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There is (since 2023) a train that connects directly from Grand Central to JFK AirTrain.

This demonstrates three problems, in order of severity:

1) The answer is hilariously wrong.

2) The LLM doesn't (can't) know the answer is wrong - it happily spits out garbage.

3) Not one single person at google who can influence this gives a shit. Complete nonsense is now at the top of the screen on every search.

Step 1: get it to zero

Step 2: -Werror

Step 3: there is no step 3

To be fair, 'Daisuke Toyoda, an executive in charge of the project from the automaker’s founding family, stressed it’s not “a smart city.”'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer%E2%80%93Moore_string-sea...

It goes back ever further, Java 1.2 was marketed by Sun as "Java 2".

https://web.archive.org/web/19991010063140/http://java.sun.c...

Google Twitter-bis was called Google Buzz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Buzz

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/159jojs/scienti...

On iOS you can easily check what permissions an app has in Settings. For instance I can see I have granted Instagram access to location, microphone, camera, photo album. Threads has none of those. I don't use Health and I'm not sure what financial data would mean, Apple Pay? That's approved per each use.

If threads has figured out a way to collect those things without having permissions, then yes, that would be the darkest of dark patterns.

Previous discussion on this topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36640720

Does this link work for you?

https://www.threads.net/t/Cu2Ps0mJ4Hv/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA...

Oh god, why am I about to defend zucc? Anyway this article seems to be 100% wrong.

1-5: True but not dark patterns. Yes they are using the IG user base to bootstrap the threads user base. So what? Was it a dark pattern when google came out with docs and everybody already had an account?

6: Come on, threads asks for permission to send notifications just like every other app, and sends them at a very normal frequency for a social app, in fact if anything a bit less than IG, twitter, etc. Just say no when it asks for permission. Not a dark pattern.

7: Also not a dark pattern. Yes I'm sure the app reported that I liked a picture of a prothonotary warbler to the facebook ad targeting mainframe. Senator, we run ads.

8: As far as I can tell completely wrong. Threads doesn't have access to my location, health data, or financial data?!

9: Right, you can't use threads unless you have threads. Your FOMO is not a dark pattern.

10: False, there is a read-only website. It is very limited but it supports permalinks to threads, and from there you can navigate to user profiles, other threads, etc.

11: Not even wrong, just speculation.

Some examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2007385

The "source" of that Ben Rich quote is a MUFON article by Tom Keller, more amazing quotes: https://www.columbiatribune.com/story/opinion/editorials/201...

Well I have good news for you: you won't need to change your phone! Because they aren't supporting Android Auto either.

Also getting rid of Android Auto, according to the original source:

General Motors plans to phase out widely-used Apple CarPlay and Android Auto technologies that allow drivers to bypass a vehicle's infotainment systems, shifting instead to built-in infotainment systems developed with Google for future electric vehicles.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gm-plans-phase-apple-carplay-...

Yes, many cars with various levels of self-driving are available. Almost every car maker now has basic lane following and adaptive cruise control. Some add navigation, lane changing, and the ability to obey traffic signals. GM has a system called Super Cruise that allows the driver to take their hands off the wheel. Mercedes has Drive Pilot which is the first level 3 self driving system.

Google has not released anything.

Based on https://www.bhtp.com/blog/safest-places-to-travel:

Berkshire Hathaway Travel Protection has a long history of asking travelers where they’re going, why they’re traveling, and what constitutes a safe destination to them. We conducted our first traveler research in 2016 and have been doing studies ever since.

In our survey, we ask people where they’ve traveled in the last five years, and only the people who have visited specific countries are allowed to rate those countries on safety.

And the suggestions will restart in a few days. What we did is add "stop by the way" as a custom command to our "goodnight" routine, so the thing is reminded every single night that these suggestions are unwelcome. The annoyance maximization team at amazon hasn't deployed countermeasures to this yet.

I worked on a project (not cars, phones) where we replaced an older model that was operated through buttons and LEDs with a newer model that was just a giant multitouch screen. Surprisingly to me, it was way, way cheaper! And cheaper in multiple dimensions: the hardware buttons and LEDs weren't just more expensive, they implied a multi-step manufacturing and testing process on every unit. The touch screen was relatively standard and just came as an integrated assembly from a supplier.

We also went through a phase where we had a hybrid interface, the most common interactions done through hardware controls, everything else on the touch screen. There was always some level of regret associated with the hardware stuff, like we had some extra LED we never actually needed or just one more button would have been nice.

There's another reason why touchscreens are used. It breaks up one of the "long poles" in the project schedule.

Hardware buttons and switches have to be designed, tested, re-designed, and validated very early in the process of designing a new model so that there is time to figure out how to manufacture / source all the parts, how they integrate with the rest of the car's systems, and how they'll be wired and assembled. Just imagine what the impact would be if late in the process a new feature needs to be added! Pretty much forget about it, add it in the next major model refresh.

With a touchscreen all those dependencies go away. The hardware team just says "there's going to be an iPad sized capacitive touch screen here for climate/infotainment, and another custom sized display here for the instrument cluster". The software guys can independently do the design of the UI, changing things down to the very last moment, or even after the last moment if the car can be updated.

Why can't I search by restaurant name / type? It's just an endless list of restaurants in my zip code?

And why can't I search by food? Like show me all the restaurants near me with tacos. That would be useful.

Prices formatted incorrectly: $1.5 should be $1.50

None of the footer links work: About Us, Developers, etc.

Mnemonic: “What you have to what you want”

My theory is that one of the inputs to Google's ranking algorithm is now "how much money would we make from this click?" A click to SO has a small number of ads which are obviously ads and easily ignored. A click to the average scrape-jacked SO page has dozens of ads using every dark pattern in the book to generate accidental clicks.

Chesterton's fence.

Wrong information for Better Call Saul. Season six is yet to be released.

Looking forward to Stewart's next attempt at making a game. Third time's the charm!

"A few months ago I said “let’s do a science experiment- if NY has herd immunity cases won’t go up with reopening”. Well here are the results- NY, not going up. There really is no other explanation I can think of for this besides herd immunity."

Now that's Real Science™.

They've been selling it for years, I think since 2016. They've delivered it so far to nobody.

TL;DR: the car battery was dead