skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a time when Apple would release a new version that was basically a maintenance release. And they would squash a bunch of bugs. I think a lot of people still remember this. Perhaps through some objective measure, it’s still ok. But I agree it all feels worse.
At the risk of stating the obvious - that is what the military industrial complex is. Once you "donate" weapons - who is going to service them? Who gets the contracts for maintenance, ammunition, training, etc, etc? For the US, war is big business. This "donation" isn't altruistic or an accident.
My best attempt at a TL;DR:
TrustCor had some connections to an app in which the android version contained spyware. They claim it was placed by a malicious previous employee, no name given. But a recently deceased key founders son was heavily involved with the company that made spyware. I think TrustCor's claim is that the son was only an investor in both firms and therefore had no direct involvement. This seems to not be the case, he is listed as "Key Principal" in a directory-entry about the spyware-company and the person is also mention as an employee of TrustCor in the emails.
I resemble that remark myself. I would only clarify that I think the time for talking with bean counters is long past.
Years ago, most computing devices were desktops. They often had a routable IP address, unlimited power, and would happily sit passing packets all day. This made things like a DHT practical, so you could find your other peers. This made things like the early days of skype where except for auth, chat and file sharing was p2p. After being online for long enough and having a routable IP, you could become a supernode to help less fortunate nodes talk to each other.

These days a much larger fraction of computing devices are on battery, on expensive networks like cellular, and can't really tolerate being part of a DHT. Increasing use of NAT/Masquerading makes a harder (and a support nightmare) to accept incoming packets from new peers.

One solution to this is to add a "superpeer" to a router distribution like OpenWRT, or sell the "plug/wallwart" to help. That way a cheap (under $100) computer could build reputation with it's peers, accept incoming packets form new peers, provide some storage, and keep up with DHT maintenance. Then low power and/or expensive network peers could just check their "home" superpeer and get what they need quickly with minimal bandwidth and power.
Did no one here get utterly destroyed when updating to Ventura deleted your git, requiring you to either:

1. install xcode, which requires apple id, which your company might not support

Or

2. Side load git, which your company's security policy might prohibit?
It really is like trying to choose between Giant Douche and Turd Sandwich.
And here come the perverse incentives to make channel discovery via ads or creator content feeds. Pay out 90% but keep creators paying for advertising is a similar model to the app stores.
Have you tried flushing the DNS cache?
Last nail in the coffin for DALL·E.
Great article. I played Stratego a lot as a kid and it always felt simpler than chess, go , or poker so it’s surprising it’s a much bigger game tree unless you stop and think.

I’m curious about the comparisons to poker. I know the hot algorithm in poker solvers is counter factual regret minimization. The article indicates that the feedback cycle is too long for those algorithms to work but I’d be curious to learn more about the relationship from CFR to what’s tried here, if any.
Not parent commenter, but it told me 1093575151355318117 is not prime, but the product of 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97, and 101.

But 116431182179248680450031658440253681535 is not 1093575151355318117.

There are some other math problems where it will confidently do step by step and give you nonsense.

Edit: and see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33818443 and https://twitter.com/dgbrazales/status/1598265067086442496
So does Bitcoin. For the first time in history, we have achieved sound money, something neither gold or fiat money have.

https://miro.medium.com/max/720/1*rVgI62Reha0MnvUiWC0SXg.web...

https://danhedl.medium.com/planting-bitcoin-sound-money-72e8...

Of course, whether it's gold, fiat or cryptos, we'll have scammers and gullible people who fall for ponzis, but because money can be used to scam doesn't mean it's a scam itself.
So with government jobs there is an expectation of a much longer tenure than the 3 year job hopper we have in programming.

You’ll start on the low end and get a 2k bump per year for a decade or two, eventually hitting the cap.
Wonder if a modern uP's register-bank is bigger than the whole vic's RAM.
The Apple TV is a multi-user device with extremely poor multi-user support. Considering how long it has been used by B&Bs it amazes me that Apple has never allowed guest access.

Music App sometimes breaks. It just doesn't play certain sections of some songs, even on replay, closing the app doesn't help; a device reboot is required to play songs in their entirety. And this happens on both devices that are connected via hardwire as well as wifi/LTE.

Considering Apple's revenue it is ridiculous how long bugs persist in their applications.
And as importantly, if the company making iPhones and the company making Macs were forced to be different entities, how would the A-series chips have evolved into the M-series? Apple took a decade of hard-earned architectural knowledge and evolution to create the M1.
Sure, but then just use wire transfers?

