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I owned almost every iteration of Blackberry and Nokia's before that. I never once paid for an app on any phone prior to an iPhone. I remember people selling them, but it required me to visit their website on a desktop computer, trust them with my credit card info and then awkwardly get their app on my device through mobile websites or specialized cables plus software on my computer.

In the mobile world I think Apple did indeed lay the groundwork for a viable mobile marketplace.

And except for a few apps like Netflix, I'd happily pay 30% on top of what goes to the dev to avoid having to go through that again.

100% of the sticker price on apps could go to the app maker and then have the fees tacked on top. It would put stronger pressure on Apple to bring down the fees and consumers would actually know where their money is going. (I think the same should be required for credit card fees, fwiw.)
And that illustrates the important problem with self-driving car: if you want L5 autonomy, you need to be handle all the weird cases.
Nice to know that the author got it right in the book.
Err, I think you'll find plenty of people still spending heaps of cash on games than run localy on PC, which is where all the money is in the App Store too.
Assistive driving and infotainment is still nice given how vehicles are used day-to-day.
afaict Apple has never had respect for the developer, the user sometimes, maybe, but often they would make choices for you because it was The Apple Way, and any other way was left to languish.

Sometimes The Apple Way was awesome, sometimes, meh.
I read the article. It's highly speculative, making extrapolations tens to hundreds of years with very little evidence or physics.

I have publications in this area. And given the above deficiencies, I started wondering about where it was published.

When what I noted above surfaced, I stopped, because life is too short to chase down BS.

You shouldn't be taking that article seriously! And I don't know how it was recommended to your attention, but I'd start wondering about that source as well.
I’ve never paid for an app, and don’t want to pay more for an AppStore that I don’t use. Only app I use other than Apple stock apps is a bank app which I can use safari and Instagram. Which should work on web browsers but I don’t care about it enough to pay money for it
It requires both. You need memory in order to retain data, and you need intelligence to recognize patterns within that data and make inferences.
The $1K chargers that wouldn't stress an existing electrical panel aren't worth it for EV users unless they're in a dire emergency. It takes 6 hours for a full charge on one of these. Great for a hotel, but not for a gas station.

The ones that charge a car in 30-60 minutes generally have their own dedicated transformer, the size of a fridge. Two cars can pretty easily use 300KW with older tech, 600KW+ with newer stuff. If my math is right, that's 2,500 amps on traditional 240V service. My house has 100A service for comparison.
They fucked up by targeting infrastructure. If they stuck with small companies they could keep doing it till the cows came home. But now they have governments against them so now they will be hunted down.
The costs are already socialized - it's our data that gets stolen in hacks. The problem is, the megacorps who lose it must only pay a negligible reputational penalty.

If you could claim compensation for data lost, if businesses had to foot the bill for everybody who's security and privacy is impacted by data breaches, then it would quickly become something they would have to insure against, then the insurers would demand they take reasonable precautions. A system of fines would work well, for instance - an aggressive enforcement of the GDPR or similar, for instance, could create this kind of virtuous circle.
(According to https://cbeci.org/cbeci/comparisons it's actually 0.6%. It is a tragedy anyway)
Let's say you're a CEO at Big Pipeline Co. One day your phone rings. It's the NSA.

They say your systems are vulnerable as hell. That you're very likely going to be breached in a quite expensive way very soon. It could shut down all the pipes on which Big Pipeline Co depends!

They offer to patch your systems for you. Do you accept, knowing that your staff will have to hand over hundreds to thousands of credentials? Knowing that the employees of the NSA care more about patching than if your systems work afterwards, and you have no real recourse if they screw up?

If you don't accept, what would you prefer the NSA do to secure your company's systems?
Really long warranties on econoboxes is nothing new, but a 10 year manufacturer warranty on a sporty car like a GR Yaris, Supra or GT86 sounds pretty unprecedented!
Phrased differently you'll find these kind of statements in the testimonies by Apple execs in the Epic case. On the other hand your claim that:

>Sellable desktop software became obsolete due to piracy.

Is unfounded.
Games are sellable desktop software and they're doing just fine. What people want is fair prices and easy availability, which is the business model of every digital store since itunes.
How much have you worked with actually existing CSV data? If it was as easy as "making it categorically impossible to happen", working with CSV wouldn't be such a mess! You can say whatever you want in whatever standard you want, data bugs still happen.

Any CSV format description anywhere, will of course you need to use various internal escaping mechanisms for a literal comma, or forbid them entirely. Does that "categorically make it impossible to happen"? Obviously not, words in a standard can't make something categorically impossible. How likely a protocol/standard violation is to happen of course matters to actual practical pain.

