skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In recent years, the number of apps that users have been installing on their handsets has declined. This is the case despite the increasing number of applications of all kinds that make a handset more useful. Among the reasons for this decline could be the low quality of the discovery process and the lack of innovation in distribution. All apps are distributed through one large monopoly store that has limited functionality;

People are installing fewer apps, but that is very unlikely because of poor discovery. Infact, a lot of these apps would never be discovered if not for app stores/play stores. Then, there are networks many apps rely on, facebook and google ads, and best of all word of mouth. A more likely reason is the app fatigue and wariness of people being prompted to download apps for everything.
Didn't Epic Games violate the app store ToS a while back? I'm not a fan of Apple but it still seems reasonable to me to terminate a developer account for breaking ToS
They have more pictures in the Images directory of the repo https://github.com/juckettd/RaspberryPiCM4Handheld7Inch/tree...

Although the images are a bit old, so not sure how up to date they are with the Version 1.0 actual schematics. But I think it should give a good idea of the thing anyway.

And then there is the Version 2.0 which I’m not sure if is complete or still work in progress by the author.
Lately I've been experimenting the usage of LLMs for the explainability of SQL stored procedures with exceptionally good results - think about identifying important fields, linking them to existing glossaries, expanding said glossaries, etc.
I wonder how much SQL looking like natural language helped for my use case.
There are global and generic formalisms which seems to be true, like that the well known far right tactics seems to work way better now everywhere. Chavez was the only one in far right politics in the past 30 years who did something really genuine, everybody else just copied that. They copied the formalism which was written down by academics.
Fun fact: The Air Force's Minuteman guru, Edward Hall,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_N._Hall

had a brother in the Manhattan Project, Theodore Hall,

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

who passed early atomic weapon design information to the USSR.

The irony of a family exercising pivotal roles on both sides of a global power-shaping conflict. The 2nd Wikipedia article's cited background, from The Nation:

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/ted-hall-espionage-f...
And yet, months on and numerous false claims later, I've yet to see see any credible evidence of a large, undergroud Hamas facility.
What do you mean aground based launch isn’t survivable?
> is there any evidence that Israel has targeted journalists intentionally that weren't involved in the fighting?

Yes my dear, there's plenty. Many journalists had an airstrike called on their homes. Some were not in it at the time, others were killd with their families while not involved in the fighting or on the frontline. Many journalists also received direct threats from Israeli intelligence agencies pushing them to leave the country.

- https://cpj.org/2023/12/father-of-al-jazeeras-anas-al-sharif...

- Gaza journalist killed alongside 42 relatives, news agency says: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67350709

This just a sample. An airstrike is a targeted attack. Unless you can come up with evidence that they were targeting something else in each case?
Russia's next-generation rocket is a decade old and still flying dummy payloads
Despots and bullies are the same everywhere. They bully while they can.
Seems normal for 20-somethings, yes people did this in the 90s. Probably necessary in your 20s, to get varied experience and increase pay. 30-somethings can be more risk averse if they have young kids. By 40s and 50s, more chance someone knows what suits them and found a place that's a good fit and they want to stay, sometimes by then they have enough assets that they'll stay in a job they're happy even if pay is stagnant. 50s and older, do you really wanna do lots of job interviews, learn how a new company works? By the time you've done that a few times you lose appetite to keep doing it (not because you lose ambition, just, you know its not really gonna change your life and could be a bunch of hassle)
Last action, they terminated Epic one day before the DMA went into effect (today).

It's clearly meant to stall the creation of Epic's own App Store. All the processes still require an Apple developer account. This is malicious enough that I hope the EU regulators pull all strings to make Apple's fine for this not just aedequate to the money they're saving, but also to account for the disregard of the law itself.

The EU isn't the boring cyberpunk future where corporations can do whatever they want Apple thinks it is.
Would it not be a _civil_ war?
This article largely misses the point from the Linux kernel's point of view.

They have always said "Every bug is a security bug". I don't know about more global content, but at Kernel Recipes (2019?) gregkh took a Pixel that was running latest Google security patches that contained all CVEs. Then looked at non-CVE patches he merged in his LTS. And it took him less than an hour to find a DoS vulnerability.

I understand the author's frustration from the Linux Kernel community to not want to classify bugs, but the reality is that a huge portion of the bug fixes are actually security fixes [1], so between requiring 20% of the patches to be merged, and 100%, is there really a point?

The author mentions Cyber Resilience Act, and I believe that Linux Kernel team created this CNA /on purpose/ to have an impact on the CRA. They believe that the only way to have a secure Linux Kernel is to have an up-to-date Linux kernel. (cf https://social.kernel.org/notice/ARWvggnOvXny0CUCIa ). With the CRA enacted, doing such a every-bug-is-a-security-bug CNA is a way for them to enforce their view.

