skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The affected services are said to include Phone Mirroring, SharePlay Screen Sharing, and Apple Intelligence

Let me me start by saying that Apple largely made its own bed here and has little room to complain about the rules not being clear (re: DMA) when they pull the same shit with their App Store:

Dev: Can I release an App that does X?

Apple: Build it, submit it, and then we will decide

But the EU has also made their bed and this is a direct result of the DMA and not 100% punitive IMHO.

I’m sure it’s slightly punitive but I also can see where Apple is coming from. They must be wary about releasing new features deeply baked into the OS that the EU might use the DMA to try to force them to open them up. I’m guessing they want to play a “wait and see” game for how far they get pushed on the existing features that are up in the air (DMA-compliance-wise) because they throw more feature out there.
It is real. My partner has it. Interestingly, she is really good it visualizing 3D concepts in her mind, but not images. For example, when she walks through an apartment she can instantly draw a blueprint. Or when we move in multi-story building, she knows exactly where we are conceptually (I always get lost). So, these two things don't seem to be connected.
You just use Mac or Linux without changing anything?
> I think it's fair to say I'm being dramatic by saying it's a drop in the bucket.

I don't think it's dramatic. The whole anti-tourist arguments are based on, to put it charitably, politically-motivated specious reasoning. In this particular example, this whole argument is based on these assumptions:

* making available each and every single one of those 15k houses for long-term rentals or sales instead of making them available for short-term rentals would prevent or significantly attenuate the existing housing crisis,

* Demand for short-term rentals has no positive impact on the housing market by creating demand for real estate investments and urban renewal programmes,

* Regulating away short-term rentals would not shift demand to classic HORECA offerings, which results in replacing whole residential buildings or even city blocks right in the city center. See for example Hotel Arts Barcelona or W Barcelona.

The whole anti-tourist sentiment is based on nonsense, like assuming that just because a luxury suite is on AirBnB it would otherwise be made available as affordable housing for working-class family.

And should I point out the "tourists go home, refugees welcomed" self-defeating propaganda piece?
Do your Human Design profile and see how much it fits.

Our society expects everyone to be a Generator (in HD terms) - all people who are not then feel like they're totally weird. In reality, they're just wired differently, and have other strengths and weaknesses.

Humanity is like a big puzzle piece.

As someone who never was into astrology, Human Design was a shock.

I didn't want to even consider that idea at all, but as I got my design read by someone I never met, and it matched 95% of what I already knew about myself, I had to admit that it just fits. And so it is for most people - it fits.

Whereas astrology always was a lame 50/50 "could be true or not true" kind of thing. HD is different.

For example I have open head centers - in HD this means I take in thoughts from others and get carried away with them; I also have an easy time to still my mind and have no inner dialogue.
And in my life I had already observed if I am talking to someone who is genuinely really excited about something, I get excited about it too - to the point where I am joining their project or decide to buy a book etc - but when they leave and it wears off I am thinking... "wait... why was that so exciting again?"... Now I know how to watch it, and how to distinguish their emotions and thoughts from mine, very useful skill.
Can It Run Doom?
>I don't have trouble with a multidimensional array or a graph.

So you can visualize a graph, as if it were drawn out on a sheet of paper?
Just what it sounds like: a rod made of amber[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber
Yes because a $3 ride on a public bus is exactly like a $23 ride in a Waymo car.
Never heard of V, looks very interesting...
Can we go back to, politely, saying to these things that it's not appropriate at all? I'm annoyed at these predatory men turning tolerance against those who preach it and make me look bad as a man. If you tolerate everything, you'll be left without any values at all.
There is approximately 0% chance that the speed limit decreed by faceless bureaucrats is the optimal speed for the current circumstances on a given road.
wow what a hateful article :/ It's even full of horrible lies/misinformation, e.g. claiming trans women can't breastfeed (they can, even according to the journal of lactation: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08903344231170559 ).

