skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Martin Odersky, creator of Scala, Twitter account hacked
Please help bring attention
store toothbrush in medicine cabinet by sink, and douse with Listerine (or something) before and after brushing.
What would be even nicer if companies just respected DNT header without any govs involvement, right?
The article specifically concerned college, and IQ tests are a predictor of college success, just not a good one. For example, from https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11031-017-9660-4

> Known predictors of academic performance (e.g., college GPA) among college students are ACT (or SAT) scores, high school GPA, and Intelligence Quotient (IQ) (Sternberg et al. 2001; Bowen et al. 2009).

or from https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1601135113

> This paper uses a variety of datasets to show that personality and IQ predict grades and scores on achievement tests. Personality is relatively more important in predicting grades than scores on achievement tests. IQ is relatively more important in predicting scores on achievement tests. Personality is generally more predictive than IQ on a variety of important life outcomes. Both grades and achievement tests are substantially better predictors of important life outcomes than IQ. The reason is that both capture personality traits that have independent predictive power beyond that of IQ.

or from https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w18121/w181... :

> Achievement tests and grades are more predictive than IQ. But none of these measures explains much of the variation of any outcome, leaving considerable room for other determinants.
Where a group of people all nominate the same set of candidates. The Hugo system [1] starts with nominations - every voter can nominate up to five works in each category. The six works which get nominated the most (in some sense) become the shortlist. There is then a ranked ballot vote amongst the shortlist in each category.

Until 2017, nominations were evaluated by counting the number of nomination ballots that each work appeared on. A hundred people nominate a work, it scores a hundred. The thing is, there are a lot of books published every year, so there are a lot of candidates, and so nominations are quite spread out. In 2015 [2], to get to the top of the shortlist for best novel, a book needed ~400 nominations, from ~1800 ballots; for best short story, ~300 nominations, from ~1200 ballots. So if you can get together a group of 400 voters, and they all agree to nominate the same five works in each category (a slate), then you can get all of those five works onto the shortlist. 400 is not a small number, but it's no more than a third of all voters, and that third can take over the shortlist, and dominate the contest (although their nominations are quite unlikely to actually win - but it is still very annoying!).

In 2017, the system was changed, to do some sort of more proportional evaluation [3] that should reduce the power of slates. Consensus seems to be that it worked.

[1] https://www.thehugoawards.org/the-voting-system/

[2] https://chaoshorizon.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/2015hugosta...

[3] https://electowiki.org/wiki/E_Pluribus_Hugo
Wow, thanks for making it so easy for me to know who to call and what to say. They answered the phone in 1 second (seriously), I told them what I wanted to say, and they recorded my name and that was it.
Except it's not the kids complaining!
Let's see where they find their 30% if browsers were required to provide (essentially) 100% features of native apps, and if they were required not to charge for them.

Maybe iPhone costs would increase a few percent, probably not.

This is just egregious rent seeking.
Ask HN: Would Evil AI sound better than Evil Corporations?
An out and out evil AI would be more predicable than our evil corporations disguising themselves as the good guys.
A note about current sexual situation too: This first came out when I was in college. My (female) roommate wanted to get it immediately, even though she was very open about only having been with the man she was seeing at the time.

When I asked her about it, since it seemed like her risk of contracting HPV would be very low, she mentioned she was doing it to mitigate the risks she faced as a woman who was barely 5 feet tall and didn't weigh 100 pounds soaking wet. She said she already has to keep her head on a swivel against the possibility of assault, and she'd really rather not have to worry about a virus that could cause cancer in addition to that risk.

I had the privilege of not ever having had to pay much attention to the risk that my current sexual situation might change without my consent, but it was sobering to be reminded that was something that she had a reason to have on her radar.
It's mouthwatering how good the improvements are. I can only hope somebody at Valve has taken notice and is hurriedly pushing it through the process.
> I don't understand why they recommend against it. I guess the monetary costs don't outweigh the benefits, but that's only if you care more about saving money than potentially preventing cancer. It's not like the vaccine going to hurt you.

All vaccines have a nonzero risk of adverse outcomes. That can be as simple as the risk of physical injury due to incorrect administration of the needle. That's weighed against the risk of nonvaccination.

In almost all cases, the balance is so extremely skewed that it's safe to issue general recommendations in favor of vaccination. For HPV, the issue is that there's literally zero benefit after exposure, and it's difficult/infeasible to test for exposure, but from epidemiological data we know that most people over the age of 25 have already been exposed.

> In my opinion men should also be vaccinated for it

The recommendation is for all genders, and has been for well over a decade.
If he only brings in millions, he's being trounced by the pharmaceutical companies that bring in billions. From a product that it's mandatory for children in some states to take, and for which pharmaceutical manufacturers are given special legal protection from liability. The perfect business model.
This is the epitome of malicious compliance, and it doesn't even seem very compliant in how the "core technology fee" and the built-in hard dependency on Apple notarizing is handled.

