skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took this to mean: we can't legally guarantee your privacy for anything not on your own device; nobody can. Their claim seems to be that private data is kept on the device (from https://www.apple.com/privacy/ ), and protected by encryption within the user's control. By designing the software such that private data stays on the device, it can't be gotten without targeted physical access (and perhaps coercing the user's passcode from them), rather than scooping up everyone's data from the cloud, unbeknownst to the users, and unauditable to security researchers.

That said, I'm not sure how much trust I'd place in Apple, but at least this security model is to some extent auditable.
as the other comments here state - wait until they post the full post mortem to draw conclusions. This reads like a statement to Gmail/Youtube customers, not a post-mortem for GCP customers.
The Cyberiad cracks fairly wise.
User data has less value for Apple.

The main economic incentive to collect massive amounts of user data comes from two-sided market (users and advertisers). Google, Facebook are in that market.
Is it just me or is this lacking any acknowledgment of the impact it had on GCE and all of the third parties that were impacted by this. They make it sound like a few people could not watch YouTube videos and even fewer people had some email disruption but this outage had a lot more impact than that. As just one example, a huge number of Shopify sites were impacted by this as were I am sure a number of other SaaS businesses that use GCE. I realize this is not the complete post mortem but it fails to even acknowledge the full impact of this disruption.
Sure, I can see that, but this is true of just about anything that includes any sort of paid promotion or linking. Wirecutter makes money off amazon but people trust them to be honest? I’m not saying we shouldn’t, quite the opposite. It wasn’t that long ago I was of the opposite opinion if you just check my comment history. Recently I’ve decided to put a little more faith into human beings and give them the benefit of the doubt. Yes money is a motivator but I think there can be a balance between earning on affiliate links and presenting unbiased recommendations.
> Besides, even for C# people use an additional plugin, resharper, so VS is not enough even for its target ecosystem.

Those that have CPU cycles and memory to spare do.
The solution I believe still lies in Apple's court.

Say you have an app that is a niche app with a 7 day free trial and a one-time purchase. How does this look to the user? Exactly like every other freemium/ad riddled/subscription/pay-to-play app. The download button says "Get" and underneath it you see "In-App Purchases Available." User expectations are destroyed at the download page.

One part of the solution is to allow developers to actually define an app as a time limited free trial. Make the download button say "START FREE TRIAL" and underneath "$4.99 to Purchase". Let the user buy or take the free trial from the App Store...but most importantly let them know that it isn't yet another subscription app, or something riddled with ads (Even going so far as to add an app review check that will look for ad network connections to ensure compliance.)

Apple has created a system where user's are now afraid of in-app purchases, because they allowed kids games to be riddled with them and other apps to setup up predatory free trial structures with weekly renewals (And until recently, buried the subscriptions page in a few levels of settings menus.)
Just as a curiosity, complementing what others have already written... I read part of Mikolov's thesis and code in the past (when I was still studying at the university, so I might have got everything wrong (I still don't get half of it :D)). First I found it quite shocking that the code was so bad. The training code was pretty confusing to me, and I found the lack of useful comments discouraging. The test code (which loaded stored embeddings from a file and allowed some basic operations) was even much, much worse. Like, declaring three variables (a, b, c) and reusing them for different things in the main functions without explaining anything, and doing linear searches through the whole embeddings to find a word vector... very ugly and scary things.

So, I had a very bad impression of the code. But then, I checked the thesis, and I found it awesome. The amount of tests and implementations the guy made, and how he showed in practice how better results could be achieved in a good number of different setups... I found it really impressive. But such great work paired with such bad code! I was just a CS student, so I found it shocking. Nowadays I realize he was simply focused on a different thing, and the results he obtained were indeed outstanding and talk for themselves.

It's easy to look back and criticise the code, but when you look at the work he did in perspective... it's completely unfair to ask more from him (admittedly, they had time to address some of the issues later, but they probably had better things to do too).
This is travel document checking by a TSA agent. They don't technically require you to show a passport, but most other acceptable forms of ID are very US-specific.

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification
VCs are able to swallow the result of a failure. The government probably can too, but not the city itself.

Not saying this strategy is bad, but it will inevitably end up like deserted coal cities if the industry is too mono-cultural.
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It's the long march of making all apple products only allow app store software, and to get complete control of who is allowed to create software for their 'platform'.
Daas: Doxing as a Service, on an Open Identity Marketplace (meBay). Users can selectively sell their anonymity and personal information, consensually doxing themselves to the highest bidder, and Apple gets a 30% cut.
There is nothing forcing you to back up to iCloud and yes it does ask you. You can still as of now back up using iTunes.
I use DAVDroid (now DAVx5) and I have had no issues with it so far, coupled with a NextCloud DAV server. So far it has worked well to sync contact information, calendars and the like (for close to 2 years now)
I am a cryonicist, meaning I want to live forever by having my brain frozen and then revived in the distant future (and I think it may be possible in the distant future to live forever). That means I am also a transhumanist.

