skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And still Apple has no idea how to make a car, because cars are extremely different than phones.

Yes there are some incidental parts that Apple has skill at making. Perhaps they should provide touch-panels for the car controls? The interface would be better than what's out there.

The most significant evidence that Apple isn't a car manufacturer is, that they have just thrown up their hands and cancelled the project, with essentially the defense that "We don't know how to do anything involved in making a car" e.g. distribution, manufacturing, certifications and on and on.
If it didn't work they wouldn't do it (and when it stops working they will find something else). Advertising is pretty insidious. I have been adblocking most things for over a decade now and thought I was mostly saving myself from annoyance and wasted time, but in the last 4-5 years in youtube video ads from creators themselves showed up. I only discovered sponsorblock last year so I've only been using it for around a year and it's interesting to see my own unnoticed positive biases to brands where the advertising was previously sneaking through just melt away. Now when I watch a video that is too new or obscure for someone to have marked the ads with sponsorblock I am back to getting annoyed and wondering why I ever thought positive thoughts about this brand in the first place. If this stuff is having this effect on me (highly disagreeable personality, above average but not genius level intelligence, made a living trading commodities calling bullshit on the concensus opinion) then the rest of the world must be screwed.
You are referring to the USA here. In most parts of Europe / EU it's actually still illegal for vendors to discriminate on price based on the type of payment.
"Tried"? There are millions of people in India working for western companies.
Good grief. Back in my day, people used to Mark X in sharpies on the top of the card decks so when they (ineluctably) got dropped it'd be easier to re-assemble.

You kids didn't know how lucky you were.
The US has oceans on both sides, and the bureaucracy involved in getting airfare reimbursed for a bunch of agents is too much for most governments.
That's why you work to remove humans from the loop altogether.
OpenRouter is a great step in that direction: https://openrouter.ai/
> I'm not sure I understand what biogeography has to do with their point which seems to mainly be about the passage of time.

Individuals in different biogeographical niches can have distinct “passages of time” in their immune systems, depending on their exposure to endemic pathogens.

> Doesn't water mix things up pretty well?

So does air, but you don’t see a homogeneous distribution of airborne pathogens around the world :)

By the way, thanks for those papers, they reminded me of single-domain antibodies (or “nanobodies”), which appear to have evolved independently in cartilaginous fish and camelids: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...
Or they’re people that refused to be redeployed because they didn’t like the other projects.
Yeah, especially for a game like Mario Kart, I'm not too obsessed with making sure I'm picking the most efficient combination of things. I'm picking what I think looks cool or has the most fun personality (in the case of characters) for me in the moment. For that, having more choices is (mostly) better.

Even something like Counter-strike, where a lot of the differences are pretty subtle, I liked having a good amount of choices just to play a couple rounds with a gun that feels slightly different and see how well I do. I had my preferences but I played with them all.

That being said I do think there's something to be said for not just dumping a bunch of options on a player and be like "you figure out how you want to play", even though I've been guilty of that in a couple past games I've designed, thinking more options is better.

Like I remember on of my sequels to a game I tried all sorts of ideas for how to change up options, and instead of pinning down that "okay the hand size is going to be 5 tiles, and if you place next to an ally tile you'll bump them up by X amount, and you can choose what set of numbers the tiles can be (like 1-5, or 1-10, or 1-20)... with my new sequel I've mostly pared it down and I'm taking away game options, because I bet almost no one did anything but use the defaults anyway. At least before I hid them in an options menu you had to choose to open.
People who use the best tool (i.e. other people) to kill are rarely held accountable.
I don't think it's going to be as bad as everyone is saying in this comment thread. Current AI's not accurate enough to replace most human work and only showing incremental improvements lately. A new technological strategy is probably needed to achieve human-level capability.

The jobs at risk / already dead from AI are things like internet ghost writing / SEO spam writing and customer service roles for cheap companies. For the rest of us it's a (very useful) tool, not a competitor.
I didn’t know reformatting disabled intelME!
Fair enough and all points I agree with
Write a book about surviving a soul-deadening job. We people on HN live on dream farms where roses are red and violets are blue, and the next wealth point is just an IPO in queue.
They have a lot at stake on both sides of the coin. They need AI to succeed, but not so much that they lose their customer base. Google needs to be especially careful – ain't no advertiser buying up ad space to market to legions of unemployed people.

But, no matter who is behind a study, trust doesn't even begin until replication has occurred.
I’ve always wondered whether a violin is even a particularly good UX for making violin noises. The shape (and therefore most of the UX) is constrained in the analogue domain… but in the digital domain?

