skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but it's actually kind of hard to get working in practice

One of the biggest challenges I've personally seen in this space is business "leaders" pushing teams to ship products asap lest they loose face among their fellow CEOs for not pushing out "AI" products before everyone else.

I'm fairly optimistic about LLMs being able to truly be transformative, but it's not going to be through forcing the bread-dead UX of hoisting yet another slightly re-imagined chat interface on users.

The idea of "talking to your data" is a promising one, and anyone who has worked for a large data driven org will quickly agree that organizing and searching in-house data is not a solved problem from the UX end of things. But to truly solving these problems, even/especially with LLMs, is going to require thought and experimentation. Something few "business leaders" have patience for.
Apple approves apps on their marketplace.

Apple approves alternative marketplaces.

Apple approves all apps on all marketplaces.
Passenger could face $120k bill after F-18s scrambled for Snapchat bomb joke
Apologies for misunderstanding.

Do you think recidivism should ever result in harsher punishments? If so, do you think this should be codified in sentencing policy?

These questions leave aside the question of "how many strikes".
Recent Studies Reveal the Life-Changing Power of Rhythm
To a physicalist, the only way to interpret the question "why am I me and not someone else?" is "why is my physical body identical to my physical body and not identical to another physical body?". The framework simply doesn't allow alternative interpretations. This interpretation is a tautology, because in the universe, things are identical to themselves, and only to themselves.

If you are using an abstract definition of "yourself" (such as your brain's internal representation of you), you are no longer talking about physical objects, so of course your question can't be answered using physical facts alone. Similarly, "2+2=4" is a statement about our abstract representation of the world, not the real world itself. That we can reason about integers without relying on facts about the real world doesn't mean that integers are any more "real" than unicorns - or for that matter, your concept of "self".
Also duplicity let's you automatically delete backups older than a certain amount of time, what is the difference?
I couldn't figure it out -- is it? Payment is now a separate extra 3% and there's the new core technology fee.

Maybe somebody more familiar with the details can explain. It's hard to compare when the structures are different like that.
The .5 euro fee is for all apps, no matter where theyre downloaded.
But their saying "Yes" doesn't necessarily make it so. I've made comparable claims while asleep. (Conversely, I've believed myself completely awake while actually asleep and unaware of what my body was doing.)

There would need to be a deeper test than either long-term memory or a yes-or-no question asked in the moment.
It's high - but it's not that crazy.

Assuming this doesn't count updates - the service is probably costing Apple €0.10 on average. Apple has a very hefty margin on everything it sells.

If each update costs €0.5 - I suspect this is going to lead to a massive decline in European apps. That's simply too expensive for almost every app.

There's probably less than 1000 apps this would make any material money off of.

This is just another way for Apple to try to tax Facebook, Google, and a handful of other big apps.
it was the only way for Meta to even get into the conversation; if they had captured the mindshare like GPT did, you can be sure they wouldn't have open-sourced it
I think we do have control over what causes human brains to malfunction like this and that's why there is a heterogeneous rather then homogenous distribution of mental illness or social pathogens. The rate of homelessness, drug addiction, petty crime like fare evasion or more serious violent crime are not equal across all places and all groups. Instead it seems like humans respond to incentives and those incentives are what is different across places and groups.
This reads like a crybaby manager upset with their future metrics.
> As a college degree has been increasingly portrayed as the ticket to a lucrative job and a comfortable middle-class life, a greater proportion of young adults has been attending.

My understanding is quite different. That was the view up until the 1980s or so, but increasingly college has become a way of making potential employees pay for their own training, rather than have the employer pay for training.

The source paper at https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1309... does not appear to be published? Did the Big Think author get a preprint?

I ask because I want to see how they handled changes in socioeconomic factors, given how mostly only rich kids and especially academic ones went to college back in the 1930s.

The abstract to the paper says: "First, universities and professors need to realize that students are no longer extraordinary but merely average,"

Do universities and professors assume their students have significantly higher IQ than the general population? Given that IQ tests are not that good of a predictor of college success - socioeconomic status, grades in school, and then SAT are better, as I recall - why should educators change anything?
> https://developer.apple.com/support/fee-calculator-for-apps-...

2,000,000 installs acquires a minimum of $45,000 in fees, even if you don't make any money

That's up from $0 USD.
I thought kink shaming was wrong.
It might be relevant that you're burning them at a set volume, and your only way to increase volume is by bumping up the output volume, whereas any sort of mp3 player you can bump up the volume of the source independently from the output. Maybe if you burn them at a higher volume and keep CD player's volume lower you'll have better luck?

