skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1. What are the specific aspects of why this technology might have negative social implications? How might these be mitigated?

Seems pretty obvious to me. People are notoriously hard-to-patch components of any IT/social system, and exploiting them with this kind of tech is possible, because they are hardwired to expect that video faking is scarce.

> 2. Who or what (people, institutions, norms, guidelines, laws, incentives, etc.) can help increase the chances that such technology is (a) well understood; (b) designed conscientiously; and (c) deployed reasonably?

The horses have bolted the barn. You literally cannot stop anyone with enough GPUs/AI accelerators from replicating a free-for-all version of any "conscientious" AI scheme, unless we ban general purpose computation.

This tech is already here. There's no taking it back easily.
> An economic downturn coupled with destigmatized remote work is an environment ripe for outsourcing.

It isnt. That cheap outsourced software engineer wont be staying for ages with any company. They get promoted or found their own businesses. They dont keep slavering away for dimes for an US company that wants to have them as sweatshop labor.

Designing, engineering and maintaining highly scalable systems is not something that you could outsource to have it done for $15/hour.
Thank you … really :)
> Why is there not a single mention of capitalist causes in the entire article?

They are only listing possible causes.
If I expect to be disconnected from the net I download as many manuals as I can. Back in the 1980s we had lots of paper manuals.
When there arent NIMBYs, high rises are quickly built, every place is turned into a overcrowded, concrete jungle and the property prices still remain high. Hong Kong. Tokyo. Many examples.
Sure, just give me the list of the argument's I'm allowed to make or maybe I can give you my login details so you can write it for me?
Apple has not established any meaningful privacy guarantees. It's just PR.
Source? Is there any comment for future support?
Where I live (Ontario, Canada) security deposits are illegal. Simplifies everything and levels the playing field. Key deposits are also illegal. Only thing a landlord can charge is rent (first and last up front) and its legally required to pay interest on the last month's rent (although good luck milking that from most landlords). No need for escrow since to get your last month's rent back you just don't pay your last month.

There are, of course, landlords who do not follow the law. As with drug dealers, pimps, and phone companies they generally prey on the less fortunate. Legal aid and the landlord-tenant tribunals keep busy.
High-level targets (for whom this mode is specifically advertised) are likely aware of the dangers of installing apps.

Enterprise-signed apps require an explicit (and non-obvious) action from the user when running for the first time.
Interesting article.

>There are cases of methanol resistance, such as that of Mike Malloy, whom someone tried and failed to poison by methanol in the early 1930s

The original "Iron Mike", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Malloy
The header "You have won first prize in a beauty contest" works pretty well for me. That and only sending the email to my wife.
She was a Staff Engineer at Stripe. She wrote a great primer on SQL too.

https://jvns.ca/ is a treasure trove
Touche, and there is already a program for the exact purpose of generating large amounts of data: jot(1)

https://manpage.me/?q=jot
Such a different world we live in now :)

Congratulations! Having done something that someone is ready to pay (anything) for is a great achievement!

I only ever had had a single $1 donation made to one of my open-source projects.

It came with a angry message telling me to stop the e-begging (the e-begging was that I had written "If you'd like to show your appreciation for this free game, consider donating a small amount to [paypal link]" xD
> So this would have prevented Hermit as you'd need to install a new configuration profile to allow sideloading of applications from that source.

Are you sure that's true? I haven't seen a Hermit sample firsthand, but from everything I've read about it targets did not need to install an MDM profile, they simply needed to click a link. Looking at Apple's distribution guidelines - https://support.apple.com/en-bw/guide/deployment/depce7cefc4... - MDM is listed as one option, and simply going to a link is listed as another:

> There are two ways you can distribute proprietary in-house apps:
>
> Using MDM
>
> Using a website

It seems like the latter was used, so I don't think installation of a custom profile was required, which brings me back to my original question of whether Lockdown would have prevented it.
https://primer.io
Git does store deltas when packing objects because storing all distinct objects as-is would be too inefficient for large repos. This isn't the same text diffs as shown to the user but there is still a diffing algorithm that all future git versions need to support (well, at least the patch counterpart).
No one is claiming humanity will go extinct. But during that ice age there were probably less than 100k living in the whole world. With technology and our current spread, we won't go so low, but a planet 3-4 degrees hotter is nowhere near able to sustain 7B people. Not to mention the terrible migration and resource wars we'll see as hundreds of millions if not billions of people have to leave places where temperatures routinely rise over livable standards.
Not in the UK at least [0]. Claims and counter-claims go through an independent third party. I've had a landlord try to claim £3k from my deposit, only for this scheme to award them £200. Decisions are final. It can take a few weeks.

https://www.tenancydepositscheme.com/
Ask HN: What is your favourite functional language/stack for creating web API's?
How come you don't just dump this junk into spam? It's clearly meant to get your dollars so the content is intended to manipulate you.

