skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I honestly feel like what AI is really doing is just clarifying what we’re actually doing. This whole article reminds me of my reaction when I first saw chatgpt write an essay.

I immediately recognized that this essay would’ve been accepted by my teacher when I was a kid, and then remembered just how useless I thought essays were back when I had to write them. It feels like, with AI, I had proof that these essays were just “busy work” rather than anything else. As a student, I was just taking the prompt that my teacher gave me and expanding it into an essay, and there was no information in the essay that wasn’t already in the prompt itself. Why is it useful to take something that could be said in a single sentence and say it in 5 pages? I wasn’t encouraged to think about the book I was writing the essay about because my thoughts were seen as secondary to doing the technical work and simply copying the style and format of the essay, but now, with AI, that part had been automated and all that education was for nothing.

It seems like Gymnastics really is, at it’s heart, a very technical act. Your goal is to achieve perfect normal angles for some reason. But as robots begin to dispel the haze around technical work, we stop being so interested in technicality. You can see it as an attack if you’re really invested in that technical stuff, but really you gotta ask yourself why you were so interested in it in the first place.
This a classic "post hoc ergo procter hoc" fallacy.

You just can't know, how much more Einsteins there would be. People that would never steal an Apple II or would never even get that opportunity.

Heck, if Einstein became a younger father, there's a good chance he never looked deeper into physics despite talent and interest without someone (like a teacher) pushing him.

I claim that it's pure coincidence. Carmack didn't make it because of public education but despite of it. We can't afford this anymore.
see my follow-up tweet on why it's plausible : https://twitter.com/moreisdifferent/status/17506201369338718...
Lichess also includes a piece set similar to this, although with the notable difference that the Knight is shaped like a greater-than symbol and the pawn is a small square.
Classic Apple malicious compliance
The neater the code, the scruffier the coder.
> This means there's very little for consumers to spend their money on versus a US consumer.

How does this line up American consumers spending a large percentage of their money on products built in... China? Surely the Chinese products available to Americans are also available to the Chinese? I have to imagine they are orders of magnitude cheaper in China too given the drastically lower cost of shipping and warehousing.
The entitlements for browser development are almost certainly not going to be given out to people on the free tier and probably not even to all paid developer program accounts. Any entitlement that's available to free tier becomes something that you can sideload with AltStore, which works almost exactly as you suggest.

They do the same thing with the VPN entitlement. If you want to filter network traffic on-device, you have to apply for it and identify yourself to Apple. If they didn't do this China would be banning iPhones left and right.
Event Sourcing Simplified: Mastering Real-World Event Processing
I guess they used to make considerably more than €0.50 average revenue per iOS user, because that's the floor now.
Microsoft cuts 1,900 jobs at Activision Blizzard and Xbox
All the old residential buildings in some of the nicer cities I've visited are also cookie cutter boxes. Residential areas in the older parts of Amsterdam are indeed beautiful and pleasant, but, much like the another commenter suggested, I'm pretty sure that's almost entirely due to the rest of the environment, especially the transportation infrastructure. Sure, they're nice well-built 300 year old buildings, but I think that, if the city were more car-centric, nobody would spend as much time outside, so nobody would be as motivated to take care of the exteriors of their buildings. And then it would look a lot more like the dingy dirty grimy pile of bricks that you see in cities like Chicago that use similar (if newer) architecture but haven't made the space between the buildings nearly as hospitable to humans.
Developers do care about security. Often times they're not given the resources to properly address security issues and implement best practices because the business wants to ship faster.
Portable EPUBs
IRB Waiver/Alteration of Informed Consent for Minimal Risk Clinical Studies
That's an amazing idea.

Not only could they have fun with that stage but it'd be a fun race to see who could get it for them. Then have a big show when it's brought back to Earth and delivered to the owner.

I could see SpaceX and FedEx team up for some amusing PR on that one.
> If the universe is static, then there is no "repeatably observable causality" or indeed any causality at all. In that scenario any perception of time and causality would inherently have to just be our perception lying to us about a past that we have had not part in, if it exist in any sense at all

Is it possible to have perception in a static environment? It seems like perception requires flux of some sort.

Clarification: meaning the machinery of the perceiver must have flux, otherwise it's not perception, it's just static state.
If you really believe that, I'm not sure what to say.
To fly Ingenuity has to spin it's propellers very quickly due to the lower atmospheric density compared to Earth and that's a large chunk taken out of the blade. We can already guess what'll happen without testing it and it'll be some variation of the craft shaking itself to pieces and throwing debris all over that chunk of Mars. Better to just let it sit than toss all sorts of trash across the surface that could hit the rover.
> "An abnormality in the main engine affected the landing attitude of the spacecraft," the Japanese space agency Jaxa said in a statement. [0] [1]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39131130

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68091389
The right not to die of disease (were it to exist) would be a statutory right and not a fundamental one. I'd rather discuss fundamental rights which are a very different thing than the shopping list that is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

But I'll go one step further. Children have no fundamental right to even seek a vaccine independent of their mother and father. If they did, the tanks would be rolling into Lancaster County right now.
> billions of us have zero leverage over what ideas and narratives we participate with.