Disclaimer: I'm far from an audiophile, I just know from personal experience that if your source is low volume and your output is cranked up you get a lot of...distortion? Interference? Artifacts? I don't know, it just sounds staticky and worse.
It's from "Metal Gear Solid", just saying if anyone is curious.
They could create a positive loop if they wanted to.
You can already do all that on macos yet its somehow not a security issue and just how computers work in general there, and is somehow this huge security issue on mobile by apples marketing of the issue. The cognitive dissonance makes no sense. You’d have to gaslight everyones experienced with personal computing since its inception to make it make sense. Its solely about locking down the device to enforce their 30% cut because it started out that way. If they released desktop OSs today and not decades ago they’d try and pull this crap too
This press release could not be more passive aggressive. Barely a sentence goes by without a petulant remark about gasp being regulated by a system of governance that doesn't pander to big business.
Agreed, but that's a two part issue.

#1 - The modern web has a much lower ratio of citizenCreators : consumers than the early web.

#2 - The utility of information is professionalUnbiased > proHobbyist > professionalBiased > randomPerson >> SEO spam.

Google's current ranking is SEO spam >> professionalBiased > professionalUnbiased >> proHobbyist > randomPerson.

That's a clear misalignment.
Yes, 100%. But the size of the corp dictates the priority of the action. That puts Apple and Microsoft at the top of the list.
This looks great! Loving the product. Does this store information from videos that I've watched as well?
> Am I correct in thinking this applies to apps that aren't monetized?

You are correct according to their calculator [0]. If I say I have 2M annual installs (1M over the "free tier") and no in-app purchase it will cost $45,290/mo

[0] https://developer.apple.com/support/fee-calculator-for-apps-...
A guy like Curry is definitely quite true. He wouldn’t have been a star back in the early ‘90s, a good player, maybe, but never a star.
Thanks for the goddamned image. Brain bleach please.
I would have said it's more or less the American libertarian publication.

Not a dig at the grandparent commenter who was obviously unfamiliar with it, but being upset at it for being a libertarian opinion mouthpiece is sort of like being upset with National Review for being conservative or the New Republic for being lefty.
is that a canonical belief?
It's not hidden very well [referring to "lies" in the title] when the ESP32's website about the ADC has a graph showing noise of ~10 LSBs normally, which with a proper input capacitor goes down to about 5 LSBs and down to 1 LSB with multisampling. Which is done transparently in hardware.

https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/release-v4.4/...

It even has almost the same graph showing the linearity and dead zone, none of this is a surprise. It's just not got the best ADC ever and I've chosen different parts because of it before. Other parts have better ADCs... and that Mega has a far lower sampling rate.
Check out section 174.

Due to some GREAT legislation you can no longer write off engineers as an expense... it makes SWEs a tax liability instead of a write-off.

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/section-174/
I partially agree. My only issue with them is that the documentation is a little more hidden than I'd like.

Their install is basically a tl;dr of an installer. That's great!

It'd be nice if it also pointed me directly to a readme with specific instructions on service management, config directories, storage directories, and where the history file is stored.
On one hand SQL has some oddities, on the other I'd rather there not be yet more different-but-equivalent ways to do things in SQL. I think the current state is good enough.
I’d argue that mourning is the mark of a soul. When a creature mourns, it’s perpetuating the dead soul’s individual existence through the act of remembrance. (Would note that even solitary creatures, as parents, have been found to mourn, while several social creatures, e.g. ants, seem to not.)
https://archive.is/4bTd6
Apple has found a way to comply with the letter of this law but not the spirit. Although there are a few good results from this legislation and Apple (alternative browser engines), Apple has otherwise managed to mitigate nearly everything else to where there will be no significant difference for end users or developers.
That second one is demonstrably searchable (he gets all of the top 5 results) and not banned. Maybe a bug, maybe an erroneous DMCA takedown that was reversed; who knows. Where's the political persecution?

As for the other guy, I'll just leave you his own video on the subject to help you decide on your own whether his story makes any sense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlmGvQln2Aw&t=835s (My opinion: he deleted his own tracks to generate a fake persecution controversy. The absolute lunacy of what appears to be a white guy insisting that they banned him because he's mixed-race is ... fascinating.)
Could this mean that third-party apps will be able to use MAP_JIT?
And, almost more restricting in my experience, you can only have two (2) sideloaded apps installed at a time (3 if you count AltStore itself).

Unless you are lucky enough to have a MacDirtyCow-vulnerable device+OS, of course, but if you are going there why not just jailbreak?
Do humans have souls? I certainly do, not so sure about you though..
All that aside, I think this opens up too much interpretation. Why would it matter if an elephant has a soul, poachers will still poach, and the pope won’t do a damned thing! Didn’t finish the article, it is about an hour’s reading..
Anyone with physical access to your device is now able to download and run arbitrary code. How is that not additional risk?
Illegal behaviour is illegal no matter how you install things.
> Core Technology Fee — iOS apps distributed from the App Store and/or an alternative app marketplace will pay €0.50 for each first annual install per year over a 1 million threshold.

