skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of the tech companies are selling your data to advertisers. They allow advertisers to target people based on the data, but the data itself is never sold. And it would be dumb to sell it because selling targeted ads is a lot more valuable than selling data.

Just about everyone else other than the tech companies are actually selling your data to various brokers, from the DMV to the cellphone companies.
Warrant canary
If only they had shown examples of how they are integrating with calendars, emails, texts, photos. You should reach out to Apple's marketing department about producing better release videos that have examples of how the new features will be used. I bet they'd think it was a great idea!
The Core architecture saved Intel at a time it was headed for irrelevance with the PIII and P4. Both couldn't compete with comparable AMD offerings.
> I think this is exactly what _most_ people want.

Like seven people replied to say this, but they're all missing the trick.

Most people want this because they're guided to want it. If you show people the convenience but not the risk, of course they want something with an advantage and no apparent disadvantage. But the disadvantage exists, it's just not immediately obvious.

Then some corporate machine learning algorithm decides that it's your day to have a bad year, or the screws only get tightened after you're already locked in, and the regret comes some time after the decision is made.

Whereas the nerds who can see the inside of the machine are aware that this sort of thing happens and their response is no thank you. A starkly different preference from the people paying the most attention is a troubling sign. It's the early stages of this:

https://xkcd.com/743/

The thing that gets me is that people then defend the practice because it's likely to be successful. Lots of unsophisticated people are going to put all their eggs in one basket and then have a bad time, which is a result we should be trying to prevent, not defend the people causing it because they're likely to turn a profit. Companies making money on information asymmetries and the misfortune of others is a flaw we should be looking for ways to optimize out.
> You disagree, and pretending otherwise is pointless.

I don't know if I disagree, so I'm not sure why you think you know that either. My point here is that your claim as stated is indefensible.

> I can write a script to pick any amount of random articles from the New York Times dating back several decades, and you can try to find factual inaccuracies in a random selection of articles.

Now you're actually saying something. You made a prediction that could be tested. You're assuming the outcome for some reason, but the first part is great.

> No, because I'm not an expert, I listen to experts. Why make a weird made up situation?

So did some expert tell you that the vast majority of journalism is accurate? Because it sounds more like it's your gut feeling. Which is fine, it just doesn't make for a very compelling argument.

> This mentality is [...]

I don't know anything about any of that. I'm just wondering what the receipts are for your very broad claim. Is it just "journalists are experts, I trust experts, therefore the vast majority of journalism is accurate"?

That's at least well formed, but are all journalists experts? Are all experts trustworthy? What is considered journalism (is a blogger a journalist? Some would say yes. They're probably not all experts, right?)
Apple already runs China-only software on their devices, I suppose it just won't run there.
New Jersey Bill Will Make It Much More Difficult to Obtain Public Records
The full title is

> New Jersey Governor Signs Bill That Will Make It Much More Difficult To Obtain Public Records
Spatie/Pdf-to-Image v3.0
This is the norm, not the exception for big companies.

The more I spend time in mid-large companies, the more I'm amazed that that Apple somehow managed to avoid releasing three different messaging apps that do the same thing.
My daughter has been playing outside since she was 4 years old, unsupervised. She's 9 now. A lot of the other neighborhood kids have followed suit (I really suspect our "benign neglect" made the other parents thing "well if nothing bad happened to her our kids will be fine" and we have about 8-10 kids around the same age on the block that are constantly going to each other's houses and hanging out doing whatever it is they're doing (I don't really know, that's part of what makes it so great). It's almost 9pm right now, I have no idea where she is. She comes home when the street lights come on. The other day I gave her a $20 bill and she rode her bike to the Walmart nearby (no major streets on the way there). She bought her friends ice cream and was a hero. Sure there were hiccups, one time she stole the neighbors solar powered lanterns from his front yard, but we made her return them and apologize.

