skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the keypoints of the DMA, this change should require that:

Booking.com can not prevent hotels from providing booking through other sites.

booking.com can not prevent hotels from advertising special deals without giving booking.com a cut.

booking.com must give hotels tools to independent verify advertisements that hotels are paying for.

Booking.com must give hotels access to booking data in real time, and must provide export options for such data.

Booking.com can not give booking.com owned hotels preference over other hotels. (not sure if there are such hotels).

Booking.com can not compete with hotels using the hotels own booking data.
Curating the most significant shifts in geopolitical predictions on Metaculus
https://lemmy.ml/comment/5509793

Otha Fish by Pharcyde has tons of references ranging from 50s-90s. Scroll down to the main comment to see them explained.
AI-generated spam is starting to fill social media. Here's why
Rope is binary tree of arrays, for O(logN) index operation.
It’s not an acronym, it’s an abbreviation. Unfortunately, the rules for abbreviations are effectively arbitrary (or specific to some etymology that’s not available from context). The “s” could be op(s) or seconds, but back in 90s trade publications it was seconds.
Right, I'll just get right on a plane and travel to whereverthefuckville overseas and ask for permission to face blast the scammers. The same scammers that are donating a lot of money to their local (probably very poor) law enforcement to keep their criminal enterprise quite. This will go well.
The tradeoff is more complicated:

Automation tech frees up time but takes away agency and opportunity in exchange.

Empowerment tech creates opportunity and increases agency, but it needs you to have time and resources, and these costs can easily increase existing gaps between social classes.
What was it like back then?
Apple already has processes in place for background process execution on iPhones and iPads [1], including a way for the app to request additional background processing time [2]. The issue is that this system needs to be expanded to cover the use cases that people are describing. It really is hard to understand why Apple has not done so nor given any indication that they will.

> Apps don’t normally receive any extra execution time after they enter the background. However, UIKit does grant execution time to apps that support any of the following time-sensitive capabilities:

* Audio communication using AirPlay, or Picture in Picture video.

* Location-sensitive services for users.

* Voice over IP.

* Communication with an external accessory.

* Communication with Bluetooth LE accessories, or conversion of the device into a Bluetooth LE accessory.

* Regular updates from a server.

* Support for Apple Push Notification service (APNs).

> Enable the Background Modes capability in Xcode if your app supports background features.

Keeping an SSH session alive is barely outside of the existing use cases. Long-running export jobs and things like that would need a new use case defined, perhaps with QoS definitions.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/app_and_envi...

[2] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/app_and_envi...
It increased mine yesterday, by quite a bit. I was writing some JSON-to-array-of-arrays conversion code, and when I started to type it out -- dreading the inevitable off-by-one hunt -- CoPilot spat out the code, and it was correct! It helped that I've done this many times, and knew it was correct, but it saved me needing to think about it, or track down any bugs.

This conversion code was in service to using Plotly (the JS graphing library) for the first time. I was trying to get the axes of my surface plot to be labelled with the correct values (instead of just their index), and spent probably a half hour looking at the demos and the docs, and not finding what I needed. I asked CoPilot in the VSCode chat window about it, and it gave me exactly what I hadn't been able to find. As soon as I saw it, I understood the natural extension of the API call I was seeing in the demo, but I still hadn't found a second data point to even start extrapolating, if you take my meaning.

Anyway, I'm paying the $10/mo out of my own pocket, and yesterday -- at least to me -- it paid for itself for the month in just those two examples. I find it delightfully surprising. I just need to find a way to make it stop suggesting comments. I can type my own comments, thank you very much.
Ask HN: Why are some activation functions also chaotic maps?
Today I was reading about dynamical systems and I've realized that some activation functions for neural networks, such as the logistic function [0], are also chaotic maps [1]. Is this just a coincidence or is there an advantage if an activation function is a chaotic map?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_map
I guess the decline of Envato shall continue.
iPad sharing is a massive no go. That product is mostly for the education industry and you better convince the school board every kid needs their own iPad (an AI powered one soon enough). Basically becomes a government mandated device, good business.
Thank you! Clear and concise. I'm pasting here for anybody interested:

"What are gatekeepers?

Gatekeepers are large digital platforms providing any of a pre-defined set of digital services (‘core platform services’), such as online search engines, app stores, and messenger services. These companies have:

- a strong economic position, significant impact on the internal market and are active in multiple EU countries;

- a strong intermediation position, meaning that they link a large user base to a large number of businesses;

- an entrenched and durable position in the market, meaning that their position has been stable over time."
> And getting to it first could help the US maintain an edge over China; in a logic reminiscent of a nuclear weapons race, it’s better for “us” to have it than “them,” the argument goes.

