skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I trust Debian to supply and maintain the software on my machine. But, at any moment, I can choose to add other trusted parties, or remove the Debian repositories, or add my own patched version of some app.

I usually choose to trust them, because it's convenient and because they probably know better than I do. But my trust in Debian is completely voluntary, non-exclusive and revocable.
Electricity is renewable. Waste is unused supply. there is more demand for bitcoin than supply.

I usually agree with most of your analysis on economics, except on bitcoin. Hopefully you will come around on this topic as well.
I am still not seeing the argument relative to mine.

If the ability to side load an app is not enabled by default, how would novice users accidentally install apps they may not have intended to?
I think a good option here would be for Apple to sell jailbroken developer phones for say an additional 30% cut up front and a nice DEV brand on the back for bragging rights. The additional fee hurdle would discourage those who just want a cheap way to get paid software and whatever additional expenses from helping with malware.
Aura, a Covid-19 contact tracing app, had hard-coded AWS keys
Imp: A new, networked MODule player with integrated chat, more for 68K Amigas
The major one is deep integration of applications with the OS. One example is any keyboard shortcut in any application can be remapped at the OS level. Dictation and services available almost everywhere text can be entered. Any text in almost any dialogue is selectable. Application dialogs like open and print are standardized. The print dialog is incrediably rich with functionality, in every application. This extends to integration with iOS devices and system hardware.

The stock OS is ready out of the box with a full suite of integrated applications. While there are better versions of all of them, most are high quality. Though, I haven’t found a PDF reader better than Preview and Apple Notes is very hard to beat as a general note taking tool.

The base OS has color syncing. I was able to hook up a professional grade printer, have the OS automatically install the drivers, and produce color accurate prints using Preview. The system print dialog allowed me to fully configure the printer. No specialized tools required. There’s even an iOS app that can do the same thing in a more limited fashion.

Never had a driver issue or had to modify a configuration file to get hardware to work properly. (Have done GUI tweaks via defaults.)

When it comes to specialized applications, there are a lot of excellent applications written specifically for macOS. Some come with iOS apps. (1Password is high on my list.)

Due to the industries I work in, Microsoft Office is a hard requirement. Libre Office is not an option.

Time machine has no equal when it comes to backups and restoring to new hardware. I haven’t done a clean install since 2008. In two hours I can completely clone my current machine.

This is just a few of the many reasons I use macOS. Frankly, they are more important to me than openness of platform or deep control of my devices.

That does not mean I don’t appreciate Linux. I love Linux. There is nothing better for servers than Linux. I have older laptops loaded with Linux but they are a hobby for me.

Linux fills a very important place in the world. Frankly,
the world needs open operating system and people who enjoy using it. But I have neither the time, expertise, or inclination to do so on my primary machine.
I show this by the fact that apparently, according to the article, teachers are being lured away from the public school to teach private pods in the pandemic. Keep in mind, public schools in CA are entirely distance learning. So, these teachers are taking on a health risk to take these private jobs. Obviously they are not being paid enough by the public school to forgo the health risk/higher pay.
No worries here, Apple IRP actually requires independent business to get a waiver signed by the customer. Among other things Customer acknowledges repair has no warranty from Apple, despite repair being performed "using original Apple parts by Apple Certified technician working within Apple authorized independent repair program"!
California Set to Pass the Nation's First Wealth Tax Targeting the Ultra Rich
How does a Recursive CTE run, line by line?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3187850/how-does-a-recur...
His public image has been degraded from toe-jam eating and supposedly outrageous riders for speaking engagements (which I think everything in was pretty level headed but some people think it was 'nuts')
The temperature on the AC at my house is set at 80F. At 80F with the air flow from fans and a dressing light, there is no reason most people cannot be comfortable. I think that people cranking the AC down to 72F like they do are selfish and do not understand the impact that everyday actions have on the world as a whole.
I think very little of Google; I'd like to see them leave Australia. Australians, of which I am one, are fools to be supporting that sort of centralised data collection. Tear it up, burn it down and throw it out in my humble opinion. I'd rather have incompetents than Google.

"[W]ell they can leave" is true - but the idea that that is something they would 'choose' to do is in my view a philosophical canard. Google is going to make the best economic decision and in that sense they don't really have a choice to make. The ACCC/government is the one with a range of options where they can pick one. And they should be held to a higher standard than bullying companies.
Some might also see that to breakthrough a totalitarian platform good coordination of efforts (lawsuits, PR, etc) are needed.
Security-in-depth though.

Having to pay money introduces a money-trail and a paper-trail. If a payment for a certificate is made with stolen CC details then the certificate gets revoked. This also effectively stops opportunistically-written malware taking advantage of current events (click bait email subject lines) to spread via email attachments.

