skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just the internal state but the prediction that makes it intelligent.

Your brain is taking in a lot of information at the edges of your awareness, light, sounds, touch, etc. are all getting absorbed and transmitted to your brain. As that information is transmitted along your neurons it's getting summarized, then merged with other summarized information and summarized again. The brain is getting summaries of summaries, and developing a unified categorizing of the global state across all it's inputs.

Then the brain takes that summary and makes a prediction about the future state. The summarization is energy-efficient. By categorizing all that data into a global state you make decision making possible. "When my boss seems stressed all week, then calls a bunch of people one-by-one into his office on Friday afternoon, I know lay-offs are coming. I better polish up my resume." From "stress/anxiety/unease" in the environment to "danger is coming I need to fight/flight".

Your brain is taking that summary/categorization and figuring out what it needs to do next. If "X" happens then I should do "Y" to "stay-safe/get-food/find-a-mate". The brain is very good at capturing and summarizing data, and making a prediction because that process is much more efficient than doing otherwise. Instead of foraging everywhere for food and hoping I just bump into something that will provide sustenance, I know if X, Y, and Z happen then food will be "here", and I can get lots of it.

You can apply this same model to all actions the brain directs. It also helps make sense of why maladaptive behaviors develop. Sometimes the summary is incorrect, or was formed based on past information that no longer applies, and it may need to be unlearned.
I'm doing exactly that with $25 cable and it works just fine at 40 Gbps.
Then stick to the official app store and don't install a third party store?
While I don't disagree that the EU won't like it, I don't see this as malicious compliance. The only reason this hasn't been in iOS up until now was distribution was already restricted through the app store. There was already signing going on. This just moves the signing to being an explicit step because distributors won't be signing for the App Store.
This sounds as a “want my cake and eat it too” argument.

Apple’s default construction for getting payments for the usage of their IP is via commission on revenue.

This is by definition a differential pricing strategy because not everyone has to pay for the usage of Apple’s IP.

Many didn’t like the commission structure and made all sorts of arguments against it.
It would just be for payment processing, it would just be for distribution, etc.

Apple has always maintained it was primarily for the use of their IP, all the rest is thrown in as a bonus. They have structured it as such in the developer agreement and US courts have wholesale accepted it as such.

One alternative that has been floated around a lot by people that accept that Apple wants payment for their IP but didn’t like the commission structure regardless was to split off the fee for IP into its own thing.

Now they do that very thing in the form of the CTF (at a more competitive rate than Epic does for Unreal mind you).

In addition there’s a separate commission for App Store services and a separate commission for payment processing.

Now the new complaint is that this payment for their IP for first installs on EU iPhones per 12 months in excess of 1M installs in the EU isn’t good either.

So what is the desired outcome? Use Apple’s IP for free?

I don’t see how this disadvantages third party stores. Does it disadvantage Steam when Epic comes knocking on my door for their share of the pie?

Epic charges me 5% of all my revenue above a million, Apple charges me €0.50 of all my EU installs on iOS above 1M installs in the EU.

Apple’s fee is directly tied to my usage of their IP, I pay them €0.50 in 12 monthly installments for each installation that goes over 1M, but they don’t touch anything else I make off of that install.

Epic wants 5% over every dollar I make over $1M worldwide.

Don’t get me wrong, personally I was content with my 30% and the 15% is a steal for what I get out of it.

But if commission of revenue is the big bad, then the only logical thing for licensing IP is an upfront cost for usage whether you earn money with it or not.

This is how it was with consoles. Thousands upfront for the right to publish and using the IP + thousands for every build to be certified + commission over revenue.

Indies later on got a reduced rate in the hundreds, until you got big.
This is a "lie with statistics" article. Trying to quantify "Technical Debt", at least as it applies to software, is not possible, and numbers put up here were pulled out of someone's rear end.

As other commenters have mentioned, how expensive would it have been to not have incurred this technical debt in the first place? Speed matters, and there are definitely sometimes places where the wiser business decision is to incur technical debt if it allows hitting a milestone earlier. I honestly didn't want to waste time reading past "A significant portion of the current technical debt that exists today was created through “quick and dirty” development techniques (e.g., agile without software engineering discipline)." Agile (or at least some specific implementations of it) may have some problems, but trying to say it is implemented "without software engineering discipline" is laughable.

Direct case in point: young folks may not be aware of this, but in the late 90s/early 00s, the "Software Capability Maturity Model" (CMM) was all the rage. It was focused essentially on process repeatability, and some companies strived to hit "CMM Level 5". It was an especially popular model in India. And you know what? None of the tech companies who became billion dollar behemoths over the past 2 decades were the ones who focused on this type of "software engineering discipline". They were the ones that made the right business tradeoffs for the issues at hand.
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No, it seems like we're litigating the cadence for a period of 15 years, ending only 2 years ago.