Also why is this being posted here? SEO spam?
I found them on a website listing the doctors for various XML-based file formats, I didn't realise it was out of date, sorry. Still, that doesn't change anything, my point stands. XML typically has horrible doctypes which are impossible to remember and ugly to look at or parse. I'm not critiquing SVG but XML after all.
<sigh/>

Somehow, the needs of the 1% - especially to dominate their in-group's Performative Activism rankings - always trump the real-world needs of the 99%.
Personally I believe HN could do with some enforcement of the rule against self-promotion.

(Edit: I think this is simple enough, just use HN's existing canonical link algorithm and see if the comments for a particular destination exceed the desired rate.)
>Interesting test. I apparently am about as high as you can likely get a percentile score to go for the number of questions here on inner voice and representational manipulation, and as low as possible on mind's eye and orthographic representation

Interesting, it's the same for me. I'm 94th and 98th percentile on the first two, but 2nd and 25th percentile for the other two. Since we're both on a (primarily) science and tech oriented website, I wonder if there's any correlation between ones occupation/hobbies/skills and their method of thinking.

Also, I'm surprised to hear that I'm an extreme outlier when it comes to the mind's eye. When I think about it, even recalling the face of my partner (who I see daily, including this morning) is not easy and comes out very fuzzy. But I have no problems with imagining complex geometry, maps, navigation, etc.
I built my GNU/Linux config years ago. The amount of time I spend changing things per year is asymptotically approaching zero.

My other comment was not actually about that though. It was about my computer not actually fighting me over random things, such that I have to circumvent normal means like using the Windows Registry to get what I want done. If you get to the point where you're twiddling with Registry values, you have sunken a lot of time into that problem.
On every new Windows device I set up, I disable everything via a powershell script. The fact that no one complains about things missing tells me that very few people even make use of the "features" Windows now has.
Could it be that the technical nature of your website creates a biased sample? I'd estimate that the difference between Firefox and Chrome users in spoofing their user-agent and blocking trackers is far less than the bias created by sampling HN for example.
>Interestingly, she is really good it visualizing 3D concepts in her mind, but not images.

I don't understand what that is supposed to mean. How can you understand the blueprint of a building without seeing a representation of that building in your head?
The other ones for me:

- "go to your happy place", or "imagine you are on an island..."

- counting sheep to fall asleep. I just couldn't visualize them.
It's amazing how I've been running Linux as my daily driver for 20+ years and never had problems other people raise about Linux drivers.
A Datacenter in a Shoebox: IMEC Plans to Use Superconductors to Shrink Computers
The whole approach reminds me of:

https://gpt-unicorn.adamkdean.co.uk/
Lara Croft is gonna kick down their doors and enforce her trademark.
You’d think from this thread that the messes inevitably originate from ”grunts” wandering off the reservation. In my experience the source has often been “innovation” imposed from above, in the form of buzzword-driven development championed by semi-technical leadership enamored of this poisonous “grunts can’t be trusted” ideology.
A Small Town with a Big Factory Goes South in Search of Workers
I can't visualize anything. If I close my eyes, I just see some vague light coming through my eyelids. I can "imagine" for a lack of a better word, the graph and all the nodes and edges "existing", and can reason about its properties based on that.
> Bit odd to be claiming it (AI) is so bullet proof on privacy and then be concerned about EU regulators.

The DMA has next to nothing to do with privacy and almost everything to do with opening up systems/features which Apple (rightfully in some cases, wrongly in others) claims will erode privacy. I don’t understand the point you are trying to make here. They aren’t concerned their features aren’t privacy-focused enough, they are concerned that if forced to open up it will compromise on privacy.
Raiffeisen in Russia let one do everything in a browser on Linux since 2008 for personal accounts. Possibly earlier, I did not have an account with them back then. For business accounts, it's since February 2016.
"Written in X" implies a number of potentially desired characteristics of a program.

> I’m an end user of a product, I couldn’t care less what time it takes to compile the final binary.

