skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I think another facet of trust here is that a rather big part of Apple's business model is privacy. They've been very successful financially by creating products that generate money in other ways, and it's very much not necessary or even a sound business idea for them to do something else."

If a third party wants that data, whether the third party is an online criminal, government law enforcement or a "business partner", this idea that Apple's "business model" will somehow negate the downsides of "cloud computing", online advertising and internet privacy is futile. Moreover, it is a myth. Apple is spending more and more on ad services, we can see this in its SEC filings. Before he died, Steve Jobs was named on an Apple patent application for showing ads during boot. The company uses "privacy" as a marketing tactic. There is no evidence of an ideological or actual effort to avoid the so-called "tech" company "business model". Apple follows what these companies do. It considers them competitors. Apple collects a motherload of user data and metadata. A company that was serious about privacy would not do this. It's a cop out, not a trade off.

To truly avoid the risks of cloud computing, online advertising and associated privacy issues, choosing Apple instead of Google is a half-baked effort. Anyone who was serious about it would choose neither.

Of course, do what is necessary, trust whomever; no one is faulting anyone for making practical choices, but let's not pretend choosing Apple and trusting it solves these problems introduced by so-called "tech" company competitors. Apple pursues online advertising, cloud computing and data collection. All at the expense of privacy. With billions in cash on hand, it is one of the wealthiest companies on Earth, does it really need to do that.

In the good old days, we could call Apple a hardware company. The boundaries were clear. Those days are long gone. Connect an Apple computer to a network and watch what goes over the wire wth zero user input, destined for servers controlled by the mothership. There is nothing "private" about that design.
Or HN's actual API, which isn't rate limited: https://github.com/HackerNews/API
Doesn't Blender's main rendering engine, Cycles, sort of use ray tracing (path tracing, I believe)?
> Also, the pawn can’t deliver checkmate, can it, if it can be taken en passant? It probably is possible to construct a position where taking en passant would bring the king into check in another way, but in those cases, the en passant move isn’t possible.

I believe I've managed to construct a situation where this is the case. The key is that the pawn that would be able to take en passant is being pinned (e.g. by a queen or rook) with the king directly behind it, such that the pawn cannot perform any captures. Then, you just need to make sure all of the squares adjacent to the king are threatened, and finally actually put the king into check via a pawn advancing two squares.

Technically, the c4 pawn cannot be taken en passant (i.e. this is an illegal move) because it would expose the black king to a different check. But I think this is in the spirit of your question.

Contrived game (which you should be able to import into https://www.chess.com/analysis or https://lichess.org/analysis):

1. e4 d6 2. e5 Kd7 3. h4 Kc6 4. Rh3 d5 5. a4 d4 6. Raa3 Kc5 7. Rhg3 Kb4 8. Rg4 Qe8 9. Rag3 Qd8 10. Rg5 Kxa4 11. Rd3 Kb5 12. Ra3+ Kb6 13. d3 Kb5 14. Be2 Kc5 15. Bg4 Qd5 16. Rb3 Qe4+ 17. Ne2 Qxd3 18. Qxd3 Kd5 19. Rb6 a6 20. Nbc3+ Kc5 21. Na4+ Kd5 22. c4#

Or, if you just want to see the end state: blob:https://www.chess.com/20486c7e-a582-41ef-9f1a-bb6fdea2ca36 (seems to work in Chrome, not in Firefox)

(also: https://lichess.org/editor/rnb2bnr/1pp1pppp/pR6/3kP1R1/N1Pp2...)
This is giving off HackerNews DropBox vibes :)
East Germany? Why do you call that a good example of socialism? Post-wall coming down it was mostly East Germans coming to West Germany, less of the reverse. Even today the eastern half of Germany is typically socioeconomically lower on most stats, and a lot of that stems from decades of decisions made in DDR.
> Joining the race to the bottom to the Chinese surveillance state?

Look up chat control and Digital Services Act.
The Greek AI Ecosystem
Why curl closes PRs on GitHub
> Google is an ad company, they have a full model of what you like and dont like at different states of your life built.

