skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From Epic's filing, here is an excerpt from Apple's notice listing the Developer Program features that Epic will lose access to when its membership is terminated:

- All Apple software, SDKs, APIs, and developer tools
- Pre-release versions of iOS, iPad OS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS
- Pre-release versions of beta tools such as Reality Composer, Create ML, Apple Configurator, etc.
- Notarization service for macOS apps
- App Store Connect platform and support (for example, assistance with account transition, password reset, app name issues)
- TestFlight
- Access to provisioning portal for certificate generation, and provisioning profile generation
- Ability to enable Apple services in-app (i.e. Apple Pay, CloudKit, PassKit, Music Kit, HomeKit, Push Notifications, Siri Shortcuts, Sign in with Apple, kernel extensions, FairPlay Streaming)
- Access to Apple-issued keys for connecting to services such as MusicKit, DeviceCheck, APNs, CloudKit, Wallet
- Access to Developer ID signing certificates and Kernel Extension signing certificates - Developer Technical Support
- Participation in Universal App Quick Start Program, including the right to use the Developer Transition Kit (which must be returned to Apple)
- Engineering efforts to improve hardware and software performance of Unreal Engine on Mac and iOS hardware; optimize Unreal Engine on the Mac for creative workflows, virtual sets and their CI/Build Systems; and adoption and support of ARKit features and future VR features into Unreal Engine by their XR team

The final item is very specific to Unreal Engine so it is clear that this is not simply a template e-mail and was crafted specifically for Epic. Thus we can assume that Apple legal, marketing, the executive team, etc. have pored over every line intently (despite misspelling iPadOS).

My guess is that this is intended to enumerate everything that Apple contributes to earn its 30% cut.

Epic themselves have now entered this list into the legal record, claiming that it would be incredibly damaging for them to lose access to these features. Perhaps it is now harder for them to argue that Apple's cut is excessive.
I'm not surprised by this.

From Apples perspective, Epic meaningfully bypassed key terms of the App store which have been in force since the App store was created. Epic then turned around and sued Apple. It also became clear they were planning for this sequence to occur, in effect, trying to publicly shame Apple. I think I would be surprised if Apple DIDN'T suspend their accounts. The signing on Mac is just a side effect of loosing dev tools due to Epic's actions. Maybe they should have sued first before taking action that would get them suspended.

That said, I am glad someone with the means is pushing back against the 30% App Store rates. I value what Apple provides, but it is excessive for a general computing device (unlike an XBOX, Leapfrog, etc).
Tell them no.
If one bends a piece of paper such that two faces nearly meet then pokes a pin through the page and makes two holes in the page essentially simultaneously from the perspective of the two dimensional beings on the page it appears that the two events happened far apart and that "something must be moving information at faster than the speed of light" when the reality is more complex.

That's how I mentally think about entanglement. I doesn't need to operate through the universe as I understand (or operate within) it.
I'm curious how someone could argue that Apple's App Store rules are anticompetitve and that they should be forced to change them, while also arguing that the same doesn't apply to Tesla's media computer(s). Is it just because there are more iPhones than Teslas?
Honestly, I don't see the big deal. You pay for vendor lock-in, you get vendor lock-in. Apple doesn't have a "monopoly" on smartphones. If anybody wants variety, they can get an android or invest in a PinePhone or Librem5.

Epic complaining about being shut out of the App store is like Dominoes complaining about being shut out of that private university where all the rich kids go. They should just go over to Android where, if they want to, they can make their own app store.

> My preferred outcome would see Apple maintaining its control of app installation. I treasure and depend on the openness of PCs and Macs, but I am also relieved that the iPhone is so dependable for those less technically savvy than me.

This, I certainly don't agree with. Android has more app stores and is still quite easy to use and dependable for the less technically savvy. Apple getting more App stores won't change how "easy" the iPhone is to use.
Hi! I made this.

A few points I wanted to make, specific to the HN context (and a lot
of this is in the "nerd mode" donation page at
https://skycircl.es/donate-nerd-mode/):

1. This seems like a classic "low effort, high impact" project. It's
super easy to detect aircraft flying in circles, in real-time, and
post it to twitter. But it turns out to be an entry-point into a
"strangely interesting" (according to pg) world of aircraft activity.

The current #1 comment sadly only gets to see general aviation pilots
practicing, but my bots have tweeted military aerial refueling, STOL
practice in the wilderness, float-planes practicing on rivers and
lakes, military drones flying over the desert, planes dropping sterile
fruit flies as a way to reduce the fruit fly population, news
helicopters following a highway pursuit, U.S. Forest Service AH-1Z
Viper attack helicopters fighting fires, helicopters dropping mosquito
pesticide, aerial tankers over Manhattan for the president's combat
air patrol, FBI surveillance planes registered to front companies,
Coast Guard helicopters doing search & rescue, crop dusters,
scientists observing sea life over the ocean, planes doing Gorgon
Stare-style persistent surveillance over Baltimore, sheriff's
helicopters rescuing hikers, power line inspections, pipeline
inspections, military aircraft doing surveillance over protestors,
stealth jet test flights, a Grumman HU-16 Albatross seaplane that
belongs to the USAF over the Mojave desert, a U-2 test flight, and a
B-29. That is not even close to a complete list.

