skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, a self driving car can be either supervised or unsupervised.

I'm required to supervise my car while it drives me to work, but it is by definition fully self driving, controlling all aspects of the vehicle while I sit with hands off the wheel watching
and search provider! Of all the companies in the world, why is Gmail search just not better?
I'm saying the same thing?
But we've had Eliza since the 60's so what is there to get excited about?
> Apple’s obsession with privacy and security is the reason most of us don’t think twice to scan our faces, store bank account information or share our real-time location via our phones.

Uh do you have any freaking idea of what happens with your location data? bank account information is a matter of security. So is face ID data.
Where exactly is the Apple Intelligence that was advertised? Siri absolutely cannot go into your phone's calendar and see who you bumped into at some bar or café. I've been using the Pixel 9 Pro as my daily driver and while I really wanted to install CalyxOS on it, I've found Gemini to be actually useful (and I'm generally biased against Google).

Apple is behind the curve like Google was prior to Gemini 2.5 Pro, but unlike Google, I cannot see Apple having the talent to catch up unless they make some expensive acquisitions and even then they will still be behind. I was shocked at how good Gemini 2.5 Pro is. The cost and value for money difference is so big that I'm considering switching away from my API usage of Claude Sonnet 3.7 to Gemini 2.5 Pro.
Yeah, I wish I read the comments before reading the article. Thanks for the heads up.

Honestly the article was not worth the read, let alone the spoiler.
>Your car is presumably not unique. Both the model and well... it probably does more or less exactly the same as any other car. If you had an entirely unique one of a kind antique car it would be pretty different.

I fail to see how this is in any way whatsoever relevant. a unique car has a market value, and a non-unique car also has a market value. anything that can be sold has a market value. there's still no such thing as a "true market value"
Good question!

So there are a couple of options, depending on the hardware. If it kicked out HD-SDI you could just patch the display into the coax in the building and have done with it.

But that only worked if you were in the same building and your machine kicked out HD-SDI

Most machines either shat out dual-link DVI or worse, some custom shit. Getting a cable that can reliably transport dual-link DVI >10 meters was difficult and expensive. Worse still, it had a habit of dropping back to single link, or some other failure mode that was everso annoying to debug. More over, 10 meters often isn't far enough. Especially if the room had a projector (so might be >5m long throw.)

Now, thats the simple case. The hard case is multi-building. Say, you have an operator working in london, and the director in new york, you want to give them the highest quality picture possible. The only way to do that at the time was with one of these cards, or some nasty SDI-hardware h264 transcoder (hugely expensive at the time)

I really wish I could remember what they were called. They appear to have fallen out of favour.

Now, you'd just use cynesync, as you're laptop can encode video in real time now (https://www.backlight.co/product/cinesync) Also, rumour has it that the wolverene movie was leaked because a producer got coked up and left an unencypted laptop on a plane, rather than using cynesync to show an edit to someone important. Alas I can't verify that.
Most of society and people on HN are from western society. I'd say it's more of a capitalist view point. Which is basically all of society you see today.

To ensure net benefit to society one must make policies that benefit individuals and hope that the network effects balance out and make society better overall. Expecting altruism is unrealistic.
This sort of takeaway is from people who do not have experience in cutting edge. AI is developing at such a rapid pace right now. I’ve seen some amazing things in the past three months.

I will say Apple AI completely sucks for a company with all the resources available to them.
Do you mean to say funding impacted chemistry/chemical engineering at UC Berkeley a lot? Berkeley's chemistry majors have always been top in the nation, and there is a "College of Chemistry", separate from the other science (and even engineering) majors which makes it stand out from the rest of the country. So maybe the funding goes there just because it's already a historically distinguished place for chemistry.
And here I felt he added lubrication to machinery = Oiler and my friend Eugene who's mother called him Oygen does the same. Being from the UK, came to Canada in 1948, I spoke colloquial English in school, but correct London Cockney slang at home to family - on phone calls to friends, if I responded to family mid dialog, my friends would always ask who was that when my slang was over heard.
The Goodwills in my area all claim to do e-waste. I've never been to one that will accept e-waste.
We've also had sand, so I'm not sure what this "CPU" hype is about.
The EUV "lightbulb" was invented in the US and the patents are owned by the US government.

