skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We don't perceive subjective qualities, subjective qualities constitute our perceptions, dreams, memories and other conscious mental states

And I say the opposite, that our sensory perceptions, dreams, memories and other mental states drive processes that lead us to conclude that we've perceived subjective qualities in them.

> And there are other options you omitted such as identity theory, strong emergence, property dualism, neutral monism and cognitive closure.

To make a long story short: identity theory, neutral monism and panpsychism are basically the same on the property that everything has subjective qualities in some sense, strong emergence is a speculative concept at best that fundamentally amounts to dualism, dualism can itself be easily dismissed as any dualist theory will have a non-dualist equivalent that posits fewer entities and so dualism will never be preferred, and cognitive closure is not even a candidate as regardless of our ability to know consciousness, it still must logically fall into one of the categories I outlined.
Early death from what? When?

fwiw, if we keep doling out antibiotics as we are, we'll be happy with only losing 200 million.

So again, are we making gains or grabbing a balloon?
You pay one of the minimum wage support staff working for the telephone company a hundred bucks to do it.

That's literally it. Inside man.
Protective compliance.

Protect the users from misguided legislation.
This counts one install per 12 month period, whether update or fresh install (new user). So it’s €0.50 per user device. For application providers that opt into the new terms and release updates every two weeks like clockwork even if there are no meaningful updates for 300Mb application bundles (Facebook, Duolingo, a few others)…this is likely a fair cost (and my suspicion is that yes, there's a premium, but it's probably not Apple's usual 20%+ premium on products since many applications would not be subject to this fee at all, even under the new terms).
Becoming an expert on jenkins then selling your services as a 'jenkins consultant'.
bots aren’t allowed either, so the question is just ‘how does HN prevent abuse’. I don’t know the details but it seems to do fine in most cases.

One really effective mechanism is users notice and squish misbehavior - with flags (as you found out) or by telling site admins about iffy things.

As to why generated comments aren’t allowed, that’s mentioned in the mod verbiage I linked - it’s a site for human conversation and llm output is not that.
Or not publishing documentation (they were also forced by the EU to do so ironically) that has allowed the likes of OpenOffice to read Office docs and become a legitimate alternative, because of security (Office docs are a security risk and showing hackers how they work makes them a bigger security risk…).
Patrick Debois, in case anyone needs to Google his name.
Doesn't seem like nonsense to me. Mozilla is a registered nonprofit so they're fine. Google could donate Chrome to a non-profit if they wish, or not and pay. Seems reasonable.
> I'm far from a translator... but it is not "We opened a door" but "A door is open to do missions that were not possible before".

You're being overly literal. Omitting the subject is normal in Japanese; translating that to a passive-voiced sentence in English is usually misleading.
NFL engineers are examining Patrick Mahomes' broken helmet
I once would have agreed with you, but the advertisements and pushiness in Windows are simply unacceptable at this point.
According to the docs, an NGO has special fee waiver of they want to, but then all apps they distribute must also be of fee-waived organizations like NGOs. So there could be a marketplace of just NGO apps with 0€ fee.
In the EU, on iPhone only.
I wouldn't say the complications themselves are intentional. But take a look at a typical Series A. There are 5 core documents. Dozens and dozens of pages of legalese. I'm a lawyer and understand them. But most founders don't.

What's interesting is that virtually every word in those docs is there to protect the investors, most at the expense of the founders and other existing shareholders.

Ok, so maybe that sounds obvious. Why would it be otherwise?

Well, take a look at the initial docs when a company is founded. The "market" is for those docs to be as simple as humanly possible. A certificate of incorporation is a page or so. No protections at all for the founders in there, most often.

But when you bring in investors, the market is to lard up that same document with investor protections and no protections for founders.