This is interesting to me. The last two big national security "races": nuclear and space were, as far as I know, funded primarily largely by the government (despite the work being carried out by private sector).

The "AGI" race is entirely fueled by private sector. Specifically, it's fueled by private sector companies whose profits are, by and large, driven by advertising, an industry that thrives on manipulating customers to buy things, directly and indirectly.

This is my biggest problem with it. The tech _can be_ helpful, but the incentives are perverse.
1. You need to go compare the reach of how good Tile’s tracking is vs literally nearly every smartphone being opted-in transparently into tracking these tags. This is drastically different.

2. Tile is a smaller target, so “I’ve never seen a news story” just means the reach of any such story is smaller.

3. Maybe Tile already has similar protections? It’s against their TOS [1]

4. Tile has been sued for stalking [2]

5. Tile is offering an anti-theft feature provided you have to use biometrics & give them a government ID and you have to agree that they’ll sue you if you use it for stalking [3]. So Tile too is clearly concerned about the stalking problem, they’re already being sued around it, & they’re a drastically smaller target than Apple and Google (no one is going to craft legislation around what Tile is doing). Apple is 3x the size of Tile by itself.

You can disregard it as moral panic but how would you distinguish that from a genuine concern of the potential for an abuse for a technology? Strict liability isn’t popular these days but it has ebbed and flowed as a doctrine. Failure to try to try to do a good faith attempt to prevent this problem would certainly land Apple and Google into hot water when a case of stalking inevitably happens using these devices.

[1] https://support.thetileapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/44102774937...

[2] https://whlawoffices.com/blog/why-was-tile-sued-for-tracking...

[3] https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/16/tile-takes-extreme-steps-t...
Testing 8 innovative new board propeller designs
I'm just gunna throw this out there: The replacement for the axidraw 8.5x11 thing is $699 - a fully loaded cricut maker 3 is $429, and can, in theory, do actual plotting on sheets longer than 11" - as well as being a vinyl cutting machine. I am unsure what models of cricut can take the pen holder, but it is something to consider, especially since i am sure there are alternatives to the ecosystem that are more open or support different software.

Also the ender series of 3d printers can make use of a pen attachment as well, but those are 8x8 inches. There are larger 3d printers, and the software or whatever to plot with the ender 3 was open source enough. My ender3 was <$200
I sort of feel the same way. All those invisible magic shortcuts make the device a bit arcane and they’re only there because apple refuses to include physical buttons. Like Face ID: please no. Give me back my finger print sensors
That as the article shows, are not that good because iPad OS sucks in lots of areas that Pros needs (e.g. File manager for people doing video editing).
I'm excited to see where this, and Alphafold go.

I'm also interested in a different direction for modeling proteins: ab-initio. I am curious if we can get a good-enough simulation of charge density around atoms to simulation folding using electric force models. It seems that chemists are using very computationally-intense models (HF, Kohn-Sham DFT etc) where the wave function (and therefore charge density) is modeled as a product etc. This does not scale well as electron count goes up. And, Valence Bond and Molecular Orbital theories of bonding both seem like not great approximations.

I am suspicious we can come up with reasonable models of charge density for atoms and simple molecules without this complexity, by solving the Schrodinger equation; the relation between psi'', psi, V, and E. And then perhaps interpolating various solved solutions, incorporating ambient water molecules etc. I can, unfortunately, find very little about this approach, but am making progress on a program that will probably go no where, but I still feel is worth building. Incorporating spin is proving tricky. It is possible we need to model using spinors, but I am suspicious there may be shortcuts where we accept Fermi-Dirac statistics as an axiom, without using exchange terms.

Of course, modelling the electron-electron interaction is tough because you need to integrate over 3D space, and there is a feedback loop between psi, charge, V, which then feeds back into psi for the other electrons, and vice versa!

This is fringe, and probably intractable, but... seems worth trying. One of the key challenges is the big challenge with modelling in general: We have differential equations that can verify a solution, but not come up with the solution... This, at least, gives a validation for work on this topic.

Even more fringe, but relevant: I wonder if the rules of quantum mechanics are intrinsically tied to nature's fondness of differential equations, and are key to how nature "solves" them.
Presumably a whole generation will have to learn how to torrent.
The whole problem is that a college program tries to fit in a ton of stuff side-by-side, which mostly end up being introductions to deeper academic fields. (Which is not surprising as profs and TAs are academics, the usually are passionate about that field, and so on.)

Which is not bad, but compared to a more coherent program which inspires and empowers students to get interested in the industry and/or maybe in research would be much much much better.

And yes, of course, obviously, of-fucking-course, every year every every stakeholder in this huge circus parrots about this.