Apple will get slapped for this.
EU représentatives are literally elected by the population under the same rules as national legislators. EU commissars are appointed directly by the elected governments of EU member states, similar to ministers/secretaries on the national level. Stop spreading misinformation.
The notarizing part of the new requirements would force facebook to follow guidelines even if their app is not on the official store.
Another goofy, non-standard license[1] that hasn't been vetted by anybody, and isn't well understood. Weird terms like "You can only use this in no-charge software, but if you only charge the user once you can use it." and "If you use this in subscription / usage fee software, please buy a commercial license." So is that a request, or a strict condition? Thanks, but no thanks.

[1]: https://gsap.com/community/standard-license/
Tesla's 1M robotaxis by end of the year becomes '1M people I(2022)
Recent and related:

Gene therapy allows an 11-year-old boy to hear - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39106464 - Jan 2024 (238 comments)
I meant the first two paragraphs. They seem uncharacteristically forceful, and the entire statement seems belittling at times, which is also very unlike Apple.
A simple alternative is the hand washer attachment, ~$50.
Love it. I used to really suck at some school subjects that had heavy text, until I started "converting" the prose of textbooks to bullet points, tables and whatnot. Then it would magically become interesting to me. Some people would also photocopy my stuff.

Funny enough my sister was the opposite, she could read a book and write a thesis in a weekend. I guess different people have different preferences.
Children have rights. Parents have responsibilities.

Vaccines are a medical miracle. Never except that being an anti-vaxxer (or a "vaccine skeptic", which is the sanitized name for the same thing) as being on equal footing. Vaccines are evidence-based. Anti-vaxxers are vibes-based.
> There are 2 billion active iOS devices

Those are global numbers. So, when counting EU specific revenue, you can't use that number.
They'll put that as a requirement to get notarized ans spin some yarn how that is required to maintain "basic security".

I hope the EU will put an end to that real quick.
>Crypto, through tokens, can turbocharge this formula

Stopped reading right there.

TLDR: Why make big trash slower if we can make smaller worse trash faster
Can't blame the inventors really.

Reality: to most audiences the toilet (and sanitation technology in general) is just a punchline, and the show's producers know that. That's why. We're getting what we pay for, and we vote with our eyeballs.

The proposed sealed toilet seat[0] is honestly a good idea, and it's a sensible implementation of the concept. I wish them luck. The TV segment felt oddly like a modern-day version of when John Snow said that maybe we shouldn't drink cholera water, everybody. :-\

[0] https://whatsonyourtoothbrush.com/
It's already perfect. Those game console-makers etc get to run their platforms the way they want, I get to choose what to buy, and I'm glad that this will probably never meaningfully change.
Not device - account.

https://developer.apple.com/support/dma-and-apps-in-the-eu#d...

> First annual install. The first time an app is installed by an account in the EU in a 12-month period. After each first annual install, the app may be installed any number of times by the same account for the next 12 months with no additional charge.

Multiple devices with one account or new devices over the course of the 12 months are still a single install.
What makes you assume thermostats aren't conscious?
From the article:

> 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.

So App Store or not, you need to pay the fee.
I typically use Pandora for my discovery and then buy on Bandcamp first (if available), then Amazon (eww, I know, but this is the catch all failure-path). The Bandcamp curation stuff seemed… interesting I guess? I’m glad they were able to employ some music experts. But it is hard to beat system that is tailored to your taste.
Due to blade damage, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will not fly again
>> Apple ... on half of all phones

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/iphone-ma...

40% in some places, not even that high globally (android wins by a large margin). But android isn't "one company".

In the states, AT&T was a monopoly. They owned phones, the cables, the service, the device in your house... All of it. The rise and fall of ATT is a fascinating story, unix is free today because ATT was a monopoly (it's an interesting side effect not an argument for them).

If you dont like apple, you have the choice of android. If you dont like nividia, you can pick AMD, if you dont like AMD, pick intel. Dont want to get on that Boeing flight, take Airbus...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duopoly they exist all over and sometimes behave like monopoly's! Vendor lock in is real... I dont want to give up my iMessage bubbles is not that much different than not wanting to re-train pilots for something other than a 737 (and we get the max).

Apple is much easier to pick on in this space because they have always aspired to be a vertically integrated company. YKK is a great example of one of these. They (ykk) make the zippers that DONT suck, they are just expensive vs everything else (sound like apple vs android).

SO while the situation with apple might be lamentable, it isnt illegal or uncommon...
> The screen also interrupts EU users’ experience the first time they open Safari intending to navigate to a webpage.