I guess our strategy is we just don't let her have any screens. They make her absolutely insane. So instead she leaves the house as soon as she can and goes out and plays. Even her 5 year old sister who is wheelchair bound goes with her a lot of the time, in the $1200 Thule buggy super stroller we bought (used). I guess we just lucked out, but we also insisted on it and kept letting her go out even after some woman called CPS on us for letting our kid be unsupervised. We live in a middle class neighborhood with people from dozens of countries and every major religions living together, and all our kids play together. I'm sure it's someone's mental image of the ideal childhood.
Richard Cornwell's emulator is implemented within the OpenSimH framework, and forms the basis of PiDP-10:

https://github.com/rcornwell/sims/tree/master?tab=readme-ov-...

From the GitHub entry:
The KA10 sim has successfully run Tops 10 4.5, 5.03 and 6.03, ITS and WAITS.
The KI10 sim has successfully run Tops 10 6.03 with VMSER.
The KL10 sim has successfully run Tops 10 6.03-7.03, ITS and Tops 20 V2-V7.
The KS10 sim has successfully run Tops 10, Tops 20 and ITS.

PiDP-10 can run a variety of PDP-10 operating systems, although the front-panel is specific to the early KA10 model.
Wires? Oh yeah, I remember when things had wires. Good times.
That's painting a very strange brush against religious folks, which does not at all match my observations (religious people can very easily talk about all sorts of things with other religious people (at least, those of vaguely similar religiosities), whereas conversations where at least one party is secular flicker and stagnate due to lack of known shared background)
> This is what OAuth attempts to do, and most users and devs I know like it.

Counterpoint from an interesting source:

https://gist.github.com/nckroy/dd2d4dfc86f7d13045ad715377b6a...
Threads also is popular.

Probably the mainstream Twitter alternative at this point?
Most suburbs? What suburbs are you referring to, exactly? The 'burbs I grew up in there was nothing nearby in a two mile radius. The only access to school was via bus or having my parents drive.
The link does not point to the topic headline.

Please use AskHN...
what are you, 3?
Product Hunt ignores platform abuse
Hey HN,

Earlier today I launched on PH and promoted my launch on LinkedIn. Many promoters contacted to pay for votes and I submitted the evidence to PH. They removed a lot of votes and unfeatured products very quickly.

Following WWDC, Apple Intelligence quickly got featured on the homepage and rise in the ranks. I reported that this isn’t the purpose of PH only for this request to be seen and ignored (intercom)

Now more than 4 hours later, no response and the only thing that changed is that the rankings disappeared from all posts.

My app was only making #11 but that cheap rise by whomever is running the post is just demoralising in a way.

This is my first experience launching with PH
If Apple can convince people that this isn't an open channel to their data by OpenAI, then this is a nothing burger. If not there will be a lot of companies rethinking Apple.

Remember that classic Apple commercial from 1983?

And you'll see why 1984 won't be like '1984'.

So true. It took another forty years.
You are indeed correct: only three screens on the CV port.
I don't think they actually expect "Apple Intelligence" to enter popular vernacular. I think it was more to drive home the distinction between what Apple is doing and what everybody else is doing.
For me it was a couple of X11 features not often found on mac or windows that made me think about the desktop in a desktop environment and what I want out of my window manager. My timeline sort of goes as follows.

1. focus follows mouse, the window you are pointing at gets the focus. This feels very strange at first. but pulls a surprising amount of friction out of working with multiple apps. However you have to pair this with.

2. don't raise on focus. this let you work on a lower window. to raise you click on a specific part of the window, usually the title bar. if you don't have this focus follows mouse is terrible. this lets you have the main window(usually the documentation or reference) open on top while you type away on the lower window.

3. At this point I heard of i3 and it made perfect sense to me. I have never said "boy I sure am glad this window is half covered up" I ether want one app full screen, two apps side by side(reference and work) or many small apps(terminals). why not just have the window manager enforce this instead of me fiddling with windows. these days I use mainly use spectrwm because it fills that perfect middle ground between too sparse(dwm) and too featured(i3).

