skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a well established principle that retailers bear some responsibility for what they sell. I doubt Home Depot would get away without liability if they sold a dryer that caught on fire and burned down a house if it was found they had acquired the dryer from a dodgy criminal syndicate.
When has Apple made that promise? Where do they make that promise?

No system is perfect, and when you get the realm of people submitting privileged information to third parties, all bets are always off. There is absolutely no way Apple could make guarantees about that. And they don't. Anywhere.

And no, saying that they review apps isn't a promise that it is "completely secure". That is absurd.

Trying for some security and confidence is a world removed from absolute security. The latter is effectively impossible.

This thread is farce. Anything if it gives people an opportunity to ply their rhetoric. It is a reminder that while HN has some good discussions, it has a lot of people who just want to make stupid arguments based on lies.

"But I thought you said TLS was completely secure? How could someripoffsite.com steal my cash?"
They are no joke. That doesn't we moderate every comment that deserves it. If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

There's another aspect to this, though, which is that people with strong political views tend to view the site as dominated by their enemies. Meanwhile the people with opposite political views think their enemies dominate it. These perceptions are what happens when passionate feeling meets cognitive bias. See for yourself: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
The actual footprint of lithium mining is absolutely tiny compared to pretty much any other metal in demand. Iron, copper, and aluminum mining have left giant gaping scars in the earth that are thousands of times larger than anything anyone has even proposed doing for lithium. And that's before we start to talk about surface coal mining, tar sands, and all the land that's been scraped flat for oil and gas exploration and production. Get some perspective on this by getting out of your house and looking around. Those photos in the article that are intended to shock me would amount to a single medium-scale table salt evaporation facility.
> Apple model is broken, but it is the least broken out there.

This would almost be true if users weren't forced to use the App Store to install native apps in the first place. If I had a choice to use a store like F-Droid on my iPhone, I wouldn't be complaining. However, being forced to use a broken system is still a complaint, even if it's marginally more secure than it's competitors.
> My greatest concern is that Microsoft will attempt to lockdown their OS

I’m not sure that will happen, they attempt it with Windows S and it went nowhere
I'm quoted in this! Original Hacker News comment here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26796662 - then I tweeted about it and ended up talking to the reporter.
Also of interest is the closely related Merkle Mountain Range [1] [2], which can be efficiently grown in append-only mode.

[1] https://github.com/opentimestamps/opentimestamps-server/blob...

[2] https://docs.grin.mw/wiki/chain-state/merkle-mountain-range/
If miners picked a shortest chain over a longer one because they suspect a double-spend, wouldn't that make them dishonest vis-a-vis the blockchain rules? Isn't the entire point of proof-of-work that the longest chain can be trusted?
Apple themselves seem to be intentionally breaking the App Store at times. From the article:

> Apple used to have a button [1], just under the ratings and reviews section in the App Store, that said “report a problem,” which allowed users to report inappropriate apps. Based on discussions among Apple customers on Apple’s own website [2], the feature was removed some time around 2016.

Why would they remove the ability for people to easily report apps?

1: https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://www.dummies.com...

2: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6999097#:~:text=Apple%2...
> Play store apps, unless proven otherwise, are generally malware you carry with yourself every day, with potential access to everything in your device because the OS is nowhere near locked down compared to Apple counterpart.

I'm sorry but this is complete bullshit. Your data on Android appears to be about a decade old.
I recall this article about the total maintenance costs of a Model X cab with 400k miles. It’s a very interesting look at total cost of ownership over time.

https://electrek.co/2020/05/11/tesla-model-x-extreme-mileage...
Shifting the blame to the world's largest, highest-value company is "ludicrous"? I must not keep up with the news.
Thanks that's heart-warming. I hope I am/can be what you described
Heard of Michael Levin yet? :)

("What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698 )

The work coming out of his lab seems to me to indicate that intelligence is ambient in living tissue, with the corallary that living systems are designed by intelligence: their own.
http://preview.app/

I am still not convinced that this is better than our custom built system actually, even if it brings some extra functionality (but you know, people want to try new tools all the time even if it is not bringing any value)
There are “industrial labs” for mathematics? (I would think that an implicit qualifier here is “in fields where there is actually an incentive for industry to do field-advancing research, to create + own the resulting IP.”)
‘*’ is fewer characters.

If we are playing that language game.
No. Damage from extracting 'large volumes' is insignificant. (waste is another issue)

You are completely off scale.
The oceans contain 1.34e+21 L.
Humanity uses 1.38e+17J annually.
If we take ~10J to move 1Kg 1m up. That means if we spend all our energy on moving sea water, we can move 0.00001% of the ocean up by 1 meter per year.

Any novel ecosystem is close to shore, from those ecosystems most are already damaged by other means.
Use of decimal numbers sounds better all of a sudden for naming the virus variants. :-)
You underestimate how utterly corrupt a lot of authorities are in Argentina.

