skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm thinking about CRL update windows: a lot of CAs run weekly updates, meaning that CRL changes don't propagate to end users for up to a week at a time. That's well into "security theater" territory for me, given that a compromised CA or EE only needs to fool me for a matter of seconds, once.
Mine has proven equally reliable to a mechanical toilet, while providing considerably more comfort. This actually makes sense when you consider all the mechanical complexity in a typical toilet is getting replaced with a series of solenoids. Flush is now just energizing an electromagnet, rather than the gravity-powered dance of floats and valves you're used to.

There's also fun to be had trolling toddlers. Sometimes when my 2yo closes the toilet I'll sneakily open it with the remote and she'll yell at it "NO!" and slam it shut again.
Microsoft's: "We look forward to continuing to work with the European Commission to finalize our compliance obligations."

Google: "While we support many of the DMA's ambitions around consumer choice and interoperability, the new rules involve difficult trade-offs, and we're concerned that some of these rules will reduce the choices available to people and businesses in Europe."

Apple: “The changes we’re announcing today comply with the Digital Markets Act’s requirements in the European Union, while helping to protect EU users from the unavoidable increased privacy and security threats this regulation brings."

Android and Windows have lived in the chaos of open platforms so much that they can shrug off most of these regulations. Apple's entire business model is being a walled garden.
I'm waiting for a day when toilet's would be subscription based.
If you're company cannot subsist without stealing user data then it does not deserve to survive at all.
Never seen vaccines employed as prefects. Well, I've hears about cat prefects in Japan, but not vaccines.
It looks like updates can count as a first annual install:

A first annual install may result from an app’s first-time install, a reinstall, or an update from any iOS app distribution option — including the App Store, an alternative app marketplace, TestFlight, an App Clip, volume purchases through Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager, and/or a custom app.

However, there's extra mumbo jumbo about "it doesn't count for 12 months after a first install is counted. But the next one after starts a new first annual install."

So it's essentially some kind of twisted Orange County MLM logic.
I actually really like them. At least for when i need one and i don't have it setup, or whatever.

Though really i can't believe it hasn't improved drastically.
It might be effectively even higher if it’s per device rather than per user.

A Spotify user could cost €2 on per device terms if they installed on their Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad and AppleTV.
Ah yeah that makes more sense indeed, thanks
i came to say that! the first 5 lines are all i needed to read, really great job
> When you tell shim what EFI binary to boot, you can specify it as an HTTP URL.

Thank you for explaining this. I was seriously curious as to why a boot loader would be doing any network communications at all.
I've started pasting blog posts I really like into Nomad Hypertext, which is cool because I can later see how things I write relate to blog posts I've written
People cosplay for many reasons and attachment to a character is rarely one of them. Most female cosplay thirst trapping from fans of the looks who looked good in a gantz suit.

I see fromsoft cosplay and the main character with no lines as well. It may be as factor but it's far from "everything". Bioshock infinite was a crappy game with a good cosplay character who most who cosplay as her have no idea what bioshock infinite is.
Framework should buy Brother. Or the other way around. Imagine a Framework sewing machine? Or an CNC-embroidery machine with a 3d printing attachment? Or a printer you can repair and fill with ink yourself? Or a printer where you get to choose a Centronics port and install it yourself?

The mind boggles at the possibilities.
And, if you're in the US: https://store.usgs.gov/maps
Sadly, re-embed.

Or if you're really, really stuck, you could take the source embeddings, some of the sources, get destination new embeddings, then train a small model to update. It's unlikely this will do anything but lower your quality compared to re-embedding everything.