This paints it as an unfortunate UX blight demanded by the DMA.
GitHub "deletes" branches on merge, but it doesn't truly delete them - rather, it removes the branch, that's deleted, but the commits comprising the "pull request" are saved and referenced from that pull, so they never go away. They're slightly harder to find in GitHub and may disappear from your local copy, though.

There's a lot of other moving parts to trunk-based, they can only be taught by experience. I've written the tutorial where I have people make mistakes, and then fix them, but the problem is that they make mistakes in making mistakes.
What would be the benefit of this?
Why is Apple subject to these rules but not game consoles?
Yeah, right. When _I_ went to Harvard (of all places!), it was all about learning Physics (in my case) and being with other people who cared _deeply_ about what _they_ were studying. Everyone I knew there regarded all the final club / class-signalling arcana as ridiculous, humorous, and utterly irrelevant bullshit. Some people have weird hobbies, like caring about that sort of thing. Good for them, but I didn't have to think about it.

To be sure, that was a while ago. Maybe it's different now. If so, that's sad.

Did you go to college? Did you learn about class signals? Is that really what it's about these days?
Can you provide more context? Remote? If not which desired location? Background and skills? Do you want to be an IC or go more on the manager track?

Generic answer: change jobs, go above and beyond in interviews, network, work on public facing projects, respond to those pesky linkedin recruiters and see where it takes you
> if your source is low volume and your output is cranked up you get a lot of...distortion? Interference? Artifacts?

Mostly noise because you're amplifying it as well, and possibly artifacts because material converted at too low levels (which is the case of old CD rips that weren't normalized before encoding) wouldn't use all the available headroom, therefore losing one bit.
I fondly remember the noise my 4201 [1] made as it's 9 pins flew across the form-feed paper at nearly 200 characters per second, in draft mode!

1: https://www.homecomputermuseum.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/04...
I don’t understand this at all, is this really how it will work now?

Even if you sell an App for 2€ that would mean you will lose all the income from it to fees in 4 years if you release at least one update per year that users install? I must be missing something?
Cherry-picking can look superficially like a "data-based argument", but that doesn't make it a good argument or approximation of the truth.

Dan isn't outright lying, but he is omitting a lot of uncomfortable truths (long-term trends) in order to reinforce his worldview.

Voluntary expats in particular are unreliable narrators because they are incentivized to fit in their new home and defend their major life choice. An expat that expresses loyalty to their old country over their new one is not really an expat, they will be viewed socially as an eternal outsider, foreign agent or invasive settler.
There’s too much abuse of free software by either individuals or big tech. Its not sustainable
Same because if sideloaded apps require this notarization that negates the whole point sideloading. Notarization still requires apple to review the app from reading the post by apple. If they don't like the app they can refuse to notarize it defeating the whole purpose of sideloading. This still allows apple to decide what apps can and can't be installed on devices they do not own!!! IF this turns out to be the case.
This is posted to remind people to consider the information in this article when Elon promises that some new earth shattering business is just right around the corner.
People fail to see the campus disruptions are speech. Students protesting on campus is good and a form of free speech.
"First install per year". So reinstalls after a year will be charged again. Honestly, it makes sense to charge for the bandwidth Apple provides. I'd rather see it broken out than baked into a 30% fee. Doing so would massively incentivize smaller binary sizes.
I believe the real reason she was against it was a widespread belief that HPV vaccination—considered a sexual health thing—was tantamount to encouraging promiscuity among recipients.

Her stated reasons were bullshit smokescreens.
It would presumably replace https://cloud.google.com/model-garden like how Youtube replaced Google Videos.
sprites were level 100 webmaster magic. They'd probably be just as relevant today in the age of +5mb webpages and mobile networks, but you never hear about them anymore.
Yes, that is how the MOK enrolment process works. The distro drops its MOK (the one it used to sign the kernel into the distro kernel package) into the ESP. On next boot shim notices the new key and asks the user if they want to enroll it. Similarly if the user wants to enroll additional keys for kernel modules they built themselves or got from somewhere else, they can do the same process.
OpenAI drops prices and fixes 'lazy' GPT-4 that refused to work
It makes Apple look bad overall to me; what's worse for Apple is that I'm a dev: they're supposed to be making themselves look good to people like me so that I'm attracted to their platform, but their churlishness is putting me off.

My micro-ISV stopped shipping an iOS app a few years ago when Safari's support for PWAs made it viable to reimplement our app as a PWA so that we no-longer needed to deal with App Store hassle (faffing around with a Mac Mini we'd only use a few times a year, confusing certificates/entitlements/etc, not to mention the capriciously enforced store app review policies).

