple leadership. Apple can make a great car, and people would buy it.
We've known this for over a decade at least https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-03/how-time-flie...
I really didn't like the direction that SG-1 and Atlantis took.

There was a novel that took place after the movie that depicted Hathor coming back and trying to take over with a simultaneous plot of the US trying to extract resources from Abydos. I though it was really we done and wished that SG-1 used it as the starting point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_literature
So now it’s Chrome? A browser made by privacy invasive ad tech company?

Meet the new boss.
I had the same realization a few years ago and it horrified me. Is it gonna keep getting faster?
Couldn't have worded it any better.

I did the same last night from my phone. My personal site and a project docs site are just going to not be online for a couple days. Easy choice.
I'm somewhat amused by the idea that this can be traced to a single tool. Cscope and simple ctags predate both by a long shot and were similar ideas. SLIME and SWANK were similar ideas that have also existed for a while, at this point.

Which is not to say that Yegge and others haven't created some nice things. They have. I tend to see it more that they succeeded at problems previous people had either failed at, or had a much more limited success. Progress is not always new things. Nor is similar effort always informed by each other.
That sort of adversarial weaponization of credit cards is really a US thing. In most of the world, payment is not relevant to the question of liability: you create a debt, whether or not you can debit a card. So, looks like DigitalOcean is another name to avoid.

Also: what's common? At the scale these companies so desire, small percentages are still thousands of users. Supporting them with what's ultimately a fairly trivial option shouldn't be seen as such a hassle.
I feel like there's going to be a lot of movement towards the CPU with AI compute, and Apple's processors show the possibilities.

GPUs happened to have a lot of throughput lying around so they got put to work, but already the importance of having lots of memory to hold huge models even just for inference is clear. I also think the future AI will have a lot more going in 'conventional' compute rather than just large arrays of simple tensor ops or the like.

CPUs will increasingly gain specialist hardware to accelerate AI workloads, beyond what we have now and less monolithic too, in that it'll probably have a variety of kinds of accelerators.

That will combine well with big main memory and storage that is ever closer to the CPU to enable very fast virtual memory. I wouldn't be surprised if we soon see CPUs with HBW storage as well as HBW memory.
Metaculus shows a 74% chance Starship reaches orbit in 2024, and a projected date of March 26 for the next launch. That seems pretty bullish to me! Next year (2025) will probably see the beginnings of practical customer usage of Starship.

[0] https://www.metaculus.com/questions/?status=open&has_group=f...
NOOOOOOOOO it’s been literal DECADES. I am literally heartbroken. “Did you know Apple has a secret car project” has been a fun fact for my entire life, and I’m just supposed to walk away like it never happened?

Sorry for the not-professional comment but jeez. Dark days.
> If one were to build a large scale on the ground, as an airplane flies over it, the scale would register the weight of the airplane

No, it wouldn't.

I think the article does a pretty good job building a more complete understanding than the simplistic "deflection" mental model.
Idk if I am in different AB group but I no longer have the X there........
I'm surprised hang gliding doesn't get more attention. It's the closest human activity to flying like a bird
I once found an explanation that finally made it clear to me why the shape of the airfoil can create lift. Yes, the air above the wing needs to travel a longer distance with the typical section used in wings, which means that it goes faster than the air below the wing. It also leaves the wing moving downwards - and when this downward-moving, faster flux of air meets the slower one from below, the result is that a mass of air is pushed downwards - exactly as needed to lift the plane, as you correctly said.

As the article says, you can have lift by just changing the inclination of a symmetrical airfoil, but an asymmetrical one can generate lift even without inclination (and with lower drag). The article also explains that acrobatic airplanes have symmetrical wing sections exactly because they need to be able to fly just as easily inverted.
The really big deal with all of this is that the island of Gotland will now be available for NATO activity without a lot of red tape. Between Gotland (Sweden) and Bornholm (Denmark) that's like having permanent warships in the Baltic.
I do like that passage a lot! It jives much better with my reader's sensibilities.
They're pretty good at it, just from yesterday.

A $5 billion AWS investment in Mexico:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-region-in-mexico-is...

Regional and national media are swallowing it up, yeah the country needs the investment, but at what price ? Gov still mum on what it took to 'land' the deal (tax/land break).

I remembered the Amazon HQ2 hoopla from years back, that U.S state/local govs were turning over backwards to land it, offering a lot of incentives. And I just looked the yesterday, that deal (HQ2) is still on hold and it was for just as much ($5 billion).
"censorship"

Yes, the lucrative Nazi market of CatTurd2 and friends
how much code do you enter into a mobile device? these aren't the devices to do that with. they just run apps that serve the purpose at hand dictated by the script.

when ever you want to send a text, you don't enter the code for that. neither did anyone on an away team that needed to take air samples, or scan someone's health.

seems like you had an idea not fully thought out
It feels like Apple is really aimless these days.
It’s very literally a $3000 clunky rectangular box marketed as a premium product.
I despise Google and many of their practices - but I'm mulling over whether "spying" is a fair characterization here. Was this profile not built from searches that were manually submitted directly to Google? If you have turned off all location features and then attempt to use localized features like weather and local search, should Google just place you at coordinates 0,0? Is the association between your IP and your request history what makes it spying, or is it the existence of persistently-stored request history at all?

As a software engineer I have associated user IDs with their request logs at almost every job I've ever had; a lot of debugging would have been impossible otherwise. Is that unethical? Are user IDs and IP addresses inherently different?
Can't say I'm shocked. Nintendo's lawyers are notoriously litigous.
It would be interesting to know when the subjective midpoint of your life is. I mean, if you lived to 80, and time seemed to speed up as you get older, is the subjective middle of your lifespan more like age 35, or more like age 25? I recognize it's impossible to answer this question from inside a life, but I have wondered it many times.
Reverse dragooning by expelling fiery farts made of hypergolics fueled by fantastic fermentation?