skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an interesting parallel because part of the unspoken agreement between AT&T and the feds was that they had their monopoly, but had to use the funds for some kind of public good. Bell Labs was part of the public good - and why they employed multiple physicists and materials scientists whose employment involved basically researching whatever they wanted as long as it had some link back. Shannon was hired after his master thesis (which basically created the field of information theory) and, among other things, had a side project involving the application of computers to chess. They constructed the New Jersey lab specifically to encourage watercooler conversations and deliberately had greenhorns to work with the most senior researchers like Shannon. Bell Labs solved engineering problems needed by AT&T and Westinghouse, but they had the financial security to spend money on incredibly theoretical projects like transistors, operating systems (unix), and programming (C). Those pie in the sky projects would both benefit AT&T through automation, and covered the public good requirements of their monopoly.

AT&T (owner of Westinghouse and Bell Labs) then proceeded to take their monopoly and patent factory, and started buying up competitors and new small companies. Eating their golden goose in this way is what caused the government to break them up.

Bell Labs was independent for a few years doing... Stuff. Spent their remaining prestige on falsification scandals because of the publish or perish culture this new profit motive created. They were bought by Nokia a few years ago (now called Nokia Bell Labs) and now only employ a couple theoretical physicists last I read. The lab that put into practice the foundations of modern tech (Unix and C are in almost every non-consumer-facing device) just does some Nokia product development nowadays. What a loss.
I admit that I was wrong here, point taken. I appreciate the reference.
It is a progression:

year 1 = 100% of your life
year 2 = 50% of your life
year 3 = 33% of your life
...
year 10 = 10% of your life
...
year 50 = 2% of your life

etc.
This seems like a really good idea to me. Or at least cap overages at a specified amount, like 2x the free level (a $55 surprise bill is a totally different universe from a $100,000 surprise bill, obviously).

Honestly, this terrifies me---I run a bunch of different sites off netlify, and I would have never imagined that a site could jump from 0 to six figures of bills a month without something hitting a tripwire somewhere and cutting it off or at least communicating with the account owner. At least users should have the capacity to self-impose bandwidth caps to prevent this sort of thing.
Thanks for explaining, looks very clever. Is this syntax part of bash?
Both yours and the author's suggestions are great, will have to give em a try.

So many candidates torpedo their own interview by doing that "Word Salad" dump when you ask them a question. It's like they have a bunch of unstructured responses prepared for any topic, and if you mention one of those topics in your question, they just unload the dump truck full of words and ramble until you tell them to stop talking. Always looking for techniques to steer candidates away from this behavior which sadly is happening more and more.
The factory-pre-assgrooved seat cushions on the market are quite nice
You have to step over the poop and the needles to get into the coffee shop though, and while you're inside your car is being burglarized.
> It’s high overhead/low-margin and requires infrastructure, sales and after-sales support that just aren’t aligned with how Apple does business.

Probably, but who knows with Apple. I suppose they could have created a cheap Citroen Ami type thing with some cool tech and just doubled the price because it's Apple. I would assume they got into it because they saw a product with good margins.

If you think about it cars are poorly designed for the average journey. They tend to be designed for that one time you actually need to drive 300km, or the one time a year you need to fit 5 people in the car, or the one time you need to load 3 suitcases in the boot. And in America they're also way too big for no good reason.

Apple more than anyone might have been able to experiment with the conventional car design perhaps.

But we don't really know what they were trying to do do we? I think you assuming that they were just trying to create another low margin electric car company to compete the likes of Tesla and Ford is probably wrong though.
I predict they are going to use whatever Google provides (Gemini) and asks Google to pay them money to make it the default. Siri powered by Gemini. Why develop a technology yourself when you have enough market clout to let others pay you to use their tech? And Google, desperate for market share and mind share, might just agree to that while paying Apple a tidy sum (probably not a whole lot).
It won't work until it works really well with one specific woman.
And a good thing too, because trees in London cause havoc with all the Victorian houses with no foundation in the modern sense.
Google is still up 50 points over 1YTD. Pretty much all stocks are down except Nvidia which is almost up 2T cap and 1YTD 230 to almost 800.

