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.

It’s one thing to create a new car company (even tho those attempts usually fail), it’s another to purposefully take it on as a business line when your existing business groups prints money and have 40%+ margins. Especially when you could just have a higher-margin business selling software for other people’s cars.

What surprises me is that it took this long to kill the product. And while I feel bad for the engineers and researchers who worked on this project, this really does seem like the best outcome.
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.

The idea of making the infotainment guts is interesting but I can’t see any carmaker giving up that much control. If they don’t like CarPlay they’d never like full Apple infotainment.

Sure Apple could do ADAS stuff, but why would an OEM choose Apple instead of others they’re used to and are likely far easier to work with.

Unless they went highly left field for the US, like tiny city cars more like Smart, I just don’t get it. And if they did that… well Smart isn’t breaking records in the US are they.

The initial idea seemed to be self driving cars, but for individuals you have the problems above and for fleets why would they want to buy from Apple? So unless Apple wanted to be Uber that doesn’t make much sense either.

An odd move all around.
I'm not going to join the willy-waving but I truly did spend a lot of time building a completely custom billing system! Lots of monthly subscriptions, per-unit billing, pricing changes, tax changes.

We added complexity as the business grew, and it was an integrated part of the hosting service that we sold.

I'm not saying it's for every company and every product, but for a bootstrapped British company in 2004 it wasn't even a question, there was nothing to buy.

That experience might colour my opinion that it's easier than it appears, or that you can get away with a lot less than SaaS billing solutions provide.
Elbow Method and Finding the Right Number of Clusters (2015)
Here it is: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSQBAZOChbsq...

There's something there... but it's not a very strong connection. Of course, mock interview performance isn't necessarily in lock step with how all candidates are performing in real interviews at Meta.
we recently interviewed Erik and touched on this list: https://www.latent.space/p/modal

and how Modal exemplifies a lot of the ideas he's been looking for. check it out incl our show notes!
Maybe take a look at https://datahubproject.io/integrations ? I only heard about it today, but it looks pretty promising. Spun out of LinkedIn, open source, lots of integrations, including Metabase
I did not plan to make the project paid at first, I would have prefered the OS / Open Core model, but it did not work out. So what I meant about the feedback was that the feedback for a free product might not help much for a paid product and vice versa. Different target groups, different priorities. On the other hand, more users, no matter if free or paid, help to detect edge case bugs better as there is a higher chance of someone stumbling on it and reporting it. In this case the first larger wave of free users did help me, yes.
Has anyone else used Netflix DGS outside of Netflix to build GraphQL servers? I'm wondering what the experience was like. Full disclosure: I work at a GraphQL company. But still, I'm genuinely curious. I was a longtime back-end Java developer, and I'm wondering what the experience is like these days.
Wait, javascript is memory safe?

Do they really mean "languages other than c"?
It could, but not in a way any one of us would want it. This specific attested device isn't marked as legit by any of the big players? Into the blocked list you go. This is very similar to what we see today with email providers for example. If you start running a new server, you start with a negative reputation and have to climb out, you don't start from neutral.
Plenty of DRM-free marketplaces like GOG or itch.io are available. No restrictions, play it however you want.
We should be grateful for that. If more people installed adblockers, they'd invest more in the arms race and render adblockers useless for us.
Apple has a reputation to uphold, of being bleeding edge and having the best, latest, greatest tech. Their "AI" is a not-so-great scripted bot over a decade old at this point.

They are laughably behind the curve. Android should see widespread deployment of Gemini baked into the next generation of phones, and this could have a significant impact on Apple.
Interesting projects. Pushing your code to a billion users. TC in the $500k-$1MM range.

I would really encourage people that don't mind big companies to study for the interviews and just get the job. I promise you that you'll someday run into the algorithms questions you studied in real life. And you'll grow your software engineering career and make a lot of money. Dismissively writing it off feels cool, but you're really missing out on a good experience.

(I don't work for a FAANG anymore, but I did once, and it was fun. Super smart coworkers. Interesting work. Great pay.)
>it's just a bigger version of the fan

I mean, actually, it isn't - that's the whole point about scale variance and Reynolds number and why wings that work for insects are not the wings that work for jumbo jets.
Sorry to hear that things did not turn out as expected for such a long time.

If I may provide a suggestion... search for a serious website that is about dating (not tinder or something the like) in your area and connect to people and try to date (meet in person for at least an hour or so) at least one person once a week. Don't spend too much effort in people who just want to stick to online conversations or fooling around, just move on. If at the meetup there's no click, you have a good evening or at least you built up experience in dating.

You will need to get probably seriously out of your comfort zone but it becomes easier each time! Practice makes perfect!
Conservatives are finding out the hard way what liberals were complaining about a decade ago with Net Neutrality and Comcast's argument that charging Netflix up the ass was their free speech expression.

