skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does this mean Waymo and/or Cruise had given up and they're no longer a threat to Apple?
That was interesting. I expected the 2020/21 cohorts to be more exuberant, but it seems I was not correct in that assumption.
It's been killed, restarted, scaled down, scaled up about every 9 months for the past 10 years.
There's no evidence that AI is capable of replacing human intelligence. Seems hype is the sole driving reason for such arguments.
And let's not get started about the spelling vs pronunciation of LaTeX, NGINX, and Kubernetes.
> we'll be back to Apple vs Microsoft?

Possibly. On the consumer side, they’re in their own niches. What will get interesting is how Apple lets developers hook into the on-device AI, or one that’s running on its own metal.
"what can an American sell to Chinese people?"

Software, Movies, TV Series, Songs, Video Games, Technology Licenses
Vision Pro was never designed to replace the iPhone from day one.

People seem to have this revisionist history where every Apple product is an instant hit. But the iPod, iPhone, Apple Watch etc all took years to reach that product-market-fit stage.

All Apple has done is establish a baseline for what they want the category to be.
Surely this must be a hardware focused move? I can't see generative AI benefiting Apples core software. Rather I'd be interested to see what I can do with some specialized, custom hardware on their platform.
Graph-based editor for Lisp, JSON
I made this site over several years and it has reached a usable state (albeit with some bugs so it is not professional-grade yet). This link shows a sample Lisp file visualized as a graph. The Lisp code can be edited using keyboard, mouse, or touch, and can exported back to Lisp or in its native graph format. JSON can also be edited this way, and more data types are planned, as well as an offline app and ports to other languages.

This is an open-source project. For the code, see https://github.com/parsegraph/freeform

For general info, see https://parsegraph.com
Even if all it did was improve Siri’s capability to understand requests and add the ability to ask clarifying questions with no other functional improvements, it’d make Siri vastly more useful.
> My concern, ultimately, is what's going to happen when these laws are introduced and a republican congress continues to pursue a rejection of Section 230?

It's not a mystery. Look what happened when sesta/fosta became law. Craigslist had to dump their entire personal section for fear they miss a single ill intentioned post.

The consequence of 230 removal is only to destroy the ability for people to interact with one another publicly online unless one of them (or the platform) is willing to take on liability for the interaction.
I thought it was incredibly difficult to "cold start" a system after such a complete shutdown. You'd prevent infrastructure damage which is fantastic, but the blackout could still last months anyways.
I agree with the person you're responding to, that the assertions you're making here don't seem to be supported by the evidence:

As one of those people in question, it was never unthinkable. Even during the 2000's, it was common to ban people from MSN chatrooms. Before that, it was common to ban people from IRC channels, individual IRC servers, or even entire IRC networks. Did the GNAA have a right to "be platformed" indefinitely wherever they wanted?

Also, the "censorship" in question more often deals with things like insults and other incivility, spamming, death threats, etc. Not mere "political" speech. I doubt many folks were banned from /r/SCOTUS for politely saying "I politically disagree with this ruling". We see via screenshots in the amicus the sort of stuff that was actually moderated.

Indeed, the "censorship" which spawned these laws was the banning of a dude actively calling for violent insurrection against the government, and receiving it, and continuing to encourage it during the violent insurrection. That's the "political speech" the bill authors had in mind when drafting it. It's possible that the "censorship" in question is all that stopped the putsch from succeeding. One can see why fans of said dude and his insurrection were so upset by that.
the price could be set for regional differences such as response time, response duration, staffing numbers, of course unitary demands [swat;riot] would have a pricing scale as well.
Incorrect.

It is completely unrelated. Revenue collapsed due to the powers that be getting angry at him for ending the censorship regime.

As for outages, the issues were little to none.
I’m interested about the Sony/Honda joint venture car (Afeela), and I’d buy an Apple/Toyota joint venture car in a heartbeat.
and yet we want to align AI to general human values
I mean the hype around the iPhone was huge. There was obvious need for a phone that "runs OS X" and was part of the already massive iPod ecosystem. It sold itself.