Sounds to me like developers have to pay the per user fee no matter where the app is distributed.
I once threw a weight with a transformer wire and some string attached to it over a high tree branch in my yard to see if it would make a decent antenna for my SDR, it worked!
It was an extremely inexpensive ~5m antenna
lol, exactly to the point though, knowing others using their foot makes you want to wash hands even more ;)
> Fusion is well on the way

I hope it succeeds, but after decades of research there is still no demonstrable breakthrough in fusion (that outputs more energy than required as input)
As a user, for now I am glad this is only in the EU. I am not looking forward to how this will degrade the user experience in favor of "choice" for User, when in reality its choice for the developers and Users have to follow.

I have yet to see a convincing argument that this was really necessary from a User prospective. The only argument I will buy is the limitations in what could be on the store like Adult apps, emulation, and similar. Which is valid, but not something requiring a separate store.

The day that an app requires me to install a separate App Store to use is the day my smartphone becomes less useful and I stop using that particular app. Being on the App Store has benefits to me as a User, particularly when it comes to privacy and billing. Do we really need to bring up just how much companies like Facebook pushed back on the app tracking bulletin and the scary popups many apps put up to try to convince you to allow them to track you?

Or the dark patterns that many companies continue to engage in regarding billing? Right now we are dealing with Cable companies complaining about yearly notices of renewal and being able to easily cancel, and you are going to try to tell me that companies won't find a way to abuse this?

Literally today I was trying to cancel a task management app that I mistakenly signed up on the web instead of through the app, and I have to email them to do so. But they are more than happy to let me increase the cost of my subscription with a single click.

So no this is not about choice for Users as this continues to be framed as, my choice was to go with an iOS Device in the first place for this walled garden. In the coming years the choice will be more and more made for me by developers. There is basically zero chance that Facebook, maybe Amazon, and companies big enough to try it won't jump at this chance when they have a big enough name to be able to leave the App Store and other developers can just piggy back on that.
Show HN: Specify 2.0 – Your design token engine
Hi HN! I'm one of the creators of Specify, and we're thrilled to share this on HN.

I must admit, I'm quite nervous about sharing Specify here, but I was also eager to get your feedback.

We've been working on design systems for several years now, so my main focus is on designers and front-end developers, or anyone working with web interfaces.

Less than two years ago, we launched Specify 1.0, which allowed designers and developers to connect their Figma files, extract styles and assets, transform them, and deliver them to developers' tools in the desired formats.

In addition to working with the Design Token Community Group on an industry standard, we've had many discussions with the community and our clients since then. Teams are becoming more mature and demanding advanced features. Design tools are starting to implement some features, but we're still far from a general standardization.

So, as we aim to build a central and tool-agnostic platform for design tokens, it seemed logical to create our own data format, which serves as a translator for each format offered by market tools.

By creating our format, we've taken Specify to the next level. It's now compatible with over 50 types of design tokens, Figma Styles and Variables, and also hosted JSON files (GitHub, JSONBin, etc.), as well as SVGs. Specify supports advanced concepts like aliases, collections, or modes. In terms of delivering and transforming tokens, an infinite number of workflows can be created using parsers, our CLI, and our SDK. There's also the possibility to connect GitHub to receive automatic PRs, as well as Gitlab, AzureDevOps, and Bitbucket.

In short, Specify was built to streamline the design/dev collaboration, especially when managing multiple brands, products, and platforms.

If this topic resonates with anyone in this community, I'd love to hear what you think. :)

Here are some links that might be helpful if you want to test:
- The tool: https://specifyapp.com
- The docs: https://docs.specifyapp.com/
- A short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khOpD0BN-Ug
My thought on the situation is these rules are dumb and deserve to be flaunted in this case.
AFAIK before Steam existed most PC games were sold in boxes in stores and they definitely didn't take a mere 3% cut.
That's not the dataset used for training. From the paper:

>We train our T2V model on a dataset containing 30M videos
along with their text caption. [...] We evaluate our
model on a collection of 113 text prompts describing diverse
objects and scenes. The prompt list consists of 18 prompts
assembled by us and 95 prompts used by prior works (Singer
et al., 2022; Ho et al., 2022a; Blattmann et al., 2023b) (see
App. B). Additionally, we employ a zero-shot evaluation
protocol on the UCF101 dataset
>
> Across every change, Apple is introducing new safeguards that reduce — but don’t eliminate — new risks the DMA poses to EU users.

> new risks the DMA poses to EU users

Oh wow. Just wow.

Thank you based Apple for '''protecting''' the EU users from the bad, evil Digital Marketing Act. You are so awesome and great!

Truly evil stuff this DMA, you can read more about it here: https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/about-dma_en
Apple and the EU have been discussing the implementation for some time so it seems extremely likely this has all been OKed already. In particular, I’m sure the issue of apps (FB app with a virus or spyware) on a random App Store is a concern to the EU.

