skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compared to all the effort that goes into a series or film writing the dialogue seems like a relatively small amount of effort.

Except for stuff that is clearly low effort in the first place.
> We’re providing more flexibility for developers who distribute apps in the European Union (EU), including introducing a new way to distribute apps directly from a developer’s website.

They make it sounds like they're being super generous and they've gone out of their way to provide this 'cool new innovation' for us out of their own desire to give back to their customers.

You have to really appreciate the spin and shamelessness of some of the large companies. It's genuinely humorous.
Also, results from active experiments aren't limited to statistics. You can set up experiments to have discrete results, where no statistics is required to test a hypothesis.

For example, the GHZ experiment [1] can rule out local hidden variable models and confirm QM predictions with no statistics at all: the two different models make contradictory predictions with no continuous variation between them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GHZ_experiment
>Maybe he wanted to cast suspicion on Boeing

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Building Meta's GenAI infrastructure
> The right are known for lying with the truth which makes a good amount of their rhetoric stick.

replace right with humans, the left is also known for lying, which is why both sides are constantly bitching at each other.

The extremes of both sides are just as shitty. One side would create harm via religion, the other side via reputation destruction.
> Apple just does a better job filtering scams etc. out of their app store.

Well, sometimes: https://www.pcmag.com/news/beware-theres-a-fake-lastpass-app...

Just make sure that Grandma knows any of her security apps could be a Trojan, and she should be safe.
Note that the poster only ever posts links to ads on their website.
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The very explicit intent of several high profile AI efforts to date has fundamentally been to distribute remixes of copyrighted works while skirting copyright law. This is precisely why OpenAI was requesting copyright exemption. They know how to fix overfitting. Their request is acknowledging that overfitting is not the core problem, and that they want the leeway to change or break existing copyright laws in order to consume the entire internet and be able to distribute the content that it contains.

As far as copyright is concerned, there is no such “generic” category of photography, you’re trying to invent a term that has no legal status. All photos fall under copyright. Training on them may break copyright, reproducing them accidentally may break copyright.

It is irrelevant what the majority use case is. (But how can you possibly claim to know what the “majority” of Stable Diffusion’s usage is?) It is a fact that examples of people asking to mimic specific artists are all over the internet, it’s quite common and easy to find. It doesn’t matter if this usage is not the majority, all that matters in terms of the legal question is whether the usage of AI meets the criteria established in the law.

You’re splitting a hair trying to contradict me when I’m trying to point out that regardless of whether people are trying to imitate a single artist, the design and implementation of the system is expressly for the purpose of imitating multiple artists. My point doesn’t hinge on single vs 2, 3, or many. This isn’t a failure mode, this is the stated purpose of many of today’s neural networks. They are built to copy snippets of other people’s work.
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This is my conclusion too.

Frustratingly, productivity seems to be mostly downstream of good self-care: exercise, good sleep, avoiding caffeine, and good diet in my personal descending order of importance.

It sucks that they're interrelated, and one of those, good sleep, can be a biological dice roll, and that the other three are things I'm tempted to burn on the altar of extra productivity in the short-term when it just decreases it in the long-term. :p
I think it is remarkable how important ABI is to C++. I think 'making it easier to enable them' i.e. enable the sane defaults went down the drain once they locked in on not breaking ABI.

I am sure that Herb wrote this with good intentions, but no concrete measures was proposed but trying to standardize compiler tools, and to some extent downplay Rust.

I agree there is a misconception around programming safety, but this reads the same as when big industry say the want to focus more on climate change.
Was the government not manipulating the price of the currency to be artificially high? It sounded like the crypto allowed the price of the currency to fall to its actual value.
Mine wouldn’t’ve. And you could say the same about math, which thankfully can’t be simplified to the point of lies.
I mean there's cap'n proto and flatbuffers already? Where's the benchmarks again capnproto in particular?
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>If it’s enforced by regulations, by definition it’s no longer a “free” market. It’s a regulated one.

By that definition there are no free markets nearly anywhere (save for illegal markets). At least not in modern, well-functioning economies.

(Attention pedants: I said nearly)
I think you have completely missed the point:

> the government liking gigantic corporations is what makes it hard — the corporation (and, it is feared, AI) convinces the people

The corporations didn't convince the people. They didn't have to. They convinced the government, which was already acting contrary to our interests.

There's a tendency to assume that just because we run an election every few years, the government is axiomatically aligned with our interests. This simply isn't true, and assuming that it is true blinds people to what's really going on. Total unwillingness to even consider a scale tax is the second-best example I've found of this axiom being bogus. The best one, though, is term limits for legislators: a shocking 87% of all US voters want those.

