skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"For users, the changes include new controls and disclosures, and expanded protections to reduce privacy and security risks the DMA creates"

Jesus. Not only is Apple serving us a shit sandwich with this press release, they're telling us it's filet mignon, for our own good.

Is anyone who has been in tech for the past 25 years or so not completely disillusioned with the state of tech as a business? The "tech optimism" of the late 90s seems like another universe. It feels like every single big tech company is only worried about their business and profits, service to the user be damned. They're all "evil", rotten to the core, 100%, across the board.

New technology (and I'm not talking about how we usually refer to it as Internet/silicon tech these days) used to be about making people's lives better. I think the piece of tech that I most value these days is probably my dishwasher. So much other tech is just actively hostile - think of the HP CEO's recent announcement that we should all owe HP money per page. Like there is a person on the planet who wants that.

As someone who's worked in tech since the .com boom, my disillusionment is on the verge of depression. I'm honestly ashamed at the forces I've contributed to, even if only a minuscule bit.
This means that alternative app stores will essentially not be allowed to distribute free apps, right? As soon as they reach the install threshold they will start owing Apple money. And distributing an update counts as an "install" for the purposes of the fee: https://developer.apple.com/support/core-technology-fee/
> but it is not the place of a government to regulate how a company is able to use their own platform that they developed with their own money and tools.

Umm, yes it is. There are plenty of government regulations of companies that are like this but you're so used to it elsewhere that you don't notice or think about it.
None, except for the fact that the 30% fee will be reduced (not eliminated), has been achieved by the EU ruling.

- Alternative browser engines are useless if the rest of the world doesn't test for them (which they won't because they don't have access)

- You cannot start another marketplace without showing Apple you have the ability to financially support it

- And thanks for the need to support it, 30% surcharge will only be the ceiling
You mean the ones which are incoherent or profane? Most of this thread is people talking about the tone so if there’s some conspiracy trying to flag things they’re remarkably ineffective.
If enough people discover and buy meta glasses for taking pics n videos which I'm betting 51 percent out of 49 will...Apple will release their similar glasses too that are also only for taking pics & videos. Everyone I show my meta glasses too ..they show some level excitement yet a few think oh no I'm going to be recorded and not know. Well you can be recorded now and not know too.
PUFA: The Preponderance of the Evidence
Indeed. Clarification here in the calculator’s pop up:

https://developer.apple.com/support/fee-calculator-for-apps-...
the full title says toilet bowl cleaning, too
I didn't say the transition was a bad one. I said that there was a decade or so of warts + growing pains as HTML and CSS grew to accommodate freeform block layouts. It wasn't until HTML5 + CSS3 that it was super usable, and until Flexbox that it became somewhat easy.
Engineers, are you ready to organize yet?
Throughout the early 2000s, and before, engineers have resisted efforts to organize. Usually this resistance was framed in either libertarian ideology, or with the shared hallucination that tech is a meritocracy and therefore engineers would get paid what they're worth.

After record profits in 2023, we're seeing here in early 2024 that big tech loves the taste they got last year and they're now laying off engineers at relentless rates. And no one is immune- in fact, the most talented/ highest paid engineers are the ones getting hit the most, because they are expensive and question the status quo.

The goldrush is over for the common engineer and the forces of capitalism and finance are destroying the gains engineers made. Are you ready to organize yet?

Imagine the political and social consequences of organized engineers at one of the super tech companies…
however;

> Now, this might seem a trivial thing to mention, considering the gravity of the subject, but I truly don’t feel it is. We were very pious children from pious households in a fairly pious town, and this affected our behavior considerably. Once, we baptized a litter of cats.

> It occurred to one of the girls to swaddle them up in a doll’s dress — there was only one dress, which was just as well since the cats could hardly tolerate a moment in it and would have to have been unsaddled as soon as they were christened in any case. I myself moistened their brows, repeating the full Trinitarian formula.

