skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has the culture really shifted since 2020? I know I'm in a bubble, but I haven't seen any of that. What sort of changes have you seen?
Shipping a billion iPhones and shipping millions of cars only reasonable each other at a surface level. Apple does not have much expertise in maintaining the same supply chain and logistics, and certainly not in design.

They could hire people with the expertise, but Apple is allergic to growing engineering expertise outside of Cupertino.
'Entropy bagels' and other complex structures emerge from simple rules
The current Google is basically lives and dies by ad revenue.

Google can produce cool scientific research but it is basically IBM of this era.
I assume their plan is to continue to have the business run by the human equivalent of an AI reward maximizer. It has worked for them so far to have obsessive people in key leadership positions, and I would expect it to continue to work. Without material non public information from Tesla internal, hard to say either way, we can only speculate. Past performance does not guarantee future returns, but still valuable signal.
Many years ago, I was writing Clojure for a job and took to finally learning emacs beyond just saving a file and closing the editor.

It took about a week to finally get used to paredit-mode (and rainbow-parens, because…) but once I did it is the most productive I have ever felt, I keep trying to find that experience again.

Unfortunately the dynamic types and slow build system (lein) made the build step quite tedious (this was 11-12 years ago) - but in terms of expressing ideas, man - paredit + lisp style was amazing!
Kellogg's CEO should die in a fire.
They work the most and are the least productive. When are they supposed to fuck? They die from work already.
Given the rate at which companies change names or lose their top spot, maybe it's best to just refer to it as Big Tech?
I am sure Apple leadership agrees with your overall idea of on-device, but don’t see how this could compete with big GPUs in a data center for “actually doing a good job.” Apple is a distant last place in everything to do with AI today, so I’m skeptical that they can suddenly make an impact with both hands tied around their back (in other words 1/100th the TDP, one iPhone chip on battery vs farms of GPUs).

I’d honestly more appreciate the ability to choose “best quality with theoretical decrease in ‘privacy’” over “best that you can do without hurting the tiny iPhone battery but perfect privacy.” I’d always pick the first one if given the choice.
> Which is why you split the difference. Own your own domain, and host at a reputable, reliable mail service provider like Fastmail.

I do the same, but your argument is a little dishonest: You can lose your custom domain and lose your provider account, so you've essentially gone from one point of failure to two.

The novelty domain is totally worth it though, at least to me.

Honestly, the state should provide every citizen an official email address and make it a requirement that every invoice, contract etc is provided to this account...
... I'm honestly surprised it's possible to get PPL(A) without learning about wing vortices responsible for lift generation.

In order to use "scoop" approach for lift, you need to have either very low wing loading (think paper airplanes) or very high speeds (above transsonic range).
I’d love to be a fly on the wall in meetings with both Gwynne and Elon in the room, no matter which way they’re going.
>When Go joined Google’s Cloud org in 2019, I experienced the greatest culture shock of my career, as did many others on the Go team / We had no idea how to connect our work to Cloud’s business success / We’ve worked to balance the need to keep Go free, open, and portable with the need to support Google’s business goals through GCP

What should that be a goal for a language project in the first place? Except "some managed decided it"?

That's how enshitification starts.

Improvements to "Go’s efficiency, security, and developer productivity" don't need to have anything to do with the Cloud unit and GCP.
If its like the iPhone situation, not much is collected
I feel like this is exaggerating a bit. Spam exists, but the internet is still very usable. It could certainly become worse in the future, but I find it pretty easy to sift through content these days to get what I need.

Also, I don't think the problem is necessarily AI for some of these complaints. Twitter replies are awful because you can pay for increased visibility. On a platform like Reddit where its popularity that determines visibility, the issue virtually disappears. Same issue for SEO spam websites, it's a function of Google's algorithm which incentives brainless keyword spam rather than it being an AI issue. Both of these issues predate generative AI.

The braindead children's youtube videos, for what it's worth, also predate AI.

I feel like these are just growing pains from a revolutionary new technology. Certainly the printing press can enable the spread of a lot of low quality content and misinformation, but we managed to work out the kinks.
I used to semi-automate access to some sites by using Selenium with a non-headless browser. These were sites where there were just one or two pages where I wanted some automation to fill out a form or scrape some data, and they frequently made changes to the home page that made it hard to automate navigating from the home page to the pages I wanted to automate.

The idea was to have a script use Selenium to launch non-headless Chrome and then wait:

driver = Chrome()
driver.get("https://example.org")
input("Press enter when ready")

I could then manually deal with logging in, answering any CAPTCHA that came up, and navigate to the page I wanted to run my automation. Then I could press "enter" in my terminal and my script would continue.

That used to work fine, but then on sites using Cloudflare's CAPTCHA it stopped working. Solving the CAPTCHA would just result in another CAPTCHA.