But a large segment of transhumanist activism is focused on this life extension movement, which in turn is focused on dietary supplements. This life extension via supplements is wrongheaded and a bit of a scam. Just my opinion. We are nowhere near to extending our lifespan. If you want to a chance at a longer life, sign up for cryonics/
I would say that cap and trade is a fairly popular solution to curbing externalities in the field of economics.
In Germany at the time for sure as legally Germany was an occupied territory but if the policemen would have thought it was illegal they would have handed them over to the MPs
Try The Futurological Congress - that is brilliantly funny (avoid the movie however which is abysmally unfunny).

Lem is the master of books where nothing happens. It's definitely an acquired taste. His Master's Voice and Fiasco are both books with classical science fiction premises which are then completely undermined when the characters proceed to achieve nothing - except perhaps a recognition of the punyness of human intellect.

I've found that (as also with JG Ballard) you need to be in a very "slow" mindset to enjoy them. But the sense of almost...well...boredom is definitely part of the experience.
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I can doubt of the engineering approach he advocates, because I am aware that people like me is completely an outsider in this branch of science and I cannot differentiate a charlatan from an actual scientist.

You could fool a person ignorant enough in a speciality with statements such as:

- To fly we just need a way to defeat gravity.

- To resurrect a body we just need to insufflate the soul back to the body.

- To make a head transplant we just need to reconnect the nerves and wait the meat to glue.

- An artificial intelligence will solve our company's problem.

This ver same person could be highly skilled or smart in other aspects. The more technical or scientific we sound the more a subject will give authority to the charlatan.

I ignore if these statements made by this person are overall valid, if the list is exhaust and if the things there are additional factors I ignore. Even in such case we also ignore the deepness of the problem and circumstances related.

Most of people, including myself, are no biologist or cryonogists and have not enough knowledge on that level, in addition it is in the human nature to have high hopes in self perpetuating ourselves. Thats the perfect ground for charlatans to grow.
She's a First Nations Canadian author subject matter expert.

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I don't think I'm splitting hairs. The quote, in context, is applied in the other direction: a sufficiently advanced technology which exists has mechanisms which seem indistinguishable from magic to a primitive mind. But you can't apply it in the other direction and say anything which seems like magic could exist with sufficiently advanced technology. This is because there are physical limits which constrain what any future technology could do.

To a pre-industrial mind, a cell phone would be magic. Other things that would seem like magic are faster than light travel, perpetual motion machines, or exact quantum state duplicators. However baring radically new and highly unlikely physics (which would be the hugest cop-out to assume), there will never ever be faster-than-light travel, perpetual motion machines, or quantum replicators. Such technology is simply impossible. Not "we don't know how to do it" but "we know that it cannot be done."

Likewise, once your brain is cremated or reduced to worm food, there is absolutely no way to recover that connectome information which defines who you are. The laws of physics disallow it.

I have only the slightest idea of what technology that is able to revive a cryo preserved brain would look like, and it would certainly seem like magic to someone today. But to revive a cremated brain would require actual magic. There's an important difference there.
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I'm sure it would be possible. Theo Jansen himself created a wind-powered one out of cardboard: https://youtu.be/MYGJ9jrbpvg?t=222
A scheme that is working as intended. Producers of pollution are supporting (or almost forced to support)greener competitors.
And the IB approach is a nice one, except that its files (whether NIB or XIB) simply don't diff as nice as the equivalent in code. Checking changes into source control is an opaque experience as the diff is an endless vomit of unintelligible mumbo.

What is so astonishing about SwiftUI is that it's simultaneously the most impressive looking visual GUI builder I've ever seen... and the most terse, diff-able syntax I've ever seen. I can't think of anything that has combined these two properties quite so successfully.
The ultimate layer will be built from tobacco tins connected with tight wet string.
> According to the so-called law of Spring,..