> Their grim old crooked-tailed mother found us baptizing away by the creek and began carrying her babies off by the napes of their necks… We lost track of which was which, but we were fairly sure that some of the creatures had been borne away still in the darkness of paganism, and that worried us a great deal.

> I still remember how those warm little brows felt under the palm of my hand. Everyone has petted a cat, but to touch one like that, with the pure intention of blessing it, is a very different thing. It stays the mind. For years we would wonder what, from a cosmic viewpoint, we had done to them. It still seems to me to be a real question. There is a reality in blessing… It doesn’t enhance sacredness, but it acknowledges it, and there is a power in that. I have felt it pass through me, so to speak. The sensation is one of really knowing a creature, I mean really feeling its mysterious life and your own mysterious life at the same time.
Seems more like a response to printing money to try to contain the issue.
Wasn't the Epic Game store also found to be a privacy nightmare? I could be wrong but I felt like that was a major reason the Heroic Game Launcher got so much traction (which is fantastic btw)
Which sync primitive has Microsoft deprecated and discouraged?

WaitForMultipleObjects and Nt(Set|Reset|Pulse)Event are used throughout Windows source code
Unity didn't have a monopoly on PC gaming or installing software on PCs.
Nice! Just yesterday I was wondering when they were going to release an upgrade for text-embedding-ada-002 which is not that good anymore.

Btw, of all those I tried so far WhereIsAI/UAE-Large-V1 truly excels and is free/open to use, only downside is a small-ish context size.
> An example of this might be the Facebook app. Currently it's only available in the official App Store where by design Apple, on our behalf, defines and enforces policies that protect the users.

My counterargument to that is even the current status quo doesn't work for privacy. Facebook can still get less data from the browser version compared to the app and that's why they are pushing hard for an app install. What would work is tighter sandboxing similar to the web, not custom reviews.
Yes, and hopefully it will end high prices everywhere (from home prices/rent to groceries to fuel)
Apple opens up NFC chip to allow alternatives to Apple Pay in Europe
>A basic education in economics (and manners) might be in order.

Oh, I apologize. I have idiotism allergies.

>"practically all" was the initial statement

Yeah, and my original statement still stands.

Go open a history book or something. Or find out what "N" in "NSF" stands for, or realize that China exist.
Alternative app stores have to pay the fee on every install with no threshold.
So if enough EU people install a free app, the developer will be liable for €0.50 per install?

T-thanks EU!
It would be really funny to limit a website to one user per hour
Testing Muji's Lego Hole Punch
That's why it's a good argument against physicalism. According to what you just said, everything we ever experience is talking about "not the real world itself" according to physicalism, therefore why does it ever make sense to assert the "real world itself" over what we actually experience? It's like watching a movie and believing in the movie more than the fact you are sitting watching a screen.
What an excellent way to contemplate design.
The support doc is slightly more informative: https://developer.apple.com/support/core-technology-fee/

Free apps aren’t exempt. The fee is only for EU users. If you take the EU iOS market share of 33.3% [1] and the number of EU citizens (448 million) [2], you get ~150 million — and that’s assuming 1 smartphone/citizen, which is probably too much.

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/europe
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_European_U...
(Translating UI strings from German.) When I have the automation open, the first two settings are "Automation" (set to "Execute immediately") and "Notify on execution" (set to off). That seems to work. But not sure if it's more restrictive for certain types of actions, like network requests. I'm only using it for fairly basic stuff like "if Youtube or Nebula is opened, turn screen rotation lock off".
I don't know.. what if every app suddenly becomes 200MB bigger and devs throw Chrome instances in just about everything? They could bring electron to iOS and make an app that's not even native. Not to mention it would be objectively worse from a tracking/privacy point of view. Chrome has never been on the side of user privacy and I'm scared that continues with its introduction to iOS.
Sure, but that's physical media with physical stores. That's a different beast from digital goods IMO.
It changes it so that it takes effect after 2025. (It is expected to be automatically renewed at that point)