I still don't get the case for a screen you can wear. My phone screen is big enough for most use cases (like posting this comment). If I need to get work done, my laptop is realistically not much larger than the keyboard I'd need to use anyway. The laptop is also cheaper, and I can show what I'm working on to other people without jumping through hoops.

Classic solution in search of a problem.
Can you imagine how expensive that car would've been? Carplay is enough for me, thanks.
Apple already has transformer based text prediction and a model for power management.

How does "generative AI" help ?
Very well said. As someone who rarely touches Go (only used it for a couple of simple web servers, something like a WebSub subscriber), you've named much of what I like about it. I'd love to see more languages achieve all these features, or even make that a goal.

I'd also mention how great the documentation is. Truly best in class. For instance, see https://pkg.go.dev/net/http

* Has enough examples to fully understand how to use the package.

* Links to the individual source code files so you can read those if needed.

* Has a highly visible link for reporting vulnerabilities.

* Has a great search tool accessible with a keyboard shortcut.

* Clearly marks deprecated functions.

* The page even works without Javascript enabled.
> requires infrastructure, sales and after-sales support that just aren’t aligned with how Apple does business

I always thought Apple was far and away the best consumer electronics brand at this part at least. I'm not saying it would directly translate to a car business, but they do have some real retail skill.
Not that it failed per se, but there were lots of reports that they ended up at a very bulky and compromised headset that was not much different than what Meta was selling when they really wanted AR glasses. Reports also said the executives were unhappy with the final design and that there was political debate if they should launch or fold.

Maybe in a few versions they will have something that could sell a billion units, but they have a lot of work to do to get there.
The phone made sense to me because by that point Apple had clearly proven themselves as a consumer electronics company. It’s wasn’t as big a jump and cell phone software was largely junk.

The carrier thing was true, but they could have launched outside the US. Instead they found a carrier desperate enough.

But they’ve never done safety critical stuff like a car. Of highly mechanical stuff like a car. Or things that need something of a dealer network the way a car does (existing Apple stores wouldn’t cut it). And really I’m not sure how much they could add a special “Apple touch” outside infotainment/interior controls compared to luxury automakers.

If they a fully self driving car by 2018 and beat everyone by 7 years maybe. But as time went on it went from little to almost no sense.

I enjoyed following it for that reason. But I never thought it would happen.
Just wait for dynamic/real time pricing based on your income
I really wonder if Lucid was positioned to be bought by Apple.
I'm extremley sceptical on Vision Pro or AR/VR headsets in general, but I think it's too early to call it failed. I think it met exactly the vision it was supposed to - it just needs years and years of iterating to get to the final goal.
My point is that good faith and sufficient competence are crucial. If the employee didn't care if the plane crashed, they are a bad fit.

If they cant read the refueling checklist, they are a bad fit.

Ideally you have system controls to screen and weed these people out too.
Well, the customers didn't like it, but the business continued to fail after changing back. Stock price declined, stores were closed, and eventually the company declared bankruptcy.

It may have been one of those "customers wanted the faster horse" situations where the business tried to build a faster horse.
They don't, but require significantly more machinery in the language than just operator overloading (especially if you want it to work at compile time).
The Stirring Coastal Imagery of Artur Pastor
So, I went and took a look at Spacemacs, linked from the original post.

I guess you're supposed to have some version of Emacs already installed? Because the "Download" doesn't appear to include a binary, and the "Installation" just appears to set up your ~/.emacs.d/ folder.

Funny, I presumed that an "Emacs Distribution" would include Emacs.
Generative AI won't lead to AGI any time soon but it does make our computers at lot better at understanding us.

Simple example: Adding something to a reminder list, but the name of your lists don't exactly match the list you said to add to.