And nothing happens. Credentialism and perverse incentives just continue to rob everyone involved of their passions and joy of learning. (Okay, not everyone, but there's a reason that colleges/universities become "easier" https://www.slowboring.com/p/college-students-should-study-m... )
I'm 40 now, but I'm still blown away. It's amazing that we can just keep installing web-servers into random things like wall switches, power outlets and control them wirelessly and just treat is a business as usual.

I just got a WiFi enabled ESP8266 with a thumb sized OLED display for like $10.

I can't really keep track of how many computers are in my home :)
> They see all of this business with lifetimes and ownership as a dirty mess that Rust has had to adopt because it wanted to avoid garbage collection. But this is completely backwards! Rust adopted rules around shared mutable state and this enabled it to avoid garbage collection. These rules are a good idea regardless.

I'm not sure that this is true. Lack of garbage collection and management of shared mutable state are implemented by partially overlapping aspects of the borrow checker.

If Rust eliminated lifetimes and ownership but maintained its rules for & and &mut, it would require garbage collection but still control mutability. On the other hand, if Rust allowed &mut freely and retained lifetimes, then you could have mutable shared state but no need for garbage collection.

The only doubt I have is, maybe freely permitting &mut would make lifetimes unsound? I haven't used Rust enough to be sure.
My only wish is that they could be offered as extensions, so I could choose what features I like than AI being shoved down on my throat.
There is a lot of gotcha outside of the obvious stuff.

For instance iOS's process management model means your program gets suspended if it goes too long in the background. Let's say you want to write an email in fullscreen while exporting your superb 4K movie in the background, tough luck.

Idem if you want to have multiple programs running video content in parrallel (or even look at multiple videos at the same time. Short of using a dedicated app, the default ones won't help you)

The browser situation could get resolved as the EU has pressured Apple to do it, but there is still a lot of things that could get improved to help power users, even outside of our circles.
official post: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/leadership-upd...

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40355255
The device makers may not think it's possible, but that doesn't mean it's not happening. The very definition of a vulnerability is something someone finds that someone does not know is possible.

This could also be a weasel answer. What they're saying is that apps are not allowed to do this via official permissions or channels in the OS. It's like YouTube saying there is no CSAM on YouTube. What they're saying is that they do not allow CSAM on YouTube and remove it when they find it, not that it can't possibly exist.

I posted this elsewhere as one possible method:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.01042

Phones have so many sensors with legitimate uses it might actually be hard to prevent an AI-enhanced sensor fusion approach from extracting this kind of information. Mitigations may require things like the injection of randomness into sensor feeds, which is also a mitigation used to prevent timing side channel attacks against hardware. But this is a lot harder to get right than it sounds. You have to make sure it's enough randomness to completely swamp the signal but not enough to destroy the usefulness of the system.

Then there are microphones in devices like smart TVs and other Wifi-enabled gadgets that have a well established history of shady behavior. It may not be your phone. It may be other devices in the room. But if your phone is there then your location can be matched to the data later in a data fusion pipeline.

As for these being crappy little companies: (1) if you listen to the pod or read some of the articles on this, some of them are larger companies like Cox Media Group and (2) crappy little companies are actually more likely to do shady fly by night shit.

I'd find it much more likely that some crappy little adware company would do something like this than Meta or Google, because the latter can be sued while the former will just evaporate if you try to sue it. But once the data is gathered it'd be sold to data brokers where it'd be fused with lots of other data and made available to larger companies to power their targeting algorithms. This is how the adtech industry operates. The shady stuff is done by disposable or offshore companies and then the data is laundered through the data broker market.

I don't know if acoustic eavesdropping is happening at any scale, but I am absolutely 100% sure that if it can be done it is being done by someone.
This would be wonderful. However one would need to verify when these laptops actually start shipping. Let’s hope for the best !
How would I go about using this to live translate phone calls?
Does the iPad not support a keyboard and mouse to be used like a laptop?
So far. :)
Perfectly good reason. They don’t want to cannibalize existing products. You never want the customer thinking there is no real difference between a MacBook and iPad. You want them to truly believe in the uniqueness of the product.

Iwatch was a master class in that bullshit. Took long enough but people did eventually realize it’s a shittier smaller phone lol (but we’re talking genuine levels of shittier).
When I asked similar questions physicists, turns out all of them were thought off and tested long time ago. E.g. small black holes would still cause detectable and attributable radiation.
Universal computation by attention: Running cellular automata on Claude 3 Opus
Two words: "Xerox PARC".
I'd say AI is already smarter than most humans...
hmm, $100 cheaper than the cricut maker 3 which i mentioned elsewhere
IBM Sharpens Its Edge with "Bonnell" Entry POWER10 System
Can also recommend new Motorolas. Currently on G52 with LineageOS (microg fork) and it feels as good as a factory ROM.

