skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
XcodeGhost was an attack like this in the context of Thompson's lecture, mentioned by Thorrez. Neither fully lives up to Thompson's premise, though. XcodeGhost is the closer of the two.
Yes, but Google does not expect nor intend that users will use those alternative possibilities. The tests here are "Do they make it easy and encourage it?" and "What are the defaults?" The company does not support running an Android phone without using Google Play Store, does it? It is true Apple puts much more effort into locking users out, but to suggest because Google does not make that same effort the company is actually encouraging users (outside of Google) to run "modified OS builds" is not convincing. They neither encourage it nor expect it. Nor do they make it easy. The focus of the company is on encouraging users to accept the defaults. If those defaults were aimed at giving users "complete control" then there would be no need for the term "modified OS builds" because users would not need to make modifications. The defaults are aimed at sending data to the mothership. Google control.

If I want "complete control" I can use *BSD.

There are far more similarities than differences between the big tech companies. None of them offers the user anything approaching "complete control". Their employees must engage in no small amount of self-delusion to argue otherwise.

If Google is so different from Apple, why do they need a "Play Store" pre-installed on every mobile device. Where did they get that idea. Worse is that Google will use it to siphon more user data and feed its core business.
I think this needs to be questioned. Visually show downvotes with a number or a red color somewhere. But, making it difficult to read needs to be challenged.
I've been thinking about ways to feed algorithms into a neural network. This looks perfect! Just give the images to a convolutional NN.
jQuery is boring. React only a short while ago introduced hooks.
The FAA uses the term "advisory circular" to share information with pilots and aircraft operators, using "circular" in the way of "bulletin" or "newsletter" [1]

I was really confused at first by your use of the phrase.

I also think it is pretty funny if you didn't intend it. I would have thought what you're doing is better described as a "circular advisory" rather than "advisory circular". Cool project :)

[1] https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/advisory_circulars/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scientists-create-toe-belly-but... Stallamn should sell some Camembert.
These newly remote companies have no idea how difficult it is to be fully distributed. The company I work for have been doing it for years and we’re still dealing with growing pains. You lose a lot when all you do is Zoom with coworkers.
I had a retro arachnoid type game in Appstore for years which was under 'Arcade' category, when apple branded its gaming subscription service as 'Arcade', it forced me to change it to an irrelevant category(Casual). I'm confident, none of the earlier 'Arcade' type games made it to the new 'Apple Arcade' program as it required to be a shiny new unreleased game, developed according to Apple's wishes for its subscription program.

Bam, just like that all Arcade games became non-Arcade with a single email.

If this is not clear abuse of power, then what it is? Don't tell me that a Trillion dollar company couldn't come up with a better name for its subscription service without hurting hundreds, perhaps thousands of small time developers?
No need to be aggressive, I am not being condescending.

x and y are variables.

\ is a notation people use because you cannot type lambdas in ASCII.

For the basic rules regarding application, you need to understand substitution rules.
There are multiple Mobile Device Management systems, but JAMF is probably the best known and perhaps the best supported on iOS. Myself, I use SimpleMDM to manage all the devices in our family. But if I had to do it over again, I’d use JAMF.

I know that JAMF can be used to build your own custom App Store, and to enforce the installation and maintenance of your selected software.
That would work technically, but legally would a company that has been banned from the developer program have their developers use "Personal Teams" also be against the Terms of Service?
I actually quite enjoyed the jump bikes around San Francisco. I would have used them more but the city mandated a maximum and so they were often scarce when I needed them.

SF is a very conservative city, so I'm surprised they didn't spend more effort in other places.
Oh, so that's what makes dark themes so hard to read for me. Unfortunately there's no easy way out for me, since my eyes are photosensitive due to a separate complication. Between a rock and a hard place :p
Thank you so much!

Yes, we will offer non-profit and academic plans.
Ok, you don't like the single App store model for your phone. That's fine. However, I think there is plenty of evidence to suggest that your desire is that of a tiny minority.

Due to Apple's extraordinary success and complete dominance of smartphone profits, I think it is safe to assume the vast majority of users love the App store model. They don't read Hacker News, they don't understand how computers work, and they don't care. What they know is find an app, hit a button, boom. No worries about payment security, malware, etc. (Ok, no malware is a slight overstatement, but not by much.) Software updates are handled automatically.

