skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actual the thing is that I can buy and own music pretty hassle free. I haven' t really figured how this freecamp sitegenertor helps selling/buying music (including hard copies)
As someone really into architecture and urban design, I feel frequently bamboozled by HN articles with the word architecture.
They are talking about white and/or rich enclaves, likely.
Peace is dead; long live peace.
There's been plenty of flaws in the app sandbox, but without the ability to execute arbitrary code they are often much much more difficult to exploit since you won't be able to invoke the particular system call or function you want to hit with just the right arguments.
I get it, but if my car doesn't have it, and I don't want to buy a new stereo. Also, Bluetooth requires wasting my phone battery, and use either mobile data bandwidth or phone memory space, while I can load a 64Gb USB sticks of songs or burn a bunch of CDs and forget about it.
This approach is a gotcha: If you want to distribute Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome for free, this isn't possible under the old policy, and the new policy would mean 'open source web browsers cost half a euro per update'. It's nonsense.
That's one of the main reasons why I use NixOS (for Windows non-FOSS apps too): the apps have no permissions to self-upgrade, only root can do that.

Mobile is more difficult, the easiest way: buy a Huawei without Google services
FedEx you say?

https://tenor.com/view/expanse-the-expanse-fedex-gif-1316756...
It Just Doesn't Matter (2006)
$300 per dose * 100,000:1, so about $30 million per cancer cure that has a 70% survival rate.

Up to the voters I guess.
And your cat isn’t going to drink from it.
In the 90's you virtually couldn't buy a computer without Windows because Microsoft forced manufacturers to pay them for Windows for every computer they built and sold, no matter whether that computer contained Windows or not.

And you can still install whatever you want on Macs.

Just saying, let's not look at the 90's as some paragon of openness.
https://archive.ph/K08OZ
The operation was a success, but the patient died 2 days later isn't really much better though.
They can easily mimic the damage on earth. While there is more gravity, we can adjust atmosphere and measure lift, vibration and whatever. Probably modern engineering tools can do this all in software, but cutting the blade off a drone on earth is easy. Only if we are convinced by on earth simulation that we can still fly this should we attempt it. Otherwise attempting flight this risks doing more damage to something else. (the rover is too far away, so I guess not much - but that also means we can't observe what happens and adjust based on the rovers sensors)
I’m also curious about this. Say you install a non-Apple App Store app in the EU, then you go to Turkey, what happens to the app you installed? Does it stop working? Does it get updates? What happens to the alternative store?
I'm stating 2 things.

1. They cannot be trusted, so personally, I think their words are just words.
You are welcome to trust them and not if, but when that goes esplodie, you'll know why I don't trust them.

2. It's a minor change to a continued violation of people's privacy, so essentially it's a meaningless change that sounds like change, but isn't really a change at all.
No. Just do not switch to the new terms and keep the terms you are using now.
If I understand it right, Apple was clever.

The serious issue is for apps having more than 1 million installs (YouTube, Zoom, Slack, Outlook, Amazon, etc.). Strong "coincidence": these are the companies you don't want to allow to create alternative stores to, because they have their own payments methods: how long would it take Amazon, Google or Microsoft (the only one without a payment service, AFAIK) to run their brand new "Google/Amazon Store for iOS"? Probably they have it already half baked there waiting to be released.

Now, they will have to either accept to use the App Store "way" (the current way, so all good) or pay huge fees for their own apps. Will they do it? Is it worth it? I am very curious!

Alternative, smaller stores for smaller apps, instead, will be there and should be OK, as long as the apps don't exceed 1 million installs in a year (which is a lot, I guess).