The value from code-signing isn’t just the (I agree: very weak) attestation of the software’s author’s identity - but because it introduces a revocation mechanism and a reputation system - and creates barriers-to-entry that burden malware authors more than legitimate software vendors.

It’s not perfect, but don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

Also remember that the only proven successful alternative to the current open PKI/CA system is the closed walled-garden approach favoured by Apple. I don’t think any Web-of-trust system has ever really been demonstrated as being feasible long-term without some WoT nodes evolving into pre-trusted/super-trusted nodes with the same power that CAs have today.

And at least with PKI+CAs you can add your own trusted root certificates and remove those you don’t trust.
It used to do a pretty good job of filter out pattern practice, but lately I feel like those false positives have actually become the #1 issue (maybe because my code was tuned for and worked fine around LA, but not other parts of the world). I'm working on some slightly fancier filtering to remove those.
See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Treadwell
But that would require disengaging the 24/7 chicken little fear narrative.
>> , but now a mechanism supposedly for security has been repurposed as punishment.

And you thought it wouldn't be used as punishment... I wonder, why people are so naive? I'm pretty sure that any kind of software that is not deemed good for the guardian's business(i.e. Apple in this case) will be blocked/suspended. DMCA related suspensions are the first that come into my mind.
They aren’t undocumented carve outs. Anyone can produce a reader app.
Players don't pay $500 just to play fortnite.
> In a large app, the types can be their own special form of spaghetti.

I have a relatively neutral opinion of Typescript, but oh boy does that quote ring true. TS can be a very nice safety net when refactoring (just fix all the type errors, and the app should mostly work as it did before), but you can also very well paint yourself in a corner with similar-but-slightly-different types all over the place that'd just work if it was in JS.
6,500 gallons of drilling fluid sounds much scarier than a 9.54ft cubic container's worth of water and clay.
This is not consistent with my experience; I've lived in the same peninsula home for 10 years and can recall multiple summers with waves this bad or worse.
Even if Moskowitz has a point, it is difficult to take him seriously when he associates himself with "Physicians for Safe Technology", a group which maintains the belief that Electromagnetic hypersensitivity is a real thing. It is not.

It has no scientific basis and is not a recognized medical condition.

https://www.who.int/peh-emf/publications/facts/fs296/en/

High levels of RF exposure can of course do damage, in the form of burns. Any seasoned amateur radio operator at some point in the progression of their hobby can surely attest to the pain of being "bitten" by an energized RF cable.

But trying to promote the idea that cellphones are dangerous is just scaremongering. You'll absorb more energy in just a few seconds just by standing in a sunbeam.
Interestingly, batteries don't have to be lithium-based.

https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concrete-blocks-is-a-surpris...
Can't you install chrome?
>by either booting into Linux

I don't think thats an option on newer MacBook Pros any more.
No, you can identify it on adsb-exchange. Sounds like you've been using flightaware/rb24/flightradar24 - they block aircrafts. https://tar1090.adsbexchange.com/
I'm pretty sure that we're underpowered if anything. Our house is three stories, built into a hill. Only the top two floors are even plumbed for A/C and only the top floor has a compressor installed. Like I said earlier, the builder didn't think we'd need A/C at all.

Humidity inside is running about 50% at the moment.
Apple shares your communication with them with the public?!? What happened to privacy?!? Sue them! Do it now! /s
Not a great source. Science is based on evidence, not lack of evidence.

A rebuttal to that article appears in the same publication, and adroitly takes apart it's claims: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/dont-fall-...
>So when a friend of yours wants to message you and you don’t have the same app, what happens?

I tell the friend to call, text or email me. Price doesn't have any bearing because the market on messaging apps has bottomed out, in part due to Apple's app store policies.
Getting by with a little help from Jack Daniels, probably.
Your question is almost orthogonal to the way AI is developed. It starts with the task and the AI algorithm is specialised to it. In that sense, we have AI that has not just human but superhuman performance in tasks like playing chess for example, and we're working on many other tasks.

AI that resembles human intellect in the general sense is still just a dream. And we're not remotely close to even knowing how to approach this problem, let alone solve it.
You refute a page with scientific studies and their outcomes with talking points. That's all I really need to know about your argument.
What a loss. To be downgraded that much.
Mindfulness is not quite Meditation towards enlightenment.

The idea is simple, and that is to remove one from the chaos of the world, to not be defined by it, and especially to 'be in the moment'.

'Quieting the mind and being present' in a tiny aspect of the more religious aspects.

The 'big problem' is possibly that they are 'doing it wrong'.

If you want to 'get people in the moment'?

Play sports.

Meditation is supposed to be about 'less thoughts' but usually it leads to more and more self contemplation - which is the opposite of what we want.

Want to 'shut off' the contemplative mind -> Use another part of the brain!

Does anyone know people who 'like sports' that generally get depressed? No, I would say the opposite: generally more gregarious, positive, and care free.