It is undeniable that people are willing to pay for the current experience. None of this other stuff is really relevant. If you want sideload capability, don't buy an iPhone. There is no deceptive marketing here. Everyone knows the deal with respect to software. The vast majority of users have no thought towards side loading or even what that means. I think any representative survey would find that the single app store model is a feature for the vast majority of their customers, not a detriment.
It's insane that medical data has become so highly valued on the black market (I guess because of the amount of information stored with a single patient such as SSNs, maybe billing info, addresses, etc). Yet, it seems that the healthcare industry is not well prepared to deal with a huge amount of sensitive data (and doesn't seem to be obfuscating it when sharing with vendors). Ironically, I feel that the most secure way of doing patient record keeping is keeping everything physical.
Epic is acting in bad faith. They've spent millions of dollars over the last 2 years securing dozens of platform exclusives for the Epic game store, in some cases forcing the cancellation of customer's pre-orders on other platforms. They're not GoG. They're very happy to support and fund anti-consumer behavior and closed platforms as long as they're the beneficiaries.

This is why I think this should be regarded as a contract dispute between two huge companies and not some David vs. Goliath struggle for freedom or consumer rights.
Interesting. I would love to see two people who disagree about this topic have this conversation without using the words "semantic", "syntactic", "symbolic", "know", "meaning", "understand" or "think(ing)". When you boil it down to predicting what the thing can and cannot, or might and might not be able to do. If it can tell you that fire his hot, and hot things burn, burning hurts, and that a person might want to avoid fire because it's hot and they might get burned ... I don't think I care if "anybody is home" or what have you.

I also think it's important to consider my favorite question, "What is the easiest accomplishment you confident AI will not be able to achieve in the next two years?" At least then the goalposts are in place.
Thanks for all the info - sounds interesting, I'll check it out.
How else do you propose they go after Apple? Go through this process without violating the app store?

Then most people would turn a blind eye to the issue because it hasn't actually impacted them.

Yes the customer is impacted, but by impacting the customer with the right message Epic can turn their customer base against Apple in the process.

Not only does it hurt the customer, but it also hurts Epic by cutting off a massive chunk of their player base.
I hope the federal government takes care of these rogue Chinese Companies.
The only market signal here is that bug bounties are undervalued

A small chance of a unilaterally set arbitrarily priced reward is being continually curb stomped by a two sided marketplace.
> In contrast, replacing the battery in my HP Elite x360 was a piece of cake - no nasty glue, no proprietary screws, and oem batteries available everywhere.

Replacing the battery for my Surface Pro was a different story. The shop told me there's a high probability that removing the screen will break it. Warrant repairs from Microsoft consist of them taking your surface and shipping you a refurbished machine in exchange.
Dumb question, what's the use case for a line protocol?
I don’t think we’ve begun to appreciate the bottleneck that our short term memory places on our ability not just to accomplish things but to Reason.

Being preoccupied with one distraction is like having a bucket in your foot. Every additional handicap - being tired, irritable, distracted by the environment, piles on top with a multiplier. It makes us rash, or stupid, or both,

I suspect we know this subconsciously, and it’s cheaper to just entertain the preoccupation and get it out of your head.

Building up patterns, habits that keep such things off of your radar is costly in the short term but cheaper in the long term. That problem rarely ends up hanging out in working memory.
Ask HN: Why are there still so many 2-letter domain names available?
Why are there still so many two letter domain names available? Well, technically domain names that are four letters in total (two letter TLD and two letter SLD). But still, why are there so many?

- There is only a very short supply of them, and relatively speaking (2626x, where x = number of TLDs), the total number is easily within the lower ten thousands.
- They're super easy to remember, and quick to type for customers/visitors.
- As someone who's worked in I.T., if given the choice for an "internal" domain, I'd choose (and have chosen) a two-letter domain all day long. It's way less typing and makes configuration of devices much easier... so why haven't others thought the same way...
- Since there are so few, and they are special by nature, why aren't "domain sharks" scooping them all up and trying to resell them for a profit?
- Most of them cost the exact same amount as a standard domain name

So yeah, I'm just curious as to why they're apparently not nearly as appealing as longer domain names. I understand that it's hard to put a business/organization name into 4 letters, but still, I'd think that there are at least a few thousand geeks out there like myself who'd want to have one or two.
The peak systemic load occurs at about 3pm but the peak grid load doesn't happen until 6pm. The shift is caused by dispersed rooftop solar.
We need some kind of monetary punishment for not protecting user data. Simultaneously, we need to give tax breaks for companies that have had a streak of many years of taking security seriously without leaks.

Increasing bug bounties doesn't happen when the executives do not have a culture of security in their company. That's a loss cost center for them. We need a different incentives that go beyond just rewarding hackers with bug bounties.
I suppose the California voters will have to decide between blackouts and high prices vs variable pricing.
The reasoning is partly, that a company is not (usually) a single person, nor is that single person responsible for all the actions of the other parts of the company. In reality, most company decisions (especially sensitive or controversial ones) are controlled by a small group of people.

That being said, it's clearly used as a flexible mithril armor for the rich and culpable. This is modern America.
It is about the culture, doesn't matter who sits at the seat.
This is a good question.