Once bribes, 'personal cuts', etc. have been made/taken, there's not much left. Not to mention the kind of culture that breeds.
You have a wrong understanding of how LN works. You are conflating inbound and outbound liquidity. To receive 1 btc a merchant does not have to open a 1 btc channel. Another node has to open a channel with him. He can buy 1 btc of incoming liquidity for a few cents. Some nodes offer incoming liquidity for free (it costs them almost nothing to keep their btc in a channel for a while).

And your super simple setup is completely isolated from the rest of the economic world. It wouldn't even work with cash because every merchant would need to manage a cash reserve in every store, manage transfers of cash back and forth, and the associated risk. It would be expensive and inflexible.
You can convert from an opcode to an index into a lookup table of mnemonics quite efficiently, and vice versa. You can also pack a single three character mnemonic into two bytes, so the lookup table may be hard to spot. Assemblers and disassemblers running on 6502 used to do this because space was at a premium.
Then go use android? apple isn't the only phone & store combo out there and allowing 2rd party app stores takes away a lot of the value prop - there is a reason i like having the non tech literate and susceptible to scams in my life use iphones. its not perfect but it's sure better than the play store.
How is that happening? Under what program(s) or law(s) or regulation(s)?
Thanks all :) I just wanted to know what other people in software engineering think about this.
> When has Apple made that promise? Where do they make that promise?

From apple.com/privacy:

"Every one of the more than 1.8 million apps on the App Store is required to follow strict privacy guidelines and report how it uses your data. And every app is rigorously reviewed by a team of experts at Apple."
Humane software and the role of developer advocacy
Insane then, why did they not set up a proper scheme https://www.gov.uk/tax-employee-share-schemes.

Bit of a red flag that the company is so badly run.
Unless you find a way to fuck your workers over by using government welfare to supplement their living costs, this enabling you to save money for yourself and provide ROI. Win win lose!
On average, fish sticks are increasing in much of the world:

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/4/2218

https://sustainablefisheries-uw.org/science-of-seaspiracy/

> Among the assessed stocks in the database, the average fishing pressure increased and the biomass declined on average until 1995, when fishing pressure began to decrease. By 2005, average biomass had started to increase (Fig. 1B). Averaged across all stocks in the database, biomass in 2016 was higher than BMSY, and fishing pressure was lower than UMSY. However, improvement is still needed for 24% of stocks, accounting for 19% of potential catch, which still have low biomass and high fishing pressure compared with MSY-based targets

> Since the mid-1990s, catch has generally declined in proportion to decreases in fishing pressure and was, in 2016, at 54% of where it was in 1989 for assessed stocks (Fig. 1B). This pattern is also observed at the regional level, where the correlation between exploitation rate and catch is generally >0.8 (Fig. 2). Global catch as reported by the FAO also declined during that period, but less so than for the assessed stocks reported here, likely because fishing effort in the parts of the world without assessment has not declined (18).

> Regions that have average biomass near or above BMSY are Australia, Atlantic Ocean tunas, Canada West Coast, European Union non-Mediterranean, Indian Ocean tunas, Norway/Iceland/Faroes, New Zealand, Pacific Ocean tunas, Alaska, the US Southeast and Gulf, and the US West Coast. Although these regions have not avoided the overfishing of all stocks, conservative management has kept most stocks at high biomass. Many areas where biomass was below BMSY in 2000 have seen reductions in fishing pressure and stock increases, including the Atlantic Ocean tunas; the East, Southeast, and Gulf coasts of the United States; the Canada East Coast; and the Northwest Pacific Ocean (Japan and Russia). Tuna stocks in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, which were well above BMSY in 1970, were near BMSY in 2016.

> Stocks in the Mediterranean-Black Sea have low biomass and continue to decline, whereas stocks in South America have declined considerably in the last 20 y and were below target levels in 2016. Fishing pressure in South America has been dropping since the early 2000s. Only 4 of 36 stocks in NW Africa have MSY-based reference points for biomass estimated, all of which are large-volume, small-pelagic fisheries and are therefore unrepresentative of the many demersal fisheries in the region. The stock abundance for those small-pelagic stocks is above MSY targets, but exploitation rates were high (2.5 times UMSY) for the 6 NW African stocks for which exploitation rate reference points exist. Regional assessments (19) estimated that most demersal stocks were overexploited by 2008 and recommended reductions in fishing pressure.

It is of course difficult to create and enforce a regulatory regime to prevent overfishing, but there tends to be buy-in among fisherman once their fisheries collapse.
Ask HN: Should a startup CEO tell his employees he's buying Twitter followers?
Say you work at an early stage SaaS startup that's not getting much traction, when all of a sudden you see it's finally coming in the form of Twitter followers.

