skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I read the support doc, it seems like if say I purchase an ebook from a third party App, should Apple have this data because they mandated the forced use of their payment system. (I don't like user profiles based on purchase data from their store itself as well)

In this example, Apple is not just the store but also your payment processor(a forced one at that). So, they know about which cuts of meat you like and will use that info to target ads when your cobbler pays for some advertisement.

It is not like FB is selling your data, why would they when they earn the most by keeping it to themselves. Quite sure, Apple will do the same thing like they have already started.
My heart weeps for what the next generation stands to lose.
>"So, please, be mindful of your call to arms to people in the faraway lands"

Lots of keyboard warriors here. It would do good for them to fix their own proper first.

>"Dying in the name of freedom is just too much to ask of a normal person"

They do not mind as long as it is not their own life.
To me, this is the most accurate point.

When people are upset that a company violates their privacy with the government of their country, I feel as though their ire is misplaced.

We had a time in United States history when companies were essentially more powerful than the government that organized the structures in which they operated. John Rockefeller, through Standard Oil, became the wealthiest and most powerful single individual in the entire world. He routinely told governments to pound sand. He was a kind and generous person to those whom he felt deserving or who treated him well. He was ruthless to those whom he felt had slighted him or stood in his way. I don't want to go back to that.

Does it frustrate me that my government is essentially spying on me? Yes! Can I hold Apple responsible for that? Not for my government having made those decisions, no. That's asking that Apple be stronger than my government when, given a choice, I'd rather have an elected government operating transparently in free elections than a company that's primarily responsible to its owners.

Apple can very much fight this fight on behalf of its customers. Every time Apple refuses to write backdoors into its products at the behest of a law enforcement agency here, Apple is taking on that fight. Apple will sometimes lose that fight, as it is currently losing in China. Apple, as a participant in United States society, will sometimes win that fight, too. But ultimately it comes down to the decisions that our government(s) make.
As someone who has been in the computer building game for quite some time like many others, I have no appetite to touching the inside of my PSU's. Absolutely none.

They're inexpensive for desktop/gaming machines and if there's a fault its either in warranty or its time to purchase a new one.
Almost, it makes brilliant into billiant for some reason.
Straw man. Who does that?
You are right, but yeah, wouldn't help in this case. This guy informed people in his telegram channels where he was going, and he was followed by KGB spies in Athens airport who verified he was going onboard and even tried to make photos of his documents.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21992491
This is exactly the type of article that belongs on HN.
Microsoft's privacy policy for sharepoint says thst Microsoft employees have accesss to all data in sharepoint.

So Microsoft's privacy is worth as much as its poorest paid employee with access.
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You're thinking about effects in scenarios that are targeted, and human-in-the-loop?

There are also scenarios of automated, mass use of data from surveillance capitalism, where effectively adding incorrect information to these other people's various fusion profiles might affect them adversely.

Pre-Web, one of the concerns about databases of people was that individuals could harmed by incorrect information in databases. That was even before we knew that the computer industry would switch to widely doing things that we used to think were unethical.

(Regarding legality, I don't know whether the legal system has caught up with intentionally linking other people's identities to incorrect information, but I've heard there are concepts like "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation". But I think we're all concerned here with doing what's right.)

I appreciate the fighting back against a company abusing privacy, but our own industry situation is such a mess around this right now, that we have to be careful to avoid non-obvious collateral damage when we fight back.

(I'm just mentioning this for the benefit of HN discussion; I'm not criticizing an individual. These are tricky times, and we can figure this out together.)
I thought this "official" debunk of the article is worth reading:

https://twitter.com/ZichenWanghere/status/139663272094448435...

It is an old story. Published earlier by Sputnik News last year. Got an official response. And the source is a mistranslated document (samples of sick human misread as sick employees).
All the experts, including the numerous researchers who work on and have contributed to ETH 2.0, say Ethereum can scale. Any one with a passing familiarity with the cryptocurrency space knows that.
I cant seem to edit my comment. I think my comment was misunderstood.

Firstly, I wanted to say that the writer seems biased, and due to this they disregarded the technology of blockchain. They mixed up bitcoin and blockchain and the use cases are completely different things

As for IOTA being a scam. I honestly do not know, I liked their use case but perhaps I am uneducated...If you have any papers or links to back up your claims then please provide them, i'm open to having my opinion changed.
There are competitors: The Linux phones (pinephone, librem). In fact, privacy has been one of the selling points of desktop Linux forever. The problem is it doesn't sell, or at least it hasn't till now.

