skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I believe anything that tastes delicious probably has a soul.

All those poor avocados...
The fake news problem is huge on twitter now, as if it could not get worse. I've seen people unashamedly post stuff that is literally false, not something false in a satirical or parody sense. It's becoming increasingly hard to separate fact form fiction. It will get to the point where in which the determination of truth is by some consensus process online in by competing fake or unreliable sources.
These changes are the definition of Malicious Compliance, I hope the EU goes down hard on this bullshit
Bank of America warns return-to-office laggards with 'letters of education'
> Notarization for iOS apps — a baseline review that applies to all apps, regardless of their distribution channel, focused on platform integrity and protecting users. Notarization involves a combination of automated checks and human review.

> Authorization for marketplace developers...

> Core Technology Fee — iOS apps distributed from the App Store and/or an alternative app marketplace will pay €0.50 for each first annual install per year over a 1 million threshold.

Amazing. All this regulation and hand-wringing to just to make it exactly the same developer experience as before but now you can click the download button in another app. Plus now every app not just ones that use IAP for digital goods is gonna get a $500k annual fee once they hit 2M users. The EU really showed em who's boss.
That is a bit overkill and lacking in energy efficiency and sustainability, though. A more environmentally conscious solution would be for western nations to bring back some French innovations from the centuries ago such as the bidet followed by the trebuchet.
interesting, do all dogs go to heaven?
that's the case now but in the future you can now offer regular users features that currently only android chrome can do
> you seem to think that Dave and Ben have any control whatsoever over the Chengdu worldcon.

File770 claims that Dave McCarty was "a Chengdu Worldcon vice-chair and co-head of the Hugo Awards Selection Executive Division".
Ben Franklin Was All About Content Moderation
Weird how nearly every top-level comment pointing out the salty tone of the press release has been flag-killed. It's actually really unique: You almost never see corporate PR dripping with attitude like this one.
Correct. The parent isn't wrong about the loss of objectivity in journalism, just the reason(s) behind it.

What we perceive today as bias and censorship are symptoms of the loss of independently funded journalism, which is now captured by corporations due to how they direct ad dollars towards narratives which support their own public relations. This started with the loss of the Fairness Doctrine under the Reagan administration:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_doctrine

Its loss was so important because it removed the payment stream which was previously provided by other programs on a media network. In other words, the news now had to pay its own way through ads shown during the broadcast, rather than from the network's general fund. Which gives guests leverage to remove those ad dollars when interviews don't go well.

Then the Telecommunications Act under Clinton removed the barriers separating broadcast from print news, allowing one corporation to own all of the news in a city/region, which led to the rise of today's handful of wealthy multinational media conglomerates which mainly broadcast infotainment/propaganda:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996

The fix is to do the opposite of the pieces of legislation that created this situation, mainly:

1) Bar advertisers from influencing journalism

2) Create independent funding sources for journalism by giving it special treatment as the Fourth Estate (branch) of our government of the people and by the people, for the preservation of the American way of life

The main barrier to these is the political right in the US, which doesn't want any limitation on free speech, or any taxes supporting nonessential government programs. The political left also silently maintains the status quo by profiting from it. Which pushes both parties towards a one-party equivalent where corporations determine government policy by framing debates in ways that steer people towards voting against their own self-interest to relieve their cognitive dissonance.

So the real problem is how to convince a disenfranchised, overworked and overtaxed population that the answer is more regulation and taxes. I feel that other solutions won't work, because they don't address the fundamental issues. Meaning that they would favor dogma over fact-based analysis and historical understanding.

We also have to remember that news has always spread regardless of medium, so the existence of the internet is a red herring. Funding is the real issue.
Self driving cars are the future. They enhance pedestrian and biker safety. It's the human driven cars that are unsafe.

Allow Waymo on all of Market St. and you'll see it coexists wonderfully.
As a professional wildlife photographer and someone who observes animals on an almost daily basis, I think if humans have anything called a soul, so does an animal, that we aren't anything special, and that animals deserve the same regard as humans.

It moreover seems hard to reconcile the idea that there needs to be some minimal level of intelligence to gain a level of awareness. In fact, several philosophers have thought this way also and have coined the term panpsychism to denote the idea that all entities of the universe have some level of sensing and awareness and that it is most concentrated in life forms.
> Regular users really don’t care what browser is running the web pages they’re looking at, everyone who downloads chrome does so to get their synced bookmarks and history.

This is ahistorical. Regular users switched to Firefox and Chrome in droves from IE. And it wasn’t to sync their bookmarks. It was because they provided a much better experience.

If Blink or Gecko are able to provide a better experience than WebKit on iOS that would certainly prompt many users to switch to browsers using those engines.
Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/179yT
I must have missed this section in the DMA!