What do you mean by this?
A lot. A classical research question, as well as a practice I suppose, is to try to deduce the author of a particular program, whether in source or in binary. Cf.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39135165
It's nearly a kilometer from the rover, should be fine.

But I agree that it's better to leave it, download the remaining images and data from memory, maybe leave the software running as an experiment in non-rad-hardened computers on the surface, and eventually put it in a museum, than risk it crashing in spectacular fashion.
Using a cookie or sessions does not equate to spying. Is HN in the EU? Does it use cookies? Absolutely. As far as those useless messages go, I just use a plugin to remove them at this point because they're a waste of resource.
Do y'all have a reference architecture or templates for local development with CICD pipelines?

My last data engineering team struggled to get something like that working with BigQuery, so I'm super excited about the possibility of better data warehouse developer tooling.
As threeseed mentioned, most free apps esp. those without a per-install revenue source (e.g., Wikipedia) will likely not use the new model and stick with the old model which doesn't charge per app install
This is a really nice well-researched take that rhymes with a lot of stuff I used to read back around 2007-2009.

But it's 2024.

I grew up on the App Store, maybe I'm just old and cranky at 35. But my guess is 95% of people cry in pain when they see a wall of text about how Verizon charged for J2ME apps in 2004, therefore iPhones iPads Apple Watches Vision Pros are special exemptions and Apple should be able to bill "$0.50 per install per year." whenever a binary is installed on a device you paid for. There's 0 reason for it.
Dorothy Dunnett writes that cypriot sugar production in the early middle ages used prodigious quantities of egg white for purification of the cane juice prior or during crystallisation.

It's fiction, but she researched heavily. Given the Moorish occupation of the Iberian peninsula it's possible they used eggs heavily in sugar production there too
>A weekly updated 2 gigabyte app that's free in the app store gets its bandwidth paid for in part by a 30 Mb app that charges a $10 monthly subscription and gets an update every 3 months.

I've been wondering for a long time why there are no delta-updates at Apple...
From the article:

The Perseverance rover is currently too far away to attempt to image the helicopter at its final airfield.

I wonder if the rover couldn't proceed to the location of the helicopter and get some high res images for diagnostic purposes. I'm sure they considered that option so maybe the rover's schedule is just too busy to accommodate such a mission.

Anyway, R.I.P. Ingenuity and kudos to Nasa for another excellent piece of tech that lasted on another planet for years longer than originally planned.
Large-Scale and Language-Oblivious Code Authorship Identification [pdf]
Oh I have. And I always forget anyway.

I buy physical copies. Is good enough for me.
And it's a CYA against shareholder lawsuits.

If they give in "without a fight" by following the spirit of the law (or even the letter) they will use a lot of income.

Companies are not our friends (not our enemies either) and only form a fleeting alliance if the goal of makeing money aligns with the interest of the user.

On this subject, for this company it doesn't.
> Windows and Android… you end up paying somehow in the end anyway

I'm not sure why I have to mention this, but you could be paying for something and get screwed over at the same time. The issue isn't that Google/Microsoft/etc NEED to make money this way, but that this is legal to do.

Also, Windows isn't exactly cheap and I personally couldn't fathom paying more than 100 bucks for an OS and still get treated like crap. I'm sure Android at best only makes 10 bucks from their users with their current model throughout the device's entire lifetime.
IMO Jenkins works great and the hate is vastly overblown. So... I would say Jenkins is the modern alternative to Jenkins, personally.
This is not a new idea.
It won't make it off the ground. Ingenuity has to spin it's rotors about 10 times faster than it does here on Earth. With that big of a chunk missing there's no way it can fly it'd tear itself to pieces during the spin up.
Or take advantage of some of the new capabilities, such as NFC access or alternative browser engines.
> The synonyms he talks about are very similar e.g. a noun from "right" and a noun from "true".

If that's the case, I see where you're coming from. I was interpreting the meaning as similar to differences between "lie" and "bullshit" and "gaslight" in English. They all mean roughly "an untrue statement" but they still have their own nuances; "bullshitting" and "gaslighting" are just specific ways of "speaking untruths".

> Does this imply anything?

This does not imply to me that people who understand these words are bad or evil or anything like that. It suggests, instead, that they're used to being lied to in subtle ways such that they've developed tools for discussing these lies amongst each other in their native language. Similar to how citizens of English-speaking nations use words like "bullshit" and "gaslight".
FTA:

> One of the lander's main engines lost thrust about 50 meters (54 yards) above the moon surface, causing a harder landing than planned.

