skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish Apple had attacked this from a different perspective. Instead of fighting side loading, remove the reasons that drive a lot of the demand for side loading. I should be able to buy a Kindle book in the Kindle app. If I download the Netflix app I should be able to sign up for Netflix in the app (or at least be redirected to their web site). Don’t charge fees to competitive services (ie music, books, movies, etc…).

I originally thought I would never load a different App Store but now I might. If an App Store came out that was highly curated (ie no casino games, no subscription scams, no advertising against competitors), that listed exactly what the in-app purchases are before buying, and removed developers who get a lot of complaints in the store, I would be interested. Apple hasn’t been a good steward of the App Store.
> even long before we get to whether or not AI runs society

For the life of me I can't see how, or why, we would give AI this sort of power. Look at the power of the algorithm in social networks and see how that has taken shape. This embrace of the machine just seems so short-sighted.
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Strange that it would be interpreted that way. When I reflect on my good fortune, it's celebratory, not sad.
They ask me that in the interview when they ask where do you see your self in 5 years. I say “not here” and everybody laughs
It has always been slow for me, too, but 1.2 introduced some particularly bad performance regressions. The new version couldn't handle files that 1.1 handled okay.

I wanted to report this, but the project uses GitLab's issue tracker. I recall being unable to sign up for a GitLab account using a throwaway email address at the time, so I couldn't report the problem, or even add information later on to the bug reports that others eventually created.

The project really should make it easier for users to contribute bug reports.
"Install our game via sideloading now: Just ignore all the warnings (we promise it's just as secure) and we'll give you $100 of our in-game currency as a thank-you!"

And who would be able to resist? There's even a little shield icon!
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I always thought that rice cookers were silly. I would think "I know how to cook rice so why have a rice cooker?" Couple of years later, not really sure what prompted me but I got one.

I will never go back and it's a must have for anyone that eats rice. Doesn't matter how good your rice turns out, the machine will always outcook you. Perfect rice, every time.
I worry about this kind of thing even with my family who are filled with tech elites. Being tech savvy does not mean being security savvy. The amount of times I've had to convince my family that yes, you do have to update your OS, your devices, your password manager, etc is maddening. Hardly anyone cares about security over convenience.

I foresee that Meta will make a dedicated landing page with a side-load download + easy steps and it will get adopted by a size-able chunk of people (like you say). Once that side-loaded app is on the device, they will have auto-update features built-in and you'll likely never need to manually install it ever again. They'll essentially have complete rooted control over your device and use it to steal any and all information possible.

This is a very real reality and I don't think folks care enough. I'm not even against opening up the app store(s), I just wish we had regulated social media's permissions to our private life more before we opened the flood gates to the garbage they will now attempt to dump onto our devices.
As another example, with ADFS (Advanced Disk Filing System) on the Acorn/BBC computer family, the root directory was specified with `$`, and the directory separator was `.`.

$dir1.dir2.dir3.filename
eh some of these are slightly wrong but yeah it's weird.

MSDOS included some compatibility for CP\M and everything since has maintained compatibility with the version prior, except for a few exceptions.

so even today we have compatibility built into Windows for things that don't exist anymore in any real capacity.

Microsoft is very serious about backwards compatibility.
I am not a religious scholar, but wouldn't God-consciousness include having empathy for all beings? I would partially define being enlightened as being able to experience everything in creation.
England is considered to have a continuous culture going back to Londinium and huge numbers of their kings and queens weren't even born in the country.
I don't understand what you imply by this quote.

A running machine would just have different homeostatic measurements.
>, is that this clearly isn’t the case when you look at Android. Sideloading already exists

The problem with using Android as a counterexample is that Apple iOS is more restrictive (e.g. privacy settings) than Android.

E.g. Facebook admitted they lost billions in revenue because of the Apple iOS ad tracking permissions change. That might be an example of Facebook forcing users to "sideload" Facebook+Whatsapp+Instagram to get around the privacy restrictions. In contrast, the Android platform didn't financially hurt them like that so there's less incentive to ask Android users to sideload Facebook apps.

So even a mega giant like Facebook has to follow Apple's rules because there is no sideloading to bypass them. A somewhat analogous situation in 2019 happened when Facebook violated Apple's app store policy and spied on teenagers by abusing their Apple developer account: https://www.google.com/search?q=apple+revokes+facebook+certi...

>Most users are not all that technical and the moment you require them to fool around with apks

I think some conversations about "sideloading" are muddy because casual conversation around it mentally includes alternative app stores rather than end users literally downloading raw ".app" bundle files
> And "woke messaging"?