Yes, of course the ascii separator values are a historical path not taken. This thread, not started by me, was musing about why, and what-if, by people who, believe it or not, have plenty of experience dealing with data, and bad data.
Myths About Flexible Work
> We have plenty of historical and current examples of governments imposing capital controls to restrict access to foreign currency. Very rarely does it result in the market price of the foreign currency going down. Usually quite the opposite.

That's a nonsense comparison. When governments impose capital controls it means their currency is already sinking and it's a last ditch attempt to prevent this inevitable scenario.

BTC valuation is entirely based on narratives about how it's going to replace standard currency in whatever story is popular, and from what I can see right now it's being pumped up by funds who can't find other good investments in this markets and are willing to play with crypto. If it's illegal for US funds/citizens to hold it/be involved with it - the selloff alone would kill the market instantaneously.
How are we going to have enough turns to intercept all of these flying white TicTacs? No really, if we don't even have anything fast enough to keep-up with whatever the heck these are (if they're real).

(Just don't equip your army with only nuke missiles because they destroy all of the good stuff and psy attacks would cross the streams.)
It really does not. The term makes no logical sense. You cannot have property rights and copyrights and patents. They are fundamentally opposite ideas.

It would be like if the tobacco industry called cigarettes “cancer reducers” and we just all went along with it. Now imagine the tobacco industry controlled every books, television and news producer. That’s what’s happened with the information industry.

If you say otherwise you’re either lying or not thinking.

Now, if you want to make money and don’t believe in ethics, I think that’s a perfectly defensible position. But if you have morals, public domain is the only right thing to do.
I would assume most diehard bitcoin holders are just fine with no financial system entity touching them. After all, that's what many of them are trying to route around. They want peer-to-peer transactions independent of state actors, and have very little desire to hold BTC in their Fidelity-managed 401K portfolio.

Rather it's been the banks that have been clamoring to get a piece of the bitcoin action, not the other way around.
Spoken from a true position of privilege! There are many communities where the police and the criminals are both likely to cause you trouble somewhere between a mild hassle and a life-altering interaction. The only difference is why they might do it. Distrust of the police amount law-abiding populations is a thing for a reason.
I just viewed the original Daily Mail and Redstate stories. I think there’s a huge difference between reporting the facts of a story as is important in a free society, and publishing extremely personal and private nude photographs of you without your permission for all the world to see just for the tabloid salacious pornographic shock factor.

I fundamentally disagree with the judge in this case. These were not shocking pictures of a crime let alone a serious one. Even if you think holding a bong in California in 2017 or a tiny tattoo of a run of the mill iron cross on her hip suddenly justifies it as depicting a crime, there is still no difference between describing it in text and showing it in picture. These are private vulnerable photos of someone naked. There is no public interest in allowing what is essentially revenge porn to be distributed of someone just because they’re a public figure. If your naked photos are used without your permission and weaponized against you and you’re not committing some crime in them that the public has a right to know about, it’s revenge porn plain and simple.

This is not just smelling of misogyny, a long past of weaponizing women’s sexual side against them, but homophobia, as the “shock” factor comes in part from her being naked with another woman.

Frankly, you cannot claim you value the right to privacy when it comes to Apple and Google etc. but then say, yeah showing someone’s nude photographs to the entire world without their permission for nothing more than a pornographic and homophobic shock factor is A-OK because it comes from the sacred media.

There are reasonable limits on freedom of the press. Very few, but this case is undoubtedly one of them.
"company culture"... decoy for "teambuilding on your free time"...
VPS provider has the keys through RAM.

I would be interested to know if VPS providers actually go as far as dumping and snapshoting RAM (most of them claim they don’t even access disk or monitor traffic). It would be big deal for systems such as EC2.
Still signup issues. I got unauthorized, but then tried again, and said the email was taken.
> they should have a million hard test cases that must pass

Move fast and break things [like tests]
I repeat: "the trusted authority is required to certify that the issuer is who they say they are and that they own the thing." If you don't agree, please explain how a stranger's identity and ownership rights can be established using technologies like public-key cryptography without a trusted authority.
End users certainly cares about browser engines, so many things doesn't work in Safary since it doesn't support any new features. So they would see "please upgrade your browser to play this game" etc everywhere, and they would upgrade to real chrome. Instead since ios doesn't support other browser engines those games simply wont run on ios period.
Looking at the current state of open source software like ardupilot, and the fact that we've had supersonic jet fighters since the 1950s (F-100 Super Sabre) I don't think the control software is going to be a major bottleneck. If anything, not being tied to legacy control software may improve their velocity and testing. Navigation solutions should be drop in. Garmin, etc offer drop-in glass cockpit retrofit solutions for Cesnas from the 1960s.
it might be an FAA requirement to be upright, but iirc some other international airlines (eg. virgin atlantic, air new zealand) allow you to keep your biz class seat in seating position during takeoff and landing.
Can you explain how so?
I've been writing a lot about Elixir as I've been learning it: https://inquisitivedeveloper.com/. The idea is for people to learn Elixir along with me as I learn it.

