skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep! I have put a bit of thought into why this still matters and I'm not attempting to plug a twitter thread but I laid out a lot of my logic for why we should still bother to know this stuff here; https://twitter.com/RobinLord8/status/1647903067013013505?t=...

Essentially I think the fact that LLMs can do some of this makes it MORE valuable to know how to read it. That's because we're less likely to get into frustrating situations where we know the answer but are off by a character but simultaneously because LLMs can't understand the tables like we can it is valuable for us to be able to direct the investigation/ check the results
Apple sells ads. https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/apple-advertisin...

They track the stories you read on News & Stocks, and track your location to give you personalized ads.

This integrates with Google Ad Manager 360 as well. They work with 3rd parties. https://support.apple.com/guide/adguide/integrate-workbench-...
I imagine the real reason here is that EU companies want to avoid the 30% fee Apple collects on all online purchases with IOS apps. It's doubtful any savings will be passed on to consumers, anyway.

It's likely Apple will do what Google does and instead tie their app store into various apis and services (e.g. Google Play) so that side-loaded apps have a very difficult if not impossible time integrating with the phone in a way that users expect and desire.

Seems like the EU bureaucracy goes after big entrenched US tech companies again and again, but they never really obtain any W's. They spent years fighting against Microsoft's bundling of IE and Media Player, and all that ever happened was that MS released some Euro-only version of a few Windows releases without the bundling. But both IE and Media Player were displaced within a few years anyway, regardless of any EU rules.

Likewise, all the GPDR rules seemed to have accomplished is that every site now has an annoying-as-hell "click here to accept all cookies" button that everyone has learned to just auto accept. I doubt Europeans have anymore actual privacy compared to the rest of us, especially since their own governments are far more interested in tracking their citizens online behavior with regard to tax avoidance, hate speech, etc - they absolutely require US Big Tech to keep track of all this info for them to quietly subpoena as needed.
The main unsolved issue is Attention being Finite while Info is exploding.

Big Tech invading privacy was a response to reducing the Gap between Attention and Info (collecting likes, monitoring activity was required to produce a better news feed or search index). Decentralization, pki, moderation, safety etc dont really address the Gap. And quite probably lead to more info not less.

Its looking like if you build anything these days without thinking about whether you are reducing the Gap, you end up with strange unsolvable issues sooner or later.
Not everywhere in Europe..., In Slovakia 3/4 operators have single-use QR codes (and for the 4th you have to first remove your eSIM from your old phone before transferring to new, which wouldn't help in case of broken/stolen phone) and none of them have an easy to use web interface to generate a new one, you have to contact support somehow for them to generate it for you.

One operator even charges 10€ for a new QR code for your eSIM (same price as getting a new physical SIM card).
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> You cannot even find out what apps are doing.

Wrong. You CAN find out what apps are doing: Settings → Privacy → App Privacy Report

> And you definitely will not be able to manage apple apps, they get a free pass in all ways.

You can outright delete most Apple apps.

> Apple doesn't protect you.

said the wolf about the fence.
Latest moves seem to imply Apple might want a slice of the Ad network pie.
So I wouldn't bet on capitalistic ideals/incentives not overtaking idealistic consumer protections.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-08-14/apple-...
It reminds me of Key Values which is a job search site where you can list your key values you're looking for in a company, and it filters based on that. The name, of course, is punny for technical people.
How long did it take for Android to have finely grained permissions?
Because these restrictions on iOS are legitimately valuable security controls. Apple decides what functionality is exposed to applications, decides who is allowed to publish applications, screens the applications they do publish, and ensures that I have the ability to consent to the permissions they are required to explicitly and in clear language request. I can safely install any application I want off the App Store, and barely put any thought into the security implications of doing so. The only thing I have to consider is whether I want to grant the publisher the permissions they’re requesting.

If Apple created a methodology for circumventing this process, all of a sudden it is something that I have to worry about, and it creates an attack surface that I’d rather not have to consider. It also weakens my ability to demand these standards from publishers. If a publisher has the ability to say “this app is only available outside the walled garden”, then they may refuse to publish it via the system that is designed to ensure my interests are upheld.

If the Apple curated experience happened to curtail the way I wished to use my device, then I would have more to think about. But it doesn’t, I can do everything on my iPhone that I want to do.

I do have sympathy for the developers who sometimes find themselves stuck in a Kafkaesque review process. But I consider my own interests to be much more important than theirs.

I have very little sympathy for the businesses who object to the revenue model. Apple’s system asserts my interests as a consumer above interests of business who frequently engage in anti-consumer behaviour. I don’t care if they have to pay to access me as a customer, this is something I’m intentionally opting into as an Apple user.