Then consider if HN is the right forum for you? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's also worth noting that anytime anyone is offering AI inference "for free", they're doing so at a loss, because AI inference is not free. If they were forced to open it up for arbitrary programmatic usage, that would indeed be a huge problem.

Though in an ideal world the DMA would work out so that you could just choose your AI provider. Though I guess (inevitably) having big tiddy unabomber chan as the face of your product may not be the look they're striving for.
That might be a long wait. There's no particular reason a monopoly need appear in this market. If it does, that will be a matter of public policy at it always is. That would be unfortunate, as it always is, but it would also be larger and different problem that goes well beyond this particular market.
> Tourism is a shit industry. You could mostly annihilate it and replace it with productive things most of the time.

That's a bold statement, as if the whole world invests in tourism because they don't know better.

Spain's tourism sector represents a double-digit chunk of their GDP and is one of the rare sectors which has a direct effect in reducing unemployment, specially in the low-skilled, NEET cohort which is extremely problematic in countries such as Spain. Claiming that a country like Spain could simply annihilate it and replace it with something else is an extraordinary thing to say, specially as it lacks any support.
I almost feel like a discussion about how Go's compiler is crazy fast is warranted in this thread.
Clauses within clauses are not "recursive", no more than "let x = 1 in (let y = 2 in (let z = 3 in x + y + z)" represents recursion in some hypothetical programming language.

Programming languages and human languages existed before people felt the need to define them using formal grammars. Yes most formal grammars use recursion but that's a property of the system you are trying to use to describe (meta) the structure of the object language - not part of the object language itself.

Try to use Haskell without recursion, it's effectively useless. But using an Algol derived language (Java, C, C++, etc.) without recursion is fine and hardly restricts the power of the language at all. Try to use English (or any other indo-European language - I've no knowledge of others) without sub-clauses and it remains a very powerful and useful communication tool.
Perspectives

[2015-09] Anne C. Reboul: "Why language really is not a communication system: a cognitive view of language evolution" - , Laboratory on Language, Brain and Cognition (L2C2), Institute for Cognitive Sciences-Marc Jeannerod, Bron, France [1]

> [2013-09] Noam Chomsky: One of the most striking cases of incompatibility, that I know, is the sharp conflict between computational efficiency, and communicative efficiency. Language is just badly designed for communication, but well-designed to be efficient, it seems. [2]

> [2013-09] Noam Chomsky adds: There's a kind of phrase that is sometimes used for this that drives people crazy; "Language is beautiful, but unusable." It's kind of true, you know. Even if people don't like it. [2]

[2022] Nick Enfield: "Language vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists" [3]

> Language cannot create or change physical reality, but it can do the next best thing: reframe and invert our view of the world. In Language vs. Reality, Enfield explains why language is bad for scientists (who are bound by reality) but good for lawyers (who want to win their cases), ... [3]

> [2023-01] Ev Fedorenko: "Although language and thought often go together, they are robustly dissociable." [4]

> [2023-01] Ev Fedorenko: Fallacy 1: "Good at language = Good at thought". Fallacy 2: "Bad at thought = Bad at language". Fallacy 3: "Bad at language = Bad at thought" (emphasis in being judged on how smart you are based on how you say something). [4]

[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10....

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-72JNZZBoVw&t=4493s

[3] https://direct.mit.edu/books/monograph/5472/Language-vs-Real...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE9AiYuCwdE&t=250s
Your comment did not contribute with anything new, you just wrote what the comment above said in some code.
Absolutely, but since that's my target audience, that's the number I personally look at. Statements like "no one uses FF" don't apply. How skewed each target audience is from the global average is meaningful.
Ah, see, if you wanted to motivate "AI programmers" you'd need a million dollar prize and it would help if you proposed your competition as an AGI challenge.

(A veiled reference to ARC-AGI with my usual cynicism).