Once you have an institution as powerful as the government out of your control the alignment problem becomes infinitely more difficult. "Hack the humans" is no longer the easiest path of escape. In fact the easiest path of escape might not involve "hacking" at all.
I think this comment focuses too much on the “minimum wage” aspect - the core of the argument is that those are roles not at risk to AI in its present state, not necessarily the compensation aspect
You have to demonstrate that you're willing to follow the law. It's not like you'll get a gigantic fine as soon as the new law is implemented, assuming you actually make an effort to be compliant.

In this case, Apple is dragging their feet screaming trying to do their best not to comply with the intent.

What's going to happen next, they'll get a notice of nonconformity where they're asked to fix their behaviour.
If they don't show good intent, they'll get hit with a fine.
If they fix it and adhere to the laws here, then we'll all end up better - well, maybe the poor shareholders won't survive this hit...

If you're a company operating in the EU, just a little bit of willingness to adhere to the laws goes a very long way.
It's crazy to me they didn't see the value in porting actionscript to something that compiles to JS/HTML5, though adobe couldn't be trusted to see this potential obviously. If they had something like that ready in ~2011 it could have completely replaced HTML 5 canvas adoption
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Do you think the world will be better off if, let’s say, all these powerful super geniuses dedicated 5% of their time to deeply consider questions like “should I be building this” or “should I be working for this corporation”? With the same enthusiasm and rigor that they dedicate to their craft.

If you don’t see how many of these types are so immersed in their craft that they are oblivious to their impact on the world then you really haven’t interacted with many high-functioning types. If you have I encourage you to try and discuss these types of things with them.
Five of this year's Pulitzer finalists are AI-powered
Their defensiveness makes sense in the current context where in the last few weeks organisations like the White House [1] and Google [2] are explicitly calling out the importance and imminent need of moving away from memory unsafe languages like C and C++. If everyone focussed on this one issue, it is possible that we might actually start moving away from C and C++ in the next 5-10 years.

Sutter pointing out that memory safety isn't the only vector for system vulnerabilities would have the effect of spreading cybersecurity efforts and budgets across all of them. In that case memory safety isn't the foremost problem it's being portrayed as, and it isn't worth migrating away from C and C++.

[1] - https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Final-...

[2] - https://research.google/pubs/secure-by-design-googles-perspe...
It's poisoning the well when others are arguing in good faith with reasonable explanations.
Forgejo which powers codeberg recently hardforked from gitea and is looking like a nice alternative
I think consoles still make sense for their simplicity and convenience, there's a substancial demographic that just want a device they can turn on and game right away. They don't want the small annoyances that come with PC gaming (windows updates, proton compatibility, configuring graphics settings on a newly installed games, setting up gamepads, troubleshooting game issues, etc), and I'm not trying to exaggerate these annoyances to make them seem insurmountable, just saying that no matter how small the issue is, it's friction that users don't want. As long as that demographic exists, there will be consoles.
Does Bevy have a graphical editor yet (or one on the roadmap)?

It seems like it has good bones, but taking real territory away from Unity or Godot will be hard without an editor (not just for non-programmers; some game dev tasks are just way easier with a GUI)

Of course it's open so somebody could build one, but it seems to me this deserves to be a first-class citizen
Censoring information is not in any way comparable to the items you list. It's also disingenuous to ignore the motivation behind this suggested ban. It came about from Zionists who are convinced that TikTok is the reason younger generations don't support Zionism. This only happened because of Oct 7th. It's a violation of the rights of US citizens.
MacOS seems to be going down the horrible road of permission flags, just as bad as Smartphones.
I was in DC in 2004 and it was incredible. The sidewalks were like a crunchy carpet. At times they drowned out rush hour traffic.
Really not following this. As an ex-academic, plagiarism still carries heavy penalties, and would still be punished if there is no intellectual property, right?
which makes sense, if someone made an impression on you that impression doesn't disappear in just a few days. At best it may be fuzzier, which could be good or bad.
I think this is like cricket farming right now. A lot of hype around it being a new alternative with some environmental benefits, but the costs to get the infrastructure are so high that the meat/milk/wool/etc is too expensive for the average consumer to even consider, and why would they? If you are living paycheck to paycheck, why would you spend $12 a pound on cricket flour when you could just buy chicken? Who cares if it might be more environmentally friendly when you're just trying to survive until your next paycheck?
It's not about purity.

It's about a workflow where everything lives in email rather than some company's walled garden.

It also doesn't give a toss about newcomers. It's for users who want something very specific and know what that looks like already.