This bill retroactively fixes it for 2022-2023 as well as 2024-2025. A permanent one-time fix is too expensive from a Congressional Budget Office scoring perspective, but lots of initiatives are renewed every few years. It's just how Congress works
For the public documentation for NtPulseEvent, see PulseEvent (which just calls NtPulseEvent): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winbase/...
Is this only a problem if you are doing some sort of network boot or do boot loaders connect to a network for another reason?
Most of the leaderboard has much lower sequence length.
If I reinstall an app 10 times over two years it’s 1.00.

That’s my guess.
For the virus, the actions of people in the real world suggests otherwise.
F-Droid gets this right out of the box. A one-stop-shop for Free, Open Source applications has annihilated my desire to purchase apps at all. I don't buy PDF readers or file browsers or launchers or basic system utilities any other user would expect for free. I install it, because I have that choice.

Without F-Droid or the ability to install Open Source software, I wouldn't use Android. It's that much of a game-changer, and I suspect Apple wants to avoid a similar disruption at all costs.
I have met many a human who overlook this simple fact.
idiomatic Java ?

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

idiomatic SBCL ?

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
So the user has to be at the whims of a dominant player anyway. And if so, why do you prefer the whims of Apple?
Notarization has been enforced for all apps on the Mac for years. Would the DMA have an issue with requiring signed drivers? Seems a similar baseline. Personally I’m totally ok with that. I haven’t seen a single instance of them not notarizing something or revoking it for something that wasn’t actually malicious.
> Across every change, Apple is introducing new safeguards that reduce — but don’t eliminate — new risks the DMA poses to EU users.

It's hilarious how much a trillion dollar company can act like a petulant child when they get worried about losing their financial grip.
Aerosol Generation by Modern Flush Toilets
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4666014/

https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/36734 has additional supporting material

> Up to 145,000 droplets were produced per flush, with the high-energy flushometer producing over three times as many as the lower energy PAT and over 12 times as many as the lowest energy HET despite similar flush volumes. The mean numbers of fluorescent droplet nuclei particles aerosolized and remaining airborne also increased with flush energy. Fluorescent droplet nuclei per flush decreased with increasing particle size. These findings suggest two concurrent aerosolization mechanisms—splashing for large droplets and bubble bursting for the fine droplets that form droplet nuclei.
Easy to see how his idiotic statement could excite emotions (and ass-coverage instincts) in the security services.

Not so easy to see what justified scrambling F-18's. Were their pilots supposed to board & storm the passenger jet, and wrestle the bomb away from the kidiot before it went [BOOM/]?

Though with Spanish defense ministry demanding €95,000 in expenses - they might have figured "drill & flight time on somebody else's dime".
How does that line imply animals have no soul?
Please remind me to throw myself in a volcano before that future comes.
The Epic v. Apple trial showed that no one got special deals. And Epic v. Google did show Google gave many companies special deals, like Spotify. Ironically that played a big part with the jury deciding against Google.
> The fake news problem is huge on twitter now

Not really, considering the community notes generally call it out falsehoods very quickly. What a great system - Don't censor people, but do call them out for BS. Twitter is better than ever now, and people can finally get all the info to form their own opinions.
I feel safer in a Waymo than I do in any given Uber or Lyft.
https://developer.apple.com/support/core-technology-fee/
So the way it works is that if you have a setup like so:
Your client <-- bad actor --> Public Webserver.

Your first layer of defense is assuming its hard for a bad actor to get to that spot (which this attack is showing is possible).

Now the next thing the bad actor needs to do to compromise your traffic is deal with HTTPS/VPN. The only real way to do that would have to be to convince your client that the certificate from the CA that's signing the https traffic received from the webserver/VPN provider is trusted/ (i.e a classic MITM with a compromised client and a local CA).

