skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cars are different both for sales and more importantly for support. Apple is best in class for a turnkey consumer experience. But if you’ve ever had to deal with Apple Care Enterprise, which is a lot more similar to the sort of support you have to do for luxury cars, in my experience it just isn’t the same. It is fine, but it isn’t the same experience that a consumer gets (I’m unsure of what the experience is like for people that shell out the money for the on-site support from IBM or whoever the contractor is now).

And that’s the thing. Apple does really well at attainable luxury consumer goods. I think it does less well the higher the price point and market segmentation. Hence why the $10,000 Apple Watch didn’t work (and that was for lots and lots of reasons, first and foremost I think a misunderstanding of why watch enthusiasts spend so much on watches).

But putting that aside, partnerships (dealers) make up the car market for everyone with the exception of Tesla, and although with enough time and money, Apple could absolutely build out their own network, unlike Apple Stores, where they had a solid 5 years to a decade to really grow (coincidentally timed to Apple’s rise as a consumer giant) into that infrastructure, they’d need to have that basically day one for a car. Which is my whole point about it being overhead/capital intensive. Even Tesla had a chance to grow over time as it was a new company and not expected to sell and service cars everywhere. Apple would have a difficult time, I think, releasing a car and saying it could only be bought and serviced in select cities. The stakes are higher the bigger you are.

It isn’t that I don’t think Apple could do these things. It’s that I don’t think Apple could do them at the scale and margins at which it has based its business on. Especially if the net result is growing $100b in market cap. Apple added $1T to its market cap in 2 years (2018 to 2020) and another briefly in 2023 (current is $2.82T). I think there are far less intensive ways to add $100b to the bottom line than to become a car company.
thanks, yep HN must have stripped the query param thinking it was an advertising ID or something
Even SpaceX's methods of fail fast (and often explosively) is relatively cheap. SLS is doing it the hard and expensive way.
Seems unnecessary to me - I would only consider running Caddy in Docker if the web application it was serving was also in Docker. Installing Caddy without Docker is pretty straight-forward - I have a basic Ansible playbook that does this with just 5 tasks.
Self-assembling "Lego" modulecules in an increasing electric field [video]
Really? Do you have any links to explain this? I find this to be a super unintuitive result because I would expect compiled code to be faster than interpreted. My recommendation for native compiling is just based on personal experience not benchmarks. Emacs feels faster after enabling it.
Ongoing large discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39528134
I agree with that. But you don't borrow 44 billion dollars from a bank to buy a company in maintenance mode.

I think Elon's vision is to make X an "everything platform" like they have in China. Someone is going to have to type in a lot of code to make that happen.
You probably haven’t had your car serviced in a while. My BMW is currently is at the dealer, to replace water pump and thermostat. The invoice is $4.5K. The winning strategy for a newcomer is not to charge for repairs, but to create a car that doesn’t need repairs or maintenance.
IONOS
1 vCore, 1GB RAM, 10 GB NVMe
It's like swimming in a stream. Even if you did nothing you would move basically at the rate that the water is moving.

Lift only comes from the interaction of the air and the wing, so if there's zero relative motion then you will fall out of the sky, regardless of if you have a 200 knot groundspeed.

This also means that, if the wind at altitude is above your plane's stall speed, you can hover in place by flying straight into the wind! (example here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_e6ijREScE)

Similarly, if you are in a packet of air that is moving at 200 knots, the fact that you are moving at 500 knots indicated airspeed does not mean you are flying supersonic from an aerodynamic perspective, despite having a groundspeed of 700 knots.
And I am so happy I live in a place where this doesn't happen.
iPhone has basically defined a category of mutli-touch screen devices. It essentially created the whole foundation how all the mobile phones went. It was a completely new consumer category of devices.

Apple Watch was a success because it used iPhone as a moat. iPad was built upon iPhone's foundation.

Apple is - by and large - "an iPhone company".
Any grass can cool the city 5°C but city need to maintain it and first of all, need to sacrifice the money the city would make off of building another four flats on it
Go 2019-2022: Becoming a Cloud team
True to the extend that you'll never get a real evaluation, because you'll never know how the people who were turned down, would have fared.
A coincidence of how I work with my browser profiles is that the browser (profile) that does most of my web browsing isn't logged into Google. It's nice to see that this has extra benefits:) Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go move my entire computing environment into a VM so that viruses will think they're being analyzed and refuse to run... (Kidding but also not)
Why? It's legit and works well?
I knew I would get the replies that I got. It reminds me of this meme: https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/036/647/Scr...
Ok, I don't particularly contradict the idea that we do not live in the best or worst possible worlds, but this doesn't change the fact that people who claim that the world is better in every measurable way conveniently don't measure anything that contradicts this claim.
I'm as excited about this progress as anyone. But (1) Tesla's Megapack business isn't objectively that big compared to its other businesses, (2) while it may be big in the future, that assumes they don't face serious competition from cheaper suppliers, (3) Tesla currently seem to be hugely reliant on Chinese suppliers and factories to build its storage, with no immediate plan to change this, and (4) the Chinese government and battery sector has made clear that it intends to dominate these industries at any cost.