[1] FWIW, my personal opinion there is that this shows that Linux's monolith architecture is getting old, but I see nothing that could reasonably replace it. I think that "the dream" would be to have a LKL-like linux "arch" to compile every driver as an independent process of Hurd, with GKI-like stable-ish ABI.
Is atomic theory the most important idea in human history? Essays
more empty words from the king of the glasscastle
I don't know if this is exactly what you are thinking about, but there are some physicists working to understand what happens in transformers: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2023/file/b...
How do you ensure security of a device without rules from a manufacturer?
Also confusing to encounter words whose meaning changes from an inaudible capital letter („Reich“ ~= empire, realm; „reich“ = rich).

At least „die See“/„der See“ (ocean/lake) are at least both about water you can put a boat on.

„Briefkasten“ is a fun one, coming from English. Sounds like "briefcase". Same etymology, both are boxes that you put letters into, it's just that the English one is the thing you carry to work, and the German one is part of the postal system.
I am no fan of the syntax of SQL, however the authors solution of making SQL more procedural is (imo) correctly identifying an issue but then reaching for the wrong tool to fix it.

When I am authoring SQL, I find the declarative and relational concepts extremely powerful and well suited to the problem I am solving.
Here’s the thing.

OpenAI decided they needed to be closed to be attractive for funding to get the money they needed for AGI. That aim is clear in the emails.

To them, all that matters is reaching AGI, so holding themselves to the standards of their worst critics is irrelevant. It’s all about making it to the finish line in one piece.
Microsoft did not suffer much as a result. They mostly got away with anti-competitive behaviour.
"Most people will die after three days without water."

This is false.
Southern Gaza, Israel considers a part of Southern Gaza an humanitarian zone and dropped fliers explaining that.
Solar comprises over half of new energy production, a new renewables milestone
> the European continent isn't capable of producing a smartphone that people want

Show me the smartphone produced by the US. The only place on Earth capable of producing anything currently is Asia
>Overall, as the OP says, the key issue is demographic.

Here's a weird thought: Maybe the EU could figure out what issues the locals are having preventing them from wanting kids, and fix them, instead of importing more migrants from impoverished nations, and calling it a day.
These refill packages for dishwasher, printers are just SaaS for products. It is terrible and contain 'dark pattern' to continuously over charge customers. Just also a lazy way to try to make business profitable and doesn't really provide any benefit to the customers.
With your own API you can use it with this app.

https://apps.apple.com/es/app/pal-ai-chat-client/id644754508...

You can also use Claude 3 with this app.

https://apps.apple.com/es/app/languagepro-ai-assistant/id166...
Want to be a NASA astronaut? Applications are open
> Lately I've been experimenting the usage of LLMs for the explainability of SQL stored procedures with exceptionally good results

Heavily agree here. LLMs have significantly shortened the time it takes me to write complex queries.
Makes sense. Blackmagic Design is a serious competitor to RED and got around their raw patent through partial debayering. Also lower price. Canon has been wiping the floor with Nikon this century.

Now you have a legendary cinema brand with some solid fundamental technology to combine with Nikon lenses for a mid to upper market product play.
It's lacking in information of real military value, e.g. accuracy, failure rate, effectiveness of countermeasures, precise alloys used, etc. It's basically a description of a rocket, which probably isn't a surprise to other nations who are themselves building rockets.
CVE DOS - aka denial of service through legislative/regulatory requirements instead of technical attack is going to be fun.

Edit: by that I mean filing bogus report or just non-security related CVEs. That is also reason why a lot of projects are trying to register themselves as CNA (see curl etc).
Going by Israeli TV, Telegram channels and polls, unfortunately it really does seem like a large proportion of Israelis think of Palestinians as sub-human bugs to be crushed.

Already we've seen settlers building an "outpost" inside Gaza, while Israeli soldiers watch on. Meanwhile, Israeli civilians block aid to starving children, again while the IDF watch.
If everything you wish to achieve in response to a signal can be achieved within the signal handler, you do not need a condition. Just `while (1) pause();`.

Granted, this isn't a very common situation, but I can imagine a few use-cases.
wow... I am sorry. in my country the condition is reversed. it cheaper than prescription version, so I ask it. good luck bro.
as an EU citizen, it pains me that you're right

The EU has taken a human rights stance with zero consideration how to compete on the global markets. Of course money never sleeps and this'll eventually move most EU-based properties in the hands of foreign investors. Perhaps this is the intent all along
Generate Airbyte Connectors with LLMs
we've been working on tool to generate low-code (YAML) connectors for Airbyte. give it a spin and leave some feedback!
Thankfully EU legislation has very severe penalties built-in that are mostly deterrants (think the 4% turnover maximum GDPR fine), but if anyone deserves to be hit with the full force of the law, it's Apple.