How would you feel later if you saw your employer's Twitter account get suspended? If the CEO hid this from his employees, do you think there is any way to recover from it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfbUl9OuEQw
> Time and again, we see these systems producing errors ... and the response has been: “We just need more data.” but... you start to see forms of discrimination... in how they are built and trained to see the world.

Thank goodness this perspective is getting out there.

I have recently been incensed by the opposite view, that the bias is within "the data" only: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jbin15-TcY .

This is wholly false. Machines which analyse the world (ie., actual physical stuff, eg., people) in terms of statistical co-occurances within datasets cannot acquire the relevant understanding of the world.

Consider NLP. It is likely that an NLP system analysing volumes of work on minority political causes will associate minority identifiers (eg., "black") with negative terms ("oppressed", "hostile", "against", "antagonistic"), etc. And thereby introduce an association which is not present within the text.

This is because conceptual association is not statistical association. In such texts the conceptual association is "standing for", "opposing", "suffering from", "in need of". Not "likely to occur with".

There are entire fields sold on a false equivocation between conceptual and statistical association. This equivocation generates novel unethical systems.

AI systems are not mere symptoms of their data. They are unable, by design, to understand the data; and repeat it as-if it were a mere symptom of wordly co-occurance.
Apple asks us to relinquish some of our most essential freedoms in exchange for the promise of safety. If they’re not providing that safety it’s a rotten bargain.
There are many criteria by which superconductors are classified.

Superconductor material classes include chemical elements (e.g. mercury or lead), alloys (such as niobium–titanium, germanium–niobium, and niobium nitride), ceramics (YBCO and magnesium diboride), superconducting pnictides (like fluorine-doped LaOFeAs) or organic superconductors (fullerenes and carbon nanotubes; though perhaps these examples should be included among the chemical elements, as they are composed entirely of carbon).[12][13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconductivity
I think I already answered this but I'll put it a different way: (1) not as easy as it sounds; (2) it would be easy to tell that they were doing it; (3) if they do it, we'll improve the software so they can't; (4) if that doesn't work, it's a minor feature and we can easily drop it.
The base level Tesla Model 3 already costs just under the US average ($40,875) for a new car. [0] A Tesla has been affordable to the average middle class person for several years now. Maybe not on part with the cheapest new cars (~$20k) but within the next 5 years they will be.

[0] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-now-the-average-pr...
I had the exact same reaction, but I wonder if I'm too close to it to appreciate what the term might conjure up in the broader (voting) public that isn't in the industry. (FWIW I kind of like the term synthetic intelligence as an alternative.)

I do agree wholeheartedly that, much as in the case of cryptocurrency, there isn't an intuitive link between the product and the resources it requires to create and operate. The fact that GPT-3 would cost millions to reproduce in the commercial market doesn't even compute for me.
> The primary use of the data almost certainly will be what it's claimed to be

What is that based on? It's plausible, but so are many things that turn out to be false (and which contradict each other). How do you know?
> Krill lost 50% of their habitat in the last 60 years.

Not necessarily.

Krill species live from surface to fairly deep waters. Surface is an important, but small part on its entire habitat.

We need to take in mind that all in this study is about the situation found when sampling an area between 0-10m deep.

For Thysanoessa for example this means that if you don't find them at the surface there is still a 390m deep layer where they could still be located. Meganyctiphanes, Nematobranchion and Thysanopoda concentrate normally in waters below 400m by day (Saunders et al, 2013). They can migrate to surface [1] at night, but can also choose to remain close to the sea bottom in much deeper areas. It depends a lot on the species, location and time of the year.

[1] More or less, surface does not mean 0m necessarily, can mean -15m or -20m also.
There are several groups working on IUU fishing - I worked on Skylight some at Vulcan: https://vulcan.com/skylight

Lots of opportunity to help! Illegal fishing is the #1 contributor to slavery worldwide and is in the top 3 financial crimes.
Also the animals may not like it.
"Approximate Imitation"?
》vaccine was developed in hours

Difficult part is to isolate an unknown virus and sequebce its RNA and proteins. With covid we got lucky because Chinese scientists published that very fast. But it could easily take several months.
Must. Defend. Apple.

But seriously, Apple postures for control. They have a death grip on our industry, and it's up to the DOJ and legal system to rend it asunder.

Apple does not deserve to have a singular App store with tight controls. It's not their right. And they've proven the sort of anticompetitive antics they choose to take when they have such power.