Thats not what I was saying. I was saying that Apple extract more information than google does. I was not saying that Apple process it to make a persona out of you. Thats not the issue here. Apple is saying that they are a "Privacy first" company. To be that, you need to not be extracting data in the first place.

Yes, they make lots of noise about how they do lots of things on device. Thats great and to be encouraged. But Apple are still extracting your friend list, precise location, financial records, various biometrics, browsing and app history. ANd for sure, they need some of that data to provide services.

But whats the data life cycle? are they deleting it on time? who has access to it, what about when a new product wants to use it? how do they stop internal bad actors?

All I want you to do is imagine that Facebook has made iOS, and the iphone, and is now rolling out these features. They are saying the same things as Apple, do you trust them?

Do you believe what they say?

I don't want Apple to fail, I just want people to think critically about a very very large for profit company. Apple is not our friend, and we shouldn't be treating them like they are.
they have this thing called "dont use facebook" :)

i know, they should probably let people use the service without various data collections, but still, perhaps people should stop signing over their soul to these crappy companies?
I think this fails to take into account that your opponent can also roll 'meh', making it your turn again.
what is cvbp? google yields nothing.
100% agree with this. Some success stories with Gleam OTP in the wild will be amazing. I'm sure they will come
The European tech job market is... not great. You're not alone in this issue, it doesn't have to do with you, companies are extremely picky.

Best advice I can give is to stop applying for vacancies and start networking.
Slaanesh smiles.
well, it all might be circuits giving birth to consciousness-es. like when matter bounced around and formed planets and stuff, except it's information parsed by evolving circuits in as many forms as possible just because there's always this one dude or dudette who's a bit slow on the uptake.

but then again, go outside and holla that fake shit. everyones trained and tutored by of through and for emotional bondage. even, or rather, thanks to the dreaming mind the art itself is disconnected and alienated from the manipulated and corrupt artist. it's not the kids playing music anymore, it's their shadows or their guts if you so will. once the music stops they are all back to being regular bots again. we all have only so much energy for putting up a good show, there's none left for playing our selves, for being honest, which is why it's easier to outsource as much as possible to digital and superego algorithms; just choose a flavor or more and the sim remains stable and fun and the kids will have stuff to digest and remix forever
That 2nd one is actually really good. :)
If non-metabolic bots are using 'bot' with each other they should go ahead — it's their word, after all.
Surprised at the mention of TPUs. Apple used Google cloud for its training?
Managers watch commit histories? Haven't ever heard of something like that.
Attestation requires a root of trust, i.e. if data hashes are involved in the computation, you have to be able to trust that the hardware is actually using the real data here. Apple has this for your device, because they built it. You don't have it for their server, making the whole thing meaningless. The maximum information you can get out of this is "Apple trusts Apple".

Under the assumption that Apple is telling the truth about what the server hardware is doing, this could protect against unauthorized modifications to the server software by third parties.

If however, we assume Apple itself is untrustworthy (such as, because the US government secretly ordered them to run a different system image with their spyware installed) then this will not help you at all to detect that.
Funny enough, you can use a passkey to log in with Nintendo
> Who will ever look up a song and favourite it on Spotify if there are no humans behind it?

"Obscurest Vinyl" has 249,608 monthly listeners on Spotify. No one is interested in the humans behind their hit "I Glued My Balls To My Butthole Again".
Probably confusing it with spray grass seeds. From a distance, it does look a lot like green paint on dirt before it starts growing. Commonly used in the US for landscaping post-construction, especially after road work on steep slopes.
In what ways are desktop Windows boxes as closed as Apple? I would say there are many many things to fault Microsoft for, but closing down the OS has never been one of them (though that is gradually changing outside the EU, to be fair).
There is no direct confrontation because that would be WWIII.
Only proxy wars like the one happening now.

RFERL is US-government funded, and the audience is mainly eastern Europe.
Even PBS in the US is not funded by the US government.

