skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not new. The 27% fee has been around for over a year now I think, may have been announced in 2021 even, for markets outside the US that already mandate this. I've seen these screens already in apps.
SoundCloud's timestamped comments are really so unique. I love that and the scrubbable waveform
No, I have to disagree here. I'm not an artist, but I respect the creations of others. OpenAI does not. They could have trained on free data, but it did not want to because it would cost more (finding humans to find/sanction said data, etc).
Are you suggesting to put trillions of copper, silicon, and aluminum parts on disposable items like bananas, so people have a slightly better shopping experience?
It would work the same as many other revenue sharing agreements out there (including those for Epic’s own Unreal Engine). Yes, there’s no technical mechanism to keep you from screwing the other party (and small-scale fraud will likely go undetected), but there are contractual/legal mechanisms.
I mean, dispersion matters simply because people generally don't want colored fringing and general haziness in their photos?

There are two types of chromatic aberration (CA), both caused by dispersion.

* Axial: perfect focusing is impossible because different wavelengths focus at different distances. If green light is focused correctly, then red and blue light is out of focus. This affects the entire image and is very difficult to fix in post-processing.

* Transverse: there's no unique image because magnification depends on wavelength. Blue light forms a slightly larger image than green, and green larger than red. This manifests as color fringing, most apparent near the edges and corners of the image, far from the optical axis. This can be alleviated algorithmically, by resizing the red and blue sub-images to match the green one.
So what about when it's a SaaS like Google Search, and you just leave BETA plastered across it for over a decade?
Apple reportedly ready to enable sideloading for iOS users in the EU
In its statement, Twin Galaxies cites recent testimony from Dr. Michael Zyda, who was presented as an expert at the trial. Zayda's testimony concluded that Mitchell's submitted gameplay "could in fact depict play on original unmodified Donkey Kong arcade hardware if the hardware involved was malfunctioning, likely due to degradation of components.”
Nice.

Once I did some experiments at programming in Java using only sun.misc.Unsafe for a memory access: https://github.com/xonixx/gc_less. I was able to implement this way basic data structures (array, array list, hash table). I even explicitely set a very small heap and used Epsilon GC to make sure I don't allocate in heap.

Just recently I decided to check if it still works in the latest Java (23) and to my surprise it appears - it is. Now, apparently, this is going to change.
If that's true (and I even believe that it is to a large extent!), there should be no problem for Apple to let its value proposition stand for itself and allow some competition.

Besides that, that list is very bundled. What if I e.g. want the convenient subscription payment processing, but want to (or need to) bring my own CDN for most content? What if I want their marketing and am willing to pay for it, but prefer my own payment processing?
Google's "don't be evil", removed when it was against profit. Silicon Valley's "We're all family" culture, screw that, company profit first, you're all laid off! Now this.

When did "liberal" becomes synonymous with liberally removing/adding a moral value when they no longer works for your profit ? It's not a wonder why half of the country no longer believe in "liberalism".
I use

def blake3_hash(data):
return blake3(data).digest()
No state income tax likely does make this closer to $70k annual for most of those employees. If they get to keep their California salary it's a great deal.
It pretty clearly is. Less of a story that is.
https://nitter.net/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1747408147260571730
It's Uniqlo and it works because clothes have no metal or body of water or something else that could interfere with the RFID.
He was caught using emulators and modified hardware (joysticks). Basically all sorts of things that aren’t “legal” when setting a record. He sued because they removed him from the records.

Twin galaxy’s lawyer just got caught contacting witnesses directly which is a huge violation of the court, and a day later we have a confidential settlement. This is probably more about TG not having the will and/or funds to do it all over again after their lawyer screwed up than anything.

Based on the evidence there’s basically no way he didn’t cheat, he just has the resources to fight in court longer than the people’s he’s suing can, or are willing to.
Demanding a 27% commission for transactions taking place entirely outside of Apple infrastructure is obviously a finger in the eye, but I'm not entirely sure whose eye yet. Epic? The court? The FTC? The developer community? All of the above?
CPU inference is 10x slower. Not good enough for most use cases
It is, but we don't get to declare a solution a success just because the thing that killed it was environmental. It must work in the target environment, and it seems that, unfortunately, US society has failed the theft test in most places. I live in a somewhat diverse but mostly upper-middle-class suburban area, and even here theft shot up with the machines. They couldn't sustain it.

The weight thing is often enabled because of theft.