All I want is a F-Droid-esque store with sane apps. You know, open source apps, centrally built. No in-app-purchases and Chinese geotracking framework for something that is 25 lines of code to talk to some bluetooth gadget.
Coincidently I just listened to this talk yesterday by Nita Farahany and got some shivers. https://www.aspenideas.org/podcasts/who-can-track-and-hack-o...
How accurate is this? There's a video embedded in the article.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CinAYBZYANg

To me it looks very shaky, e. g. at 0:20-0:25. It seems like they're not using an underlying physical model that takes momentum into account. Also it looks like the system is interpreting the movement of the ponytail as head movement.
That's a good question, I don't understand how this is enforced either.
Principal, Staff and Architect mostly.
They have to wrap all of this in ton of FUD to make sure users outside EU don't get jealous and demand the same options.
> I don't blame the governance. They tried their best. It's the public that screwed up.

Yes, the public was to blame, but inherently the board was doomed because OpenAI had morphed from a public benefit mission-driven company to a profit-driven one heavily funded by MSFT which expected its due return. Once the for-profit "sub"-company, the parent mission-driven company was doomed, because most people were going to be working for the profit-driven child company and therefore had different goals (i.e., salary, options) than the mission-driven parent company (scientific breakthroughs, responsible creation/development of AI). This is why the employees (of the child company) revolted and supported Sam (who had reneged on OpenAI's mission and gone full capitalist like any other tech mogul out there). The only question in my mind was whether "Open"AI was always a scam from the start to get attention or a genuine pivot (which the board unsuccessfully tried to stop).

And now responsible AI development is gone and everyone is chasing the money, just like the social media companies did, and well, we know how that ended up (Facebook, Twitter).

Sad day indeed.
Whenever they have beans for dinner
Total nonsense article.

How does one talk about self driving and just gloss over the existence of Waymo?
Will Apple Users also have the option to use other search engines in Safari than the default ones? Or is this something that the DMA does not cover?
A significant part of this announcement seems to be the €0.50 "Core Technology Fee" that Apple will now charge for "each first annual install per year over a 1 million threshold".

I think this essentially means that large developers pay €0.50 * (num apps they publish) * (num devices each app is installed on) per year. There are 2 billion active iOS devices [1], so I think that for the biggest apps like YouTube the fees could be in the hundreds of million USD per year.

4 of the top 5 most downloaded apps of all time [2] are published by Meta (Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp), and I think they will pay this fee for each app?

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2023/02/02/apple-two-billion-activ...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store_(Apple)#Of_all_time
I am totally the guy who put all the &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; into www.cisco.com back in the day.
And even in the case of those campaigns "rigging" meant campaigning to get people to vote in a way that many people found distasteful and that was probably against the spirit of the awards, not that any actual rules were violated.

That's very different than this case where there is evidence of fraudulent tabulation of votes and gross misapplication of the eligibility rules.
Is this going to make web Bluetooth work via Chrome on iOS?
They're back now. Hard corners were kind of a big thing in the early 2010s, think Android Holo, Windows 8, etc.

I think Apple popularized the return of rounded corners in software with the iPhone X launch, when rounding the corners of smartphone screens became popular.

macOS rounded the window corners more, I think with Big Sur. And Microsoft followed suit in Windows 11.
I don't think it gets enforced much, but it's definitely there in the terms of service and help pages. You need to have written permission from the copyright holders. This is not the same as for a "regular" release, where one only needs explicit permission if it's the first recording of the piece. (After that you can record a cover under what's called a compulsory license). When recording a cover, the seller must pay mechanical royalties to the rights holder of the composition, which Bandcamp doesn't want to do (though maybe Songtradr has plans??) and we can assume artists won't bother. Because bandcamp is selling releases (rather than just streaming), mechanicals would apply.

Presumably they don't bother enforcing unless the rights holder makes a complaint.

See "are covers ok" here (this predated the Songtradr acquisition, FWIW)
https://bandcamp.com/terms_of_use
Framework has said that certain reviewers (such as the verge) got earlier samples which had more problems, such as keyboard flex or higher than expected heat/fan noise. They have said that many of these hardware issues are not present with mass production units, and as for the software they are still updating firmware/drivers.
Glass half full perspective: you're pretty good at picking new employers :)

I.e., the post-merger companies aren't as good as your own picks.
That looks fun, thanks. Gonna try it out when I get a chance.
oh, that's brilliant. this video is a classic example of "fuck you! i'm wrong!"

