skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft went to court over that because they were leveraging their OS monopoly into a browser monopoly. Microsoft always let you install alternatives by the waybut IE was the default and most people don’t change defaults.

Apple is not a monopoly unless you’re just looking at mobile profits, which historically is not how a monopoly is defined (they’re not even a monopoly in the luxury smartphone market). Android is actually much closer to being a monopoly and does all sorts of deals to maintain their monopolies on search, browsers, and Android which would warrant investigation. Now maybe a monopoly should be defined as % of total profits in a market? Not sure. It would be breaking new regulatory ground for sure.

Also, from the sounds of it, Apple is going to be forced to allow third party browsers and app stores via EU regulation. It’s less clear exactly how that will work and whether that will be available to customers in other jurisdictions.
> They you'd lose me as a user.

To be quite honest, I don't care. I'm just a single guy working in his spare time; I don't have the resources to keep up with a trillion dollar corporation.

I'm so done with the endless Safari-only hacks. I'm so done with having to push emergency updates because Apple decided to suddenly break half of my website in the newest version of Safari. And I'm so done with having to explain to my users that, yes, audio autoplay doesn't work on Safari, and no, it's not a bug, it's because Apple actively blocks it and won't let you decide for yourself if you want to enable it for my site, and all of that because they want to force me to build a native app (where I can autoplay to my heart's content) so that they can extort 30% of my income.

> where they obviously prioritise making money over the interests of their users.

...and Apple doesn't do that?

> because Apple makes money from selling me stuff, instead from selling me.

Are you sure? https://proton.me/blog/apple-ad-company
No one was ever going to invade a country with ICBMs.

The invasion occurred because of Ukraine's movement toward the EU which, eventually, would curtail the ability of Putin and the oligarchs to swindle Russias oil and gas wealth through rampant price fixing and kick-backs. Everything else was rhetoric.
Man, that is really splitting some fine hairs
I’ve loved wrestling ever since I was a kid as well. I thought it was real until my dad pointed out that the a first person introduced always lost. That’s shattered my innocence but I started enjoying it more as I grew older because I could enjoy it as a joke/performance.

I watched it when it was called the WWF and stopped watching it just before it got renamed to the WWE so I’m less familiar with all the newer wrestlers from the last 20 years but I’ve seen the greats live, like Rick Flair. Being able to “woooooo!” with the entire arena was fun as hell even though we all know it wasn’t a real competitive event.
It doesn't really matter if you can't put the AI back in the bottle so to speak. If (in the USA) it's found that AI generated images (based on copyrighted materials) are not fair use, then effectively it will be poisonous to use in your (USA-based) company. This will definitely prevent it from being mainstream.

That being said, nothing is stopping Getty images, for example, from releasing their own image generator, trained from images they own copyright to.

Or creative common work, etc.
The surprising ways cellphones have changed our lives
>At least one middling positive of the invasion has been a litmus test for the levels of integrity of various countries. Russia annexed Crimea almost a decade ago. If you haven't read the writing on the wall and maneuvered independence you're incompetent or immoral.

After invasion of Iraq over 20 years ago it was clear that there is absolutely zero integrity anywhere in this world.
I think I personally would find this more useful on my phone than on my desktop or laptop.

I like Mullvad, they're my goto for VPN service when I'm out and about.
Most shows seem to drip with contempt towards their original fanbases lately. Many many creatives seem to want to make shows for themselves or some mystical non existing ultra nice demographic.

She-Hulk is great example of all that especially the finale. The creators on Twitter insulted Marvel Fans, mocked Marvel, and attacked Kevin Feige.
Science is not some abstract thing, disconnected from the rest of the world. The age of the universe is not magically separate from clay pots in Mesopotamia or the fact that one's parents immigrated from Italy. We know where these religions came from, roughly how they formed, and we have good ideas about who wrote their holy books. The mystery is solved unless you care about the fine details. There are thousands of religions throughout history, and there is no reason to think anything special about one over another.

You cannot believe in a religious worldview and commonsense facts about the world. They are logically inconsistent. On the epistemic point, you're right, but you have to give up commonsense beliefs or coherence if you go the religion route. Deductive logic should not be swept under the rug.
If by "the OP being right" you mean that Russia is pretty much like every other "Great Power" then yeah. Not only can I handle that, but I'm saying the same thing.

But that's not what the OP seems to be saying. He seems to be saying that, history has shown Russia is uniquely a bloodthirsty country that wants to attack its neighbors for no reason, any chance it gets. In a "normal" analysis of countries since, say, 1980s, one would see that countries typically attack as a reaction to something. Even USA invading Iraq was officially in response to Saddam ousting inspectors and maintaining ambiguity about WMDs. And even the secret war of bombing in Laos, which was especially egregious (since Laos presented zero threat, and yet was bombed more than any country in history), was justified by the "domino theory" that we cannot allow communism to spread around the world, because one day it may "challenge our interests".

