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Learning lessons from the loss of the Norwegian frigate Helge Ingstad

news.ycombinator.com Dick Van Dyke 2025-10-04 06:02:15

In 2021 the Accident Investigation Board – Norway (AIBN) published a detailed report covering the loss of HNoMS Helge Ingstad after she collided with an oil tanker in November 2018. There is much to be learned from this event that is applicable to the RN and global navies. In this in-depth, although far from exhaustive, article we describe the incident and look at some of the key lessons. The accident in summary On 8th November 2018, the frigate Helge Ingstad (HING) was heading south down Hjel

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A polyglot's guide to multiple-dispatch (2016)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-03 02:49:20

This is the first article in a series dedicated to multiple dispatch - an advanced abstraction technique available to programmers out-of-the-box in some languages, and implementable in others. This first post in the series presents the technique and explains the problem it intends to solve. It uses C++ as the presentation language because C++ does not support multiple dispatch directly, but can be used to implement it in various ways. Showing how multiple dispatch is implemented in a language th

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A polyglot's guide to multiple-dispatch

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-03 07:49:20

This is the first article in a series dedicated to multiple dispatch - an advanced abstraction technique available to programmers out-of-the-box in some languages, and implementable in others. This first post in the series presents the technique and explains the problem it intends to solve. It uses C++ as the presentation language because C++ does not support multiple dispatch directly, but can be used to implement it in various ways. Showing how multiple dispatch is implemented in a language th

Topics: const dispatch ellipse rectangle shape

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Microsoft’s AI Chief Says Machine Consciousness Is an ‘Illusion’

wired.com Will Knight 2025-10-06 19:04:13

Mustafa Suleyman is not your average big tech executive. He dropped out of Oxford university as an undergrad to create the Muslim Youth Helpline, before teaming up with friends to cofound DeepMind, a company that blazed a trail in building game-playing AI systems before being acquired by Google in 2014. Suleyman left Google in 2022 to commercialize large language models (LLMs) and build empathetic chatbot assistants with a startup called Inflection. He then joined Microsoft as its first CEO of

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Reddit, Yahoo, Medium and more are adopting a new licensing standard to get compensated for AI scraping

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-07 15:09:46

With web publishers in crisis, a new open standard lets them set the ground rules for AI scrapers. (Or, at least it will try.) The new Really Simple Licensing (RSL) standard creates terms that participants expect AI companies to abide by. Although enforcement is an open question, it can't hurt that some heavy hitters back it. Among others, the list includes Reddit, Yahoo (Engadget's parent company), Medium and People Inc. RSL adds licensing terms to the robots.txt protocol, the simple file that

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Microsoft’s AI Chief Says Machine Consciousness Is an 'Illusion'

wired.com Will Knight 2025-10-07 20:04:13

Mustafa Suleyman is not your average big tech executive. He dropped out of Oxford university as an undergrad to create the Muslim Youth Helpline, before teaming up with friends to cofound DeepMind, a company that blazed a trail in building game-playing AI systems before being acquired by Google in 2014. Suleyman left Google in 2022 to commercialize large language models (LLMs) and build empathetic chatbot assistants with a startup called Inflection. He then joined Microsoft as its first CEO of

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Google’s new Pixelsnap Ring Stand is stumbling out of the gate with early issues

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-08 00:58:10

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Users are reporting that there’s an issue with the Pixelsnap Ring Stand. It appears that the screws that hold the ring to the magnetic panel are becoming loose. One of the more exciting aspects of the Pixel 10’s launch was the announcement of the new Pixelsnap accessories. These MagSafe-like items can magnetically snap onto the Pixel 10 without the need for a special case. Now that the Pixel 10 has been out for a couple of weeks, plenty of owners have

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OpenAI Brings Back Standard Voice Mode After Revolt

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-08 04:12:47

If it ain't broke, don't fix it -- or maybe even upgrade it. OpenAI has decided, for now, to keep Standard Voice Mode available for ChatGPT customers after some hard backlash against its replacement, Advanced Voice Mode. As OpenAI VP and ChatGPT boss Nick Turley posted on X and also on the Open AI website: "We've heard feedback that Standard Voice is special to many, and we want to get this transition right." He added: "Standard Voice will stay available while we address some of your feedback i