Previously I had a Moto One Action and the system had a few quirks, but overall was OK.
Honestly for this use case it’s easier to just buy a cheap second hand iPad for your kids. At least that way when they smash it, it’s only $200 to replace instead of whatever the latest pro costs now.
https://archive.ph/KjMqF/again?url=https://www.wsj.com/busin...
At some point security updates to iCloud logins break older systems. They don't intentionally break it when an OS goes out of support, but they don't fix it anymore, either.

There are versions of iOS on iPhone that can't do iCloud-stuff anymore.
I think it could be because stiff competition between chromeos and android team let to this decision. It's not good for consumers. I wish they merge both products into one and focus on what users want.
i would love to use vscode in the ipad. one barrier to having a similar experience one the mac is its filesystem. the Files app is nowhere near Finder in terms of utility.

when riding a bus in singapore, or flying short-distance, i feel awkward using my macbook. whereas if i use an ipad, i feel like it's more appropriate. this is just a personal preference though.

another thing i'd love for ipads to have is, allowing its display to be used as an external monitor.
To be fair, the app is just called "TV", and Apple TV is only the device, i.e. I'm not aware of any service called that.

As an occasional Chromecast (with Google TV) (4K) (running Android TV) user, I think Google wins this round of botched branding.

Edit: Of course it makes sense to clarify the app's name as "Apple TV", similarly to "Apple Podcasts" or "Apple Calendar", but that doesn't mean that's its official name.

Sure, Apple could have named it something memorable and unambigous like "CouchPotato" or "Bingetime" or whatnot, but that sounds more like early 2000s Apple from a branding point of view.
Over the past couple of years, living standards in Canada have deteriorated. The implicit social contract that was once in place for previous generations have been broken. While a majority of Canadians have fulfilled their end of the bargain, the government has not fulfilled theirs.

The Canadian Social Contract explicitly puts in writing what the people of Canada expect from both citizens and its government. The goal is to have this as a document you can bring to your political representative and have a conversation about how they are upholding their responsibilities while you uphold yours.

I thought this would be interesting for Canadian members of the Hackernews community. Thank you for taking the time to read it.
Google AdSense became a load-bearing pillar of the Internet before we realized what that meant, and now we (seemingly) can't get rid of it. Every new product is Yet Anotherᵀᴹ free service with a paid subscription tier, which will get more expensive, and the free tier is ad supported. Then the ads get more egregious. Then the free tier becomes a cheap, ad supported tier. Then the ads infiltrate the original paid tier. Then a new service with a fresh round of VC funding sets up to be the "ad free" version of the service that's now infested with ads, and as soon as their AWS bills creep up, the ads enter the new service, but hey there's a cheap subscription if you don't want ads...

Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
Samsung and googles past privacy practices scare the crap out of me. That’s why I own an iPad and not an android
I don't know why anyone would want to force a square peg into a round hole using an iPad as an actual computer. The Macbook Air is nearly identical in size, battery life etc.
Book: Ordering Your Private World
Do you even work with humans now? I get "Computer says no" out of corporations all the time as it is, AI is just completing that loop.
As I said, the battery model is drastically different for active trackers. 7 days of surreptitious monitoring vs 1 year changes the risk profile of noticing these trackers / how many you can have before the logistics of recharging all of them wears on you. And if you’re unlikely to recharge each of these every single day, your protection drops on average to 3.5 days.

It’s not just brand damage - passive tracking using every single smartphone opted into the tracking vs active tracking where you have to expend more battery AND pay for an ongoing cellular connection each month is a tangibly different use-case with different threat models.
AI in itself is cool, but right now it feels like a lot of manual labor is done to fine-tune it to try and compensate for its imperfect source materials to make it fit someone else's ideas of inclusivity and neutrality and the like, which defeats the purpose.
As plastic talks wrap up in Canada, fishers in Indonesia count the costs
Evasive Action.
Is Strix Halo launching on desktops? I'd have assumed that the 256b bus would restrict it to a unique socket.
Most alarmingly, many of the fruits of SV can be used to make dictatorships even more capable in crushing dissenters and extending the aegis of state into everyday life. Technology is morally neutral, it can be used for ill as well as good, and our worship of it as a panacea has blinded us to this possibility
They will have to increase transparency (rankings algo, pricing etc), allow data portability for users (and hotels), and avoiding self-preferencing of its services over competitors and face stricter regulatory oversight from EU.
Give some privacy on those android tablets and I’d have one. But android is scary for that. iPad = tablet that doesn’t make me worry about being studied and spied on
Hacking more than 130 000 car worldwide in 5 minutes
IBM introduces entry-level Power10 server and tower
Why is a monorepo blocking you from increasing release frequency? Are you releasing all components together or something?