This is what Apple is trying to change, basically convince people (through ads) that they need to care about their privacy, because they know it's a competitive advantage they have when compared to the other big companies.
>the reason we don't see it from competitors is that Apple is years ahead of everyone else in terms of customer experience

If I might offer a less glowing perspective

Apple is a highly vertically integrated company unlike anybody else in the "top end" of SV. They don't "need" your data

Facebook only exists as a website, so of course they want to data mine you to death, use psychological tricks to keep your eyeballs scrolling their website so they can shovel ads at you

Google effectively gives away Android. They make money by data mining you for advertisements and through providing a wide array of services (Gmail, Maps, Search etc) to augment the things you do on a day to day, in exchange for the reams of data it provides about you

Amazon doesn't really data mine you nearly as much, since their business is more selling you physical goods (or the dominance of AWS, depending on your point of view)

Microsoft wants to chase after what Google and AWS are doing, though their products feel more like pale imitations than anything. Granted that isn't particularly new for them (Zune vs iPod then is Bing vs Google today)

Apple doesn't "need" your data. They have no reason to. They've created products that effectively half of the first world wants to buy through iPhones and iPads

They've spent two decades working to build themselves an outright fortress. They sell you a phone they make, which runs apps from their app store that requires developers to play by their rules

The amount of money Apple makes simply by collecting its 30% revenue cut on everything done on iPhones alone dwarfs what they could get if they even attempted to muscle in on Google in the ad revenue business
Decentralization would be easier if most user machines had IPv6 support plus a dynamic DNS system so you could find them. Then you could do voice and video calls without a central server. DHCP made the Internet asymmetrical.

Of course, running a server means you get constantly attacked, or at least bothered.
This is laughable. Your icloud data is in the cloud, your imessage (if you choose to backup) is in the cloud, they have the keys, and they give that data to the authorities. And why should apple even BE storing my navigation history on their servers? You can even read their policies for yourself.

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/law-enforcement-guidelin...
Sure, but what we are saying is that Apple _is_ a bad company, and that we don't believe they are on our side. (or that they are trying to protect us.)

They are not on our side when it comes to repairing our devices. They are not on our side when it comes to running software we want to on the hardware we own. They are not on our side when it comes to walled gardens. They are not on our side when it comes to how quickly they stop supporting the hardware they sold us.

If they _were_ in the business of selling data, they would not be on our side there either.
Privacy as a product or feature is generally considered a regression, mainly because people see it as a value, not a value add.

The line of thought goes, what's privacy worth to you? What's security worth to you? The price, likely, will fly upwards until it is saturated to nil.
You have invented an impure[1] lazy programming language. I have an article explaining why that probably won't be very useful: http://h2.jaguarpaw.co.uk/posts/impure-lazy-language/

[1] Impure as per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27259900
Maybe you live in an alternate reality, but in this reality most apps aren’t remotely sensitive enough to use cert pinning.

Also, since Android 7, even non-cert-pinned apps simply ignore user/admin-installed certificates; you can’t do anything without (1) rooting and injecting cert into root trust store; or (2) binary patching. Neither is easy, whereas installing a certificate as a profile on iOS is a trivial process.
Neat that there's a competitor to system 76. I'll have to look into them later.

I use a T500 I plucked from the trash for secure libre street cred. No blobs anywhere afaik.
> I see a bunch of comments talking about how Apple is being self serving and not at all altruistic when they defend our privacy.

Right, I don't want Apple to help safeguard my privacy out of a sense of altruism. That company would be highly vulnerable to ambitious managers moving up the ranks.

And besides, nothing's a zero-sum game. Securing a better outcome for yourself doesn't require self-flagellation from your trading partner.

The better outcome is the one we have, where the company's motives are genuinely aligned with their customers' motives. Where there is bankable incentive to do the right thing.
> I don't know where else you can go that has the similar benefits of being a US citizen and the environment we enjoy

I'm honesty surprised that in 2021 people still believe the US is the only good place to live/be a citizen.
Aaaaaaand it's down. Slashdotted?
Its also mentioned "We are obligated to provide some non-personal information to strategic partners that work with Apple to provide our products and services, help Apple market to customers, and sell ads on Apple’s behalf to display in the App Store and Apple News and Stocks."

Why a privacy focused company is into Advertising?
It's assumed?

They explicitly state the constraints for the video, which are that two out of three of the people specifically are not stooges.