It might not be the solution designer's "fault" if they couldn't figure out a workable way to account for the problem, but it does make the solution a "failure".
I give some detail in my article on the find:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/05/oldest_ancestor_of_ms...
> “might make right, let’s take this land and these resources from our neighbors, since no one can stop us”

From Wikipedia:

"From the time of the discovery of oil in Iran, foreign powers used force and exploited the weakness of the Iranian state to coerce it into concessions which allowed foreign companies to control oil extraction"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalization_of_the_Iranian...
I recently did a similar project for someone who had a long running site. They wanted to keep all the existing pages so that people's bookmarks would still work (while reducing their hosting fees).

In that case, their site was built in Wordpress, and so I grabbed the html and then posted it on GitHub pages (free static hosting). Then I pointed the domain name to Github from the previous host.

This worked well because they didn't care that it was no longer editable (although it could be hand edited without _that_ much trouble) and they had a strong desire to make it aesthetically identical.

Not sure if there is a huge "website update" component in your situation, but if not, you could probably go a similar route.
Isn't it concerning that Tesla has 500 million miles of driving and is still L2, when Waymo is at 20 million and they're at L4?

Maybe Tesla's approach isn't the way to go.
It sounds like we're in agreement that banning current-gen open source LLMs is counterproductive.

In terms of "risk" and "outcome," I do think you're making some implicit assumptions that I don't share, and change our long-term outlook on AI; for example, the idea that training a model to generate tokens that accurately reflect human writing will result in "a totally alien being smarter than us" is a non-obvious leap to me. Personally, if we agree that predicting the next token means the model understands some of the logic behind the next token — which is an argument used a lot in both safety circles and more accelerationist circles — it seems to me that it also means the model has some understanding of the ethical and moral frameworks the token corresponds to, and is thus unlikely to be totally alien to us. A model that does a better job generating human-like tokens is more likely, in my mind, to think in human-like ways (and less-alien ways) than a model worse at that.

Maybe you're referring to new AI frameworks that aren't token predictors; in that case, I think it's hard to make generalized statements about how they'll work before we know what those new frameworks are. A lot of safetyist concerns pre-LLMs ended up looking pretty off-base when LLMs came out, e.g. straightforwardly misaligned "utility functions" that were unable to comprehend human values and would kill your grandmother when asked for a strawberry (because your grandmother was in possession of a strawberry).

(BTW, the "slope, not y-intercept" line was Sam Altman quoting John Ousterhout!)
If it doesn't taste like hops or grain, it's a yeast flavor. At different temperatures it contributes different flavors. Banana and clove flavors are hallmarks of a hefe yeast, and are produced at relatively higher fermenting temperatures. The chemical categories are esters (the fruit flavors) and phenols (the spice flavors). Many esters are reminiscent of fruits because fruits in nature begin to ferment with the same yeast.

Beers are also sometimes fermented with organisms other than Saccharomyces. These organisms contribute a wide variety of flavors, generally funky or sour.

Many beers are unfiltered because the filtering process can remove other, desirable flavors (mostly hops). Filtering used to be very rare in American craft beer for this reason.
What about sketchy apps with subscriptions, are those still managed via Apple? As an end user, I like the fact I can just cancel through Apple instead of having to find my way around a 3rd party site that is trying its best to prevent me from unsubscribing.
Bash is barely even a language. No one (sane) is writing an entire application in it. And no one (sane) is writing an OS kernel in Javascript. The context in which a language is run and the kinds of programs written with it matter. You can't compare Javascript to C or Bash or anything running close to the metal, a better comparison would be to Python or Lua - other high level dynamic languages.

There is no technical reason why Javascript packages need to be as small as they are. The strongest argument for it would be that smaller packages travel faster over the wire, and save bandwidth, but that doesn't apply when hundreds or thousands of dependencies are involved. Which is why everyone just uses webpack. And yet the web is still bloated to the point of morbidity. So what even is the point?
When I was messing with RFID for a fulfillment line to improve handling returns, the biggest challenge was orientation.

The cost for an RFID tag is minimal if you can guarantee the proper orientation. If you can't, they get very expensive (relatively speaking).
It's still so weird to me that SQLite returns it's internal format to callers.

create table foo (bar);
insert into foo (bar) values ('{"answers": [42]}');
select jsonb_extract(bar, '$.answers') from foo;

;#42
Metrc charged $0.40 for single use RFID for cannabis plants starting in 2014.
If NATO hadn't expanded then Russia would currently be invading Poland and Austria. Why would this be a good thing?
This was pre fentanyl contamination of the supply. You gotta have your head screwed on even more tightly these days...
It seems a lot more egregious that anything Microsoft did in the 90s. While MS tried to push their own products and lock out competitors, they never tried to take a massive cut of all the software on their OS. The level of sheer FU everyone chutzpah is pretty impressive.