Biomass consumes then produces CO2, which is net neutral. The concern with cows, whether it is valid at the levels it exists or not, is with methane, cows consume plants formed from atmospheric carbon dioxide but some nontrivial amount is emitted as methane which has many times more greenhouse effect.
In a completely free market, monopolies are natural outcomes of some circumstances.
Rather than building a platform that empowers developers to build the apps that best serve the varied needs and preferences of individuals, Apple have constructed a corporate walled garden in which they impose a drab lowest-common-denominator conformity on all developers and users.

It takes a real sucker to fall for the “its for your own safety” propaganda while they arbitrarily tax you 30% on the fields you tilled like some medieval feudal lord.
Is there any personal liability for the directors Or investors below jail? Going to be a shame if the company is able to just bankrupt out of this
I'm not at all on Apple's side in the App Store battle, but on this point, Apple is still consistent. Anyone breaking the App Store rules this blatantly would have their developer account terminated, wether they went public or not.
dnsmasq is so nice, you would have thought the OpenBSD made it. Except for GNU style long options, of course.
It seems pretty hard these days to misconfigure and S3 bucket. The default settings are not public.
IQ is fake [1], but anyway Robinhood isn't purporting to be a personal finance flowchart. Vanguard would be the opposite of Robinhood and they don't help you establish an emergency fund or pay off debt, or do any checks on if you're rich enough to invest. Robinhood's just another brokerage with a clean UI.

[1] https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-...

(you can read the articles linked in this if Medium isn't credible enough)
Who attempted to force his employer to fire him for a code of conduct violation?
I have to disagree with the term objections; my usage here has a precise meaning: when you train large (and efficient) neural networks, abstract internal representations emerge. Emerge simply means they weren't programmed explicitly, but the training procedure and other properties are so it will arise.

I agree that's a plausible way to build an agent. In my line of questioning, I would wonder if it could really perform in the real world, due to limitation of corpus, and really lacking training as an agent (and not just a text predictor). This could be addressed using simulated (and possibly multi-agent) training environments and the like.
Lots of great statistical and NLP libraries are written in Python. I'd actually argue Python is one of the few languages without a great alternative for certain niches right now.
That's why the opinioned framework became a big thing. If I agree to follow how you do things a certain way you promise to make my life easier.
Man, I've been taking Trazodone as per this comment for the last week (had some extra laying around), and my IBS-C is basically gone. I've tried everything and this is the first thing that has worked. Thank you so much for your comment; this is a truly life changing paradigm for me. I hope it continues, but I am feeling so much better than I have in a long time. I can't thank you enough.
Okay ? Are you humping everything in sight every time you step out ?
Big Rigged
In Sacramento around 1990 there were monthly MIDI Maze meetups where we would all network our computers with MIDI and play. I was popular at these meetups because I had two Atari STs and would always bring them both.

We occasionally got up to the maximum of 16 players, but it got a little slow and unstable sometimes. We usually tried to form multiple rings of 6-10 computers.
And then?
They file for insolvency but the data is still out there.
We might as well chuck away "def" for a function signature. When I started learning python way back, this particular aspect of Python was an eye-sore. Why wouldn't they use any one of these: func, function, fun, etc. or just like C, no need for a word. void foo(){} is already sufficient structure to indicate that its a function.
Oh, I completely agree, and I really can't see a solid foundation for Epic's claims at all.

But, on the other hand, anti-trust was never my area of legal practice, it's a highly specialized area of US law (something I'm not familiar with in the slightest), and thousands of (billable!) man-hours would have already been spent researching, crafting and refining their argument.

In other words, my legal opinion is meaningless here. I'm interested to see how it plays out.
I've also used Wolfram Alpha for similar information. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+planes+are+overhe...
Doctrinal Obstructiveness in Free Software
I'm willing to pay a 0.25% management fee to prevent SIM swapping attacks. Vanguard will not allow you to remove SMS as a 2FA option, and their Yubikey authentication doesn't work with Firefox, which is pretty unique. The little millennial brokerages (Robinhood, Wealthfront, Betterment) are all more secure.
I strongly dislike python, but I do have to use it because so many libraries are written for it.

It's the pragmatic choice.
There was an interesting talk at DEFCON this year about the FAA's Privacy ICAO Address (PIA) system, and potential attacks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-8z0z1swmE
This type of attempt to intellectualize cultural theft is usually how colonizers rationalize it.

I understand what you're saying, but thats like making the argument that you shouldn't have the fancy car because it's safer in my driveway than yours.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
I wouldn't call this "no idea"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark#Reproduction
It's more than 10% 2018 US entire GDP.
Opiates in and of themselves are relatively safe, only slightly worse for you than caffeine, although clearly (arguably?) more addictive. They have very few long-term effects and the biggest negative health impact being constipation.