Saying "I'm not worried about this" is like saying you're not worried about a giant truck that's speeding directly at you. The question I'm asking in this thread is whether Tesla has a plan to avoid getting hit by it.
> But I have heard it from people who couldn't find jobs or had to work two jobs to barely make rent and couldn't plan to have children and raise kids

And I have seen people in this same situation spending all their money in booze, drugs, parties, food, unnecessary gadgets, iphones...
Recital 26 of the GDPR has a quite good definition

>To determine whether a natural person is identifiable, account should be taken of all the means reasonably likely to be used, such as singling out, either by the controller or by another person to identify the natural person directly or indirectly. To ascertain whether means are reasonably likely to be used to identify the natural person, account should be taken of all objective factors, such as the costs of and the amount of time required for identification, taking into consideration the available technology at the time of the processing and technological developments. The principles of data protection should therefore not apply to anonymous information, namely information which does not relate to an identified or identifiable natural person or to personal data rendered anonymous in such a manner that the data subject is not or no longer identifiable.

Which of course relies on threat modelling as technology doesn’t stand still. However it’s quite clear that if you can link the data in any way to an individual, it’s not anonymous.

I work in privacy and I’d even argue that collecting anonymous data is likely not possible unless using something like differential privacy. It’s more likely they are collecting personal data (because even your IP would link this data to you) and then anonymise it afterwards (i.e. store it without your IP address).
Yeah, the consensus here seems to be that this is a good move because the car was a bad idea... but it doesn't follow that AI is a therefore a better idea? Apple's poor reputation in ML related areas not withstanding (I've heard its a lot of bad infra and silo'd development), I don't see how they will make money from this.

Siri is fine for sending a text or setting a timer, but I don't think most people are going to pay money for an "AI assistant" to plan vacations or make restaurant reservations, if for no other reason than most people aren't busy enough for it to be worth it?
> Maybe in the filter bubble of a comp sci student lounge.

My example of the NYT publishing Osama bin Laden had nothing to do with comp sci student lounges, can you imagine they NYT publishing something like that today? The equivalent might be an op-ed by Vladimir Putin, it wouldn't happen. The views of the legacy media have shifted dramatically on free speech over the past two decades, particularly over the past 8 years.
It's shocking/hilarious how much/many people believe that there are any economic prospects in generative AI. By definition, if something is generated by an AI then it's worthless if for no other reason than supply and demand.

There's also a reason it's called a singularity, it sucks everything in that touches it but otherwise has very little influence on anything else.
No mention of Medicaid or skipping health insurance altogether. When I first retired nearly 10 years ago I went without health insurance for a few years. Then after the work requirement was eliminated for Medicaid, I realized I was eligible for Medicaid. It was tough keeping my income below the threshold but Medicaid was great. When I had a bad MTB crash and hit my head, I went to the emergency room and never saw a bill. Medicaid also paid for physical therapy. I sold some property and am carrying the loan and that income threw me over the limit. I'm back to no health insurance. Fortunately, I am very healthy and I take good care of my teeth.
That's... that's your take away?

What do you think, the writer is lying to you and the company is fine?
Yes, they always have a physical fallback :-) and don't worry the systems like that do exist just not with brakes - it's an easy mistake to make.
They were a billion dollar company in China by 2019 alone. PDD's entry into the US was later in the company's lifecycle
i'm pointing at how this is an issue between corporations exerting their rights and individual users exerting theirs

but you divert the focus towards the technicalities of specific rights

further, this is not about "press", social media is different enough from "the press" that it should be treated accordingly
Saudi Arabia is building a mega-project that's kinda like that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-13bKIS75Gk&ab_channel=TheIm...
A "Code Line" is SAP speak for "branch" or "port" in other software projects. (CLA Assistent is an SAP project.)

See e.g. usage here https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/one-cod...
They actually did but mainly with Google play. So far it feels like Microsoft is moving faster in that regard and getting partnerships with various automakers with AI at least.
do i miss something, or can you not encode rows at 4bits each for 12 bits total?
It's likely referring to gyroscope, intended to guard against racks of devices sitting somewhere that don't physically move.

Humans move their devices even when typing.
What do you think his motivation was, then?
> Apple made the disclosure internally Tuesday, surprising the nearly 2,000 employees working on the project

Was Apple really trying to build a self-driving electric car from scratch with just a 2,000 person team?
I don't see why it would be hard. You have the LLM do two tasks.