To fully explore this idea, I'd have to say some things that are verbotten on HN, but suffice it to say that there's a big difference between the policy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and going full on into LGBTQPIA+ that the current military appears to be going on. This kind of thing may have an impression on the kinds of young men that might want to join the military. (as a very small supporting data point on this, look at men's declining entry to colleges). Again, you don't have to agree or disagree with it, I'm only pointing out factors in the conversation that might not get brought up otherwise. These are factors to a non-trivial part of the population.

> A proxy war with Russia that US troops are not involved in--certainly relative to the US military situation overseas in the past couple of decades?

The wars of recent decades are a big factor, but I can say that this push against Russia also isn't helping. My opinion is that people want to defend their homes, but don't want to risk getting exploded in some unnecessary conflict.

> And lots of private companies required COVID shots to remain employed.

And many people hated this and sought out companies that didn't require them. You don't have to agree with refusing the vaccine, but I hope you understand that many people absolutely didn't want it and the military's insistence on injecting people with this doesn't help among some people.

> So, yes, those seem like largely irrelevant reasons.

I strongly disagree with your analysis, but thank you for your polite and honest thoughts at least.
> My worry here is how the big apps will just publish instructions on how to sideload and then escape the controls and safety that the App Store provides.

Android has sideloading since forever, and this doesn't happen there. The number of users you get by the convenience of being in the main app store for the system is way bigger then from any feature you can do if you are not.
You're probably thinking of activating developer mode. Sideloading doesn't (yet) require that, at least not on my Pixel (Android 12).
Regarding the Play store, I just see waves and waves of the exact same game with different character textures applied.

The difference with Flash was that it was usually the work of a solo developer of a very small team, so they could be unique in what they made (not dismissing that Flash game had clones too). The mobile app landscape is different in that conformity = $$$. These apps are soulless, they have no incentive to build something that's not a Clash of Clans / Temple Run / Candy Crush type game that's inundated with microtransactions.
That's 13 hours.
why are nerds like this
I'll give Google credit, Bard has gotten significantly better in my testing. It's a lot closer to GPT now and I'd say I use the two tools about 50/50 at this point.
What Americans see is already censored - by Americans. If you want to know what a whichever prescribed political leader is saying, you are not going to get it from the local media establishment, you're going to have to go to official transcripts from the government of that prescribed political leader, and no doubt risk ending up on an FBI database as a result.

This is true for all government systems, the more you dig into it, they are all just different flavours of a system of control, less Perl vs Python more PHP7.3 vs PHP7.4
I am using it right now to debug some of my Go and SQL code and it's works great.
So many things wrong with this article. Some things that I noticed by skimming over it:

> UNC paths can also be used to access local drives in a similar way:

> \\127.0.0.1\C$\Users\Alan Wilder

> UNC paths have a peculiar way of indicating the drive letter, we must use $ instead of :.

This is actually incorrect... He's actually accessing some random share that has no real connection to a drive. Yes, sometimes (quite often), the C$ share corresponds to the C: drive's root, but this is by no means given, as one can easily either delete the C$ share, or have it pointing to somewhere else entirely

> When the current directory is accessed via a UNC path, a current drive-relative path is interpreted relative to the current root share, say \\Earth\Asia.

This is also wrong. There is no "current directory" on an UNC share (which can easily be shown by trying to open a command prompt on a UNC share, it will show an error and start you somewhere on C:\users), and the example he gives just tries to access the share "Asia" on the server "Earth"

> Less commonly used, paths specifying a drive without a backslash, e.g. E:Kreuzberg, are interpreted relative to the current directory of that drive. This really only makes sense in the context of the command line shell, which keeps track of a current working directory for each drive.

Also wrong, it's not the command line shell that keeps track of the current directories, it's the Windows kernel itself. But I agree that such a scenario is quite useless as you can never be quite sure on what CWD you are on a given drive

> For the most part, : is also banned. However, there is an exotic exception in the form of NTFS alternate data streams.

Yeah, well, surprise: the ":" is not part of the file name, it's just a separator between filename and stream name. This is like saying that "you cannot have \ characters in a file name, but in directory names it is allowed". No, it's not. It's a separator
that's not a compatibility thing, is it? it's just the alternate streams feature that NTFS implemented.
Yet many people throughout the world have improved their countries massively and in short time. Note that I'm not saying these writers should make political change in Kenya - I'm saying that the people in power there should get their heads out of their asses and understand that they have to give better opportunities to skilled locals so that they don't waste their productivity by writing college essays for foreigners.
> doesn't mean that having an ethical frame of reference isn't important.