That's how founders get screwed. It's not that the complications are there to screw founders. It's that the standard forms are built with one party's interests in mind.
A review process which the DMA does not require.
The reviewing process that no one is asking Apple to do. What a racket this whole thing this is.
This has always been like this for the API.
I don't get the spike in drama though. "Don't believe everything you read on the internet" was a common sense maxim long before AI came around. What is so different now? If anything, it just amplifies the maxim, which is arguably a good thing.
If they don't trust you, you shouldn't trust them either. Their anti-cheat is essentially malware.
I thought I always felt tired. Until I got a sleep mask, ear plugs, stopped eating 4 hours before bed, slept in a cold room, and went to bed at the same time every night. I found my body just adjusted itself back to its natural rhythm. Curious how many of the contestants surveyed did exactly this and still had trouble with their sleep.

Edit: diet and general lifestyle changes (such as going to the gym and being outside) also helped.
I think Apple would prefer that nothing changes -- they make the new terms unappealing so nobody would choose them.
This seems like something that the EU org pushing for opening up the iphone to more stores as egregious and they would commence with fining apple. No?
My bet is little to nothing. How much of the land area around the sea will be bought? I seem to recall they were setting up on the north part, which IIRC completely uninhabited. I don't think there will be much trickle down.
> When retrieving files via HTTP or related protocols, shim attempts to
allocate a buffer to store the received data. Unfortunately, this means
getting the size from an HTTP header, which can be manipulated to
specify a size that's smaller than the received data. In this case, the
code accidentally uses the header for the allocation but the protocol
metadata to copy it from the rx buffer, resulting in an out-of-bounds
write.
> We are very close to breakeven currently ...

Cool. Didn't realise that.

That's really good news as it proves the "search engine people pay for" concept is workable, unlike what many people seemed to think. :)
Canadian tar sands pollution is up to 6,300% higher than reported, study finds
Rich people? Everyone wants iPhones, they are by far the best smartphones.

I’m not defending Apple’s anticompetitive nonsense but this comment seems to ignore the elephant in the room about why they have the opportunity to be anticompetitive: they make the best smartphone user experience by far and consumers really really want that. They don’t understand that the censorship and racketeering comes fully integrated and inseparable (until today) with the rest of that UX.

Most users are happy to outsource the sysadminning of their phones to Apple, and the job Apple does is good enough for them. This is why iOS malware in the wild isn’t a widespread thing like it is on Android.
gpt-4-turbo was supposed to be the speedy model, yet speed isn't mentioned at all. Go figure.
I'm sure this is one reason many people moved over to PC gaming in the last decade.
iOS developer here. As long as you make < $1M/year their cut is 15%, which is absolutely worth it considering the quality of the App Store and payment experience and the fact that iOS users actually pay unlike Android. When I hit that 30% fee, however, I’m not going to be so stoked.
> ensure the marketplace can fulfill its duties in terms of safety etc. I think it’s pretty reasonable

I upvoted you because this contained some of the most useful information in the thread for folks who aren't reading the article (which they should). That said, it's beyond sad to me that we've reached a point where people are considering it very reasonable that only large corporate entities with the power and intent to censor are able to distribute software. The web had it right, and I'm really grateful it was around before mega-corporations and governments were keen to control the power of individuals using it.
repeal capitalism
I think this is an interesting by Apple. They bid to remain the gatekeeper, ensuring a degree of control against malware on the platform. Either the EU says yes, or when the EU says no, Apple can tell consumers who are cross because they have been infested with a nasty "well, we wanted wanted to provide protection, but we weren't allowed to - tough luck"
Windows was created before t security in computing was a thing.

It’s an completely invalid comparison.

But even if we accept that comparison, how about OSX? OSX has been tremendously secure through its existence and it allowed users to do whatever the F they wanted to do with it until recently.
What I'm hearing from this, is that JITs are a security hazzard so we should all move to interpreted wasm
…which you can’t if your app is excluded by Apple’s current restrictions (emulators etc.).
> Compulsory vaccination statutes don't imply anything about whether a toddler has the fundamental inherent right...

