skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clear and transparent reversibility in cases like fraud is something you want your payments infrastructure to implement in a standard and process driven way.

What we have so far, is a lot of non-transparent, ad-hoc and community based reverses (like when a lot of people got hacked on ETH a couple of years ago and memory serves they forced a fork on chain to remidiate).

As DeFi starts to trend in this direction, crypto will become less and less cool, and more and more like a new implementation of an old system, just with intermediaries like Coinbase and Uniswap vs Chase, Goldman and the CFTC or whatever.
Apple’s new EULA is pretty clearly there to force devs onto Xcode Cloud
As I said, it precludes the means of financing wars. If US citizens had to pay for the costs of hegemony directly, people would actually push back. Instead we get ever inflating and impossible to afford housing and a declining standard of living without understanding why.
It’s confirmed by Bloomberg.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-01/dimon-too...

(1.2% of JPMC 2020 revenue, which was about $120B)
That Texas Eastern Court single handedly held back progress for at least a decade for everyone in the world with their insane patent troll rulings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_f...
TestFlight Finally Coming to the Mac
I can't decide if that's funny or a shame. It is kinda funny the idea that someone would want to incorporate a bank featuring a name which, in the UK context, has come to by synonymous with a sort of average working class bloke. But it's kinda odd that the organization was refused a banking license then could (presumably?) only get one after that name was not involved. It isn't offensive in any way, I can't help feeling that if had a name associated with a higher class (Sebastian, Cuthbert, Peregrine, pick one) it would've been fine. The funny thing is that ultimately it was well-meaning and objectively for the public good - in that wikipedia article there is this quote:

> After six months of trading, BSAL had returned a profit and passed it on to various charities, including local food banks and community centres

Oh and for non-Brits the name "Dave" gained a bit of prominence starting in the early 00's, like the character "Dangerous Dave" referenced in the popular Da Ali G Show and a TV channel called simply "Dave" famous for re-running popular British programming from some other channels. It's not for no reason, I think the name "David" was quite popular until recently. To the extent that at my dad's work there were enough that they needed qualifier to disambiguate the different "Davey"s - Big Davey, Wee Davey, Young Davey, Auld Davey ... etc.
Sure, I agree, but what are you going to do about the civil rights of minorities? The current system isn't working. The problem is that people focus only on free-speech-for-all and ignore the enormous elephant in the room.
I'd even go so far as to say the idea is the easy part. Tablet computers are an old idea, they had them on Star Trek TNG. Engineers have been trying to make the PADD a reality pretty much since the first episode. iPad wasn't the first attempt, it was the last.

It wasn't even Apple's first. And unlike the ones that came before it actually did reasonably well at matching the depiction. It got the relative size, weight and pick up and just use experience.

But nobody at Apple would have known the tech was ready if people hadn't been trying over and over to do it for the previous 20 years.

New tech is almost never an original invention that came from nowhere. The internet was built on decades of research specifically into networking computers together but also built on almost a century's worth of development into the phone network. The experiments that lead to radar date to not long after radio became practical. The Wright bro's weren't the first to try an airplane, they were the first to make it work. and so on.

Its the implementation that matters.
> I use c# and will usually create a class where it makes sense for there to be a “state” managed by a bunch of methods. Where you don’t want anyone outside directly playing with that state.

Are the methods that are managing the state of that object apart of that same class or a different one? Or doesn't that matter? When you say "anyone outside" do you mean, for example, another developer who might be using your code as a library? If so, couldn't they just modify your code to work with it however they want irrespective of how you wrote it?

> I very rarely use inheritance. I can’t remember the last time I added inheritance but I sometimes come across it in code bases. Normally when there are something resembling UI widgets that have a common base.

This is helpful to know.

> My first advice is don’t worry - if your code works and is understandable all is good.

Thank you, that is encouraging.
Nowadays, crypto discussions are mixture of politics and technology.