I wouldn't say gemini is the cause for googles issues, but it really is a bad experience for their initial public AI release. People expected better from Google. (maybe?)
> Did the FTC actually... do... anything

No.

I’m increasingly convinced putting someone as inexperienced as Khan in the seat was a savvy way to throw a bone to anti-merger activist types, who like tough talk more than compromise, while placating the pro-merger donor ones, who are more pragmatic if less principled.
The issue is actually that they are throwing a ton of money into Siri. That's partly why it appears to have gotten worse for most queries.
Seems more like a defensive play rather than one designed to directly open new revenue streams.

In the short term, Google is going to fully integrate Gemini into Google Assistant (the takeoff has been bumpy but there is a chance they stick the landing). The risk there being that Siri will fall further behind.

In the long term, capable models will be running locally on device. Google's past mobile AI plays haven't moved the market much. But the risk is that generative AI is a paradigm shift that will unlock some game changing capability that could catch Apple off guard.

Same story with Microsoft and Copilot on the desktop.

If your two primary competitions are doing similar things then you start paying attention.
I Don't Read Reddit
Well I would classify ML, DL, statistical learning, etc. as "AI," yes. I would consider Waymo for example to be an "AI" system under a lose definition.

Do you mean AI as in (proto) AGI? I think we might have slightly different notions about the definition.
Large companies often are significant investors in small R&D moonshots. Because they own a large part of the startup they can choose to buy it if the product turns out profitable, or they can sell. And since it is a separate investment when things go south they can stop investing and thus save money without appearing to let anyone go.
Advice for the Pre-Product/Market Fit Days
I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make anymore. You asked if people actually have these things. We do. Why does this need to scale? If you want to be pedantic, anyone can make themselves an activated charcoal water filter using fire, wood, half a plastic bottle and some rocks and straw and stuff. If you’re on the Internet you already have access to this knowledge.
South Bay is just like a giant company town, it’s actually pretty boring - 60% of people work at the same handful of giant companies, the other 30% work at a startup, and the last 10% serve the first group fair trade coffee.

The weather and climate are amazing, but socially its suffocating when everybody you meet is a variation on a tired theme.
I don't see how that's in any way relevant to the real story. It just as easily could've been a 3 MB photograph.
If they can make a voice assistant that runs on-device I'd pay good money for that. Now that a lot of LLMs are able to run (slowly) on raspberry pi's, they could get a great following by just not stealing data and not having their assistant get very noticeably worse over time.

Google assistant has completely dropped the ball from a user perspective, though I'm sure they're capturing great data and have reduced server costs 90%.
Emacs survived because it adapted. LSPs are the new hotness? Here's the LSP mode for Emacs. VSCode emerged with a massive number of extensions? Here's Doom Emacs with declarative package management. Emacs continues to evolve to face new challenges.

And hey, no editor does Emacs key bindings emulation as well as Emacs itself.
That's quite wrong. Scientists can tell you if you something is wrong, but can't really inform society on what to do about it. Macro-economists have tools that make them better equipped to gauge the impact of specific approaches on society's well-being.
Dynamic scope means you that whoever last bound the variable at runtime determines its value, not whichever outer scope surrounds it.

I guess it would be something like this in pseudo code:

var dynamic = 5

function foo() {
print(dynamic)
}

function bar() {
var dynamic = 6
// foo() prints 6 due to the binding above
foo()
// After bar() exits, "dynamic" will go back to being 5
}
I've got a couple of things I've used browser automation tools for:

• I want to automate (or at least semi-automate) downloading bank statements. I've got ~14 accounts (checking, savings, credit card, IRA, investment, HSA) across 7 financial institutions.

It's tedious to go download statements from all of them manually.

