skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A clear sign that good anti-monopoly regulations result in a better world. Less rent-seeking from Apple at the expense of smaller software developers, more agency for users when it comes to choosing their browser engine. I am sorry for non-EU consumers.
agreed it is personal; this python snippet is an example that I've always had a distaste for, but which others love

foo = 1 if true else 0

I think this was designed because most of the time foo should equal 1, and they want the code to highlight the default.

I don't like it because reading left to right it takes a few characters to realize it is a branching statement.
Founder of Zenfetch here! Thought I'd share how we built a webscraper with 0 AI that beats the traditional methods for scraping
I thought this was already possible, albeit with extensions. Kagi for example has an extension for iOS users.
Colonel : The digital society furthers human flaws and selectively rewards
the development of convenient half-truths. Just look at the
strange juxtapositions of morality around you.

Rose : Billions spent on new weapons in order to humanely murder other
humans.

Colonel : Rights of criminals are given more respect than the privacy of
their victims.

Rose : Although there are people suffering in poverty, huge donations
are made to protect endangered species. Everyone grows up being
told the same thing.

Colonel : "Be nice to other people."

Rose : "But beat out the competition!"

Colonel : "You're special." "Believe in yourself and you will succeed."

Rose : But it's obvious from the start that only a few can succeed...

Colonel : You exercise your right to "freedom" and this is the result. All
rhetoric to avoid conflict and protect each other from hurt. The
untested truths spun by different interests continue to churn and
accumulate in the sandbox of political correctness and value
systems.

Rose : Everyone withdraws into their own small gated community, afraid
of a larger forum. They stay inside their little ponds, leaking
whatever "truth" suits them into the growing cesspool of society
at large.

Colonel : The different cardinal truths neither clash nor mesh. No one is
invalidated, but nobody is right.

Rose : Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is
being engulfed in "truth."

Colonel : And this is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a
whimper.
Google's search market share is to blame for fostering an SEO monoculture that makes specific Googly optimizations so attractive.

Absent Google/Chrome dominance, with a wider array of search engines, optimizing for "What Google wants" would be less important. Because you'd have 5+ other engines to optimize for too.

And maybe, at that competitive intersection of traits, we'd encourage something that was closer to actual page quality.
> Having said that, whatever data you input into the utils available will definitely not leave the browser

I will never trust this statement when Google Analytics is injected.
I think it seems pretty clearly meant to include major competitors like Firefox and Chrome and Edge if Microsoft wants, but you can't just include a random build of Chromium that you never update.

And this seems understandable to prevent a proliferation of 100's of "browsers" trying to steal your data. You actually have to be developing something legit -- not just reskinning a browser engine and leaving it.
This is something up with which we will not put!
I would actually push back a bit on the importance of local news. I grew up in a midwest college town that had a fairly robust local newspaper, and my recollection of it was that it was a) poorly written and b) mostly focused on local sports and crime. While its mere presence may helped keep local officials accountable for their actions, I can't recall times where they broke local scandals. I have seen a few studies that have linked the decline in local news to things like polarization or increased municipal waste[1][2], but imo their ability to isolate cause and effect is very limited.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_newspapers
[2] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3175555
Their entire response is so petty. Borderline unprofessional in its tone, really.
Maybe, but at least it is not immediately clear to me why scrapscript is better than SQL.

The homepage of scrascript says:

> Scrapscript is best understood through a few perspectives:

> “it’s JSON with types and functions and hashed references”
> “it’s tiny Haskell with extreme syntactic consistency”
> “it’s a language with a weird IPFS thing”

It later says: "Scrapscript solves the software sharability problem."

None of the statements addresses the commonly recognized shortcomings of SQLs.

In contrast, PRQL's value proposition is clear: it improves the readability and composability of SQL by offering a linear order of transformation through a pipelined structure. In addition, it is based on relational algebra so database professionals can still apply the theoretical framework that they understand and trust to master the language.
Why wouldn't YouTube just distribute through App Store like normal? It's not like they are paying Apple per download there.
New embedding models and API updates
Now that you mention it, I guess I've experienced *similar* issues (more to do with joins, unions, materializations, windows, etc) even when there is a query planner.

Even though the query planner has an optimizer, the plan produced isn't optimal. In some cases I have had to play around with the SQL (resulting in less than ideal SQL) to get the optimizer to do what it should.

This demonstrates the exact point you made:

> The advantage is predictability of execution

In my example, while I ultimately overcame the issues with the sub-optimal plan, there's no assurances about what the query planner/optimizer will come up with tomorrow.
The DMA introduces zero risk. Users are absolutely able to use the Apple App Store, Safari/Webkit, etc like this as they did before.

So no, Apple isn’t factually correct.