...but I'm probably just being nostalgic for the early days of indie iOS apps. Those times are long gone, perhaps Apple actually isn't interested in attracting small devs to their platform anymore?
Oh, that's awesome! I'm very glad to be corrected, thank you! I've heard of Orion but didn't realize it could do that, I will check that out. Thanks!
> If he only brings in millions, he's being trounced by the pharmaceutical companies that bring in billions.

Sure, but I look more askance at someone being paid millions for disproven bullshit than someone being paid billions for effective medical treatments. Both are motivated actors, but one's purely a bullshit artist.
I seem to remember a sports illustrated calendar in the late 80's with a black model. The usual suspects at work were really butthurt that month because they'd flip it over so you couldn't see her and people kept flipping it back.
I mean let’s not pretend that Berkshire Hathaway doesn’t own interests in 10 of the 11 lithium projects at this location.

This is a very big money project and it was always going to happen. They kept pretending like there was some debate but it seems mostly just optics management than any reality.
> Vendors shipping absolute shit implementation of SecureBoot that don't give the users authority over their own systems are the problem.

Microsoft itself has been the _first_ vendor who shipped systems where SecureBoot could neither be disabled nor the whitelist of signatures/keys replaced with your own. This would be _the only_ scenario where the GPLv3 would have anything to say ... if Microsoft were to be also shipping GRUB in that system, which they weren't .

And such scenario is precisely one of those the GPLv3 was designed to impede. So it is most definitely intentional.

There is no one to blame other than Microsoft.
> Have a look at newspapers from 100 years ago

Indeed, and you can look even farther back. Here is a good book:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38441289

There is also the epistemological/methodological point there; I wonder whether and how future generation historians can make any sense of it all?
Show HN: Crowd-sourcing which pets I designed are the most iconic
The Core Technology Fee still only applies if you want to either

a) distribute outside the Apple App Store, or

b) pay the lower 17%/10% commission.

If you're already distributing the app for free, then you're not going to care about (b), so this only applies to apps that meet all three of the following criteria:

1. Free

2. Popular enough to significantly breach that 1M install threshold

3. Distributed through an alternative App Store

Anyone who has a popular free app out there right now doesn't need to change anything; they'll continue to have exactly the same expenses they had yesterday.
Citizens != Devices
Does Google charge a .50 per install fee for Android apps not installed via the Play Store? Does Microsoft charge a .50 per install fee for Windows apps not installed via the Windows Store? Apple is just making these charges up, because they think they can get away with it. It doesn't cover any real costs to Apple, above and beyond what you already pay for when you buy an Apple device.
Thats just great, more popups to dismiss, mandated by the EU
We've asked you more than once to stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait. You've continued to do it, for example in the parent comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39108095, and
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You've even posted outright slurs like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38832516, which is seriously not ok.

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Yes - bored housewives and money obsession.
You are right. Anyway, I was intending to respond not necessarily to the LLM part of the post, but to the AI "don't compete with artists" -part. My point being: I think current generative AI capabilities to be VERY much competing vs artists (or at least people, who "manufacture art", like creating illustrations, graphics etc.)
It's interesting. That's the benefit.
Also James Murdoch (son of Rupert) is on the Tesla Board of Directors. WSJ is playing it down the middle, like they always do.
They said remote, not app. My toilet has a remote with all it's features that's mounted on the wall next to the toilet. The on toilet controls are limited to the essentials.

As to why they have the remote outside of the bathroom apparently.... I took have questions.
If we buy a phone in the EU and bring it to the USA, do we get sideloading in the USA?
The difference starts when the _right_ signature is required to continue using the software, preventing you from effectively modifying the software.
The ESP32 usually uses a 1.1V reference, however (unlike the ESP8266), it has a variable attenuation setting that allows you to measure voltages higher than Vref.

https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/v4.4/esp32/ap...

The Micropython code the post has at the bottom initializes the ADC to the default, which I think 0 DB attenuation setting, which gives you a range of roughly 0.1-0.95 V. It'll be fine physically if you hook it up to 3.3 V, but the readings will saturate unless you use the higher attenuation setting. There's not much advantage to enabling the attenuator for this test regardless, it just adds more noise.
Why isn’t FBI all over this? Smells of corruption. At least investigate the alleged destruction of evidence.
I think the article would benefit from quickly defining what a CRDT is - (Conflict free Replicated Data Type). Even just expanding the acronym once would give a bit of an idea.
PayPal First Look Announcement
it's interesting how PayPal is trying to become mainstream again, some AI and AD based initiatives coming soon.
The page definitely looks way cleaner than the previous designs they were using
I've been thinking of grabbing one of those fume hood helmets where the head covering has a generously sized visor, and hook up the pipes to a backpack-located heat- and air-exchanger. Possibly even inject the warm air from the top alongside the transparent material. How nice would that be in freezing cold! Like a cheap DIY space suit.