This lock in effect is one reason I've avoided using OpenAI's embedding models; at least if it's open source, you'll be able to embed everything on an open model you have control of. The idea of committing to a large datastore using embedding APIs makes me feel very uncomfortable.
I have a similar interest. One way to avoid the large antennas is to have multiple separated small antennas - like the VLA [1] - using an SDR receiver like Kraken [2]

[1] https://www.vla.nrao.edu/
[2] https://www.crowdsupply.com/krakenrf/krakensdr
Sure, replace a living body with a machine, and replace the thermostat around the bimetallic strip with some other kind of mechanism. It makes no difference.
When I look at these card edge connectors, they don't seem like there's all that much to them, you'd think somebody would be able to make them to spec :-(
1) As a "technical" user who started using Firefox when it was called Phoenix (then Firebird, then Firefox)—this is of zero value to me. Might be to (frankly, a very few) others, but I will see no personal benefit from this. I have zero need for more browser engines on my phone & tablet.

2) The main market effect is probably gonna be that Google is able to cross-promote and "whoopsie" bugs its way into having even more market share for its engine. Don't love that, but it won't personally harm me unless Safari market share gets low enough that dev shops drop from "test on Chrome and Safari" to "test on Chrome... and that's it".

3) Where this might really, really suck is if they have to permit non-browsers to bundle Web and/or JS engines. I very much do not want that and it's likely to make my experience noticeably worse, if that happens. Dunno if that's required by the changes, though.
I don't want to spend any time on the philosophical debate which is destined to be inconclusive. If you want to get some answer, make a more specific point.
I’ve eaten enough random ass after getting blackout drunk at bars during my 20s to not worry about this.
Why not? Don’t use it if you don’t like it.
I did not initially realize the Hugos worked this way, so I really felt compelled to check out the Broken Earth trilogy.

Now, I'm one of the last people to cry "woke", but those books were awful IMO. There is no way the award went to those books based on quality (again IMO). It's not hard to imagine what other factors might have affected the outcome.
On the topic of new framework products, would be cool to see their take on a rackmount server. Instead of usb-c modules they would be front facing pcie 5.0 modules with all kinds of Ethernet, infiniband, DPU, GPU, NVME and IPMI options
>when there is a perfectly fine game store built into Windows

I am surprised to see this sentiment, given how much trouble I've had with the Windows store the few times I've been forced to use it. The way it puts files into locations I have limited rights to even while operating in admin mode... game files... made it a nightmare. Especially when it stopped working and the installer couldn't even identify those files as existing for the sake of removing them. It was to the point now I'd rather skip playing a new game than use Window's store if it was my only option, even if the game was offered for free.
Erm it's Apple who has made this decision not the EU.
I 100% agree. The dominance of 3-point shooting has stretched the floor, causing offense to be much more dynamic.

Jimmy Highroller [0], has a very good video on this where he shows that 2-point shots have become much more valuable now due to 3-pointers.

To be part of a starting 5 you typically have to have the capability to shoot 3s - putting defenders in a difficult spot. You could guard the floor to prevent a 2, but that opens you up for a 3. Most people defend for a 3, so many people now are going in for a 2.

I do think in the current NBA we took too much away from defenders. Most of that could be fixed with refs enforcing rules against foul baiting, allowing defenders to be more physical, etc. Refs actually do this during the playoffs, I think they should do it for the entire season. There are some good rules changes I've seen as well, like 6 in the key instead of 3. There's a good video from Rusty Buckets that goes over this [1].

I don't want to get rid of the X second in the key rule, because then teams would just have bigs sit in the paint. I think that would make everyone focus on 3-pointers even more.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/@JxmyHighroller/videos
[1]: https://youtu.be/2E0kHY0vMQY?si=3EA3UqSGKdThF3bK
> I don't particularly enjoy the idea of Google being able to have even more of a stranglehold on the Browser market by them pushing Chrome heavily on iOS.

Aren't you just describing... competition?

If Apple's browser product is superior, users will use it. If those users want a feature Chrome has, Apple can either implement the feature or ignore it. That's no different than things are today, if you wanted to avoid a Chrome hegemony then we should have invested in a better cross-platform delivery mechanism than Electron. We didn't get one.