Why are newsletters a thing anyway? When I see "sign-up for newsletter" anywhere in the text I'm reading it immediately signals that it's low quality content. Probably best to close the tab and continue on Wikipedia.

LOL OK

> Cheat codes for your company

Yep, that matched my expectations more than I expected.
So much agreed. The computing operations where saving instructions equals saving energy are really few and far between. Or non-existent.
Why is each of your comments a slightly modified copy of another comment in the respective thread?
Yeah, web is the best example…

In short, the process is something like this: 1) Chrome implements a new feature they think is useful 2) Google uses their people in the standard committees to push it into the standards 3a) it's actually useful: other Browsers implement it or 3b) it's basically useful to Google: they'll continue blaming other browsers to not implement standards, “This website works only in Chrome” incoming
Still sounds easier than running around.
Your usage of "premise" and "conclusion" as shorthands for "the state of the world at a time t" is somewhat confusing to me, when I hear those words I think of propositions that have truth value, not events/states. You can sort of encode the state of the world at any instant as a proposition which is the conjunction of all possible true propositions describing the world at that instant ("The sky is blue", "Water is wet", "Temperature is 40C",...), but it's not obvious that this is a useful way to think in.

For example, suppose you're a mathematician with a conclusion (conjecture) C and a premise P (axioms), you search for a proof to get C from P, and you find it. That fits your definition of induction. Now suppose you're a pre-copernicus astronomer who have a "conclusion" and a "premise", which are actually just the state of the world recorded at different times, and you want to find a law that gets you the conclusion from the premise, and you find it in a system of epicycles. This too fits your definition of induction.

But those 2 situations are radically different. The mathematician's proof is much more correct and permanent than the astronomer's "proof". If I find another proof of the mathematician's claim, even a very different proof, that doesn't render the first proof obsolete, and it doesn't mean my proof is wrong either. But if I find another law that explains the states of the world the astronomer explained, then unless one of the laws is a special case of the other, either me or the astronomer is wrong, or the world is crazy and somehow obeys 2 sets of laws that aren't reducible to each other at the same time.

In other words, if logical propositions are imagined as a DAG where the edges represent valid rules of inference, then it doesn't matter which path (proof) got you to a node as long as you got there. But if you imagine the states of the world like this, then it actually matters what specific laws got you to a particular node. Maybe actual reality doesn't care and there are infinite systems of physics that all perfectly well explain the universe, but we very much care about path uniqueness, much more than we do in math, chess or other such systems. That's why I think the encoding of world states as propositions is lossy. A state\event is more than the propositions describing it.
Ironically it might be the last iPhone I use, even though I believe very much in free-as-in-speech software on my devices.

This just bludgeons so much of the security model of the iPhone. I get that this is by Apple's design, in that conflating the security model of the iPhone with App Store lock-in has been a gold mine, but I just don't see how you provide the same malware guarantees without that enforcement.

EDIT: Not sure why the downvotes, I guess it's from people that are big free-software-at-any-cost advocates. The cost of doing this is going to be too high for most iPhone users - I very much doubt this is in their best interests overall.
Because some of the people living in the UK would prefer stronger, EU-like data protection regulation. It's a big deal to relax the regulations in that sense.
I don't know, but don't take IRC from me. Then I'm really screwed.
Any use of `println` in Rust is going to have its performance dominated by repeatedly locking stdout and flushing the buffer every time. It's a bit of an obscure fact (since most programs aren't bottlenecked on printing), but `println` in Rust is kind of just supposed to be a convenience for hello world and print-debugging. Rust provides `writeln` for serious use, which is more verbose but allows you more fine-grained control over locking, buffering, and error-handling. See also https://nnethercote.github.io/perf-book/io.html
even ignoring the trend: the unavoidable fact is that the EU's share of world GDP is significantly lower in 2022 than it was in 1980

unless the developing world stops developing, the EUs share of world GDP will continue to decline over the next century

at which point it will not be able to export its legislation
> advanced math concepts

Such as what, out of curiosity?
Do you live in London? It's just that this sounds like a very narrowminded take and one that I tend to hear from people living in London and who are culturally isolated from the rest of the UK.

The UK is neither a small country or a small market. While not as big as the EU, the UK is no where near as irrelevant as you're making out. I could also make the argument that many US sites refuse to comply with EU GDPR regulation so, no, others clearly don't "have to implement" EU standards.

> But the really disturbing thing about the UK is that there are many people in power to whom human rights are less important than "souvereignty".