That suggests that either the third person is a stooge, or that they want you to suspect the third person rather than the stooge so you will be more impressed when they don't do any sleight of hand.
If you define your transformations in DBT (data build tool) you can view high level lineage documentation in the form of interactive diagrams. But if you haven’t started this way it is likely a labour intensive and poor way to get documentation.
So you put the series numbers of each bank note on your tax forms? That must take a pretty long time...
Thanks for clearing that up. I've added an issue to our public issue tracker for this: https://github.com/sublimehq/sublime_text/issues/4225
"Elrond" is a character from Tolkien's Lord Of The Rings (as is "Arwen").
> ... an argument could be made that inherently a centralized app, who is trusted, available and resilient, will always be superior. Any thoughts?

Not necessarily. They will still need an open protocol, good documentation, etc. And even then, it may not be suitable for what you are doing (and yet, they try to use it anyways). Furthermore, it won't necessarily always be available; you cannot predict some things that will go wrong with it. And, you cannot really trust them for sure either, necessarily.
Privacy Redirect
The relevance of criticism on Apple's privacy stance is in pointing out the limits of Apple's commitment to privacy.

Companies like Signal are founded on privacy and encryption, but with Apple, privacy is a nice-to-have, limited to its other business objectives (like how Apple is "committed" to reducing waste to the extent it can sell dongles, chargers, and earbuds separately, but not in terms of repairability). You can count on Apple to value the appearance of privacy, and in protecting information from third parties without user consent, but not so much being private from Apple itself.

For example, here's an article on Apple and privacy from a couple months ago https://www.politico.eu/article/apple-privacy-problem/ .
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I'm a bit lost, how does Zynga come into play here?
>Apple's profile of me, I imagine, is much less detailed than Facebook's

Apple certainly is not shy about collecting biometrics. They have the most complete set of biometrics of the FAANGs. I'm not certain what their motive is.
Nothing consensus critical on Ethereum runs on Infura nodes. Plenty of people run full nodes on hosted services like Infura, but that applies equally to the original cryptocurrency and current number 2 coin.

The delegation of node operation to third party services is done more for convenience/up-time guarantees than any node operation cost considerations, and Ethereum would be fine if these third party services were all coopted or forced to shut down, because again, Ethereum's consensus protocol has zero dependencies on them.
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It's the classic feel good "elevate yourself" line of BS from Ramsey. Anyone can be wealthy as long as they spend their whole lives grinding out as many hours of work as possible, and never doing anything with the money. It banks on all rewards and happiness in the afterlife, and is completely inapplicable to a large percentage of Americans who make less than a certain threshold. For a large portion of Americans, the only way they will ever get out of a debt cycle is to not be born poor.
App Store has double the revenue of Play Store despite Play Store serving a much bigger audience (more Android phones) and having the same 15%/30% cut as the App Store. This directly means the Play Store is a lot less used by its users. They buy way less from it relative to App Store.

You can attribute this to less trust, or more piracy, more likely both.

In part because of this, Play Store is less funded, and less regulated and has way more malware than the App Store.

Also, despite 13% of known app installs come outside the Play Store, 33% of known malware comes outside the Play Store, clearly confirming that non-Play Store installs are way more likely to be malware than Play Store apps.

So in short, Play Stores gets way less sales, gets way more malware, and there's EVEN MORE malware outside the Play Store.

The situation is not fine at all. All of the effects I mentioned are exhibited by Android's ecosystem.

Of course, we probably have different tolerance for what "fine" is. Maybe you don't care that developers do several times less sales per user on Android than on iOS. Maybe you don't care about the malware, and think you can teach everyone you care about to just "be careful" or something.

But if Android is fine, then Android is all yours. It's the majority of phones. So use that. Why do we HAVE to destroy everything that's different and make it like the rest? Why should iOS be Android? Let Apple do Apple. They're clearly doing something right if their parameters are way better than the Play Store.
> NAC can have some long term effects and interactions many people don’t understand or are aware of.

Sounds like every OTC pill on the shelf.
>> Of all the new languages, Go is probably the most Python-ic — or at least the general-purpose new languages.

I wonder what he thinks of Nim.
Its the key point, the title is misleading - they are not counting, they are guessing.
Stop falling for the trope that it’s bad when the incentives of corporations and individuals are aligned. That’s literally the ideal scenario.
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So true. I built https://www.thingybase.com because I got pissed at how stupid hand held label makers are. “I should be able to use my voice or a real keyboard from my phone to label stuff”. A few years later and I’ve got a full blown home inventory system.
> they just sell you on the promise of privacy.
> there have been multiple data breaches of Apple services and platforms

What makes Apple different, is the decision to design all their products and services in a way that limits (or avoids all together) collection user information. For example, almost all of the "smarts" of the iPhone are executed on the device, without sending your data like location and pictures to Apple's servers for processing.

