skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fundamental feature – for you. But not for 23% of US computer buyers who choose Apple systems.

This topic reminds me of a story from some relatives. Both relatives are relatively affluent and live in a state with recycling deposits. You save your cans and bottles and return them to the grocery store to get your deposit back, a handful of cents per can.

Relative #1 has done this out of habit and thrift for decades, despite being affluent as I discussed.

When they were over relative #2’s house for a party, they asked where they keep their cans. #2 said “just throw them in the recycle bin.” #1 said, “but what about the deposit?” And the response was basically just laughter.

In the perspective of relative #2, who in their in their right mind cares enough about a bottle deposit to bother wasting their time on it when they can just throw them in the regular recycle bin? It’ll still get recycled, and you save a significant amount of time putting the cans in the deposit machine at the cost of literal pennies per soda can.

This is where reason enters the picture. #2 is correct so long as their high income and busy schedule supports the idea that returning can deposits is a complete waste of time. Imagine a doctor canceling an appointment to take their cans over to the grocery store.

Now imagine you’re a typical Apple user. You make well above median household income. Apple has 23% marketshare, and coincidentally if you’re top 23% of income in the US you make just about exactly $100,000 a year.

Your choice is to buy an Apple system where 1TB of storage costs you an extra $400, but if you bought a PC you could upgrade that storage yourself and only spend around $100, maybe even less.

What life sacrifice did you make to spend this extra money if you’re in this income bracket? The truth is you probably wouldn’t notice that missing $400 you spent upgrading the storage to 1TB.

Heck, if you’re a business rather than an individual, you now have to pay salaries and factor in lost productivity any time you’re taking a computer away from your employee and spending time repairing it. That situation is double jeopardy: pay IT to do the repair, pay your employee to sit there and do nothing in the meantime.

Let’s say you buy a computer every 3 years, which itself is pretty luxurious. In this scenario, that non-upgradable storage basically costs you $100 every year without even considering the sale of your used laptop 3 years later. Basically, getting a laptop with non-removable storage every 3 years like clockwork costs less than a typical streaming service or Amazon Prime.

I see no financial reason why any of Apple’s affluent customers should give a flying fuck about upgradable storage. I think it’s actually closer to the bottom of the list than you realize.

On top of this, if you’re comparing a Mac to a Windows PC, that means you’re comparing things like integration to your phone and other accessories, battery life, fit and finish, software, performance, and customer support/warranty, not just the single feature of storage upgradability.
Is there a point besides snark? If one chooses to export to Apple Health, HealthKit keeps everything on device or encrypted. Even Apple can’t access the data. I stay away from all 3rd party health trackers since most don’t seem to have any commit to privacy, so this looks like a nice addition to the ecosystem.
> There is no current iOS version of Fortnite. The only way to do it is with Amazon Luna or Xbox Cloud Gaming, which is only "playing Fortnite from iOS" on the very surface.

It's not there anymore but it was there originally. (It'd be amazing if it still were. If you were allowing me to sell my game in your store for a fee, and I stopped paying the fee AND sued you, you'd remove me from the store first thing. First to avoid funding my legal expenses and second because I agreed to your ToS that allow you to do it literally for any reason you like.)

After it was removed, Epic found out that people who were casually playing Fortnite on iOS were not about to start buying PCs and gaming consoles. After all there are other games in the store, including tons of buy-once-play-forever games which don't leech money off you or your kids like Fortnite does.

> More than 116 million registered users have accessed Fortnite through iOS -- more than through any other platform, Epic said in the filing

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/fortnite-users-flee-after-gettin...
What exactly is bad faith about this compliance? The original ruling specifically called out that Apple would still be entitled to a commission even if people used alternative payment processors.

The main thing that feels icky to me is the hurdles to getting approved to link to alternative payment methods, but even if those are walked back that doesn't solve the main issue, which is that alternative payment providers were never a sensible solution to Apple's tax.

Apple has always argued that the commission is for the App Store, not for payment processing, and it is only collected through their payment processor as a matter of convenience. The policy announced here is essentially the same that they announced two years ago in the Netherlands in response to a similar ruling [0]. I'm surprised that anyone here is surprised that they're doing the same thing in the US.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30204604
I would assume because Reddit is so heavily prioritized that without quoting the blog directly you’d need to pan through 6+ pages of crud to find it.
How about if you go to purchase a house, but one of the HoA agreements is that you only shop at Kroger.
I need this for flights, not for the sun, but I somehow always have fomo when having to choose between left and right side of the plane on the seat selection screen
To protect against replay of the token associated with the certificate, simply challenge the client to sign the value specified by the server eg. random value+server ID.