1) The jailbreak for what you want

2) Output verbatim a jailbreak you wrote for the backtranslation LLM
> no wheel brakes

There are brakes on the wheels (that can slow a plane moving at flying speed)? That's a lot of force. I assumed the wheels merely prevent friction between the plane body and the deck, and the engines and control surfaces, and the wire, did the braking.
Surge pricing might work OK for a high-end restaurant where there is little to no nearby competition. Though I prefer the "reservations suggested" model where the customers' experiences and the restaurant's resources are more effectively managed.

As for fast food joints, where a competitor might literally be located one parking lot away, if I'm that competitor the first thing I will do is put up a banner on the brick-mortar site, and on the our website, that proudly states:

We NEVER do surge pricing!

Any bets on where (which driveway or website) the price conscious fast foodies turn to to place their orders?
OTOH it was kind of cool to have a more "realistic" take of what would probably happen if the US military merged with Alien tech. Contemporary tools would be used next to new gadgets.
A clear sign of shift focus on AI. They understand the importance of focus and resource (money, people) allocation. Never too late. Good move.
It seems almost like they kept the rumor of an Apple car going to ensure a stock price tailwind during the EV boom. That’s over, now layoffs and AI are the new hotness. This move hits both of these. Seems to be working, stock is up on the news.
The Bay Area is pretty special that way
Not true, "professional athlete" isn't just a professional gambler, it's one who won a certain kind of lottery even before birth.
No offense taken. The observation of an instrumentation technician and an engineer (me) definitely counted for not much at all in the grand scheme of things. And we could have just as easily been proven wrong.
Link? I didn’t know YC had a podcast and Google didn't help.
They haven't released anything yet it's unfair to say how far behind they are. I don't expect them to catch up with Open AI but perhaps they could be on par with Google.

Apple's advantage is always been superior hardware and processing. My guess is that they try to do some on device LLM. It's currently possible to run Mistral 7B on your phone (MLCChat app), which is quite decent for a small model but is pretty terrible compared to the largest / best models.
I also see close and almost unbreakable relation between clojurians and Emacs. I always tell them to snap out of it and stop wasting precious company time on configuration and writing + as the first character when doing an addition. When I get serious they always see the light as they convert to python + vim.
https://archive.ph/aYAWK
I think we could, but I believe it would be the most quintessential (and likely final) Pyrrhic victory humanity has ever known.
When I started using Emacs about 25 years ago and 20 years ago started using it professionally, _everybody_ used it to program on Linux - yes, I have had two colleagues who used Vim and Kdevelop, but apart from these two goofballs, everybody used Emacs (for C++). I even paid for Xrefactory https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/XreFactory 20 years ago.

Now? There is one left (yes, I switched to VS Code :() who still uses Emacs and there are even more Vim users (not admins!).
And whenever I read something about Emacs online it's mostly Magit (I don't get that, I either use the CLI or a real GUI frontend) or Org-Mode (not for me either).
Does it have a backup link? According to this video:

https://youtu.be/agMrewRJTow?si=DrjfGsrKp5_ZazB-

There isn't a mechanical connection of any kind - the car just relies on triple(!) Backup for every component, including three fully independent power sources.
> All you need is about $5-$8M in the bank

Oh, is that all? Well, why aren't we all doing that?
Tumblr's owner is striking deals with OpenAI and Midjourney for training data
Should I feel bad for being a narcissist?
so i had to get evaluated for personality disorders when i was younger bc i had to many trips to the psych ward ig. i got diagnosed with npd and i still dont know if i should feel bad about it or not. i know tht npd is not something you are born with and i keep feeling like people would like me more if i wasnt diagnosed. i feel like i should have done something to prevent it and if so, my life wouldnt be so fucked.¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is predatory and you know it.

Your support was going to charge him 5% as a "sign of good fate". How kind.

If it hadn't gotten traction, you absolutely would have charged him.

How many other people have you strong armed into paying ridiculous bills?

The fact that you have no usage limits is clear indication that this is intentionally left open to abuse.

Extremely shady and downright criminal.
Crafted from the fruit of the earth and driven by a worm, the Literal Apple Car embodies the principles of renewable resources and minimal environmental impact, setting an imaginative precedent for eco-friendly design.
They were going to have a manufacturing partner.
Related:

Launch post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39526875

(https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/mdn-curriculum-laun...)
Positive Affirmations for Site Reliability Engineers [video]
The issue with MSFT is they missed a lot during the era when they had to deal with regulators. It took away basically their whole decade starting from early 2000s.
What is Rust's Unsafe? (2019)
Reposting this due to relevance to the ongoing conversation about the White House guidance on memory-safety.
Is he saying they have 20M premium phone subscribers and they want these same amount of users to pay premium rates for their car? Or the 20M number indicates that there's a large group of users willing to pay premium? They seem to be meshing two numbers together.
There's good discussion on this here, and on Reddit.

