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I do wonder if Tim Apple would be so bold as to stop selling in the EU for all the rules and regulations that they have been required to follow. It would be amazing to see that play out imo. Like a reverse boycott could happen?

The secondary strategy Timmy could pull is a dumbed down ecosystem in the EU which I’m sure is even worse for everyone. But hey, you’d be able to buy audible books straight in the app. Is it worth it?
Signing in to an account takes 10 seconds.
I think you have to either maintain a map between names and version numbers in your head or dispense with the names entirely.
I have a Samsung Phone, it's preloaded with Galaxy store, and they still put their own apps (even exclusive apps) in the Play store.
Revealed: Top carbon offset projects may not cut planet-heating emissions
> This sort of comment is incredibly low value and doesn't contribute to the discussion.

We're 4 comments deep on a thread of people worried about Facebook being removed from the App Store. Reminding everyone that Meta is optional might be the most rational thing typed in response to this godforsaken article.
So much so that Americans get their lamb shipped from down under.
There is also the postinstall version of this same idea for NetBSD too: https://man.netbsd.org/postinstall.8
Yes, you can create a "New Secure Note Item"
Why do you think fingerprinting is hard?

It’s truly not — the OS sandbox is nowhere near as restrictive as, say, a browser sandbox.

Moreover, if Apple is forced to open the platform to third-party app stores, identifying unique users in collusion with the third-party app store is incredibly easy.
https://archive.ph/vxWtk
This is part of a longstanding effort by anti-groups to price people out of firearm ownership.

With this tax, gun owners in California will pay 11% + up to 10.75% general sales tax + 10%-11% federal excise tax. Maximum of 32.75% tax on a firearm.

But that's not all, since California has deliberately restricted the supply of handguns in the state by banning all new semiautomatic pistol models for the last 10 years (unless you purchase from a cop, then its legal because reasons), forcing manufacturers to make old, outdated California specific models, and extorting them for the "privilege" of keeping their handguns on the roster. California has also banned people from importing ammunition into the state, and implemented a mandatory ammunition background check system. It costs $20 to register, and $1 for each transaction.

Then there's local regulations, like San Jose's insurance requirement (which would not have covered a single incident in the last 7 years, but gun owners must buy anyway), and zoning regulations that prevent people from opening up gun stores.
It's not about lofty idealism. It's about central goals. Sometimes, even oftentimes, goals are failed to be met. But, when it comes time to sacrifice something, it's invariable that a side effect will be cut rather than the central goal.

Look at a company. The purpose of a company is to make money. Not all companies are successful: lots of companies fail to make money. But, when push comes to shove, and a company needs to choose between "make money" and something else, say, a commitment to not being evil, the company will choose "make money".

Capitalism does not have meeting basic human needs as a core goal. Capitalism's distribution of money to labor is a side effect, not a goal. It has the freedom of capital to amass capital as a core goal. Thus, if something needs to go, it's not going to be capital's ability to amass more capital.

As automation comes for more and more jobs, the demand for labor in general will fall. Capitalism, even in its most idealistic "a rising tide lifts all ships" form, does not care about those it doesn't need. If your preferred answer to "what do we do when human labor is no longer necessary" isn't "extinction", you can't rely on Capitalism as an ideology.
The deadline for Free Software Award nominations is November 21
Govee are also very popular now, I haven't personally used any but I have a mix of Hue + a bunch of other stuff powered mostly through HA and it's always worked pretty flawlessly for me using their Hue bridge of course. Even the PC color sync works pretty well with not much latency considering it's a software implementation -> network -> bridge -> wireless to the lights. It's the most non-hacker-friendly "ambilight" setup I've ever used.
Am i the weird one? I don't think i even booted their firmware before flashing the unit with esphome (which is awesome one can juat do that)
The list is extremely long as you say. Amazon isn't good at much except cheap third party stuff made by contract manufacturers in china, books, and AWS.
I have bought an iPhone and not your app. You have no relationship with me without me choosing iOS. That’s it. I’m your user and I want to get my apps from the App Store. Respect that decision. Don’t make me go outside the ecosystem I have chosen so you can make you 30%. I say that as a developer who gets charged the 30% as I respect the fact the user decided to use that specific platform for whatever reason they have.