EDIT: I missed Meta Pay, apparently another payment method from one of the companies with the most downloaded apps. Yeah, it seems really that Apple doesn't want other stores from big companies.
999 million users don’t give a hoot about that. At all.
There's a difference between the one-time upfront cost of purchasing a device, and the recurring cost of supporting it with software updates (which is, in the most recent case, sometimes mandated). It's not a "pricing mistake".
what review? of the app on the alternative appstores? and per install?
come on...
You're still missing the point. I don't think this conversation is going to be productive.
> According to what you just said, everything we ever experience is talking about "not the real world itself"

I don't know how that follows from what I said. When someone says "the floor is slippery", that refers to a very much real physical property of a very much real thing. When someone says "the floor is lava", that means we're playing a game. We have no problem distinguishing between the two.

If you define yourself as the set of atoms that currently make you up, you are talking about the real world. If you define yourself as the set of your memories and experiences, you are not. The former definition has a lot less issues than the latter - firstly because you don't have to define anything further, you can just point at yourself; and secondly because a perfect clone of you would have the same set of memories and experiences, and that doesn't make them you. This is why "Why am I myself?" is much easier to answer when we're talking about your atoms. Now, if a theory can answer a question with ease, how is that question an argument against it? I've certainly never heard anyone say "If global warming is real, why are my car tires melting into the asphalt?".
What happens if Google or Meta pulls all its apps from the store?
I wouldn’t be surprised if that violates the new business terms or the rules imposed in Apple’s app review process.
Didn't a bunch of q-anon wierdos take a ton of money from american conservatives to organize "grass roots" anti-vax protests a while back, which led to some kind of plot to assassinate canadian cops?
From the developer FAQ on Apple's site:

> Developers who don’t want anything to change can stay on the exact same business terms available today — continuing to share their apps on the App Store alone, and to use the App Store’s secure payment processing.

https://developer.apple.com/support/dma-and-apps-in-the-eu/#...
Do you need fog if lasers aiming at the board?
The UN is mostly about talking to others IMHO. The UN is not supposed to be the world government and actually doing things specially against the consent of the great powers is just not its job or what it was designed to do.
It's important to note that pencils are terrible in space and a pen that worked in space was necessary (having graphite dust floating around in all your electronics is generally considered poor form). The pen was developed by someone interested in solving this problem, and NASA bought some, for obvious reasons. So did the Soviets.
Right there with you. I was a huge fan of AS3 and build some great client projects with it. When using types, it very closely resemble Typescript in a lot of ways. I was hoping for open standards and eventual direct browser integration.
My guess would be that the rotor struck the ground during landing.
What costs are incurred per install?

Exactly zero, for alternate App Stores.
Related:

Re-implementing an old DOS game in C++ 17 (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31046598 - April 2022 (25 comments)

Re-implementing an old DOS game in C++ 17 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20037813 - May 2019 (23 comments)
You can actually enable JIT for a specific app for yourself. Nintendo emulators actually can make use of that, for several years now.

It’s just a niche, so no one bothered porting a whole ass browser with its JIT compiler and GC and whatnot to ios for that 3 users. Now it can change.
It is and always has been. Angelfire, Tripod, Geocities. Today, Neocities, Github pages, Wordpress.com.

People _chose_ to go to social media.
Tangential, does anybody know a working cookie blocker extension for iOS Safari?
John Scalzi on this a few days ago: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2024/01/21/whats-up-with-babel-a...
I believe that is what they are saying.

I have found LLMs to be extremely helpful in mapping between schemas as well as helping me formulate queries where, because of decay, data in tables and column names, etc don't map to what you think they would.

You need to provide as much context as you can to the LLM. So full schema definitions, and histographic summarization and samples from the tables themselves.
Do you have an example? Not that I don't believe you; it just seems nuts to me that any state would have a sign that looks almost exactly like a speed limit but that isn't one.

For the record: I've gone through the length of MA a couple of times (NY to Boston), and have never noticed these. But maybe that's because I thought they were all speed limits.
As long as only public museums are allowed to participate
What exactly do you mean by more progressive? [I've seen Sports Illustrated when I was young--but that was a long time ago.]
Samsung phones come with a Samsung store in addition to Google Play for instance. All of Samsungs software go through their own store, and they also sell apps on it.
Jesus no. Everyone gets stuck on the install fees but thats only in the equation if you switch to the new terms. And you dont have to, only if you want to use the external app stores or payment processors.