Prompt: "Add milk to my shopping list"

Siri: "I didn't find a shopping list, do you want to create one?"

ChatGPT (when asked to pick from my actual lists), properly identifies the "groceries" list as the intended list.
I have a friend whose PhD is in computational flow dynamics, as applied to airfoil design. He works almost exclusively in fortran (which is wild to me, for someone under 35, but I guess its the "industry" standard). I just asked him about xfoil and he observed that there are more modern programs for (as he put it) more "realistic/complex" designs, but said it was a good starting place.
I (maybe incorrectly) feel that Asian companies are better at this type of vertical diversification. So many of the big Japanese and Korean companies do so many different things. I'm thinking of Yamaha, Casio, Sony, Samsung, etc.
Would be interesting to see the EU say none of the projects it funds can use AWS until Amazon play ball.
In many ways, micro services are an engineering solution to a management problem, which is: how do we keep feature teams etc. unblocked and constantly deploying without stepping on each other?

Some famous (Google, Meta, Microsoft IIRC) went into the "one repo to rule them all" approach, with requisite tooling, culture, and expectations to enforce that.

Netflix, Amazon (and I suspect a great deal others) went the micro services route.

As far as I can tell, its about whether or not you can reasonably maintain a good mono-culture around development practices and tooling or not ends up being the main question.

Now, there are aspects of micro services that cross these boundaries, but I strongly believe based on my industry observations that this is where it grew out of. If you think about how these organizations approach developing software it can give you a pretty good idea of why they ended up where they did on this frontier.
I won't deny that there's nerfs, but do you not see how "Product reviews used to go to higher quality blogs, Reddit, Consumer Reports now are now just all content filler sites." and "People trying to sell you things are spending billions of dollars on SEO to junk up your results" are related
That's it. So they're not behind, they're already there.
It's better in the pragmatic sense of like, it's more likely to be updated. They already have a PDF or docx laying around because they had to design their print menu, so now they can just upload it. But yes, ideally the menu would be html and would be accurate and up to date and responsive on mobile.
Dieselgate started as far up the top of VWs fod chain as you can get: the CEO handpicked and protected by the god father himself, Ferdinand Piech. Well possible that Piech was involved in all of that as well. It started as a deliberate decision to limit AdBlue tank volume to safe money, and extend AdBlue usage to the point drivers didn't have to replenish themselves between inspections, which allowed VW to make more money on service.

That cheating was not engineers cutting corners to please management, it was engineers at the very top of management deliberately ordering the organization to cheat.
This propaganda issue also applies in full to YouTube.
If you look at the market cap of Ferrari, it's not crazy why Apple was considering this.

They could maybe sell 4k cars a year and increase their market cap by $100B (~3.5%).

You could potentially have some shop hand build them and not have crazy cap-ex or infrastructure.

I don't think Apple was planning to take on Tesla in the mass market - that would've been a pretty strange move, I agree.
CLU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLU_(programming_language)
ITYM "A preposition is cromulent to end a sentence with"
Most Republicans want to censor just different things, just look at all the book bannings across the country. There are tons of things that lefty people complain about being censored on social media but we don't here about it because left-wing media is nowhere near as powerful as right-wing media. (The main lie in a lot of these discussions is that corporate media is lefty.)
What prevents that tedium from being automated?
The javascript code is not minified and is easy to follow. Beautifully done.

https://ciechanow.ski/js/base.js

https://ciechanow.ski/js/airfoil.js
SpaceX absolutely gets a lot of criticism. There's people shouting to nationalize it for crying out loud.
I’d be far more willing to buy a partnership as reasonable, but that didn’t seem to be the plan. At most they’d find someone to act like Foxcon and built it, but not a real partnership.

And I just doubt any existing manufacturer would want to partner with Apple to the level they’d want.
> Does C# have the same issue Python does with accidentally calling blocking code?

This can't really happen in C# except maybe if you are working on a GUI thread and you make the mistake of running blocking code on a GUI thread.