There's a madness in society right now, akin to the reefer madness of the early 20th century. The negative of opiates themselves have been blown ludicrously out of proportion.

I think we've cast far too negative light on opiates and too little light on the damage that's actually caused by their prohibition and thus people seeking street drugs.

We've gone so far in the wrong direction that people with actual pain are being denied opiates. People are forced to suffer in order to avoid what, constipation?

We should be both easing people off of opiates, and providing them to people in genuine pain.
I don't know what the right word for it is, but calling them Apple's business partner is like calling a statutory rape victim a sexual partner.
If you still have some involvement with the site then I would suggest moving to a premium ad network (Ezoic, Mediavine, AdThrive) instead of google.
Russia Developed Covid-19 Vaccine so quick
Right because everyone knows that rootkits and other malware are just a hypothetical issue - no one ever deploys them against unsuspecting victims because that would be against the law.
Bay Area suburbs see heated real estate market in July
I am not reducing an experience to the stimulus. I am simply reducing its identity to "that experience which is correlated with this stimulus."

My brain can detect three items without me having a conscious experience of three, and I can dream of three items without three items existing. I am simply saying that - whatever it is - your brain also has some experience it correlates with the stimulus of three, and there is no meaningful way to compare or contrast that experience with my brain's experience beyond noting that they're both correlated with the same stimulus.

We think we can imagine, what if my experience of "red" is your experience of "blue," and vice versa? But that's as meaningful as asking, what if my experience of "two" is your experience of "three," and vice versa?

> it's about whether the pattern of neurons firing would necessarily be the same between people

Nothing in my argument has anything to do with patterns of neurons firing or even with the existence of brains themselves. Perhaps my "red" neurons are in one place and your "red" neurons are in another place, sure, whatever. Why should that mean that our experiences are different?

I mean, certainly, the neurons themselves are not the same. Your neurons don't fire when I see red, or vice versa. But that's not enough to settle anything.
Some would consider this enforcement, which is not the same as retaliation.
What you're describing is a professional licensed engineer who has to among other things take out insurance because they are ultimately responsible for their decisions.
Why doesn't this quine-less language contradict Kleene's recursion theorem?
Regulation is a blunt tool - it not enough to just feel they are not equivalent. Any law that may apply to Apple will apply to everyone else as well. The American perspective is that the government should not pick and choose winners
I'm going to be honest, and say that I have no idea if this comment on that page is relevant to the article in the OP. But if it is, it's hilarious:

> OK, point taken. But if one has any experience with experiments in the foundations of QM, one knows full well what’s going to happen next. Namely: some experimental group will do a slightly souped-up test of Hardy’s Paradox, of course getting just the results that QM predicts, and will then market it in Science or Nature as “the first experimental probe of the logical contradiction at the heart of QM … who could’ve imagined that the ‘impossible’ outcome would occur with probability 1/12?” And then the science journalists will wet themselves with excitement. It’s all nearly as predictable as QM itself!
Someone has to drive that culture though, and that's classically the execs job, right?
I'm surprised no one had pointed out LabVIEW[0]. It's a graphical programming language that would be very easy to implement the concepts here with. It is proprietary, but worth a look if you're interested in applying this.

Full disclosure, I used to work for National Instruments, hence my familiarity with it.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabVIEW
Could just be that you were new to the area. I walk everywhere so the magpies see me all year round, and by the time it's swooping season they know I'm not a threat. I only get swooped when I take a different path to normal and come across an unfamiliar family.
Pretty brutal outlook so far. TikTok either gets banned by Trump or is acquired by one of two companies who both have an outstanding reputation for killing the companies that they buy.
> everything in was pretty level headed

It starts out reasonable, but then has gems like "please buy bus tickets only with cash under a fake name", "find me a parrot", "go to the hotel and figure out if their phone jacks do dial-up because that's most likely the only thing that will work with my machine".

The latter may have adjusted with the times, since the document is old; but then again, the demands he places on streaming technology etc. are perfectly reasonable nowadays, but a massive obstacle back then.
For what it's worth, I'd expect that leverage to come back to bite you in the ass in a rising interest rate environment. Granted, we haven't seen a sustained period of rising interest rates for 40+ years, but it's not obvious that that will continue.
The consequence of power is such that it emboldens an individual to believe that limits on themeselves, are a moral wrong. The common knowledge acceptance of sexually deviant debauchery, has been pervasive across time (Caligula to Epstein). It is much harder to expose, with the extreme wealth disparity.

I'd bet you have to be really sloppy nowadays to get caught.
In a world where walmart is the only store & it bans all other retail stores from existing, Walmart will become monopoly.

This is false equivalence