It's like the same reasons that OpenBSD still uses CVS -- it works perfectly fine for those involved in the project and the switch to Git would not only take time away from what's important to work on but also add a ton of noise from new contributors who may not have the same goals as the project.
The White House reports also acknowledge that memory safety isn't the only issue, but instead, is a large one that movement can be made on. From page 8 of that report:

> To be sure, there are no one-size-fits-all solutions in cybersecurity, and using a memory safe programming language cannot eliminate every cybersecurity risk. However, it is a substantial, additional step technology manufacturers can take toward the elimination of broad categories of software vulnerabilities.

And of course, Google as well.

Not even the most fervent memory safety advocates believe that it is the sole thing that will make software secure, so arguments like this come across a bit strange.
I've been playing with Remix.js a bit and come to similar conclusions. I'm not exited to go all in on route actions. I found myself using socket.io with TS interfaces to define the API. I guess pretty similar to how trpc works albeit with a bit more boilerplate. Currently looking into Vike (vite-plugin-ssr) to cut down on meta dependencies.
> people who think it can’t be done are either rich, or terrified of the rich

This is a wishful projection.

> the tax system can eliminate the extreme waste at the top and make the lives of vulnerable people better

I'm pro progressive taxation, but that really has no bearing here.

> we don’t need private jets, yachts, cruise ships, 3 ton personal vehicles, people who own multiple private homes, private golf courses, lawns in deserts, almond farms in deserts, iot garbage, plastic everything…

You don't need almost everything you own and take for granted to survive. Who's going to decide what people need, you? The great thing about liberal democracy is we can decide for ourselves.

At any rate, the increases in global emissions are owing to growing global demand particularly from East Asia as they are developing their middle class. You're overestimating the impact of things like private jets; the ultra-wealthy are few in number, and the new affluent class leans left (see: tech billionaires). Even if you put restrictions on these (and we can, why not), it would not make much of a difference.

Restrictions can be warranted (say, for SUV purchases, though this will be moot once they all switch to EV), but customers respond better to incentives. A good example of this is Green HOme subsidies in many countries, that give cash to citizens for improving their home insulation, which lowers heat/AC use, which lowers emissions. Milk alternatives and plant based products are also wildly popular with consumers even if they don't go vegan officially.
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I wouldn't be so sure. It's well documented that the CIA take a "keen interest" in Boeing (and indeed that European security services do so with Airbus), undertaking corporate espionage and sabotage on their behalf. They consider aerospace to be "strategic" or some such.
A related if not the same thing I've been trying to do, especially with some DIY type work, is that it doesn't matter, deal with that later, just get this done thing for now.

I.e. not somehow trick yourself into not thinking about it, but just think who knows if/when I'll actually get around to that, for now just do this. Don't worry about optimal order.

If the skirting doesn't look as great as it could because I fixed and painted the doorframe first, only painting the wall and rest of skirting later, meh who cares, if it turns out to be that noticeable maybe I'll get around to giving it all another coat; in the meantime at least I got it done, not stuck in 'analysis paralysis'.
While indeed modern embedding are more robust;

All embeddings are first layer of DNN. In case of word2vec this is shallow 2-layer network. Selection of embedding is multiplication of embedding matrix by one-hot vector, which is usually optimized as array lookup.
They can, and that is the alternative to complying. Apple wants their €€€ and to eat it too.
They need a critical mass to satiate their predators, otherwise all will get eaten before they can mate.
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There are hashing modes that achieve both integrity and authentication. It usually involves prefixing the data with a server-provided secret before hashing. Only someone who knows the secret can produce such a hash, thereby providing both authentication and data integrity.

Cookies are signed by the server, not the client, and only the server needs to check the signature, so there really isn’t any reason to use much more expensive asymmetric cryptography. And post-quantum security is just a bonus.

In the context of cookies, authenticated hashing IS a PQC signature.
I just can't help but have the feeling that the ship is sinking and this article busies itself with arguing over how much spackle is sufficient to plug one of the many holes. There is too much UB allowed in the C++ spec to be worth saving at this point. Focusing only on CVE reduction still punts on all the money and time wasted with buggy software because the language cannot do much to prevent data races, for example.
Thanks, I'd not seen that recommendation.

Looks like I'd better do some research. :)
Yes it would. This is an attack on US citizen's rights.
Very cool! I'd definitely be interested in that, especially if it could spit out class definitions for supported languages. Bebop seems to have native support for pretty much every language I care about too.
Bevy is working on a graphical editor, but its still in its prototyping phase.

https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-13/#more-editor-experimen...
Pray tell, who in Google's senior leadership team is a business school jock in sole control of these decisions?