Here's the options:

1. Apple was wildly irresponsible with the security and privacy of their users for a decade and a half, despite this childish press release about how EU is making their users less secure.

2. The risk profile of browsers only changed in the last couple of years, and until then it was totally safe for iOS browsers not to be patched regularly.

3. Apple doesn't particularly prioritize their users' security, but are setting up one more malicious compliance roadblock for anything that could threaten the tens of billions in pure profit they squeeze out of the Safari monopoly.
It's pretty great that the point of failure is one of the prop blades vs the cheap-as-chips electronic components. Of course I'm sorry to see it out of commission, but istm they can keep using the cameras, both to gather some information about the weather and to see how long the various components & batteries keep working - at least until it's time to move the rover out of range. Since flight is no longer an option I wonder if the CPU and MCUs can be repurposed to some other sort of task like image analysis.

All in all I think Ingenuity's mission history is a strong argument for experimentation over total advance planning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenuity_(helicopter)#Opposit...
The power bank in question also costs $100 new, which is more than the cost of a UPS and buying a replacement battery
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The point for the contributor is that, yes.

The point that would convince the Linux kernel maintainers to actually accept the patchset, though, would likely be the introduction of generally-useful "species of sync primitives." In such a way that those primitives can be used to solve the "hard part" of WINE's virtualization of NT's versions of those primitives; but which wouldn't be constrained to guarantee an efficient zero-impedance call path between those implementations.
That felt like a bait and switch. Paragraphs of criticism of huge showpiece buildings, old and new. Then advocacy of a better way which is only used to produce small, humble buildings.
> This was a comment trying to help with the sleep battery. It got downvoted therefore it is removed

Did some snowflake get triggered /s
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This doesn't happen on Android really. Most developers use the built in WebView
> 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

In general I agree. But the support burden/cost goes up enormously. Ask Microsoft.
What would be the cost of not having said software?
I guess, to clarify, what I'm trying to get at is, should someone who hears "this computer/router/whatever supports WPA{N+1}, whereas that one just supports WPA{N}" factor that into their purchasing decision or not. And the answer I see seems to be, "if this is just for your household use, then no, unless you have reason to believe someone in your proximity would try to hack you".
You mean a 2-square Chebyshev distance, I think (the Linf norm). A 2-square Manhattan distance (the L1 norm) wouldn't include any of the squares that a knight can get to.
Thanks for pointing this out. App Store sales (not profit) for 2020 was estimated at around $64B. Apple apparently does not make the profits from the App Store public.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/08/apples-app-store-had-gross-s...
If the boot partition isn't encrypted, doesn't this mean an attacker with physical access to the machine can remove the drive, plug it into their own machine, overwrite the boot partition, then restore the drive back in the original machine? In that scenario they don't have access to the unencrypted root filesystem.
Why Broadcom Is Killing Off VMware's Standalone Products
Note the article author (Brad Templeton) is a former Waymo employee and that eklitze is also a vested Waymo employee who was wealthy prior to starting at Waymo.
Your game just told me "Ponzi" isn't a word. I feel like Wordle wouldn't have done that, and anyway at least it has the courtesy to say "not in word list" which is very different from the outright lie that your game just told me.
Only so much genius to go around.
Neat idea, I'm not sure how much force those jets produce, maybe it could be enough? It might be risky to fire up jets after a botched landing though. If the nozzle has any material in it I'd be worried about blowing a hole in the lander!
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How can they even charge for installs on an alternative app marketplace?
Would the iPhones have to track those and report them back to Apple?
Appreciated, thanks!
> You can't use the physical definition to dispense with other notions of personal identity if you need those very notions to bootstrap the physical definition

Now that you mention, I don't need to. "I" simply means "the person who is currently speaking" (or in this case, writing). This already determines, beyond reasonable doubt, which physical body we're talking about. No other definition needed, since you can't say "I" without speaking. QED. Sorry, I should have noticed this 4 comments earlier.

(Caveat: this definition doesn’t feel satisfying, which might be the source of our disagreement, but I can’t put my finger on why - perhaps you can)

> the fact of your personal conscious identity is apparently not a physical fact

The human brain is astonishingly good at BS-ing itself, so I wouldn't attribute much to how you intuitively feel about your own conscious self. To me, this smells like a more abstract and philosophical version of the puddle analogy.
Their review process is historically flawed.

And where did you heard iOS is free from viruses?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)

From the top of my head there's also AdThief and AceDeceiver.