Why exclusively fund RFERL for a foreign audience if you do not fund your national public broadcaster?
I went through this myself. I was a 15 year JS/TS developer who had been doing web work even longer than that in my mid 40s. I changed careers last year. It felt like starting over but it was completely worth it.

My long time painful observations:

For the longest time the corporate web business back was dominated by Java. Some of the people doing that work were incredible engineers but many were not. Many of the people were praying, some still do, that Web Assembly would replace JavaScript because it scared the shit out them. It was both sad and incompetent. You couldn’t talk about this because it made people wildly emotional.

Observation two is that JS people were just as fearful and emotional, perhaps much more so, but about almost everything. Many of these people were expert beginners who built a career based on complex nonsense because many of them never really learned to program and would supplement their practical deficits with stacks of tools, frameworks, abstractions, and so forth. Again, you couldn’t rationally talk to people about this without them becoming hyper emotional because it destroys a persons definition of worth and credibility.

The best thing that happened to me was being laid off and waiting for something different.
1) yes:)

2) that is entirely NOT true. You should install little snitch and see what happens even if you NEVER sign into icloud. note that the phone home contact is not immediate, it happens in the background at random intervals from random applications.

just some random services blocked by little snitch on a mac:

accountsd, adprivacyd, airportd, AMPLibraryAgent, appstoreagent, apsd, AssetCacheLocatorService.xpc, cloudd, com.apple.geod.xpc, com.apple.Safari.SafeBrowsing.Service, commerce, configd, familycircled, mapspushd, nsurlsessiond, ocspd, rapportd, remindd, Safari, sntp, softwareupdated, Spotlight, sutdentd, syspolicyd, touristd, transparencyd, trustd, X11.bin

(never signed into an apple id)
> Shoes in the house, dog, no house cleaners, the whole family did our own gardening and lawn care

That's just a normal upbringing.
You're conflating shipping with release.

Of course, many tasks take more than a day to do well. That doesn't mean you can't break it up into atomic parts and ship each part every day (behind a feature flag).

I personally find the hubris of disappearing into a branch for many days without any feedback incredibly offputting. If you're working on a team, your team should be able to see your daily progress.
Arm warns of actively exploited flaw in Mali GPU drivers
* actually deleted my reply, a non-troll cannot say this
There are already numerous third party sites that crawl HN and use its API. Your comments here are public, no one needs your permission to use them.
The false premise is that the religious explanation is the default or incumbent explanation, which must then be bettered or countered by "challenger" explanations such as science. It tries to frame the argument with religion as the "defending champion" for challengers to somehow unseat ("atheists need to explain how...").

In reality, of course, religious explanation has no such presumptive default or incumbent status. Religious explanations are just one of many potential explanations for how the world works and compete on equal terms with any other. And when the religious explanation really just boils down to some variant of "god did it", it becomes very obvious how inadequate that is compared to even the worst scientific attempts.

Related: religious apologists constantly try to pretend that criticisms or problems identified with scientific explanations somehow count as points in favor of their religious alternative. This is also a false idea. It is not a debate, where pointing out flaws in your opponent's argument helps yours "win". It is a search for truth, and finding fault with another theory does nothing at all to enhance your own.
Exactly - nothing is for free. They explicitly state that PCC data gets destroyed after a response is returned.

Are the anonymized queries (minus user data context) worth anything?

It’s gotta be some kind of subscription/per query charge model to pay for the servers, electricity, and bandwidth.
Lakes can have currents.

I wonder if pedantically speaking the definition of lake would include non-tidal in many countries but ....

A) humans use names sloppily and if it's an important detail I wouldn't assume a lake is non-tidal without checking.

B) non-tidal bodies of water might still change height over the year, for example after a heavy rainfall.

Mainly I'd question the need to automate it. It's difficult, and in many cases the cost of a human to drive it is tiny compared to all the other costs you need to pay so just do that (as in the article - those weren't automated). Also, driving them can be fun :-)
much more likely that the culprits will be people with proper sight and values refusing to occupy the relevant positions in society, economy and politics.
> Apple is very intrusive. Macos phones home all the time.