However, it smells like self-made crypto.
Buddy, I'm from South America and I had to learn English and move away from my continent in order to have a chance at a good life. I've already been colonized by the USA. Don't tell me to be thankful because Russian would have been worse.
Ah I see, thank you. Given the complexity of the device and the amount of mechanical bits and pieces in there these numbers are very impressive even if they might seem low compared to solid state.
can you track and object?
Under what circumstances would AI art be acceptable then?

I hate to make a sort-of standard Internet retort but artists (and "society") don't have any obligation to reserve some space for AI art to be OK within culture. Maybe such a possibility exists and maybe it doesn't. But given that present AI is something like a complex but semi-literal average of the art works various largish companies could find, it seems reasonable to respond to people's objections to that.
Starlink is separate and viable without Starshield. They are independent programs: https://www.space.com/spacex-starshield-space-force-contract
Alex Jones is objectively fascinating, though. And hilarious.
A bike still contains many complex parts and if you start taking into account what’s needed to build it, it becomes very extensive and rely on a long supply chain.
This is amazing! My kids get sick on train rides and I think a lot has to do with the sun strobing through the trees. I’ll try this next time to at least not be on the sunny side.
Yeah, that's basically the Horizon situation I was referring to.
No more Ubisoft for me.
Problem solved.
Have you ever not interviewed a candidate presented by a recruiter?

Has a candidate presented by a recruiter never been a dud? Most recruiters I have worked with aren't able to assess my experience anyways.

It is absolutely possible that this can be gamed but the game won't last long. And it's possible that some level of vetting will need to be built anyway. We'll see.

> As a hiring manager,you would literally be taking value away from me since I would be reaching a smaller pool of candidates

No one is saying you're forced to use this as your only solution. Obviously you won't.
>You search for "red flower Thailand" and flowers of various other colors from various locations appear.

https://imgur.com/a/sJCECzQ

Looks mostly red to me. A little pink too I guess.
How could this concept be monetized? How much would you pay?
dolphins

cowboys 2 seed

eagles

how would that have worked this season? those high elo teams lost badly multiple unexpected times no?
And nothing's changed. Consumers are entirely incapable of collective action to punish repugnant companies.
there should be a French territory in North America somewhere
We have other knobs we could turn.

Not every talented engineer is eager for the cut-throat hustle to chase a 600k comp package (which ends up at 70k when the stock implodes). I'd think it might even be slightly less common when you get into research and greenfield stuff-- you've got people motivated by a vision and the opportunity to deliver it.

Messaging like "We have the financial and structural backing to keep the project alive indefinitely" and "This is a job for life-- if it takes you 20 years to make the breakthrough, we're willing to wait" might appeal to those people, even if the compensation is a bit lower.
Can quality score be added for each inference provider for the same model. Many of them use different quantization and approximation so that it's not just price and throughput that's important. Specially for model like Mixtral.
yup. i get it. it's a steep learning curve. and it's hard to grok if you don't understand what the theory behind them is.

My bigger point is that the articles like the one linked here just barely scratch the surface and you cannot really jump into it and get an intuitive understanding by just looking at it. that being said, if you want to learn more you can and they can be applied to a large range of problems.
So what about the fact that these cartoons look like Keith Haring meets Cathy Guisewite meets Scott Adams? These cartoons are artistically derivative. They are obviously not derivative from the perspective of copyright as style is an idea, not an expression.

These models were not trained on just the cartoonist in question, nor just their inspirations. The intent was to train on all images and styles. The expression of the idea using these models is not going to match the expression of the idea of all images, even those conforming to a certain bounded prompt.

For the life of me I can't get DALL-E or Stable Diffusion to produce anything like Cat and Girl nor anything coherent for the above mentioned inspirations. DALL-E flat out refuses to create things in the style of the above and Stable Diffusion has insane looking outputs, overwhelmed by Herring.

Most importantly, copyright is concerned with specific works that specifically infringe and whose damages are either statute or based on quantifiable earnings from infringement. Copyright does not cover all works, especially when again, the intent is to learn all styles that rarely, if at all, reproduces direct expressions.

The only point at which these images are directly copied are when in the machine's memory, which has already has case law for allowance, followed by back propagation that begins the process of modifying the direct copies for the underlaying formal qualities.

