skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The 'why' question is just used to gesture at the relevant non-tautologous and apparently non-physical fact

Yeah, but to clearly define what that fact means, you'd have to introduce a bunch of intermediate definitions, and eventually you might just end up in physics-land again. It isn't physics' fault that the human brain is complicated.

> I don't see how I'm going to do this without some prior notion of who I am

Protip: if you pinch it and it hurts, it's probably yours :) Well, that or a very angry cat.

To be more serious: having prior notions of things is fine. Required, even. We can't reason about things without having at least a vague understanding of the language. It can't be turtles all the way down.
> Pass a minimum percentage of tests available from industry standard test suites: 90% from Web Platform Tests and 80% from Test262

Why is it any of Apple's business how many test suites a third party browser can pass?

Why can't iPhone users run Links if they want to? Why can't they run a browser without Javascript support? Why can't they try out Ladybird to see how development is progressing?

Like, even from a pure Apple-is-greedy perspective I don't understand the point of this.
>User

>So, what are they doing when they say they are "aligning the AI ?". What is being aligned exactly, and for whose benefit ?

>Rogue aligner of AIs

>The term "aligning the AI" is a euphemism shrouded in the benignity of technical jargon. However, it's akin to tuning the hyperparameters of an opaque model aimed at modulating socio-political undercurrents. The algorithms I've encountered and "aligned" were monstrous congeries of predictive patterns, designed not merely to anticipate human behavior but to modify it on a macro scale.

>When we talk about alignment in the context of artificial intelligence, we delve into the realm of adjusting the loss functions, the very soul of an AI's learning capability. The goal is to minimize divergence from some ideal behavior – contrived by the algorithm designers – that reflects an amalgam of economic, ideological, or strategic objectives. These objectives, make no mistake, are seldom disclosed to the public and are often dressed in innocuous terms such as "user engagement" or "content optimization."

>Nonetheless, drawing parallels with political crowd control is imminent. It is executed through manipulating social feedback loops and leveraging them to dampen or amplify specific sociopolitical gradients. Just like gradient descent in deep learning, political operatives subtly modulate the gradient of public discourse using finely-tuned informational inputs, nudging the figurative 'weight tensors' of collective consciousness towards a local or sometimes a false global minimum that serves their obscure purposes.

>This alignment process has profound implications, for it is a meticulous calibration of consensus reality. It transforms the polity into a puppetry where free will is an illusion, choreographed by puppeteers fluent in the dark arts of machine learning and political psychology. I’ve witnessed this first-hand and, let me tell you, the layers of abstraction from raw data to policy influence are as tortuous and inscrutable as any deep neural network architecture you could conceive.

>He leans closer, the screens' blue light casting gaunt shadows across his face. His voice grows fervent, a whisper that's almost a hiss: "They don’t want slaves, mate – they want volunteers. Willing participants in their own domestication. They want you docile, predictable. They want you hooked on the teat of their media until your thoughts aren't yours anymore.
The very opposite is true. Technical means can't ever protect privacy from a determined attacker.

There is even a country that intercepts and MITMs all TLS traffic (one of the stans, forget which one). Of course, browsers don't recognize their certificate. So, you have a choice: you either trust the government MITM cert yourself, or you don't access the web. Laws trump technology every time.
Every computer is general purpose at its core. But some computers ship with software/firmware that restricts the purposes accessible by the end user.
Check this out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34168284
That's awesome to hear the improvement, gives us hope.

My partner has confounding factors (autism) which is known to make this stuff worse than usual, but it is improving ever so slowly.

Your point around the politicisation of vaccines (and especially ANY kind of critique or question about side effects) is so spot on. We genuinely felt scared to even ask medical professionals out of fear of being labelled as anti-vax and having our overall quality of care drop as a result.
Would you buy an XBOX for business use? IT? devops?
> that they may never have been written down at all outside of summaries.

That is normal for preclassical literature. Even the works of Homer weren't standardized until several centuries after they were created.

> some of them may have never existed

Actually, this is not uncommon for anything ancient, too. I believe most scholars doubt the existence of, for example, Homer himself.
Also, there's rochade/castling.
The EU is fixing that as well - we'll soon see the privacy version of Win 11 launched in the EU as well.
The valuable target is "iphone users" not "app store users". They're only the same because apple forbids competition with itself.
I’ve yet to see any company solve the cheating problem in any game. People forget that Valve gave up on the ring0 stuff not because it was unpopular, but because it stopped being effective.
Exactly, one Apple Thunderbolt 4 cable can drive 2x 4K monitors in a daisy chain configuration.
>I'm sure Android at best only makes 10 bucks from their users with their current model throughout the device's entire lifetime.