Apple also enforces through App Store review that app developers are mindful of user's privacy and every instance where data is collected needs to be explained and properly justified.

Regarding the story about the 128 million infected devices, it was a virus which infected developer Macs, resulting in some apps also including malicious code. No user data was leaked and it seems end-users suffered no ill-effects cf. https://www.macrumors.com/2021/05/07/xcodeghost-malware-2015...

Of course, no product and service can be 100% secure forever... hacks and malware happen sometimes. That's when practices like app isolation or sandboxing (which is very strict on the iPhone) and explicitly asking users for permissions (so apps can't just choose to get any sensor telemetry they want) comes into play. If an app has been compromised, then the malware is limited to the permissions already granted to the compromised app. Nothing more.
The bigger conversation is COVID cured so many other causes of death. I don't know any other viruses that have done that.
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Awfully close to the old saying “during a gold rush, sell shovels”

This citation the first Google hit:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19018438
If the military went against the law then they'd be rebels. The fed doesn't let rebels drive the tanks.

They don't need to use weapons to spy on citizens. The constitutional right to privacy was stripped in the Bush era and it's been open season ever since.
Source? They specifically say they do not collect any of your biometrics. Touch ID and Face ID data is stored in an encrypted form on the Secure Enclave chip and never leaves your device.
Sure, I would happily edit my post with the added context if HN would let me (the post is too old to edit now), and yet I would leave the rest of my post unedited because I don't feel it changes anything. You're obviously frustrated, and feel I extracted a snippet from its context to fit my narrative. Unfortunately that's not the case.
I've seen this approach go over people's heads far too many times over the years. I'm a huge Apple fan/advocate. I'm also a huge critic. It's not even nuance --it's just the way it needs to be.
well it does mean they're not imaginative, in a certain way. but it doesn't mean they're not imaginative in other ways.

when I read your comment I was like, "wow coming to the defense of calling other people crazy and not seeing the universe with wonder." yeah, only what you know, or what you're told, can happen, nothing outside of that. all vaccines are safe. only conventional medicine works. there's nothing we don't understand. a little arrogant much? extraordinary conservatism leads to extraordinary ignorance. i believe in astrology, and i love it. i reckon homeopathy definitely works. i don't want to get vaccinated. i'm guessing you enjoy hating on people who don't share your opinions, and you're sure their stupider and you're smarter, but you can't admit that, because it's about "facts". thanks "asiachick"

"those kinds of beliefs", "those kinds of people", "those countries", sounds pretty high-horse judgemental and discriminatory. but also hypocritical. here's how i see it coming across...so beliefs like your mother really cares about you and doesn't resent you? beliefs like praying at the temple is going to help you? and grandma is not supid for doing so? beliefs like what dragged our ancestors out of the incomprehensible universe and gave them a bit of reassurance? oh, now we have a couple "facts" a bit of science, just throw all that away? Because we've become so sure? Beliefs like indigenous people have a spiritaul connection to a piece of land? who cares, log the fuck out of it. beliefs like that scrap of sweater you carry around form when you were a kid is somehow special or lucky for you? beliefs like your worthless life has any meaning beside being a collection of atoms? Oh, yes, science, please account me and sum up my worth and give meaning to my life? without beliefs "like those" we're rootless. maybe you hate that part of your humanness, but you can't "science" your way outta that. you'll face to face it, or be perpetually uncomfortable in your skin and in the thousands of years of human culture that died before you to bring you the privilege of where you are now.

but we can't add it up, and measure it, so chuck it all away right? i'm glad you have solved the riddle of truth in the universe. what's it like being god and knowing everything absolutely? please enlighten me in your infinite wisdom and rid my life of uncomfortable uncertainty and pesky ambiguity and unknowns, actually, nope, i'm comfortable in all that, and i think i prefer a mystery. plus, i could never understand anything significant. my feeble human mind is just not up to the task of grokking reality. i can just tell you what i see.
It is certainly a known fact that electrical shock can lead to death even hours after the event occured, which is why there is a legal requirement in most industrial nations with a working healthcare system that you get yourself checked even if you are feeling good.

Your heart muscle is controlled by a tiny voltage. Suddenly forcing it to follow 50/60Hz of a huge voltage isn't precisely natural, and something that can leave lasting damage even if your heart seems to work just fine immidiately after.

There is a reason in electrics a lot is done just to prevent electrical shocks (e.g. RCDs), because you know: it kills people.

I am legally allowed to connect houses to the electrical grid in Germany.