Apple's support to WebKit and Safari is entirely compulsory. I agree that it's a positive impact on the web as a Firefox user, but I'd also argue Apple's ends did not justify their means. The development of Safari is very distinctly neglected to increase demand for native (read: taxable) APIs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgVKvqTItto
Apple: "Update on apps distributed in the European Union" (DMA/Sideloading)
Most people are pretty extremely arrogant, but don't notice it in themselves or others. It's baked into a lot of things.
You could actually disable the notarization enforcement entirely on the Mac or selectively depending on the file. So I don't think it's that bad.
If the idiot use the threat of the bomb to crash the plane somewhere (like Flight 93), the F/A-18s would have been ordered to shot down the plane.
NYC gets serious about the e-bike delivery boom
>It became official in 2017, when the FIG formally announced its collaboration with Fujitsu

Does FIG have powers of prosecution like UK Postal Office? Asking for a friend.
NTSB has said there is no indication that those warning lights were correlated, and that the pressurization system is triple-redundant and only the first layer was generating warnings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGWLBLb9Pm4&t=521s
How would it feel for someone who was born deaf to suddenly start hearing?

Do they start getting irritated by everyday sounds? I’m really curious ..
And charges for all apps on all marketplaces
> people will give up on YouTube and Netflix to use iOS, that's not going to happen

People will swap phones to watch short-form videos? (But not the young; they’re on TikTok. Nor anyone in other streaming demographics.)

> Youtube is a monopoly and there's no way around it

Wat. Where are you getting this? Spotify has better churn statistics than YouTube.
You’re happy with only large tech giants existing then. Because lots of regulations are just barriers to entry and allow the existing players to keep playing
[Not OP]

CRL/OCSP (which are the only revocation mechanisms close to being generally used standards today) require either online verification (which is unsuitable or unsafe for many applications) or CRL distribution with CA trust root bundles, which is always in danger of being stale.

You can read more in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_revocation_list#Pr..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Certificate_Status_Prot...

Revocation in PKI is a hard problem that exposes a fundamental tradeoff between time to revoke and privacy/offline capability.
This is different from the usual App Store review. It's to prevent malware.
That is a very interesting viewpoint and seems like a logical conclusion, and much more plausible than brains creating consciousnss in a way. The potentially scary conclusion is that AI may also be such a possible outlet for consciousness and who can guess as to its malevolance?
The new architecture wars
They have a bond that cannot be broken.
What did they do legally wrong again? My fine legal expert?
Thanks for clarifying. I thought you were coming from a different angle and couldn't quite reconcile it.

This is a very good point.
Just don't print anymore?
My thermostat may not be intelligent but it is certainly smart... At least it says so on the box.

Anyway, the strip does contain the state of the world around it: the temperature is modeled by how much the bimetal is bent. I think indeed it is a minimal example of a complex system, one that at first glance defies explanation, it seems to have purpose (keep temp stable), until you understand the inside.

Anyway, "Is a virus alive?", "Are these specimens the same species?", ... Us humans like our boxes, but at the edges they almost always go wrong.
I knew I had this info from some place, and it was the MythBusters episode! Thanks for the reminder. I always put the lid down because of that episode but was unable to remember it. It just became natural
I don't think so. There will always be a place for physical media.
I mean that's kind of my point. Derivative models are all dependent on models built by institutional players like stability. Is there a limit to how good civitai models can be? If there is, you can't move past that without higher quality base models, which requires a lot of capital. That's just what my intuition says.
As a user of said stores, I understand the frustration : because of exclusivity deals, some games are available on shop x but not shop y, and you end up with a fragmented view of your games, different rules etc.

Now as you pointed out forbidding alternative ways is not necessarily the one true solution !
Apple (and every other company) is already subject to tons of consumer regulations -- many of them already concerning how they maintain, manage, and distribute their own platform. So why are all those regulations ok but this one isn't? If we remove all consumer protections and regulations then consumers could still -- as you say -- choose to use a different platform.