When I first heard that they might have landed upside down, a part of me felt a pang of indignation and condescension, for about ten seconds. But I kept my mouth shut and realized these things are hard and something I didn't think of in the ten seconds as an armchair lander-designer might have occurred.

I found the tone of your comment pretty condescending, tbh. Hot landing is hot landing, and you're just speculating as a layman without any insight into their design and decision-making process. "Not simulating lunary gravity correctly." Like c'mon, that's just an insult to their intelligence.
Pawns are awkward though because movement doesn't align with attack
as a counterpoint, i also grew up in a midwest college town with a fairly robust local newspaper that had quality coverage and which broke several important investigative stories.
I've always preferred this alternative rewrite: https://imgs.xkcd.com/blag/spirit_rewrite_unknown_author.png
Your internal voice is making up justifications after the fact. You ask yourself "why did I do that"... and it doesn't know, but has to have an answer anyway.

You were taught well. Teachers and parents and adults don't like it when the child says "I don't know why I did it". They punish that answer. You learned the lesson soon, well, and maybe without even having to be punished.

Oh, and your internal voice is just another one of those simulations.

> A simple example is, I go to the fridge because I am hungry.

Except many millions of people go to the fridge, and they're provably, objectively not hungry. They say "because I'm hungry" too. If you had to make up a fictitious-but-reasonable reason why people go to fridges, that would be at the top of the list. That's why you say it. Few people, if any at all, are even aware of their hunger. In the west, few have even ever experienced hunger, and if they have, almost certainly only a few times in their lives.

None of this is anything that you are really aware of. You can't be. You can't even express how you think your mind works without using the word "voice". I used to think people like you were schizos when I was a child and hadn't figured all of this out yet. It was clear that it wasn't just a failure of vocabulary, I'd met many people even just out in public who didn't seem to know enough words to describe things, this wasn't that. And early on I could tell that it wasn't a joke, eventually that it wasn't even a metaphor. You do not know the reasons you do things, and when forced to explain, you make up stuff and choose to believe that's why. The "I don't know" answer becomes painful to adults. It nags at you. You're supposed to know yourself well enough to have reasons most of the time. It's one of those scary glimpses. There's a ghost inside your skull, moving the furniture around when you're not looking.
Apple didn't make this up 2 weeks ago.
There are breathing help for that, feels like a cold summers day. Well, that's what the article is about after all so I guess you guys know about it :-)
Thank you so much. The sad version was, somehow, actually upsetting.
> The problem is no one has made a smartphone with that open model.
If you don't want to share what these apps are doing yet insist EU laws are troublesome, you won't be surprised for people to interpret them as doing something unneeded or anti user instead of just some "legal complexity barrier".

The apps could be perfectly fine, its just that people will speculate.
It is similar to what folklorists like the Grimm brothers did, or the publisher of the Arabian Nights, Antoine Galland, so not necessarily suspect.
Thank you for your thoughtful comment, I found myself nodding along until the very end. I subscribe, so far, to the idea that we might simply be fragments of a fundamental consciousness, but it still remains a bit frightening to me (despite its lack of effect on my way of living) that we may never find the ‘root’ of it all.

I also agree to the connection between the karmic ‘field’ and our consciousness, and I sometimes feel like I am simply guiding an observing vector across all possibilities, collapsing the wave functions along time. Other commenters in the thread have done a better job articulating that aspect than me, however!
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages: https://www.cambridge.org/ca/universitypress/subjects/langua... (available elsewhere for less...) also has a good chapter on Old Persian.

The chapter on Avestan is also relevant and interesting.
> By default, data sent to the OpenAI API will not be used to train or improve OpenAI models.

That’s some appreciated change from the previous policy, but still it just mentions the API, not the interactive web app.
For alternative app stores specifically: "First annual installs included in your Apple Developer Program membership can’t be used for marketplace apps."

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/support/alternative-app-marketpl...
> 2,000,000 installs is a minimum of $45k in fees, even with $0 USD revenue

> this seems obscene

The web browser is right there. You don't have to have an app.
Fantastic. Mirror:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240125205710/https://i.ebayimg...

https://web.archive.org/web/20240125205730/https://i.ebayimg...
Two sides of software testing: Checking and exploring (2011)
> Apple is never gonna financially recover from these impossible demands.

That's not at all what I said. These regulations are increasing the cost of business in the EU. I'd much rather have those costs paid by those who democratically (?) decided these regulations that those in other countries who decided otherwise.
> I'd rather discuss fundamental rights...

You're in luck, then; SCOTUS has deemed even compulsory vaccination to pass muster here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._Massachusetts

We've got plenty of precedent that parents can't always opt out of life-saving care for their children, too. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/connecticut-teen-curab...

