skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you. If the systems/procedures/checklists are bad it is not the fault of a front line worker.

I thought I was replying more to a parent comment addressing the inability to people go who repeatedly make mistakes, which is acceptable unless they are not following procedures.
AIUI mostly the thin-client side. It's my (third-party) understanding that workstation/player/fusion are surprisingly difficult to break out because they borrow strongly from ESXi.
I consider at some point running my own open source business.

It must be around an idea that will speak to me at the time if it ever happens, but the open source part is important to me for ethical reasons. I'm not interested in running a software business if it's not open source.

And so I'm interested in reading others about their business experiences around open source. What is their actual project is important since it has consequences on how the business will be run, but the exact project won't matter too much to me as a reader and it does not really matter to me if it doesn't appear in the title, I will click.

Now the headline is a bit disappointing since the article is really "How I didn't keep doing open source when I turned my project into a business".
The secret, and it is a secret, is to understand everything that you've just written, and quietly let the machine worry on.

That collective handwringing (set in eternal struggle as it is with financial greed) is what got us here, and it's what will get us the next 50% and the 50% after that. Wink and enjoy the ride.
No clear goal (other than "build a self-driving EV") was ever set for Project Titan. This isn't surprising news.

9 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9047833
And I hope the reverse. Most of my data I am happy to entrust to Apple, and I don't want them to release substandard not-very-smart products just because they're limited to AI models that only take a few gigs of RAM and can run on a single phone processor.

Please just use some huge models to make actually smart products and run them in the cloud if it isn't feasible to run them on-device. Perhaps have an 'offline mode', which runs small models (the google assistant already does that - and it's very noticeable that the online mode has very accurate speech recognition, whereas offline mode can only recognise basic words reliably).
Exactly, it looked to me like they were going for the supercar market (>$250k price tag, low volume) which (I guess naively) seemed pretty sensible..
There have been a couple attempts to do this previously. In India, there was one version used as a physical barrier on a customs line for 450 miles. Also happened to improve the area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland_Customs_Line#Great_Hedg...

https://amocarroll.com/projects/tracing-the-great-salt-hedge

China has the China's Three-North Shelterbelt Program where they're trying to hold back the desert in North China and Inner Mongollia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Three-North_Shelt...

Based on reports, it has issues with tree survival, yet seems to be making progress based on aerial surveys.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259033221...

There's also an attempt in Africa in the Sahara that a bunch of countries signed on to. Unfortunately, their commitments have mostly amounted to talk without much funding or governmental support. Seen a few videos of locals who seems to believe in the idea, its just not getting much large scale help.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Green_Wall_(Africa)

I also use Ecosia (https://www.ecosia.org/) as a web browser, and they supposedly plant trees based on number of searches and a percent diversion of search revenue. Seems to at least have some photographic evidence of money actually being spent somewhere.

Senegal's an example with desert work. Seems to have evidence that at least some amount of trees are being planted with videos (harder to falsify).

https://blog.ecosia.org/senegal/

https://blog.ecosia.org/tag/senegal/
I wish every presentation on how planes fly started with an actual flat plane. A wing that has a flat crossection. I think the shape of the airfoil of the wing is absolutely distracting and prevents people from understanding what is really happening.

Every person who ever stuck a flat object outside the window of a moving car knows that you do not need a fancy shape to have lift.

And so many people are stuck thinking that the shape of the airfoil is responsible for the plane to be able to fly, supposedly because the air needs to run a longer way around the foil above the wing than below the wing. And this somehow causes pressure difference due to Bernoulli law and this is what keeps the plane up. Which is almost total BS because planes can obviously fly inverted.

Now I admit I only skimmed the article, and although the animations are beautiful, I am missing what really is key to understanding of what is happening.

I am looking for a bigger, far away view of the wing and showing what happens to the air BEHIND the wing.

Because how the plane really works is as it flies forward, it diverts large masses of air downwards. It pushes off of air.

Part of the air is diverted by the lower portion of the wing, but the much larger portion of lift is generated by larger masses of air above and behind the wing. Those can be thought as being sucked down behind the wing (if you look at it from the point of view of a stationary air mass, not from the point of view of the wing).

And the main role of the airfoil is to keep that mass of air behind the wing stuck to the airfoil at wide range of angles and speeds as possible, because a flat sheet is very poor at doing this.
I understand it, or at least what it could be. Picture something in eyeglasses or even invisible contacts or neural implant. It adds an AR layer on everything. There are no devices, no screens, no buttons. You look and think and the world responds. The Vision Pro is a clunky preview, but decently feature complete.

Utopian or dystopian, this is exactly the future that Apple, Meta and NeuraLink are chasing.
> As once-dismissed theories find validation, shadows of doubt are cast upon the credibility of the mainstream institutions and experts who set out to protect us to begin with.

