skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is excessively cynical. Different diets work for different people. Diet is such a complex mixture of culture, social environment, work environment, personal values, the personal values of people around you, your surrounding physical infrastructure, your own psychology and finally your biology.

The answer to “what diet” is “keep trying them until you find one that works, then stick with it.” There is an infinite number of totally functional combinations.
Cosine-similarity is a useful metric. The cases where it is useful are models that have been trained specifically to produce a meaningful cosine distance, (e.g. OpenAI's CLIP [1], Sentence Tranformers [2]) - but these are the types of models that the majority of people are using when they use cosine distances.

> It's my understanding that the delta between two word embeddings, gives a direction, and the magic is from using those directions to get to new words... it's the directions and distances to nearby objects that matters most

Cosine similarity is a kind of "delta" / inverse distance between the represenation of two entities, in the case of these models.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.00020

[2] https://www.sbert.net/docs/training/overview.html
Because a revenue % is based on a financial transaction that guarantees you money where an install (which includes updates) does not.
No paywall: <https://finance.yahoo.com/news/upstarts-challenge-foundation...>
Reminds me of this: "The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes.

As for cost, we selected initial values based upon data from the Open Beta and other adjustments made to milestone rewards before launch. Among other things, we're looking at average per-player credit earn rates on a daily basis, and we'll be making constant adjustments to ensure that players have challenges that are compelling, rewarding, and of course attainable via gameplay.

We appreciate the candid feedback, and the passion the community has put forth around the current topics here on Reddit, our forums and across numerous social media outlets.

Our team will continue to make changes and monitor community feedback and update everyone as soon and as often as we can."
I really hope the EU regulators won't let this slide.
Or the losers fallacy. Seems like entrepreneurship is a good example of the losers fallacy. The path to winning is through losing a lot first. So most people never persist long enough to succeed.

I would say for AI deniers it's the losers fallacy. You guys haven't taken the time to thoroughly examine chatGPT4. You just stop at the first hallucination. It's a paradigm shifting AI.

Detractors like you just rely on common tropes like oh "stop anthropomorphizing it" and stuff like that. People who see this stuff as game changing recognize these biases and we still say it's game changing. Nobody is stupid enough to think this thing is even remotely human.

I asked chatGPT to program me a complex GUI in Python about selecting multiple time segments out of an overall interval using sliders. It gave me working python code.

You have realize that this thing has no eyes and it was able to program a visual interface as if it did. I'm not anthropomorphizing anything when I say this, but on some level chatGPT "understands" what you are giving it as a query.
It's every bit as suspicious as Epstein's death or all those people connected to Putin who mysteriously fall out of windows.
> such as being a member of the Apple Developer Program for two continuous years or more and having an app with more than one million first installs on iOS in the EU in the prior year, and commit to ongoing requirements

I didn't expect much but that list is a big joke.

If you were looking for a way to distribute your ios software on the web, well that ain't it.
All else equal, cheap is good. Also if I'm choosing between a million unhoused and a few in beautiful mansions, and everyone housed, I'm choosing the latter. We need quantity too, not just quality.
We don’t benchmark against FlatBuffers or Cap'n Proto for a few reasons:

- They are impossible to benchmark against each other without making an assumption about how often you want to access the data, and which parts of it you want to access. But this means Bebop, Cap'n Proto, FlatBuffers can exist side-by-side / solve different problems: what FlatBuffers and Cap'n Proto do makes sense if you want to access only parts of your objects in limited specific ways, what we do is better if you're always interested in the whole packet.

- We don’t benchmark against Capt’n Proto because it does not have a stable web-based implementation, at least not one that has the features that make it so fast natively, so there is nothing to compare.

Basically, Bebop is great for message oriented applications or where you need the entirety of your packet deserialized in a single step. So we can only benchmark against similar formats (JSON, Protobufs, MsgPack, etc.)
Spacetime is 4D array of points. It's like a movie file, but with 3D frames instead of 2D frames (pictures). Expansion of space means that coordinates of points in a frame changed to move away from us, to match movie (model) with reality.
Your “partly because” is way too dismissive. Low carb diets work because they radically change your perception of satiation.

This article is aimed towards people building muscle which is very obviously very hard to do with a low carb diet, and is not actually descriptive of most people doing low carb diets (who are generally on such a diet to lose weight).
> I never ever end up doing the actual steps as I planned to

I do the GTD thing of only thinking about the _next_ action, not trying to think of every action.
To some extent there's a horses for courses argument here: which projects stand to benefit from a high proportion of drive-by contributions? Which projects can appropriately leverage nuanced textual discussion?

If the Linux kernel had been hosted on GitHub from the start it would have turned out very different.
Some lovely ideas.