The only time I do object to Apple’s curation, is when they use it in a way that I view as prioritising some other agenda above my interests. Such as when Apple pulls and app, or refuses to publish one, for reasons such as it containing “objectionable” content. I view this entirely as them subverting my interests. If that started to interfere with they way I wanted to use my device, I would start to consider an alternative. But so far it hasn’t.
I don't have any ad-blocker installed and only see 2 ads at the very beginning of the article. Not ideal but far from constantly battering. Using Chrome on Android.
They should just allow installing other operating systems instead.

If you want out of their platform, install Linux OS on your phone and have whatever you want there.

Wouldn't that make everybody happy - Apple, EU and customers?
I think the best book in this subject is The Algebraist from Iain M. Banks. Highly recommended reading!
It probably depends on the person. There are controversial debates on this topic all the time on r/learnjapanese.

In my experience, stopping writing practice has made me progress faster with Japanese, since I can now use the time for other things.

I do think that learning to write the first 400 or so did help with drilling down the basic shapes and developing an eye for the characters.

It still takes a lot of (just visual) repetition with Anki though to really remember new ones.

I've heard from people who have great difficulty learning the characters this way, and maybe for them practicing writing could be helpful.
1.) Genuinely, do you seriously argue that someone who took French for a year two classes a week would wrote something much better then that? Because from what I see, this is actually pretty motivating and good result after a year of painless causual learning.

2.) I really don't understand why your benchmark would be formal B1 test after a year. That is too high of an expectation. Most people do not reach it with the usual "a lesson with tutor a week or two classes a week in a year either.
Actually privacy relay is currently in public beta as a part of Apple iCloud subscriptions plans.

Unless I got it wrong when enabled it reroute all Apps trafic through this "limited VPN" to prevent tracking and access to local network.

Apps that require access to local network must ask that permission explicitly. Streaming service (Netflix, Disney+,etc) do that for obvious performance gain. I noticed Microsoft Teams did it also (and I just revoked that thanks to this thread, it's a work app I better keep that out of my home local network).
While I have no inarguable proof to refute you, and maybe it's easy to sound cool when history has proven one correct, my characterization of "humble genius" is based on DC's low-key presentation within the podcast.

At no point did I perceive him to assert any sort of personal superiority.

While I use his JSON creation heavily, JavaScript as such is the second least attractive language, after PHP, in my view.
There was a lot of support for people hit by pandemic layoffs 3 years ago. Some was from government programs, some from companies trying to help, and some from initiatives like this.

Despite the current tech recession being something of a covid bullwhip, I'm seeing none of that support outside the tech community. Unemployment claims are up 500% [1] YoY for high earners. At least in California, unemployment benefits cap-out at $450 per week, so this hits hard.

At the individual level, it's obviously painful. What isn't clear yet is the macro impact of all these high-wag jobs going away.

1: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-20/top-earne...
How can you "vote with your money" in these cases? Most of the problems here stem from Apple misusing their monopoly against other app makers. Only indirectly harming consumers.

For instance, when purchasing a music subscription through an apple device, they receive 30% and the developer 70%. Apple have their own competing service where they make 100%. This makes it impossible for others to compete on equal terms, hence you as a consumer probably see less choice than you could have.
I can already see China having a temper tantrum when those non-existent states will start recognizing some other certain non-existent state.

If China won't retract this statement, it is self sabotage of their own diplomacy after decades of trying to get those few remaining micro countries to stop recognizing Taiwan.
I think Google was already ahead in this LLM game within. There were news of an engineer calling something sentient and getting fired. That must be something at level of GPT-4 or beyond.

But issue with LLMs is that if as a user, I ask it about how inventory valuation works in context of accounting than it might say something inaccurate. To the layman it'll seem accurate but not useful because being incorrect and for the expert, they'll already know and an incorrect output is of no use to them either.

So probably Google would have evaluated the product internally in accuracy, usefulness and would have rightly, at that time concluded that such a product feature is more of a liability than an asset.

Disclaimer - no inside knowledge, assuming.
Note: The "debris" is wind-blown fine dust, not large pieces that could harm people.
> It's not like mammalian herbivores are a recent invention. If a constant amount of mammalian herbivores in the world would cause a constant acceleration of greenhouse effect then the greenhouse effect would have increased exponentially for millions of years already.

Factory style livestock farming is a recent invention. There's no way a similar amount of herbivores existed a million years ago in the wild compared to what we can currently cage and feed corn product to.
>If I buy a house, I can learn to maintain it and keep it secured. I can't do that with my iPhone.

For the argument's sake, your ability to do things to your own house is restricted by zoning, by HOA and god forbid you from buying something of historical significance in Europe -- then you can't change anything inside or outside and you are responsible for it.
> and food rations that will almost keep hunger from the door

Do you seriously think that's propaganda?
Unfortunately, you were mistaken.
There's been no statement from anyone at SpaceX that any pad debris struck the rocket, even in off the record interviews.
I wear a Forerunner 735xt, time for anecdata!