That's why USA and NATO want to flip Russia's neighbors against Russia, even if it means a CIA-sponsored insurgency war where a million people die. In this kind of geopolitical chess, it is far better that they fight Russia over there, than having to later fight them all over here, economically and militarily, as a geopolitical bloc. Pick them off, divide and conquer. Russia, like a cornered animal, will react, as would any country to whom it is done. That kind of stuff is understandable -- geopolitical chess, action, reaction.

But if one goes to say that Russia is somehow beyond reacting, actually goes out and invades countries to grab their territory for fun and profit, that's saying much more. And in that case, I would push back on that narrative. Even the USA isn't doing that, officially. They are always "reacting" to what they perceive are a threat to their interests and security. But in the USA case it's much harder to justify when a country they're invading is 3000 miles away.

The point of my reply was to say that each country (Russia included) has media that radicalizes their population to think exactly this kind of "cartoon villain" thing about their geopolitical rival, and I wish we would all listen to each other's media and hold our politicians accountable to talk to each other more frequently, as Khrustchev and Kennedy did, so they can avoid killing millions of people as "collateral damage" between the Great Powers. Because watch, if we escalate with China around Taiwan, we'll be saying the same thing about China being a cartoon villain in about 3-4 years from now.

Oh, and avoiding nuclear war: https://press.un.org/en/2023/sc15250.doc.htm
We continue to have a moral panic about screentime. There is no debating that it has continued to get worse and not better. The same kids who were addicted to WoW(or other games) or learning to code in their spare time are doing the same thing today, just longer.

Involved parents are not just helicopter parents. An involved parent might have gone through a similar generational experience where they were ignored by their parents and put in front of the radio, television, computer, etc and want to break the generational cycle with their kids. Because substituting healthy activities for screentime is a good way to model independent behavior and bring balance to your life. It doesn't mean you cannot use screens, but rather that you use them in moderation.

The difference of opinion changes when you become a parent too. You start to reflect on your childhood and things you wish were different while trying your best to bring more real experiences to your kids instead of them trying to explore the world virtually.
> "the most ambitious challenges attract the smartest people"

Whose ambition?

Smart how?

For what outcome? For who?

Would that be even efficient? (there are many other issues to "panic" over other than AI)
Do they use an actual physical source of randomness for every random number? Or is it a prng? Because in that case it is fully deterministic.

And consider the case that in fact they could use actual random numbers. Would it make a difference?
After reading the article I don't see how the numbers are questionable at all.

This seems more like a case of numbers that don't fit the narrative that the author wants to push rather than numbers that are not believable.
I wonder if one day we'll get a group of devs with the balls to propose the world with a real disruptive web engine (instead of using vanguard/blackrock ones): for instance plain and simple C + assembly.
A lawyer in the west is basically a guidance councelor for CEOs or politicians, determinating how much and how they can move within the system to a position. It is paid accordingly, if work occurs in this capacity. The rule of law is detectable by the price that can be extracted for providing the service to move within the framework and not violating it, aka incur punishment.

If that pay is low, then there is no punishment for violations, or the punishment depends on different criteria entirely. Which could be formulated as a lack of rule of law. There might be invisible rules, ceremonys, within the party, but they are not enforceable, except by higher layers in court. And they are also not part of the discussion scope.
Imagine a universe simulated under homeomorphic encryption. Where initially you have no control over the simulated universe, and have no idea what's under the encryption, but you somehow the universe is big enough that if you wait long enough, life evolves inside the encryption.

Then all you have to do to break the encryption is to convince the simulated life within the encryption to prepare a special patch of space, with just what you wanted. They proceed to do so, breaking the homeomorphic encryption for you. Then you just discard their world.
The full track is not on Youtube or Spotify (believe me I tried) so I purchased the CD from Amazon just for that one track (I didn't care about the others)
I have a hunch that’s exactly what it looked like for all past economic empires, no?
You do not get unlim relax mode on the cheapest plan, only standard or pro, which is 3x the cost.
> wants to sell drama, not sports

poor people around the world have little fight clubs all the time, and the result is "knuckle heads" with broken teeth and unable to work. This show business has big production value, good lighting with excellent cameras, and yes, stories that people can latch on to.. hint- fight fans are often not very smart.
I believe Ukraine did apply, or at least indicate they wanted to. The real reason Ukraine did not get invited to join NATO is that, even after the 2014 invasion of Crimea, lots of people in Europe wanted to believe that it was still possible to do business with Russia, and that they would come around eventually. There are a lot of people who still believe that doing business with someone makes them come around to democracy eventually; this was also a reason given by President Clinton for normalizing trade with China (where it has also not worked).

