skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This cascade of comments is missing the point. It's like someone is pointing out the darker shade of clouds at the horizon and saying, "I think a storm is coming," and everyone here is just going, "Well, it could also be nightfall. I mean, the night has to roll on in at some point too."

Yes, it's just an initial check. But is it necessary? What exactly is the use case basis for Apple transmitting and logging data on every application you run on an operating system you have a consumer guarantee of zero-tampering post-sale.

So, let's work this out: How easy is it to not upgrade macOS, retain consistent performance as usual, and not lose support if the userbase remains unsatisfied with Apple's change to an exchanged good? By my understanding, as with Windows 10, Apple will eventually require you to upgrade. If you're upgrading to a system that maintains the same performance and does not introduce express limitations to the product post-sale, that's great! Go for it, live merry. However, in this case, the userbase has zero clarification on both co-owned data transmission and a remote check that appears to trigger a constraint on workflow. There's no use case basis that makes sense for doing this, because Apple has established guarantees for decades prior to this new process that claim macOS is not susceptible to malware. So, it begs the question: Was Apple violating consumer protections by making false guarantees, or is Apple violating consumer protections by limiting the function and utility of the product post-sale?

That's what people are asking right now. We don't care about the nuance of the check. We care about the basic characteristics of, and more importantly the legitimacy of any use case for this check, given promises made to consumers at a prior time of purchase.
I suspect they will fix their app before this deadline. I very much doubt a judge will rule in Epic's favor for an injunction to removal when they have so obviously orchestrated this problem themselves.

Apple has a single developer program for all platforms. Epic has been given a deadline to stop breaking the contract terms - submit a new version of the application which reverts the remotely activated payment logic.
Rates are regulated by the states so the mileage will vary by state.

Also, I feel like this is much fairer than the current practice of rating based on credit score.
There's probably a good German word for the sudden doubt in one's humanity you get when you unintentionally fail a Turing Test. It's like the feeling I get when motion-activated sinks don't see me.
> [WHO] said COVID does not transmit from human to human.

Can you put that canard to rest? On January 14th (when virtually nothing was known about this yet), the WHO tweeted (my highlights):

> Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus

So, note:

a) this was very early days, and the understanding was in flux.

b) the WHO didn't itself claim anything about the virus and its transmission, but it reported on a study. The WHO doesn't conduct their own studies. The WHO reports and aggregates information from the member states. Here, these were investigation reports from the Chinese authorities, and that's what they said at the time.

c) these were preliminary studies, not a final conclusion.

d) the claim wasn't that there is no transmission, but that at the time no clear evidence for it had been found.

The tweet was maybe ill-advised, and it didn't age well, but it is by no means indicative of corruption.

That is not to say that the WHO doesn't have major problems. But this tweet is not one of them.
My experience and my wife's have been that even where there is dedicated videoconferencing equipment (cameras, mics, lighting, ambient sound treatment), video calls are draining.

Yes, it's worse when people are using built-in cameras and bad lighting. But it's still there in 'good' conditions.

(To add to the list of things to get: use a wired connection! Wi-Fi is an endless source of lagginess and other problems. Get a USB ethernet dongle; 100Mbit is overkill. Also, get a LED lighting panel and tripod from a photo supply store so that people can see you.)
Nuclear power != Nuclear weapons, or preventing the spread of them.
If you remember Handbrake had a version of their app hacked and uploaded to a distribution server.
It depends on the school. Even within a district some schools will be all day and some 1/2 day. There is no law that mandates how long kinder has to be so it's up to the schools.
Good to see this. I also really miss send later and undo send when I use Fastmail. Two major missing Features.

The biggest issue I have with Fastmail is how lousy the tech support is. I had issues with IMAP and they take days between replies to get back with you.

I started sending them hourly updates hoping for a faster response. Then I copied the CEO to the email chain. After about 20 emails to them I gave up.

A few days later someone got back to me that every time you email their support it resets their clock on when they will respond...

Literally the worst of the worst in email support. That is sad because they have good policies and a fairly robust web frontend.
You can't turn off Instagram 'Suggested Posts'
> Safari removed support for extensions last year, dropping all adblockers

Safari has ad-blockers. It also has extensions. Just google it.
Apple does not indicate it is 'likely' malware.
The vote will be further depressed this year, so we can stipulate that both candidates are weaker than Clinton. Vast majorities of citizens in every state would prefer neither genital-grabbing loudmouth confused old man from the urban Northeast. Only, we don't actually have representative government. That would cost the military-industrial complex some money, and they haven't tolerated that since the Truman administration.
As I understand it, the article was referring to applications built with Apple development tools. How does Gatekeeper treat applications developed in some other way, say an Electron app?
I think it depends on the person. For myself (and probably many people with the hacker mindset), I don't like useless rules and want a justification or I tend to think I "know better" which is of course sometimes true and sometimes not.