It may be bigger than a band but it's surprisingly small and very light to the feel, I barely notice the difference with the Fitbit Charge HR 2 I owned before. Major reason why I'm not upgrading to a Fenix of something like that.

Plus up to 15 days on battery when not using GPS, much more if I disable continuous HR.
The only feature I lack from JSON (and js) is ordered maps.

But XML is not necessarily that bad for many things.

I still use this XML editor I made in 2008: http://move.rupy.se/file/logic.html
As an American and long time European resident, I'm glad that Europe is pushing out shitty American beer whatever the reason.
Hopefully it will be finished one day.

It's a shame how much the world has taken a step back with the collapse of the USSR and the rise of US unipolarity.

The once-great Buran space shuttles lie derelict in Kazakhstan and Russia (not even in a museum!). The huge An-225 that took it to space has been destroyed in the Russia-Ukraine war.

Investment in nuclear power has collapsed as projects like this show (and Germany's recent decision to shut down all nuclear power plants).

The lack of competition has also lead the USA to rest on its laurels - no longer investing greatly in STEM education, NASA, national infrastructure, etc. as they did in response to the sudden achievement of Sputnik.
> "...expecting them to write all of the code they need from scratch?"

Yes! Coding is not about downloading a library and hoping it prevents you needing to code.

> "writing a whole interactive animation library"

You mean all 20 lines of code needed for an animated widget? Sure... let's download a 500 line animation library and use 5% of its functionality.

Package ideology reminds me of Wordpress plugins. "Just use a plugin" works great until you're drowning in plugins and your server CPU is spiking beyond reason because the plugins don't all play nice together.

As I said, the designer who codes may be welcomed by their engineer colleagues, who provide flexible means for them to contribute and push changes. Perhaps to a certain branch or otherwise streamline the process via Github Desktop or some less intense process, or even just sFTP to a place that can be previewed for later integration once everyone is happy the code is sound.
I wouldn't be surprised if Google pushes its own iOS marketplace: first by making an exclusive Blink-based Chrome to get people to open up their phones if they want to download "the real Chrome".

Then there is little friction to get people to install more (because the hard part is already done), and they could even merge Android and iOS into a single marketplace for mobile apps.
The real reason is much simpler: first step in evolution is 1 ligt sensor connected with 1 muscle. If the eyes sees danger you need to swim away from it. If you see food you need to swim towards it. Food was initially abundant l. Do moving your right muscle would cause you to move toward the food.

Later it evolved to be the brain
You're missing my entire point. The founders had significant local power their entire life. So they saw national power as something bad that could counter local power. They didn't want tyrannical powers for the president, that doesn't mean they weren't slaveholding authoritarians.
There are roughly 1.5 billion cows in the world right now.

https://cairncrestfarm.com/blog/how-many-cows-are-there-in-t...
I like it. It just have a hate club of people who hate it with passion. The rest of users like it.
Do they determine that you are in Europe by the credit card you attached to the App store? Seems easy to fake.
Believe me they’re trying. They’re now mandating biometric authentication, and I don’t mean on device, I mean implemented by the banks app / backend. If you read the articles you’ll see.

Each year the central banks up the ante on security protocols to implement to stop the fraud. I should know I used to work for a finance app here in Thailand.

We have to go through strict security audits, and procedures that costs a lot for any financial institution to implement.

Doing 2 FA is already a mandate for doing transactions. However 2FA in Thailand is mostly done using SMS which is still not that secure.

Forcing everyone to use a token or a 1Password app is also not viable since that’s going to shut a lot of people out of mobile banking.

It’s a complex problem, which I think Apple has already solved. Disabling sideloading reduces so much costs downstream and made things simple and secure for the lay man.
>>PS: The existence of Jailbreaks further undermines the argument that you cannot control the software on your device.

How? It's like saying car manufacturers aren't really locking down their cars to hardware that only official dealerships own, because after all you can just buy a coding tool from some random AliExpress seller so it's fine. What are people complaining about.

>> in other examples, in the case of iPhones it was always possible to push custom software to your own device for development purposes.

Sure, which is still a process 100% controlled by apple and which they can pull out at any moment. Also let's not pretend it's anywhere near as easy as installing Galaxy Store on android and instantly getting out of Google's restrictions on the play store. Hopefully we'll get legislation that removes that possibility entirely.

>>The main demand in these "sideloading" discussions is therefore that Apple ought to make installing unlisted Apps easier.