Edit: to make this comment a bit more substantial it looks to me like Opus Magnum is a game where the player must design a custom solver for a puzzle, so it makes sense that there would be "bots" automating the process (where basically writing a bot replaces the game interface with a programming language). The challenge would be in designing a bot that can solve entire classes of Opus Magnum puzzles, maybe even the entire class. In modern AI everything has been done by learning so an "AI programmer" would typically try to machine-learn such a general solver. Unfortunately that is an open problem for modern AI, how to learn general solvers for entire classes of problems.

On the other hand, I note that the competition is based on what I understand are procedurally generated puzzles. Now, a program that can generate puzzles should also be able to solve puzzles (in the same way that an automaton that can recognise a string can generate it). Learning to identify a generator from example of its output is an open problem in AI. Learning to identify a solver from examples of its output when run as a generator is, well, even more open.

Anyway all this is too much like work for me to be a fun challenge.
I have a much older brother who was also into computers in the 80's and he bought himself all the newest toys of the time such as a VGA screen, a sound card and eventually a CD-ROM drive.

Some time after that I turned 16 and a CD drive of my own was the only thing I desired for my birthday. Unfortunately my dad didn't get the hints and when a guy owed him some money he instead paid my dad by handing over an old Nissan Sentra Coupe, which my dad decided would be my birthday present.

I wasn't completely ungrateful, it was a great present. BUT where I live you can't get a license until you're 18 so I had to just stare at the car standing in the garage for two years.
Physicists: Has anyone ever looked into this?
Curiously, I have this but I lack the musical education/experience/talent(?) to really use it. I can make up and "hear" music with multiple instruments and stuff, but I'm utterly useless at writing it down. Even just reproducing part of a melody on a keyboard is a frustratingly time consuming chore. :-(
I am not a huge fan either, but it's at least meaningful in the sense that well written and fast Javascript code is still at least a whole distinctive level slower than well written and fast native code. Other reasons to care about include, native code sometimes solves a class of deployment issues (single binary vs npm package). So while I don't care about Rust per se, the signal about it being compiled/native code is still alluring to me so I welcome this in the headline.
As per OP, you "visualise" concepts rather than images. A representation can be conceptual rather than visual. I don't know if I have the condition, but I can draw a shape without seeing that shape in my mind, I can see it when it's drawn though.
> Clauses within clauses are not "recursive", no more than "let x = 1 in (let y = 2 in (let z = 3 in x + y + z)" represents recursion in some hypothetical programming language.

But that is an example of a recursive context free grammar. The parser needs to use a stack or be defined recursively to parse things like that.
Ask HN: What is your trusted source for vitamin tablets?
I have been trying to find a reputable seller/producer of vitamin pills but I often worry about quality, dose accuracy, contamination, etc these concerns stem from the fact that vitamins are not well regulated in the US so it’s very hard to tell the good and the bad apples apart; I especially can’t trust reviews because those can be easily manipulated.

Price is no object in this case.
Are companies now big enough that they can punish countries by withdrawing their products? This seems like yet another test of the boundaries.
I admire this spirit, probably because I am still unable to put it in practice -- and those are typically moments where I dream of my own business. IT at my current employer is capable enough ( though there are rumblings of moving everything, but hardware offshore again.. I am starting to think it all moves in waves ), but our executives, well, lets just say over the past few weeks I was questioning what I am doing here.
There's nothing restricting you to AMD GPUs though? Proton works great on my 3090.

It's even been less troublesome than when I used to use AMD GPUs, where IIRC accelerated graphics drivers and the ROCm drivers had some sort of conflict unless installed a certain way (a few years ago now, my last AMD card was a 5700xt).
Zlib-ng 2.2 Speeds Up Compression By ~12% On x86_64 CPUs
I believe language allows having more than one layer i.e. enabling complexity of representation. For example, If I want to think about the person thinking inside - these kind of recursive concepts need some sort of symbolic nesting to even materialise the idea.
Yup, a 20+ years Linux user here. Most of that time I used Ubuntu but their insistence on shoving shitty snap system down everyone's throats broke the camel's back for me. Switched to Fedora two years ago. Another great example how a clueless business person can mess up otherwise great software.
You can have a conceptual model of how things relate in space. Something like a class diagram or a DB schema. It doesn't need to be visual.
Some people seem to get very angry about calling it "hallucination", because it's a computer, computers can't hallucinate! Stop anthropomorphising it!!