You may not like the logic, but the reason it was so easy for V and MA to cut porn is because the insane amount of porn chargebacks ("yeah I didn't make that purchase, it's fraud").

A system without fraud protections (i.e. wires) is a much more efficient solution than a farm full of GPUs in Austin.
>> Ada: good example, but not usually used for low-level systems programming. Has substantial uses in certain areas.

Ada is primarily used for low-level systems programming and embedded systems:

https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/chapters/intr...

Substantial portions of the Ada standard deal with systems programming and low-level representation on hardware:

http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/22rm/html/RM-C.html

http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/22rm/html/RM-13-1.html
Trivially, anything using the Iterator trait.

I don't know that I've ever actually manually indexed an array over years of using Rust.
Dota is a pretty local game. 70% tactics, 20% strategy. Maybe 10% information. Yes you have warding game but for an AI with no cost of looking at heroes inventories (humans need to waste attention and move their map) AI already has huge advantage over humans in the imperfect information part. Usually fighting into the imperfect information is the bad choice.

Stratego is 40% information, 40% strategy, maybe 10% tactics. If you know where is the flag it's trivial to win in almost all situations. Fighting into imperfect information is literally all the game.
I think you're conflating the median North American vegetarian with the median vegan. Your comment makes a lot more sense if I substitute "vegan" for wherever you've used "vegetarian". If you do indeed mean "vegetarian", then I think it makes much less sense in contemporary America, for example.

Yes, almost every vegan I've known is optimizing to minimize animal "cruelty", defined on their own ideological terms. Meanwhile, almost every vegetarian I've known is either one for religious reasons (and have their tradition's cultural cuisines to draw from) or simply don't like meat. I also know many Muslims who avoid meat at restaurants since it's not halal. I am struggling to recall any vegetarians that eat an average American diet by simply replacing meat with something like tofu.

If your intent is indeed to refer to vegetarians, I think that hasn't been the case in the US since perhaps the 90s. American vegetarianism really took off in the cultural context of the 60s and 70s, where Eastern ideas & sensibilities were imported but not the people or their cuisines. If a median American in the 70s wanted to maintain a meat free diet, their options were genuinely restricted. That's certainly not the case now, where the median American vegetarian is likely of recent immigrant descent, and has their heritage cuisine to inspire vegetarian meals. Changes to American immigration policy and the segment of countries where immigrants have come from have changed American vegetarianism. I also think something like Impossible burgers have very little appeal to the median vegetarian, since they're not interested in the taste of meat to begin with.

Yes, unlike the median American vegetarian, the median American vegan tends to appear spontaneously among families that are not themselves vegan. Unlike vegetarians, they don't have a rich family tradition to draw from, and plenty learn to just wing it. That said, I do think even this is likely not the case anymore. Today, in any big city, good vegan/vegetarian food is easy to find. As an illustrative example, I asked a relative who's lived in NYC for 40 years what his favorite restaurant meal has been (he absolutely loves steak). His favorite restaurant is a vegan Korean BBQ. Similarly, I've been informed by Mexicans of an amazing Mexican vegan place in Brooklyn.
> typical machine learning throw up of dumping a bunch of statistically averaged and collaged images

On the scale of my lifetime, that's a fairly new phenomenon
That was coordinated marketing between the FBI and Apple.

Apple does not have the power or authority to tell the USG to pound sand:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

There is already a backdoor in the iPhone, and Apple already preserves it for the FBI.
From what I can tell, yearly Search ad revenue is in the neighborhood of $104 billion [0], and the number of yearly searches served by Google is somewhere in the neighborhood of 3.1 trillion [1]. This brings the revenue per search to somewhere between 3 and 3.5 cents.

[0] https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/20210203_alphabet_10K.pd... (page 33)

[1] https://www.oberlo.com/blog/google-search-statistics
Exactly. This seems analogous to Apple demanding 30% of the bank fees I pay because I use my bank's app.
Google probably blocked it as hate speech.
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It's tough because marketing like 'BPA free' doesn't actually mean the product is free of endocrine disruptors. There are glass bottles that still have a plastic lid.
I've switched all my cookware to glass or metal (no teflon).
What about wooden things that are painted or glued together (plywood)? Is it better or worse than plastic? It's just about impossible to find soft furniture that isn't covered in plastic fabric.
So what does this mean for all of us who buy coffee at coffee shops every morning? Will this cause serious problems long term since we are consuming residues of their dishwasher chemicals? One potential solution is to always get your coffee to go, but that probably only partly solves the problem.
>They've overstated their case a bit. Saying that deep learning will cost $11,000 and need 14 days on this data set is not reasonable.