I’ve been consistently surprised to see that unlike with e.g. MIDI “keyboard controllers” (which have evolved and diverged into many different forms for different use-cases, like sequencer button pads), there is no similar experimentation in what form an “electric violin” for greenfield players could tak. Nothing like, say, an instrument played with one finger of each hand along pressure-sensitive slider pads for 4D continuous input.
Only if Leonardo DiCaprio plays the guy faking his identity for 35 years.
Prison guards are fungible. Disobeying officers can only cause imprisonment, and won't change a thing in leadership.

The logic of punishing prison guards comes from the false belief that soldiers can all somehow synchronize their actions (through some kind of collective consciousness?) and coordinatedly disobey their supperiors in order to teach them a lesson.
I believe the revelation is that this particular Brigadier General is leading specifically unit 8200. I'm sure that the line

> n expert analyst, commander of an elite intelligence unit and technology manager with 20 years of experience working on national security issues and challenges

Fits neatly into quite a few punched-up resumes and 'about' pages.
> Profit-seeking capitalists will.

I like how you say this as if it's some sort of slur. This is fundamentally how the world economy works, not some evil plot. And even if you have some problems with particular implementations of some brands of capitalism, "wanting to get the most value for the lowest cost", which is exactly what "profit-seeking capitalists" do, is a pretty universal human trait, from the CEO who decides he can lay off humans and replace them with AI, to the everyday consumer who decides they can use ChatGPT to plan things around a specific vacation destination instead of using a travel agent.
This isn't really my experience. My personal blog gets a lot of traffic from Mastodon and my Umami stats show traffic from social networks and search engines for my startup https://pickwick.app

I do have trouble finding where on those platforms it's being shared/talked about though.

https://imgur.com/a/kwmooNM
You can even do better with something like:

namespace StlHelpers {

template<class... Ts> struct overload : Ts... { using Ts::operator()...; };

template<class... Ts> overload(Ts...) -> overload<Ts...>;

template<class var_t, class... Func> auto visit(var_t & variant, Func &&... funcs)

{

return std::visit(overload{ funcs... }, variant);

}

}

And then

StlHelpers::visit(var,

[](MyType1 t1) {...},

[](MyType2 t2) {...},

[](auto t) {...}

);
However, we do need an easy way to see what's changed in the gems between "bundle update"s.
>routing fiber optic cables

I didn't even think about this possibility(!) -- but yes, it would make tremendous sense for fiber optic companies to route fiber optic cables along railroad tracks (both currently used and converted to other use, i.e., hiking/walking/biking paths) as the land rights are already established -- that is, there is no need to buy out homeowners/landowners en route; no need to engage in "eminent domain" lawsuits with property owners, etc., etc. -- and because the cables typically would go underground, that is, they wouldn't interfere with the natural scenery; the Nature above...

I'm sure many companies are already engaged in this pursuit -- but I like the idea of getting not just one, but multiple social value-adds from given pre-purposed tracts of land...

Anyway, an excellent observation!
I'm outraged that Tom Scott is not on your list of "Youtubers who do it for the art" and I demand you add him immediately ;-)
Are you referring to the text in the WEB Page ?

https://www.openbsd.org/75.html

I think that is because Theo de Raadt maintains the Site. As someone said the source files have their own copyright comments.
Given the amount of investment in the space I'm surprised there isn't more concrete data available on how it will affect jobs.
Back in the olden days, I had a junior dev ask me if he could learn ops, I said sure, I was just a hacker myself. He wrote a script to make sure the hard drives in all the servers were good. A month or so later we rebooted a server and it wouldn't come back up. We finally rebooted another to see if we could learn something about the dead server. But it also wouldn't boot. Then to our horror we learned that the disk check script was writing and reading to the boot sector to make sure it was good. All of our servers were affected. Good times.
In the subject article there is a link to Maariv article (In hebrew) https://www.maariv.co.il/journalists/Article-1078519.

Basically the guy drunk "Startup Nation" kool-aid and thought he was running a startup. 8200 built this data lake with billions of data points and started to rely on it, decreasing the importance of intelligence analysts. So they were getting signals but couldn't act upon them, something that senior analysts would have helped. That's why they ignored the senior analyst "V" alarms and called her delusional. And on that damned early morning when they started to get "low significance" signals from the system and the chief of staff, Mossad and the intelligence head decided not to do anything significant. At the same time, an analyst could have connected the dots.

This guy will be out and the rest as well.
Yeah how was this such a secret?
we should have Exxon Mobile study the effects of oil on the environment

It already did. In 1977 Exxon studied just that, and concluded that it will destroy the planet.

But Exxon kept on drilling because of greed, demonstrating that its leaders care more about making money than killing people.