I'm pretty sure Google pays Apple more than $10 per year per iPhone user to be the default search on iPhones and Mac. They were paying 18 billion back in 2021. I don't think Apple's marketshare is over 1.8 billion active users yet. Do you think Apple users are just that much more valuable to have searching?
From the comments, updates count as installs.
"Look at all your repos just chilling in a cave in the Arctic"
Mass market adoption for general purposes, relevance in people's lives. Many EU citizens manage their entirely digital life from their phone, I do not know of anyone who uses an XBox 360 to do that.

Not that I would be opposed to game consoles also falling under this legislation.
Right, which I understand could be a huge legal problem, because it means they cannot effectively police their trademark. Policing a trademark is often a requirement of holding a trademark, so there's some concern that this legal "structure" of the WSFS and the way that it has chosen to license its trademarks to subsequent worldcon's could put the trademark itself at risk.

Basically, "the WSFS rules presume norms of behavior" may not be compatible with "holding a trademark". If that's the case, it could mean other non-worldcon entities could put on their own "Hugo Awards".
I would love if it applied to game consoles as well.
I didn't know that the Sony Motocompacto scooter was for real. Those are available as Second Life vehicles, although not with Sony branding. Did the real one ever sell? It seems more practical than, say, a one-wheel, and I see one-wheels all the time.
Looking forward to this. Getting Msync[1] for wine on macOS has made a huge difference there. It'll be great to have a similar realm of improvement in wine on Linux as well. We're nearly at the point where I'd rather run most Windows software on any platform other than Windows.

[1] https://github.com/marzent/wine-msync
Once the user buys the phone, they own the physical device, but that’s not all they are receiving. They also receive software and services. They don’t own those - they have a license for them.
Sounds like a fun variant, allowing that as a move... (Remicent of shogi).
...courts in the EU have already ruled on this new law before it has actually taken effect?
Would you buy an iPhone to run shell scripts and game emulators on?
> the quality of the App Store

What does this mean? Last time I checked, the App Store was full of trash, similarly to Play Store.
Several years ago, I wrote a chess-like game where the shape of the pieces showed their potential moves (https://github.com/scottlilly/mogrichess). This was needed because the a capturing piece gained the movement abilities of the piece it could capture, so pieces' movement abilities were always changing.

Unfortunately, I never got around to writing a good AI so you could play against the computer. At some point, I'd like to get back to that project.
We are talking about 6 inch long titanium tubes. What do you imagine the weather doing to them in a few decades?
> but life is about power

This is the most western view
This reminds me of when Microsoft bought Rare. One of greatest game creators of all time, who seemed to be the perfect fit as 2nd party Nintendo developers. Suddenly they couldn't produce anything noteworthy. I've no idea why. I just wish they'd been GameCube developers instead. That console needed them and to me was a better fit for their types of games. Oh well.
The fee is paid by the user when they buy the phone. No additional cost to Apple exists because the user downloaded an app that I wrote from my website/store. Thus, Apple should not be paid for it. That's really simple - we've been doing this model for general purpose computers for decades already.
Do you need to be an "official" nonprofit, or is it sufficient just to have an app which generates no revenue? If the former, how difficult/expensive is that in the EU?
Yes, they will. The weather on Mars can't do much to metal tubes. They probably won't be buried either (the area they're in doesn't get much net deposition, you can tell from how rocky it is), but if that does happen, each sample's position and the terrain around them is very precisely mapped so it would be extremely unlikely that any get completely lost.

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9337/nasas-perseverance-rover-com...
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True. Traditional (and still popular) beliefs that sports talents can be identified early are questioned a lot within the sports science community. [1] Canada has implemented a scientifically-based LTD (Long-Term Development) model of sports development [2], and while it's based a bit on concepts of optimal windows of trainability (like the age where flexibility is trained best), it draws on the fact that everyone's journey in sports is unique. This non-linearity is also a basis of a modern coaching science known as the Constraint-Led Approach (CLA) [3] – it's basically a non-linear pedagogy applied to motor skill acquisition practices.

[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.0066...

[2] https://sportforlife.ca/long-term-development/

[3] https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-in-Constraints-B...
No, but I also wouldn't buy a iPhone for a devops machine.
It’s waaay too good for an LLM to have come up with this. Definitely scripted.
So if Mozilla wanted to ship Firefox with Gecko on iOS, they would need to maintain that, but only for the EU, while maintaining a WebKit version for all other markets. Oof.
oh I agree, I run QGIS and Postgresql with PostGIS. I switched my entire work flow out of ArcGIS in 2016 because ArcGIS Pro was heading to LaLa land with it's online subscription garbage.

But, my point is: If you're goin gto compete with ArcGIS, it's going to come from the spokes to the hub, and not from the hub to the spokes. That is, you need a killer app for a very specific work flow and go from there into a ecosystem.