• I want to save stories from FanFiction.net (FFN) for offline reading. FFN's terms allow automation as long as it doesn't operate faster than a human [1].

[1] From their TOS:

> You agree not to use or launch any automated system, including without limitation, "robots," "spiders," or "offline readers," that accesses the Service in a manner that sends more request messages to the FanFiction.Net servers in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional on-line web browser.
I don't know the situation in the USA, but it would appear there is virtually never indivdiual liability. Here in New Zealand there is absolutely personal director and executive responsibility and accountability where it comes to safety.
Companies making two hit games (AAA) during a console generation is not a viable way going forward for the industry , games takes too long are too expensive to make.
Sony Announces Significant Playstation Layoffs, London Studio to Close
Yeah, happens to me sometimes as well. Writing starts thinking, leads to more writing.
Hard for me to take this seriously when it opens with Tucker Carlson talking to me after he just finished doing a promotional campaign for Vladimir Putin, and your language in this comment + lack of details isn't helping. What do I need to know about censorship that he's going to tell me? What is this "pandemic of censorship"? Who is Mike Benz?

Wish it was text so I could scan through it to see if it has any merit.
> I generally see dynamic pricing as a positive thing

I don't, because it makes it impossible to know what things cost until you are at the point of purchase. I see dynamic pricing as companies being actively hostile to their customers, and so avoid doing business with ones that do this.
Only if the foundations are bad and the road surface is not rated for the axle load of the vehicles that drive on it. I live in Norway where it is hovering around freezing just now. The only places where this affects the road is where water has penetrated the foundations in such a way as to wash away some support or where heavy vehicles have cracked the road surface allowing water in which subsequently freezes. If the road is properly constructed and maintained with sufficiently good drainage on both sides frost heave (telehiv in Norwegian) should not be a problem.
Perhaps OP re-invented it, but it's been around for a long time in the java world via jdbc urls. See, for example this writeup: https://www.baeldung.com/java-jdbc-url-format
Sony Announces Significant PlayStation Layoffs Affecting 900 Staff, London Studio to Close.
8% of global workforce let go.
You literally just described "Space Influencer Bots"... what a weird fetish you have.

--

EDIt:

Flippancy aside:

Having battle teams that can deploy micro bots/bpts to mars and have to fund raise here on earth to have them Musk'd to mars( like "uber'd" but "Musk'd")

and a player has control over a bot - but what if the satellites heading to mars could fight?

Or coporate sponsers seeded stationary orbitals around mars and the bots could be deployed and driven by Humans on earth 0 and so you would have the so-and-so sponsored here and battle it out on mars.
To be clear, Intel aren't moving away from uarch design. Gelsinger has stated the economics of their fab business don't make sense without a large guaranteed customer like their processor business.[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PrmrMQ9gJU&t=637s (Ian Interviews: Pat Gelsinger, Intel CEO)
> Have you tried a Herman Miller?

I didn’t, but now that you mentioned it, I would definitely try it out of curiosity, what model do you use?

> Having to move every thirty minutes to feel OK is a sign of a bad chair.

I don’t think it’s a bad habit to move periodically, which is something you do even while sleeping anyway.
Watch My SSL – Keeping Your Certificates Secure
I recently launched Watch My SSL to scratch my own itch. It notifies you before your SSL certificates expire. I know many SSL providers do this internally, but it's nice to see them all in one dashboard. In fact, even though we use LetsEncrypt for my main job, it's happened more than once that the autorenewal scripts failed and we only noticed when users started complaining.