Even Meta, who are also happy to rack up fines instead of fixing their privacy issues, aren't this reckless.
To counter your unenthusiasm, think about it from a mathematician's perspective. Mathematics of QM does not live in some separate corner created to do physics. The need for QM created short-lived confusion, now it's all embedded into a much larger coherent mathematical structure.

For a pure mathematician, quantum mechanics is a lovely introduction to Hilbert Spaces.
Interesting, as that is what my current work is all about: integrating LLMs into ordinary software people use everyday, and those LLMs serve multiple purposes: a) they know the software they are integrated and can offer support in how to use the software, b) a 'psychologist AI' looks at what the user is doing and makes an assessment of how well they understand both the software they are using and the content of their use of the software, that assessment is used to modify the amount of help and the language used when helping, c) both the assessment from b and the content from whatever they are authoring is used to generate an expert in the subject matter of their content, whom is then available in a chat interface with access to rewrite the content the user is authoring upon their request. And d) when a "completed" document is viewed (not in an editor) a slightly different expert is generated based on the context of the document, whom is available for extended Q&A of that document and it's subject.

I'm calling this work 'human comprehension support'.
I think a lot of the discussion in comments describes the "how" to be a good (people) leader rather than define "what" is a good leader. From a sociological point of view however, isn't the most broad definition of "leadership" simply the ability to get a bunch of people to do what is best for the collective (or more cynically the corporation/country), rather than what is best for the individual?

Or taking the logical inverse position, can one be considered a good leader if they cannot inspire that kind of decision-making?

I do think there is some truth around all people managers wanting to be considered good leaders... and very few of them actually conforming to that definition. But that's a different topic.
Actually, surely you'd want an async print and a synchronous print with clear labels? aprint might be interpreted as an async print, not an awaited print, which is what I meant. Maybe this goes against "everything is async".
Anyhow a better name could be print_awaited, so a "print_awaited" could be used directly without the extra syntax to await it (saving some autocomplete time?), it's still long though.
> Israel did demand that the entirety of Northern Gaza be evacuated from civilians

Yes, they have repeatedly dropped leaflets telling civilians to move to "safe" areas - and have repeatedly proceeded to bomb those areas.

> including those "camps" you mention

Like the one where an Israeli tank drove over inhabited tents?
Anti-trawling mines in protected areas? Nothing needs to actually get blown up, the perceived risk just needs to be high enough to prevent it from being economicaly viable/insurable.
I was a bit puzzled that the images were so blurry compared to the surrounding text. Then I realized that the 1px border around the before/after images forces them to be scaled down from an otherwise correct width of 600px to 598px.

While not solving the blurriness completely it, removing the border with the inspector helps a lot.

I think the remaining blurriness comes from the images using grey scale hinting rather than subpixel hinting (the hinted pixels are not colored)
Nothing like blaming the victim.

The companies getting their customers data encrypted are NOT victims. At best they are incompetent and should never have been in business to begin with and most certainly should never have been anywhere near any of their customers data.

Companies have a fiduciary responsibility to protect their customers and investors. If a company is letting phishers trounce all over my data then in a way I am glad that my data became encrypted so that the company can no longer hide the fact they were negligent not only to keep the thugs out but also neglected to properly back up my data. I am more concerned about all the companies that were popped and were able to hide it because they only lost my data to the phishers. Ransomware is exposing the incompetent businesses and embarrassing their leadership as it should. Securing data in an ever growing and large company can be challenging due to internal politics especially if being security focused from day one was not their priority. Backing up data is easy.
NetBSD for the Advanced Minimalist
> There is a reason that they are probing a US company - the European continent isn't capable of producing a smartphone that people want.

I don't believe it. I mean yes, we can't compete with designing a smartphone, but I don't think that is the reason the EU is looking into US tech companies.
A US judge ruled that Epic has a pattern of “malicious compliance”.

Epic created a new account in Sweden so they can create an App Store in the EU.

Apple used the judge’s reasoning of a pattern of malicious compliance to preemptively shut down Epic’s account. Because they believe Epic will not play by the rules.

So it’s a kind of pre-crime reasoning, they’re shutting down Epic’s account before they can do anything wrong. And probably also because Epic publicly criticized Apple’s malicious compliance around the EU rulings.
I wish I shared your optimism that the US would ever legislate anything even remotely approaching the DMA.

It seems to me that American culture is so entrenched in this (absurd, IMO) notion of "liberties" and "freedoms" ... which in practice only ever seem to apply to corporations with trillion dollar market caps.

The FTC has been chaired for years now by someone who wrote their thesis on the anti-competitive practices of $FB and $GOOG and whatever. And yet, despite her best intentions/efforts, the FTC under her leadership has proved to be utterly toothless time and again.