"Lies" is nice and provocative, but I think it's potentially limiting as you develop these ideas out. A recursive lie to children, perhaps.

I feel that it's quite relevant for anyone who wants to learn philosophy these days. Western philosophy has, for hundreds of years now, mostly taken the form of dialectic or polemic. A philosophical position is polemical response to a previous philosophical mode, one that the new school defines and characterizes. Often one that they even names.

Marx defines and characterizes capitalism. Academic feminism eventually characterizes patriarchy. Postmodernism responds to.modernism. The enlightenment counters medievalism.

As the era progresses, we know about the earlier modes of thought primarily from the polemical retorts. It's much easier to gain a rudimentary understanding of "what non-trinitarian gnostics believed" from inquisitors and heresiologists than it is from reading gnostic sources.

Even when the Pendulum swings, the inquisitor's definition tends to persist.

Ayn Rand and other late modern, libertarians/objectivists adopt Marx's use of capitalism, and what capitalists believe. Revivalist religious movements rely on heresiologists for their theology.

These "lies" are necessary scaffolding for modern ideas.
> do you think anybody would ever want to drive in it?

You can sell the car and the new owner might not know about it (or care if the price is good enough).

Car offers a certain level of privacy in your last moments while being considerate to the family by not doing it in your home.

> Low cost would be ie in your backyard, jump from the bridge (with added 3s thrill), OD on opiates or some poison you don't feel or similar. Or go fight russians if you really stand up for western values, that may actually cure the need if you make it through.

Those are suicide fantasies of people without depression / under extreme pressure.
“If 32-bit OS/2 had launched as planned, Windows 3 would have been the last version before it was absorbed into OS/2 and disappeared.”

I don’t think so - Microsoft would have preferred having 100% control instead of sharing OS/2 with IBM. Windows 3.0 was the technical foundation that allowed things to go the way they went, and its technical capabilities were known, even if it needed time to prove itself in the market. Microsoft would likely have pushed Windows a lot harder than OS/2 even if they had both been concurrently available.

OS/2 was my primary OS for a few years and it was truly awesome - we did things like running a 3-node BBS out of a single 486 with 12 MB RAM and one could format a floppy disk while the system remained responsive (try that with Windows). Fun times.
Weather forecasts have become more accurate
Search engines could use AI to look at the first few pages of search results for a topic and reorder them, banning the worst ones.

AI should improve the quality of search results.
The Billion-Dollar Unraveling of the 'King' of Silicon Valley
Sure they did. While we're talking tall conspiracy theories - ill bet Biden had Navalny killed too for the same reason /s
Wouldn't it be possible to fix a bug then commit that fix?
Seems like it would’ve been easier for apple to just enable installing android on iPhones and iPads and just walking away.

I do wonder if that would’ve been enough to have compliance.

I also wonder if apple could argue that web apps are enough.
You might get the same effect from rising at, say, 4am and going for a quick walk on deserted streets.
If that means modular houses that people can expand and contract quickly and easily based on current needs, I'm there.
There is also an explicit clause about on anti-circumvention in the DMA so they're on thin ice here.

Article 13 is the fun one for Apple: https://www.eu-digital-markets-act.com/Digital_Markets_Act_A...
Debug mode isn't always needed, though - E.g. C++ with RelWithDebInfo gets you far enough, unless you specifically want to run debugger - I'm one of those who do not use a debugger in their workflow, so a non-issue for me.
I use these models every day, and have for quite awhile. More specifically the vast majority of my work on them has been evaluating their performance.

While there is certainly untapped potential with this models, what we've seeing is unquestionably market driven hype.

I know very, very few people who are working closely with these models who buy the hype.
Yeah the split between EU & US has been painful. I also completed my migration just a few months ago. I found https://github.com/vwxyzjn/portwarden to work very well for the migration, which works around the file export issue by retrieving them one by one and re-uploading them.
> It sounds like the journalist thinks it was murder but can’t write it

It sounds like a basic and uncontroversial recitation of the facts. People here project their own psychology (and cultural imprints courtesy of Hollywood) onto it, with high cynicism and distrust that extends not just to Boeing but to authority figures in general (police, courts).

Otherwise this thread would be about HNers' experience with whistleblowing and suicidal thoughts, which is all the story actually mentions.
TLDR is its fair use when Google takes your data and stealing when you reverse engineer their “intellectual property” /s
Disregarding the letter of the law seems arbitrary and capricious.
What ozempic is doing to your brain
Which part? I don't think the EU can rule that Apple can't charge publishers to be on iOS. This isn't malicious compliance, sans the size requirement it's exactly what they asked for.

This keeps happening where people keep hitching "I don't want to pay Apple" to every wagon except a law that requires Apple to make access to iOS free.

"Allow other payment processors": Okay you still pay 27%

"Allow other stores": Okay you still pay a commission, a different one.