That said, for my day to day operations(I sys-admin, so lots of terminals) it works great. however there are many apps that do not play well. for example, I recently set up a linux box for steam games and steam was not happy with i3(all menus were separate windows) this is probably fixable but I just went with a normal wm. And when I do actual work on it I am reminded why I like tiling wm's as I find myself shuffling windows all the time.

Closing thoughts, an example of a tiling wm internal to an app is blender, even before I started using tiling wm's I thought blender had a very good ui for getting work done, much better than the mdi type apps that were common at the time. so just imagine your whole desktop working that way. And tabs, really tabbed interfaces should be a function of your window manager not the app, but that ship has sailed and I don't think there is any way to fix it now.
Interesting, but I initially expected this to be about the unusual opening employed to victory by Magnus Carlson against Kacper Piorun on May 7, 2024[1] (1. a4 e5 2. Ra3).

It's even more interesting because an unknown IRL Chess.com player named Viih_Sou (since revealed to be Brandon Jacobson[2][3]) used this opening to defeat Daniel Naroditsky on May 2, 2024[4] only to be subsequently banned for violating the Fair Play Policy[5].

[1] https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/108840009759?tab=re...
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1claxsm/its_me_viih_...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Jacobson
[4] https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/108394316331?tab=re...
[5] https://www.chess.com/blog/Utkarsho/a-grandmaster-account-ge...
Quite interesting this was released right after multiple rants from Elon sparked debates on X.

"If Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level, then Apple devices will be banned at my companies. That is an unacceptable security violation."

Replying to Tim Cook:
"Don’t want it.
Either stop this creepy spyware or all Apple devices will be banned from the premises of my companies."

"It’s patently absurd that Apple isn’t smart enough to make their own AI, yet is somehow capable of ensuring that OpenAI will protect your security & privacy!

Apple has no clue what’s actually going on once they hand your data over to OpenAI. They’re selling you down the river."

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1800269249912381773
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1800266437677768765
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1800265431078551973
> If you believe every outcome happens then one thing happening with higher probability than another loses meaning. The decision theory argument put forward by some many worlds proponents fails to solve this as it just provides a calculation you can do that produces the Born probabilities. It doesn't provide a convincing interpretation of them.

What further interpretation is needed? To the extent that we have a number we can measure, we have a calculation that can predict it. More interpretation would be nice, but fundamentally every interpretation of QM has this problem, it's not a unique problem with MWI.

> It assumes an infinite multiverse that is splitting into infinite variants in every infinitesimal instant, in possibly the grossest violation of conservation of momentum and energy (and therefore the corresponding symmetries) that could be imagined.

It assumes continuous unitary evolution that preserves momentum and energy in exactly the way you'd expect, exactly the way we already assume they work. Accepting that you can reasonably make calculations about infinitesimal changes is literally the foundation of physics, it's how Newton was able to make a theory of gravity (and people were just as unhappy about it then).
True. It's as if any piece could kill the king in transition.

And yet other pieces can't kill that pawn in passing. Only another pawn.

We shouldn't try to find too much logic.
Let's assume that AI is human level (it's not, but humour me). Let's assume that businesses can buy an off-the-shelf black box of AI that will run whatever business IT process they want to run. Customer data goes in, actions for humans to perform come out. It's basically an automated call centre full of humans.

Now something goes wrong. A customer isn't getting what they ordered. What do you do about it?

Do you just drop the customer? Well that's lost revenue, or an easy win for another company, you don't want to do that. Maybe you tell the AI to fix the customer in a particular way and hope it will do so. If it does, all it takes is having a human available to fix it (a customer support dept, even if tier 2), but if it doesn't fix it now you still need all the software you needed before to fix it.