The platform is heavily internet-integrated, and I would expect it to periodically hit Apple servers. There are a lot of people claiming to be security researchers reporting what Little Snitch told them. There are drastically fewer who would introspect packets and look for any gathered telemetry.

I really haven't seen evidence Apple is abusing their position here.

> Everything goes to icloud by default. I've gotten new devices and boom, it's uploading everything to iCloud.

You need to enable iCloud. You are prompted.

Also, a new device should have next to nothing to upload to iCloud, as its hard disk is still in the factory configuration.

> I think apple should allow a personal you-have-all-your-data iCloud

They have desktop backup. Maybe they should allow third party backup Apps on iPhone, although I suspect data would be encrypted and blinded to prevent abuses by third parties, and recovery would be challenging because today recovery is only possible on a known-state filesystem. The recovery aspect is what really has limited it to the handful of approaches implemented directly by Apple.
> do most of the hard work, and give it to somebody else to finish up the easy part and ship the solution

once I realized that the hardest part is actually _finishing_
This is basically encouraged by the Apple Appstore and Playstore because they sell those spots for money, and it's an obviously easy way to make an app that will generate revenue for the scammer and the store.
Can you find a source for this claim for European countries? I personally can't but maybe my scholar foo is bad.
The author mentions lustre, the web framework for Gleam that was inspired by Elm. I really like Elm. However, the limitation for me was the lack of a really robust component library. When I say component library, I don’t mean aesthetics but function. For example, a feature complete search bar with autocomplete, multiselect, create, delete, clear, etc. functionality. The reason I use typescript is because of component libraries like Mantine where generic components such as a search bar are already implemented, fully functional and accessible. I hope someone sees this gap and tries to fill it so that functional languages can be viable on the web!
Are you me? :-D
Same story, had an AST 386 which I upgraded to a 486 DX33... I learned to program in the 90s by writing povray scene files, which taught me C style syntax and primed me to write actual C/C++/Java in the years that followed. I spent thousands of hours with povcad and povray on windows 3.1...
The Acme of Software [video]
or pay them for the data.
What's wrong with the URL in the query?
No one is going to train an AI on random user generated data. The data is going to be horrible and it’s going to be full of PII that’s too risky to expose.
Not a huge fan either – mainly because it’s hard to interact with it purely via the keyboard.

Depending on the implementation, I am however looking forward to this. I need to use some systems that only provide 2FA via a mobile app (i.e. Push OTP), and having to reach for my phone during work hours is pretty bad for my productivity and flow.

(I really prefer TOTP, which I can just let 1Password handle…)
Ask HN: List of Australian /New Zealand VC
I wonder if anyone has a list / spreadsheet with links to all AU / NZ VC? An additional useful item in here would be a link to their portfolio / companies and jobs at each
Starbucks is in the business of selling milk, mainly. That’s where they make the most money. If you’re going to serve someone a “coffee” drink with 30 oz. of dairy, the espresso has to be as black as tar or it won’t be tasted at all. This is the main reason Starbucks roasts the coffee as they do.

The second reason is cheap consistency: it’s harder to do a medium roast blend and get a reliable flavor profile than to just burn everything to ash.
> And if not, it seems literally impossible to prevent so you may as well give up.

But if you give up, and your game's competitors don't, players will switch games. The way I see it, a game developer anti-cheat goals isn't necessarily to have no cheaters, but definitely to have less cheaters than your competitor.
Here, a regional town in Australia; we had the council approve build of a petrol station on one side of a children’s crossing from a school block.

No joke; the children’s crossing now terminates on the “island” of the petrol station, with entry and exit for the vehicles of the station either side of the island.

It boggles my mind, truly. I fear it’s only a matter of time before someone gets hurt.

So.. not hard to relate with your post.

I can’t help but notice how poorly people treat eachother in the bigger cities, too. To the point I get constantly complemented for just being a decent person, or aggressively attacked for the same.