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Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-08 16:00:03

Leading Internet companies and publishers—including Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, Medium, The Daily Beast, Fastly, and more—think there may finally be a solution to end AI crawlers hammering websites to scrape content without permission or compensation. Announced Wednesday morning, the "Really Simply Licensing" (RSL) standard evolves robots.txt instructions by adding an automated licensing layer that's designed to block bots that don't fairly compensate creators for content. Free for any publisher to

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The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-08 16:00:00

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. A new licensing standard aims to let web publishers set the terms of how AI system developers use their work. On Wednesday, major brands like Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Quora, and People Inc. announced support for Really Simple Licensing (RSL), an open content licensing standard that enables publishers to outline how bots should pay to scrape their site

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Survey shows Google Home users have high hopes from Gemini

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-08 16:04:33

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google Home devices are in for a significant reform. On October 1, Google will announce Gemini for smart speakers and displays and subsequently replace Google Assistant with it on these devices. And we have huge expectations from this upgrade. Gemini has big shoes to fill. Google Assistant has shouldered the load of the entire breadth of commands intended for smart speakers for nearly a decade. However, the recent decline in Google Home’s ability to understa

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NASA finds Titan's lakes may be creating vesicles with primitive cell walls

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 04:10:40

NASA research has shown that cell-like compartments called vesicles could form naturally in the lakes of Saturn's moon Titan. Titan is the only world apart from Earth that is known to have liquid on its surface. However, Titan's lakes and seas are not filled with water. Instead, they contain liquid hydrocarbons like ethane and methane. On Earth, liquid water is thought to have been essential for the origin of life as we know it. Many astrobiologists have wondered whether Titan's liquids could

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macOS Tahoe 26 introduces Repair Assistant for Mac

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-10-09 20:49:59

Last year Apple introduced Repair Assistant for iPhone and iPad, bringing first-party calibration software to the repair process for devices. Starting with macOS Tahoe 26, Apple will introduce Repair Assistant for the Mac as well. Repair Assistant calibration works for back glass, battery, display, TrueDepth camera, and rear camera display repairs on a range of iPhone and iPad hardware. macOS Tahoe will be the first release to support Repair Assistant, adding the ability to install calibration

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Apple’s using more recycled materials in its iPhones and watches

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-10-10 04:32:37

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Apple’s new iPhone Air contains more recycled titanium than any of its predecessors, the company announced at the Tuesday Keynote. It’s using 80 percent recycled titanium. The phone as a w

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Survey shows an overwhelming number of users want Gemini on Google Home

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-11 04:04:33

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google Home devices are in for a significant reform. On October 1, Google will announce Gemini for smart speakers and displays and subsequently replace Google Assistant with it on these devices. And we have huge expectations from this upgrade. Gemini has big shoes to fill. Google Assistant has shouldered the load of the entire breadth of commands intended for smart speakers for nearly a decade. However, the recent decline in Google Home’s ability to understa

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The Last Programmers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 13:01:43

I quit my job at Amazon in May to join a startup called Icon. Best career decision I ever made, but not for the reasons you might think. At Amazon, I was on the Amazon Q Developer team, building their AI coding assistant. You'd think being at the center of Amazon's AI developer tools would be exciting, but it was actually deeply frustrating. It was apparent to anyone outside the Amazon bubble that we were losing the AI game badly. The leadership was constantly playing catch-up because there was

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The awesome LG StanbyMe 27-inch portable monitor drops to record-low price

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-11 16:50:23

There are some great portable monitors out there, but none of them are large. This is what makes the LG StandbyMe 27-inch portable monitor so special. It is a large monitor you can use anywhere, and it is currently at a record-low price, saving you $203. Buy the LG StandbyMe 27-Inch Portable Monitor for just $796.99 ($203 off) This offer is available from Amazon as a “limited time deal.” The discount is applied automatically, so all you need to do is add it to your cart and check out. It’s only

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MagSafe Monday: UAG’s Magnetic Ring Stand is the simple MagSafe accessory you did not know you needed