It's not a quick start though: I really dig into how Elixir works and move fairly slowly. I've finished covering the language itself, and I'm about to move into the OTP functionality that's inherited from Erlang.
Can Kotlin handle multiple "tags" on a type as a set, and not a sequence? I'm not familiar with the language, so I'll use a C++ analogy. If you tried to tag types in C++, you'd end up with something like:

TaggedType<std::vector, NonEmpty, Sorted>

but such type is strictly not the same as:

TaggedType<std::vector, Sorted, NonEmpty>

What I mean by "set" instead of a "sequence" is to have the two lines above represent the same type, i.e. the order of tags should not matter.
Seconded. I work in a clojure codebase that were trying to get out of. There's just dead libraries everywhere and stuff that maintained by one person that gets no updates at all. That or we just end up making functional "wrappers" around Java libraries and at that point we might as well just write straight Java.

Also yea everyone wants to be so damn smart having macros within macros within macros that no one knows what the original intent of the code is anymore.

The repl based development I find also breeds a really bad mentality of forgoing building a deployment process and instead people just repl in and make a bunch of changes and prod rarely matches whats checked into github.
Gitlab? Hasn’t done me wrong yet, even if it feels kind of overkill if you need only CI/CD.
Yes that is what I was referring to. Do you know if the Chrome User Experience report will use this windowing?
The NSA’s mission-statement in domestic civic cybersecurity is to ensure the flow of commerce, i.e. to protect GDP. They aren’t going to patch things in a way that makes them not do their jobs any more. That’d be an “attack on commerce” just as much as exploiting the vuln would be.
Author here! I didn't expect to see this pop up on HN.

I'm happy to take any feedback or answer any questions about this post.
Yeah it is not good enough. I have used it and contributed to the project with usability suggestions. There is a long way to go. But hey! The tech works for some usecases!
Why? They bring in millions of dollars to the Russian economy.
What does this suggest about biological neural systems?
I did a quick google map survey and found that it can take about an hour to commute on public transit between a residential area in Queens and to a commercial area in Brooklyn[1]. Not ideal until you see that driving the same route takes about 40 min. So not a huge different and definitely passes as an alternative to avoid the risk of stop-and-go traffic jams.

If you need to drive to the supermarket you should have the option of choosing a time and route with minimal risk of traffic jams. I find it hard to belief that many people are frequently hitting bumper to bumper traffics on their way to or from the supermarket. Occupationally yes, but frequently no.

1: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/84-25+168th+Pl,+Jamaica,+NY+...
There's a huge difference: ransomware "attacks" are due to sloppy security by the victim.

That's not the case for terrorism.
You pay for deliverables rather than time. Don't do fixed-fee bids. You need to describe exactly what you want and how much it's worth to you, in terms you can measure. Doing that over Upwork is hard because they only have the fixed fee and hourly models, but it's possible even on that platform.

I wrote a long-ish article about this a few years ago:

https://typicalprogrammer.com/how-to-work-with-freelance-dev...

If you don't feel comfortable describing your requirements and breaking those out into discrete measurable deliverables you can put a price tag on, then you need to solve that problem. The best way is to get someone you trust who can do that with you.
The Apple ad setting is about personalized ads, not tracking.

> App Tracking Transparency allows you to choose whether an app can track your activity across other companies’ apps and websites for the purposes of advertising or sharing with data brokers.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212025

Apple does not track you across other companies' apps and websites so I don't see how this is related. Facebook can still do personalized ads even if you click on "ask app not to track".
You implement your own custom validation. The point is to encode the fact that you've validated a value in its type. So you have e.g. DeserializeJSON<Foo>(String) -> Foo, and then ValidateFoo(Foo) -> ValidatedFoo. And then all the business code works on ValidatedFoo.
These groups aren't really "targeting" anyone. These ransomware attacks are as sophisticated as nigerian prince emails. Send out a lot of spam, wait for someone who clicks on it and is running outdated software and boom. Sooner or later you will encrypt something important enough to pay for.
I think it's worth noting that united received $5 billion dollars in federal aid last year. I wonder if they'll pay any of it back or if the surplus this year is going into purchases like this?
The law should require certain minimums of security for infrastructure deemed vital, like oil pipelines. If entertainment companies and HIPPA can ensure those they work with practice good cybersecurity, why can't the government do the same?
I’d say go public domain.