If they can't even stop M$ from gobbling up Activision/Blizz, how on earth would sweeping changes to how (digital) business is done in the US ever hope to succeed?
Apple wanting a cut of everything is… well, it's nothing new anyway. We all have our opinions about that, and this event isn't going to change anyone's mind about that.

Apple not trusting Epic is another, and the wording suggests that Apple thinks third parties would agree. What's that about?
"What is news is an email to Musk that they foolishly made public yesterday, in their counterattack."

The folks at OpenAI are not fools. According to these SBF-like geniuses with cash-stuffed pockets, everyone else on the planet, except computer nerds, are the fools. Including those silly lawyers advising to keep quiet. Don't listen to them. They only know what they know. We know computers! We know everything!

Yeah, well the lawyers are laughing all the way to the bank. Because the more these nerds want to cat fight with each other, the more money the lawyers can make.

This stuff is only interesting to normal people as long as there's milions, billions or trillions of dollars at stake. Otherwise it just looks idiotic and pathetic.
You can't just use your ToS to circumvent the law of the market you operate in. If they have to allow Epic to operate in the EU under the DMA they can't kick them out unless it's in compliance with EU law. The EU law overpowers Apple's ToS.
three instruction Forth for embedded

https://pygmy.utoh.org/3ins4th.html

If you have new hardware with zero tools, I think it is still possibly the quickest path to more sophisticated options.
They got a very stiff warning that they would be allowed a major role in shaping the Web, but that strangling it outright would be the end of them.

Imperfect, but enough.
I've always been very supportive of women interested in IT, and yet my experience is also that ... they just aren't as interested as men on average.

Just calling anyone with that experience a misogynist is not helping anyone except your own ego.
> That means vendors already needed to look at CVEs and decide what applies to them and what doesn't.

So many vendors don't and it's tedious to say the least.
AIUI the trend has been towards GUI frameworks dropping support for subpixel AA altogether, since that simplifies so many things[1], so I'm not holding my breath for the current limitations around unusual subpixel layouts being fully resolved on any platform. Apple made the switch to greyscale-only AA years ago, Microsoft is mid-transition with their newer GUI toolkits ignoring the system Cleartype setting and always using greyscale AA, and the GTK renderings in the OP are greyscale too. They're assuming that people will just get a HiDPI display eventually and then greyscale AA is good enough.

[1] https://faultlore.com/blah/text-hates-you/#anti-aliasing-is-...
*>When we compare the intensity of atrocity committed by the Israelis, to those in other recent conflicts - Mosul, Homs, Mariupol, Grozny, Yemen- the israelis sails past them all with a healthy margin.

According to Ukrainian sources, at least 25,000 people died in the siege of Mariupol over the course of less than three months. The current conflict in Gaza is grave, but it is not incomparable or unprecedented.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63536564
> this is the law now and they have to comply with it.

lol ugh, it’s the law to wear a seatbelt, I can choose to ignore it. One ironic part I like to mention about this is that tractors tell you not to wear a seat belt. That lets you bail if it’s tipping over. The thing is, it’s still technically illegal not wearing a seat belt. Ironically, riding a motorbike requires no seatbelt… and overall is more unsafe, but totally fine apparently.

The point I’m making is laws aren’t hard constraints, they’re human constructs and you can choose to ignore them. There may be consequences to ignoring them. But the calculus for Apple is that it’s worth it to them and to ignore.

Much like the farmer with the tractor, minimal risk to ignore. High risk to follow law.
There are several Apple stores within easy driving distance of me in the UK. Clearly Apple has to obey UK, and European law. You don't get to ignore laws you don't like, just because you are based in another country.
Yep. Call it whatever you like. The west should not let China compete at all. Not before we learn Winnie The Pooh's plans for the world in 2049.

Cooperating with this evil is like driving into a brick wall to demonstrate how much freedom you have.
Unfortunately my enthusiasm for BMD is muted by the extreme non-freeness of BRAW.
demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOLyt4k6Z6c
> A US judge ruled that Epic has a pattern of “malicious compliance”.

Seems like a great fit for Apple.
It must be a specific implementation because Black Magic has had their own brand of this for years and don’t seem to have been targeted by RED, though I may be out of the loop on something?
> Last action, they terminated Epic one day before the DMA went into effect (today).

The law went into effect november 1st 2022[0]. Until yesterday has been a grace period to allow big companies time to implement the law - I must say that 1 year and 4 months is generous.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act
I am not willing to. That is rather my point. Did you read what I said?
It's going to be fun when companies pick Windows instead of Linux because it doesn't cause an awful to handle patch cycle in contexts where things have to work within some regulatory bounds (that make pointless updates cost a lot of time, effort and money, maybe even cause risk to human life).