skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> dimensions to an arbitrary dimensionality is not a typical dimensionality reduction technique so that likely requires a special training/alignment technique that's novel

Very basic techniques (e.g. SuperBit random projection) have been extremely effective with OpenAI embeddings in the past. E.g. all embeddings on findsight.ai are OpenAI Ada embeddings stored as SuperBit signatures with a code length of 10,000 (i.e. 157 integers each), and there's almost no recall loss compared to the full vectors.
> iOS apps on the App Store will pay a reduced commission of either 10 percent (for the vast majority of developers, and subscriptions following their first year) or 17 percent on transactions for digital goods and services.

So we’ll still not be able to purchase Kindle books from the app, it seems.
Considering viruses are basically just spring loaded injectors, I guess about as much of a soul as a rock ready to fall over in a strong wind.
Things that use your body to reproduce are difficult to “limit” such that you guarantee “minor exposure”. Instead, you’re gambling that your immune system can mount a response quickly enough to “limit” the illness. Perhaps the benefit of making your immune system mount a response is that it’s now “trained”. (This is of course the basic concept behind a vaccine: “train” the immune system and “limit” the risk of serious illness.)
My nomination for weirdest: The Power Macintosh 6100. <https://blog.pizzabox.computer/img/powermac6100/front.jpeg>

See that button below the floppy drive? It's not an eject button. One guess on what people used to PCs routinely did.
ML noob here: what's the migration path from a set of embeddings made with model A to model B, if the source isn't available?
The Hugo Awards are for SFF, and are voted on by members of this year's WorldCon. After an epidemic of slate voting a while back, a ranked choice system called E Pluribus Hugo was installed, and has been reasonably well-accepted.

The 2023 WorldCon was held in China, for the first time. (It's traditionally outside North America every other year.) There were lots of Chinese-language works on the ballot, which was to be expected -- lots more Chinese-literate people attending.

The rules say that the statistics must be released within 90 days of the convention. Usually they are released the next day. This time, it went all the way to the limit, and arguably beyond.

The statistics, at a first glance, look like they have been coerced.

Several works were adjudicated to be ineligible. Some of them were plausibly inelegible, and a reason was supplied for each. (First published in a prior year, for example.) Some of them were obviously eligible, and no reason was supplied. E.g. R.F. Kuang's novel _Babel_.

The Netflix series The Sandman was ruled ineligible, both in the long form (whole series) and short form (episode 6). The rules say that the admin can choose which category to put a work in if it looks like there's a lot of support for both -- but here the admins decided to drop it from both.

Paul Weimer was dropped from the best fan writer award. No explanation.

Finally, only one member of the admin staff has answered questions at all, and he has been repeating "We acted in accordance with the constitution and the rules we had to obey" over and over again, without further explanation.

So.
It just means that the bar has been raised, no? There has been a certain accepted cost of doing business in the Apple sphere for years. They're just changing the price.
That is a very strong assertion. Please provide the WTO ordinances in question and/or case law. Unfounded assertions do not add to the discussion.

Do you seriously believe Apple would have gone this malicious compliance route rather than pursuing WTO grievances through their army of lobbyists if they thought that had half a chance of succeeding?
Where did you get that apps going through alternate app stores would be reviewed?
The canon camera is self sufficient writing to your memory card. The ring doorbell is functionally useless without the server side components (afaik, I could be wrong). The whole issue arises because the video isn’t stored on your own servers.

Those server side components provide a lot of value and that’s why people choose to buy those products, as opposed to similar products that are just dumb wifi cameras.
No, which in reality emphasizes the point I am trying to make. As a gamer I basically have zero choice but to install Steam, Epic Game Store, EA Store, or any other stupid launcher that a publisher decides to force on me when there is a perfectly fine game store built into Windows and Mac.
shim is an EFI bootloader commonly used by Linux distros that want to enable Secure Boot. Distros want an easy path to enabling Secure Boot using the default preloaded Microsoft signing key, rather than require users to enroll their own key. But Microsoft refuses to sign GPL bootloaders like grub in general, so shim was made to be able to be signed by the Microsoft key. (shim then implements its own separate signature verification of what it boots, based on a different key called the Machine Owner Key, MOK.)

When you tell shim what EFI binary to boot, you can specify it as an HTTP URL. If you do this and the HTTP server is malicious, it can trigger an out-of-bounds write.

However, usually you use it to boot a local second-stage bootloader like grub (hence the name "shim"), so it's unlikely to be a problem for most installs.