2. All the code is open source. See
https://gitlab.com/jjwiseman/advisory-circular/ and
https://gitlab.com/jjwiseman/whatsoverhead

3. As far as I know, this comment on HN is the first time anyone
published any significant detail about the FBI's secret aerial
surveillance program: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9508812
This crisis has exacerbated many of the problems that already existed in the school system: increased spread of disease, poor social engagement (bullying/racism), non-inclusive approach to history and politics and failure to teach things to form their own framework of values and think critically (or involve their parents in that process). None of these problems are new, it's just becoming more socially acceptable to homeschool. Good for you for making the right choice for your children. Having your spouse at home with them will be ideal.
How to use your career to help reduce existential risk
Man, I can't imagine anyone NIMBYing new power poles lol. Old poles get scary, especially when they start leaning over. And then when AT&T was mounting giant ass DSL VRADs on poles too lol.

I'd be out there cheering on the linemen for replacing the old junk. :D
There is a bar on personal projects. Period. Period.

Either you're misunderstanding logic, law or society. If Karparthy fails he runs a real risk of having his life very closely examined. The rules are different for different people.

I do machine learning medical work for the coronavirus. I work at near optimal as humanly possible. Occasional hackernews is one of my few indulgences.
> Instead they use rigged instruments like common ISOs with liquidation preference and 90 day exercise windows to intentionally screw early employees over.

I'm so tired of this being repeated as if founders choose ISOs to screw over employees, it's flat wrong. ISOs offer the best tax advantages for employees. The 90-day exercise window is a government-imposed thing. If you want it changed, go talk to them.

I'd much rather give an employee an instrument in which they don't have to worry about any taxes at all until they actually want to exercise than have them sign a document they almost certainly don't understand and receive stock they get immediately taxed for and be confused why the IRS taxed them for stock they can't sell and that might end up being worthless.
> I would choose Schwab over Robinhood any day of the week

Don't you have to prove to them that you actually know something about options before they let you trade? Robinhood... you check a box.
If it can photosynthesise (on gamma rays no less), then perhaps not. Mold can grow on concrete walls and stuff, so not sure what it needs.
When the rules themselves are illegal? No, no they should not.
> They kinda know what they are doing or why else would so many people buy their iphones?

Or maybe it's something that people merely tolerate. Kind of like how ISPs are almost universally derided in the US for crappy service and high prices, yet everyone seems to be paying for their serivece. If you asked people when they're buying an iphone whether they want 30% of app and in-app purchases to go to apple, with no way around it, how much % of them would say yes?
Celebrating Fantasmagorie, the first ever cartoon [video]
It's important to note that you can still run unsigned Mac apps. Apple isn't preventing users from running a tool they want to run, it's just showing them a big scary warning and making them jump through some extra hoops.

It's incredibly scummy and inappropriate, but I would put it more along the lines of an attack-ad than an outright ban.

Edit: Now, one thing that isn't totally clear is whether or not devs who have their own developer accounts, and use Unreal Engine to target iOS, can still make iOS builds. If not that's a much bigger deal, though the fundamental issue would still lie with iOS, not macOS.
I was using it to make GUI-centric web apps. Back then, web applications were a nightmare, and the idea of being able to have .NET for layout instead of the mess that html/css layout was at that time, was compelling.
> Software engineers at facebook, on the other hand, are likely not aware of the full impact of their work

I feel like this is coming from a naive socially illiterate nerd stereotype. They are smart people, they might as well know much more than you expect.
Some sites have big scary warnings if you try to open the dev console in the page for this reason. I don't know how well that works though.

We can put all the warnings on bleach we want, someone out there is still going to drink it.
It teaches the importance of latency in design.
Because it is not conducive to maintaining any kind of organized group of human beings.

The idea that "life is meaningless" means that society cannot rely on you, because you'll do whatever strikes your fancy, whatever the consequences.

Worse, it is also a philosophy that contributes absolutely nothing to actually understanding the nature of the world, which is kind of the point of philosophy.

In short, nihilists are utterly useless, to themselves and the world. On the upside, they won't care.
I liken it to exercise. Too much and you strain your brain past its ability to repair. Yes you can overtrain your brain. You also need to take nutrition into account. You can hit the gym every day but if you don't dial in your nutrients, you won't see any improvement or worse, a degradation.
Have you tried https://tar1090.adsbexchange.com/ ?