They're indeed making quite a joke out of antitrust at this point.
There's likely a way to use cash, but it probably requires an employee override and a receipt that you take to a customer service desk to continue the transaction.
This is almost whimsical in its absurdity.

"I know we've killed millions with torture, cruel sanctions, and pollution - but we had to! Because if we hadn't, where would we all be?!"

A stable middle east, climate change accords, fewer refugees and less pollution. 8 trillion extra dollars to spend on becoming 100% renewable while literally ending homelessness and world hunger. The humanity!

... It's like that scene where Lionel Hutz imagines a world without lawyers. Funny, but sad.
Exceedingly few Tesla interventions are safety related. The majority of mine are to fix awkwardness negotiating with aggressive human drivers and legally mandated full stop (which no human driver does).

Cruise has still been in and caused accidents, at a rate likely no better than Tesla. Also, Cruise operates only on a small number of mapped roads, whereas a Tesla can operate anywhere in the U.S. in most weather conditions, and yet still does a great job.
At the supermarket, I often plonk some loose fruit onto the self-checkout machine and then think "what kind of pear was that again?" and guess. Maybe that gets counted as 'theft' if I guess incorrectly and accidentally charge myself less than I should have.
A 27% cut will make a 3rd party payment service a non starter for all but the biggest app.

For small players a 3% savings isn't worth the administrative overhead of paying apple separately.

Apple is begging for another lawsuit over this.
Yeah. At my work we stopped taking on interns for the most part and declined most interns that were current any return offers.
usually it's talking about stuff we're going to do before we do it.
No, that’s exactly the same.
unnecessary paranoia.
I agree, although I think this is doing that to some extent. Sure there's some scary text in the popup that I think could be toned down, but I'm not an expert, and to be fair there are risks going externally.

Allowing other app stores would be the big win in competition here, properly forcing Apple to win on value proposition. The DMA could force this, but I'm not certain about the details.
The DMA has surprisingly little effect on the US.

In the EU has the 30% (or now 27%) been found illegal? I know they’re being forced to allow other app stores or side loading or something. But what about the fee?
Yeah, I agree with all of this. SoundCloud continues to get my music subscription after all these years because of how well it represents the electronic music space.
It seems like according to Sweeny the 27% rate itself is not new but it only went into effect today.[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/174728054136210228...
"The opposite" is causing veterans to commit suicide. Which is actually pretty likely considering how things went when the eating disorder hotline replaced humans with an llm.
No. Hence my comment.
I've never really associated Google, Silicon Valley culture, or OpenAI with "liberalism". I'm pretty sure all three have been primarily about making money from the very instant money got involved. It's the same with basically every successful corporation. Anyone with ideals and values beyond "more money at the expense of all else" gets forced out.
The point I’m trying to make is the majority of people wouldn’t have the time left.

You raspberry pi guys act like anything is possible and energy is infinite.

Not everyone is bill gates
His opinion was debunked pretty thoroughly.

https://youtu.be/Q7mE1LkkOGg?si=holUhuJKWAEFNMQA
They didn’t cave. A court gave them no choice.
There was a period of time last year where TikTok really wanted me to see the Canadian government as an unmitigated disaster. Just endless scrolls of random mouth frothers screaming about it.

Not opining on the matter specifically; just that TikTok had a very clear opinion on what I ought to think.
> As an insurance should I insure a house for $1000? Again probability cannot help when an earthquake demolishes the entire state and I have to write a check for every damn house I Insure. I actually need to keep in the bank amount equal to the price of each house

Not really, no. Actuarial tables can be quite amazing when they're accurately applied. All you need to do is structure the policy so that it is unlikely to pay out in such a situation, or has a limited payout. That's easy to do: you just make a list of exclusions such as "Acts of God" or war, or terrorism, etc. So basically, any instance of mass destruction will fail the coverage and you pay out $0.
You kind of need it for the big & heavy stuff. I hit somewhere without one and of course half my basket was 50lb this and 32ct that.
Almost certainly only because weapons need solid math that LLMs still can't handle.
I've noticed a huge surge in negativity and pessimism on English-language social media within the last year or so, roughly corresponding with to the spread of LLM tech. I do wonder whether these people are mostly just bots.
Tried the link again, and it works now! Sorry for not having more info.
The company decides the level. Tesla's approach is to get more real-world training data to reach a general solution, while Waymo goes slow with pre-mapping as a requirement.

Tesla's approach will likely be the winner long-term and can be flipped on globally far faster than Waymo's could
I love how apple has provided suggested language, such as "To get [X%] off, go to [X]", knowing damn well that a discount would only be offered if they weren't collecting a commission.