Laughter
Looks interesting! It's not obvious to me on the website what the pricing or licensing situation is with DBSnapper. How does that work? Thanks!
Falsifying the inspection checklist is not a honest mistake.
I disagree. They had a leading edge with Siri but failed to invest in AI over a car. This move is just correcting a vital mistake in time past. They’re playing catch up.
Tesla is already the Apple of cars. Designed in California. Capacitive touchscreen instead of buttons. Vertical integration. Minimalist hardware design. Focus on software. Over the air updates. Custom SoC.

When Apple did all this in phones it was unique. There was no Tesla of phones. But there is a Tesla of cars and it's tough to imagine what unique thing Apple could bring to the market.
Pretty interesting to see how each commenter bias influences how they interpret this claim.
At least Lilium is at least a couple of years, and billions, away from having a product they can sell.
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really nice, i played it much longer than i originally wanted to :-)
Very cool!, i tried the first c64 game i could remember "pitstop" and it worked a charm!, lot less hassle then most emulators
Yeah. It’s hard to argue with convenience. And yes Amazon is not much more than a western front for the same shitty products you can get directly from China. The way the system is gamed with fake reviews and SEO it makes honest businesses hard to compete. In some cases it’s even hard to find stuff on Amazon if you already know what you’re looking for!
‘Russian forces have an unorthodox view of acceptable levels of military losses, with a willingness to expend troops and equipment to make even small gains on the battlefield.’

Unorthodox is not the word I would choose. Perhaps a better one would be ‘un-western’ or ‘unAmerican.’ Their strategy seems to be pretty standard Russian battle doctrine. The Red Army would expend vast amounts of blood and armor for small gains in WW2 (which worked, by the way, the 3rd Reich’s advance was stopped by a self-sacrificing bulwark of peasant soldiers). Before that, the Russian Empire would also often suffer massive casualties even in victory.

The tone of the article is almost one of ‘what do you want from us, we blew up a lot of troops, but they just keep coming. That’s so unreasonable.’ It seems whiny, like the Russian willingness to feed themselves into the grinder is just terribly inconvenient.

Given what the western military leaders know, maybe we should adapt our strategies accordingly.
Correct. All of those products were pretty crappy when they were first released and then got very good. In the case of the iPhone, I think it was like the third revision when it got good. The iPad comes to mind as one of their only somewhat recent products that was really good right from the start. That one still benefited from being more or less a giant iPhone and it was years before it really came into its own. For at least the past 25 years, their initial forays into a new category have been marked by potential that isn't realized for several more years. I think the Vision Pro will be fine.
> To figure out whether they’re real or BSing you, the best way is to get them to tell you a lot of details about the situation—the more you get them to tell you, the harder it will be to BS all the details.

This is exactly the feature that allows people to distinguish a genuine recording from a faked one in Iain Banks' sci-fi series "The Culture"---it's impossible to fake a recording taken by a (machine) Mind because there's too much detail to fabricate.
Clojure for the Brave and True[0] is what introduced me to Emacs. Getting a job writing Clojure(script) cemented my use of it.

[0] - https://www.braveclojure.com/basic-emacs/
https://archive.ph/1OJRs
I recently joined a local game jam with the intent of showing off my 2D engine. Halfway through, I realized I didn't have a way to properly destroy game objects. I realized it after messing up my cooldown timer and accidentally spawning a few thousand projectiles. It's something I knew I had to do that but I kept pushing it back to work on more interesting (but less critical) stuff. Now I am building a very simple hack-and-slash game and adding engine features as needed. Documenting the process here[1] for anyone interested.

[1] https://nik-os.com/agl/17_collisions.html
The Launch Pad on YouTube proxies most streams verbatim, so it is a good alternative.
Or in the wrong direction, depending on the wind
Would be interesting to see a time to exit histogram. Estimating from the current status chart it seems like every 4 years about 25% will exit.
Disappointing to hear. It seems every car manufacturer has settled in to their niche, and they are now working to become software companies, adding a bunch of “smart” functionalities to their cars. I was very curious as to whether it was easier for an automotive company to get good at tech, or for a tech company to get good at automobiles. Perhaps this result is a good indicator.
https://killedbygoogle.com/

Currently at 293.
Now everyone's diving straight into the "full AGI by 2025" hole. Which, to be fair, would solve the "full self-driving" problem as a pure side-effect, I guess.
Cupertino schools are a draw for young families that can afford a $2.5M+ house, which is not every family in the area. I live in the area and bike to work past Nivdia HQ every day. Santa Clara used to be "cheap" and unsurprisingly it's becoming more expensive, like the cities it borders. The details on "downtown" Santa Clara are irrelevant as everyone simply drives to San Jose, Mountain view, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, etc, etc to get dinner or go hang out anyway.