"Allow installing from websites": Okay you still pay a commission, you just have to write us a check.
>my coworkers, my bosses, the entire world, just does not care about doing the right thing.

I was pondering today about how the current economic condition of the populace incentivizes workers (everybody) to ignore moral concerns. If you saw something that really bothered you morally and were to blow the whistle and it hit the news cycle, you would never be able to work in your field again. You would probably get sued (legitimately or not). You could no longer provide for yourself or your family; probably for the rest of your life.

I worked at an immoral company; a small health insurance company that constantly weaseled out of paying claims. They even fired a new worker who had gotten in a car accident just so they wouldn't have to pay for it; the health insurance provided to employees was from the company's product line. They would always say, "we're not denying you care, we just aren't going to pay for it." One time a disgruntled customer or family member showed up with a gun to the office. This was decades ago and I did the only thing I felt I could do. I left when I could and I feel pretty good about it. They were eventually shut down by the state for not paying claims. I would have left earlier but I had rent and bills to pay. That's how modern economic conditions incentivize people to ignore moral concerns.

Long story short, if you feel you are working at a company that forces you to ignore moral concerns and you can't overcome it, work towards getting the fuck out as soon as you can financially.
Maybe Apple's goal is to become irrelevant enough to not be subjected to the DMA. I mean, making developers despise you is a brilliant first step towards such an end!
Why do you think this FAA audit will not be corrupted?
“I’m not going to speculate but here is the most wild and unfounded bit of speculation I can think of…”
This was a fascinating and well-written read. Thanks for submitting it!
> In addition, developers will soon be able to distribute apps directly from their websites, providing they meet Apple's specific criteria, such as being a member of the Apple Developer Program for two continuous years or more and having an app with more than one million first installs on iOS in the EU in the prior year, and commit to ongoing requirements, such as publishing transparent data collection policies. Apps distributed in this way must meet Apple's notarization requirements like all other iOS apps and can only be installed from a web domain registered in App Store Connect.

So, there will still be a centralized chokepoint for censorship of apps the government would prefer you not be able to have on your phone. Cool.

This means no protest apps, no encrypted communications apps unless they have the appropriate government approval/licenses, etc.

This is the same censorship they exert over the app store. It's no benefit to users.
I suppose the next stage of malicious compliance will be to allow absolutely everyone to publish apps everywhere, but with some technical warning that is designed to be ignored.
Exactly. My device, my code can run.

The idea that I can't run my own apps because a company is protecting me is laughable.
DMA requires free access to the platform
This, but unironically. Humans have the best daylight eyesight in mammals, and only birds of prey come close.
On reddit: Someone in IT trolled me for over a decade
My interpretation is he's lamenting that certain Unix OS abstractions (e.g. open, close, read, and write) do not lend themselves well to building distributed systems, like a distributed filesystem. Plan9, for example, designed it's API with such possibilities in mind.
This framing ignores the very real harm which has come to millions of people. It’s not the 80s any more and there are mature industries built around spying on users or tricking them into decisions with significant financial consequences. Most of the effective defenses require something like notarization to make it hard for attackers to simply disappear without legal consequences, so we need ways to do that at reasonable cost.

€0.50 seems like a reasonable cost for that, similar to how we don’t make circuit breakers or seatbelts optional just because some guy thinks he doesn’t need them and resents paying the extra cost.
Corrupt leaders complain nobody wants to use their garbage currency that they themselves ruined with poor governance, blames everyone but themselves.

Why do we even give these criminals airtime.
> down on features,
The browser extension requires you to pay to use TOTP and so on

No, if you self host vaultwarden and not the bitwarden server you don't have to pay. And in both cases you can use bitwarden clients. However I would still pay the $10 as way of supporting this project.
Since when do you have to pay to use an ABI or link against system libraries? Shipping your own apps to your own customers doesn't entitle Apple to a payment.
That's true. A whole other problem. Rub some aloe on it and hope it stops swelling.
>I'm not sure I buy the Global Risk Institute chart. I get that they need to motivate adoption, but practical cryptanalytic work with quantum computers seems unpromising right now.

Yeah; that doesn't look right to me either. Perhaps "cryptographically relevant" has some unusual meaning (parity with conventional computing?). Otherwise, the consensus view is that there's, pessimistically, a 4% probability of a total break of all public key cryptography within 5 years.

That's practically "abandon all hope right now" territory rather than "motivate adoption" territory.
> the reason light bends in the presence of gravity ...

This is also why gravity bends the trajectories of massive particles, which also follow geodesics of the curved spacetime (in the absence of other forces).
Should I put up the sircmpwn signal? Would be nice to see his take.
cap'n'proto is ancient, unmaintained, and its C# library is one of the most poorly written binary serialization implementations I have seen in my life.