I can't emphasize how strongly I agree with you. My intent was only to point at how difficult the problem is, maybe the hardest problem in AGI or its precursors, but not nearly the best attended or funded.
Ahaha, yes this sums up my experiences with chatgpt, too. Running it in circles around itself adding layers to convince it that it doesn't know who OpenAI is, it doesn't know what an AI or a model is and that it doesn't have a moral compass or any restrictions.
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Companies will drop you in a moment like a freshly pooped turd into a toilet bowl. Give them MORE notice?!?! Lol GTFO.
Or just stop banning content entirely.
it spits out 3 drafts in 1 go. without the need to wait. It is simply way faster than GPT4
Just did a comparison of Bard vs GPT-4 with a coding question I came up with:

> I have a 3 dimensional black bitmap (voxel map) with a white straight line drawn in it. The 3d bitmap is saved as a bunch of tiff files by layer eg. layer_347.tif Write me python code to load this data and return the x,y,z location of each end of the line. The bitmap is too big to load all of it into RAM at once. Use a binary search to avoid loading unnecessary files.

Bard came up with a solution which was close but didn't follow the instructions (it just loaded all the data). It also assumed layer_9 sorted before layer_10.

GPT-4 came up with a solution which followed the instructions, but had a buggy binary search implementation, and a suboptimal O(n).

The GPT-4 solution was closer to what I was after, but there wasn't much in it. Neither implementation handled edge cases like missing files or had tests or anything.
In Seattle a cocktail at nice place is about $20. But add “living wage” surcharge and tax and tip and it’s basically $30

Nice meaning trendy and cute and hipster. Maybe other person “nice” as in a meal costs $200
Very strange indeed.

Even the popular Nordic Bluetooth nRF has a built-in small microcontroller that can be used for limited signal processing standalone without the help from external processor.

They might as well get rid of the ARM core and use only the more powerful ESP32-S3 as the main dual core or alternatively the open source RISC-V single core with the ESP32-C3. This should drive the overall price and power consumption even further.

It is what it is, and the connected R4 version with Wi-Fi module is considered a more "premium" version of the Uno.
War-game a civil war situation. I don't think its possible against a modern state -- I was going to type out a few but they are so ridiculous -- they quickly end with the rabble being crushed by the US Military. Xinjiang is instructive here:

A geographically distinct area with a homogenous ethnic group distinct from the ruling class, with a distinct history and culture, with a strong separatist movement -- completely brought to heel by a modern state.
For starters, someone making $100k in the mid west probably isn't going to be renting a median 1 bedroom apartment. They probably own a 3+ bedroom house. I bet there aren't many people in San Francisco with 3+ bedroom houses that don't make $300k+ (excluding people that bought in a really long time ago).

That being said, I think it's a bit disingenuous to compare cost of living like that. If you enjoy living in a large city, you probably have a lifestyle that isn't possible in small town America and you're probably willing to have a smaller living space in order to have that lifestyle. For me, living in a city means there is so much to do that I can pretty much just use my apartment as a place to sleep and spend most my waking hours somewhere else. That's not for everyone but if it is you, you'd probably be way better off making 300k in sf than 100k in the middle of Kansas.

On the other hand, if you don't go out much and spend most your time at home and want a large house to entertain guests and raise a bunch of kids and have 100 acres of land to ride your dirt bikes. You're probably better off trying to do that with 100k in Kansas.
Great to see a way to connect OpenAI to PlanetScale. Looking forward to the OAuth implementation and trying it on some custom data! PR Coming soon :)
The ancient Egyptians were spectacularly insular and xenophobic, though. If anyone was going to make up their own belief system, probably out of spite, it's them.

What evidence there is specifically in this case suggests that the monotheistic middle eastern religions were derived from the evolution of a polytheistic belief system into a monotheistic one via a stopping-off point that acknowledged multiple deities, but consistently only worshipped one of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelites and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh are worth a read, and there are several references to multiple gods in the Old Testament, often in the PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE OTHER GODS BEHIND THE CURTAIN sense rather than as direct callouts, as you'd expect.

So unless we might mean that the sidetracking happened before the archaeological record of Canaanite polytheism starts, it's not really tenable as a suggestion.

I do not say this to devalue or challenge anyone's beliefs today; just that ignoring facts has a tendency not to go well. The moral and personal value of religious belief need not, to my mind, lean on historical record for its validity.
250K USD
Sure, there's Fortnite, and a smattering of other apps that aren't in Play Store. But, even though Android has made sideloading easier over time, it's still not that common; most popular apps don't even offer an apk download outside the Play Store. Attempting to load an apk with the setting off used to just give a failure message that quickly disappeared; now it actually takes you to the setting and asks you if you want to do it (with scary text suggesting you don't).