In fact, it’s very possible that Gecko or Blink have more secure engines than WebKit. It’s very possible someone can create an App Store that is even more vetted than Apple’s and eliminates scam apps and games whose only purpose is to separate you from your money.

So it’s not only not accurate, it’s probably diametrically the opposite of accuracy and is false.
I thought the same, this query is not really compatible with how Google works. There's either an article about this or there's none.

LLM-s are indeed great for these types of queries where we expect some knowledge to be synthesised that should exist.
> Isn't that weird and interesting?

I think it's very neat! There's calculators online to design your own QFH antennas and they're popular for amateur use to e.g. receive images from weather satellites. And the calculators can tell you that if you make it more squat, it's more directional.

But I don't think anyone had had the idea before to let you vary those parameters by pinning/scissoring it.
> I have no qualms saying [thermostats] are intelligent

> Intelligence is a very vague and very context dependent thing

That's either contradictory, to state that something has property X where X is vague to the point of undefined, or you are setting a very low bar for intelligence (I'm actually okay with the latter).

Just a question, if a bimetallic strip can be intelligent, is a marble intelligent for having the wit to find a low point on an uneven surface by rolling downwards?
Not necessarily! `SCNetworkReachability` is deeply integrated within macOS, and is able to tell you very quickly whether e.g. the user has just roamed from one type of network to another: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/systemconfiguratio...

Even if you just went and turned off the Wi-Fi interface on your device, `SCNetworkReachability` would know straight away - and from the flags you can deduce exactly what happened and react accordingly.

(I do agree though that it's a dangerous approach if it misbehaves, as it happened to me!)
That's fair, I've usually acted as an advocate for pushing forward. Usually, eventually things move in the direction I've advocated for.

It's just one particular interview yesterday and the feedback rubbed me the wrong way.
"Do you accept cookies?" I wish there were a non-browser-extension way to auto-accept.
The piece defines its use of "soul" quite clearly:

> But there is a fourth sense in which when we talk about [a soul], we all mean more or less the same thing: what it means for someone to bare it, for music to have it, for eyes to be the window to it, for it to be uplifted or depraved. Even if, religiously, we know by revelation that other people possess them for eternity, we only engage with or know anything about them at a quotidian level by way of the same cues and interactions that a more this-worldly view would take as their sum total: bright eyes, a dejected slump, a sudden manic inspiration or a confession of regret.
The concept of a soul is not limited to Christianity.
It says "each first annual install per year over a 1 million threshold" which I think means as long as you're updating your app at least once a year, you pay for each device your app is installed on (minus 1 million, which is a rounding error for the biggest apps).
So we're agreed that playstation, xbox, and Nintendo stores should also be regulated in the same way?
Key facts to note:

* Apple has 22 percent market share in EU [1].
* EU Economy is 15 percent of World Economy [2].
* EU population is 5.5 percent of World Population [3].

[1] https://appleworld.today/apple-now-has-22-of-the-smartphone-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_European_Union

[3] https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-histor...
Weak. What happened to Schrems 2 de facto banning GAFAMs (and other companies from rogue states like the USA) in the EU ?

Instead they are legitimizing these companies ?!?

(Also, we'll never see serious competition from EU companies as long as these giants are allowed to operate here... and also just buy any potential competition.)
Yep, I download the FLAC and always keep the original zip file, and back it up separately from the files I manage with beets. I playback the beets-managed files with Navidrome.

Beets doesn't maange handle the extra files that the zip often includes, such as PDFs of linear notes, the sheet music I once found included, or band photos. Maybe someday I'll figure out a good archive for everything that isn't "the literal zip file".
My password manager mamages the TOPS keys along with the other protected data.
Oh I don’t mind running iOS wrapper from Mozilla for Firefox mobile - but give me unlock origin, and I’ll thank you for ever!
Seems strange that no one has mentioned how SI went the PC route and started adding obese female models.

Obviously that would drive men away. It's nature.
Except the price only exists for large spenders in the first place.
Was the EU decision that people should be able to install other app stores,
or that they could install apps the way they wanted ?
"first annual install"
I downloaded it just fine using Firefox. However, when I unzipped it, and then opened the resulting folder, there were no .exe files inside. A moment later, Norton reassured me that it had automatically deleted the malicious .exe files, and I was safe.

So I disabled Norton, and unzipped the file again. This time there were four .exe files, each 8kb in size, for running the movie in various resolutions.

I double-clicked one of them. It immediately reduced the resolution of my displays, and moved/rearranged all of my open windows, putting them all onto the right-hand display. I heard music, but saw no video, and panicked and hit Alt-F4 to stop it. My display resolutions were restored, but I had to manually put all my windows back where they belonged.