Santa Clara's house prices have been trending up for many years because it's a short commute to many companies full of highly-paid people. Nvidia's recent market cap surge has little to do with it. https://www.redfin.com/zipcode/95050/housing-market
I was going to say. If anyone knows how to quickly create and expand a network of dealerships and post-sales support, it's Apple. They literally wrote the book on this with computers and phones and all their accessories.
Granted it's already been several years since Apple reportedly abandoned self-driving as a priority for its car project, but I wonder if this signals a larger shift.

A decade ago, the popular sentiment was that autonomous vehicles were going to completely reshape our built environment in the coming decade. And yet here we are in 2024, with the industry leader still only running limited trials in two markets, the next two woefully behind, and everyone else out of the market.

Perhaps AVs have entered the realm of fusion, something that may yet be transformative, but on a much longer time scale than initially thought.
Yeah. I never realized how much time children consume. It's crazy.
I agree. The only two examples I've seen of embedded AI that "works" is Bard in search results, and generative AI in Adobe's. Everything else feels tacked on.

Edit: And on my iPhone, the offline photo categorization and image OCR
"shifts team" ... 'cuz the skillset overlap is so high, seems natural. Cars, AI; as far as Apple is concerned, is all marketing bullshit. A "direction shift" like this is turning the spout this way or that.
Pork.
Cruise has given up, but Waymo is doubling down I don't see how either is/was a "threat to Apple" though, people aren't going to replace their iPhones with Waymo rides.
> I personally fall on the "maximal free speech" side of preferences. If an ISIS video isn't calling for imminent lawless action [2], then I don't want YouTube deleting it.

An online video is almost by definition incapable of being incitement to imminent lawless action. The threshold for this magic phrase is roughly along the lines of leading a mob and saying "there is <member of outgroup>, lynch them." Pretty much anything short of that is constitutionally-protected free speech under the First Amendment, and it's virtually impossible for an internet video to be sufficiently imminent for the purposes of incitement to imminent lawless action.
> Life is long, provided you don't just waste your time with nonsense. Even eternity wouldn't be long enough for the compulsive procrasturbator.

Is it possible you are projecting your own insecurities, given that you are commenting on HN during work hours on a weekday, of all things?
Do you still have questions after reading the "Learn why we require this here" link? https://www.404media.co/why-404-media-needs-your-email-addre...

This is the future, thanks to botnet-as-a-service scrapers as discussed in a different front page entry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39526797
Yeah I disagree on NasaSpaceFlight being "better commentary"...
Replacing an ICU with an electric car reduces carbon output. Training an AI model costs a lot of carbon in manufacturing chips and in electricity. I'm worried that this will negatively impact their goal of being carbon neutral by 2030.
Ask HN: How do companies make their AIs "woke"?
It's a common quip to say that LLMs are black boxes and that we have no idea how they "think". Of course that was always an exaggeration, but there is some truth to in that answers are generated from billions of miniscule connections between entities that are nearly impossible to reason about. How exactly then are they able to turn up and down the woke slider for their models? It seems impossible to tune them manually for a near infinite variety of use cases. But I could be wrong. Anyone have an intuitive explanation of how they get it done?

Edit: I wasn't trying to use the word "woke" to make any sort of political statement, although I see now how maybe it wasn't the best choice of words. The impetus for this post is the recent controversy around Google's Gemini being, uhhh, "overly tuned?".
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iPhone sold 270,000 units in the quarter it was launched.

About the same as the Vision Pro.
This is the part I found most interesting about the first few episodes of "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End" anime. The main character is an elf. In this world elves are rare so she hasn't see another in 100s of years. Time for her passes differently than humans. She's got 1000s of years so for her, spending 10yrs in some library researching a hobby topic is not a big commitment. For her human friends it would be a large portion of their life. She commits to multi-year projects easily (10 years of a 5000 year life is 1/500th of your life vs a human where it's more like 1/8th). And, she watches her human friends pass away. Societies form and collapse. Etc...
That's a really myopic observation. They're very very different. ChatGPT Pro helps me learn new concepts in new languages much much faster than I did in the past.
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I'm kinda surprised it took this long. On a broad level, there's nothing that Apple really brings to the table that would help them build a successful car. They don't have the internal expertise necessary to help with the practical elements necessary to build a car, like fine tuning a suspension or manufacturing brakes that work. And they don't have the logistics infrastructure necessary to handle actually manufacturing a car.

The main thing Apple had that could help them build a car is a lot of money. But they could also use that money to get into food delivery or manufacturing CNC machines. Realistically, if Apple invested their cash into car manufacturing, they'd just end up with a whole lot less cash.
Apple started work on this car when vehicles were still reasonably priced.