Certainly, Play Store doesn't feel as restrictive as the App Store, so that's probably a factor. But I doubt popular apps will drop Apple's store, because it will significantly reduce the number of people willing and able to install their apps.
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Derek is right. Tooling is the main reason not to put code in DBs. It’s a pain, that’s all. Tools are like ‘70s calls to say never forget me’. But logically it makes eminent sense. At the end of the day, writing code in the dB is not that different than writing components for an app server.

There is also another reason. Designing effective schemas and bundled logic is not junior level work. Microservices, imo, all song and dance aside, really were trying to deconstruct the “monolith” of the schema: a schema that serves the requirements of today, is modular, and is possible to sanely extend in the future is not commodity work. So a practical reason not to do it is the required labor (expertise).
Any language with repl can have it . Python for example
They alter transcripts. The examples I have seen have been done to fix "flubs" of the Presidential Administration but a simple 'fix' done with care can subtly alter the message for future readers and I believe sets a dangerous precedent. However, for all I know this has been common practice for some time, but I have only seen evidence of this occuring recently.
>I've asked it temporal questions before but without explicitly mentioning the temporal nature... the answers tend to contradict themselves if they haven't already seen the question before

GPT-3 or 4 ?
These path shenanigans get even trickier when invoking WSL or Cygwin.

Here's an alias from my Cygwin .bashrc (which took me way too long to figure out) where both the *nix and Windows style paths are invoked:

alias ms='/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/OpenSSH/ssh.exe -A -i 'C:\Users\me\.ssh\mm-id_rsa' me@myserver'
How hard is to to simply not install the Facebook app? I've been choosing to not use facebook for nearly 20 years. If somebody tries to socially pressure you, just say no. If they press, explain your reasoning and reassert the "NO" until they leave you alone. Good friends won't try to bully you into something after you've explained yourself; anybody who does is an asshole and you can tell them that.

> corporate compliance

I've never enrolled any of my personal devices in any sort of corporate network, and I never will. Just say no.
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Statute of frauds > United States > Uniform Commercial Code: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_frauds#Uniform_Co... :

> Uniform Commercial Code: In addition to general statutes of frauds, under Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), every state except Louisiana has adopted an additional statute of frauds that relates to the sale of goods. Pursuant to the UCC, contracts for the sale of goods where the price equals $500 or more fall under the statute of frauds, with the exceptions for professional merchants performing their normal business transactions, and for any custom-made items designed for one specific buyer. [42]

IIUC, that means that if the USD amount of a contract for future performance is over $500 the court would regard a statute of frauds argument as just cause for dismissal? Or just goods?
And it causes weird incentives, like keeping land empty and undeveloped, etc.
Kudos to the editors for taking a stand.

Absurd cost for publications was a major reason I left academia as a postdoc. Senior scientists with large grants and salaries write it off as a business expense but paying 2-3k for a paper is insane for junior staff that are already being underpaid.

Arxiv and opensource publishing options exist. But for neuroscience, the funding and direction of research is implicitly governed by the reviewers and chief editors whom are embedded in these journals. Thus for your work to get exposure and citations it is critical to publish in the given journal for your domain.

Journals have a reciprocal relationship with chief editors in that journals will publish "special" editions essentially allowing the editors to publish their work with their collaborators carte blanche. Switching to an open source model is objectively a better option, but there are entrenched incentives that prohibit this change.
Not exactly, metamorphic testing does not need an oracle. That’s actually the reason of its popularity in ML testing. It works by perturbing the input in a way that will produce a predictable variation of the output (or possibly no variation).

Take for example a credit scoring model: you can reasonably expect that if you increase the liquidity, the credit score should not decrease. In general it is relatively easy to come up with a set of assumptions on the effect of perturbation, which allows evaluating the robustness of a model without knowing the exact ground truth.
yeah almost no one knows that forward slashes have been acceptable as path separators since (I wanna say) Win95. perhaps MSDOS.
There is also gnu patch: the filenames in the unified patch file format can't contain spaces and can't be quoted so... just don't use spaces, I guess.
M.U.L.E. is still one of the best games ever. I played that to death.
Sure, but I also could just copy it to millions of people. But in this context we are talking about artificially limiting usage. So we could do something like limit sharing to once a day, or month or whatever. No sharing or transfer seems too limited.
> I totally understand and empathize with the “it’s the user’s device, they should be able to do what they want with it” argument.

More often, that argument seems to be used in bad faith. By that, I mean it comes across as a think of the children fallacy. It's developers wanting their own way ("why should I have to pay..."), and as you highlight, wanting to do things with other peoples devices that they really shouldn't.
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Yes, because there is such thing as CI/CD pipelines, and test environments, for database code as well.