Most clients will warn you that this cert is unrecognized, so with an untampered client unless you just clickthrough the cert warnings you will be protected. However, people often ignore cert warnings and that means that all your traffic is now cleartext for the bad actor.
Has that ever had a positive impact or is it a death spiral? From what I understand heavier models is more in demand from younger viewers.
> I think this essentially means that large developers pay

This actually affects small devs as well. It's not that hard to hit 1M installs for free or inexpensive apps.
This attitude is completely baffling to me. I certainly understand if you don't want to use those other stores and loading options, but I feel like everyone has Stockholm Syndrome thinking it's a good thing that alternative ways to run software on a device you own should be forbidden by our tech overloads. On a site called Hacker News no less!

Seriously, WTF???
It looks to me that you are trying to pull a "reverse uno" on this.
WOW

It seems so obvious!
But do these builds of shim include httpboot? AFAIK shim is just there to execute another EFI binary on the disk. I don't think I've ever seen the netboot functionality of shim get used.
Probably something similar to https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07707
Let me help you out here. It isn't true as a generalisation. Ever.
That's just a lovely resto. :)
how do you organize against inflation and monetary policy. the venture capitalists and CEOs can't get loans at these rates
Show HN: Automatic Translation of Comics (Bande Dessinée, Manga, Webtoons, etc.)
They certainly “had” a lot of the building blocks and creators but most of those people seem to have moved on, and libraries like TF have become less used. I don’t think you can say today’s Google with it’s hand wavy AI products (Gemini with fake demos and still unreleased) and lack of core open source ML tools has the deepest AI knowledge anymore (see Meta for who has overtaken in the FAANGs and a bunch of startups like OpenAI who have taken a lot of the other talent).
Which Android malware problem? Android has a permission system, every permission an app has needs to be approved by the user, and some permissions only system-apps can request.

There is no need for an app store review process to stop apps from requesting the "write to other application's data" entitlement; this can be enforced by the phone itself.
Damn, that's a really small wedding.
Unless this user has never used a device running something other than iOS, they've already dealt with this.

But this concern requires a few things to be true:

- An alternative app store is created that does not employ any form of restriction to protect users from this

- Legitimate apps that an end user needs see value in publishing themselves on this alternative app store

- There is a critical mass of users that prefer the alternative app store, such that the legitimate app publisher no longer sees value in publishing to Apple's app store

- As a result, those users who would have preferred the privacy and safety that Apple provides are now forced to use the new app store

This is a possible doomsday scenario, but it's not clear to me that enforcing and protecting a market in which Apple is effectively guaranteed a profit on everyone else's apps is the right solution? If this were to happen, perhaps we address those apps through direct legislation that targets user privacy, akin to what the EU has started to move on? Or a solution similar to this.
> I am not sure Amazon has become as bad as everyone seems to suggest it is. I still buy from amazon frequently and never have a problem.

Example, I bought a new high end camera on Amazon and what I received was a beat-up used camera with parts missing! Had to drive to a Whole Foods to return it and reorder the camera from a proper camera shop, wasting more than a week.

They also substitute junk quality for what was advertised as something else. I bought a power strip clearly advertised as UL Listed and what I received was some homegrown piece of junk that definitely was not. Threw that away taking the loss, not worth the drive to Whole Foods for a return.

At other times, I get the correct item. So you never know, Amazon is a probabilistic shopping site and the probability of getting what you ordered seems to be getting lower.
DevOps.
It's what I'd call a computed conclusion based on personal observation, unnamed shadowy figures, and William of Ockham. Put another way: none I'd name. Put yet another way: no.
For draft kings and other gambling ventures they get to know moneyball and five thirty eight.
...wonder if you could make something similar to this starting from a slinky? Chop it up into 4 bits, stretch them, give them some diy cladding/enframing of some kind, etc?
Thanks, I'd forgotten about this.
YouTube's dominance is due to a network effect and the complexity of monetizing and moderating video hosting.