Most of the unhealthy skepticism is due to the politics parts
That's why I'm glad the OP spoke up. Abusive behavior like this shouldn't be tolerated in the industry and is sadly common. Now I know to avoid this company and individual.
It's funny watching crypto speedrun the last couple thousand years worth of the evolution of financial systems.
Apple introduces new developer tools and technologies to create even better apps
HBO Max TvOS Update Breaks Several Key Features, Degrading Experience
WomanPoses as 13yo Daughter in School, Called It a ‘Social Experiment’
Have you considered adding your project to a site like https://www.codeshelter.co/ ?

I don't have experience with it, but it seems active and better than abandoning a project.

Good luck!
I would say most likely yes.
Or just use Jitsi Meet which requires no login, is cross platform, uses web standards and is open source.
A common analogy used often, is developers are like soldiers, and the managers are the commanders who are not in the battlefield, so they just tell soldiers what to do but they're not the ones receiving enemy fire (tight deadlines, fixing bugs, etc.). A better analogy to try and model organizations would be that developers are like wizards, and managers are mere non-magic muggles (from Harry P.) that are paying the wizards to do a certain task. Wizards are interested in the contract and will carry it out, but there's no point in a muggle telling a wizard what to do. Of course this varies and some wizards are not yet as high level as others, but the this is effectively inverting that hierarchy where the non-technical people have full control over a project, when they are not the experts.

This sounds preposterous and unorthodox, but it would solve many problems. Of course the technical people at the top would be the ones with the most experience and the ones that have contributed the most code across all layers of the software, and precisely because of that they could easily come up with a high level plan that would work. Then the managers would just take that plan and dress it up for whoever needs to know about it, and also take care of the admin tasks and facilitate meetings. Again, this sounds upside down and something managers will never agree to of course, but every organization I've been in, engineers succeed despite the manager's "orders", not because of it. I'm not saying managers don't offer anything here, but what they do offer is less valuable than the code itself by definition, since that is what gets shipped, yet somehow they are in this "overseer" position (sorry, but it really feels that way), where they are "responsible" but we all know at the end of the day the developers and engineers are truly responsible anyway.
I would love to know more about that. I've got a laptop for which there is plenty of storage on a NAS connected via wifi, but the laptop itself has the same size storage as the phone so can't actually backup the phone.
There are usually trade secret clauses with lots of potential for abuse.
History repeats itself. In 2000 I saw the same enthusiasm of young people around how much money they are going to make on the Internet.

The parallel that is important to understand is that Pets.com went bankrupt, but the idea that people would buy their groceries (including pet food) on the internet was correct and very common 20 years later. No one should be surprised if Bitcoin may goes down to 5k. But you should be surprised if no-one is using distributed ledgers 20 years from now.
Free 1:1 sessions with Apple engineers for all members of the Developer Program
Replit's to be a new-age cloud company (ala fly.io) rather than Lynda.com for code. At least, thats what I gather from its founder's posts on Twitter.
Amjad has tweeted about this:

> There is a difference between copying a feature and actually getting intro a contract, and access to the code, copying it and calling it open-source.

> As a matter of principle, when someone goes into your home and steals from you, even if it's not material, you have to respond.

https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1401957368510906369
Wrong. You aren't familiar with lawsuits with humorous (but serious) titles like "United States of America vs. Approximately 69,370 Bitcoin".

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/united-states-files-civ... (PDF link showing that exact title towards the bottom)
Apple advances its privacy leadership with iOS 15, iPadOS 15, macOS Monterey
I've actually had an incident of e-commerce fraud related to my checking account quite a while ago, and Ally Bank conducted a week-long review and determined it was fraudulent, put the money back in my account, and sent me a new debit card. It was pretty painless from what I remember.
iPadOS 15
Agreed - this is very immature behavior and they will lose lots of goodwill and clients as a result of ego.
It's suspected that this was thwarted by the VirnetX lawsuit. And Apple had to do a "design around" [2].

https://www.cnet.com/news/steve-jobs-promised-to-make-faceti...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/report-after-pat...
I kinda always wanted to try a tiling window manager but, since I mainly work on Windows I've grown used to AltDrag, GridMove and, recently, FancyZones@PowerToys.