You don't have 'thoughts' while you are chasing a ball, or managing around that rock you're about to hit.

And we all need more exercise.

I find running more meditative than any kind of meditation.
One of the things I've used successfully is a decision register, where decisions are formally recorded, with the justification.

This doesn't necessarily help the original decision, but it does stop a bunch of re-litigation of previous decisions, and this is often a cause of noise and distracting headspace. Importantly, it can remind everyone that the decision was made with a good reason at the time.
I see it the other way, that these other things have 'a language' of their own. There's vocabulary and higher structures and usages that emerge from it. I've seen this time and again. Branches of math or science, music, and even complex games (Go, Starcraft2, etc) have many layers. I can't clearly differentiate what's needed to learn one kind and not the other. A game of Go has even been called a conversation between two people.

Edit: I'm (re)learning to play Starcraft2 at a higher level and loving those 'elevated plateaus' feeling of learning which does get rare.
That sounds more like absurdism.
Updated the page. Free plan on the left! Thanks!
We're just in the last few minutes getting the stage 2 warning that capacity limits could be reached soon.
This is completely off-topic, but isn't the regular hyphen what you want in "non-technical"? I don't think the en-dash is correct.
Show HN: Generate dependency diagrams like from today's xkcd
Hence the Pacific DC intertie:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_DC_Intertie
"The Pacific Intertie takes advantage of differing power demand patterns between the northwestern and southwestern US. During winter, the northern region operates electrical heating devices while the southern portion uses relatively little electricity. In summer, the north uses little electricity while the south reaches peak demand due to air conditioning usage. Any time the Intertie demand lessens, the excess is distributed elsewhere on the western power grid (states west of the Great Plains, including Colorado and New Mexico).[3]"

(that predates solar, boy do I wish we could store that daylight 12-16 hours)
Ask HN: Is there a name for this semi-common debugging occurrence?
I was building an app for chess on topologies other than just the plane, and in testing I couldn't figure out why the king was disallowed from making a certain move. It turned out it was functioning perfectly, and it was just hard for a human to notice the square was rightfully in danger. I feel like there should be a name for this phenomenon where you believe there to be a bug, spend a while searching for it, only to discover your program was actually functioning perfectly.
Or they just learn, "I'm not supposed to lie, so don't get caught."
And being home you heat the place by existing, running things, and opening windows to the heat. If you leave a house locked, it heats up pretty slowly, and if you get back towards dark, it will cool off faster from a lower temperature.

It's just a really weird year all around.
I've been here my entire life. This is pretty bad. In my 30 years i've definitely never experienced a hot summer thunderstorm like the other night. It feels very bizarre.
Why can't they generate cash?
I just say command line if I have to verbally say it.
Posted in another thread, but:

http://www.getoutcome.com
Please review the Epri document EMF and your health. Document number 3002016508. It's free on Epris website.
What if there was a $20,000 per year remote tax write-off?

Work in our city and get a $20,000 federal tax write off...?
I think they're referring to swapping in funny money to obfuscate customer ability to estimate the costs.

It's similar to how slot machines require tokens, but I don't think that's quite gambling. The gambling part comes in with loot boxes, where you're essentially paying to roll the dice to get something of value.
Metaverse as described in Neal Stephenson's "Snowcrash" which was one of the first novels to describe a multiplayer VR world. Fun book.

By closer I mean it's developing this weird culture as a place to just hang out in besides just playing rounds of the games. People watch movies and concerts and what not in the game. It has a higher level evolving plot line and culture. Like second life but mainstream; social media in video game form.
It's a currency. There's no lootboxes.
There's premium items you buy with that currency.

A microtransaction isn't gambling by default.
The links (URLs) in the comments (references) are more important.

Idea for project: Filter the HN comments for URLs, dedupe, retrieve content, and include in hndex.

hndex seems easy enough to copy. There should be mirrors.

There should be many HN articles that are no longer accessible at their original locations. Does hndex use archive.org in these cases?
They do, but a car is still a very dangerous thing. Judging by /r/IdiotsInCars on Reddit, there are people who don't quite realize that despite having a driver license.
Jumping ship instantly from one engine to another isn't possible. You're talking about developers doing a full rewrite of their games. Sure, plenty of mobile games are crap that can be cranked out in a coke-fueled weekend (see Zynga). But there are also mobile games that required significant development effort to build.
I just searched google for repair and data recovery for several of my devices with adblock disabled and it turned up several local shops. So seems to be provably untrue.

I kind of lost faith in Rossman after he blamed Apple for Customs agents seizing counterfeit parts.
Excellent plan, good on you.
What is the definition of sufficient when it comes to protecting non-technical users from harmful code?

In old sci-fi books, there's a couple that describe a future where connecting an old device to the Internet without having first installed updates will result in the device being exploited and/or ruined within a few seconds.