So I suppose if you want to stay on the right side of those people - or you are one - you call it confabulation instead.
From one viewpoint, this is akin to a king marrying off his children to a rival kingdom.

Having your CEO on the board of another company helps drive alignment and collaboration. It’s a solid business strategy.

Sometime it drives long term alignment. Other times you end up letting a fox in the henhouse. In this case it sounds like Eric Schmidt was a fox.
Be warned that V is infamous for over-promising and under-delivering. None of the features which sound interesting actually work, and there's no sign that anyone working on the language has any idea how they'll make them work.
Microsoft has market leader syndrome; they aren't afraid their customers will switch to a competing option.
A reminder that microsoft owns more products, in different lifetime stages.

I thought of that recently, when I noticed that Github started displaying links promoting Copilot.
> Later we spoke about being able to have no thoughts - still mind. I said I can do this any time, I can stop the thoughts and be still. At the time I had no training but I could do it for 10, 20, 30 seconds easily. And I knew with training I'd be able to extend that time, it was effortless.

> To them, that was crazy - they couldn't stop thinking at all!

I have the same experience of being "unable to stop thinking". Are you by any chance neurotypical, or close to neurotypicality? My impression is that neurotypical brains have a higher degree of synchronization than autistic brains, which would make suppressing thought easier.

I'm autistic, and I don't just have thoughts; they have themselves. Thoughts just spontaneously come into existence, and just think on their own. I can think about them myself, but only by picking up existing thoughts. Thoughts come into existence whether I intend them to or not, so it is not possible for me to suppress them.

On one paw, the fact that thoughts seemingly think about themselves allows me to fit a lot of logic in my head at once without getting overwhelmed. But on the other, being unable to control which thoughts are in my head can be really infuriating.
I'm definitely not gonna get all misty eyed because my phone won't receive additional surveillence software this September. If, and that's a very big if, I need some sort of AI functionality, I will either use a web browser or download the app.
Is this the case for corporate installs? I cannot imagine the security teams at big banks like Chase, Bofa, Goldman, et al tolerating this.
> Vetting people online is really hard.

This may ultimately turn out to be a real valid reason for management's "back to the office" push, even if they don't know how to express it or quantify the benefits.

Maybe a suitably talented person can assess strangers skilfully and well face-to-face, but whatever poorly-identified skills they use to do so, they can't do it via a video call or something. And this is without deepfakes and so on.
Nvidia unveils 4K 120FPS AV1 capture on RTX 40-series GPUs
And the fact that Apple didn't seem to care to cooperate much in terms of things like Metal etc. Mac would've been a much bigger ask compared to Linux, where they can usually just contribute to and work with any component that may need bug fixes or additional features.
I assure you, this slow grind of replying to non-relevant threads of yours will end after I post the following YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUfgAbFY4CA
I bought a 1040ST not long after they came out in 1986. I got the system unit, the color monitor, a mouse, GEM/TOS disks, and that was it for about $1500. Software titles were scarce but I was eventually able to pick up the Megamax C compiler. To be effective with it you needed to have a second floppy drive or the pricey SH204 20 Megabyte (yes, megs!) external hard drive.

Megamax C was a K&R style single-pass compiler that had libraries to access the special features of the Atari like the MIDI port.
> A few years down the line the cars will be old

Maybe. Then again, maybe not.
Wow, that is crazy. For me (Swift 5.10) that single line is taking 11 seconds. Meanwhile, I have a 16,000 line app (importing AppKit, SceneKit and more) that compiles in 8 seconds.
I mean, i'm aware, it still makes for a horrible experience
I am curious: do people with aphantasia dream?