They do demonstrate a pretty clear scenario where some rights is trumped by other things. We are discussing a potential such scenario; parents' rights versus a child's opting to get a vaccine that's most effective if administered as a minor.

> Vaccines are not life-saving care by any definition. Not least of all because it does not cure or treat disease.

Sure they can. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therapeutic_vaccines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies_vaccine is a good example of a vaccine frequently administered while infected to treat a disease.

Even without those, "not getting cancer" seems pretty clearly life-saving at a population level.

> Presumably they're pushing to do a whole lot of things. Not least of all staying up past bedtime.

A dodge. To be clear: if an Amish child wanted to get vaccinated, and their parents forbade it, I'd want our legal system to side with the child.
FTC Drills into Amazon, Microsoft, Google over Billions to OpenAI, Anthropic
I'm not referring to your use of your retirement accounts.

I'm referring to your choice to donate hundreds of thousands to charity so you can save a few thousand on your taxes.
> now you know that closing the lid doesn't matter

For something so low effort, this one new study isn't going to change my habit of closing it "just in case."
I suspect that my opinion is in the minority here, but...

> With modern trunk-based engineering, pull request branches are squash-merged onto main

Commit messages are useless because of squash-merges, yes. However, my opinion is that it's the very concept of squash-merges that is the problem, not commit messages. Squashing eliminates all sorts of valuable information, and I think it's harmful.
What to expect from this year's rare double brood of cicadas
It's hard, and cannot be done airtight, but more could be done methinks. Russia is in a free trade zone with 5 countries, three of which AFAIK aren't targeted at all by sanctions. We should really consider trade there to be effectively accessible by Russia, because it is. We can just stop that by including those countries in the sanctions.

There are strategies for whack-a-mole.
> Apple is providing the whole ecosystem, operating system, security, notarization etc - there are costs to be covered

How are they covering it on macOS?
Psst wanna jailbreak ChatGPT? malicious prompts for sale
Richard Garriot aka Lord British who made the Ultima series of videogames?
I really liked this response and I agree with all of it, but I especially agree with this statement:

> I think the fundamental issue here for DSLs is that at the end of the day, they're all compile-to-SQL languages, because the database does not offer any other API than SQL. And the general confusion is that SQL pretends to be standardized, so DSLs try to support all the databases, and end up implementing only some minimal shared subset... no matter how nice the DSL might be, you end up having to leave it anyways.

Until databases offer a better interface for actually interacting with the database, we are stuck with SQL, and as long as we are stuck with SQL, X-that-compiles-to-SQL will always be challenging to design and use successfully. I know libpq/Postgres has a binary wire protocol, but I'm not sure what it consists of, or to what extent it improves on the current model of sending a blob of SQL to be parsed the server.

My bias against query builders specifically I think comes from spending too long with Python, where SQLAlchemy Core is the only standalone query builder in town, and it comes with a lot of ORM-derived baggage and a relatively high level of abstraction (not to mention complexity). This IMO makes it not much better than string templating because it's a relatively large amount of fuss to get it working, unless you also want to take advantage of other features like uniform logging, client-side connection pooling, client-side parameter binding of arbitrary Python objects, supporting multiple database backends in an application like Airflow, etc.

Whereas in Common Lisp I very much enjoy S-expression-based DSLs like SxQL (https://github.com/fukamachi/sxql), and I agree that they're much better than constructing SQL out of raw strings.

I'm not aware of a Scheme equivalent, although it looks like Gauche is planning to add one in the future (https://practical-scheme.net/gauche/man/gauche-refe/SQL-pars...): "The plan is to define S-expression syntax of SQL and provides a routine to translate one form to the other."
As far as I can figure out, most ocsp staples are valid for 7 days, so short lived certificates would be equivalent, but simpler?
Using GoAnywhere MFT for file transfers? Patch now
If I need a laptop ASAP, I would buy a MacBook Pro and use Time Machine to back it up continuously. Then I would pick up a used MacBook Air for $700 to keep as a spare. If you can’t afford to be without a laptop for a few days, you can afford that expenditure, most likely.