I tried an alternative Selenium Chrome driver that was supposed to be more stealthy, and tried setting various flags that were supposed to make it so JavaScript could not tell that Selenium was there, and those worked for a while, but then they stopped working.

The results were similar using Selenium with Firefox.

I also tried Puppeteer, with Chromium and Firefox, and they too could not get past the CAPTCHA loops.

I then tried Playwright. With Chromium and Webkit that got the CAPTCHA loops. With Firefox it actually worked. I didn't even see the CAPTCHA. The non-interactive check for not being a bot passed.

Still, the whole approach seems fragile. I don't know if Firefox/Playwright working was due to some fundamental difference between Firefox and the others or just Cloudflare having not yet gotten around to dealing with it.
I can type significantly faster with GBoard, swipe or not, than I could on any physical phone keyboard ever. Blackberries, the G1, Droid OG. No way I'd ever take those over GBoard.

But iOS users don't really know what they're missing from GBoard, so.
The Art of Spell Casting, Part 1
Rubic's cube: how to read algorithms (full notation guide)(2020) [video]
(Book in Beta) Paying Off Tech Debt When You're Not in Charge
I'm writing a book called: "Paying off Tech Debt When You're Not In Charge" and I have a draft of about 40% of it done. If you're interested in checking it out, I'd love some feedback:

https://helpthisbook.com/lou-franco/paying-off-tech-debt-when-youre-not-in-charge
I'm a beginner, but clearly too much of a beginner for this beginner guide. Went to it expecting a guide on how to set up a caddy webserver, spent most of the time reading about how to use docker. I just want to be able to set up a server to server html/CSS/JavaScript easily, and securely. Not edit yaml files and run containers locally.
This reminds me of the oil curse. After a country discovers it has lots of oil, it nukes every other sector of their economy. Why? Because there's nothing you can invest your money in which would give you a larger return than oil. It sucks the lifeblood out of every other sector.

Apple just didn't invest in its electric cars enough to let them develop it fast enough, and now with China coming online, the window of opportunity has past.

Same reason why Google didn't productize its deep learning R&D.

The only company which has ever ben able to escape from this trap is Intel--when the Japanese chased them out of the memory chip market, they switched to microprocessors. And now, when ARM chased them out of microprocessors, they are switching over to building fabs. The chip architects I know over there are watching their budgets being switched over. Only the paranoid survive.
MS got the score of the century. They're selling the shovels and access to the mines.
Clickable: https://helpthisbook.com/lou-franco/paying-off-tech-debt-whe...
I get that your post was well-intentioned! But on HN, please don't post comments that are just a summary of the article or paste bits from it. The thread doesn't need to repeat the article—users can find it easily enough.

This might make more sense if you remember that the purpose of HN threads is curious conversation. When you have an interesting conversation with friends or colleagues, the idea is not to repeat things that have already been said, but to add your own thoughts, reflections, experiences.

If you look at the other top-level comments that have been posted to this thread so far, they all have the flavor of what I'm talking about:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39529274

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39529003

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39528984

For example, they all contain some unexpected or unpredictable element—something we can be surprised by and learn from.
> the pandemic years seems to have flown by. It's like a distant memory now.

So does it feel distant or just like yesterday (i.e. time flew by)? The two seem contradictory.
Why is it stupid to talk about non-confidential aspects of your job in public?
Ailerons were really only invented when they were (and named in French) because the Wrights were extremely litigious, they sued Curtiss for using ailerons and basically destroyed American aviation for a decade allowing the French a temporary lead. This had an interesting cultural effect of lots of things becoming named in French across aviation (including things like the weather code for mist being "br" for brume to this day).
Oh, if you want the best neurosurgeon around, and you don't mind someone who's about as charming as a bedpost, I've got your man. Technically, he's a god. Personally, there's nothing there. But if I needed neurosurgery, that's who I'm seeing.
And it's an "even more wrong" explanation than the "lies for children" diagram used in school physics class.

For reference, actual "proper" discussion of lift in textbooks on aerodynamics have tendency to start with a sphere/cylinder.
Take your accuracy, put a frog in it, make it gay and lame!
Independent software vendor
Such a design would be possible, but not really commercially viable.

HBM memory is expensive, it requires a huge amount of extra IO on the die and an expensive silicon interposer. And you still need to keep around the old IO for the DDR5 memory. All that drives up costs, for what would still be a mid-range GPU.

Also, current software and games doesn't know how to deal with two pools of memory that have different performance characteristics, so the hardware would be underutilised.

The design which abandons the AM5 socket and switches to using much simpler and cheaper soldered-on gddr6 memory just ends up being cheaper and avoids the thermal and area limitations of the AM5 socket, so it could probably compete with high-end GPUs. It's just a better product direction.