You could just as easily wrap "human rights" in air quotes here. The idea that human rights are universally agreed upon is silly. Further, even when human rights are agreed on there are always conditions to them. Yeah, you have a right to free expression so long as you don't express the wrong things. Yeah, you have a right to liberty so long as you don't do the wrong things. If you're concerned about human rights then you should also be fundamentally concerned about sovereignty because without sovereignty who exactly is deciding on the rights that should be protected? "Rights" that are prescribed upon a population without its consent can be oppressive, and right or wrong, this is clearly how a lot of people in the UK feel towards rules created by lawmakers in the EU.

---

On the this topic more broadly as a Brit I am much less concerned about websites tracking me without permission because there are things I can do to prevent that. If you're concerned about data protection I'd argue you should be more concerned about the perfectly legal real-world privacy violation that you have little to no ability to protect yourself from. For example, in the UK our communication devices (internet traffic, SMS, etc) are monitored, our streets are full of surveillance cameras, supermarket self-serve checkouts implement facial recognition without our consent, the police stalk the public on social media to ensure we're not saying anything offensive. Given all of this why should I care if tesco.com has placed a tracking cookie on their site without my consent? It seems so trivial to the point that it's almost a distraction from the real privacy issues that we face as a society. I'm not going to be locked in a cage because Tesco put a cookie on their website, but what the government decides to do with the data their collecting on me who knows. The only reasonable way I can protect myself from that is by not saying things my government doesn't like online and not attending protests or other real-world events that my government may not approve of.
Wow, this is really neat. Thanks!
All good points. Those are justifications for VC's existence as a financial instrument. But that's orthogonal to whether retail should buy into IPOs.

Elsewhere in this thread there's discussion of VC concern regarding downstream investment/valuations, reluctance to have down rounds, etc. Clearly VCs can and will delay rounds unless they can earn a premium. It's self evident that this extends to IPOs, the last "downstream investor". Due to self selection, these IPOs will be biased toward times when the VCs judge that hype/expectations are high enough to unload at a premium. Part of their job is ensuring such conditions exist at exit, via marketing, etc.

Apparently the evidence bears this out -- the first two years after IPO, companies tend to underperform after adjusting for equity risk factors: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2929733
That sort of all-or-nothing threat model isn't particularly useful.

You can never hope for perfect unassailable security. The best you can do is make attacks too expensive/complex for the attackers you're concerned about. From that point of view, glitter varnish produces exceedingly good results for minimal costs.
The missing icons are probably web fonts being disabled?
Anyone can now share Twitter Spaces clips on iOS and Android
> High-level targets (for whom this mode is specifically advertised) are likely aware of the dangers of installing apps.

I firstly don't believe this is true at all, plenty of high-level targets are not tech savvy; but more to the point of Lockdown mode, you could then say the same thing about most of its other features ("High-level targets are likely to already be aware of the dangers of doing $thing_Lockdown_prevents").
RIP SWM
Depends what I'm currently doing.. The past week I've implementing some trivial feature in javascript and C and so haven't had to look up anything.

But weeks ago, I had to implement something in DQL, which I'd never used before, their documentation is terrible, and google didn't help that much either.
Ask HN: Has anyone followed Paul Graham's “Change your name” advice with success
I'm referring to the advice in this essay http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html.
does not load for me
This will immediately happen, and is the intent of the law.

Direct downloads from websites isn't far off - I wouldn't be surprised if we very rapidly get to a place of each-app-is-it's-own-store for the purposes of complying with the law so you can freely download apps from websites.

It'll be Windows all over again, with all that implies.
Docs is all offline with Dash, no problem :)
If you want to protect a device between the factory and receipt by the customer, pellets are a far less invasive way to solve the issue. I don't expect the device to be compromised after it gets to me, mainly because it's within my sight at all times (unless I'm sleeping) because I use it all the time.
and experiences an open rate that Sendgrid reports as being above 100% (people open it more than once?! probably).

I'm surprised they report it that way. When open rates are quoted online, it's more typical that they're based on unique opens to circulation. For example, if you have a list of 100,000 people and 50,000 open the email, that's a 50% open rate, even if they all open the email 10x (because 500% open rate makes no real sense).

Trivial opt-out as I don't want to send to anyone not interested in it

This is always a good idea. Some people who want to build a list balk at it, but would somehow prefer people who don't want their email to get "stuck" on their list(!)
No, they already knew about the dangers of fallout.

"the AEC established Project Plowshare amid growing public and political opposition to nuclear programs. Nuclear tests routinely produced unacceptably high levels of fallout, and the subsequent appearance in drinking water, milk, meat, and produce of strontium-90, cesium-137, and other cancer-causing radioactive elements had generated a movement demanding a worldwide ban on airborne nuclear tests."

But "the AEC believed the region [in Alaska where the harbor would be created with nukes] to be an uninhabited Arctic wasteland."

"Environmental scientists, as well as many Alaskan locals, were not sold. They doubted AEC estimates that a bomb crater harbor would be handling $176 million in annual exports within 25 years. Cape Thompson adjoined large deposits of coal and oil, but it also was iced in nine months out of every 12."