If you have any feedback, I'd love to read it.
And if they had, they would likely have killed it off years ago. Apple's not exactly a "move fast and break things" kind of culture.
In WWII there was no interstate highway nor widespread air travel. And yes, most 5K towns are not too far from other 5k towns. But a town of 5k residents doesn't have enough people to justify investing in passenger rail. Hence why countries with lower population density (like the US, Canada, Australia, etc.) don't have much passenger rail demand. If it were due to politics, why is train travel ubiquitous in densely population countries, but not sparsely populated ones? We should expect to see a relatively random smattering of train-dominant and car and plane dominant transportation irrespective of geography. Instead, we see that sparsely populated countries don't have widespread passenger rail regardless of politics. I guess it's a coincidence that the fossil fuel conspiracy [1], just happened to take hold in sparsely populated countries like America, Canada, Australia, etc. and not densely populated ones.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39512424
Indeed. The brake boost works one or two times right after engine power down, it's kinda funny - I like to push the brake before getting out just to feel it harden.
Short term profits. Literally nobody gives a shit anymore what happens to a company ten years in the future.

Outsourcing and building the Max fast led to good numbers at the annual shareholder meeting. Arguably it still does because what is anyone going to do? Buy Airbus? They have waiting lists too.
> Every time Elon says or does something

I remind myself that the real genius at the head of SpaceX is Gwynne, and hope that Elon continues to let her be awesome.
Yes, let's take a very high margin business to buy a very low margin business. Our shareholders will surely appreciate that.
There is no should or should not when it comes to experiencing emotion. You just do. However, you CAN control how you react to emotions like shame. Learning how to process emotions is a major part of becoming a complete person.
Apple-bus (iBus?). Now that sounds glorious.
From one bandwagon to the other. Spicy.
That's not really the question:

Punishment culture assumes people naturally do bad, lazy things unless they are deterred by punishment and fear. Therefore we must punish mistakes.

That perspective has long been debunked. You don't see competent, skilled leaders using it. It turns out that generally people want to do well (just like you do), and they don't when they are scared / activated (in fight/flight/freeze mode), poorly trained, poorly supported, or poorly led. They excel when they feel safe and supported.

If you are the manager and the technician makes the same mistake the 2nd or 3rd time, you will find the problem the next morning in your bathroom mirror. :) At best, you have put them in a position to fail without the proper training or support. Leadership might also be an issue.
I believe that's a PEBCAK error
Same. Bought a key 5-10 years ago just as a "thank you" for all the pirating of it that I did.
What happened to all the proof of stake stuff? Did that just fall out of vogue?
Yazi – fast terminal file manager
Their trucks still sell massively and the Blackwing Cadillacs are both on many 10-best lists.
Quite hefty, I guess this means SCEE is gone.

Once upon a time I visited their SOHO offices.
A More Humane Way to Think About Productivity
O365 is not an example of MS's web strategy, it's just an example of cornering the users.

MS has simply done away with the on-premise version of Office and left them with almost no other choice.

I don't know if it's worthwhile for car engineers to work on AI.
That's how you lose specialists.
Incidentally, if you want to see comments that were flagged to death, click on your username in the top bar and then change the 'showdead' option in the profile settings from 'no' to 'yes'. Just keep in mind you'll also end up seeing some pretty shitty comments every now and then.
Gotta get a bit suspicious when any org pivots from their product being the product to their appearance being the product.

I guess sometimes it works.
Once you write enough you realize most of these all or nothing pronouncements on grammar and punctuation are more like personal vendettas and affectations. Semicolons should always be in your toolbelt; they can elevate a sentence's elegance and grace, improve and control the rhythm and clarity, and really improve readability.

Some people think all non-fiction writing has to abide by technical writing standards, but that's hogwash and pointless hardheadedness once you actually know how to write and use complex sentences to capture complex ideas well.
Show HN: I'm building an API that allows you to train semantic search for RAGs
When your embedding provider is good, but could be better for your use-case.
If they are only short dead end streets they won't be at risk sending cars through
As a copyeditor myself, who works in academia, I have to say that such 'rules' usually only work for the people applying them to their own work, but that doesn't mean they have no value. Why do it? It clearly provides a kind of discipline that makes you consider what's necessary for clarity. Do these two parts of a sentence really need to be together, or can they be separate? For technical or academic writers who may have difficulty expressing themselves clearly, a little artificial restraint could help.
> It’s high overhead/low-margin

Only if they were to sell vehicles. I think it's more likely they were planning on having a fleet of self driving cars.
Lots of cars brake by wire -- but not through the brake pedal.
i do like new programming languages. learning swift was fun at the time.
My favorite niche YouTube channel has an episode on pawpaws: https://youtu.be/zUy2O3qDT8I?si=HvvH2SZsDy4Yc88e

He describes it "like if you took soursop, mango, and banana and blended it into a smoothie". Maybe not helpful if you haven't had soursop.
>if something is generated by an AI then it's worthless if for no other reason than supply and demand.