Regardless, Secure Boot was built from the start to allow previously-signed binaries to be revoked via the DBX list - a list of signatures that can be loaded into the UEFI to make it reject binaries even if they have a valid signature. When (If) the signatures of old shim binaries with this bug are added to the list, you can update the list in your own machines. Updates may be distributed as capsule updates (via LVFS etc), or if you manage your SB keys and vars you can download and enroll the list from https://uefi.org/revocationlistfile
There's also https://jam.coop (aiming to be a co-operatively owned/run bandcamp alternative)
Sounds like an overcomplicated solution that requires lots of maintenance.
It's only if developers agree to any of the new terms. They still have the "right" to stick to Apple's original 30/15 model and not pay the fee.
Hmm. I'm pretty sure I have a soul.

Other people may or may not have souls, I have no real way to confirm this. Elephants may or may not have souls as well.

I can say with some confidence that P(other humans have souls) > P(elephants have souls). That's about all I can conclude from this limited vantage point.
This partnership is way too vague. I have to assume Google is just investing money into HF and getting some marketing and integrations in return. When deciding where to host models or which services to use for my startup, I have a hard time trusting GCP services though as being around for the long term. On the flip side, Azure and AWS you know will have support and staying power by their respective companies for as long as the companies are around.
These EU laws start with the current circumstances and motivation why the law exists. An objection to why DMA is bad can be found in the first two recitals:

> (1) Digital services in general and online platforms in particular play an increasingly important role in the economy, in particular in the internal market, by enabling businesses to reach users throughout the Union, by facilitating cross-border trade and by opening entirely new business opportunities to a large number of companies in the Union to the benefit of consumers in the Union.

> (2) At the same time, among those digital services, core platform services feature a number of characteristics that can be exploited by the undertakings providing them. An example of such characteristics of core platform services is extreme scale economies, which often result from nearly zero marginal costs to add business users or end users. Other such characteristics of core platform services are very strong network effects, an ability to connect many business users with many end users through the multisidedness of these services, a significant degree of dependence of both business users and end users, lock-in effects, a lack of multi-homing for the same purpose by end users, vertical integration, and data driven-advantages. All these characteristics, combined with unfair practices by undertakings providing the core platform services, can have the effect of substantially undermining the contestability of the core platform services, as well as impacting the fairness of the commercial relationship between undertakings providing such services and their business users and end users. In practice, this leads to rapid and potentially far-reaching decreases in business users’ and end users’ choice, and therefore can confer on the provider of those services the position of a so-called gatekeeper.

It's a bit long for HN comments (although 257 words is about a minute of reading) but I didn't really know what could be fairly cut out

Full text: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2022/1925/oj
The S in HTTP is to be used when important things are happening. This includes booting your device. HTTPS headers have always been encrypted. Still a good catch.
Fair point. I’m trying all kinds of backflips to avoid buying a huge dish
Why is it so hard to know if you're helping?
The vast vast majority of apps doesn't

But I agree, as expected, this will go to round two.

Probably not even a new DMA just a court case about malicious compliance. The DMA was written expecting apples reaction

Still that they will reduce the commission fee is quite important on its own.

If this reduces the flood of free ad financed apps and moves the market to a more sustainable model I'm all for it (although I realise this stance is probably controversial)
> a company is large and influential enough, with an entrenched market position, it does not get to "do whatever they want" because of the harm that causes to the economy overall.

I'm not sure I understand: this would be applicable if Apple was the only provider of phone/mobile OS. But... Apple is just one of the players; if I was adamant that Firefox - which, again, I've been using for the past 20 years - is the only browser I want to use on mobile, I'd simply give up on iPhones and buy something else. So, again, as long as I have a choice, where is the problem?
Subjectively, OpenAI hasn’t been a leader in the embedding model space the way they have been with text completions.
Donald Hoffman takes the panpsychist view a step further. Most theories argue consciousness is something that happens in physical reality, whereas his conscious agent theory assumes consciousness (not space and time) is fundamental and creates physical reality. In other words, brains don’t create consciousness, consciousness creates brains. It implies we’re all little portals allowing consciousness to experience itself vs the panpsychists who say we’re all physical things with a little consciousness in us.
Have you ever seen a random windows user? Do you think Grandma understands that?

I’m all for allowing power-users to side loads apps, but average user definitely needs to be thought as a child that will use 1234 as their password, and click ‘ok’ on every pop-up without even reading it.
Those are just basic things which should have been implemented 10 years ago though. The fact the EU had to push laws for that is a bit shameful.
well this time it's the enemy du jour, China. you're not talking to a crowd that ever cared about the Hugo awards before this.
Right, but they have to agree to the new terms if they want to do alternative distribution.
Well, yes. If you choose to ignore revocation entirely, you will never have a dead path because of it. That will happen only if you path-build, then check revocation as two steps. (IIRC, Windows used to do this, or is still doing it.)