> Children have no fundamental right to even seek a vaccine independent of their mother and father. If they did, the tanks would be rolling into Lancaster County right now.

Are the children of Lancaster County pushing to be vaccinated and being denied by their parents?
It's the standard strategy of making things so complex that no one bothers with it.

> Users will be able to download an alternative marketplace app from the marketplace developer’s website.

That is, an alternate app store will only be downloaded via the website and not app store. All this when an app developer will have to choose via App Store connect where they want to host the app.
I built a long-range laser turret in my yard [video]
> more useful and fun than just leaving it to rot

Ginny has an independent solar panel/battery set-up. Perhaps it could be rigged as a lone stationary sensor?
It's about as maliciously compliant as Apple is being.
I also wish he had discussed alternatives like these more. My takeaway is the argument - on which you're correct - that people have knock-down-drag-out fights about visual style. I would say that's not because it's as important but that it is what jumps out when browsing the infinite catalog of images that is the modern internet. And substance is what really matters. I think you mentioned Alexander in another comment and more of what he did is necessary - more systematic considerations of not just what something looks like, but how it works. And not just the single object or space, but enmeshed in the network of relationships that extend far beyond the formal.

Edited to add: Having read so much Hatherley over the years I can almost guarantee that a name drop in the conclusion like that means he's currently developing more scholarship / criticism on the subject...
I'm looking forward to Palworld models popping up on Models Resource or the like so I can do some comparisons on my own. That Azurobe model literally just looks like 3-4 mons thrown into a blender.
Government planning and investment can certainly bootstrap and protect a nascent industry in its infancy, but once the industry becomes competitive it is to the Democracy's own advantage to remove the training wheels and back off.

This book review of How Asia Works[0] gives excellent examples of how South Korea applied this strategy to break out of from economic despair to become a leading economic power, and how other Asian countries failed to apply this formula when their governments were too heavy handed in their approach.

[0] https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-how-asia-works
Pinephone software is written by volunteers. Librem 5 is more stable: https://forums.puri.sm/t/librem-5-daily-driven-in-profession...
>it will just include a different set of biases

One that many people who would admit the possibility in a human judge will likely insist cannot be present.
Speaking of that, is there a resource to figure out what GPUs work well in Linux? I loathe my workstation that is running a nvidia Quadro P620, the proprietary drivers are a joke… Looking to switch but it’s very hard to figure out the options based on a budget and Linux compatibility.

Any pointers?
"Here are some tips to help you avoid being a victim of a sim card swap:
Use authenticator apps, hardware tokens, or your fingerprint or face scans"

I'm sorry but which bank uses non-SMS 2FA in the US??
I've been waiting for nearly a decade
I think the EU is going to have a hard time changing this, though. Because if Apple can't make money from licensing fees, they're asking Apple to spend all the engineering time developing APIs, xCode, etc. for free. They have the money, but in business it's not great to have a business unit operate without its own revenue or a path to profitability.
there is: stardust cookie cutter
Then they can distribute on the AppStore for 100 bucks per year.
It also allows the usual culprits to reject the whole package as "western cultural imperialism" which is why you can find dictator shills load up the concept with every ridiculous western concept to the breaking point.
Huh, a bit like NFTs (or not at all?), the bragging rights that you have ownership of something on Mars is probably worth some change, especially if you're a billionaire.
Missed expectations, zero guidance: Tesla's 'great year' was anything but
If you have $1B in revenue, your costs to host the app yourself are nowhere near $300m, lol.
a theme for chess.com would be nice !!

Lovely communicative design
The lungplus can be worn between your teeth and compresses nicely if you have an accident. But spit it out is ofcourse better if you have the chance.
"The spiral of non-adoption" is an interesting blog post someone should write. I bet there are a couple more examples besides the obvious one.
> Apple does that makes it possible for a developer to produce a high quality app on their phone

This is not one sided at all. Historically generally Apple benefited more from developers releasing apps on their platforms than the other way around. Arguably that's still the case.

> Apple has to pay for all that somehow

So by selling devices? How did they pay for developing OSX/macOS and their APIs and tools for decades?

> They could also just charge a large cost for access to the SDK a la console systems,

There are many exploitative and unfair things they could do because of their dominant positions in the market, yes that's correct.
It’s a play for time hoping public opinion will change
a lot of hot takes inbound... oh wait already 782 comments
This is an unacceptable comment for Hacker News. Just because you strongly disagree with this person on software funding doesn't give you any reason assume they disagree with...feeding the homeless?
That solves this specific issue, but it isn’t a general solution to the finite size of a context window. Ideally the system should be able to decide for itself what information it needs to pay attention to, but LLM’s simply don’t operate in that fashion.