"And the cape was only 30 miles south of Point Hope, an Inuit village whose residents subsisted on the region’s abundant wildlife. Irked by critics, Teller vented to economist George Rogers, "We are not interested in preserving the Eskimo as a hunter. We are interested in giving him the opportunity of becoming a coal miner.""[1]

[1] - https://www.historynet.com/an-explosive-plan-to-use-atoms-fo...
Custom JSON encoding for structs in Elixir with Jason
And in real life I've seen vendor lock-in cause exactly every worst fear and worse.

Vendor lock-in is only tolerable when the service is so easily swapped out that it's not actually vendor lock-in.

There is no valid argument for not worrying about that before it happens, and bending pretty far to avoid it. No matter how hard you work to stay as portable as possible early and at each daily step along the way, it's 10x or 1000x less than dealing with it later.

If you're just talking about a pluggable service, well then by definition that's not really lock-in.
The curious thing I've noticed over time is that in the 90s as a demoscene coder I remembered a very good proportion of the Amiga hardware registers and how they worked, very rarely had to look stuff up. These days I have to look up things that I use fairly regularly. It may be a function of age of course, but I have a sneaky suspicion that reading stuff from paper manuals and the extra effort required to look things up made me remember them better.
Congrats! Excited for you. Hoping that will be me in the not too distant future.
Just make fonts gray, put as little content on as much screen area as possible, and include some Corporate Memphis around.
A lot of people are terrible people, and there is significant overlap in them.
:), unbelievable, donating to complain about a free game , that’s another dimension :). My offering is also focus on organizations so that helps :)
Totally concur with you. It's likely the OP has never fldug a hole or have one dug. Adjacent backyards can be vastly different.
It will be interesting to see how this fits in with Supervised Mode.

For example, I'm assuming "configuration profiles cannot be installed" will only to apply to unsupervised devices. Otherwise it could make Supervised Mode rather, erm, tricky !

Also "Allow access to USB accessories when device is locked" option has already been available in Supervised Mode for years.

So I wonder if Lockdown Mode is more removing some of the "supervised only" restrictions from certain options (e.g. the "USB when locked" is currently "supervised only" option, but it looks like Lockdown Mode will bring this option to all users).

Overall, I think this is a good move by Apple though even if some of the details remain to be seen.
https://apartments.gaijinpot.com/en/rent
Ultimately I think the only person this benefits is Tim Sweeney, as he gets the Epic store on iOS/Android/Playstation/Xbox.

Realistically this just drives people into a different walled garden. One that is device-vendor agnostic, but a walled garden nonetheless - in that your purchases are tied to Epic. This law could have been so much better, but now it just trades one problem for a bunch of new ones (some even worse than what it's trying to solve).

One thing that might have been nice - making allowances in the law for centralised certification authorities with fixed tariffs, so that Apple still checks the builds as it does now for the App Store, but then the builds can be released elsewhere (as the signatures will match). For this they could charge a fee, which could be capped in the law at a percentage of the sale price (and obviously much lower than 30%). This way iOS/Android could still have guaranteed protection, for which Apple/Google's costs are covered, but the user would have freedom to get their software from wherever.

The problem is that hardline free software advocates would still complain about this, insisting that the certification authority be scrapped. iOS and Android are now Windows, and it's going to be a mess.
It isn't, of course. It's just an article of faith now that anything Europe must be replaced. Anything that particularly gives something to do with Europe power is a threat to them.

During the referendum, it was a different story. Just the EU that was the problem. Nobody is talking about leaving the single market, no sirree!
OP made an unsubstantiated claim that Apple products are more secure. I pointed that out.
There was never a time when anyone involved in these projects didn't take fallout into account.

The thing is that fallout is something that can be controlled(to an extent). You can make a nuke that produces a lot of it, or a nuke that produces hardly any. Also(understandably) you don't get any fallout for underground explosions - we've used nukes for closing oil wells for instance, with zero environmental contamination outside of the initial blast zone.

That's not me saying that this is a good idea of course. But it's not like fallout wasn't planned for.
The statements are true. Period.
There's no need to imagine a place where all three overlap, they are already true. Specially since the last one is just a possibility.
Apple loves to claim that Apple is more secure, without offering any data to back it up.
I wonder if this is a good fit for a subscription. For most people this is going to be a temporary problem, so I think a one-time fee would be more suitable.

(It might be much easier to sell a one time $99 audit fee rather than a $10 subscription)
It wouldn't be a problem - as you state in the question - coders used to do that before the web.

This is a rare (?) occasion where old dogs would likely adapt more quickly due to having done it before. Not only will their old muscle memory kick in, they will be more comfortable with the situation.