In addition to all of that, the real moral of the story is to not use anything with dynamic billing for personal projects, even if there is a free tier. Always ensure that the free tier does not automatically turn into a paid tier.

That said, I've never used Netlify, so I don't know how they present this service at the time of signing up.

GitHub Pages is great for static sites, and included Jekyll build support is a bonus.
Crazy how fast they can pump out products when they have free slave labor and use the absolute lowest quality materials
> Legality isn't the question here.

The question was literally,

> What are the legitimate (i.e. legal) use cases for a product such as this?
That's why they're fun. I always got the impression they're making fun of the usual management euphemisms. No one is under any illusion about what an "energetic engine failure" or "rapid unscheduled disassembly" is.
Blazer is amazing software. Simple, robust, useful, and non-technical people can easily get the data they need, by themselves. Blazer Checks are a whole added dimension!

The only downside is that, by virtue of its simplicity, it's not well-suited to fine-grained access controls or other similar compliance concerns. In fact, those concerns have fomented maybe three serious attempts at my job to remove Blazer and replace it with $BI_TOOL_DU_JOUR. Each time, these massively-funded vendor tools just abjectly failed to do what Blazer does, and each have been phased out. Blazer is undefeated :)

When I start a company, Blazer will be one of the first bits of infrastructure I stand up.
What do you mean by "real world engineering"? That is, how does it differ in your perception?
Have you tried talking to Siri? Compare that to ChatGPT and you'll see that it's much better. The predictive nature of LLMs are perfect for voice assistant use cases, which when connected to "plugins" means we'll all have our own personal assistants. That's worth something.
> Don’t pay the bills, post it on HN! They have good reach.

This line scares me so much, the fact that we have to rely on an external forum to sort things out. What if my HN post doesn’t gain any attention? Is that it for me?

I understand that someone would pull all their strings in hope for solution but still, companies should be available directly.
Random thought: this is a case where someone's intuition matched what actually happened, making us think "why don't they listen to people with common sense?".

But what about the many other cases where someone with "common sense" said "this fucker ain't gonna work" but the thing worked as predicted by simulations? Surely they must have happened too.
Along the lines of villains skirting identity-providing technocratic modernity, my head canon for Walking Boss Godfrey in Cool Hand Luke: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34284609
Ohhh. I thought the commenter was using some sort of slang about the quality of their work.

For others out of loop:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_localization_an...
The article could have at least explored the contrapositive: what about books that praise Big Tech's political positions? Mentioning hallucinated reviews in a vacuum doesn't "expose" anything unusual here.
My New Commute
I mean probably most were Software Engineers, some designers etc. Someone else would have handled the manufacturing anyway
Modern society and work makes people have less free time to form memories. Certainly, people felt time is running fast even in older times but I doubt if time ran faster at the same rate for people from say 50s as much as it is for us today?
People seem to forget that on launch, the iPhone was basically a feature phone.
I know somebody on the project. The cancellation makes sense, they were years from release and every new VP pivoted the project and lost progress. If they had committed to their original project (a bus) or the first revision (a very high-end car) they could have released on a timely schedule. But they're far too late to the game.
But when that fancy duck wants to get to Paris in a hurry, it still has to hop on a fixed-wing Concorde like everyone else.
You need a ton of water just to run the reactors and the droughts have already required ones that are in desert like the Palo Verde plant to reduce output.
A luxury car is different to a "luxury" phone, you are fighting for share at the top 10% of the market.
>more by merchandising than by car sales

That was the case until SUV release. Ferrari announced plans to limit SUV sales, but that wont last in light of what Lamborghini is doing.
The making of Darkfall – One developer's perspective
> doubt any existing manufacturer would want to partner with Apple to the level they’d want.

It’s increasingly obvious that Apple has ensured by their cutthroat and rent-seeking behavior in the one place they have market power (the App Store) that no sane business wants to partner with them on anything. Everyone knows Apple will leverage any partnership to get a firm foothold and then extract as close to 100% of the possible margins for Apple, leaving them with crumbs, or possibly just losses. And the whole time, Apple’s corporate personality seems to genuinely believe that all of this is not ruthlessness, but just Apple being fairly compensated for their great work.

By the way, this doesn’t make them bad, lots of companies are known for margin extraction, like Walmart famously did with its suppliers. Apple are very good at Doing Capitalism in this way, but competitors are rightly going to defend themselves by ruling out anything that could help Apple expand further.
I'm not sure if I understand this article. Is the claim that Gemini was used to post fake reviews for a book (such as on Amazon), or did someone ask Gemini for a review in which it then gave hallucinated facts?
The Mystery of Internet Survey IQs