AMD will either stick with their current strategy of APUs with their low-end GPUs because they would rather sell both a CPU and a dedicated GPU, or they will skip straight to a new form factor. The middle ground of trying to add more memory bandwidth to an AM5 style package just doesn't make any sense.
What is the difference between dynamic and lexical scope? And what are they?
I googled it, but could not figure it out on a quick look, at least.

#lazyweb
I hope this isn’t a revelation to anyone at this point. Of course greenery reduces heat, but more than anything it means removing concrete, which mitigates the urban heat island effect. (Urban heat islands absorb heat energy during the day, amplifying extremes, and release heat at night, making it impossible for effective cooling.) And yet there is still so much resistance or otherwise apathy to the idea of planting more trees and removing space for vehicles — as if it’s merely some hippy-dippy shit only good for gentrification.
> Even the IT industry is much more mature than that

The IT industry is like the average googler - competent enough to use the tools designed for them. They aren't who I'm talking about.

> an unsupported claim by people who simply want to do whatever they like

The claim that regulation doesn't hamper innovation is an unsupported assertion of control freaks. And regulation that directs innovation only does so because it makes alternative innovations harder - not because it makes certain innovations easier.

> All those innovations go back to the 1990s.

Don't take such things for granted. Their age makes them no less relevant; regulation would have killed them just as easily as chatgpt. I picked old tech as examples because their benefit to the world - and the lax regulatory environment they were created in - are both incontrovertible. That makes them no less examples of innovation.

> oppression has increased and democracy and freedom have retreated

One of the best weapons to implement these kinds of changes are an ever-increasing regulatory burden. Small wonder that's increased alongside the harms you describe.

> misinformation

Everyone does it, everyone gets fooled by it, everyone thinks they're special. More signal, more information - not less - is the only hope for a solution there.

But that's not what I meant. I meant that I have gcc on my laptop, and I can compile code there that runs on linux, and no one can stop me from writing code and sharing it. But they can add ever greater regulations to the infrastructure involved until the friction kills the community.
TANSTAAFB
Did the FTC actually... do... anything in this merger? My understanding is that Nvidia called it off because there was no way the UK was going to let their one national champion in chip design be subsumed into an existing American giant. My recollection is that the FTC didn't even file for a preliminary injunction in this case.
Thanks for this response as well. I didn't see it earlier. It seems pretty interesting what you can do with C++ templates.
If the LA Times is to be believed, boosting birth rates in Japan is a long-since-solved problem:

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-08-16/japan-...

But knowing how something could be done is quite different from actually doing it, sustained and at scale.
I assume they'll continue working on Siri-like cloud based AI and will be happy to use that as well.
Question for Adrian: All your sentient beings are animal-like: they are discrete animals that move around, or at weirdest are a ruinous sludge that moves around and assumes the form of animals. But might we see mycelium networks as sentient?

Zoubin Ghahramani argues that intelligence is about motion, that the sea squirt digests its own brain as soon as it settles down. But might there be intelligent communities of static individuals that nevertheless form dynamic networks?
That's much more so when you're actively not willing to fulfill your obligations.

With divorce, mental health issues, I didn't file taxes for four years. When I contacted them to figure out things (including having to get W-2s pulled, etc., etc.) they were the most polite, cordial, willing to work out all the details, etc., and I expect a notable chunk of that is due to trying to solve the situation rather than being adversarial.
>- Apple design in general has lost a lot of it's soul. They used to be more fun and whimsy, just look at iMac designs of the past. The Cyber truck, love it or hate it, is not boring. Everything apple sells is a glass and metal slab, or as close as possible to it.

The Cybertruck is also a glass and metal slab.
Yeah they won when insurance on used rockets became less than on new ones. If you said that in public a decade or so ago, you’d be laughed at all the way to the psych ward.
It feels like it's too late. Microsoft, Meta and Google all beat Apple to the punch with highly usable and competitive local inferencing frameworks. Apple could release a Tensorflow-style library with full-fat CUDA and Linux support tomorrow, but they would just be Another Competing Solution next to ONNX and Pytorch.

The hardware side doesn't look much better. Apple's biggest userbase is located on iPhone, which poses hardware constraints on what kinds of model you can realistically deploy. The Mac has a deeply-ingrained audience, but it's unlikely that the AI will be a selling point to commercial customers (who have Nvidia) or PC users (that have other models).

Honestly, I believe AI research would be a wasted investment relative to supporting third-party libraries upstream and welcoming Nvidia back onto their platform.
Most fancy office chairs give me a back ache. I preferred an inexpensive straight back with padded seat...
Only some of his books are associated with minimalism in the common parlance of the word. A book like The Road or No Country for Old Men is wildly more minimalistic than Blood Meridian or Suttree.
I wish more comments were like this.
Misjudging the iPhone etc probably just comes down to a lack of information about broader needs. Its not always a bad take.