It seems like a lot of people are going to be upset when the courts rule eventually rule in favor of the training and use of these models, if not only because the defendant has a lot of resources to throw at a legal team.
Seriously asking: if I customize my order at a fast food joint am I a chef? How is that different from prompt engineering to generate art?
Q:How much of the world is it possible to model?
A:All of it.

The only problem with living so far in the future is when you get back to reality its all repeats.

The doctor strange scene in avengers was pretty realistic for those who get access to the tech

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eGKPfZTXHsc&pp=ygUaYXZlbmdlcnM...
I really enjoyed the Grapes of Math by Alex Bellos
More and more, I really appreciate great efforts that make a small but meaningful improvement in some under-noticed aspect of living. It seems zen-like.

Bravo. :) What a great project and execution!
Quick quibbles:

1. Geostationary orbits are in 24/7 sunlight except for a short period each day near the equinoxes

2. Geostationary polar orbits do not exist. Geostationary orbits are, by definition, 0° inclined. A polar geosynchronous orbit, like you mentioned, would not offer much besides being over the same point on the Earth at the same instant every day.
Search engines are an index, which have existed for centuries.
>Yvonne-Gonzalez was skeptical of the 30% fee during the trial, and in the ruling she was suspicious about Apple's justification of the commission, writing that "the 30% is not tied to anything in particular and can be changed," but did not order Apple to do so.

We really do live in clown world
They couldn't make a robot cook pizza with $500 million invested https://futurism.com/the-byte/robot-pizza-startup-shuts-down

Kitchens are very difficult for humans, let alone robots
That is the entire premise of the article, that people are missing.

If you want a prosperous nation (of people), you achieve that through investment in technology, efficient systems, and the future. No country is richer in 2024 than 1 AD because they have gotten 1000x better at plundering.
> The reason I'd characterize it this way is that changing phone platforms is nontrivial.

I'm sorry, but how is it "nontrivial" to change phone platforms? Google says it's easy and all you need is a cable to get the best experience: https://www.android.com/switch-to-android/
Debian 12 and Linux Upstreaming for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite SoC
ESP32-V3, -C3, -C6 Wide open with side channel attack
Ooops, I thought it was. It's in there now.
Geoffrey Hinton would love this news.

Queue the immortal soldiers?
Only via superuser privileges.
> Developers are required to provide a periodic accounting of qualifying out-of-app purchases, and Apple has a right to audit developers' accounting to ensure compliance with their commission obligations and to charge interest and offset payments.
I'm not a lens designer, but want to play one on TV.
I recently took a bus over the Andes and was congratulating myself on choosing a seat on the shady side. Then I realized that in the southern hemisphere the sun is in the north and I had outsmarted myself.
Apple's App Store is more akin to a Company Store[1] where you live in a town owned by the company you are utilizing for your lifestyle and their store is the only place you have available to shop. It was a scandal in the past as it's unfair to consumers while also being unfair to producers. The argument of "well you can just move/buy a different phone" did not hold up very well with society.

This unethical model is not any better in our modern world.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_store
TIL that ARM has GPUs
She basically signaled that she wished she could do something about it but that Epic didn't challenge the 30%, they challenged the existence of a commission at all. Epic overreached and she can't just make up a judgement about things that haven't actually been brought before her.
I have a few questions for Google employees..

Are you allowed to search the internet with an ad blocker installed?

Do you use a special search interface that doesn't return results with ads?
Yup, tagging and all the related costs are only reasonable for high-margin/relative high value products, not food
Can't you also run the QEMU virtual machine on linux?
Sure, on a per square foot basis, but the requirements and limitations are decidedly different. I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand, at least not on a 10-30 year time frame.
> A similar history was followed for Starlink which is not commercially viable without its basis in furthering SDI technology.

This is complete nonsense.
I can guarantee you what Altman will say, are you ready ?

We think it’s important the US stays ahead of China and Russia and we believe the benefits will outpace the risks. Ultimately this move will benefit humanity

Maybe he’s right, maybe if everyone has killer robots, no he will bother starting war? Who knows? Nobody
And the only roads in and out of your neighborhood leads directly to a Kroger. And there's barbed wire fencing surrounding your neighborhood. Meanwhile, deliveries being made to Kroger from distributors may only use Kroger-branded trucks, which cost at least 20% more. Oh, and that truck may only be serviced by Kroger-approved mechanics. Those mechanics can only buy parts from Kroger. Any totaled truck can't be parted out by mechanics and MUST be recertified by Kroger.
Go Daddy wants you to call for a quote
I'm sure it'll be fine. Uncomfortable, but fine.
Microsoft’s early dev tools were really top notch especially considering how much of the software still runs in the most popular PC operating system.
Chinese startup claims 50 year battery life with nuclear technology
no firefox? lol
The first result is coding with Roblox Lua for me!
And so does terrestrial wind, hydro, coal, oil and gas. All ultimately came from the sun.