For APIs, console apps, and such, it's not a concern for actual parallel-concurrent code. Of course, if you write a standard non-parallel `for` loop that has blocking code, it's going to block in a console app as well if you don't run it on a thread.

But I think that once you do enough JS/TS or C#, `async/await` doesn't feel very onerous if you have the basic concept.
> I don't know what the answer is.

Well, one obvious option would be the government making its own competitors to Twitter/Youtube/et al.

Yes yes, I realize there's a bunch of issues there, like how the government would REALLY have to permit virtually any kind of speech, or general technical incompetence from government agencies in running such a site. But it could be done, there's nothing actually stopping it.

I actually think a government-run Twitter could work okay and be accepted by people IF they didn't do any kind of algorithmic recommendations, sorting, or even have a search function at all. You could see tweets/content that you got to via external link, you could go onto that person's page to see a chronological list of things they've said, they could have a manually created profile page that links to others, but no curation of any kind by the platform itself. The home page would be mostly blank, or maybe only have a list of official government accounts or something.
I feel Microsoft's desperation to put LLM's into every product suggests mismanagement. Same as Microsoft's past efforts to Bing everything.

Adobe seems to be the only one with an empowered product team that's consistently finding sensible and profitable uses for machine learning.
>I know they pay very low comp in the UK compared to US

What else did you expect? US wages in UK/EU? They don't pay higher wages in the US out of the goodness of their hearts, they pay it because the US market forces them to. They'd gladly pay European wages or below in the US if they could get away with it.
I wish they'd put a huge FPGA on every device.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xnppM6GG9Q
Here's an old timey video of Bob in his prime. At 8:55 he flys a barrel roll with one hand while pouring himself a glass of iced tea with the other. Hardest part was pouring the tea backhanded so the camera had a good view. Then he finishes with his trademark no-engine loop, roll, and landing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT1kVmqmvHU&t=510s
Unfortunately not off the top of my head, but I know scott horton has discussed it at length, "Enough already" probably has the sauce. I wasnt trying to correct anyone, thats just how I remember the events and was curious if anyone had any input.
Yeah but didn't the first iPhone sell pretty well? I tried a demo of AVP in NYC the week after release. The staff casually mentioned that they had units in stock if I'd like one.

I think apple is having a difficult time selling these things. I had a harder time getting a hold of an iPad pro over a month after launch.

Maybe later versions will catch on though.
And '90s. And '80s.
The correlation they saw was after controlling for potentially confounding variables, like income level, housing stock, density, and demographics, as explained in this article: https://caseytrees.org/2023/09/mythbusting-trees-and-crime/.

So of course it's not proof of causation, but reverse causation(nice neighborhoods lead to more trees planted) seems unlikely to explain the effect.
Yeah based on rumors they were on like version 12 of the program.
If you can add source and destination as csv, it will increase the usefulness of this product manifold.

There are many instances where people either have a csv that they want to load into a database or get a specific database table exported into csv.
From the other side, phone and home electronics producer Xiaomi invested few billions into car business and now is producing car similar to Porsche.

Why you think Apple can't do the same if focused?
I don't know about that one. As you say, it's just repeating the class documentation, so maybe the tooling should make it easier to view the class docs if that's the problem. The generated version is also less clear: In what sense are the conventions "necessary"? The process "includes" the steps listed, but does it also include other things?
I tell my mom the same about Amazon (sans the CCP thing), but it's hard to argue someone out of very cheap stuff that arrives the next day.

It gets easier every time some piece of shit arrives that's not as described, or is incredibly low quality - but it also gets drowned out by all of the "good enough" stuff that arrives as well.
Hi Burak, I saw cx_Oracle in the requirements.txt but the support matrix did not mention it. Does this mean Oracle is coming? Or a typo?
Aside from CarPlay.
This is toxic though. People shouldn’t have to be able to predict the future should they? And if the opportunity to escape being a wage slave presents itself by simply changing an approach, should a person not take it just because potentially years prior they didn’t intend to?