Not sure what the answer for any of these problems is..
WWDC24: The next generation of CarPlay design system – Apple [video]
I believe this is on the roadmap for the Lustre framework.
Apparently eating rotten meat could have been very common.

https://paleoanthro.org/media/journal/content/PA20170044.pdf
Apple will obey government orders to give data they have and can access.

No government order short of targeting a specific backdoored update to a specific person will allow them to give data they can't access.

And if you're doing something that can make a TLA force Apple to create a targeted iOS update just for you, it's not something regular people can or should worry about.

Apple keeps normal people safe from mass surveillance, being protected from CIA/NSA required going Full Snowden and it's not a technological problem, you need to change the way you live.
A seriously important point you make.

The little bit of time it takes to annotate the type that the function
returns will save a lot of time when other people take over the codebase.

Humans are not great compilers and spending time try to figure out what the
hell is returned from a function
The Work of Art
Can't follow you there, especially given the first paragraph of the text, two lines below your quote is:

> Example: Hitler came to power by putting forward the conspiracy theory the Jews are solely responsible for all of Germany’s issues [1] and that repressing them would solve them. And so when repressions didn’t do lead to any improvement (by the way, jews were less than 1% of the population[2] of Germany) all he could do in order not to expose himself as a fraud was to repress them even more.

In my understanding, the definition hence covers literal Nazis, but not really the author?

I'm confused as to which group of people you're referring to.
Show HN: Fold, the UI component library for product teams
Hi HN! I'm excited to share that Fold Pro (Early Access) has finally launched.

Fold is a React based UI component library built specifically for developers building SaaS products or internal dashboards. Early Access is the first release of Fold Pro, which gives developers access to premium components built on top of Fold.

I started working on Fold about a year and a half ago to scratch my own itch of building a modern UI component library, with zero runtime dependencies (other than React). I’ve simply seen too many frontend stacks built on a house of cards, where managing dependencies & build pipelines becomes a full time job.

The open source core of Fold [1] launched about 6 months ago and finally, the first set of Pro components have just launched. The initial set of components include a Kanban Board, Todo List, Calendar, Data Grid, CSV Importer and Date Picker - with a few others on the way. You can check out the roadmap [2] to see what’s planned.

The overall vision of Fold is to deliver a great DX and to enable small (and big) teams & indies to deliver high quality product experiences, quickly and without spending a large amount of money.

What’s next?

There's a lot planned in terms of next steps, but getting Pro as stable as possible and improving the documentation are top priorities. Early Access will finish up with mobile support, when Fold Pro will go into a more regular release cadence.

Hope you like it! Any feedback is highly appreciated, so please leave any comments or questions below. If you want to find out more, please check out the website [3] or the GitHub Discussions page [4].

[1] https://github.com/fold-dev/fold

[2] https://github.com/orgs/fold-dev/projects/8/views/2

[3] https://fold.dev

[4] https://github.com/fold-dev/fold/discussions/249
> just tax fuel (or emissions etc)

No, because that harm small fun sports cars. The problem is big cars. Just ban big cars.
Nice game, I like the idea of your, opponent and no turn. I made a similar game long time back (around 2014) also called Probabilistic Tic Tac Toe ( https://shubhanshu.com/PT3/ ), but my randomization rules were different. I used coin toss to decide on the move vetween two choices.

Old HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12932183
What's the alternative? You expected your high school mates to use mastodon?
The the term TPU a Google trademark? I'm understanding it to mean any ML focussed ASIC or supplemental SOC hardware.
It takes a bit of effort to setup and train a proper GPT-2 model, especially if you are not familiar with GPU drivers and python environment.

Also don't try to train GPT-2 on your own machine as it takes days, even with a good gaming GPU.

If you are interested in trying it out, but don't have the right GPU or OS, you can check out the guide I wrote on how I did it on Azure with T4 GPU instance:

https://16x.engineer/2023/12/29/nanoGPT-azure-T4-ubuntu-guid...