That being said, these bills are very, very bad ideas. Let's be clear: no broadcasting medium can work without some mechanism to censor spammers. And this role has to be specialized (rhymes with 'centralized') because nobody wants to spend most of their day online just manually selecting spam to be blocked. If these laws are upheld I can see companies moving to block Texans and Floridians to protect the rest of their country from their legally mandated political spam.

Let's also appreciate that a good chunk of the speech conservatives want to 'protect' is political speech explicitly calling for things prohibited by the 1st Amendment. Shit like banning an entire religion. I personally don't think that should be allowed, though I doubt this particular court's 6-3 conservative majority would go along with censoring the censors.
• serverless projects: HTML/CSS/JS on Cloudflare (e.g. https://potato.cheap)

• simple DB-backed web projects: HTML/CSS/JS with Deno (hono+postgres.js) on fly.io (e.g. https://flashcasts.com)

• very interactive web frontends: Elm (i.e. https://taylor.town/elm-2023)

Most of my upcoming projects are not web-based, so I’ll be looking into Lua/Love and SwiftUI.
Unlimited Ad budget. Temu is not even a year old around here, but it had ads everywhere at the same time. TV, twitch, youtube, ..

Shein was kinda the same but with influencers, literally contracting any influencer no matter how small and 'gifting' them with 'shopping hauls'
The newest version of headless chrome actually runs the same code as a "regular browser": https://developer.chrome.com/docs/chromium/new-headless
At very least, they could make Siri useful.
I think he has forgotten most of the memories related to pandemic, so it feels like distant memory, only bits and pieces left.
Strong recommend to use these techniques when interviewing.

For example: employees from large companies may claim credit for substantial initiatives but when you drill in they had only a tangential involvement. They don't intend to mislead, thats just the language people speak inside of large companies, and behavioral interviewing can help translate that into more objective information.
Have you missed all the people complaining that it'll put them out of business?
Ahh this is awesome. The AI-powered query builder => API endpoint feature sounds like the biggest win for me.

Any plans in the future for having these exposed via an OpenAPI schema (that could then be used to introspect / generate clients with)? Would be awesome to make it super easy for frontend engineers to create their own endpoints and then automatically be able to use them in their app!

(or is that possibly already a feature?)

Best of luck, and will keep a tab on this
One thing I love about the speedup of time is that picking a compounding habit (say, doing something for 10 minutes each day) feels like having an almost instant pay-off.

"Oh wow 3 years already passed" -> "Oh wow I got pretty good at this thing I picked up just yesterday"

I picked up biking during the pandemic, and 3 years later I have legs of steel, 10k miles under my belt, and people know me as "the bike guy", when I think of myself as "ok this biking thing is kind of fun".
The following is controversial and ill-thought-out, so feel free to flame (I gotta learn somehow!)

Nobody does things for free. We do things because we gain either money or status or pleasure. If you want someone to work for you, and you don't want to pay them money, you have to give them either status or pleasure.

One example of getting people to do things for pleasure is ad-supported social media sites. They are giving people pleasure (modulo engagement psychology) and getting their attention on ads for free.

But let's focus on getting people to do things for status. PhDs are a classic example: if you get a PhD and stay in Academia, your salary is tiny relative to industry. But there is a promise of status ("you're on the frontier of knowledge!"; "people call you 'doctor'!"). The few principal investigators that get the giant grants are successful only because they rely on an army of underpaid experts.

Which means there is an incentive--even if unconscious--to convince people that status is worth the lower salaries. The fights for being first-author, or publishing in a top-tier journal, or even insisting on being called "Doctor" are all competitions for status, because that's what you're getting paid instead of money.

Open Source is the same way. Arguments about purity ("is that really an OSS license") and self-sacrifice ("I won't accept money from corporations") are all evidence that people are earning status instead of money.

By itself, this is not a bad thing (in either OSS or Academia). People should be free to choose how to sell their time. The problem is that those who benefit from the work-for-status arrangement (large corporations, large universities, and their leaders) are incented to use dark patterns to preserve that arrangement.

We're sensitive to social media sites using dark patterns to manipulate people into trading work (or money) for pleasure. We should be equally sensitive to how open-source culture can (even unintentionally) drive people to be underpaid.
There's plenty of latent demand; there isn't currently a viable charging network and NACS doesn't take over until 2025.
Everyday astronaut is, last I checked, the only one on YouTube streaming starship launches in 4k. And in my experience there's less commentary, just the SpaceX audio.
The Self-Rendering Eval Shirt
Well certainly not after the first time at least

Imo it's a function of time, company and team culture, severity, and role guidelines.