A person changed their mind. That is okay.
> Maybe water should not be allowed because rapists can drink it ?

You joke, but this is a significant part of the justification given for denying water to millions right now (in Gaza).
This is reducing culture to money, which I imagine the safety culture theorists anticipated a layperson, misinformed understanding of it.
For all Apple's flaws, I trust that they could disrupt the AI industry once they enter it. Their decisions are all highly calculated, and they employee vast swaths of researchers. I would not be surprised if they entered the market with a well functioning local LLM
There's three versions. The F-35B is the one that can take off in a short distance and land vertically[0] and it has a big lift fan behind the cockpit. The F-35A and F-35C don't have the lift fan; the C has large wings and a reinforced tailhook[1] compared to the other versions.

[0] The F-35B _can_ take off vertically, but it can't do so with any reasonable weapons or fuel load.

[1] Many non-Navy planes have tailhooks to work with emergency arresting wire systems at Air Force bases, but those are for emergencies and are rarely used, whereas the Navy uses tailhooks all day every day
110m crazy, a380 was 4x
The only time it made sense to me was the idea they had some proprietary or trade secret 10x battery efficiency breakthrough from their work on computers and had a massive opportunity to utilize it in electric car space. Otherwise struck me as as a "tesla is doing this so we should too" move.
Yes, you need to install Emacs. It is probably available from whatever package manager your system uses.

I prefer Doom (https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs) to Spacemacs. However I haven't looked at Spacemacs for many years; perhaps it's now on par with Doom.
I have a pet theory which says wealth and political stability over long periods of time and cultural homogeneity together lead to lower crime rates and this doesn't indicate anything about how law-abiding these countries citizens are or how big their social safety net is. And those countries still remain higher crime rate than countries who are both hard on crime, have an effective police force and have citizens who believe someone is watching them and will severely punish them even when they are out of the FOV of a CCTV camera (God in Islam. Christianity doesn't count, you won't be punished cause Jesus died for your sins).
Or they could launch some much lower hanging fruit and wait for stock price to appreciate by that much or more. A car company, no matter how small, is very, very hard.
While some may have doubted the iPhone, Apple sold 1.9 million iPhones in the year it launched, and cell phones had already been established as an enormous and growing market.

VR seems very different from that. Most people simply don’t want what companies are trying to sell them, and I think multiple major technical breakthroughs would be necessary to change that.
Car manufacturers must be coming around on CarPlay. I made a purchasing decision largely because one of the car suitable cars supported wireless CarPlay.
Finally!

The idea that Apple had any business making cars was rooted in overconfidence and business school nonsense.

It was overconfidence to think that the shipping of tens of millions of smartphones meant the company was well-suited to make heavy machinery.

It was business school nonsense that birthed the idea. Consumers never needed Apple to make a car; the car presumably was to 'diversify' and placate investors worried about smartphone market saturation.

Tim Cook, and whoever else had a part in scrapping this dumb project, are probably mourning its death, but they ought to congratulate themselves.
> What reason is self awareness needed for an agent to be intelligent?

Because some of you daydreamers are convinced AI will replace human intelligence one day. It is important to define and contextualize intelligence. I gave some of the qualities of what AI is up against (human intelligence).

That's why it is important for AI to be capable of achieving at least some of these qualities before claiming the world as we know it is coming to an end.
If they hired a propulsion guy from Boeing to develop a new super-sonic engine, Boom fucked up. Boeing, same for Airbus, doesn't develop or built engines, let alone super sonic ones.

But dor sure, said Boeing hire will be royaly paid for his service, good for them. And good for Boom, a prominent Boeing hire will make fundraising so much easier.

But sure, as if building a new commercial airframe manufacturer isn't hard enough, becoming a new jet engine manufacturer on top of that is a winning strategy...