Break them open.
An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding
Is there a word for these sorts of “why don’t they just...” type of suggestions?
This article is so auto-centric, the author only considers the safety of people inside cars. Banning left turns in cities is a GREAT idea! The group of people most threatened by left turning cars are people walking. Control F for "pedestrian" or "walk" in this article. Nothing. American traffic engineering is so car-dominant, they fail to consider the most vulnerable road users. Pedestrian fatalities in the USA are at 30 year highs. Design for the healthy human living habitat we desperately need. Good human habitat requires safe walking infrastructure for humans of all ages, sizes & abilities.
That assumes ones children will certainly suffer. And while some discomfort may be inevitable my experience is that many parents do consider the potential quality of life.

Often consideration is both for their children and themselves. My friends and I certainly thought about it and discussed such things.

Anyway, while children may experience good and bad things they'll also be free to decide if life is something they want to personally continue living or not. Many will also be free to choose whether or not to bring children into the world themselves.
I don’t really understand how they consider an effect to be ‘undefined’; did Nintendo ever release documentation for this hardware?
To be honest, there is not really competition to Google Play in its own niche, but within the FOSS sphere, stuff on F-Droid/IzzyOnDroid is on the whole almost always good quality.
The point of this move is to remove a burden from GPs. They'll no longer have to worry about securely handing over data to third parties. Each GP does it in a different way with different levels of skill. This thing will make NHS Digital the first point of contact for third parties to get to the data rather than GPs. The article seems to stress that your data will now be up for sale to corporations but this is already happening to GPs.
You're right. That would be more akin to massive, instantaneous inflation which could shake peoples' confidence.
Is it possible some of the story is real, and the phone scam is due from chinese copycats of his model?
Which doesn't say or claim that it's "completely secure". The notion is preposterous if third parties are involved.

Only a Sith deals in absolutes. Then again, so do people making disingenuous arguments online.
> There are quite a few problems with that in the case of medical records.

Only if you have a paternalistic view

> Some of this information may be urgently needed at a time when the patient is not capable of giving informed consent for its disclosure or does not have it immediately available.

What if I accept the risk I may die due to bad luck/odd circumstances to still refuse the information being handled out by anyone but me?

> Some of the information may be vital to the future healthcare of the patient and would cause serious harm to them if it were lost.

Likewise, what if I accept future risks? I have more skin in the game from losing my records than an hospital losing them anyway.

> And in more of a more morally grey area, some information might be harmful to the patient if they had it.

Then what about I refuse having the information, in exchange of the information also being unavailable to anyone else?

Many people here seem to have the view "more information is good" but not collecting it in the first place seems better to me.

Hence I do no healthcare in the US, only in SE Asia where most services are available in English and Chinese anyway.
I actually think most working scientists agree about The Science Game. Almost everyone thinks of things this way in their darker moments, or talks among other scientists like that, although it is a bit of an "open secret." For gain-of-function research in particular, I don't imagine it will survive this news cycle. It has been banned for periods of time before (I believe last ban ended in 2017) and there's almost no way it doesn't get and likely stay banned, at least in the USA.
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>Why would they remove the ability for people to easily report apps?

Presumably for a reason. I don't work at Apple, so to spitball some possibilities:

* The "report a problem" button was being misused and had worse signal than other metrics Apple added.

* Legal or Public Relations pressed to remove the button because only a portion of reports were actioned (possibly because of the above point) and it was causing legal/reputational damage.
> I sometimes hate humanity as a species

All of it? I mean hate towards globalization that helped China and other hegemonic dictators with no regards for rule of law continue to do what it does is one thing. Blatant hate for humanity is another.
Is it worth buying one 64GB SSD/SLC for $150, when for the same price you can buy 4x 250GB SSD/MLC?
Your email validation is probably rejecting email addresses with + in them. Gmail (and other providers) allow users to use virtual email addresses made up of their normal email with a +something appended to it. So I can give facebook the email myname+fbsucks@gmail.com. This makes it easier to steer the emails into folders and I'll also know where the email was leaked when a random company emails me using that address.
> Simon Willison, a software engineer and a former iOS developer [...] owns a Samsung television and went to the App Store on his phone to install the accompanying Samsung remote control app called “SmartThings.” An app called “Smart Things” popped up, claiming to be a remote for Samsung televisions. Willison paid $19 for the app. It turns out the app was pretending to the be the genuine Samsung product. His mistake, he says, was an “assumption that the App Store review process was good,” he said. “I held Apple in higher regard than I did Samsung.”

A iOS developer pays $19 for a remote control app on the App Store and defaults to blaming Samsung. Steve Jobs should get a posthumous award for how well his reality distortion field has held up after his death.
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I'd be curious to hear some examples where JS doesn't fit as a general purpose language. In my arrogance I suspect it would be hard to give examples that don't also disqualify other scripting langs like python and ruby. Perhaps you don't consider those to be general purpose either?
I will surprise you, even USA has a problem catching all Chinese fishing ships near Hawaii.

There is simply that much of them. Chinese fishing fleet is world's biggest, and they have 1 gigaton a year steel output to make more.