SQLite did. Eats more and more of the DB world every year.

The web is public domain. Don’t need to explain that.

So is tcp/ip.

the great ones are public domain. GPL et al are a clever hack to weaponize copyright laws against themselves, but at the end of the day the solution we need is an amendment repealing Article I, Section 8 clause 8.
Sharks Almost Went the Way of the Dinosaurs 19M Years Ago
Teslas also start at about half that (closer to $40K), and are effectively the new Toyota Prius in terms of popularity (in California, at least). I don't consider them luxury vehicles by any means, especially after sitting in a Lucid Air, Mercedes EQS or nicer EVs.
I think this is getting into semantic mismatch at this point, it seems like you and the above commenter agree pretty much in entirety at a conceptual level just using different terms.

Your comment describes the meaning encapsulated in the term "positive discrimination". Groups have been disadvantaged throughout history, so the institution is deliberately assigning advantages for members of the group to offset that.

> And even though the average SAT score is lower for BIPOC applicants, that average is not low enough for those people not to be able to handle the courseworks.

This is not entirely true. Lower SAT scores are correlated with dropping out of certain majors at much higher rates. This is a significant factor in lower URM representation in STEM graduates: https://lawreviewblog.uchicago.edu/2020/10/30/aa-arcidiacono...
This article is from 2013, but since 2019, there's been active research in things like latent herpes reactivation, which could have implications for long duration spaceflight.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2019.0001...
Any tips on selecting one?
Very interesting. There must be some kind of assumption in models that traffic lights are stationary objects which results in them falling off the back of the truck.
Bombardier C-Series, anyone?

It was authorized by the board in 2005, first flight was planned for 2008, entry into service was planned in 2010. First flight was 2013, it entered in service in 2018 (January, but still).
I’d prefer the NSA put in the hard effort to shed their reputation as spies and start by offering plain security advice in the open that can be verified by independent experts. The best way forward is for the NSA to focus on providing high quality security advice, best practices, and guidance to critical infrastructure. This doesn’t involve handing over the “keys to the kingdom”.
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I think you're making my point. You would have wanted a "real" sports car like the S2000--which also didn't do great. Whereas I wanted a fun but very practical two seater. (The del Sol also actually had a pretty good trunk.)
That's true in broad strokes, but I'm trying to portray things from the position of an executive. Having a bunch of outsiders that you have no real influence over in charge of your systems is terrifying.

The alternatives are a regulatory system for information security or offering advice and hoping companies implement it. There's a lot of advice on offer.
I can confirm that Moana (the movi) induced respect and interest in Polynesian culture in me. Fortunately prevalence of crap merchandise is not wide where we live (in EU).
Because the more we pay the hackers the more funding they get to launch further attacks
> What should really happen is that the law should be changed.

And the way to make that happen is by limiting the scope of the law as much as possible, in order to force law makers to rewrite it. Which is what has happened here. If law makers did intend the rejected interpretation, then they should rewrite it to clarify such.
way less destructive than amassing billions of dollars, and the latter has never stopped anyone from being idolised.
> This is nothing like destroying competitors’ property.

I certainly did not say it was. Your whole comment reads like you are replying to someone else.

The best I can tell, you agree that Apple is engaged in anti-competive behavior by preventing developers from selling "lemonade" in other stores (because they prevent those stores from existing.) Not only that, but users aren't even allowed to buy "lemonade" in their own driveway, they are forced to go buy "lemonade" through Apple.
> For example, what if I tell you I’m going to club you over the head and get access to the computer you’re on. [...] There is no material deception.

Then there’s no hacking and you should be charged with assault or whatever else is appropriate.

> Another example is what if I just walk around the counter while you’re not there.

Then it doesn’t matter if there was an unlocked computer or an unlocked cabinet behind that counter.

There doesn’t need to be, for every illegal act X, an extra special law or punishment for “X but a computer was involved”.

People want a criminal penalty for hacking and maybe they’re right, but you shouldn’t try to cover every undesirable act that involves a computer with a single law any more than every undesirable act that involves a piece of paper is covered with one. You also shouldn’t claim that breaking down a door is the same as walking through an open one, even when both constitute (among other things) trespassing.
That's what Microsoft is forcing here: there is no more "on prem only", even with Windows.
Gitlab is a complex system. I wouldn’t expect anyone to suddenly understand my companies’ product either.
If the war on terror is anything to go by, then that would indeed be the most likely outcome [0].

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fatalities-from-terrorism...