I’d wager this cancellation is purely due to there being no chance in hell Apple could get the Apple premium for it when vehicle sales are stagnating due to massive price increases.
You can have the result of * not be the actual multiplication, but a MultiplicationExpression. Then, the result of MultiplicationExpression + Matrix is a MultiplyAddExpression.

Finally you overload the dereference operator of MultiplyAddExpression to actually run std::fma. With some template magic, this can all even be done at compile time.

You can look at boost::phoenix and boost::qi to see this taken to a huge extreme, overriding all of the C++ operators to write parsers using regex-like syntax (e.g. `parser = *a | +b;` generates a parser which recognizes "" or "aaa" or "bb", equivalent to the regex "a*|b+").
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I still think it's reasonable to have Apple consider building a car. Their core competency is in design, integrated platforms/ecosystems, and outsourced manufacturing.

Assuming that they could use their supply chain expertise to simplify and outsource manufacturing, the cars of the future likely looks more like a software enabled consumer electronics device than a consumer mechanical device, and there are some really neat things you could do in that ecosystem that only apple could pull off (cutting edge design coupled with high end finishes, and a software ecosystem with a self-driving car as a new platform).

That said, it's likely not the right market timing for Apple to bring an electric car to market.
Many companies are shifting away from electric cars right now. As someone who doesn't pay much attention to the industry, is it about capital costs, battery material shortages, consumer behavior, loss of subsidies, general competition, etc? It feels like we made a lot of promises about a shift to "all electric" in certain places by 2030 and I see those promises being rolled back or weakened.
yeah and even if starship tanks are perfectly clean you would also have to assume the tanks on the trucks delivering the fuel/oxi are also perfectly clean. As well as storage tanks, plumbing, and everything else.
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As a former google fanboy (and current genAI enthusiast that keeps being disappointed at all the models that claim to rival gpt4 and then don't even beat gpt3.5), I'll believe it when I see it.
That’s a very solid point.

I do wonder why the heavy lift platforms won’t work (C-17, etc.).
I'm guessing the GP expected them to tell them something useful about compensation earlier in the process, so that neither party would waste time evaluating a deal that couldn't possibly work.
Honestly, given that they are some of the poorest parts of our country. Yes.

I'm also pro-single payer healthcare, and want us just to get on with it.

I don't believe the value of people is just the money they earn.
The concept of a public square or public forum is what we're trying to articulate here, most of us are aware it's not provided for in constitutional language. It's only somewhat recently that it's become relevant, the amount of speech that happens on privately controlled platforms is not something that was predicted or prepared for, it's a massive paradigm shift in human relations. While the proposed laws may be unconstitutional, the grievances that motivated them are legitimate and should be addressed. I just don't think it's helpful to shut down every conversation on the topic on the grounds of constitutionality, particularly in a case like this where the 'spirit' of the constitution is IMO clearly being violated even if the literal words of it are not.
Another explanation: https://www.kafalas.com/Logtime.html
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OP said reactive, not anticipative. You are both in agreement.
Thank you for expressing what myself and so many others can’t put into words.
>>> 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.

Apple, in a twist of fate, is in the same position that AT&T was when it started Bell Labs, and in the same place as Xerox was when it started Parc.

The history of Parc and Apple is well known, the early history of unix being a thrown out the car window by AT&T at speed to avoid more anti trust issues is often forgotten. Apples products are built on legacies. "Resting on the shoulders of giants" is probably true in this case.

Apple is now an AT&T, its now a Xerox, it is now the company that can just do R&D for the sake of doing it (as can Google and a lesser degree MS). Apple, unlike google, knows how to make a consumer product, and one of these moonshots could make it even bigger...

I wonder if in 20 years something from apples car project changes the industry in a way we never expected. Time will only tell.
Ferrari's value is driven more by merchandising than by car sales. Even if a hypothetical Apple car did well, that wouldn't drive billions in sales of Apple branded jackets, hats, luggage, shot glasses, etc.
You seem to have quoted, but then forgotten about, the word "sell". It needs to be things China both wants, and is willing to pay for. Everything in your list is either "already available for free", "banned by the party", or "Why? US patent law does not apply in China".
> If you start running a new server, you start with a negative reputation and have to climb out, you don't start from neutral.

Not really. If you start a new server from an IP range with known bad actors, sure. Many have tried and failed to run their own mail servers from Digitalocean, vultr, or even more dedicated-esque server hosts and pretty quickly see how much of a hassle doing so is.

But if you buy a v4 /24 from some reputable or old company and get it assigned to your own AS, you won't have negative reputation and will be fairly successful as long as you have spf/dkim/dmarc set up properly.
Their physical store is pretty awesome, ended up buying a boxed copy of Toejam and Earl for PC there.