Correct translation should be: "According to the so-called Yarovaya law,.."[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarovaya_law
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No, no, I'm not interested in the secret sauce, just ... I find it hard to think it through in my mind how deals are made at conferences.
>In Visual Studio 2019, hit Ctrl+Q

nope. Who picked this shortcut?
I kept not paying my debts and just accumulating more and more. One day my debts got so large that it caused an overflow. I now have a couple billion to spare. I'll be forever in debt with whoever did my bank's decimal type implementation.
If you haven't already, read Log from the Sea of Cortez, and Travels with Charlie. Maybe my favourite books of all time.
There's also The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Colons.
That's the point of that regulation. Either you do get your things straight, or you are forced to support companies that already do.
Trusting one's eyes is doomed to failure anyway. That's what PGP is for.
Yup. LeonM, you are correct. In this case that was the cryptocurrency mining detector that was triggered. More details in the postmortem.
I dont think its intended to replace the main package managers as much as to ensure you can deliver a tool you may already be using (GitHub). Especially if you want to ensure you dont accidentally publish production code to one of those package managers e.g. NPM which had a whole debacle about that a few months or a year back.
That's my plan. I've got the gym membership and use it often.

I struggle mightily with eating less crap, though. (Especially chocolate.) Food is one of the great pleasures in life, and I haven't found really healthy food to be a good replacement for tasty junk.

Maybe advances in food production will bring hope?
The poster was referring to a different time:

Because of the post World War One German economic crisis, DMG merged in 1926 with Benz & Cie., becoming Daimler-Benz and adopting Mercedes-Benz as its automobile trademark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimler_Motoren_Gesellschaft
That "loophole" was closed in 2017 by the Trump Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (GILTI/transition tax).
Instaparse: What if context-free grammars were as easy to use as regexes?
It's not just batteries. It's batteries, and transmission, and pumped hydro, and dispatchable demand, and overproduction w. hydrogen to soak up the excess, and burning hydrogen in turbines for very rare long lulls.

The cost optimized system will exploit most or all of these, and have no place for expensive baseload sources. Nuclear with its current cost structure and cheap renewables simply don't fit well together.
Secretive terrorist watch lists managed by ML [0]

For a more overt manifestation, just take a look at how the US treats ex-convicts: Public shaming by releasing mug-shots, some states even revoking their right to vote among other rights, de-facto turning them into second-grade citizens for life.

[0] https://theintercept.com/2018/12/03/air-travel-surveillance-...
I've tried to cancel a credit card and told I needed to withdraw all money first (I had +£5). I withdrew it, and asked them to cancel it again. They started processing, but by the time they had got anywhere, I'd acquired interest (1p) and they refused to cancel the card.
"First they ..."
Crashed on first email I read from Gmail. Also, I had to enable "less secure access" in Gmail for aerc to work. Will try again after a few months.
I think that's likely to be answered in the post-mortem, which is still to come.
This also would be quite interesting. We are baked into another ppa provider as it is. Theres so many GitHub projects that have a ppa setup elsewhere.

If it lives in GH it may as well have a ppa (therefore a deb). I assume programming language packages will be first and later on system level packages if possible?
40k/year (or 110/day) is nothing when you are active on mailing lists (yes, some of us still use them). Rule of thumb was "when you hit 1000/day, consider unsubscribing some..".
As long as SwiftUI has some support for inheritance and arbitrary variables for all elements like colours, fonts and dimensions, I don't think a stylesheet system would be necessary.

This is the sort of thing that will become clearer as real developers start using it. And I'm sure Apple will learn a lot as people start building bigger apps with it.
Education has remarkably little to do with economic growth. Richer countries are more educated but changes in education do not predict changes in productivity. Education appears to be a superior good that people just purchase more of when they’re richer.

Ghana is more educated now than France was in 1960 going by average years of education and it’s poorer. China’s years of explosive economic growth after Deng opened it up in the 1980s happened with a population that had on average finished primary school.

India’s plan to build a highly educated workforce and industrial base in tandem was a thorough and costly failure. Lots and lots of people tried to get a good education so they could go for civil service jobs. It did nothing industrially because running a successful industrial policy is a lot harder than either leaving businessmen to their own devices, taxes and regulation aside, to make their own business decisions, or running a captured, cronyistic industrial that wastes money and is swept aside as soon as the policy is abolished. Ireland, India, Pakistan, Argentina; there are many countries that wasted enormous sums on infant industry tariffs to no benefit.
95% of the world's population lives below 50 N/S latitude.
It's not a technological achievement. It's a political one, as the middle class gets to subsidize the autopilot of the upper class, while the upper class gets to feel smug as though it's saving the world.
And you know, a good board is worth it's weight in gold...
Your note seems not relevant to what misleading is. Please elaborate.
Drew works full-time on free software and is extremely good at it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18920604
Annoyingly, Homebrew installation (one of the best ways to get these scripting languages installed) assumes you already have Ruby installed. I wonder if they’ll finally rewrite the install script in pure Bash.
State funding.