If an employee makes a mistake but followed process, and no process change occured, that's just acknowledging the cost of doing business imo and would be a unbounded number of times so long as it's good faith from the employee
Although it is a nice mental model, that's not quite true.

> The wings act like a scoop forcing air downward behind the wing

Only bottom side of the wing acts as a scoop, creating positive pressure. Upper side, in opposite, creates negative pressure which "sucks" the plane into it, creating additional lift.

It surprised me how much lift is coming from the negative pressure - about a half: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/16202
It also borders Santa Clara; the housing immediately east of Apple Park is Santa Clara. North Santa Clara is cheaper than the southern half yes, but not really cheaper than the neighboring north Sunnyvale.
> can you tell me what "generative AI" is for?

Better keyboard text prediction and power management. A competent Siri.
Honestly, a car made more sense than a VR headset if the vision behind the VR headset is "an all-day wearable iPhone". Though I doubt it is, nor was it for the forseeable future. Despite it's outward appearance, I expect Apple's management to consist mostly of engineering type realists, otherwise it becomes hard to explain how they keep being the #1 in Lifestyle products.

I think the VR goggles were always a stab at what's supposed to become Meta's core business.

Regardless, I would have really like to see a car from Apple. Tesla is still too small to get the attention of EU regulators when it comes to their stupid warranty and serviceability. Apple is large enough and already known to not play nice when it comes to repair - I'm sure we would've gotten some amazing legislature about electric vehicle repairability out of it!
They also arent as big as you might think. Much of the engine size you see in pictures is the Nozzle

https://www.teslarati.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Block-5...
I think because if they don't, they'll be in the position of depending on someone else's platform to provide AI features for their products. This is just an analogy, but it would be like if you were an app developer, and instead of being able to control your distribution, you had to use someone's centralized store to sell everything, and then pay whatever they demanded, or be cut off at any time. Very dangerous!
Zig also does it this way and I think it makes sense. Operator overloading gives the same symbols different semantic meaning in different contexts. This hurts readability and simplicity.
AVP has not failed yet. Saying so today would be akin to stating that the iPhone failed in the fall of 2007.

Some did, Steve Ballmer laughed his butt off, convinced that no one sane will ever buy a $500 phone.
For start, day trading is effectively gambling.

Your advise is horrible and will harm people taking it seriously.

And earning 8 millions as "social media influencer" by age 35 is so unhelpful advise that gambling would be more effective...
The fact that GOOG has so many of the latter tells you something about the monopoly profit they get from the former.
So it turns out, inconveniently, "Children need protection from predators" and "People need protection from bigots" are two sides of the same coin.

It's all politics and it always was. Claiming one is "common sense" and one is "political" misses what "political" means.

I think S230 set a pretty good tone in biasing in favor of the right of the service owner to set the tone over-and-above within the constraints of the law (for a simple practical reason: if you don't give them that right, they'll just stop providing the service). But that does mean that when your provider decides that, say, debating the humanity of trans folks is no longer acceptable, we toe the line there or we start our own service.
To be fair, that was what a lot of people thought about Apple making a cell phone. That they'd never compete with Nokia or Motorola and that US carriers would never give them enough control.
Meanwhile Xiaomi and Sony both have electric car projects nearing release:

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/02/26/xiaomi-bets-on-new-ev-su...

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a42400955/afeela-sony-hond...
There's also quite an oversupply at the moment.
> What surprises me is that it took this long to kill the product

Maybe I'm misremembering, but I seem to recall that it was killed once before?
You are mistaking global for local, and 50 years is too late. I am positive I think some of us will survive.
I had the impression we shipped a lot of food back. Send that California wine!
First, even many small towns had rail service before the focus switched to rail. Second, it’s rare that your 5k town is hundreds of miles from the next one. If you look at the map circa WWII, there were tons of interurban rail connections between towns like that.

What changed was the massive subsidies directed towards private vehicle usage. Those rail connections disappeared because they couldn’t compete with the heavily subsidized highway system on all but the busiest routes. This also means that things can change if we start taxing carbon or require vehicle users to pay for their infrastructure.
The issue is that you don't have to give the credit card details in this case. That charge wouldn't probably have gone through anyway.
It's insane how many companies went down the "full self driving by 2020" rabbit hole.
Yeah it's amazing how it is currently the best jet in the world considering how reviled and criticized it was in the media. And said criticism had real consequences, here in Canada we basically got stuck buying 1970s trash just because the f-35 became a taboo and a meme due to projected costs, even if it means that we will pay even more for the alternatives for much much less capabilities.
Oh no I just got a 1099! Ha ha. That’s a really good point.
That’s not mentioned in the article that I see.
Hey HN- creator here! Thought this was a fun example of a quine and wanted to share. I also made a video & thread that explains how it works: https://twitter.com/ericsimons40/status/1759955628825710760

Happy to answer any q's!
Just as a simple example, Optional and containers can use variadics to forward arguments to emplace-construct their contained objects.