IMO, a good path building implementation has to support revocation, but that's for another conversation :)
You can’t sign up for Netflix on the iPhone app. Users lose because of that.
Note that it also include other terms:

* Reduced commission: 30% -> 17%
* Payment processing fee: No fee to Apple

Some big mobile games may opt in this option by removing IAP and using their own payment processor, if "update"s are not considered as "install"s. Looks like Apple is desperate on keeping those apps in their app store?
The charts at https://layoffs.fyi/ might provide some reassurance.
The board and its interests will make more money with a bankrupt and disappeared Macy's.

There need to be investigations into corruption and conflicts of interest wrt American corporate boards.
Maybe removing the lazy posts from the training data.
Will China squander its moment in the sun?
wow, that's a throwback.

and yes :)
it sounds minor, but having `from` before `select` means you can get autocomplete
I want to know what was actually causing the moving menus! I wasn't around coding at the time, so I'm going to guess that the moving menus were actually caused by a `<script>` tag (maybe one pointing at an external JS file?). Did you ever find out the reason? Is my guess correct?
"a baseline review that applies to all apps, regardless of their distribution channel [...] a combination of automated checks and human review."
If it was like this then there would be no need for such discussion, I think. It is not about argument and counter argument but about systematic censorship.
A Short History of Encoding and Base64
I wrote this as background research to writing yet another base62 encoder. Couldn’t find a good summary of the history of _decision points_ in going from early computer history to modern entrenched issues like base64 vs base64url.

I think the history per se is interesting. And I’m hoping to get comments with additional trivia that I’ve missed.
Many people want enough friction that the pleasure of using a smart phone is degraded but the practicality of maps, emails for work, etc remain. It's about resisting the intentionally addictive elements of hardware and software ui/ux and leaving the tool.
> More to the point, tracking "tech layoffs within non-tech companies" is impossible

Which begs the question, what is a tech company anymore or a non-tech company?

Aside from the fact that they use technology (but everyone uses technology), ebay is not a tech company. They don't sell technology product.
I kind of enjoyed their passive aggressive bitchy tone, it reminded me of sosumi[0]

iPhones have become great with the EU forcing the USB on them, the new capabilities are making me consider a new iPhone despite my iPhone 14 Pro is still excellent. I really want to be able to film directly on external SSD for example.

I think with the DMA, EU is making Apple a favour again by saving them from themselves. Although sales are still great, other brands are doing amazing things and Apple lacks in some areas. I think its very possible that if the developers find ways to do interesting things with iPhones outside the Apple's walled garden, we can see another golden age for iPhone because many things that Apple doesn't allow are simply due to brand protections. Apple can sell more iPhones and people can do questionable things(porn, crypto etc) on their phones without blaming it on Apple. The iPhone has become great but boring, even one can argue that its forcing SV culture over people all over the world. When you don't have to ask Apple employees what you can do on your phone, actual original things can come up. Apple might lose a bit control and revenue but might become the impartial platform of an exciting future.

Still there are some unclear stuff though.

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi
The "or" in your sentence indicates the choice in the market.
>Keep in mind that this doesn't actually work as a webshop.

Webshop is, like, the entire point of webcamp.

Talking as an indie artist here.
I get the first part of the joke, but what's the "something new will arise in its place"?
> […] enabling developers to use browser engines, other than WebKit

I'm afraid this announcement will turn out to be disastrous for the open web as we know it. Even if some enthusiasts now will be able to use Firefox proper, the real change is that WebKit usage will more than half over night. After this I guess the rendering engine market share will be roughly 80/20 Chromium/Webkit with Gecko as some rounding error.

For how long will it be defensible for the average company to test their site on anything but Chromium?
I don't know what tech optimism of the 90's you're talking about. That was the era when people called Microsoft "Micro$oft" because they thought it was so greedy and evil.

I don't see anything having changed at all. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
You assume that users always know what they're doing. Anyone that's helped an older parent/grandparent use technology knows that isn't the case.
Require the super scary "break app sandbox" entitlements to be activated behind an adb-command-mutated flag (or whatever the iOS equivalent of adb is) after jumping through the USB debugging hoops?
In Latin, "animal" meant that which has "animus" a.k.a. spirit, i.e. soul. It was applicable both to humans and to non-humans.

The Latin word for non-human animals was "bestia", hence English "beast".

Unlike in modern English, in Latin "bestia" just meant non-human animal, without a negative connotation.

In modern English, "animal" is used by many with the meaning of the Latin "bestia", not with the meaning of the Latin "animal".
The entire thing reads like the corporate version of a teenager throwing a tantrum.
A REST back end built with plain VBA Microsoft Excel macros. Yes. Macros
I have to say this is definitely a bug and I'm glad it's fixed ... but what kind of psycho boots their machine from an untrusted host? If the attacker controls the http service tightly enough to send malicious headers, avoiding this overflow is the least of your problems, since they have compromised your certs and also can just send a compliant payload with more malware on it.