If YouTube pulled itself from iOS devices, a shell company of Apple's would create a competitor in three months.

It would be more likely that Google bundled Chrome and YouTube into one app.

Hell, maybe they'd do that with mail and calendar as well.
I still don't get the point of that app, aside from a few misc features like Chromecast. YouTube works in-browser.
These benchmarks never tell the full story. Anyone thats using models for real production use cases with complex ai requirements knows OpenAI is still king. GPT4 in practice is leagues ahead, regardless of what leaderboards show.
>I've found evidence that the OpenAI 1536D embeddings are unnecessairly big for 99%

Agree, I tried a few 384-dim models and they perform 95%+ as good, def. not worth the extra space.
RLHF harder.
Russia isn't producing these STM32 chips. They're getting imported through Taiwan.

That means we can stop the production of Russian drones by just being more careful about STM32 exports. No need to bomb or explode anything.

NXP chips as well: that's being imported through Europe.

Intel Altera chips likely came from Arizona, Texas, Utah, or maybe Israel. There's only so many places those chips are made.

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How did a chip made in (probably) Arizona get into a Russian drone that killed Ukrainians? That's what this story is about. (In the case of Intel/Altera FPGAs). There's tons-and-tons of chips that have come from various USA (Intel Altera FPGA), European (NXP), Korean, or Taiwanese (TSMC makes STM32 IIRC) fabrication facilities.

Russia is importing them because Russia either has no capability to make these chips at home, or has decided that importing them is cheaper/easier. That's their weakness, its something we can cut-off if we tightened up customs a bit.
/. Effect?
The EU already has robust digital privacy laws and is likely to continue passing laws to protect their citizens. I think it's much better to take control away from Apple and place it in the hands of regulators that represent the people directly.
Will weight loss drugs kill the fast food business?
This is good. An app that can't survive without stealing your private data isn't worthy to be on the European market.
Without any further information, given what we know about sperm production (it's a physical process for which we're measuring time), the expected distribution is not normal (probably exponential or something). The claim that 'variance goes both ways' is wrong. Variance can only go one way. It can go one way mostly, or it can go bothways, or it can take a U shape. It all depends on the distribution of the events.

If we take it to be a simple exponential distribution with mean 66 days, then lambda = 1/66. and variance is 4356 or a standard deviation of 66 days as well.

In that case, by month 4, about 83% of men would be expected to have sperm in their semen.

To delve deeper, what you're missing here is the idea of skewness and kurtosis. These are the 'higher moments' of the probability distribution function (natural extensions of mean, variance, etc). In particular, the skewness is where you're getting hung up. You assume in your first sentence that the skewness of every pdf is zero (i.e., it 'goes both ways'). That is not generally the case.

In particular, the skewness of the 'time to first sperm' distribution must be very positive because it can never be below zero.
Ignite Realtime Community Forums Creating the XMPP Network Graph
Apple opens App Store to game streaming services
It's still maintained by Apache, and I'm sure it is still used by a lot of legacy systems, but it has basically lost to git.

As one data point, GitHub removed SVN support last year - https://github.blog/2023-01-20-sunsetting-subversion-support...
The lithium revolution has arrived at California's Salton Sea
Yes, you could!

I tried doing this with Yurt to deploy the first chapter of Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan: https://themediumisthemessage.nicholaschen.io/posts/about.tx...

The main challenges are chunking the text so that the paragraphs actually encapsulate a concrete idea, so that the connections between them are valuable.
An Introduction to Evaluating LLMs
Compared to a 9-5 in tech? Which is what they're suggesting instead.

What is the point of moralizing?
Yes, I own three of those but an earlier version (2) that comes without RFID sensor.
And I use the filter waaaaay longer than the device wants me to. This DRM is just milking money out of the consumer and producing waste, nothing else.

My eyes can probably not tell if the filter is over its lifespan, but my pollen allergy definetly can tell if it still works.