I have no idea where you've seen such demands, because it's not true. No one wants apple to host apps which would otherwise be unlisted or outright banned. That wouldn't make any logical sense and would be an unjust cost on apple. I do however want to be able to install an alternative app store and install apps from it without apple butting their nose into it. Like courts have ruled in the past already - if I make some software for iOS and a person wants to buy that software, why should apple control whether I can sell them that software or worse - get a cut of the sale[0]. Because they made the platform? Well, you don't pay anything to Mercedes for making mercedes-compatible wipers, and I really struggle to see how this is any different.

[0] assuming you don't use the app store of course in which case they should absolutely be paid.
That's OData: http://docs.oasis-open.org/odata/odata/v4.0/errata03/os/comp...
The judges may have avoided evaluating the people they know, so that explains why the average is N/3 instead of N/4. This theoretically increase transparency, but in practice it doesn't fix the transparency problem too much.
Part of the issue with Android is that, despite the fact that application packages are signed, their signatures only guarantee future upgrade tampering isn't a problem.

Meanwhile, Apple is likely still going to require sideloading to have a valid Notary certificate, which is bound to a root CA, meaning that Apple can handle some amount of validation of certificates and revocations.
I found flashcards to be just about worst way of learning new words. It made me feel drained and I kept forgetting the words.

That being said, I remember our teachers telling is NOT to use flashcards back in school. And that was in a school that actually taught me foreign language, so they probably knew what they talk about.
This is unrelated to the argument that animal feed from plants is/isn't a sustainable method of carbon capture.
I sometimes feel that some HN folks need to consider a job inside EU committees. It's probably boring work, but even if you spend 10% of your time in meetings and the remainder on a secret side project, you will be doing society a great service.
No concrete reached the surrounding city or infrastructure. There seems to be a false propaganda spreading that people were endangered by this launch. That couldn't be further from the truth.
It's not perfect but for people scared to talk and take part in real life classes in order to learn english it is the only viable option as it has large selection of source languages.
> Athens, the poster child of democracy

Athens is a significant example of an early democratcy. They were still working the bugs out back then.

It's authoritarian to enslave people, and it's authoritarian to deny people rights on the basis of sex. They did both.

> It's when elected, and especially unelected rulers oppress the populace, with the populace having little recourse, or ways to protest.

Yes, but the critical point is it doesn't have to be 51% of the populace. If rules oppress 10% of the populace that can still be authoritarianism.

Suppose I agreed with your definition though. That could explain away Japanese internment, but I don't see how it justifies disenfranchising women. They made up close to or even an outright majority of the country. Unless they aren't people, and thus not part of the populace? Surely a minority can't declare everyone else doesn't count and thus claim to be the majority position?
That's not necessary. Usually before automatic washing machine, people were using device called washboard.
Nit: you're never in that position in blackjack. You only double when you have 9, 10, or 11, but you'll always hit that anyway. Some bizarre casino could theoretically let you double Ace-10, but that's just getting greedy.

Anyway, you meant stay or hit.
> Of course now each side of the brain sees the opposite side, but we remedy this by crossing everything else so it plays well with visual interpretation.

why
Recent experiment at CERN: https://www.space.com/matter-antimatter-same-response-to-gra...
It's could that people don't realize how much this job asks of you until you get into it yourself. I feel the same. I had most time to myself when I was single, it reduced to half when I became double, reduced more than half again when I became triple.

Even than, the joy you get with your own kid can not be compared with anything you ever had before. The job is very tiring yet very fulfilling. Don't think it can be explained until you experience yourself.
Someone I know has been doing Duolingo every day for 5y for learning German, but their phrase forming and grammar is still quite bad. I think the missing part is speaking the language and trying to make correct phrases.
Yup. I'm quite hopeful that Scala could become a very nice ecosystem for creative computing, not only due to libraries but also tools that enable a (near) live coding experience like Scala CLI, Polynote and SCRiBBLE.

It's not all sunshine and roses, but I think its heading in the right track.
If you want to ever convert your money from BTC to a fiat currency, how so? Don't all the big exchanges require rigorous id verification? Sure you can store your BTC in a wallet making it pseudo anonymous in the sense that everyone can see your transaction flow but no one can link the wallet back to you. But then where and what can you actually use it for.
Literally nothing that you've said is a good excuse for forbidding sideloading. It would be actually trivial for a bank to only allow transactions from their apps, if they can't do that then they should be forced to take responsibility for fraud.

Guess what happens currently on iOS instead? Instead of installing a custom app, you are sent a link to log in to a dodgy bank page with all your details with the exact same result.

>>Disabling sideloading reduces so much costs downstream and made things simple and secure for the lay man.

I don't believe this is the case, and I really believe any arguments otherwise are made in bad faith to maintain the status quo because obviously apple could never do any wrong.
When you put it that way, yes.

On the other hand, I, too, want to live in a house with a green space of my own, and would complain loudly if I was forced to change