Not only that but App store is full of Anti-virus offerings.
This basically means we won't get the most interesting benefit of sideloading which is third party clients to proprietary platforms like Messenger, Snapchat, Reddit, etc.
This article is referring to a number from the "Consortium for Information & Software Quality", so I think it's safe to assume it refers to code.
What are you talking about? I care about this because I want to use Apple hardware, under reasonable terms.
The Joy of Why
I remember being a terminally online teen thinking i would never fall out of “what’s hip” bc i enjoyed being online so much at the time. I have since never once installed or used TikTok and I have no idea what’s happening I am sure
You can't spam a thread if there is no "thread" feature implemented?
>it's just the distribution. why does that make such a difference to your experience?

Installing an extra BS "app store" app per vendor to do the distribution, dealing with another payment processor and its intricasies (for apps you pay/subscribe for, e.g. Adobe's), multiple places to manage apps and subscriptions, and so on.

>on my computer i don't care if spotify publishes their desktop app through the apple store, their own website, command line, or some other thing.

I do, and try to get as most of the stuff from the same source as possible, preferably the Mac App Store and brew.

I also hate the "update/licensing apps" running in the background for apps I use (Chrome updater is one most would be familiar with, but there are tons, especially for pro apps), and the extra multi-app download managers/stores I'm forced to use.

And don't get me started on shit like iLok.
Just one end suffices. I think the software for the Broadcomm PLC controller chipset is flaky and needs a swift kick in the pants every now and then, which is why a simple heartbeat protocol with a watchdog timer should suffice.
> Ethernet is a pretty simple physical-layer protocol only made for 1:1 connections, and you can't generally inject packets from a simple tap mid-cable.

This is complete nonsense. Ethernet is a shared-medium protocol. The fact that it doesn't need any special handling of particular endpoints is one of the things that distinguishes it from e.g. Token Ring. How do you think it's possible to link two switches with a standard cable on standard ports? What on Earth are you basing your claims on?
Presumably, their "approved app stores" will be required by Apple to only distribute notarized apps. And developers will pay per-install at notarization time.
This is like a flower sprouting out of the ground of an abandoned factory.

I think jenkins is very useful yet painful.
Apple gained popularity long, long before they started developing their own silicon. Sure, they're doing nice things with their vast fortunes, but let's not pretend that's why they're perceived as a luxury product. It's all in the marketing.
I think he's suggesting that thinking of it as a "bad thing" or "good thing" is misguided.

With any new large scale project that impacts the environment comes new responsibilities and new duties in oversight. Historically, it's best to have a tempered outlook when it comes to these "revolutions."
Never going to happen. Apple has steadfastly avoided risks of any one of their product lines cannibalizing sales from the others. Otherwise, your iPad Pro would be an MacPad Air or such already.

Apple has demonstrated their determination to control what is usable on the iPads and iPhones while also controlling the marketplace for same.
Most reputation scores are ephemeral, to cover the case you mentioned. I have never heard of a website that gives old accounts free passes to do whatever they way. They may have fewer restrictions initially, but if abuse is detected, they will still ban the account.
> Apple reportedly tried to circumvent EU regulation and got an explicit public warning from EU commissioner who read the secret plan from the media outlets. Then they retracted their MFi for USB-C plan

Source? This has conspiracy theory written all over it. My take is that the rumor mill was just flat out wrong about this like they often are.

EDIT: To be clear here, I don’t deny that an EU commissioner sent a letter but I doubted the existence of these secret (and rumored) plans that prompted it e.g. seems out of character for Apple given iPads have had USB C for some time without such restrictions.
> You know how every few weeks there’s an article about something dodgy in an alternate Android store which the scammer never even bothered to submit on iOS?

Every few weeks there is an article about that!? That doesn't happen. It's a non-issue. Likewise on MacOS or Windows. I suspect these scenarios in the comments here are just made up by Apple fans to create FUD.
Grapevine says that beyond simple redundancies, ABK's customer service is being gutted in favor of outsourcing.
> I think it's wrong to legislate something just because it doesn't work how I want it to work

What absolute nonsense is this? That is literally the entire point of legislation, to change things that aren't working how we want them to, for example to be more beneficial to society. Apple stealing money from a huge market isn't helping anyone so we fix it. Simple as.
It technically exists, but I haven't actually seen it "in the wild" yet. My banks certainly aren't on board at this time. Maybe it will become something useful in the future, though.
We have considered it, though most of our users use Zenfetch for things like

1. Research across an industry
2. Generating new content
3. Connecting ideas / building networked thought

For that reason we were deterred from using local models. Hopefully the Mistral team and similar keep pushing out new developments to get comparable with GPT-4 levels
Posterous introduced this 'Post by Email' concept. Really loved the simplicity of it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterous
The new experiments that hint at plant consciousness
Take out the hard drive, then connect it to a USB adapter (IDE/SATA to USB is like $10) and copy it.

If you actually want to use the computer, the key precaution to take is that your device does not have a public IP address. As long as the IP address is something like 192.168.x.x it's probably safe to plug it in.