Perhaps I should have trusted Norton.
1. The benchmarks game doesn't "repeat that one thing 25000 times" as warmup and the benchmarks game measurements include startup time:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

2. The benchmarks game happily gives multiple cores and shows that "cpu secs" measurement:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
I think Apple will be a lot more hurt by not having Youtube on their devices than the other way around. Youtube is ubiquitous and has no alternative. If I was Alphabet, the price would be 0.
Bringing Back Horizontal Rules in Select Elements
I've actually done exactly what @qsort suggested and outputted the intermediate SQL query and raw data generated by that query when generating the response back to the user. That definitely helps in establishing more trust with the customer since they can verify the response. My approach right now is to just be honest with our customers in the capabilities of the tool, acknowledge its shortcomings, and keep iterating over time to make it better and better. That's what the team in charge of our company-wide custom LLM has done and it's gained a surprising amount of traction and trust over the last few months.
It shouldn't be necessary, yet WiFi continues to show that it is.
Modern industrial toilets (that is, ones installed in work facilities) use high pressure to, uh, mash up the flushable materials, which seems to greatly increase the aerosolization. I had some friends in grad school who put bacteria-sensitive substance on the walls of the toilet stall and you could easily see hot spots of deposited matter.
aka competition working as intended
You are acting like people today build for firefox desktop let alone the mobile port
Of course... Nothing is perfect at everything.
Ouch! Glad it cleared up after you quit the meds, at least.
That seems true for both chatgpt and ai art programs. The output is unverifiable, often crap, and very fast to get. I'd argue we're losing something if we make it impossible for human experts to get trained in professional settings by outcompeting them with ai.
> I'm not sure I can subscribe to this definition...

Is this because it is a completely man-made system and not one that evolved slowly over time through natural processes?
> Mainly because the "bigger military" I'm referring to doesn't purchase commercial products.

Though...the individual solders do bring those products to the battlefield.

I actually got an award during the '03 Iraq invasion for using my personal GPS to rejoin my convoy after breaking-down, getting stuck in the sand and basically committing mutiny when I got tired of my platoon sergeant driving around in circles for some unknown reason. Truth be told I was using a map I pulled out of a burn barrel and a cheap compass but everyone was so happy when we reappeared (we had all the fuel) that I don't think they really cared 'how' and just assumed I was using the GPS.

And it's not like I bought the GPS unit specifically to navigate around in the desert but just brought it along because I already owned it and thought it might come in useful -- which it did on multiple occasions because our platoon leaders loved to get lost, I'd regularly walk up to their humvee to see what kind of navigational shitshow they were involved in and be "yeah, were still 10 clicks away from what you're driving around looking for". Can't really complain too much since they never got lost well enough for anyone to get a mountain in Phoenix renamed after them as we were driving around the exact same roads at the exact same time that incident did happen.

Anyhoo... the US military has a more bottom-up friendly approach where any random Joe can come up with an idea or novel usage of something and it will get incorporated into operational doctrine as opposed to other militaries which are all about a top-down approach to 'innovation'.
Ah, I clearly didn’t read it closely enough. Thank you!
I’m wondering if these new regulations apply to Switzerland as well.
This seems that Apple went to way too much thought to avoid a simple solution: Just let users sideload apps and put up a few warning messages like Android. Must have had a bunch of high-priced lawyers think this up.

Also, what is this Core Technology Fee for all apps? Maybe Apple has been losing money on the App Store infrastructure so they want to make it up? Or is this just a bid to try and keep as much control as possible? Seems that Apple wants to go into this kicking and screaming...

As someone in cybersecurity, I understand the need for secure apps, but I think Apple has been going about it in the wrong way.
Exactly. Because you currently don't check for revocation, you may end up selecting a path that's a dead end and you won't be able to recover. However, if your implementation has pluggable [dynamic] constraints, once you add support for revocation, it will work optimally.

You can run into the same problem with any other constraint, for example hash function deprecation, CA block, and so on.

Aside: Revocation works just fine, it's just that browsers decided not to implement it.
It has become absolutely impossible for alternative with Apple on this. They are loving these regulations.
They’ve been discussing the implementation with the EU for some time so it seems extremely likely this has all been OKed already.
Nitpick but a browser engine is much more than the rendering engine.
I remember when Riccitiello announced per-install pricing for Unity last year and it, quite literally, cost him his job
Firefox hardcore user here -- and someone not at all versed in anti-monopoly laws.

Could someone explain why the EU forced Apple to allow alternative browser engines in their own eco-system ("walled garden")? It's theirs, shouldn't they do whatever they want with it? It's not like there aren't any alternatives to iOS - Android is excellent and you can use many different browsers on Android. So... where's the problem?
There is significant cost associated with complying with the ever increasing demands of the EU. I have seen this personally. It makes sense that they have to recuperate this somehow.
Yes! In fact, that's one of our planned revenue sources, once we've fleshed things out :D :D
I'm always happy to see views of human exceptionalism getting torn down.