"Developers can choose to adopt these new business terms, or stay on Apple’s existing terms. Developers must adopt the new business terms for EU apps to use the new capabilities for alternative distribution or alternative payment processing."
The use of language here, such as the word "illegal", is a psychological trick. It's an intentional conflation with past behavior/the status quo with being "immoral" (as illegal implies immoral).
You don’t have to pay $100, but then your will have to re-sign it every seven or so days.
All those features and they couldn't be bothered to edit the Essential Apps section.
At Basho, we also got version vectors and vector clocks reversed, probably thanks to the Dynamo paper. As I recall, it's a subtle difference.
Thanks, will have a look! It's hard to find alternatives here, everyone seems to be using gloves.
Passkeys are getting close. Might be any day now.
How well does the EU respond to malicious compliance?
As users of social media (Facebook, X, etc.), we have no authority over moderation. Whether or not a post is removed is determined by whoever runs the website itself. Critically, the person (or algorithm) who makes this decision is not even a participant in the discussion to begin with.

This is in contrast to traditional forums where moderators participate in the forum alongside the rest of the users.

In a traditional forum, a moderator probably started out as a regular user. On Facebook, they were either hired labor, or written by Meta's software team.
Yes, except for nonprofits, educational organizations and such.
You can. But I don’t agree that it should be installable from an app store.
And neither can block as much as uBlock Origin because of Webkit's limitations.
Thesis:

>Traditionalist and modernist architecture are both mass-produced, industrial and international. Is there an alternative?

Alternative:

>When the historian Frampton called for a ‘Critical Regionalism’, a modern architecture sensitive to place and materials, he found an example in the work of Álvaro Siza in Portugal.

Rebuttle: regional/vernacular designs almost always involves more labour, which is expensive in advanced economies. Small countries/markets can't rationalize engineering entire regional specific building techniques and validate materials. Large countries/markets have multiple climate zones. In the end mass construction will fall back on value-engineered mass produced industrial building components.
Except when you don't use it that much and the actual big cartridges just dry out.

I actually bought three of the same shitty Canon scanner/inkjet combos in a row when I ran out of ink.

Then I came to my senses and got a Brother laser.
I can't imagine it's as high priority for them as support, fraud, security updates, keeping servers running, etc. It is a bit sloppy, though.
I suppose the difference being gamers seem to hate everything large game companies do, but tech community is pretty split down the middle on Apple being beyond reproach vs them being evil incarnate.
https://developer.apple.com/support/fee-calculator-for-apps-...

Developers can choose to adopt these new business terms, or stay on Apple’s existing terms.
This was an issue when people were discussing unity per install fees.
It's because the evil NATO supported a leftist protection canvas revolutionary that turned out to be a sociopathic dictator, so they had to gather colonial atrocities to calm the bad consciousness spirits ever since?
You can stay on the current terms and distribute through the App Store. Or you can create a nonprofit and the fees are supposed to be waived.
>To qualify for the entitlement, your app must: Be available on iOS in the European Union only

kicking and screaming. i mean, yes, that is "complying". but it is ridiculous. and, am i getting this right, just gonna create a bunch of "[browser name] EU Edition" apps, which is just gonna be wonderful. users can look forward to having something like Chrome (International) and Chrome EU (limited EU edition) be installed side by side, i guess. can we look forward to "[browser name] [country name] edition" per each country that'd fancy to have itself some regulation similar to that? that'd be so many browsers! dozens, hundreds! what an optimal solution.
Pay/login-walled sites are common here.
> Does Google charge a .50 per install fee for Android apps not installed via the Play Store?

Give it about a month, and I'd guess so.

> Apple is just making these charges up, because they think they can get away with it.