For the Dutch to allow ASML to ignore those patents would create a technology economic war between the US and EU.

I guess ASML could try and invent a different way to generate the EUV, but nobody has don't that yet - it is an extremely difficult problem (and took many years to find one solution). If those patents are the crux of US control, then presumably ASML will be researching alternatives (citations?).

China has different solutions (in particular China can ignore US patents).

From Wikipedia:

To address the challenge of EUV lithography, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories were funded in the 1990s to perform basic research into the technical obstacles. The results of this successful effort were disseminated via a public/private partnership Cooperative R&D Agreement (CRADA) with the invention and rights wholly owned by the US government
Yeah that argument seems more a marketing gimmick than makes technical sense. If the OS RNG needs fresh entropy it can reseed with fresh entropy from various sources as it does today and use fast key erasure for forward resistance. Sure there will be windows of opportunity of state compromise, but if the state can be compromised then you have deeper problems, for example they can copy the output of a TRNG source. It's just wasteful to spend a large amount of money on a problem that has a negligible chance of ever actually happening, and in reality would only potentially patch one small issue in what would be a larger shitstorm.
It is worth burning hundreds of billions, because users are demanding it and getting value from it.

Grok has already overloaded their 200k GPU cluster and is struggling to keep up with the demand.
That makes no sense: shipping all dependencies (e.g. shipping a container image) gives perfect binary compatibility on Linux, which is what flatpak/snap/appimage do.

It can also be achieved with static linking and by shipping all needed library and using a shell script loader that sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Also glibc (contrary to the author's false claims) and properly designed libraries are backwards compatible, so in principle just adding the debs/rpms from an older Debian/Fedora that ships the needed libraries to the packaging repositories and running apt/dnf should work in theory, although unfortunately might not in practice due to the general incompetence of programmers and distribution maintainers.

Win32 is obviously not appropriate for GNU/Linux applications, and you also have the same dependency problem here, with the same solution (ship a whole Wine prefix, or maybe ship a bunch of DLLs).
Calling it "confidential information" from los alamos is probably just a trick to evoke thoughts and assumptions that he was stealing nuclear secrets.

In reality, given the pattern of intimidation and lies from this government, it was probably something innocuous that was trumped up even just to be a violation of an NDA (e.g. maybe a draft of a not-yet-published non-unusual research paper that included an author from Los Alamos), or else this government would have emphasized the sensitive or dangerous nature of that "confidential information".
Reflect: An AI tool to generate your brag document
So the issue was more that dual-link DVI was very rare, and getting hardware to encode/transmute it reliably and at high bit-depth was almost impossible.

By about 2014 hardware encoders were good enough to send decent quality video over gigabit.
It's documentation. Makes it much easier for people to know what kind of problems they can solve using Code Interpreter.

It's a bit absurd that the best available documentation for that feature exists in my hacky scraped GitHub repository.
Oral cultures had theater.
I agree, if we're talking about Milner's sense (he means roughly "can't produce a runtime error").
I think this attitude to the Linux ABI is maybe out of date - with a 20 year old Linux binary, that's only 2005, so it will almost certainly be using glibc (no archaic libc5). Glibc has great backwards compatibility and the binary will work on any glibc distribution today as long as you have all the .so's, same as needing the .dll's on Windows.
Is it possible to order this as a print magazine delivery? Or is it only for download and print at home? I would love to receive a magazine like this in the mail!
Why combine only two things? I like to invite my dates to my work Zooms so they can see how professional I am / my sandwich skills. When I meet up with my friends, we online shop at macys.com while on the treadmill. It's just more convenient.
My brother got a popcorn kernel stuck in his ear that required a doctor visit to remove. Kids are dumb
Apple adds TCC events to Endpoint Security
People still giving credit to Apple even when THEY HAVE GOTTEN CAUGHT of listening all of the people's conversation in order to train Siri back in 2019[1] are a really good illustration that you can't have a working democracy when gigantic corporation have such a control over what people will think about them no matter what they do.