I've built line-of-business software before, and I've over-automated things before. Being able to inspect the state of systems, and being able to manually change things in software, is incredibly valuable. This is why spreadsheets run businesses.

My bet is that companies will still mostly buy the software they were buying before, but that some of the interactions with that software that humans would have done before, AI tools will action instead. All the same CMSs, CRMs, ERPs, and other TLAs will exist, they'll just be augmented with AI. They'll probably do some more interesting things with that AI, but they'll still exist in fundamentally the same way. Companies are not going to entrust their business to a black box that sometimes says no.
I also have a coworker who is an Apple victim who had previously complained to me that he couldn't get the microphone on his headset working with his iPhone, but I don't know what brand the headset was.

So that made me even more inclined to think Apple has gimped their USBC ports to sell more dongles and airpods.
Is it possible to have zero knowledge AI?
> BUT what do you think about that weird business with the s scaling factor that supposedly rescales the Delta function so that it takes a finite value at 0? I can't yet prove what kind of animal s is supposed to be. It's like some kind of funky infinitesimal.

Strictly speaking, it's nonsense. What they're probably actually doing is taking the limit of the result for shells of nonzero thickness as thickness goes to zero.
I just wish they fix the backward compatibility issue. Every upgrade they break perfectly working build.
>Highly constrain your inputs and limit what the robot is supposed to accomplish and you will have an achievable goal.

I think this is the key take away. I work in an industrial plant we have a large amount of things that are automated but I would say they are "dumbly automated".

For example we have automated cranes. This sounds fancy and sophisticated but the whole system is designed to be as dumb as possible.

The Cranes are overhead cranes that run on fixed rails. This immediately limits the degrees of freedom in which crane can move. The whole operation is to pick up object at location A, deposit it at B then travel back to A and repeat. It is always picking up the same objects, with same dimensions/weight etc.

The whole thing is designed to be as dumb as possible it does exactly one thing, I imagine if it suddenly had to pick up a different type of object with different dimensions it would require rewrites etc.
Macs aren't made for fancy people like yourself (any longer). No money in it, unfortunately.
I walked to the gas station with my dog and two kids, and had a guy yell at me that my kids were going to get kidnapped while I went inside for 5 minutes to buy us some waters and snacks. The biggest hurdle for us letting our children be free range and able to do things on their own has definitely been paranoid parents and busybodies who watched Sound of Freedom and think that every girl is going to immediately get sex trafficked to Guatemalan drug lords (or whatever, I didn't watch the movie) if she leaves her parent's sight for a second.
It’s also available on macOS.
it’s not “billions of universes springing up”, it’s just simple wavefunction evolution according to the laws we already know.

“collapse” seems much more arbitrary, especially as we are able to construct larger and larger objects that are best described by wavefunction mechanics. it seems obvious we just become entangled with the experiment through decoherence. idk, it probably is non-falsifiable
Rubicon by Tom Holland. I am currently (re)reading Gibbon.
Out of interest, how did the interaction with CPS go?
Aren't Playstation games doing exactly this?
Those who dislike censorship and enjoy hacking avoid iPhones for obvious reasons.
Came exactly to say this.

We often don't solve technical problems or write algorithm. We're here to understand a client who doesn't know what he wants. Good luck for the general purpose AI to solve this [1] "If Architects had to work like Programmers"

[1] https://archive.is/r4l6C
> you would only need to sanitize control inputs

I'm pretty far from the multiplayer game dev scene, but isn't this close to how a lot of multi player sync works anyway? Just* distribute everyone's control inputs and have them all run a deterministic simulation. And then I guess you would run the same input cheat detection on all the honest clients, which are hopefully the majority... Is this impossible or did I just reinvent something that already exists?

* Yes, I know. But at least I know determinism is possible.
How do you build Stripe payments with LLMs.