I used to think this was a rebellious streak but perhaps it's just from that desire to know how things work. Absent a reason, I'll find my own.

A lot of people don't care either way, rules make life simple so there's no need to complicate it further.
Might make more sense that you suspect. An airport designed to land uphill and takeoff downhill actually makes huge a difference in operating costs for heavy aircraft. Takeoff and initial climb are huge fuel burners.
There are biotech VCs though just fewer of them and the screening process is quite rigorous. You have to get proof of concept in some academic paper first. That being said the AI drug design companies and the transformation of molecular biology with bioinformatics/NGS into more of an engineering paradigm (at least for diagnostics) will definitely change things. I'd expect medical devices to advance first and then new drug development.
The comment you're replying to is confusing because it's been copied out of context from where it was originally posted, which as a discussion of a mandatory signing requirement on Apple silicon.
Some Ebay sellers still engage in this type of behavior and it's infuriating. Also sellers who use USPS but still won't ship to a PO BOX. I don't get it.
Everyone knows these things by now, why do people keep repeating it? you think the people going to the speakeasy gyms haven't heard it 100 times? The article points out that in general some people will always find a way.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply, this is very useful.

The concept of having business users able to review (or even, holy grail, edit/author) workflows was one of the potentially appealing aspects of the BPMN products; did you get a signal on whether there were any benefits? "the initial hurdle of BPMN" sounds like maybe this isn't as good as it seems on the face of it?

Also, how do you go about testing long-lived workflows? Do any of these orchestrators have tools/environments that help with system-testing (or even just doing isolated simutions on) your flows? I've not found anything off-the-shelf for this yet.
Yes, that is your contention exactly.
You don't need a Mac to develop software for macOS.
Picking the previous decade in a market that has mostly simply gone up is hardly cherry picking. The problem with choosing simple funds such as the plaintiff's example of the Vanguard S&P 500 Index Fund is that selection of such leaves little room to offer political benefits to "being on the endowment committee". The rebuttal by the current endowment board that they have too much money to risk it in one asset class is trivially overcome by a grossly simple percentage of bond allocation - but such simple investment approaches don't keep dozens of active managers engaged.
The rich entertainers are worth more because they provide value to very many people. It adds up. Each teacher only provides value to about 30 people.

Total pay for all teachers is far in excess of total pay for all entertainers. Measured that way, we clearly do value the teachers more.

It's just that an individual teacher is not very productive.

Some entertainers are not productive. Being a clown at small birthday parties is seldom lucrative.
"isn't working for people?" that's what regulations are for. you don't get to choose what 'works for you' when lives are at stake.
While I also find these changes to macOS alarming and disappointing, I still vastly prefer macOS to Windows.

My 2013 Macbook Pro is also still the best laptop I have ever used (I also have a 2017 Macbook Pro for work and I have to admit that the newer models rightfully earn their bad reputation).

If Apple continues to head in this direction, I think the right move is to migrate to Linux. Windows is a huge step back, as far as I'm concerned.
EU population is 446 million, so evidently "yes, you were including Russia".
You can buy a Mac once. The fee is every year in addition to the cost for a Mac. You can even rent access to a Mac if money is really tight
If it does that's terrible
lots of libertarians here who don't care if you die as long as they get to go to the gym
I do think it's best if we are able to do certain things with appropriate precautions (masks inside, things outside when possible, etc).

Sorry if I was a bit harsh - had someone yell "America" at me while running with a mask the other day but I shouldn't project that frustration onto others.
1. Online learning is a poor substitute for classroom learning.

2. Online learning is much harder on parents and kids.

3. We're in the middle of a pandemic, in a country that has handled it very poorly.

4. Israel tried opening schools in May, when their daily new cases were at an all time low. New cases skyrocketed after opening schools [1], with nearly 50% of new cases being traced back to schools[2].

5. Closing schools in the spring is estimated to have saved 40,000 deaths in the US[3]. At that time new daily cases were significantly lower than they are now.

Unfortunately, classrooms undo a lot of the measures that have kept new daily cases from going significantly higher. They create contacts between families that would not have been in contact otherwise, and as new data comes out, it's clear that children are just as contagious as adults.

With what we know, as hard as it is, I don't see how we can proceed with opening schools until new daily cases are much more contained. The alternative is to have a massive spike in new cases, have schools close again, and be in the same position with online learning, but with many, many more cases out there.

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ees8MesX0AAbDE2?format=png&name=...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/israelis-fear-schools-reopened-...