[1]: https://www.francetvinfo.fr/internet/apple/entretien-on-parl...
> for example objects go after verbs (head-initial)

There would be a better argument that this was an example of left-headedness if subjects also went after verbs.
I really like the idea of rust-script but last time I looked there didn't seem to be a good way to get rust-analyzer to work when writing a script. Maybe I'm a little too reliant on LSPs but I find writing Rust painful without it, has the situation improved at all since?
> and the fact people have to go to such length to get access to it is noteworthy

I'll repeat myself: no it's not. There's nothing noteworthy about it at all. In fact I literally cannot fathom why anyone ever expects or expected otherwise. Is it because the oft-repeated notion of "abstraction"? I guess I must be the sole programmer that has always known/understood, even from the first intro class, that abstractions are just assumptions and when those assumptions don't hold I will need to remove the abstraction.
Good schools in europe require you to be proficient in their native language.
Power failure is a best case. I've observed firsthand cases of "badge access system went down, none of the doors open". That's less of a problem for external doors that allow people out but not in, because it can be solved by propping the door and posting a guard who checks badges. It's a massive problem when conference rooms and offices lock people in.
> NOTE: I am not against Apple or Microsoft. They have amazing engineers! I don't think they're being malicious. Rather, I think the incentives for these companies are improperly aligned.

Improperly aligned incentives? Who gets to say what that is?

Is it "improper" to maximize profit per their own board's guidelines?

I have a feeling OP has some predefined notion of nobility they expect people to somehow operate under.
One director had their sofa shipped into the Digital-intermediary room (it had a 2k calibrated digital projector) for 4 months. An artist has got to be comfortable....
"iCloud is secure… we don't have the keys."*

*except for backup.

oops.
Yes, I agree. What kind of institution do you think could do better?
So the US is a third world kleptocracy now.
I do I.T. for a small broadcast studio (it's actually a sports venue, but they have their own production and broadcast studio), and it is indeed still very much like this. We have rack-mounted workstations alongside all the servers and networking, with KVMs to the next room where the production is handled. This was all spec'd and built out in 2019.
There’s actually a meta-naivety in geeks where they write stuff like this and then get on the soapbox to shill some random project that is somehow better and that we can actually trust some random service for reasons that fall apart if you apply the exact same scrutiny to them. Really, they’re just smug about being smarter.

Let’s take the two advertisements that the author has. I call them advertisements because, despite being sure neither Signal or Protonmail paid this guy, he fell into the obvious trap of “xyz sucks, here’s what to use instead”.

Amazon is bad, Apple is bad, Kagi is bad because they all take your money. But Protonmail is good because they…take your money? They take your money and if they did something bad you wouldn’t pay them. Ok? And this obviously has happened to all the secure apps that people continue to use despite them being hacked, or the companies that rebrand after it’s found out they were leaking your information? If Protonmail was found out tomorrow to be a front for the CIA, who suffers? What’s stopping the people running it from just making Electronmail tomorrow and claiming that they aren’t a front for the CIA?

Meanwhile Signal is an open source project and that means everyone has reviewed the code and trusts it. What happened to giving companies money so that they suffer when they violate your privacy? If Signal makes it so that you don’t want to use it, what harm do they suffer? If they add new code that backdoors the app or sells ads or harvests your contacts, what are you going to do about it? Will you publish a blog post explaining how you were the geek who got conned this time?