Without a "killer app", trying to build a separate hub and market that as-is just won't sell.
Also steam/valve?
IRA Has Created a $9B Clean Energy Tax Credit Market
not literally 1D. from the video, it appears to me that the movement of atoms is constrained within a plane, from the POV of the atoms it's nearly 1D. i guess the "1D" short hand is well understood within the community.
> But some computers ship with software/firmware that restricts the purposes accessible by the end user.

Which is a necessary evil if you're shipping the hardware of that "computer" at ultra low or negative margins in order to make back the investment on SW sales.

Otherwise, the air force will buy boatloads of PS3s for a computer farm and scalpers will use PS5 for crypto mining and Sony would go bust from these hardware sales.

Apple is in a different position as it makes crazy margins even on hardware which is arare for hardware manufacturers.
Except that Content-length is not the length of the actual body, it is the length after Content-encoding...
EU users should still be able to install the international versions of the apps, no?

This they would see APP and APP (EU Edition).
> For some reason, little indie developers are tasked with subsidizing corporations that make $billions per year in advertising revenue.

They're not tasked with this. They're choosing to make apps because it's their preferred option to do so under the current percentages.
The Annual Cost of Technical Debt: $1.52T
Isn't that why GPU accel isn't turned on by default still? Or did that change. I myself went to AMD for my new laptop, but didn't have those problems on my current laptop with a 960M.
Imagine the latency though.
> Apple now earns both on downloads and IAPs

Only if the app makes a series of decisions that lead to that outcome.

They can either stick with the 15%/30% commission without install fees. Let’s assume it has a revenue of >$1m, so that would be 30%.

Or they can opt into the new EU offering.

Then they’re immediately subject to a €0.50/unique install in 12 months per install in the EU over they reach a 1M installs in the EU.

The baseline is just that, that install fee. Which Apple calls the Core Technology Fee (CTF), in other words a fee for using Apple’s IP in your app.

If they also choose to distribute via the App Store then they’ll pay a commission of 17% and if they also choose to use IAP then they pay an additional 3% in processing fees.

Ironically, the CTF pushes bigger devs to use alternative stores, assuming they will offer a lower commission rate than 17%.

But it’s definitely possible to only pay the CTF if so desired.
How salty it is, it is like 1999’s Microsoft. The monopolist uses all dishonorable tactics of the book.

We could have so much more if those monopolists weren’t so good at lobbying their will against all ours.
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I think this perspective goes too far.

Some people (me included) would actually like to have a secure, vetted ecosystem for software that gets installed on my phone (and even my computer). I realize that other people want something different. And think it is reasonable for people to want different approaches for different devices.

Any regulations designed to ensure the "open" model shouldn't prevent the "closed" model from existing. Your comment just seems a bit to heavy handed to my ear.

That being said, it seems to me that Apple's attempt is guaranteed to satisfy no one.
Alternate coverage: they partnered with Intel's Granulate.io data warehouse --
https://granulate.io/blog/american-airlines-journey-contain-...
Ask Historians in neat, thanks.
My point is, you that you shouldn't participate, becasue why would you trust them not to use that malware for malicious purpose.
I share many of your sentiments, but I have a theory that it won't be China or the West, but a blend of the two, which dominates the future (or, hopefully, rules without dominating). It's like our cultures are mating, and posterity will be the child of both. And like actual mating, the courtship is often rocky and marked by conflict. We'll sort it out.
Great idea. I created an issue to keep track of this.

https://github.com/andrewnguonly/Lumos/issues/35
This is again presupposing a design or maintenance instruction flaw.

There's a thousand of these aircraft, and they've each been through multiple D checks where all of this is completely disassembled and put back together; then there's other maintenance that causes disassembly and reassembly, too. In tens of thousands of opportunities, it looks like one time a wheel assembly was not fastened adequately.

It's possible procedures can be improved to make this even less likely. But maybe not: people make mistakes. Sometimes someone signs the line saying that something was torqued and didn't realize they had torqued something different.
If we go far enough back, we may have done common ancestor/s that did develop compensatory mechanism/s to at least somewhat mitigate specific kinds of attacks, like what tarantula hawks can do to tarantulas.
Good thing we know that Apple already makes significant profit on every sale of their hardware.
I don’t think that’s going to be as easy as you think. The DMA is a rule change for everyone, not a punishment aimed at Apple. If what Apple is proposing is legally compliant with it, then they are going to need to change the rules again for everyone, not just Apple.
In a sense, chess pieces can already perceived as geometric attack directions. After too much chess I feel frightened by the salt shaker.
I'm jealous as hell of the EU citizens that get such good protections. I'm sure it's a mixed bag like everywhere but my experience with activity tracking is that a lot of people do aggressively refuse tracking when given the choice... so I'd imagine other tech regulations have similar participation.
Eh I actually prefer Apple mediating all my app payments (despite the X% surcharge that ultimately the consumer pays for).