You could argue this specific regulation itself is bad -- like you can with all other regulations -- but the concept of regulating a business for the benefit of consumers has long been already decided everywhere in the world.
Actually Japanese quote from the Project Manager, Sakai-san, is:

> いろんな意味で新しい扉が開き、今後、これまでできなかったようなミッションができるようになるのでは。そこが一番の意義ではないか

I'm far from a translator... but it is not "We opened a door" but "A door is open to do missions that were not possible before". And he says that might be the most important takeaway from this project.

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/08a8bfdd7a41486140a97a8570...
it doesnt matter. not anymore.

you see, everyone outside of those places know how infected by socialism and communism ideas those wokr morons are. and the real world outside of their little "safe spaces", this shit won't fly. in the corporate world, playing the woke card will get you out of a job faster than a pervert would by touching in front of everyone a women's tits.

let them get out of those universities. please. let them get into the corporate and real world.

they have no idea how they're going to be burned. but my pop-corn is ready.
Do you need to use an app store?

Can you install software yourself?
FTC orders AI companies to dish on investments, partnerships and meetings
I don't understand. isn't the awards group for the Hugo everyone who buys a ticket for the con? and the nebulas are voted by all 2000+ members of the science fiction and fantasy writers association. it's not some secret cabal we are talking about here.
In three years, it's been one pair of AA batteries so far and the cap on 'lots of maintenance' would be a 15-minute task to remove and replace with a new one.
> sosumi

Apple of the past was the underdog, complete with a more aggressive attitude. Today's apple is the largest (tech?) company in the world, with a highly "refined" corpo-speak sheen.

If they were still small their tone might've been funny (eg dbrand), but coming from a company that no longer plays nice (see: walled garden and anti consumer practices), it just feels cheap and petty.
It's trivial: get an FTP account, mount it locally with curlftpfs, and then use SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. A little stripe integration and you're off and running.
> any license that purports to give someone the right to demand authorization keys to be able to install modified forms of the code on a device

There's nowhere in the GPLv3 that says that (then again, that sentence doesn't imply there is). Anyone can download and modify the grub source code, and compile it. It doesn't mean Microsoft is obliged to sign their fork. I wonder if there's something that confused (or was bad faith interpreted) by Microsoft's lawyers?

Maybe someone can just use another open source license? Ie, anything not called 'GPLv3' which, like every other OSS license, does not purport to give someone the right to demand authorization keys to be able to install modified forms of the code on a device.
Could be! I tried asking ChatGPT to rewrite them but it came out even worse.
It has been a controversial proposal for about 30 years.
In theory (one is a popular award, the other is a 'jury of your peers', though of course there is some overlap of the voting populations), but in practice, there probably isn't very much difference.
Read through the technical announcement for browser engines https://developer.apple.com/support/alternative-browser-engi...

These requirements are things like "Use memory-safe programming languages", "Adopt the latest security mitigations", if you ship your own certificate trust you should "provide information on how a root certificate authority (CA) can apply to become part of the program".

All seems like pretty basic conditions designed to ensure that only Mozilla and Google can comply.

To be honest, the browser engine stuff seems significantly more robust and permissive that I was expecting.
The problem is they're _also_ guilty of spinning "fake news". Yea, it's far more subtle, but "people left" for a reason.

I think there is opportunity here, but i don't think it's back to the old ways. I imagine it would be some hybrid. A news source which aggressively documents and details sources. All opinions backed by a paper trail, etcetc.

I'd pay for that. Or something.. but i don't know what that looks like. These days it feels like everything has an agenda, and nothing (at least that i've seen) backs up claims/opinions/supposed-facts with the data fueling the statement.
I’m just as much a Firefox fan as anyone, and I use Firefox exclusively on desktop, even going around explaining the benefits, etc. to others.

That said, as much as I have complaints about Safari, if this spreads beyond the EU, that’s practically handing Chrome a monopoly on a silver platter. What’s to stop them?