Don't know if there is an "app", but regarding the interesting stuff, it's the most complete, IMO/E.
Unfortunately the App Store 30% cut is Apple's revenue cocaine and it will be really hard for the rest of us to stop such addiction without multi-national governments help.
FWIW I personally don't.

However, I see the argument to be made that in selling a Mac or an iPhone, you're being sold a general-purpose computing device with explicit value added by third-party software vendors. Also, on macOS, you were sold the explicit ability to run whatever software you want. It's purpose is to run software from third-parties.

When you bought a Tesla, that wasn't how the car was represented to you. It's purpose is to drive, and yeah it's got a sweet big screen that happens to run apps, but that's ancillary.

Legally, I think that matters. From a free-software perspective, I agree, I would also like to run whatever I want on my car.
Just because two parties agree to a few things, it doesn't necessarily mean those things are enforceable or even legal.

If that were the case, the entire field of contract law wouldn't exist.
You may not know how to follow logic.

No one is saying that Epic are doing bad things in order to maintain their monopoly position.

Epic doesn't have a monopoly on any market.

People ARE saying that Apple are doing bad things to maintain their monopoly position, and others are justifying that by saying that "running a business is expensive" as if that justifies a monopoly or monopolistic actions.
Your sentence for today to write 100 times, Bart Simpson style, is:
"I shall never use my monopoly power to restrict access to justice for my clients".
>That said, I do find one aspect of this second suit to be troubling for Epic: Apple is threatening to terminate Epic’s developer account only if Epic doesn’t revert Fortnite to the version that didn’t include its own in-app payment system.[0]

Seems perfectly reasonable to me. But Epic's PR game is strong.

[0] https://www.thurrott.com/apple/239199/apple-retaliates-again...
Intel: Data bandwidth, sparsity are the two biggest challenges for AI chips
If the cat is an observer, then is the bottle of poison also an observer? Are the cells of the cat? Are the atoms of those cells? What is it that gives the cat observer status?

The intent of the thought experiment was to show that the Kopenhagen Interpretation of quantum physics is ridiculous. In the many-worlds interpretation for example there is no paradox, as time goes on more and more worlds exist where the cat died at some point.
Traditional QM does not allow Wigner’s friend to be in superposition.
It's not pretty or nearly as useful, but towards the "end" of its life, the ST had native Ethernet and TCP/IP

Here's a picture of a native session running (on sdf.org)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DG0_h-eU0AEFy_7?format=jpg&name=...
I signed up on Robinhood and made a killing doing day trading, until the govt stepped in to 'protect' me from playing this rich man game.

I think giving regular people a way to easily join the stock market could help fix some of the problems with capitalism. People need to know their strength in numbers, and that corporations are only answerable to their shareholders
Yeah but I wouldn’t move to a new city in rural montana until it has schools, hospitals, firefighters, police, trashmen, and maybe a dozen other services that require a local market or a local tax base to support.
> Then don't install unsigned apps.

The problem is that most people know nothing about software distribution, signatures etc etc, and would become an easy target for fishers, as they do on Windows or Android. People oft underestimate how little avg user knows about computers and basic hygiene.
There's a reason contracts of adhesion are very often not binding. I'm not saying that's the case here (as B2B it will be more likely that the oppressive terms in the terms of use could be upheld) but it's worth considering when saying Epic agreed to the contract.

Like it or not IOS has 2/3rds of revenue in the mobile apps market and how many businesses can afford to leave 46%(0.7*0.66), of their revenue on the table?

It's pretty obvious that epic has goaded apple into punching them. But there's plenty of people who feel it's the equivalent of apple saying you have to give me your lunch money every 3 days or I'll beat you and epic making sure the teacher is watching when they maliciously don't hand over their lunch money (I'll add I'm not arguing that the schools football team wouldn't have much fewer wins without apple, to stretch the metaphor to breaking).
He's talking about crying wolf today with no emergency, and then the wolf actually showing up tomorrow.
A cheap source of entertainment for kids that are locked down because of a pandemic isn't central to modern life?
Moin moin HH!!!
Congrats to the team at Grafana! I've been working here for a little over a year and I'm really excited to see how far we can go with this.
I personally enjoyed most of my experience with Robinhood.

I used them for ~3 years but was recently forced to move to an alternative when it became clear that maintaining any sizable margin account with them was going to become cost prohibitive. The 5% APY they are charging is a slap to the face when you start discovering rates between 1-2% elsewhere. I also wanted a brokerage that could service IRA accounts and other more complex items.