Any viruses on that machine that were active back then are probably still active. Browsing the web at large would probably not be safe at all. Specific known urls like mozilla.org are probably fine. Any defunct software that is running could try to connect to URLs from businesses that have shutdown and had their domain names purchased by a nefarious entity. I would imagine that if you start the device in safe mode, programs won't auto start.

I would take out the hard drive, make a copy, delete everything on the hard drive (wouldn't want financial information, old passwords, old authentication tokens, etc. left on it), and then recycle the machine and destroy the hard drive.
No car company has taken up Tesla's offer to license FSD
Not exactly social media, but when Instapaper came out they only used usernames, no password. I think the idea was that no one would care enough to delete your read it later list, and it wasn’t big enough to draw much attention. I remember it being like this for quite a long time.
They can’t be that terrified of it or they never would have open sourced TensorFlow.
Agree. We need a collapsed commit structure.
Topology gets its utility from collapsing lots of degrees of freedom into a small number of equivalence classes. That's great for reasoning about topological properties, where those degrees of freedom are not relevant, but it doesn't mean those degrees of freedom just go away.
> One of the main challenges when dealing with technical debt has been the lack of a way to measure it. To help overcome that problem, CISQ/OMG led the development of an Automated Technical Debt (ATD) measurement standard, which is currently being updated with a new version expected in 2023.

I'm highly skeptical about the tech debt measurement algorithm this article purports to be developing.

Google researchers recently published a paper on their attempts to measure technical debt.

They tested 117 metrics that were proposed as potential indicators.

Regressions were used to test each metric to see whether it could predict an engineer’s perceptions of technical debt.

No single metric or combination of metrics were found to be valid indicators.
I don’t understand the point of comments like this, are you trying to refute their point with a single anecdote? Why not add some context or explanation?
Was this maybe meant to be a link to the "What even is this website, please help me" in the bottom right? (Which it doesn't seem to be possible to hyperlink to).. as it is this just throws you into.. that mess.
MacOS is also not having any limit on installing applications outside App Store.
You must have missed the link to the "Feedback Assistant Boycott" at the top of the page. https://lapcatsoftware.com/FeedbackAssistantBoycott/
That said, a number of regulatory bodies found some things to say.
oof. I had thought that link was going to contain some modicum of insight. But the only thing I could take away is just more hyperdivisive pigeonholing politics dressed up as if it's intellectual work. It's not clear why this theory of some unified "neo-Confederacy" has more explanatory power than say "populist demagogues fanning the flames with latent racism", and the concept seems to mainly serve as an inflammatory boogeyman for the author to repeatedly bash to drive points home.

The truth is that every lofty ideal attracts opportunistic charlatans and grifters who hold up the ideal and claim to be fighting for it, while being utterly hypocritical when adherence to the ideal would actually cost them. And as a libertarian myself I'd say Libertarians are quite at risk of being drawn in by this, tending to hold views axiomatically rather than qualitatively (ie assuming correctness by construction rather than judging constructive effect). But being a political patsy is most certainly not limited to libertarianism, and the right answer is to call out both those who arbitrage ideals into cynical action and those who cast aspersions on lofty ideals by association.
That should be easy for Apple then. They bill developers for the developer program (tools, APIs, entitlements, etc.) and sell users the phone.
I would recommend that you have a gauge next to the play board with the colors and what they mean, ranked from close to far, so it's easy to understand. I actually took bright red to be closer to the answer then dim red/black, so I totally wiffed on the answer. Having that info on the play area would help prevent that mistake.
It’s a conspiracy theory to allege that a major corporation would intentionally break the law?

I mean I guess technically executives did conspire to break the law, so correct, they do that all the time.
Apple sells billions of iPhones because they're the"cool" phone brand, not because Young people think Grandma needs to stop viruses.
The 300 club might be of interest :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_Club
See it quite a lot in Twitch chat
I hear spaceflare has decent offerings
It's big vindication for the bouncing ball approach. On the other hand the proximity of the moon makes it much more practical to field crude designs on a more frequent basis, or to put parts in orbit and assemble them into something more ship-like.
I disagree entirely. A new feature or bug fix should be a single commit on the main branch. There's no need to see previous attempts to fix a bug or implement a feature in the git history. Especially commits that merely fix formatting.
AFAIK, from various interactions I’ve had on here and on Lobsters, Big Tech developers seem to often have Firefox as a target. But people in startups don’t.
Citizens United....
I don't think there's any category excluded by current App Store restrictions, that would actually be likely to end up having more than 1MM EU installs per year (and therefore paying Apple a dime under this new model), is there?

...well, except porn and sex-work apps, I guess. Will nobody think of the poor, penniless OnlyFans CEO? /s