It has been a bit of a political earthquake for Germany to find itself arming others, perhaps more even for the political elite than for the general population. I don't think it would have been possible to convince them that Ukraine should be admitted prior to 2022. Now, of course, attitudes are very different (thankfully), but prior to 2022 the plan for most of Europe (and honestly most of North America as well) was to be nice to Russia and they would come around, because otherwise they would lost to much money. It turns out that is a bad strategy.
I once did something like this! Forked from someone who did most of the heavy lifting

https://fede.dm/unknown-pleasures/

https://github.com/FdelMazo/unknown-pleasures/
Technically NATO is already 'at their doorstep'. Norway, Estonia, and Latvia share a border with mainland Russia (with Estonia and Latvia being much closer to Moscow than Ukraine is), and Lithuania and Poland also directly border Kaliningrad, which is Russian territory, and Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey only have the Black Sea separating them.
This is the pattern with depression, according to Sapolsky in 2010: successive episodes increase in severity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc
The extensive archive of BBC's "In Our Tine" covers a lot of interesting ground.

Not sure exactly how that maps to IQ ranges, but worth checking out anyway.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2Dw1c7rxs6DmyK0pMR...
Yes that’s what I was referring to. I’m using that. ByteDance has a similar one although I haven’t tried it. The annoying thing is how deeply a specific async implementation “infects” all parts of the code. Would be nice for something more general so I could more easily test out individual implementations to compare performance vs having to rewrite a good chunk of the application.
Perception Shaping
> but the game mechanics pushed you toward the next quest in the main storyline all the time

I didn't feel this pressure, which resulted in the opposite problem. I played all of the side missions before anything else where they were available. By the time I finished those and got back to the mainline, I was all powerful and the story was an unchallenging walkthrough.
I'd say doing some sort of training might be the most beneficial thing you can bring to the NGOs. There are also organizations such as Omdena (https://omdena.com/). They solve different challenges and would probably appreciate some support, even some sort of mentorship. We supported them that way at Qdrant, and organized a semantic search workshop, while one of their local chapters was implementing a chatbot.
It's available on android and linux. Don't know about windows
You're not wrong (I develop that way as well), but I'd wager that like me you're not neck deep in service workers and WASM and a "compression streams API."

This isn't a Chrome vs Safari issue (Safari is better, of course), it's the fact that browser development suffers from Apple's corporate wall of silence. In this case, devs literally suffering.
Marketability-centered matchmaking isn’t even exclusive to UFC. College football bowls are virtually never selected based on skill outside of the New Year’s Six.
Insider says Manulife Bank didn't protect customers' private information
Bitcoin is 100% traceable, and lots of black markets have been shut down for using it.
> I am just saying that criticism from the standpoint of free speech or sovereignty is inconsistent with the idea that you can satirize whatever or whoever you want.

I don't understand what you are saying. Criticising a company on free speech grounds who prevent you from satirising someone is absolutely consistent. What inconsistency are you seeing?
Contrast this statement in the article:

> I don’t know if I will ever buy a Framework laptop.

vs your statement:

> I hope that it (or something else inspired by it) is still around when I eventually do need to buy a laptop again.

Atleast you are open to potentially owning one (subject to conditions, of course).
Can you clarify your meaning?
Yep. Midjourney is the exact reason why projects like Stable Diffusion are so important, anime distractions or not.
Although it's worth noting that the information is somewhat outdated. Notably, the most recent version of K is K9 (referred to through its proprietary implementation called Shakti) although K3 (through Kona), K4 (through Q by KX systems), K5 (through Ngnk), and K6 (through oK) are still used as every few versions is somewhat different from what came before, including being rewritten from scratch.
"Why, we're all seaman here, I should think."

"We're all foc's'le hands, you mean. We can steer a course, but who's to set one? That's what all you gentlemen split on, first and last."

(From Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Say an AI can write the code. Can it decide what the code ought to do? Can it look around the world (or around the business), see the need, and write the specification? Once it writes the code, can it debug it? Can it maintain the code over the next two decades as the world changes around it?

If an AI can take a spec and write the code unsupervised (which, personally, I still doubt), all that means is that we get to level up. We now figure out what the code needs to do and write the spec.

You say "but that won't take as many people!" Maybe not. Or maybe we keep the same people and write more software. It's not like the people we have were writing all the software that people wanted written...
> TL;DR: they are mad because of:

This is not a good summary of the article. They're aren't mad at the bugs, they're mad at how Apple handles Safari releases (as seen in the very title of the article).

If you read the "how to fix it" section, the fixes are "transparency", "update Safari independently of the OS", "more pre-release testing options", "communication".
The engineers are bloggers now
> I don't understand how Microsoft can cheapen their main OS that much.