i did love the moment you can hear your "hmm" as you start to contemplate what's possibly about to happen.
I know at least a dozen ways to discover, scrape, and share music. What is really needed is a relatively easy way to pay artists. I have accounts setup at Patreon, Locals, Librapay, Buy Me a Coffee, KOFI, and others. Most people don't pay out as much as I do and have this many accounts. If we have a single easy place to find and pay all artists, please tell me.
There is (was?) no mechanism for JIT, so even if there was a working local build, it wouldn't be a competitive browser engine.
What are the chances the United States (and others) follow suit? For startups, I assume most will continue to live on the App Store lest they force their users into two different experiences based on their location.
I have sideloaded IPAs now, on iOS 17.3. Altstore.
should be added to the Newspeak dictionary
No need to imagine, the answer is at the top of the article.
They are way too kind, they should disable iMessage and iCloud for any alternative App Store due to "security issues" and call it a day, we don't need a meta store, they should have just let us install IPAs to avoid all that
TypeScript and NPM package.json exports the 2024 way
https://youtu.be/qKRuhiMDOjo?
Reminds me of a Stossel segment.
An ad for the product itself is very different than an app sending a third party app as a notification. They absolutely need to enforce the latter as not ok.
Yes, my thought was unwelcome skin conditions: Dandruff, Athletes Foot etc. Should have the opposite effect.
This can destroy the product experience.

Worrying about browser engines was always misguided. Letting 5 people use Gecko will be fantastic until Gecko is so irrelevant that even those people give up.

Vendors like Microsoft having a large userbase attracted to good, reliable software to counter another browser’s overt influence was always the solution. It’s all about users.

25 million people on Firefox is not enough. Neither is 5,000 that switch their rendering engine in iOS. Firefox needs users for relevancy, not its own engine.

To be clear, I’m not outraged by this EU edict. I’m saying it’s irrelevant and misguided as most regulations are.
I have left Quebec at the age of 22. It took me many years to realise how little I have seen of my home province. I was young, poor, busy, and for the most part without a car.

It's a beautiful province, and I wish I explored it more before I left. I try to repair that every time I visit, but there is never enough time and it's hard to get around without a ride.
>Yes, patches and trunk! We were still using SVN back then.

Is SVN really that obsolete? I thought it was still used
Sure, but your apps have to be renewed every 7 days (or 365 if you have a developer account).
YMMV - I clean up trash in my neighborhood and I still see reusable bags littered everywhere.

They are just so much heavier that they don't blow around in the wind as much and are durable enough that they get bogged down. So they end up in the bottom of puddles and packed around in undergrowth. It doesn't help that they are also much darker. Them being less noticeable is not necessarily a good thing overall.

Keeping in mind a reusable bag has an order of magnitude more material in them, so even one of them contributes more plastic pollution than 5-6 crappy ones.

Either ban plastics altogether or incentivize tote loaning or something. But the 8c "reusable disposable" bag is a complete sham.
It's a title very loosely using the word "soul" for shock value. They don't actually believe in Christianity.

Words like "soul" and "creativity" are pointless anyhow -- human AI has stomped every one of those bounds, why not nature's AI?
So disappointed with the per install charge. Now the hoards of censored/banned apps still won't see the light of day on IOS.
I don’t think it will used against Blink and Gecko for obvious compliance reasons. But this clause will help Apple pressure them to keep security updates timely (which is a good things for the users).

On the other hand they will likely use this to deny all ‘niche’ browser engine without a structured organization behind them (think Ladybug, maybe servo etc.)
Both. Terminal, and some sort of automation. With Ansible, there's awx and semaphore. I think someone mentioned cronjobs, also systemd-timers. I think kubernetes has a cronjobs feature as well.
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Apple needs a Microsoft-2000s-era slapdown to put them in their place. Regardless of your thoughts on the situation, a mega/giga-corp flaunting the spirit of the rules is a bad sign for the future.
"Small n" is not always a problem. They are not trying to tease out a small effect size between two treatments. This is a strong signal -- literally children can now hear when they couldn't before. A small sample size does not allow statistical noise to produce that effect.
Unless the lid is powered as part of a washlet... (which I can whole-heartedly recommend as one of the best ways I've spent $1K on my house).
The 22,000 number makes it look better, yet if they're "mostly" coming out of the Blizactivision employees, then the real math is ~1900/9200 (Wikipedia article number), or 20%. So, welcome to Microsoft, there goes 1/5 of your coworkers.
Saying that the spec should contain more guidance implies that that guidance is relatively obvious. It also implies that there is one correct way to resolve the issue that the guidance would resolve. That might not be the case. So it is usually best not to claim a specification issue where none technically exists. Just state clearly what you think should be done and leave it at that. The specification might not be incomplete depending on what approach is eventually taken.
About time. Can't wait to see this roll out worldwide!

With users able to access bleeding edge browser technologies like WASM and WebGPU, developers and users will finally get an alternative to native apps.
I honestly thing this is a hard thing to solve.

You can't make people care and constant notifications are just fucking horrible / doesn't help IMO.