Only very shallow SaaS may be killed with LLMs but not 98% of em.
A) They don't have to have that in writing, it's very implicity understood that you don't bite the hand that feeds. B) Even if they do find adverse results, depending on what they are (e.g. actively harmful versus negative results) you may have a hard time publishing them since journals don't care much for negative results.
As far back as Aristotle, anyone who put a moment's though into it realized that eye beams were nonsense. They are like modern superstrings - any theory that includes them works works just as well if you remove them and keep the rest of the theory.

http://web.stanford.edu/class/history13/earlysciencelab/body...
Here's the answer to the "what's taking Apple so long to get on the LLM train?" folks. Per usual, they lag a bit and then do it better than anyone else.
I used to use Slate[0] to manage my windows but have since switched to Raycast since it was a more enjoyable experience.

I have a 49" ultrawide so it's super useful to have precise control over where a window goes. I also use 3 desktops (as Apple calls them) and have different windows sizes depending on what I'm doing. Having overlapping windows would just be super annoying now!

[0] https://github.com/jigish/slate
Postgres RLS is sophisticated enough to implement any auth model I've seen. The issue there is the same as the rest: that's rare expertise compared to a web framework and there's not much tooling to verify your implementation matches your spec. It's not how much do you trust postgres it's how much do you trust your knowledge of postgres.

That said I've worked on a profitable company's main product that was a full blown webapp running on postgrest and it was awesome. If you do have the expertise in house, and are willing to build some custom tooling around it, it's ideal for certain applications.

IMO its niche is nearly pure backend teams building out prototypes and proofs of concept, or feeling out a market or new product. If it works and you want to throw more resources at it, it's a smooth transition to just start building a real frontend around the DB you already have.
There are a number of takes on this. Everything from limited physical expressiveness, to fundamentally different and more limited conversational abilities in group settings, to a lack of physical preference having subtle emotional changes in how the setting is experienced and probably more things that have been and are being researched.

As a microcosm of community breakdown and virtual replacing physical space, just look at the psychological and social impacts of virtual schooling during COVID-19 lockdowns. Obviously, the existential dread of illness, stress of family finances and restricted freedom are all confounding here, so the extent to which physical versus virtual played a role is debatable. Even so, I don't think there's much debate at all that Zoom meetings are in any way a viable substitute for in person classroom teaching and social development.
It's not just about killing projects. It's specifically about:

1. Getting loads of government incentives to build an office/factory in some locale.

2. Start the project, then when the winds change, leave it as a blight/eyesore for years without having any incentive to do anything about how you dropped a big turd in a community based on false promises.

I don't have a problem when companies change plans due to changing market conditions. I do have a problem when they don't clean up their messes in a timely manner.
It's a better language.
I assure you aim-bots are easily detectable, as many simply use client log-replay comparisons. People will often get bounced to a cheaters server at some point while the admins laugh at their antics while trying to QA the issue.

Have a great day, and let the ban-hammer fall =)
It'll get you when the battery life drops to 4 hours screen time.
You must have missed the part where I said "Any attempt at illegitimate access needs to crack both wireguard and ssh."

It doesn't push the problem to wireguard. It requires wireguard to be broken as a pre-requisite for trying their hand at your sshd, and then they also need to break your sshd.
I am doing em.
Yeah real smart move to make your products initials unusable and unsearchable. Apple has done it again
I just tell them my hourly rate and ask how thorough of a review they are looking for.

I've yet to get a bite.
Keychain already allow for imports from a .CSV file for years now.
sure it’s unfalsifiable in that there is always an interpretation of copenhagen that will predict the same thing as MWI, but if we are able to construct a very large object that doesn’t show “collapse”, it seems vibe-wise that the same process is what is happening to us when we make a measurement, just more chaotically (aka decoherence)
This most definitely does not describe the suburban hellscape that most American suburbs are.
Except that such gifts were not bribes.

Bribery is a specific charge that is leveled when used to gain advantage to people in official (usually government) positions.

Giving gifts to conference attendees is as old as conferences are.

Besides, this dates back to 2008…