Or, if one wishes to self insure, maintain only one laptop and buy another one at the Apple Store the same day yours breaks. Sell the old one back to Apple once it is repaired. Slightly more expensive, but you can defer the cost until the event.

Always backup continuously.
I am sometimes not certain when they are talking about "the internet", whether they actually mean the Internet, or US platforms (including US Tiktok). The suggested copyright-tracking US federal blockchain solution might work decently on the latter, but (thankfully) certainly not on the former.
Pretty funny to see "use memory-safe programming languages, or features that improve memory safety within other languages" as a requirement when WebKit itself is built on top of C++ code.

I wonder if Apple would be allowed to ship WebKit if they enforce this requirement under the spirit of the EU laws that made them change their minds.
Nah. Elecia is a world class embedded specialist and I dont get that component elitisms from here https://embedded.fm/episodes
Covid-19 test lab accused of exposing 1.3M patient records to internet
Just let me install my own app ok? No need for review.
Can you give some details on that? What kind of restrictions are there on foreigners trying to rent/buy basic things, and how do you get around them?
> The goal from the EU was clearly to make iOS have an android level of openness

And if I’m reading it right, both apple and the eu (and its citizens) can share a cake happily - a nonprofit org can create an app store without any fees (f-droid alternative), where end-users can safely install actually free and not freemium software, while meta/google will be blocked from leeching on the platform due to their network effect, at least doing free apps as a for profit company (aka, where the user itself is what gets sold) will not be financially sensible way, so they have to play by apple’s ways (which is again, both a win for apple and the end-users for stricter privacy regulations).

Also, I do think that certain specialized, commercial software may find its niche on alternative stores, and that’s also a win for everyone - they surely calculated that transaction costs not going through apple is better for them even with the cost.

So, I don’t see the problem.
> but does it reflect in the actual populace?

Does that matter?
I bought a brother laser printer last year, and it bricked itself when using third party ink. I have a printer shaped paperweight.

Solutions offered online are to use a knife to extract the chip from a genuine cartridge to stick on the new one.
Been off the HP bandwagon for a while. My wife mistakenly bought one of their printers and it just stopped working one day until we paid for a monthly subscription. I had to recycle it. Nobody wanted to buy something that required a subscription for ink.
Your own LLM-Powered Q&A Page (with auto-moderation & auto-reply)
Basically an LLM-era version of the early 2010s Formspring. With Mixtral 8x7b being used for:

# Auto-moderating the questions posted on a user's Question & Answer page,

# Auto-replying to new questions that the Q&A page owner has previously answered,

# And ensuring that only questions on topics & subjects that are on the page owner's list of allowed topics/subjects, are shown to the page owner.

On your Q&A page, you can:

# Specify the range of topics or subjects on which you'll answer questions,

# Set a limit to the number of questions you can be asked daily,

# Temporarily stop accepting questions whenever you want,

# And specify that your Q&A page should automatically answer any new question that you've previously answered before (though in order to conserve resources, this feature only kicks in once you've already answered a handful questions on your Q&A page).

Suggestions are welcome.
It shouldn't look like that, its two I's at 90 degrees: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEqoWAFXQAAPRXm?format=jpg&name=...
Ok, I'll give it a go.

1. Some party, for some reason, wants to slow down AI development. There are many people motivated to do this. Assume one of them had means and opportunity.

2. The board members wake up to a malicious message ordering them to do ${something} "or ${secret} will be revealed!" (this ${something} could have been many things, so long as it happened to be compatible with firing Altman).

3. The board fires Altman.

4. The board cannot reveal the true reason why they fired Altman, because that would reveal the thing(s) they're being blackmailed over, so they have to make up a different excuse to give to the CEOs they've named as a replacement. As this is done in a hurry under high stress, the story the board arrives at is fundamentally not very good.