I think Apple can provide an emphasis on modularity for the car manufacturers. What if you literally had a place to slip in an iPad as your display? What if cars legitimately came with VisionPro type headsets - if not for the drivers, then the passengers. What if apple encourages people fr.shifting away by car ownership by making it easier to jump into a car and have it show all your customizations (lighting, adjustments, heads up display arrangements). Another car company could make the shell and the power train. Apple would handle the "experience" and integrate it into its other offerings. Cloud Cars.
If people are looking for a quickstart:

Colab notebook for generating single-table data: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1F3WWduNjcX4oKck6Xkj...

Colab notebook for generating multi-table data: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1L6i-JhJK9ROG-KFcyzT...
I agree that a car is on a different scale, but I think it's only in hindsight that a phone is obviously just a computer and that the user interface is important part.
I don't know about GP specifically, but I know many people who would agree with them, and those people don't believe that it was anywhere near as bad as what people were saying. They say the same thing about it being overblown by culture warriors, even though there were plenty of people reporting it that have a pretty good history of not being culture warriors (like Nate Silver). To me it feels like a "I reject your reality, and substitute my own" type of response, but I don't see any way to break through that. Even on HN, the vast majority of people didn't even see this story because the first 7 to 10 submissions that started gaining traction got flagged into obscurity, even when it was a highly sympathetic publication mostly writing a defense.
Oh, I'm fully aware. It's a tradition.
Have you tried a Herman Miller? I once thought like you, but the magic of Herman Miller for me is that I can sit in the same position for hours and I never think about it, consciously or subconsciously. When I get up I don't really feel anything. Which is how it should be. Having to move every thirty minutes to feel OK is a sign of a bad chair.
The Apple Car R&D project is (or, I suppose, was) absolutely confidential. I am sure Apple has reprimanded or fired people for less.
> Obviously the bottom right corner of a rectangle cannot be 10,10 if the top left corner is 0,0

What you said is only true for a mathematician. In mathematical conventions, Y axis is directed upwards.

For programmers however, Y axis is usually directed downwards. In programming, the top left corner of a window has coordinates [ 0, 0 ], and a rectangle with top left [ 0, 0 ] and bottom right [ 10, 10 ] is a perfectly valid one.
> Ask how big of an effect something had and how they know. (Example: I had a head of technical recruiting tell me “I did X and our outbound response rate improved;” when I asked how much, he said from 11% to 15%, but the sample size was small enough that that could have been random chance!)

Where is this evidence in this post? What beneficial effects did your new behavioral interviewing technique produce?
Understanding GPU Caches – RasterGrid
Techniques for Detecting LLM Hallucinations
It is not an optimisation, note.
For an example of a flat-ish airfoil that performs well enough for model airplanes (and is easier to build than a NACA & co airfoil), see the KFm airfoil family:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kline%E2%80%93Fogleman_airfoil

Very useful when making model airplanes out of foamboard.
We all saw this coming
Ask HN: Should we (devs) sue Google?
Google will now require a D-U-Ns number to list an app on the play store. This is only free for US organizations. Other countries may or may not have to pay a (sometimes large) amount to get their own number. This feels remarkably like some sort of discrimination.

Apple at least allows looking up your own number completely for free, if and only if you are equivalent to a US LLC or corporation (other business structures aren't needed).
Probably goes without saying, but Quest users are obliged to have a Facebook account. So that can't even be qualified with "if they have a Facebook account", the vast majority of users do.

As far as I know, the original workaround of using a developer registered account now requires an invite and it's hard to see that not quietly being dropped at some point and all users requiring a "real" account.

It's a shame looking in from the outside at how good the pricepoint is for the hardware, but can't bring myself to get involved with Meta. Just about the only aspect of a user (they aren't even 'just a user' if they've spent hundreds on Quest and apps, they're a fully blown customer) they aren't collecting data on is their DNA.
The alternative is deep packet inspection, which is another can of worms.

So it's a good thing that they're clowns at this.
That is fair point, I'll follow this guideline from now on. Apologies, I wasn't aware of this before.
If you're asking about Microsoft's APIs - I'd keep an eye on ONNX. It's the most ambitious, but also supports an insane amount of acceleration targets. It would be the proverbial "big guns" if vendors continued investing in more insular frameworks like Metal and CUDA.
If Siri goes from being complete garbage to half as good as chatgpt while doing all processing on device they will sell 100mil+ new phones in a quarter

The bar has been set so low with Siri. Almost seems like a smart move
> I found the whole process pretty dystopian

And you didn't even go to the office and see the Orwellian "MOVE FAST AND BREAK THINGS" and "WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WEREN'T AFRAID" posters, or the internal newsletters put over the urinals, so you can read about HHVM while taking a leak.
64-bit time_t transition in progress in unstable