I actually have nothing against these specific projects, just as I generally don’t have specific vendettas against the other dozen things these blog posts tend to shill (DuckDuckGo, Brave, Quebes, GrapheneOS, Firefox, whatever). My point is that the geek is perpetually vulnerable to thinking his choices are good because of some technical reasons, when in reality we choose what we associate with based on trust and human factors. You probably choose your software because your buddy from IRC told you it is good. A lot of people choose their software because they saw an advertisement showing that this company actually cares about their privacy. Neither of you is dumber than the other and making people feel bad for not keeping up with the evolving landscape of privacy is generally not productive.
No. But I never claimed to be self-consistent or rational, did I now?
Are Reasoning Models Better at Catching Bugs Than Non-Reasoning Models?
I felt the same way. Tried it for a week or so and decided to buy. That was over a year ago.
My apologies - I misread your comment completely.
>We invented a linguist and mistook it for an engineer.

People are missing the point. LLMs aren’t just fancy word parrots. They actually grasp something about how the world works. Sure, they’re still kind of stupid. Imagine a barely functional intern who somehow knows everything but can’t be trusted to file a document without accidentally launching a rocket.

Where I really disagree with the crowd is the whole “they have zero intelligence” take. Come on. These things are obviously smarter than some humans. I’m not saying they’re Einstein, but they could absolutely wipe the floor with someone who has Down syndrome in nearly every cognitive task. Memory, logic, problem-solving — you name it. And we don’t call people with developmental disorders letdowns, so why are we slapping that label on something that’s objectively outperforming them?

The issue is they got famous too quickly. Everyone wanted them to be Jarvis, but they’re more like a very weird guy on Reddit with a genius streak and a head injury. That doesn’t mean they’re useless. It just means we’re early. They’ve already cleared the low bar of human intelligence in more ways than people want to admit.
i recommend you see Lynch’s The Straight Story
Show HN: Use Natural Language to Run Terminal Commands (Ghost in the Shell)
Hi HN,

I just released a very simple AI Shell / CLI tool that lets you convert natural language directly into executable shell commands. Built with python to simplify terminal workflows and help you quickly run commands without memorizing syntax.

It has two main usage modes:

One-shot mode:
Quickly execute commands using natural language.

Example:

ai "find all PNG files larger than 5MB"

The AI responds with the appropriate command and asks if you want to execute it.

Interactive chat mode: Start a terminal chat session with the AI (ai -i) to iteratively build commands or scripts.

Some common use-cases:

* Quickly unzipping, untarring, or compressing files without Googling syntax.

* Complex file searches and manipulations (e.g., filtering, renaming batches of files).

* Managing Docker containers or Kubernetes deployments with plain English.

*...

It supports macOS, Linux, and Windows. It also integrates nicely with tools like tmux for split-pane workflows.

I built this because I regularly found myself searching the web for simple commands I couldn’t remember.

Feedback and feature ideas would be great!

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/codingmoh/ghost_in_the_shell/

Install with pip using

pip install ghost-in-the-shell

Looking forward to your thoughts!
> This is not something you would use to program a GUI program running in a real desktop OS

Indeed. In addition to that, I think that library is less than ideal for chips with an integrated 3D graphics hardware, like ARM Mali. Except applications with very low-resolution screens way below 1 megapixel, in which case CPU software rendering should be fine.
I have personally worked in buildings that had a "badge readers all stopped working for a while" problem. Fortunately, the badge readers only affected ingress and not egress, and only controlled exterior doors and labs; that's easily solved with a doorstop and a person checking badges. I can very easily imagine what could have happened in those buildings if a badge was required to leave a conference room.

And if you want to make that scenario terrifying, imagine being there on a weekend or holiday.
Right. CNN is absolutely the authority here.
AI upscaling is a poor choice for a director who deliberately made unexpected visual choices.
We found found the atop bug everyone is going crazy about
For this to happen they'd have to actually pay attention to spotlight and the quicklook/spotlight plugin ecosystem they abandoned. There's lots of obvious ways to combine LLMs with macOS' unique software advantages (applescript, bundle extensibility) but they have spent years systematically burning those bridges. I don't think they'll be able to swallow their pride and walk everything back.
Seconded.