[3] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2769034
Apple always has the option of fusing their Macs and selling blown ones externally, and then writing their OS to turn off parts of the OS that they use but think you don't need. They haven't done that, but it is always possible that they could.
I don't understand how anyone with self-respect uses AAPL products. I guess it's true what they say about fools and their money.
It's not strictly because "they want the opposite of what the other guy wants", it's more to drive enough of working class to such desperation that any form of UBI will be widely demanded and then celebrated.
I had Tekton in my mental filing cabinet under "Cloud Native CI/CD", how's the UI / DAG-visualization for that toolchain? Like the sibling comment, I'd also be interested in hearing your A/B thoughts on Argo vs. Tekton for the generic workflow management usecase.
This happens to depend on the code you're trying to run!
In the spring, my five year old, who I would call unusually patient for his age, would sometimes break down crying and beg the teacher to let him leave the meeting.

One thing that I’m not seeing discussed much is that these meetings are objectively a dehumanizing waste of the children’s time. Ten minutes to take roll, while everyone just sits there? If someone did something this pointless in a meeting of adults, they would be reprimanded.
Find another job man. Or I send over 2 more dogs.
>you overestimate how much "you could save" by giving away your driving habit privacy

It amuses me that when it comes to phones tracking us, apps tracking us, google maps tracking us, etc.. we don't get the same outrage.

Also, the answer to your concerns is regulation. Contact your state reps.

I'm actually okay with pricing based on driving habits. Sure it won't be perfect, but it seems more just than pricing based on whether you're married or not or have a good credit score like insurance carriers currently doing.
I moved to the US just a few years ago.

Iran's economy has changed significantly in the past few years. University professors that used to make around ~60K USD a year just a decade ago are now making 8-12K USD a year today.

Money is definitely a problem, and even if you have the money dealing with American companies completely closing off everything is a pain.

Thankfully Android, being a little bit more open than Apple has allowed a ton of small software startups to become successful in Iran, while Apple has stifled them and has actively removed Iranian apps from the AppStore.

This brings back me to my original point that if we keep wanting Apple to keep control of what can be published and used on the iPhone then what happens when a questionable US government decides to start banning apps that help people organize? Or apps that help people combat and fight injustices?

Apple, keeping the strict control they have on the iPhone, is making the future of computing under a questionable state a dangerous thing.
So something like a million+ people dying if we let this run without intervention - because our ability to control transmission is pretty limited even with dramatic measures - out of the US population only matters if they distribution is balanced age-wise?

Economic-cost-wise, why is this cost the one that gets people so riled up?

Is it because it also comes with personal inconvenience, and so much of the other ways we spend money fighting death - or trying to extract revenge for death like after 9/11 - doesn't?

Driving, for instance - the government makes us spend a lot more to have safer cars, but other than styles and types of car available as a result, we don't really get impacted by it. It just makes the cars more expensive, and few people care.

Or maybe we're just bad at dealing with adversity without having someone to blame? So we go reaching for "bad guys"?
That is what codesigning does.
Also known as the Sandboxing Cycle:

https://xkcd.com/2044/
> A few days later someone got back to me that every time you email their support it resets their clock on when they will respond...

Sounds like a badly-implemented version of a FIFO queue.
Or people who want to publish a software for free.

It's surprising how many people have forgotten that software development and starting out new projects wasn't always for an endgoal of monetizing it.
But why no website?
Checks are significantly relaxed after installation, so I don't think this would actually help here anyways.
High BPA levels linked to 49% greater risk of death within 10 years, study says
All-in VTSAX is a tried and true strategy
We would need to see median consumption, rather than per capita, to compare to the wealth figures above. The US rates very highly in wealth per capita as well.
Could be that I do want people to improve their lives and just happen to disagree with your methods?

No, disagreeing with your must mean I want people to stay in poverty forever...

Learn from immigrants: they earn their way to a better life by applying themselves and helping each other.
> Apple has a single developer program for all platforms.

This is the fundamental problem, in my opinion.

When Developer ID was introduced, it was supposed to be a mere formality, a cryptographic guarantee that an app was signed by a particular developer, to be used only for security purposes. At the time, nobody knew it would be used as leverage in an App Store dispute.
For example, in a recent study, 78% percent of recovered people had heart changes visible on a CMRI weeks after recovery.

COVID-19 is going to have a long tail...

[1] Outcomes of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients Recently Recovered From Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), Puntmann et al, JAMA Cardiology, 2020
Sorry, could I ask which talk you are referring to?
It’s mostly for retail businesses that would otherwise write Wi-Fi passwords on signs.
The core WA principle of "protect the host from the program, but not the program from itself" still holds, based on the video this paper does not even attempt to break the WASM host memory barrier. That seems more like a success than anything else.