If you do not need variadics that's fine, you do not have to force them where they don't belong.
They're actually not booked out a long time in advance. Usually in case of a fiber cut on a major subsea cable, the crews will be out to fix it within a couple days at max.

The real issue is the second fact you identified, that it's cut in middle of a warzone. I don't think they will risk sending a ship out unless closely escorted by military vessels.
Not currently AFAIK. It is an active field of study though, mechanistic interpretability.

https://arena3-chapter1-transformer-interp.streamlit.app/%5B...
No, but having tried it I can't figure out what they're talking about. Seems like more NFT-esque nonsense.
Looking forward to getting stale burgers delivered from fake delivery restaurants.
Please don’t! We like you here.
> Apple has a reputation to uphold, of being bleeding edge and having the best, latest, greatest tech

Their reputation is of being the best. The most polished. The most accessible.

It’s never been to be on the bleeding edge. Apple’s brand is that of the perfectionists. Even in their hackiest 80s lore, the elements that rise to myth are those about resourcefulness and design.
Maybe getting rid of Abuse As A Service is a positive use case for Autonomous Killer War Drones as a Service!
Our relative intelligence seems insufficient to overcome our default behavior as vessels for the unthinking propagation of memes though, which has resulted in serious harm to the ecosystem of a variety of species, including us!
Thrilled to be featured in the Indie Interviews series
In previous versions, the features that were disabled had to do mostly with disabling multiplayer coordination if you choose not to share precise location information, in other words, just the things that would need that data to function. My Quest is currently updating, so I'll see soon if there's really no opt-out, but I wouldn't expect any change in function for removing analytics if their past is any indication.
I'm Thrilled to be featured in the Indie Interviews series! Sharing insights during the interview was a joy. This series is a goldmine for the indie app community, and I'm delighted to contribute! Check out the interview
Did you read the link you posted? Specifically the update at the top?
Awesome First PR Opportunities
> forming what is in my opinion a de-facto 'public square'

There is nothing in the Constitution about a "de facto public square". The first amendment concerns how the government can manage speech, and Facebook isn't the government, no matter how popular they are.

If you want to make a legal argument, it needs to be grounded in reality, not something you just made up.

Now if you want to argue that the current situation is fucked up and unhealthy for a society, sure, I'd probably agree. But that's not the same topic. The topic is whether these laws are Constitutional, and they very clearly are not.
A smaller piece of a much, much bigger pie.
Is it inevitable that we infuse our AI debates with religious rhetoric?
And so we'll be back to Apple vs Microsoft? Nostalgia from the aughts.
I suspect the impetus for the car project was Jony Ive saying “If you don’t let me design a car, I will quit.”
They designed for the F-35B as the "baseline" with carrier requirements secondary. Also, the engineers knew but, "their concerns would have just as likely been ignored." This reference was 2012, when they knew it was a problem but before OP was fixing it.

https://www.f-16.net/f-35-news-article4494.html
Finding the Last Editor
I’ve noticed this effect while diving. When you’re in a current, you’re basically the same density so you’re moving with the water. In mid-water with poor visibility, this is really freaky, because you have no way of telling in what direction you’re moving, and how fast. If you “forget” your orientation, you can’t really recover it. Thankfully, you always have highly accurate depth gauge, but as for lateral movement, it’s an eerie feeling. You could just pop up anywhere.
It’s been scaled down and then back up, never fully shut down.
Unsafe Python
Thanks, this is actually very insightful. Reminds me of the hamster entertainment park/heroin experiment.
I think the Apple car has been killed maybe 10 times or more in the last decade.
Freedom of speech and freedom of the press are both protected by the First Amendment but are separable rights.

It doesn't infringe one's free speech rights if a paper (or media service) refrains from transiting one's opinion to their readers. Start one's own press.
Yeah, but I don't think Google was planning on being an auto manufacturer. Isn't Google's plan to partner with existing manufacturers?
Okay but again that makes it sound like it feels very long ago, not recent
Yes, and one thing you can do is doing something/everything different everyday, but the downside of this is that you'll get fatigue out of keeping your brain on alert all the time.

I observed this with people traveling, I used to call travel cognitive impairment, as usually functional human beings (like my close relatives) suddenly get very lost and helpless during travel (specially at airports).

I then realized that this was because this was a unusual experience for them (once every year) and this would overload them with things out of their routing (even if they traveled before). That didnt happen to me (yet) because I was traveling a lot for work, so this was a routine for my brain.
I think it makes sense if consider the fact it “solves an actual problem”, would have a massive adoption rate and has a massive market, and the potential value of developing a product like that is easily in the 100 Billions if not Trillions
Do they pen test it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39378235