Yes, with my non-existent MBA I assumed that's how most businesses set prices?

Business are not your friend, they're looking out for themselves only. This is why I do actually like governments: they can force businesses to be more aligned with public interests, even when that costs shareholders some dividends.
iOS Safari has so many odd bugs in layout and CSS that trips up its touch based scrolling, it is so much like the IE days where other browsers worked and the site looked good, then you load in IE (Safari now) and something is broken.
Yes also for updates or pushed via mdm. But only once per account. Doesn’t matter how many devices you have on that account. It counts as 1 install every year.

Yes the fee is insane.
The Ribbon was a travesty. Organized menus were replaced by a giant bar full of incomprehensible icons. If you were decent at Office, then your muscle memory was screwed up. (If you were excellent, then maybe you had all the shortcuts memorized and it didn't matter, but most of us are in an in-between state.) If instead you were completely new to Office, then your consistent, discoverable indication of keyboard shortcuts (in the menus) also went away -- no more skill ladder. The only winners were preliterate toddlers, I have to assume.

This was justified with, "I am an HCI expert, trust me". Which is garbage: I'm the user of the tool; don't try to pretend you know better, like some colonial governor.

Also, it started getting slower. A process that only got worse and worse.

My assumption is that it was really all driven by internal politics within Microsoft, specifically some manager's need to Change Something.
Every permission is default off, and ios is the safest computing platform for users (next to android), while windows has a much worse track record.
But how long until it's renamed three more times after that?
"Maybe Apple has been losing money on the App Store infrastructure so they want to make it up" is a plausible theory, but there's no data to support it since mobile gacha/gambling apps pull in billions a year and Apple pockets 30% of it. Those games don't make particularly heavy use of Apple's infrastructure either, so I would guarantee that they are making a healthy profit every year on the store.
European mission approved to detect cosmic ripples
Hey, I happen to like my Luxurious Niffen Hat! [1]

[1] https://ironstorage.blob.core.windows.net/public-images/luxu...
tripod <3 my whole high school class's website was on that.
Eh, we know from the DoJ trial Google is already sending trucks full of cash down to Cupertino every day for search defaults. This may just add a little extra overhead on the next “protection” payment.
The Manga Whisperer: Automatically Generating Transcriptions for Comics
Cruise reveals DOJ, SEC probes, releases internal report on pedestrian crash
would that not be great!...add a queue counter and in the mean time listen to what other clients are asking
Oh, that's sneaky. So if someone wants to also distribute their app on something else, they pay the fee on their existing installs?
You can bake that into the list price of the device based on how long you offer warranty coverage and/or updates. Every device vendor is already doing this unless they're completely clueless.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia26243-ingenuity-spots-the...
They can also account for gravity by pulling up on it with a tether (in a large vacuum chamber simulating the Martian atmosphere). That's how they tested the design originally.
The Epic court case was in the US.
And if your revenue is under the 1 million per year you can apply for only 15%. That is well worth it what you get back for it.
There are several irrelevant/incorrect statements.

PyTorch doesn't need facebook to survive. Even if pytorch did disappear tomorrow, it's wrong to suggest that all folks competent at building/using models using pytorch would have a set of useless skills. No one who understood the situation would write that. The author clearly hasn't built a model or used any of the (several) ML libraries which all have similar constructs. The skill is to be able to keep straight in your head large tensors and their shape as they go through a bunch of operations - that's not framework dependent.

"Risk intolerant" is a fancy term made up that is then used to paint every high value application as not a fit for the technology. There are many applications ( customer support, technical support, litigation research, mortgage underwriting, marketing copy, natural language queries of DBs) where LLMs are already being put to use and reducing the number of people required to do the job.