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-01-12/exxonmo...
Still waiting for them to say "sike"
Indeed, like it or not, the idea that the game of Mario Kart (for example) is exclusively the part where you drive around the track is both simplistic and naive. It comes across as a values statement of the following form: "good games are only concerned with moment-to-moment mechanical execution and tests of reflexes, and not any of that other Skinner-box frippery". But (again, whether we like it or not), for a lot of people the frippery is crucial to the enjoyment of the game. (And these are hardly the only two reasons people play games, e.g. there's socialization, mastery, etc.)

And even in the case of the OP, concluding that most items are useless is not a substantiated conclusion. As the OP notes, a Pareto frontier is N-dimensional, and the number of points lying on the frontier grows exponentially as we expand to consider all the other variables. Just because a meta exists among "top players" doesn't mean that's the only valid choice; different people can optimize for different things (and even top players are frequently irrational, lazy, and/or cargo-culting).
Yet there is this curious clause in the US Constitution:

Article I, Section 10, Clause 1:

No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.

Variously interpreted, that part about states can't make their own currency may be tangentially important.
Life advice, unfortunately. Not an actual explanation of how to escape a bog.
You did ask more generally:

> Does that really need to be part of the language though, or as long as you can code it, or have it in the standard library, it's fine?

And my answer is, yes. I don't consider `std::variant` a proper replacement, more like a crutch that may even be worse than not having anything at all, because its existence can be used as an argument against introducing language-level sum types in the future.
The American model is to eschew socialism with the public/private duality that brings the worst of both worlds - high prices, zero accountability, and double the bureaucracy.

The need for competition is real, and in many instances regulations are written by the regulated, but we need to find a way to solve our fake "ha ha it's not real socialism" model in a way that fits our American society.
These jokes are so tiresome. It was cute two decades ago but please let this stupid tradition die. It's become devoid of all humor and makes April 1 a hassle honestly.
Basically all research, on any given topic, is done by people with some kind of stake.
It's never useless. You'll not be dumber afterwards. See as additional skill and it looks good on your resume "did that, got this"

It's all a matter of selling it with perspective :)
That seems extreme. In both JS and Rust, it’s not unusual to not await the promise/future immediately and just deal with the returned promise directly. Presumably that’s why neither language awaits for you automatically. I would be pretty annoyed if the linter yelled at me every time I did that.
From that line and a few others in the article Amazon doesn't seem to be involved at all. It seems like there was a Gmail account created to receive feedback, corrections, reviews, and media outreach that was also supposed to be relatively anonymous but was registered with his actual name which would be visible to anyone that he responded to at the very least, but may also show up through other account associations.
Everyone jumping into AI, but there's going to be a business opportunity for curated sources of information with proof that actual human beings created it.
The end of the article was the most surprising to me, because in spite of their favorable self-comparison to Proton VPN, I had never heard of them before. I've spent the last 7+ years neck deep in the privacy and security space, working alongside hundreds of others doing the same, so it surprises me a lot that this is the first time I've ever heard of this company.

It's possible I've just missed them, but not even to have heard of them in passing is weird.
Capitalism isn't the problem. There is no system which prevents the elite and powerful from taking advantage of the working class.
Using one of the most biased and anti-israel as a source what could go wrong?
Edit: A different and less biased title would be: the use of technology and AI to minimize civilian casualties in guerrilla warfare. No? How much civilians did US kill during Vietnam war? There was no AI then and the Vietnamese didnt murder and rape civilian Americans did they?Edit 2: downvote me until it gets removed and you enjoy your echo chamber of beliefs.
I think Gemini’s best feature is search inside my Google app data, for example “summarize the important stuff in the last three days of my @gmail”.

Perplexity, or things like it, seem like a threat to Google.
The title suggests to me (maybe is a lost in translation case) that lots of penguins are being killed by bird flu. The article says that evidence of this is incomplete or just a suspicion.

In a frozen sample, we can't do histopathology. All the tissues are damaged. Also all pathogens based in cells are destroyed. There are a million of things that could have killed this penguins. For example, we know that the ocean is warming, and warm temperatures in the ocean trigger algae bloom, that can introduce toxins in the seafood chain that typically causes this results.

If penguins would need ice for fishing, and ice melted, same result.

Finding a virus in a sample where you can see the damage to the cells caused by the virus is one thing. Finding a virus where the only remains are frozen viruses in a tissue soup (unless you test for DNA) is a different thing.
Agreed with other posters: CLI is the best way to go…

ChatGPT can help with learning a lot now but the mailing lists are incredible sources of kind and wonderful (and incredibly knowledgeable) people… go there!

Handbrake, Permute are super as mentioned… I’ve put down a couple to add to the list.)

Helpful:
https://ffmpeg.guide/
https://www.ffworks.net/
Not necessarily all of them!

If the customers who can’t tell the difference leave and twice as many new ones join, you’re winning.