Funding was shifted to fees. Although considering how much of student loans is not expected to be repaid it's arguable that a lot is still state funded...
It's not because it's unknown we should assume there is no effect (positive or negative). Rather, it's worth exploring.
You could bring in a Raspberry Pi and show them how they can modify Minecraft on the fly with Python.
I’m still a novice functional programmer so this may be a dumb comment but I thought a lisp would be more thread safe due to immutable data structures.
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I'm not arguing that it's easy. Or even possible.

What I am arguing is that Apple has been BSing people.

> What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone.

Because that's just not true. Unless, I suppose, you don't install any third-party apps on your phone. So then, that privacy claim should look like:

> What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone.#

> # Unless you install third-party apps.

Otherwise, dissidents will feel safe using iPhones. Until they're dead or in prison.
> They contribute a huge amount to the IP developed within a country.

And can willingly, or under coercion by their home government (We'll put your parents in prison, rape your mother, have you stabbed in the street), hand over every last bit of data they have access to on any project(s). Considering most decent educational institutions receive mountains of defense department money and have all sorts of government-involved research projects for all sorts of emerging technologies that have anything remotely approaching intelligence community or military applications... I can see why we'd want to crack down, purely for opsec reasons, on students coming from a country that is most likely going to overtly be our enemy sometime in the near to mid-term future.
It's not because it's unknown we should assume this effect scales linearly, either..
'Less secure' access is a choice by google to lock people onto gmail, they choose not to implement random device specific passwords.

Better to avoid gmail.
I don't like your reasoning. I think it's selfish. You can always help out for the duration that you are paid for, regardless of tempo. There's almost always work to be done - cleaning up code, commenting, refactoring, documentation (api/sdk usage, help), cleaning up tasks, responding to e-mails, and so on.

I don't think it's fair that you idle while someone is paying for your time.

Someone, at the end, organized this so you can work remotely. Someone is taking care of you financially, at the end.
The least you can do is do what you have agreed/promised/been contracted to do.
It's pretty interesting that Cocoapods got so much flak years ago for basically exploiting Github's bandwidth to host a package registry for the apple ecosystem, and now Github are doing exactly the same as a first class product.
I think you're both right. He's saying that from the perspective of the largest private business in the world with $100B+ yearly revenues, derping about on services worth a few million in revenue is just noise. Apple isn't going to shift it's business to capture a $10M/yr market or whatever it is.

And you're off here being like "BUT THEY DO EXIST (even if they are so trivially small that they wouldn't even make a rounded-up single line on Apple's financial disclosures)".

From Apple and his perspective, these tiny businesses are irrelevant.
Do you think/fear that they will bribed to suggest something shady just so they can collect on the affiliate link? I have been trusting them as a source for a couple of years now, and I believe that for (the majority of) us here in HN, the moment we see they start feeding us garbage, a) we will call them out in this forum, b) we will leave them so fast their heads will spin.
By living longer you are merely stealing resources from those that follow you.

You can have immortality or reproduction - choose.
Canada gave up on CANDU. The ACR got no buyers, and the remnants of AECL were sold for a mere $15M.
I can't speak to all games, but the pay-once games I've seen have been free of this. No advertising at all, beyond the little ads for their DLC (if they have any.)
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Immortality please
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> primary and secondary education costs virtually nothing compared to college.

Except that this isn't true at all.
You and I have very different definitions of easy. Nervously waiting for a year to find out whether you'll be lucky enough to stay, then not really having any job mobility for several more years is not exactly easy. God forbid you want to start a family. Honestly in a few years it probably won't be worth the hassle. Maybe it's a good thing (no excuse but to build our sh*tty countries)
Obviously to prevent things like this, Google needs more binary search tree whiteboard trivia problems in the interview process.
Does that use the real trajectories of the planets (such as give by the JPL ephemerides) or or eliptical approximations ?
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Yeah I was going to say. The iPad Pro display has a 120hz refresh rate and it's highly noticeable, and IMHO far superior to any other mobile device display.
We let people create a username/password but can also use FB if they prefer. Turns out having their email is nice; we need to send them notices and reminders from time-to-time.

I’m not a FB fan. I post on social media maybe twice a year. As an advertiser I don’t trust the numbers they report. None of my criticisms of Apple in this decision should be interpreted as pro-FB. I just have a very strong distaste for Apple deciding that they get to decide how we run our apps.

They have to mandate usage because it’s the only way devs will do it. And it seems like a fine enough product for Apple-only hardware. But when you get to supporting multiple connected devices it falls apart. Are they going to support this for PCs? What about on the Roku? How will anyone who uses Apple Sign In on the iPhone log in anywhere else?