This is written by a journalist who isn't actively involved in actually building or using the technology. They misunderstand things to the point of nonsensical conclusions.
Alright, I start typing out "SELECT" in my super smart IDE, how does it know which table to suggest columns from?
Market places and distribution channels are not mutually exclusive concepts
How did the prop tip get damaged like that? Did it crash into something?
Apple doesn't develop those SDKs and tools in order to make money selling them to developers; Apple develops that stuff in order to sell iPhones.

Third party devs can and will develop their own tools and frameworks. Apple charges 30% simply because they can, and nobody has stopped them.
I'm a Digital Nomad. It's Not as Fun as It Looks
Thanks for your work on Aider and the useful benchmark posts.
That'd be suicide for them. Most valuable users advertising-wise is on iPhone.
This is a particularly joyful piece of open source software.

And I love this page describing it. I hadn't seen it before today.

After seeing Michiel Brokent -- the project's original creator/author -- present on it at a meetup, I wrote a tidy overview of babashka (bb) which you can find here:
https://amontalenti.com/2020/07/11/babashka
Three Minimalist Spamd Configurations for Your Spam Fighting Needs (OpenBSD)
Making life harder for spammers does not necessarily require a lot of effort, if done correctly. Here are a few suggestions for how to use your spamd(8) on an OpenBSD or FreeBSD system that require minimal input but can yield noticeable gains.

Doing your bit to protect your own users and others agains scams, phising or other undesirable mail activity is good netizenship, but unfortunately there is a tendency to think that contributing in any way takes a lot of effort in addition to deep insight into all matters technical and social.

This piece is intended to give you, an aspiring or experienced OpenBSD or FreeBSD user who do not necessarily run a mails service yourself, a taste of some of the options available to you even if you do not want to expend too much effort.
Farm fresh food, repackaged factory made cookies.
Who Is in Space
Trouble is that it falls apart when you have more than one operation. "select socks and pants from drawer, and delete money from drawer" is the weird sentence structure. Whereas if 'from' comes first: "from drawer, select socks and pants, and delete money". Which, granted, is still weird, but less so, and fixable with better word choice. Perhaps: "open drawer, select socks and pants, and remove money.

Codd's original vision would have seen that expressed as something like:

RANGE DRAWER D
GET W (D#,SOCKS,PANTS)
DELETE D:(D.MONEY=1)
It might, but it might not. This is actually undefined behavior, so it might do anything. This is part of C's complexity: it abstracts memory such that it mostly seems like a big array, but the addresses you're getting bear no resemblance to where they physically are. Depending on your OS, dereferencing that out of bounds pointer might signal a segfault, give you another process' data, or return data from a sensor, for example. Stuff like this is just very hard to explain to like, a Python engineer because it's just a totally different world.
Historically, from emails and the such made public through the courts, Apple has resisted making such deals.
And they are generated by their host piece by piece (brain growth). And they last longer than AI processors with basic maintenance anyone can do (eat/sleep). And they usually continue working when their programs break (eg hardware failures or gamma rays) while NN’s and GA’s don’t.

There’s hardly a comparison. If they want to, I’d like to see them start with using dynamic chunking instead of tokenization like the mind does. Also, they can tell me what pre-training method uses 20W per second for 1+ trillion parameters. I could use that right now.
For anyone interested in the structure of the software that ran Ingenuity (and some hardware design aspects, such as the use of commercial off-the-shelve parts), there is an awesome and critically underwatched video of Timothy Canham explaining everything:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQu9m4MG5Gc&t=7s
I mean they don’t work well. At all.

I get graphical glitches in gnome, it crashes GPU accelerated browser tabs, my logs are full of “FAULT_PTE ACCESS_TYPE_READ” errors, it freezes the displays for 30 seconds seemingly randomly. And that’s with the latest drivers available for Linux and the latest available 6.5 kernel.
Basically "Stay on what we want, or change to even worst model, that just compliance with EU law, for now".
New senolytic therapy can safely eliminate senescent cells
Not if 10 million people download the app, see that you want 1€/year and delete it.

Then you just owe Apple a lot of money