If they could just drop it right now, both desktop and server, without causing a major explosion, I'm pretty sure they would.

The hassle of dealing with hardware compatibility and vendors can't be worth the small amount that get per licence these days, why not let Apple and Open Source deal with that collection of end-user grief?

Server-side & similar they don't care what OS you use, or are heading that way, as long as you host it on Azure. If you use any OS directly at all: function-level based hosting being a commonly pushed option ATM. SQL Server claims Linux to be a first-class host OS IIRC.

Desktop support directly is still a bit Windows-oriented and that might not change, but the browser-based alternatives are coming on in leaps which makes user OS less important (and pulls more users towards Azure lock-in via OneDrive and syncing office app files between users).

It used to be that Windows, Office, and SQL Server were their cash cows and everything else was intended to funnel people towards them (or, at least, pull them away from other options). Now that triumvirate is Azure, Office, and SQL Server. In both cases with VisualStudio as a distant forth.
10 Semis at once is not that big of a deal. The Tesla Supercharging stations at Harris Ranch in California have 98 250kW stalls total (plus some Charge America stalls at the same location), that’s easily enough to charge 10 Tesla Semis simultaneously.

“You really don't seem to grasp just how much electricity that is.” What kind of argument even is this, considering Tesla supplies this much electricity to their charging stations today?

It costs money, but Tesla is pretty good at building these things out affordably, sometimes including on-site buffering of the power using Megapack grid storage and on-site generation of solar.

About one-fifth the price of their competition in building out DC fast charging: https://electrek.co/2022/04/15/tesla-cost-deploy-supercharge...
(Although I suspect and hope their competition will catch up here.)
To piggyback off the beta release cycle, I really like Thinky Bits chart on iOS beta releases. Looking at it gives a pretty good idea of when the current beta will hit RC.

http://www.thinkybits.com/blog/iOS-versions/
That “Expertise Signaling” by Founders
Acting like an expert even without experience can help secure venture capital funding.
For the moment Framework computers don't do anything my current laptop can't but I'm very excited for their future. Maybe the next model will have full-height modules so we can add functionality to the top of the palmrest instead of just the sides.
Without Verification, What Is the Point of Elon Musk’s Twitter?
It is a bit like saying a random number generator is a form of image compression since it is a small program the output of which contains every copyrightable image.

Compression has the property that almost all inputs are reconstructable. Generative models have the property that almost all inputs are not reconstructable.
It's definitely more complicated than that for most components, but a 256GB SSD you can't upgrade yourself is ridiculous.
> Look at a map of Europe, put yourself in the mind of a highly suspicious and pessimistic person and ask yourself "how would I invade Russia?" "how do I get an SRBM or MRBM within striking range of Moscow?" "how do I increase my ability to have Russian speaking agents plausibly cross into and out of Russia?"

You don't need Ukraine to do any of this. Poland and the Baltic states are NATO members already.
Something like that? https://github.com/protontypes/open-sustainable-technology

I contribute to https://karrot.world/ sometimes.

Also found this interesting https://hospitalrun.io/
I have set up two NUCs with PopOS for my sons. Both very happy and I have full control of the machines.

The problems started with Windows 7 when at some points the updates became obfuscated and mandatory to push "telemetry" aka data snooping. Before that phoning home was considered spyware and a sin.
In Sweden (where Mullvad has its origin) IPSs are forced to keep data on its users, see Datalagringsdirektivet. It does not apply to VPN providers.
https://youtu.be/QDiUvLl3zpg was also an episode of Tales of the Unexpected
> But being better at mimicking reason, is still not reasoning

How do I know people are not using a similar process when they perform "reasoning" but with a way more elaborate model?

Can you prove me that the two are inherently different in the type of output they produce regardless of how large a ML model is or can be?

Because if you can't, and they produce the same type of output, the processing could be similar enough to be considered reasoning.
Why would they care what devs do? They are an infinitesimal minority.
Their product are status/convenience for "normal" people, and they will use whatever browser Apple ships and if something breaks it's anybody else's fault.
"If your Mac can't run it you don't need it".
Note that aircraft are not considered "maritime property" (the exceptions being seaplanes or aircraft transported by ship as cargo), so they aren't covered under marine salvage laws.

https://www.perthilj.com/blog/2019/2/19/aircraft-salvage-in-...
3Dfx is just plain cool. It was one of the bigger leaps of the era. Back then there was a little cross over from car culture (mods/hot rodding) too which helped fuel some of the industry. This was almost like throwing a 4 barrel carb and high rise cam shaft into a 5.7L Chevy, not very expensive and mind blowing difference of performance from stock.
I would have liked to see where Vivaldi fell in there testing.