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-10-12 12:30:00

If you don’t carry a MagSafe wallet with your iPhone, there might be situations when you want a simple stand for travel, increased grip, stand at your desk, etc. The UAG Magnetic Ring Stand falls into that category. It gives you a better grip on your iPhone, doubles as a kickstand, and still slides in your pocket without getting in the way. Let’s take a look at what it offers. Some of my favorite gear eufyCam 2C Upgrade your home security with wireless cameras that includes HomeKit compatibilit

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Analog optical computer for AI inference and combinatorial optimization

news.ycombinator.com Kalinin 2025-10-10 13:06:14

Experimental set-up The key components of our experimental set-up are shown in Fig. 1a and Extended Data Fig. 1. Optical subsystem The optical subsystem performs matrix–vector multiplication. The basic components are the optical sources (input vector), a system of fan-out optics to project the light onto the modulator matrix and a system of fan-in optics to project the light onto a photodetector array (output vector). The corresponding schematic is shown in Extended Data Fig. 2. The incohere

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Lights With Ears: Lepro's New AI-Powered Lighting Listens to Your Plans

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 13:00:00

Lighting company Lepro pulled up to IFA (Innovation for All) 2025 with a fun new trick I've haven't seen before in home lighting: Centerpiece lights with microphones equipped to hear voice commands and an LLM-style AI to interpret them. Lepro calls this new line the AI Lighting Pro series. It includes an ultra-stylish tabletop lamp designed like a planetary orbit model, an LED strip light, a neon rope light and a thin floor lamp. One thing they all have in common -- a mic listening for the wake

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Apple TV+ sees early Emmys success with wins for Severance and The Studio

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-10-13 15:33:36

The 77th Emmy Awards ceremony officially takes place next Sunday, where the biggest industry TV awards will be given out. But, the Emmys actually has so many awards they reveal some of the winners a week early. Based on these preliminary results, Apple TV+ is set for success. In total, the service amassed 15 wins, thanks to its powerhouse players this season of comedy The Studio and sci-fi drama Severance. The Studio has been the frontrunner to win the prestigious Outstanding Comedy Series awa

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Braincraft challenge – 1000 neurons, 100 seconds, 10 runs, 2 choices, no reward

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 18:31:11

Table of Contents Introduction The computational neuroscience literature abounds with models of individual brain structures, such as the hippocampus, basal ganglia, thalamus, and various cortical areas — from visual to prefrontal. These models typically aim to explain specific functions attributed to each structure. For instance, the basal ganglia are often modeled in the context of decision-making, while the hippocampus is associated with episodic memory and spatial navigation through place c

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The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 15:20:37

The Universe within 12.5 Light Years The Nearest Stars Number of stars within 12.5 light years = 33 About the Map This map shows all the star systems that lie within 12.5 light years of our Sun. Most of the stars are red dwarfs - stars with a tenth of the Sun's mass and less than one hundredth the luminosity. Roughly eighty percent of all the stars in the universe are red dwarfs, and the nearest star - Proxima - is a typical example. Information on the Nearest Stars Sun - Type= G2 , Magnitu

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BMW and Qualcomm announce jointly developed driver assistance system

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-15 04:49:22

Qualcomm's driver-assistance system Snapdragon Ride Pilot will debut on the BMW iX3 electric SUV, offering hands-free highway driving, automatic lane changes and parking assistance. The jointly developed software stack announced today will be powered by Snapdragon Ride system-on-chips and will make its first formal appearance at IAA Mobility 2025. Snapdragon Ride Pilot is a Level 2+ driver-assistance system, not self-driving, which means drivers will still be responsible for supervising the veh

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Gemini’s coming, but are you dreading the big Google Home speaker shakeup?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-15 08:06:19

Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority 🗣️ This is an open thread. We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts in the comments and vote in the poll below — your take might be featured in a future roundup. It’s been a long time coming, but Gemini will finally be rolling out to Google Home speakers at the beginning of next month. Some consumers are undoubtedly rejoicing at the news of the far more powerful voice assistant usurping Assistant on their smart home cornerstones. But while upgrades are

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7 features I’m excited to try when Gemini lands on my Google Home speakers

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-15 19:30:44

Adam Molina / Android Authority Gemini support on Google Home and Nest speakers has been a long time coming. The feature has been in preview testing for some lucky US users with specific voices for months now, but Google just announced the exact date when it’ll start showing up for real: October 1. Although this will still be an early access, I can’t wait to get my proverbial hands on it because I’m sick of Google Assistant’s glitches. The inconsistency, frequent bugs, and silly downgrades hav