After glancing at the paper they're criticising, I really wonder how they arrived at these insane figures. From what I saw, they were mostly using stuff like MLPs with a handful layers at O(100) neurons at most. Yeah, if you put a hundred million parameter transformer in there you will train forever (and waste tons of compute since that would be complete overkill), but not with simple perceptrons. I don't know the extent of the data, but given these architectures I very much doubt a practical model would take this long to train - even on a CPU - given that you could run a statistical ensemble in 5 minutes.
"Apple finding another way to make [money]" will happen even if it doesn't get regulated. Look at how they're doing ads now. It's not like the only reason they didn't "find more ways" is because they thought they were making enough money.
The Android project compiles the standard library themselves: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/prebuilts/rust/+/a...
Huh, just a week ago I thought it would be cool to add WASM plugins to my Go app, as a way to not be dependent on Go for plugins.
Yeah, I think the thing is... path traversal is pretty trivial to solve. If you have a single tenancy app and you just don't want the service accessing shit it shouldn't just throw it in docker. If you have a multi-tenancy app just put every user behind a uuid.
Apple store people just don't know how cryptocurrencies work. The gas fee doesn't go to Coinbase, it's going to completely random people, called miners or stakers. Why Coinbase should pay for the fees it doesn't receive?
I use Windows Defender on several PCs, and have used for years. All are kept up to date on Windows 11 (and prior, Windows 10) and not “modded” to disable telemetry etc.

I haven’t had a “locked by Defender” error in at least 5 years, and I would say more if I could remember the last time I did.

I’m also developing a(n existing) product that actually uses oplocks, so I’m speaking from experience here.
Double taxation refers to the imposition of taxes on the same income, assets or financial transaction at two different points of time.
The hard part isn’t writing the code but making sure it’s valid against all the data in (for example) the PDG Review of Particle Physics book.

A bug in the code would throw doubt on every paper published with it so the expected value for any individual rewriting it or making any modifications is extremely negative for their career.
> Explicit is better than implicit.

Not only that, but in Rust it actually has a meaning. Self can be &self or &mut self, which impacts the calling conventions.

The alternative would be fully typing anything but owned method calls which would just not have a self parameter, which would be incredibly weird.

It also shows that as in Python (and really even more so) "methods" are little more than syntactic sugar for functions. It would also require a new and separate syntax to declare non-instance methods.
Growing up we never microwaved food in tupperware, but we do it daily now. None of me or my siblings (8 of us) had any sort of mental issues (and it wasn't a matter of not being diagnosed), but all of our children have so many mental issues (depression, anxiety, pulling hair out, ADHD, etc.) that we have asked each other if it could possibly be something in the environment - even though all of us live in different states/cities. Maybe we all reheat food in tuperware and eat/drink from plastics.
yeah, finally we see the real openAI
Can it find the answer which doesn't use so much memory and doesn't have the edge case which caused the index error, or is it stuck at day 3 bootcamper level even with so much prompting?
How AI Image Generators Work
I agree, neither is a sensible default.
I think it's just a common sort of ex nihilo first steps example of the technology that's easy to show off to anyone, and it's a good example of how the results can be iterated and cherry-picked to filter out the most garbage-laden images to get stuff that's basically (what another commentor called) "visual lorem ipsum".

There's a lot more that stable diffusion can do when there is a feedback loop between the user and the computer, but I don't think it's very easy to convey with pop articles or even long form ones - I hope one day everyone has a chance to approach models like this and learn from them in their own way, and I appreciate articles like this in their attempt to get a wider audience interested in the technology.
Nope. But on reflection, I can’t really tell if it was really that dumb of an idea.

If you look at the text following the “Yes” quote, you’ll find that “all characters” is carefully defined to mean ”all characters in current use from commercially non-negligible scripts”. Compared to the current definition of “all characters we have reasonable evidence have ever been used for natural-language interchange”, it doesn’t sound as noble, but would also exclude a number of large-repertoire sets (Tangut and pre-modern Han ideograms, Yi syllables, hieroglyphs, cuneiform). Remove the requirement for 1:1 code point mapping with legacy sets, and you could conceivably throw out precomposed Hangul as well. (Precomposed European scripts too, if you want, but that wouldn’t net you eleven thousand codepoints.)

At that point the question seems to come down to Han characters: the union of all government-mandated education standards (unified) would come down well below ten thousand characters, but how well does that number correspond to the number of characters people actually need? One potential source of death is uncommon characters people really, really want (proper names), but overall, I don’t know, you’d probably need a CJKV expert to tell. To me, neither answer seems completely implausible.