AI is a tool. Are houses worthless because any hammer can create them?
A few years ago I decided to run everything at home in kubernetes and started doing GitOps in a public github repository. Doing everything in public makes it quite easy to talk to people about it:

If I need help with some open source software, I can reach out to their community, point them to the repo, and show them exactly how to reproduce my issue.

And I just realized that when I am not around, my wife can still call my technical friends or find contractors to fix stuff, by submitting PRs to the repository. She just need to get my GitHub account from shared password manager and approve PRs ;)
Somin on Conformism: A Reply
Which is fine if we mandate crypto may only consume renewables or low carbon energy for this work. We do not, so this is immaterial.
> Good.

Also bad. From the article:

> many employees on the car team — known as the Special Projects Group, or SPG — will be shifted to the artificial intelligence division

So, the people that failed to build a car, when Tesla, Xiaomi, BYD and half a dozen EV startups succeeded, will now fail to build generative AI.
Oh good. You never know on the Internet, though. I found out last time that some people think Musk was trying to pull something over on us with "RUD".
> ending stuff to space for a few dollars per pound

That's about what it costs to fly freight across an ocean.
Sounds like you're believing far too much of what you read on social media, to be honest.
An Antarctic base got its own accent
HTTPX is the new one, and it's very popular. I've been using it in place of Requests for a few years now.

https://pypistats.org/packages/httpx - 2 million downloads a day (requests has 15 million https://pypistats.org/packages/requests)
I expect that they coordinate or communicate, so we have no idea what her influence was on the UK initiative. But also the big moves to control the market power of tech has it's critics, this is a victory lap for the idea.
Documenation links?

Any plans for treesitter style queries/highlights[3a][3b][4b]? Would permit a lisp take on things such as ANTLER[4a][4b].

Tags/configs for customizing merkel tree display/layout[2]?

Transform between different grammar represenational formats[1][2]? and/or dump display to latex/ps/pdf file[5]

---

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parser_combinator

[2] : 'sql' table/excel spreadsheet cell layout/format

[3a] : https://github.com/tree-sitter-grammars/tree-sitter-markdown
[3b] : https://ikatyang.github.io/tree-sitter-markdown/

[4] : https://www.antlr.org/
[4b] : https://github.com/sylvainhalle/Bullwinkle

[5] : https://antlr-interest.antlr.narkive.com/RZtgPi6y/antlr-to-b...
Without vector formats, I won't even try this product, and I definitely won't buy at this price point. I can't print from HD quality images.
iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Watch, AirPods had USPs, will be hard in the AI sector where people don't care about round corners.
> If smaller indie hackers are going to build useful competitors

Any useful competitor will have to scale well beyond the point of indie hacker, where someone is (eventually) getting rich. That doesn't make for a great argument for bypassing consent.
Apple does not target only top end. New Iphone starts from under 500$.
So true. why are we still paying for idle resources in 2024?
I checked it on their website and i can say at least for germany its also free.
Interests must align. People must know common jargon which convey high density information faster. I would like to have positive ROI on the conversations that I have.
Funny to see people here cheering on these laws (because something something free speech) while simultaneously enjoying one of the most productive yet also heavily moderated social media sites on the web (HN). Things are already bad enough in the country with evangelicals dictating what books we can read and how we are allowed to have sex. I don't want them controlling the internet as well.
Add "face the angry company lawyers" to the todo list