Not defending Apple per se (they sure don’t need help) but going with the public statements of both Apple and the EU leading up to this.
Always the same whataboutism in these threads. Do we have to solve all things at once, or do you hold some weird belief that the world must be absolutely fair?

For what it's worth I would answer your question with yes, but this question has no bearing on this thread.
Why isn’t that possible right now? Couldn’t they just code the Bluetooth side and put a bridge on top of Safari to it?

Pretty sure some apps exist already that do this.
No, because they are gaming consoles, not (Very) Personal Computers.
How the EU is getting away with all these restrictions targeting US businesses is beyond me
I don't think it includes updates. From the calculator [0]:

> The first time an app or game is installed by an Apple account in the EU in a 12-month period.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/support/fee-calculator-for-apps-...
The inherent problem I'm seeing is that training the base models is incredibly expensive and computationally intensive. You can't do it without institutional capital. Gpt-4 I believe cost 100 million to train. I'd bet they're also losing money on a lot of customers because inference isn't that cheap either. If investors realize something like investing in this stuff isn't paying off, it becomes pretty hard to make new models. Maybe someone would have to develop a distributed system like folding at home to get it done.
The problem with the US, and we're already seeing it play out with things like CCPA (California's GDPR-like privacy legislation), is that it is difficult to get momentum and bi-partisan support for sweeping changes in Congress. It either is watered down or gets deadlocked, so you end up in a situation where you have patchwork legislation, often conflicting in scope, state-by-state. I wouldn't expect much to change in the short to medium term.
This is reassuring. I never thought I'd be able to think or solve problems, but this gives me hope!
Yes, as they are general computing devices I use widely for my everyday computing, and I should have complete control over all software I put on them!
Please no. Oh god please no.
>and you can just take the core idea

That's generally easier said than done. The dataset isn't available, and there's not really enough details in the paper to make it replicable even if you have the resources to do it.
How does your VPN handle having its connections blocked by an adversary in the middle?

Does it “fail open”? Or silently fail? Does it alert the user?

Does anything on your device use non-TLS? Software updaters? Are they susceptible to downgrade/fallback attacks?

When I last properly explored this I found a good number of automatic software updaters would fall back to plaintext HTTP (or just didn’t use TLS) and often didn’t perform much or any signature checking on updates.
Spring cleaning, file sharing and video editing
I never argued otherwise. But how is using a package which is implemented in another language not "python"? How is "list(range(10))" python whereas "numpy.arange(10)" is not?
Cycling is much harder to plan for than running due to much higher variability, but it's compensated by lots of cycling accessories / layers that are small enough to be carried on the bike. Arm warmers, skull caps, long-fingered gloves, glove covers, shoe covers, thin vests, and so on can handle a high range of temperatures.
OpenAI is about to release two new model updates and two new embedding models
ANN Benchmarks
I believe bureaucratic structures at scale are the same irrespective of cultures.
Does Kagi allows to search some not-so-official resources? Torrent trackers, adult stuff, etc?
Corporations and private establishments only exist if there is a benefit to the public good. We allow them to operate as long as it benefits us. Once that changes then that is a cause for concern and we can revoke there ability to operate within the public sphere. Remember private interest and government operate by consent of the people, not the other way around, contrary to the current status quo.
Microsoft laying off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox workers
And European users will have 3000 instances of Chrome now that every app is going to bundle it. I'm all for alternate rendering engines but without giving users a choice the bloat is going to be massive. I don't trust developers to not be bloating their apps and I can almost guarantee we'll see custom versions of Chrome to enhance dev tracking capability on users.
I think it depends on your definition of “fine.” No one will die or even be particularly inconvenienced from not being able to play a particular game for a couple of hours at the same time every week. Steam alone has hundreds of thousands of other games that ARE available at that time.
So Apple is going to continue gatekeeping all apps with an Apple-run review process and they will keep charging developers fees[1], even when distributing through alternative stores. In fact, it will be impossible for alternative stores to offer free apps because they will owe Apple €0.50 per install after the installed base passes 1M (updates count as "installs").

They're also going to gatekeep alternative stores with a vetting process that will probably exclude anything community-run.

Perhaps the most interesting thing is they appear to be cutting the App Store commission to 10%, giving the lie to their claims that their fees are reasonable due to the service they provide. Clearly they feel that their service doesn't justify the fees in a competitive market (even though any competition will be minimal with the anticompetitive measures they're still clinging to in these changes).

The most interesting thing that's not mentioned here is exactly how the inevitable geofencing will work to enforce that the rest of the world doesn't get to use alternative stores or browser engines.

[1] On top of the annual Apple developer program fee that they conveniently forget to mention, plus the requirement to do builds and signing on physical Mac hardware purchased from Apple.