Any reasons a tiling window manager is superior to using keyboard shortcuts to move windows around predefined spaces and draging/resizing them by alt+lmb/rmb anywhere on the window?
Much much better. Single line backup/restore and Disaster Recovery mode that syncs second DC and able too switch on the fly with barely any configs (except one file).
It's just easier to use for Apple entrenched people. You can automatically see which of your contacts you can call with it and you can do it straight from the contacts app. Plus it will ring iPhone/Mac/iPad. Otherwise it's not considerably different.
I noticed that I'm a lot less aware of random things that go on in my company. It's amazing how much stuff I used to pick up by just overhearing people and random passing conversations.

Another obvious drawback is that my work requires me to use proprietary hardware. I can use it remotely, but it's just not nearly as efficient to do so.
So Apple doing a webapp means that they want to avoid the 30% tax from Android app store, if/when the need to charge comes up???
macOS Monterey Preview
The whole complexity narrative is false pretenses.

The new tractors contain computers and need tools. Manufacturers refuse to sell tools and placed equivalent of DRM on computers to stop you repairing your tractor on purpose. They make their supplirs sign contracts where the supplier is not allowed to sell parts to anyone else. None of these issues are due to complexity, all of them about you loose property rights over your possessions and turning physical goods into a subscribtion model
>> I can't help but think some of the barriers here involved proving the software in a situation decidedly different than a clinical setting.

Totally agree. But science moves in baby steps and progress builds on progress. We started ML by doing linear regression. Then we moved onto recognizing digits. Then we moved onto recognizing cats. Suddenly, Google Photos can find a friend of mine from 1994 in images it appears to have automatically sucked up. That is amazing progress.

Similarly, our viewpoint as co-founders in the space was to solve a single use-case amazingly well and prove AUC and cost/value metrics. The field wont be moved by me or you, it will be moved by dozens of teams building upon each other.
> No. Such considerations are out of scope when defending against infringement of civil liberties.

That merely ignores the problem: It's (arguably) necessary for defending civil liberties. The old formulation now fails to defend civil liberties (and arguably always has, for minorities).
What is your exact definition of "design copyright"?

And keep in mind, repl.it explicitly does not have any patents (which would be the actual way for protecting an idea or design in the way you're thinking) for anything they have done.
I hadn't heard about BurgerSwap:

https://burgerswap.gitbook.io/burgerswap-en/ - "BurgerSwap is a democratized AMM on Binance Smart Chain with the following main functions: Swap, Liquidity Pool, Governance, ERC20-BEP20 token transfer [cross] Bridge, Burger Shack, Farm, and IFO. BurgerSwap strives to provide the most decentralized and democratic user experience for DeFi believers all around the world. Users can earn rewards by providing liquidity and participating in governance on BurgerSwap. On BurgerSwap, users control the assets and the platform."

And then... https://www.rekt.news/burgerswap-rekt/ - "At around 3 am on May 28th (UTC+8), $7.2M was stolen from #BurgerSwap in just 14 servings. [...] This exploit was made possible by the fact that the attacker could do reentrance and make a second swap before reserves, which are used to calculate the number of tokens in swaps, were updated."
It would be great if Apple introduced FaceTime for Plan 9 OS, that would be the only time I would use it IMO.
I think for something to be legal defamation, it has to be demonstrably false. This article seems pretty safe, since it's mostly direct screenshots of the emails sent by the CEO.
I am not aware of anything in particular. But my threshold of "I will run it in the browser" is fairly low, so if someone wanted to do a FaceTime call with me I would join.
I was able to get a MS t-shirt with the Windows Defender logo on the front with "XP SP2" below it and "SECURITY" on the back.