Bug? absolutely. Critical? not so sure.
Once upon a time, before social media, when people made stupid jokes they were ignored and nothing happened. Now, governments have to waste lots of time and insane amounts of money doing a "due diligence" investigation on the off chance it's not the idiotic joke everyone knows it to be and something really does go boom... you can't be the government official who did nothing about it.

Ironically, this is actually a well known terrorist tactic: prompting countless false alarms to wear down first responders to the point of apathy or at least not being sufficiently alert which allows the real attack to succeed... which is why I'm completely in favor of this person being slapped with the $120k bill for scrambling jet fighters and putting the counter-terrorist teams on alert.
But they say that browser engines are allowed. So can they JIT?
$45k per month. Annually it's > $540,000

Also, updates do count.

"A first annual install may result from an app’s first-time install, a reinstall, or an update from any iOS app distribution option — including the App Store, an alternative app marketplace, TestFlight, an App Clip, volume purchases through Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager, and/or a custom app."
Abandonware Featured in iOS App Store
Sure, this is true. I just remember being somewhat peeved during the pandemic when this was being touted by airlines without this caveat, with the express intention of misleading people about actual risks.
How did that slapdown work for Microsoft? They are about as bad, if not worse today than they were back then.
Honestly the answers to these questions are usually the most obvious thing. It could just be some basic dimensionality reduction technique precomputed for each input/output size combination.

That’s still just a few thousand matrices. I’m sure they can handle the training and distribution of that set.
The reality is most users don't have a PC, period. Even laptops are increasingly dinosaur-like, except for work-provided ones. It seems many home users are more than happy with some combination of phones, tablets, smart TVs, and consoles.
Seattle sanitation workers can't pry through trash without warrant (2016)
> because MS refuses to sign GPL bootloaders like grub in general

This is because MSFT lawyers think that if you sign a GPLv3 licensed bootloader like GRUB, you might have a right to compel the developer into handing over their signing keys.

Source: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/hardware-dev-center/u...
They could just become software engineers, roll their own solution, start making more money that way, and give up music entirely.

Or they could use a platform that was explicitly designed to address their needs without any fuss.
It will apply to EU citizens probably, so who have the location of the Apple account in a EU member state. You can change the location, but only once per half year.
ha. that claim is true ... most folks don't care if the car is an i4 or v6?
you're a large number of years too late
They can all help him pay the fine.
Most of these websites should be accessible using user agent spoofing.
No the average unskilled Chinese elderly left behind by modernzation are stuck in poor informal economy. Average skilled labour in skilled jobs pays significantly better.

TIL 5% growth great depression. What china did was remove 3% of excess real estate malinvestment. Housing is down as expected, but that's a good correction. Other sectors broadly are still growing. Consumption is fine about world average factor in gov social transfers. Everyone's export is down, PRC relative down less after capturing 1T more in value over covid (greatest on record). And export @20% of GDP isn't even a big driver. Export dependant is when you're at 40-50%+. PRC continuing this path of 4-5% grown is... great? Big change happening is PRC ramping up skilled talent and skilled jobs in high value sectors to take on profitable western incumbants. It takes time, but EV/renewables just the start. Indicators everywhere PRC broadly moving up value chain.

If you're going to do JP 2000/month per capita, then PRC is ~2000 per month right now. Right about where JP/SKR was when TFR crapped out. Bottom quartiles are poorer. THat's basic statistic inevitablility. But guess what? Lots of japanese and korean grandparent farmers were poor back then to. Many still are. It's kind of a phenomenon if you follow east asian reporting. But their kids who were in manufacturing were comfortable, and their grandkids in high skilled sectors were "rich".

But this thread is about happiness and livable options. JP/SKR fucked up because they concentrated opportunties in a few regions. That's the trap (western) urbanists wanted for PRC 10 years ago, noting PRC tier 1 cities are remarkably not dense, and they should 2x/3x population, as if it was not affordable enough. Now PRC did opposite, expand developement in land, and lots of new cities/hubs are openning up. Tier 2/3+ cities will be a lot more livable in PPP terms if everything goes right. And give it a few years, 1-2 child policy 1-2:2:4 ratio means every Chinese kid is almost guaranteed to inherit housing whena grand parent croaks. The TLDR is PRC engine for growth is fine, it's not overheated anymore. And PRC urban/develpment/social patterns is trying to avoid the pitfalls of modern SKR/JP. Keyword being trying. Edit: I just realized we're engaging across multiple threads. I'm going to stop because I don't think it will be productive for either of us.
There's already Brother, and fingers-crossed they will keep doing good job.

Please don't get distracted, Framework. What you're trying to do is challenging enough already.

Notably people will keep saying in every thread about HP that Brother exists, and I don't think Brother is dominating the market. At the end of the day if a ignorant customers keep buying garbage products, it's hard to help.
Fyrox Game Engine v0.33