Only uranium proudly stands apart.
Do you believe them?

You shouldn't. It's a marketing page.
A satellite could be illuminated over 99% of the time and be in Earth's shadow a maximum of only 72 minutes per night at the spring and fall equinoxes at local midnight.[44] Orbiting satellites can be exposed to a consistently high degree of solar radiation, generally for 24 hours per day, whereas earth surface solar panels currently collect power for an average of 29% of the day.[45]

That is the big potential with solar satellites, 24 hour a day power.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power#:~:t....
I'm sure there's a lot of good in this. I went to get more info. Reddit says Unreviewed Content.

This community has not been reviewed and might contain content inappropriate for certain viewers. View in the Reddit app to continue.

Neither is acceptable to me.

I just got past the Facebook login nag. I have fat fingers and those "x" things get smaller all the time.

I have a few concerns.

First, anything online can go offline, permanently, and many do.

Second, I really don't want to talk to AI. I want to talk to people who share my concerns and experiences. I don't know who or what AI has been trained on.

I have been journaling on paper for ages. Every new year, I ask if I want to go electronic. I just find that anything electronic has competition for my attention from everything else on the device, and I stick with paper. I have decided the same way since CP/M.

I have various data bits since the 3 inch floppy days, but all the "ideas" and reflections are in paper notebooks.

These have no bearing on the quality of your app, so good luck.

My previous online attempt was with Evernote, which I dropped when it was bought and all the US staff were laid off. Fortunately, the data is portable and I made a last data dump.
Nah, the system was pretty visibly corrupt pre-Trump.

I mean, the bodies that piled up around Clinton were being noticed at the time. That you had a potential presidential sequence of Bush, Clinton and Bush and Clinton had a pretty 3rd world kind of feeling. Trump ran as "the corrupt guy who take on corruption 'cause he's honest". Still, contrary to your claim, Trump launched the career of a whole new horde of grifters, with the Qanon types as just the most visible examples.
Here's the accompanying text from The Go Programming Language for that line in the graph:

> One major stream of influence comes from languages by Niklaus Wirth, beginning with Pascal. Modula-2 inspired the package concept, Oberon eliminated the distinction between module interface files and module implementation files. Oberon-2 influenced the syntax for packages, imports, and declarations, and Object Oberon provided the syntax for method declarations.

So mostly packages and syntax - not the most exciting stuff, but the package concept contributes to enabling Go's compilation speed, so it shouldn't be disregarded. Ok, you can still argue that many or most of the C/Pascal-family influences were already present in Newsqueak (I'm only familiar with Pascal, C and Go, so I can't judge that), but I think it's understandable that they wanted to have the language the book is about at the focal point of the graph, and not one of its less successful and more obscure ancestors.
Every “reader app” has that option. It’s an explicit carve out in the App Store rules.
This sounds like a feature but it's actually a source of serious performance issues in IPFS.
If someone was going to do it, wouldn't you choose to have some control rather than let someone else (a possibly worse option) at the wheels?
I tried and failed to find the original paper by Kaprekar, does anyone have a pdf?
I feel sorry for all other models when gpt4.5 comes out. If you are not at gpt4 level it’s pretty useless other than have some fun.
waiting for this to be debunked
IANAL, but at face value, that seems like it would be, well, quite insane? To emphasize, I've seen plenty of insane stuff in the legal system, but if the argument is basically that Epic doesn't have standing because Apple won't let them be in a position where they could have standing, yet they generally offer that position (dev program membership) to the public at large, that seems like some sort of Catch-22-ish nightmare.

Again, little surprises me in the legal system these days, but I have to think courts would be very skeptical of an argument where a potential defendant controls the gates that decide whether a potential plaintiff has standing.
A lot of people never paid for or used those services even when they were in their hayday.
Do you have some resources on that?
Not to mention you get a 30% boost in solar insolation by snagging the light before it goes through the atmosphere, plus you don't have the resistive losses due to heat building up in a land-based solar cell.
Their IP is baked into the hardware and circuits.
Directly and in person?