It's absurd and I love it
I nearly jumped up when they showed Tab Groups. Now sure how well it works in my workflow. But at least it is a sign Apple thinks Too Many Tabs is a UX problem.

And they still claim Safari is the latest browser? May that is still true on M1? But Safari 13/14 has been getting slower on x86, and Chrome / Firefox has huge speed gains in the past 2-3 years. To the point they are now faster and offer similar efficiency to Safari.
iOS 15 Preview
I’d love to know whether it works in their favour or not. I find myself viewing less and less Netflix content on my Apple TV as the “up next” queue is always full of non-Netflix content.
> I am very sorry what your grandfather had to endure and I am happy he survived. Though it doesn't change the past I will make sure that my children and grandchildren will remember what happened in order to prevent anything like that happening in our lifetimes again.

You might want to check out the new podcast Day X. It's about resurgence of far right extremism in Germany going on right now. Sadly, the same thing seems to be happening in my country (US).

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/19/podcasts/far-right-german...
And Blackberry 7200s.

RIM proved that there was demand for smartphones long before the iPhone hit the market.
> if one goes by science and science alone

The press article is not very technical. The research paper is more interesting, but IIUC it is mostly about how this "furin cleavage" is very important and why it's important that is has two amino acids, but the discussion about the possible mutation to reach it is very shallow.

I'd like to see an accurate model of all the known ways the virus can mutate, tweaked to model origin of the current known species of coronavirus, and then use the model to get an estimation of the origin that is impossible, and then "use science" to conclude that the handmade origin is likely.
I’m saying you need to read actual history as you seem to think that starving a population won’t lead to a revolution.

> Now, would you like to give me a brief summary of how, biologically speaking, you recon being malnourished fails to put a bunch of revolutionaries at a relative disadvantage to a non-malnourished bunch of revolutionaries?

People revolt because they have nothing left to lose, not because it’s strategically a good idea. “Biologically” speaking when you outnumber your foe 100 to 1, you have at least an advantage in numbers, but again that’s not why people revolt.
It's unfortunate that they went silent for years after the Apple acquisition. That period was key for database adoption. I have the feeling everybody kind of settled for pgsql.
That used to work everywhere, including Linux, where I want to do the backup, but now it requires iTunes, which I have no other use for and limits the entire process to 2 OSes.

The DCIM folder isn't really standard either, there's magic that happens when you start a transfer to convert the Harry Potter photos to standard photos and, I think, video to mp4. If the device doesn't have enough free space to do those conversions, there is no error message on the PC or device, it just stops mid-transfer (1 hour of my day figuring that one out). There's a setting to not do that conversion, but then you end up backing up files you can't read just anywhere. If it were just my phone, I'd turn off those formats on the phone, but it's my entire families devices.
Apple’s iCloud Plus bundles a VPN, private email, and HomeKit camera storage
Do you know why I'm downvoted ?
Regular people are slowly catching up and understanding the consequences of technical stuff. For example, I think for years I struggled to provide concrete examples when trying to explain why people should care about privacy. Now, unfortunately, it's obvious that we should care about privacy because without, we're essentially provided a blueprint to our brains and how we can be psychologically exploited, e.g. fake news, conspiracy theories, etc...

I think these are concepts that before would have seemed liked sci-fi, but after 2020, I think most regular people seem to have an intuitive appreciation for how damaging this can be. It's a shame that it's taken such a tragic schism to allow, but here we are and it's better late than never.

Another example would be people probably have a better intuitive understanding for motivations behind decentralized architecture, after seeing people being removed from certain platforms. Note: I'm not saying I'm for or against this in any way, but I am saying that the technological architecture is sort of the lay of the land, in a way that I think people understand better than they used to.