Add to that that the link can only be displayed on a single page (not a modal or popup) and cannot be part of a purchase flow (where else would it go?). Certainly a huge slap in the face to all developers and the court's intent.

They also say that using parameters in the URL is a privacy concern, when the real reason is they don't want you to use some kind of one-time-link to log the user in. They want the user to have to log in again, making it as painful (and least likely to convert) as possible.
Bit of both practically.
This appears to be a huge boon, due to the fact that developers can now send their external marketing directly to their own online landing/checkout pages. Apple appears to be only charging commission for traffic sent there and that checks out within 7 days of clicking the in app link.

In other words, a developer can have a Facebook ad or similar go directly to the checkout page and buy the app there, bypassing the app store commission for traffic the developer is bringing to the app store themselves. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on this.

This being the case, any recommendations for carts / processing services / etc that would be ideally positioned for this kind of use are MASSIVELY welcome!!!
Russia also drops people out of the windows. Should we (the supposedly humane West) start doing the same just because they do?
This! My favorite dad joke is that only 1 in 10 of my dad jokes are any good, but it's fully dependent on the first 9 being not :)
And Amazon delivered and actually made it happen but still too early
The heck are you on about?

Have you ever tried to "train a human"?

They don't work that way, not unless your "training" involves so weird torture stuff you probably shouldn't be boasting about.

Maybe try ask some teachers (of both adults and children) how it works with people...
That's because most (all?) phones don't swap to a pagefile whereas every desktop OS has swap enabled by default. The only practical solution is to buy a phone with more memory. IMO 6GB is the bare minimum in 2024
I think this is still just a US announcement.

This was announced for dating apps in the Netherlands in Feb 2022, I think Korea also has had similar changes. https://www.computerworld.com/article/3649111/apple-begins-t...
There's a strong chance this will be shot down as "bad-faith" compliance. Rumor is Epic will quickly contest it [Update: confirmed]

https://twitter.com/timsweeneyepic/status/174740814726057173...
Neither Silicon Valley nor Google have ever been "liberal." Both have always had deep roots in the military industrial complex. The "liberal" bias of tech is just culture war propaganda.
The AppStore still charges developers for chargebacks and you still deal with dispute resolution and customer service. Foreign exchange fees are generally 1-2%, so they're not a huge consideration.

It's actually worse with the AppStore, because Apple provides absolutely no assistance to the developer unless you're a billion-dollar plus company.
As part of the settlement, Billy's scores will be restored on Twin Galaxies's "Original TG Historical Database." You access this by going to https://twingalaxies.com, and selecting Records, then "The Original TG Historical Database" on the nav bar. This is separate from their official leaderboard which you find in "View Leaderboards" in the same nav menu. A disclaimer is posted on this archive stating it is not their official leaderboard. A small victory, but a victory nonetheless, so I agree, I don't believe Karl's video title is appropriate.
Um. From the article:

Animal studies in the lab suggest Ashwagandha may be effective for treating cancer, diabetes, and somehow, both reducing fatigue and as a sedative, but these effects have not been thoroughly tested on humans.

The article doesn't use the term psuedoscientific at all. That was OP.
I like the self-checkout machines that let you get cash out. They're often safer to use than an ATM on the street. Plus I can stand there for 5 minutes getting $5 notes out one-at-a-time to fill my wallet with low denomination notes instead of higher denomination notes.

If you want to make a cab driver happy, pay them with a wad of low-denomination notes at the beginning of their shift. I did this once in Melbourne and the cabbie was effusive. I asked for a receipt for my work, and he wrote an amount that was about 50% higher than what I actually gave him. And now I've admitted an alternative (unintentional) form of theft.
Layman’s guess: if there’s no generalizable proof describing why this works and the only method of proof is enunerating every case. That said, I kinda doubt that that is the case here, we probably just need a craft way of describing this so that we may come up with a crafty way of proving it :)
Good! I'm tired of all of the SV companies presupposing that government work must be unethical. Even if the work is for weapons, having the largest advantage possible will prevent or shorten wars and save lives. Do you want your sons and daughters to fight a fair fight?
I wouldn't be so sure about that.

For obvious reasons, the US government and justice system is probably not interested in being the beta tester for such a regulation – they have relatively little to gain and much to lose. Even "green bubbles" seem to be a much bigger point of contention in US public discourse than sideloading/the 30% tax.

But if the DMA it ends up working well well and consumers like it, and app store customers manage to sell that fact to the US voting population, the wind could change for Apple too.
I use open tracks