I’m happy with Mullvad, but I’m more likely to use or recommend Windscribe in future because they do stuff like this (even though I think most April Fools stuff is a bit tired and it's generally overdone, I much prefer companies to have a personality, be quirky, etc. — easy to like is hard to love).
> The government has the monopoly of violence

I don’t know, that alone seems like a good enough reason to stop giving them control over things to me. I don’t want the entity providing my information also having legal authority to murder me.

Like if I can buy something from from an entity with the authority to kill me or an entity without for a little bit more, I'll pay the extra.
There are those who are working on AGI, who say they do not know when or if it will show up. Those who do think AGI will appear (if you can get them to define it) think it will come from a gradual increase in capability , just exactly the same way current advances have happened.

Then there are those who are using existing generative AI to book revenue today. This includes OpenAI, and other generative AI providers, but it also includes companies like Accenture, which booked $600M in AI consulting last quarter and expects it to continue growing. There's GitHub co-pilot, which is booking revenue.
i think he was being sarcastic
Recruiting employees is a sunk cost. There is a concept that it is a fallacy to maintain the cost because so much has already been spent- in other words, "throwing good money after bad".

In this particular case, GP posits that fallacy is itself a fallacy, insomuch as there is no greater opportunity the company could pursue which required laying those employees off. The reputational harm done, among other things, is a hidden cost not reflected in the numbers of their salaries, and surely they could have participated in other R&D efforts, or something along those lines.
DivX disks were DVDs.
maybe the canaries don’t die until a year later of total DNA collapse :^)
> Killing innocent people is against international law and harms the country doing it. While killing terrorists is acceptable and even desirable to many people.

Enemy combatant has a very specific meaning and that _can_ include people aiding and abetting the enemy. Thus, "actual terrorist" is a fairly nebulous term along with "innocent people". War is hell for a reason. Except for in obvious cases like Mai Lai it is never clear whether to call a person "innocent" for allowing an enemy combatant to seek shelter in their home - for example. But you have to make a snap decision: is the woman carrying what looks like an oddly shaped baby actually carrying bomb? Groceries? Why is she walking so close to the convoy? Did we issue a warning? Did she heed it? A bad decision will cost you many more lives than taking one. War is hell.

> the targeting team has developed a far more flexible pretext for violence

Doubt. The kill order chain is most likely AI flags target -> fed to human operator -> operator confirms -> kill order. Of course, your counter argument is that the human is given pretext ("this is a target") and thus assesses it with the assumption but in theory it's actually a better situation. 80% accuracy is still better than previous generations warfare. You dont want to end up on the thermals of an apache carrying a tube you need to replace your broken sewage system.

The news is polluted with pro-Palestinian nonsense. It's very clear absolutely no one on social media has any idea what hamas does, or what the people of palestine have done to aid and abet the terrorists. This is not to justify just dropping bombs on people without cause but I would be pretty satisfied with a best-effort approach to the loss of civilian life given how deeply embedded hamas is.
Yes, we Americans committed many atrocities in our many wars and we will absolutely do so in the future. Please learn from us instead of following our path.
I don't believe he's credited for it, but the cover for the Melvin's Houdini album is drawn from his art

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houdini_(album)
:] By their tongue, you will know them.

Tangentially related: I really loved the 'shibboleth' that went like

complex and multifaceted [things] that encompass [other things]

from November 2023 [1]. Even though it was clear this will soon disappear from newer models being too obvious, I was still quite surprised, that "multifaceted" didn't even get into more recent study from March 2024 [2] that pointed out skyrocketing of terms such as commendable, intricate, and meticulous.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38501589 / https://blog.j11y.io/2023-11-22_multifaceted/ / https://twitter.com/padolsey/status/1727555475573440996

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39909692 / https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07183 / https://twitter.com/myfonj/status/1773371415149891871
tech companies compete for talent first and product second; the primary purpose was to slow down competitors from developing a driverless car before apple had evaluated it as a potential platform. it wasn’t to build a platform itself, at least initially. companies, particularly rich ones, do this all the time.
“Survival” and “fitness” of an individual are two separate concepts. The latter is directly related to the amount of potential offspring (and thus reproduction), the former is not.
I'm similar to you there; the old addage "one is too many, two is too few" (or whatever the current version of that is) always ruled my drinking; I didn't need alcohol, but when I started I'd keep going - nice to have a name for it.

Unrelated to any of this, I have a number of mental health issues, and recently I found that alcohol no longer gives me any of the euphoria effects that is used to do (obviously I still had the negative effects); once I noticed that, my desire for alchol went to zero and I've not touched it since - no idea if I am still have the same response to alcohol, but I'm not going to test it, for obvious reasons :)