I notice that the Xcode worm was reposted again this morning, which seems like the perfect mechanism for covertly preparing for a worldwide hack of all iOS devices through a backdoor that has been compiled into all software. (You could get a similar effect by introducing malware into CocoaPods, and with similar reach.) All of these protections Apple has with Gatekeeper and Notarization would, to many extents, protect end users against that attack.

As you said, it's definitely a broad brush. The risk is absolutely real, though I imagine we all disagree on how important it is. It's the same problem as the risk of Python/Ruby/Node dependency compromises. Any solution that would work for protecting us against an NPM compromise would also work for protecting us against a macOS software compromise. Apple's solutions have a higher total value of protection, in exchange for a higher total value of bothersome.

Is the NPM model (you can ship any code worldwide, have fun!) safe enough for non-technical users, such that Apple could just drop Gatekeeper and let us all go back to the wild west macOS days? If not, what model is acceptable, given that Apple's model isn't?
Epic also allows free to play games to set up their own payment systems and pay 0%.
Scientists create a material that makes salty water safe to drink in minutes
All brokerages are like that. Back in the early 2000's, when I first enabled options trading, I had to fill out a paper form. This was also mostly just checking a box. If you could put a stamp on an envelope, you were qualified to trade options.
To be clear, the US is a constitutional republic and not a democracy, and the constant use of the word democracy dilutes this fact.
It doesn't say this.
It doesn't seem very likely that the actual behavior of a large-scale stochastic system and the hour-ahead forecast of that system would part ways to the extent we're seeing, just by coincidence. If it wasn't an intentional curtailment of demand, perhaps there is simply an outage somewhere?
When will they start erasing apps from people's devices? That's what I'm waiting for.

App store is an utility in iOS users hands as such it should be regulated as utilities are.
If Apple is so worried about people using crappy Chinese parts, they could sell original spare parts themselves, like proper hardware vendors do.

PS: Don't post AMP links, they cause cancer. De-AMP'ed link follows:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/iphone-5-owner-ma-a...
I think it’s absurd that you can neither buy a kindle book from the iOS kindle app nor the Amazon app. How user unfriendly!

And yet, Apple runs their own digitsl bookstore... since there’s no way to remove 30% revenue from apple’s own venture, they’re using a monopoly position to monopolize another market.

Oh, but Apple isn’t a monopoly because there’s Android.

Why did we think Microsoft was a monopoly? You could always buy a Mac and avoid the MS tax. But in the end the courts decided that MS was a monopoly unfairly restraining trade. We’ll have to see how this turns out. But by not allowing other app stores, Apple has put themselves at risk here.
> Epic has a monopoly on selling items inside Fortnite.

3rd party artists can't create anything that can be used inside Fortnite, neither inside the v-bucks store nor outside of it. There's no 3rd party "market" at all.

Apple has a market where third parties can market their apps. Apple requires a cut of all purchases made through that store, which alone is not monopolistic. Apple also requires that you sell your iOS app and any iOS in-app purchases only in their marketplace. That's the monopolistic part.

No one can create 3rd party items for Fortnite at all, so there is no monopoly on where 3rd party items for Fortnite are sold.

It's not even illegal to have a monopoly; it's illegal to use your monopoly powers to keep other parties from competing, and that's exactly what Apple has done.
This is really cool, thanks for sharing! It would be great if the hover text for the tools also displayed the keyboard shortcuts that I found in the nice and easy-to-read JavaScript :)
Apple is looking to squeeze coin out of a stone to keep their stock holders happy and financials looking good, rather than growing their products and customers.
Some things that do not show up in Guns, germs and steel:

- Syphilis may have a new world origin.

- The most productive crop is the potato, a crop of new world origin.

- The Inca farmed guinea pigs. These are a very viable farm animal.

- The Mapuche did not have guns, germs or steel yet, they defeated the Spanish.

- The Inca could have defeated the Spanish. They were encountered after a civil war where the nobility was purged. The Inca nobility knew how to run the empire.
It could be really bad for Epic in the long term if Apple decides to completely and permantly prevent Unreal Engine from running on Mac and iOS. Game developers may be less likely to use Unreal Engine if they know it doesn't have support for Apple OSes.
On top of everything, Apple is also systematically erasing all App Review rejection communications [1]

If someone were to sue them for any reason related to rejection of an app submission, they could probably obtain an injunction to bring that bullshit to a screeching halt. Just saying.
Normalizing it to the outside temperature would be a matter of airflow, unlike heating, which requires energy from somewhere. Running fans would not require much energy by comparison.
I might ask the same of you. Please provide evidence that CEO pay is statistically relevant to "higher wage gaps"?

Amazon employs 50,000 highly paid people in Seattle alone, but only 1 CEO. Bezos' CEO pay is hardly responsible for income inequality in Seattle.