I signed up for the 100 search free trial, and in that, Kagi was as good as, or better than, Google.

I then began also to use the filtering Kagi offers, and that simple feature makes a big difference.

I'm currently on the starter package (5 USD/month for 300).

Kagi also provide an Onion service - but of course you do have to be logged in, so your searches can be logged and be known as coming from you in particular (as you provided payment method), which is the downside of paying.

Much as anonymous payment systems are abused, they have utility for ordinary people.
I really like this framing. It reminds me of how early steam engines needed governors—a simple mechanical feedback loop—to prevent them from spinning out of control. The engine itself wasn’t "safe" or "stable" by design; stability was something imposed externally through a control mechanism.

In a way, LLMs feel similar. Their internal workings may be probabilistic and unpredictable, but that doesn't mean we can't build external feedback loops—tests, validation layers, human oversight—to steer them toward reliable, useful outcomes. The unpredictability isn’t a flaw; it’s just a raw, unmanaged state that invites control systems around it.

Maybe what unsettles people is that the "chaos" is now at the language layer, where it feels more personal and less abstract than when it's buried in hardware or OS internals. But we've always tamed unpredictable systems with good design—LLMs are just the next place to apply that thinking.
Japanese is often described as "strictly head final". However, there are some exceptions such as head-initial phrases with modifiers like "dake", "bakari", "goro", "gurai" and "hodo".

Also, the morphology in verb inflection and case declination is often head-initial, if it makes sense to say that about morphology. Word formation seems to be kinda mixed.

But Japanese syntax is a lot more consistently head-final than with how many European languages have their parameter setting.
You're not wrong, and I get the aversion to any [modern] precedent that nationalization sets. It's not one I'd like to see set either.

I think the more reasonable crux here is why there was no clearance revocation. The guy inserted himself into geopolitics in a manner that ran counter to DoD and USG foreign policy while operating critical defense infrastructure, temporarily (with limited scope) revoking an allied nation's access[0], and being privy to secrets involving said infrastructure.

If in the future we're putting SDI-like capabilities onto satellite constellations his company operates, why let someone with undeclared back-channel comms with a foremost strategic adversary be cleared on the design and operational details of something critical to US strategic defense and national security? The very adversaries that such programs are designed to counter and deter.

That's before you even consider instability from doing every drug under the sun, which normally would be sufficient grounds alone.

I've no doubt he believes himself to be a patriot and probably hasn't violated his oath. It's just that holding a clearance has traditionally been based on risk. Regardless, not like there's anything anyone can do about it now.

To put this in perspective, Canada's wondering lately if the US is going to attempt to annex them. Should that happen, it definitely seems like a foreign policy objective of an adversary of the US, rather than one in the interests of the US.

I'd like to think any reasonable person views this entire situation as nutty, regardless of what side of the aisle they're on.

[0] https://apnews.com/article/spacex-ukraine-starlink-russia-ai...
We did in fact find the bug:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43519522
I mean we don’t know that they’re wrong? Not “all jobs” but many of the white collar jobs we have today?

I work in medical insurance billing and there are hundreds of thousands (minimum) jobs that could be made obsolete on the payer and clinic side by LLMs. The translation between PDF of a payer’s rates and billing rules => standardized 837 or API request to a clearinghouse is…not much. And then on the other side, Claude Code could build you an adjudication engine in a few quarters.

The incentive structures to change healthcare in that way will fight back for a decade, but there are a _lot_ of jobs at stake.

Then you think about sales. LLMs can negotiate contracts themselves. Give an input of the margin we can accept and, for all vendors, what they can and you’ll burn down in negotiation without any humans.

It’s not all jobs, but it’s millions.