And I'm honestly not sure most people would understand anyway ...
The article uses this definition:

an inner realm of awareness, selfhood, and possibility

The dictionary has some similar phrasing:

the immaterial essence, animating principle, or actuating cause of an individual life

the spiritual principle embodied in human beings, all rational and spiritual beings, or the universe

a person's total self

So depending on your definition, you could (or could not) apply it outside of humans. Or it's something you believe in or don't believe in. If it's self awareness, or just a definition we wrap around what causes a living being to do things, then yes, it's something you can say an elephant has. Obviously if you say it's "a person's total self", then you only apply it to people.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/soul
And just to add a little more--

Laser beams at short distances don't fall off inverse square and may even increase in intensity (decrease in spot size) with distance.

But in the end, beam dispersion/the diffraction limit wins and the power density is inverse square.

(I can focus a big light down to a smaller spot; but ultimately the light is going to be spreading out. This can be true for radio, too, with weird things happening close).
YouTube will not pay that amount of money. There will be deals in the background like usual.
Tesla isn’t a car company, it’s a conglomerate?
Do LLMs and inferences auto learn
I would like some help to understand if LLM’s learn based on usage. I know I can create an inference from an LLM that has been fine tuned.

How ever with use and user inputs do the LLMs learn?

Would I be right in assuming that an Inference does not change and as a result does not learn?
It does, but on closer reading looks restricted to EU, they certainly aren’t suggesting a , say, gecko based browser could be published globally outside the EU.
Its usual BS from Apple. Imagine Microsoft blocking all non-store applications from running on Windows "to help keep users safe". No I'm not cheering for Microsoft to do the same. Its strange, but I want Apple to be more like Microsoft in this regard.
Exposure isn't a binary, though. It's easier for your immune system to deal with smaller quantities.
I remember at my first developer gig, one of our developers was so proud of the site she built for her local elementary school she was talking non-stop about it for two days.

On the third day she sent out an email with the subject line "FML" with only a few words in the body of the email. Something to the effect of, "It only took them THREE DAYS to ruin their site."

When I opened the link, the school had put a large blinking announcement in bright red letters about the upcoming Christmas break at the top of the page.

Of course, with the scrolling marquee down at the bottom before the footer indicating the dates for the upcoming Christmas vacation.

See this again reminded me of Victoria and her basking in her short lived glory.
> as most regulations are

This is bit too vague. For example, thanks to regulations most people do not need to work 12h a day.
Congratulations! The FixIt seems a pragmatic feature.

Any other ideas about where you plan to utilize LLM? E.g.

- migrate from different SQL dialects (e.g. date functions)

- make my queries nicer (e.g., rewrite them in shorter form or use better variable names)

- warn about potential bugs (e.g. SQL fanout)
> as there are many competing factors here.

Exactly, which is why I was impressed with the Portland Loo. You want a toilet that is nice, clean and private so that people using it for its intended purpose will feel comfortable using it. You also can't make it too private or else it will be destroyed by drug addicts and prostitutes. I think they did as good a job as possible balancing these two opposing needs.
Your original question leaves no other answer, rephrase perhaps.
Well it's per install. And knowing apple, they might even count an update as an install.

I suspect there's a DMA v2 coming, and it's going to be much much harder on them with this behaviour.

EDIT:
https://developer.apple.com/support/fee-calculator-for-apps-...

2,000,000 installs is a minimum of $45k in fees, even with $0 USD revenue

this seems obscene
I'm sure there are creative ways around that. A fragmented market may even incentivise or inspire other regulators to follow suit.
No, you would be able to support type analysis just as easily because desugaring

select x => ... from mylist;

into

mylist.SelectMany(x => ...);

is straightforward: C# compiler is not expected to be single-pass, it has an AST to operate upon. You'll have a LinqSelectNode with Projection (a lambda expression), Filter, and Source fields which you replace with a new ExtensionMethodCall{ Lhs = origNode.Source, MethodName = "SelectMany", Args = new []Node{ origNode.Projection }), easy.
The single-use grocery bags were repurposed to my house to dispose of cat litter. we now use bigger and heavier plastic bags for cat litter disposal.
I was lucky enough to work for the DoD during the .com crash, but not this time.

I guess the silver lining is that I can now better emphasize with the challenges of protracted unemployment.
It sounds like the percent fee is for apps downloaded from the app store plus the 3% if you use apple payment processing. Then theres a .5 euro annual fee per user over 1 million no matter which market the app was downloaded from.
How we outperform traditional web scraping with 0 AI
Larger spenders never pay list price. There’s always a negotiation.
I think this is an opportunity for traditional news networks to re-emerge as trusted news sources, by reporting only true and verified events.

The days of going on social media looking for news are over, when people can quickly spin up fake articles with photos of some famous landmark on fire or in ruins it becomes too frustrating to discern between fact and fiction.
Yes, and literally the whole point of this law is to remove that gate.
California could repeal Prop 13 and let the city collect enough property taxes to pay for services.