One area where Robinhood could have improved for me (not related directly to the market) is in their web interface. I noticed performance issues when trying to review history and other large data sets, regardless of browser vendor. On a few occasions I was forced to switch to my mobile app in order to verify a transaction. It feels like they just need to rewrite this thing to be server rendered. There's absolutely no reason I need 5+ megabytes of javascript framework on my client in order to display a 4 column table of basic financial figures.
Not directly relevant to this discussion, but I think it is worth pondering about:

While I greatly enjoy the freedom that comes with voluntary association, I think it is worth realizing that it has few protections against the creation of toxic environments that exclude people/resources on non-technical issues. Our culture can be annoyingly straight-white-male oriented.
Imagine being led to believe you are breaking one rule, and you spent hours, days, weeks or even months as was suggested just to try to get your app back on the app store and continue your revenue stream, one which you may depend on for living, when they actually never intend to put your app back on the app store in the first place.

They could be playing with people's livelihood in cases such as this.
Is this true? Can't you claim standing based on something you would do except for an illegal contract or illegal law?
9.1 years according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_methane
I'll watch it and let you know. Sounds very interesting!
Updating Secure Boot dbx with fwupd and the LVFS
Why would anybody trade on their platform after them going down during a key day[0]? It's obvious they can't be trusted.

[0]:https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/09/robinhood-app-down-again-dur...
Probably more, because it's designed to be actively anti-efficient. The more you try and use it the less efficient it gets. It might well require more than Earth's total power generation capacity to do so.
Once you buy the device why the hell should Apple prevent someone from putting a counterfeit battery/screen/whatever inside of it? Sure, people might be defrauding AppleCare, but that's their problem - there's no reasonable justification for why they should be able to regulate who fixes their devices.
I don't really think it's about the number. I try not to think about these kinds of things in terms of what different companies "deserve." Apple can get away with demanding a 30% cut on their platform and they do so without much arm twisting. Nobody has to support macOS or iOS, and both developers and customers can completely ignore their existence. They'll be missing out on a lucrative customer base but that's true of realestate in high-traffic areas as well.

Apple being able to pull off such huge margins in markets where they have competition on every front I think paints a picture of just how ahead they are. The fact that the gap is so big and nobody has been able to step up and close it is mind-boggling to me. You can only blame so much on slick marketing because for 64% gross margins I think other companies would be happy to put up the marketing cash.
And many of the things that we thought he was pointlessly complaining about, instead grew into big issues a few years later affecting all of us.
So let them install that malware and have their data stolen despite all warnings because they deserve it? We can't have safety nets everywhere, and we, in fact, don't. We allow everyone to drive, use knives and handle all kinds of potentially dangerous stuff every day, but for some reason can't trust them with their own phones.

Some mistakes are costly, but people learn from them. Such is life.
As a party to the developer agreement with Apple they clearly have standing to sue. And since one of the counts in their complaint is that they're being denied use of an "essential facility", they wouldn't even need to have a contractual relationship to have standing to sue.
It's rare to see someone so comprehensively miss the point. Bravo.
oh sorry, no question. I just was mentioning that i also keep my note headings in quedtion format, e.g "What is a makefile?" , but my questions have become vauge.

I used
https://ox-hugo.scripter.co/
and followed this example
https://mstempl.netlify.com/post/static-website-with-emacs-a...
i use the hugo book theme
> Notarization is about protecting users who are not capable of making an informed decision about code safety from developers who refuse to comply with Apple's terms of service.

No, notarization is about preventing malware. That's all. This has been promised to us by Apple many many times. Malware prevention only. Fortnite is not malware.
More friction for detaching.

Advertiser's dream.
From what I can read we don't disagree about anything
Like Thinkpads, yeah.
+1, Sony has patent.
Exactly right. I can (and do) repair my own car. Not so long ago you it was a normal thing that you could build your own TV...

https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Catalogs/Allied-Catalo...
That sounds plausible but I've never seen it happen. Maybe you could provide some examples to back up your claim?
Which is why this certificate system is completely useless, making people expend a lot of effort to prove nothing.
I'm sorry I don't have any direct advice.

Even working for internal clients ("the business") I see that "no" or delays are not tolerated, even when there is a good reason. There may not be sales people involved, but the business-IT relation is treated sensitively and IT management is always trying to set and meet stupid metrics.
Aha! I always knew Brigitte Hyacinth didn't hire that person who was 50 mins late just because of his sheer determination to be able to make it to the interview after being stuck in traffic, instead of leaving an hour earlier like other candidates.
Notarizing has been mandatory since Catalina:
https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=09032019a
That's where the app sources it's data. If the military planes do not turn on their transponders then they can only be picked up on radar.

https://gitlab.com/jjwiseman/advisory-circular/
The contract is almost entirely besides the point.

Either Apple is violating the law, any contract terms related to this violation are void as a result, and Apple is illegally retaliating.

Or Apple is not violating the law, and they are generally free to do as they please.

I say "almost" for the same reason I say "generally". It might be the case that if Apple is not violating the law and they wrote the contract badly then they aren't free to do what they want. But no one is arguing that because it's highly unlikely to be the case.
The API wars – 16 years later