And no, I would never in a million years give my password to a repair technician in the past either. Hopefully others now are starting to get a sense for why.
This is why I like financial systems with attached legal systems, so you have a human-driven mechanism for disputes as opposed to "code is law, you're out of luck".
I did. ATM skimming got my bank account in brazil. Took about a week, full reversal. Hardly any fuss.
I think it’s the way history works. Napoleon was pretty horrible, yet even the enslaved Dalmatians forgot what he did and praise him for building roads.

I’m pretty sure Hitler will have a similar public image to Napoleon in a few hundred years. We do similar things with Roman emperors and praise their accomplishments forgetting the massive amounts of suffering they caused.
Interestingly, Swift Playgrounds can now be used to create full iOS apps and submit them to the App Store, and has some connectivity with XCode on the Mac. No mention of technical details (git? run apps on your iPhone?) but Apple is sticking a toe into using the iPad for writing code.

(No Objective-C and SwiftUI only).
A deeper diagnosis is that any banking system with clawback/immutability is fundamentally going to have to be permissioned and somewhat closed. You have to know who every participant is, and everyone has to be subject to a risk analysis. A fraud risk anywhere in the system is a fraud risk everywhere in the system. This leads to a huge amount of inefficiency and rampant anti-competitive business arrangements. We still pay ~3% fees on credit card payments (in the US) that haven't dropped in decades -- despite the fact that nearly every IT business has seen 99%+ cost decreases since the 1970s.

There's nothing wrong with mutability as an idea. If people want to build closed and mutable systems with a clawback feature, they should be able to. But those closed systems should be built on top of an electronic funds transfer system, they shouldn't be built into it. Then there's a chance you might actually see some competition.
let's first address the heart of the matter, as i've said in a few comments: i think it would be great to have an explanation from china on what the hell is actually going on in xinjiang, and if those claims are correct, i obviously think that policy is atrocious. it's still not a genocide, of course, as there is no planned extermination. it's not just "not to the extreme level of the holocaust". it just isn't a genocide. it doesn't have to be a genocide to be despicable.

on the data: if by "we" you mean adrian zenz then you're out of luck when it comes to quality. i'd like to see better sources than someone who thinks he's in a mission from god like he's the blues brothers. china hasn't done "a great job" at framing the west for lying otherwise there wouldn't be a wikipedia page and we wouldn't be discussing this on hacker news. the sad reality is that china doesn't give a shit about its reputation abroad, which is why many of the rebuttals to those claims are in chinese. one is here: https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/13029926735409111... – it's by the chinese state media so one can still claim they're lying.

on the "cities that were once heavy uyghur communities ..." as i mentioned above: kashgar still has a lot of uyghurs. they go to their mosques and so on.

what is true, however, is that china is encouraging resettlement of han chinese (they've been doing it for decades), for the sole purpose of making the uyghurs a minority in their own land. this is something that personally i don't like, but (here comes the whataboutism) i have not seen a single piece of criticism when this happened literally everywhere else, minus of course when it was accompanied by planned extermination, which only applies to anatolia's christian minorities, as the jews were already a small minority in the locations that were affected by the deportations.
Does this not weaken the "E2EE" value proposition of FaceTime? If endpoints now go to any old browser then secret recordings are suddenly possible. All the downsides of a walled garden with none of the benefits.
> the goal the 1619 Project is not, and never was, to improve our historical understanding. Rather, its goal was always to perpetrate a critical historiography that muddles and besmirches it (i.e. problematize).

Can you support that assertion? I got the sense of your position before; my question is, what makes it true?
There is a long history of lampooning nazis for comedic effect, very often performed by Jewish comedians. Hogan's Heroes is a sitcom about POWs sticking it to the foolish krauts. The concept would never fly today but it was standard fare for post war comedy. The children who grew up with that culture continued using it into the 90's.
I couldn't find the "tank man" censorship problem, and I looked. I'd never heard of "tank man" as a meme; I'd have looked that up under Tienanmen Square.
That was Theresienstadt, not Auschwitz. Theresienstadt was specifically staged as a "model camp" for propaganda purposes.