5. The replacement CEO does not buy the story given by the board because it's not very well thought-out, and sides with Altman. This repeats a few times.

6. When it becomes clear the board is not capable of winning this battle, because none of the CEOs they hire will carry out their orders, the blackmailer becomes convinced there's no point even trying to hold the board to this threat (there doesn't need to be communication between the board and the blackmailer for this to work, but it's not ruled out either).

While it does seem to fit the observables, I do want to again emphasise that I don't put high probability on this scenario — it's just marginally less improbable than the other ones I've heard, which is a really low bar because none made sense.
The real worry is not the commercial angle, but the fact that centralized censorship of apps will remain.

Apple will retain the ability to shut off protest or encrypted communications/news/social apps, even when distributed outside of their store, by revoking the signatures.

This is a threat to a free society, not just a threat to Apple’s price-gouging revenue.
No -- as far as I can tell, alternative browser engines are going to be allowed in the old terms within the EU. Unless you can point to something that says the opposite?

Apple points out that the new terms are required for third-party app stores and third-party payments. Not for browser engines.

I'm expecting both Google and Mozilla to make their browsers, with their engine, available in Apple's regular store in the EU.

(And even in the new agreement, it's not half a euro per update. It's per year that contains an install or update. If you update 12 times a year, you're not paying 12 times. You're paying once.)
Corporations are sociopaths. They only learn what affects their bottom line.
This is why Brother is on my do-not-buy list. Unless I can get an older one, anyway.
If they can't fund OS development without their App Store profits, which I highly doubt, then they should charge more for their OS.

It cannot be a valid argument against regulation that your monopoly product supports other nonprofitable parts of your business.

Such constructions are hurting competition and maintaining the status quo. It is very difficult to compete against a product which is priced unsustainably cheap.
Given that it is a very smart IDE, the column suggestion UI integrates table selection in a smart way. Once the IDE knows which table(s) you are referencing, it automatically fills in the FROM clause for you.
This isn't really what you're posting about I do find curation and reviews to be valuable, if you avoid reifying them too much. I often see a bit of an anti-critic sentiment, mostly from people who disagree with a review for something they've got strong feelings about one way or another, but I don't want to spend the time to extensively search through the Sturgeon's law wasteland of indie music. Algorithmic recommendations are sometimes helpful but don't often encourage me to branch out as much as reviewers, especially when it comes to unknown unknowns. The fact that a lot of indie artists find it hard to get attention is really just the nature of the game. There are a lot of musicians and aspiring musicians out there.
>Any apps distributed through third parties pay their own CTF if they meet the threshold.

But that cost to free apps means that useful free apps won't sign up to the program, and therefore won't be available in the third party stores. It's a distinction without a difference. While I'm sure Apple will argue the distinction when they get pulled up on this, it's pretty obvious that the EU is expecting viable 3rd party stores and Apple will be forced to deliver it. The more they screw around the more likely that EU will set stronger regulations with less discretion on implementation.
I'm a photographer and filmmmaker. And now?

The world is huge btw.
Mars has weather, unlike the moon. Will the samples really still be there a decade or two from now?
It was more like about 10 years before that? The narrative was inspired by Jean Baudrillard. The guy who also inspired The Matrix.[1] 10 years before that game he was talking about the Hyper Reality of the Gulf War; that what “really” happened was dictated by CNN.[2]

But it’s not like those games give credit to all contributors equally.

[1] Or his ideas

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U9WMftV40c
Fujitsu still does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujitsu_A64FX
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Former Bungie general counsel says the game industry must unionize
Groovy is god-awful though.

Jenkins is... fine, basically, if you can get away with almost never having to touch Groovy.
> to offer the only military resistance to the massively murderous racist regime in Hitler’s Berlin

Is this guy claiming the UK singlehandedly fought and won WWII in an article about the teaching of history?