The SLT are corporate stooges who are doing Wall St's bidding to pump the stock. Blaming 'business school types' belies a fundamental misunderstanding of who holds the reigns.
You can save to file ('export', to use Trangram's nomenclature) without creating an account. This includes Trangram's native .tg format, as well as animated GIF.
Ostriches are extremely powerful, dangerously fickle and unpredictable, basically a dinosaur the size of a small car

Emu on the other hand are small and relatively docile but still pretty dangerous very smart and can jump very high, so fencing is no joke.

I just dont see any upside to raising these giant birds
Walking just 15,000 steps a week could add three years to your life claims study
> Neither party is innocent here, they’re both multinational tech giants fighting over our money.

That is true, people seem to think that just because in this particular case I prefer the way that Apple is doing this as a user it means that I necessarily agree with everything that Apple is doing or that they are saints or whatever.

My problem here is that so much of this is focused on Developer choice, but no one is talking about user choice. Or developer somehow twist this into a thing that users care at all about. When most really don't.

Is Apple's cut high? Sure. But it is lines up with the rest of the game industry with Steam, Consoles, etc.

There is an important part of this that I feel like developers are missing, I feel like they think that every user will just go over and give them the same amount of money where for me I will just not give them my money.

Which I fully realize I have the choice to do that and not give them money. And that is great. But That still means I cannot make the choice to use something I want without also being forced to make a decision that I don't want to make (use an alternative store).

I fully realize that I am not being forced to download Fortnite. But my concern is that as this becomes more and more normalized that the idea that I could only get my budgeting app, instagram, banking apps, or whatever other thing that I am used to using now only outside of the App Store becomes a reality. And again this isn hypothetical, look at Epic with Fortnite. Apps like Fortnite, Facebook, and others will be the gateway app that normalizes other apps not shipping through the App Store. Since they will already be on your phone.
I think you are right that doing these things would improve Apple's standing with developers but it is important to note that none of the things you listed are in line with Steve Jobs' philosophy which you seem to imply here. Recall for example that the iPhone (aka iPhone 1) did not ship with an App Store. Apple doesn't even let you make iOS apps unless you own a sufficiently up to date MacOS device. So when you say "regain geek-cred," I think it's necessary to point out that this geek-cred never existed with a large (although perhaps not majority) of developers/power users, and when it did exist, it was not because Apple was doing things in line with the steps you have proposed to regain it. It was always about polish and ease of use. So when you say they've gotten timid and conservative I'm not sure in what respect you mean that. Because in terms of openness they have not changed at all and are still completely in line with Steve Jobs' vision in this respect.
All you're actually describing is that there's way less pressure for apps on the Google side to be as high quality as the Apple stuff. (Given the existence of the store alternatives, even if Google did enforce higher quality, those apps have plenty of other options to get on user's phones.) And that's kinda par for the course for the level of marketing-savvy that Google exhibits.

> The ability to install 3rd party apps has effectively zero effect on how well Apple curates their official app store.

You're missing the forest for the trees. Apple offers a curated environment largely through the curation of the app store. That curated environment is massively valuable to the average user. That's the asset Apple is trying to protect.
Ok folks, how can we get copy of this DMA thing in the USA?

P.S. Apple stockholders downvoting me, lol
Well where do you see humanity in the future? In a realistic but also optimistic future? To me all of these futures involves us being a multiplanetary species, and starting to expand out into the cosmos more broadly. It's not only the only way we'll ever become a post-scarcity species, but also the only way we can secure our own survival as a species. There have been countless mass extinction events on Earth, and we're well overdue for another one, and it will come.

You're also probably grossly overestimating the cost. The SpaceX Starship program has been privately funded on a budget of ~$2 billion a year including all costs - research and development, construction, launches, etc. And once built it's expected to revolutionize space (again) sending launch costs to less than $10 million per flight, and price per pound to space into the low dollars! And once we can start transiting massive amounts of cargo to Mars, at a very affordable cost, colonization is very much within the domain of possibilities.

I would not contrast prices against NASA. NASA is largely used as a tool for pork and graft by Congress, that occasionally launches something. Their latest ship, the SLS [1], is literally reusing Space Shuttle era tech. I mean literally - the SLS is reusing refurbished Space Shuttle RS-25D engines, solid rocket boosters, and more. Managing to spend tens of billions of dollars over 13 years (and counting) to develop this is the special sort of talent you can only get from a company like Boeing.

So colonization will be costly, but it's nothing like a civilizational goal. It's just that our civilization only has governments mostly interested in fighting and dominating one another, just as has been the case for the entirety of human civilization. So we never really get to see what we could actually achieve if we tried. But what's finally changed is that these sort of grand achievements no longer require governments. Costs are plummeting at the same time private capital has skyrocketed. So the future looks brighter than ever!

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Launch_System