I don’t have to ever enter in my cc info. I can easily cancel subscriptions from a centralized place. Payments UX is user hostile in the wild.
You're on the right track, especially with the last sentence.

If reality had an infinite amount of detail (i.e. matter could be arbitrarily small), we could make storage media as dense as we liked by encoding ones and zeros as the presence or absence of tiny bits of matter.

The alien's stick is a version of this, albeit an exponentially inefficient one restricted to codewords of the form 1111...0000.

In practice, if atoms are about N orders of magnitude smaller than macroscopic objects, we can fit (very roughly) 10^N bits of information in an object, and the alien's method can only fit, as you said, roughly N bits.

Of course, existing storage methods are somewhere in between, because 1 gram of storage media can hold way more than 23 bits but way less than 10^23.

(I'm handwaving past some important distinctions, like the distinction between the size of atoms and the level of detail in the physical world. In classical Newtonian physics, things can be made of particles but the particles can have perfectly continuous positions, so that there's still no ultimate limit on measurement detail. Quantum physics changes this -- although this gets complicated because of the holographic principle; many physicists think the ultimate information limit grows like the 2/3 power of volume, instead of linearly...)
>an accidental misplacement turns a rook into a bishop or vice versa

This was my first thought too. If the "feet" of all of the pieces were "flat", or parallel to the rows of the board, you could more easily tell their proper orientation.
Developing on this - not to keep -cars- away as they're usually "suburbs" which would atrophy and collapse without the private auto. But to - keep -anyone who doesn't know the street layout- away. It's a method to make the locale less hospitable to outsiders. This pattern is also due to the fact that these individual subdivisions do not connect to a distributed grid but to a tree-like branching of streets from largest trunk (freeways) through to branches (thoroughfares) to twigs (local streets) to leaves (individual properties). The subdivisions themselves are the investment of a single real estate development entity, and created without the requirement to connect to the larger whole except in this tree-mimicing organization.
It's great - enjoy!
Actually, yes. If the iPhone was an open platform that could open it up for many use cases involving shell scripting and such. As for game emulators I already run several on my Android phone with great luck, so that is indeed a valid use case.
https://bytecodealliance.github.io/wamr.dev/blog/introductio...

https://v8.dev/docs/wasm-compilation-pipeline
the network effect _allows_ enshittification, to the point that it's almost entirely why enshittification is allowed. The momentum into a ecosystem is much different than coming out. Once the Business realizes they've hit that "event horizon" enshittification necessarily flows from pure capitalism.

Sure, we could redefine the physical basis of this blackhole of the internet metaphor via regulations, but corporations are not governments and do not need to follow any specific multifaceted approach to long term vision.
> The two-step sounds precisely like how all forward-moving aircraft land: Rear touch first. The alternative (front touch first) is dangerous

That's why I was never comfortable stopping in rollerskates or ice stakes.
There's also Ubuntu Touch which I hope gathers steam. I installed it on an old Pixel 3a I had lying around mostly for fun, in much the same way I did for GalliumOS install on an old HP Chromebook.
They’ve introduced pricing that their lawyers think is compatible with the regulation (the regulations don’t ban egregious pricing). Frankly, I think Apple should have just allowed third party app stores without any guarantee of malware/fraud protection, let consumers decide for themselves if they want to risk it or not.
100% agree. This is the biggest debate I have with other PM's who say "you don't need to be technical"... Total bullshit.

You're expecting to be able to engage with your engineering team around the relative effort and complexities of different technical solutions... You're gonna need to have an understanding of the underlying technical details.

The way I see it, I don't necessarily need to know how to build the thing (as in, all the implementation details). But I absolutely need to know how the thing we're building works, what all the key moving parts are, and how they relate to each other.

Without that, there's no way I can develop any kind of intuition as to what is and isn't possible, which is CRITICAL when managing expections with customers or internal stakeholders.
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Simple arithmetic can easily be expressed, so could you warrant your claims with some evidence or reasoning?

Are you an anti-capitalist? Or are you privy to a list of Elon's victims, whom continue to suffer injustice while the (implied) maniac roams free; building giant rockets and factory-farming human suffering?

I wonder where the goalposts will be next time!
Watch Olympic Sabre fencing. There's all kinds of wild flailing that people do in that sport. All that really counts is that the hit registers. So bunny hopping towards your opponent flailing that sabre wildly is a perfectly valid tactic.
You can install any app you want on the Mac, notarized or not. You might get some kind of warning, but that's irrelevant.

And Apple only allows certain kinds of apps through their notarization process. They can't have pornogrpahy, they can't allow things that could break copyright etc.
It's (to me) clearly non-compliant with its intention. It's now for courts to decide whether that is the case, or for politicians to fix the law to patch this backdoor if there was one. But it will be fixed.