I would just like to retroactively reply to the objection that the government can just antitrust regulate Google. Ignoring my general distrust of large-scale government regulation on a free market, I would like to point out how long it took the EU to implement these changes since Apple started these behaviors. If Chrome does obtain a monopoly, we’re looking at years before the government even does anything.
Are you implying usage of paper is saddening?

I don't think we'll ever get rid of that but I am sure we can achieve sustainability with paper usage.
But are aerosols like the proverbial spherical cows?

This makes me want to see some physics simulations of cow shaped particles.
Ahh you're really missing out then they let you get away without a hallpass.
Universal Self-Adaptive Prompting
Don't like their T&C, don't use them. As simple as that. I do not like Trucaller's T&C, so I do not use it. If some day I don't like WhatsApp's T&C, I won't use it. My friends and family will be asked to contact me via Signal (as an example).
To your examples with games, there are lots of games that I do not install simply because I don't like those launchers. Whats wrong with that? It is _my choice_. I am not forced to use only Windows Store, for example.

The argument that "because third party app stores can be shitty, they shouldn't be possible" is strange.
Reminder that HPV in men has a similar association to oral/anal cancer, and this vaccine (ideally the quadrivalent version) prevents it too [0]. HPV vaccine campaigns often emphasize vaccinating only girls, but boys should be vaccinated too.

[0] https://academic.oup.com/jnci/advance-article-abstract/doi/1...
Starship.rs: minimal, fast prompt for any shell
Modernizing Granite's Mesh Rendering
They sure could use another slapdown.
Still, we have folks who have revolutionized the entire industry based on those Google papers usually without enough details. Being "hard" is usually not a good excuse.
>I'm saying United Nations doesn't do anything.

No, you don't understand the purpose of the UN. It is not really supposed to do anything. It is supposed to allow a forum where everyone is allowed to talk, it allows nation state actors to signal their intentions to each other, rather than to guess about what their intentions are.

Based on that signaling you can take that back to NATO to turn into actions.
Huh, interesting. Some quick googling suggests, this is relatively new, as a new law regarding streaming services came into effect in 2021, forcing streaming services to post, and bc didn't want the hassle. Before the law, they could require the band to have a streaming license in addition to the mechanical license.
Network boot. If you have physical (or lights out) access to a box you can own it though.
css sprites, <marquee>, <blink>, <font color="red">, <div bgcolor="#000000">, <img src="/cgi-bin/webcounter.cgi"> :)
Yes [1]

[1]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=143144...
With CGNAT as in Italy or daily forced IP changes as in Germany, I'm not sure that it's true that most people log in from a predictable set of IP addresses. Perhaps one could indeed establish such a pattern in some countries like the Netherlands, and establish a set of ISPs per account for customers in other countries.

I must agree, though, about your point that 4k different logins from the same address in one month would be rather high for their customer base, so the limit could be lower if you allow enough bursting. What do you do after that, though, block them outright if you suspect a bot? That's going to block real users also. Give it captchas? Besides people also hating those, one can have someone in Bangladesh solve them if modern neural nets don't get the desired solve rate.

I guess the overall solution will have to be 2FA and, indeed, some long-term rate limit beyond which they'll have to give users captchas (to at least increase the cost of an attack), and some upper bound beyond which it gets outright blocked.
See Hickey's talk on simplicity: https://thestrangeloop.com/2011/simple-made-easy.html
The DMA poses big risks to Apple's profits.
If it really is as it sounds, I give the EU one month max before they "fix" this. The EU doesn't like it when large corpos purposely use loopholes to go against the spirit of the law.
> This model completes tasks like code generation more thoroughly than the previous preview model and is intended to reduce cases of “laziness” where the model doesn’t complete a task

Well that's good because the term "lazy" is a literal definition of what I can see GPT4 doing for the last couple of months. It would be a battle to get it actually to complete a task. Let's see how it improves.
"Plenty of computing related stuff that Google doesn't do, for example all of this stuff that Google does or is involved in"
Horses for courses...

Big Corp wanting to replace their call center with the robots will certainly not want them to be offensive to someone who just wants to pay their bill.