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Yes, the Screen on This Lenovo Laptop Really Flips From Horizontal to Vertical

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-10-15 21:00:40

Walking into a Lenovo showroom can sometimes feel like I accidentally stepped into a taping of the 1990s sitcom Family Matters. I’m there to see the standard, Carl Winslow-level laptops, the tried and true dependable designs. Then steps in Steve Urkel. Behind his technicolor suspenders, he’s holding a giant metal monstrosity he’s calling a head-tracking laptop stand along with a notebook that flips from landscape to portrait. “Did I do that?” the Urkel side of Lenovo says, snickering from the co

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This stand can automatically lift, tilt, and turn your laptop toward you

theverge.com Antonio G. Di Benedetto 2025-10-15 21:00:00

is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Lenovo’s Smart Motion Concept laptop stand, announced at IFA 2025, automatically raises and lowers itself and turns and tilts to position your laptop at an ergonomic eye level. It’s a lot like an amped-up Apple Center Stage webcam, but the whole lap

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TCL's QM9K Mini-LED TV Is Super Bright and Has Google Gemini Onboard

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-16 16:00:00

TCL has unveiled its newest flagship TV, the QM9K, which promises "unmatched" picture quality and the company says it is the first to include Google Gemini AI onboard. The QD-Micro-LED QM9K joins the TCL QM8K as part of the Ultimate Performance series, which includes the company's Halo Control System for better contrast. The Halo system includes "Micro OD," which reduces the distance between the backlight and diffuser plate to help eliminate image blooming. TCL says the TV includes up to 6,000

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A Strange Conspiracy Theory Is Reportedly Spreading Inside OpenAI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-18 15:09:20

Paranoia is as natural to Silicon Valley as lip fillers are to Los Angeles. In the Bay Area, you can't throw a rock without hitting a startup founder convinced everyone is out to steal his ideas or poach his staff — a state of mind reaffirmed by the fact that sometimes, people very much are trying to rip off their competitors. Until the last few years, OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, seemed above that fracas. Altman's sanguine predictions about artificial general intelligence (AGI), a benchmark

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Latest Tech News

Learning lessons from the loss of the Norwegian frigate Helge Ingstad

A polyglot's guide to multiple-dispatch (2016)

A polyglot's guide to multiple-dispatch

Microsoft’s AI Chief Says Machine Consciousness Is an ‘Illusion’

Reddit, Yahoo, Medium and more are adopting a new licensing standard to get compensated for AI scraping

Microsoft’s AI Chief Says Machine Consciousness Is an 'Illusion'

Google’s new Pixelsnap Ring Stand is stumbling out of the gate with early issues

OpenAI Brings Back Standard Voice Mode After Revolt

Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions.

The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up

Survey shows Google Home users have high hopes from Gemini

NASA finds Titan's lakes may be creating vesicles with primitive cell walls

macOS Tahoe 26 introduces Repair Assistant for Mac

Apple’s using more recycled materials in its iPhones and watches

Survey shows an overwhelming number of users want Gemini on Google Home

The Last Programmers

The awesome LG StanbyMe 27-inch portable monitor drops to record-low price

MagSafe Monday: UAG’s Magnetic Ring Stand is the simple MagSafe accessory you did not know you needed

Analog optical computer for AI inference and combinatorial optimization

Lights With Ears: Lepro's New AI-Powered Lighting Listens to Your Plans

Apple TV+ sees early Emmys success with wins for Severance and The Studio

Braincraft challenge – 1000 neurons, 100 seconds, 10 runs, 2 choices, no reward

The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years

BMW and Qualcomm announce jointly developed driver assistance system

Gemini’s coming, but are you dreading the big Google Home speaker shakeup?

7 features I’m excited to try when Gemini lands on my Google Home speakers

Yes, the Screen on This Lenovo Laptop Really Flips From Horizontal to Vertical

This stand can automatically lift, tilt, and turn your laptop toward you

TCL's QM9K Mini-LED TV Is Super Bright and Has Google Gemini Onboard

A Strange Conspiracy Theory Is Reportedly Spreading Inside OpenAI

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