Guess what: developers are still responsible for avoiding security bugs in their code. But at least when they mess up, it still won't damage more than what their dumb web app could have done already.
> One segment of the population embraced politics and decided that masks was the last straw among all of the rules they otherwise accept in their lives, and decided to turn it into a public statement.

Let's not pretend that there isn't a "wear masks because of politics" segment in the US, too. It's been turned into signalling on both sides, to the detriment of us all.
I think maybe you're missing the point? I don't even disagree with what you're saying, but we can have it both ways: the alleged 99.999% (I suspect you're exaggerating) can have by-default strict security with no apps allowed unless installed through Apple's App Store, and the rest could do whatever they want.
You will note that macOS identified the software as malware 1. because it was actually malware and 2. without notarization.
that didn't really work out for Nick Cordero did it?
This is how automated driving becomes mainstream.

Insurance companies will classify Automated drivers as "Best drivers" and insurance for those sorts of cars will be really low compared to even blemish free human drivers.
Sure, different countries have different living standards. That's the point. "Living wage" is an undefined, ever changing concept. Populist to the core.
Chaos is a ladder.

And we start the cycle over again around the time that young men and women no longer trust the opinions of people who lived through the last cycle.

I used to call this 'fashion' as quite a few other people are fond of doing, but I don't think I'll be doing that anymore. Fashion has an element of frivolity that understates the consequences of all of the churn.

I have been trying to figure out if there's a more structured way that I can gather my assumptions (about software in particular) and be able to audit them once in a while. Because we build so many decisions on these assumptions. And I suspect when they start to teeter is when we get the urge to try something very different, 'forget everything we think we know' and start over with a philosophy that we already tried and abandoned thirty years ago.

But maybe I only need to forget six things I 'knew', instead of swinging back and forth on the pendulum with everyone else.
If we could just get entertainers to teach...
> Endowments have much longer investment horizons and typically lower risk appetite that wouldn't typically have an investment policy tilted towards 100% equities.

That does make some sense, but actually endowments typically invest quite a bit in in riskier asset classes. From https://caia.org/aiar/access/article-1160:

> The average US endowment fund held roughly 70 per cent in traditional asset classes (public and private equity, bonds and cash) with the remaining 30 per cent invested in alternative assets.

Alternative asset classes basically means "anything other than stocks and bonds", and includes stuff like derivitives, commodities, PE deals, venture capital, etc. And CU's investment in alternative asset classes is called out explicitly in the complaint.

So I don't read this as a complaint that CU is playing too safe, it's that they made too many risky bets, and lost.

I'm not sure that makes the law suit any more viable, but "the endowment gambled away my donation" is a much more sympathetic complaint than "the endowment sunk my donation into bonds instead of gambling it like I'd hoped"!
Deaths are often measured in deaths per 100,000,000 miles driven, with a current measurement of 1.18 deaths per 100 million miles[1]. If a car is driving 60 mph 24/7, it takes 190 years for it to drive 100,000,000 miles. Let's assume that, in a decade, 1% of cars are on autopilot. There are 37,000 deaths per year in the USA due to car accidents[1]. Therefore, in order for Tesla/Google/GM to claim that it is equivalent to normal cars, it has to drive 370 * (100 million/1.18) ~= 31,300,000,000 miles, with only 370 accidents. If $COMPANY really had, say, 400 accidents, then it would have to make up the additional miles. In specific, it would have to make up 30 * (100 million/1.18) ~= 2,500,000,000. That means a fleet of (190 * 25) = 4,750 cars driving 24/7 for an entire year. That's not impossible for $COMPANY to do, but it is starting to become unreasonable. What's more likely is that $COMPANY just straight up lies about its incidence rate to regulators. But that's hard to do, considering it's going to be public if someone gets hit by a car.

I don't think its possible to fool the regulators, but even if it was possible there are dramatic consequences for lying. Volkswagon tricked regulators into thinking their car didn't emit as much as it really did in 2007-2015, and ended up having to pay 33.3 billion dollars in fines and returns[2]. Volkswagon stock went from a high of around 27 to 12. 5 years later, it's only recovered to around 16. The massive lawsuit that would be formed if Tesla's (or other automated car maker) car was found to be unsafe would likely be even larger. Furthermore, it would crush the self-driving car business semi-permanently. VW at least still gets to make environmentally safe cars, Tesla and Waymo's main value proposition is dead in the water.

Basically, even though there are incentives to lie and cheat, I think the incentives to try to make something that is safe is far, far greater. And while I'm sure there are Google cars driving the same route every day, I'm sure there are also tests being done in all sorts of conditions all over the planet. I think that practically, socially, and politically speaking, we can use billions of miles driven. The stakes are way too high to lie.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_self-driving_car_fatal...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal
Yeah, I don’t think extending that is a positive thing.

It’s like taking the worst part of “tipping in the US” and running with just that’s.