Animals show behaviors that are very close to human, often identical modulo anatomical differences. Animals lack a language that we can understand, and therefore can't defend themselves against claims that their behavior doesn't hold up to arbitrary standards of emotion, intelligence, etc.

All sentient beings deserve to be treated with respect and dignity. The vast majority of humanity is not on logical or ethical solid ground here, and remains in denial.
Out of curiosity, how did you afford to travel so constantly? A life of constant travel would seem almost impossible to most people where I'm from.
See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39132453 (apple.com)

Apple Announces Changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39132487 (theverge.com)

Apple is allowing alternative browser engines in iOS 17.4 – but only in the EU

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39132461 (bloomberg.com)

Apple Overhauls App Store, iPhone Features in EU to Appease Regulators
Mixed feelings about this; Schiller's argument about security is strong too.
Let’s not forget. This is also the exact same argument Apple used for not having an App Store in the first place and only allowing web apps.

The chutzpah of using this argument to keep the App Store locked down when Apple used the same argument to not have an App Store in the first place is incredible.
What would have been the point? It was explicitly forbidden.
There's also no 1MM install threshold if you list your app on an alternative App Store, which seems like it will kill the attractiveness of using a different storefront unless you're a developer with a an app that has a recurring subscription that's either a) just not allowed on Apple's storefront, and/or b) has an subscription price expensive enough that the $0.50 annual fee is less than the amount of commission you're avoiding from Apple.
it's against the rules here to post AI-generated comments.

see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
It's actually getting really hard to like Apple
Apple Now Allowing Third-Party Default Browsers and Non-WebKit Engines in EU
> They want to make money for investors and owners.

OpenAI was explicitly founded to NOT do that.
The number of Apple fanboys in tech that cheer every anti-consumer move by Apple really boggles my mind. Other companies rightfully get called out, ex: Unity recently, but for Apple they will make excuse after excuse.
You're joking, right? I haven't seen a single piece of compelling AI art, and I've seen a lot of it. It all has the soul and creativity of stock photography.

The only generated images I've seen that had some sort of meaning were AI images so carefully chosen or manipulated that the meaning was as attributable to the AI as the meaning behind Starry Night is attributable to Van Gogh's paintbrush
> Youtube is ubiquitous and has no alternative

If it isn’t on iOS it isn’t ubiquitous. It’s left the highest-earning viewers on the table.
Having specific XP with counter sUAS systems, radar is unlikely to be a working solution given the range, speed, size, and cross sections were talking about for a realistic deployment.

Fun idea but likely not going to handle the the claimed use case.
Modern LLMs do not learn, even though they will lie to you and tell you otherwise.
Seems unlikely given that out in the free world we’ve seen a consolidation around Chromium. The web is mature enough at this point that the choice of browser engine mostly isn’t a differentiating factor.
Afaik there are currently no exceptions to apple's 30% fee. There are some apps, like netflix, that dont have to provide a link to subscribe, but I think thats the biggest exception.
Your query can also start with "WITH", which isn't a command.
There’s a big difference between a fart and a toilet plume, I presume, in terms of viral/bacterial load.

It might be like the difference between being in an airport for 5 minutes with a Covid stranger vs. sharing a bed with a Covid family member.
My Grandpa used to say if a child didn't eat a pound of dirt a year it just wasn't healthy. This was usually in response to my Aunt's frenetic diatribe about a cousin getting dirty while on the farm.

He was right. We got dirty on the farm. We ate dirt in the form of working and playing in the dust and mud. We would get "cleaned up" on the hot summer days by swimming in the river. Not only did we survive, we thrived. It was some of the greatest years of my life, eating a pound of dirt a year...
Based on some of the reviews and FW's own comments, the keyboard flex is certainly not universal as FW didn't even seem to know about the issue prior,, and iirc same for the screen issue. Even if these problems are still present for mass production (which i find unlikely but it is possible), by the time you or i (batch 7) get ours, it should be fixed. Also, based on some of nrp's comments elsewhere in this thread (and a pinch of guesswork), it looks like batches 11+ are looking at sometime between April and June.
Yes, but these extensions work by intercepting the search results to your default search engine e.g. google and then redirectin that to kagi.com.

For example you type in "hacker news" it will first redirect to https://google.com/search?q=hacker%20news the Kagi extension will intercept this and redirect you th https://kagi.com/search?q=hacker%20news but this is often a hit and miss and the Kagi extensions had/has many problems. Which all could be easier if one could just select Kagi as a search engine natively in Safari.
Does anyone know what to make of the error bars? Most of the time the plus/minus is larger than the actual datum.

Lid up (1014 PFU MS2) 11.02 ± 10.77 3.64 ± 3.19 6.23 ± 6.47

Lid down (1014 PFU MS2)
4.25 ± 4.48 1.77 ± 1.97 2.31 ± 2.54