On the other hand, it’s also unclear that a constant-width encoding would really be all that valuable. Most of the time, you are either traversing all code points in sequence or working with larger units such as combining-character sequences or graphemes, so aside from buffer truncation issues constant width does not really help all that much. But that’s an observation that took more than a decade of Unicode implementations to crystallize.

It is certainly annoying how large and sparse the lookup tables needed to implement a current version of Unicode are—enough that you need three levels in your radix tree and not two—but if you aren’t doing locales it’s still a question of at most several dozens of kilobytes, not really a deal breaker these days. Perhaps that’s not too much of a cost for not marginalizing users of obscure languages and keeping digitized historical text representable in the common format.
Yeah who do these crypto guys think they are the CCP?
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Theory has the longest shelf-life. (That's the name of a class, in many Computer Science curricula.)
This is literally ht e opposite of what I was saying. I am not a fan of Gimp but nor am I an anti-fan, it seems very capable if that's what you like. My point is that the website does a very poor job of selling the tool to potential users.
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Money = Power. Why would Apple allow this breaking up? Its naive to think otherwise, see what is happening in South Korea with Samsung accounting for like 25% of the economy. They're untouchable in South Korea.
Some header files seem to be missing from the published code:
except.h, framebuf.h, gray.h, reducer.h

In additon, the code is (as expected) written in K&R C, so it won't compile out of the box on a modern system.
How about numerous companies shipping Rust to production for years? That metric is actually related to risk with regards to shipping rust in production, unlike number of compilers, which signifies nothing.
For cultures who prefer child-bearing-age women to always be pregnant, does this affect how many children they are able to have? And will this have a negative effect on religions who encourage large families?

(Edited to avoid religious flamewars)
> Apple is as reliant on their third party apps for their ecosystems as much as the inverse.

I would take the other side of this bet. Barrier to entry for software to make a new chat app, social network, streaming app, crypto app, etc is much lower than barrier to entry to make hardware.

Another company willing to play by Apple’s rules will swoop in in relatively little time, while an alternative to iPhone/Apple Watch/AirPods/iPads/M processor computers will not.
Do you have a source for this? If this is true, then this tweetstorm seems completely out of line.
Britain has a constitution. It's just not written down in one single document.
What do you mean by "Results to be seen far in future."?
i'm very ignorant here so forgive me but if it can generate images that fast can it be used to generate a video?
more open than open source, it's the open model age
See, this is your problem. Abhorrent business practices can exist alongside great products, just look at Nestle. Nothing will excuse them for pumping freshwater out of inland lakes, or paying for paramilitary organizations to oppress their slave labor camps. It just means that people are fine eating Hershey Bars without thinking about the child labor that made their chocolate.
Even though this was a false alarm in the end, the processes taken to investigate this merit an upvote and a save for future reference.
What you're thinking of are wire transfers. We have that already. You can argue that they need to be made faster (I agree), but V and MA aren't the reason why they're slow (banks being lazy and batching payments is).

You may not like the logic, but the reason it was so easy for V and MA to cut porn is because the insane amount of porn chargebacks ("yeah I didn't make that purchase, it's fraud").

Crypto is just a wasteful overcomplicated bad solution that's worse than wire transfers, so I agree, let's work on visa-like payments on different rails with no fraud protections (so that way consumers can choose when they pay for that protection, rather than you and me subsidizing people who regret buying porn).
Please don't take HN threads into religious flamewar. It never goes well, is the last thing we need here, and (fortunately) is particularly avoidable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Because the most important apps to users right now are advertising-driven.

And the App Store has been around for nearly a decade now and we already know that users care far more about Apple than they do any one particular app.
Echoing the other comments here, why do you think they don't? I worked on <insert_very_large_game_here> and we had dedicated contacts at apple, special agreements for (some) rules and a different SLA to what I now know is standard.
That sounds unpleasant. Hasn't been a problem for me, however, my work laptop is managed 100% through our corporate IT folks, including the Apple OS updates and packages. I've never needed a personal Apple ID to get Xcode.
I doubt that many people here would stick with companies who had both of those policies.
Apple probably has a loaded PR statement ready for a situation like this. Coinbase? The public perception of crypto is already a joke at this point on its own. Facebook? Something about “privacy”. And so on.
Headline is clickbaity but it is an interesting set of coincidences. I'm not sure, though, how many people there are in the set of "crypto millionaires" that would warrant being included in this "trend" were they to die. As a result, it's hard to judge how suspicious this coincidence is.