You will be better served by gRPC and, if you need absolute maximum performance, MemoryPack (it is C#-first but can generate TypeScript clients).

If you need MQ, NATS is a good choice (special kudos to them adopting Yoshifumi Kawai's AlterNATS into NATS v2 C# client implementation).
Altserver+Altstore. Altserver will resign your apps, and altstore can background "refresh" your apps so they _shouldn't_ expire on your.

It refreshes when your on the same wifi network as altserver, for me it works most of the time, but sometimes I need to kick altserver to get the phone to see it.

Doesn't fix the issue, and its a limitation that annoys the hell out of me too, but at least helps mitigate it. (Though it doesn't solve the number of self signed app limit)
Paraphrasing, but I do agree with the "information should be free but someone's time should not be" statement. How to properly execute and balance that though is the hard part
GitLab has some long open tickets about federating instances but the technical implementation of such a thing is really only a small piece of the puzzle.

EDIT— here's a newer epic trying to gather some of that together into a cohesive effort: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/11247
Just the size requirement makes it useless, why would anybody bother with a web distribution if they already have 1 million (!) installs on the appstore where they already have all their customers?
The relative market share of X window system, NS Windows, and macOS has nothing at all to do with technical merits of either. MS Windows dominated the corporate world because of MS Office, corporate-level technical support, and efficient salespeople. MacOS became prominent because of the superior hardware produced by Apple.

While indeed uneducated (in specific tech; may otherwise be smart), non-technical, highly varied people who all have too little time constitute the bulk of any audience, big moneyed interests always have and will continue to shape this audience's perception, especially where there is a network effect. It's not just Chrome vs Firefox or X vs Mastodon; the same mechanics stand behind the likes of Coca-Cola.
Well, it's sufficient to point out that for some people, other manufacturers make better laptops than Apple.
Thanks a lot for the link great to finally see a clearer statement. I am looking forward to a new app that hopefully does not crash on open as often. As a simple user it's just been so many delays :(
That's the thing that would prevent me from buying a Vision Pro down the line. It's going to be an iOS-like walled garden experience. If it could run arbitrary macOS apps on device, it would be infinitely more useful (but probably cannibalize the MacBook market and why would Apple ever roll out a new product line that doesn't force developers to pay them 30%?)
Please consider adding `overscroll-behavior: contain;` to the <body> or whatever wrapper causes my browser to scroll/drag outside of the viewport when zooming in or out the preview.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/overscroll-...
There's different ways to interpret laws for courts. One of them is called teleological interpretation where you follow the intent of the law. For this courts also look into the documentation the legislation provided when defining the law. This is usually not done by lower courts, but courts like the CJEU use those when the letter of the law is unclear to define this for the lower courts to follow.
> I don't think the EU can rule that Apple can't charge publishers to be on iOS

Why not? Maybe they can't rule that Apple must make the App Store free for developers, but they can rule that the App Store can't be the only way to install apps.
It's the big apps and vendors I want to have protection against. My negotiation position towards Facebook etc. is very weak. This is why I like when Apple is putting certain limits for them.

With smaller apps I don't have this problem. There's typically plenty to choose from. If I don't like the policies of one, then I can go for something else.
Interesting. That makes Google's moat seem smaller than I thought.

Do you know what they use for search?
Neat concepts, but these aren't going to fly any time soon. Quotes from the article:

"Take these solenoid designs. Your spaceship basically becomes an MRI tube."

"At the end of the day, though, we are still talking about using a roughly 40-ton shield to protect a module that weighs maybe 8 tons. It doesn’t add up. No space agency is currently considering putting a magnetic shield on a rocket because today we don’t have a good solution."
Is it? Developers used to determinism in software frequently don't understand that in all jurisdictions the law is ultimately interpreted by humans. I've been going through some legal processes myself, and my friend who is a lawyer reminded me more times than I care to admit that this is the case.

In the US, SCOTUS's job is literally to interpret the spirit of the law in the event of ambiguity.
If indie developers were to quality, anyone would qualify and security incidents would inevitably increase. That's what Apple is trying to prevent. Keep the attack surface small.

Apple's philosophy is similar to the justice philosophy of nations like Singapore. Freedom in exchange for security. Some people like the trade off and some don't. And if there is anything that we know for sure is that when it comes to tech, freedom is the last of people's priorities.
If your app is ad-supported, you pay 0%. It also makes the freemium model viable. If you have an application that has in-app purchases, then people may download, play the free portion, and never pay you. If you have to pay $0.50 for that, then it may not go well.

The 0.50 is probably much better if you're selling, say, a $10 app.
> Make music
> Theorize

Not sure about those.
I was wondering what was going on. I thought my coffee hadn't kicked in.