Mine as a consumer is that Apple doesn’t have dark patters when I want to cancel my subscription with your app. When I try to cancel my membership for something else like a magazine or the gym I have to go over 10 steps…
I don't think you're engaging with the GP's ideas in good faith. Yes, capitalism lifts people out of poverty at an unimaginable scale, but the GP's contention is that this is only _for the moment_. According to the GP, the end state of capitalism is a sudden, drastic drop in the labor class's material conditions (which probably looks a lot like societal collapse). Your contention that "But it's good now!" is exactly the kind of logic that GP is railing against.
> Then he lost five pounds. He still felt better than he ever had and neither of us were concerned. His medical team implied I was in danger of being reported to children's services as an abusive mother.

But wasn't that valid cause for concern, especially for someone who should be a growing boy? If being underweight was a serious medical concern for him, losing 5 pounds seems like a big flashing red warning that something could be going wrong.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your story, but from what you've written, it sounds to me like their intervention successfully ensured he was eating enough when he wasn't before?
My family is always bitching me out for the slightest thing that goes wrong with my home automation. My wife would absolutely refuse to use any A/V gear that involves logging in: I mean, this has been normalized by streaming but you never have to log in to use a Blu-Ray player.
Surely these are the same kinds of people who will carefully review all scripts before running them, right?
Maybe this is the story of an embarrassment of material wealth. The idea that we should find our job as our main source of identity and fulfillment might be culturally whats wrong, rather than the system of work.

In the past, most people weren’t dilettantes chasing creative pursuits that also paid the bills, yet I’m assuming they managed to have fulfilling, meaningful lives.
I think part of the problem is, almost all their products have been free... launched as free and remained free without clear monetization plan, except to grow userbase.

There was no strong disincentive for pulling the plug on products without paying customers.

For the past few years, they've been trying to 'correct' that and in the process pissing everybody off.
If you like writing Ruby on Rails, then good, keep doing it. People are. I believe it still works. What's the big deal?

Obviously, people use JavaScript (whether with React, or with another framework, or without any framework), deploy micro-services, use Kubernetes, etc., with their Rails applications, so I'm not quite sure what you're trying to say with that part.
You know what would be even better? If you could reliably uninstall all this junk or not even install it at all.

Every time I hit some button on my keyboard and the Music app opens asking me to create an account I am reminded how hostile all commercial operating systems are.
You say that, but what this rule has done is made it so this kind of tracking is available only to large apps like Amazon. The little guy gets snuffed out before they can even gain traction.
I want to see meaningful pushback on this indefensible move of forcing customers to establish and maintain a relationship with the manufacturer in order to use the products they sell.

Other examples are:
Wahoo, who locked the control of their products behind an account and login requirement for devices which had been working perfectly fine for years prior.

Roche, who killed their blood glucose app at the start of 2023 and forced all their users to move to a third party app, developed by one of their subsidiaries, which requires you to accept a data exfiltration clause, if they wish to continue the automagic on-device logging.
At least Ubuntu has an LTS version you can use to ignore the names for a few years.
The incentive for Meta, etc to start their own “anything goes” app stores was low when it was a possibility only on Android. It being possible on iOS changes the equation significantly with how iOS users are typically higher value targets due to how on average, they buy/spend more.

It also gives them the opportunity to normalize per-megacorp app stores across the board instead of them always being a weird Android thing like they would be if Meta opened an App Store on Android now.
Something cool however is you can actually build the open-source WebKit browser engine yourself and make closed-source Safari use your locally built version.
I am talking about Tinder.

The platform is at this point majority scam accounts, I'd probably put the number at 80% (speaking as a man looking at women at least) as fake.

They'll send you a like, and they'll quickly talk about "making their fortune" or buying multiple properties. Once you're suckered in thinking that's fortunate they'll ask if you're interested in making such profits, because they can show you "crypto investments". Of course you'll be trained on just sending money to some account on a fake website you can never withdraw from.

If you haven't used to platform in the last six months it's really hard to believe how bad things have gotten. "Verified" accounts that are AI generated and have no hands or no face, and profiles like this actually common:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Tinder/comments/160lrof/bro_what/

I know we joke about places like Reddit and Twitter being full of bots but I don't think anyone has any sense of the scale of the bots on Tinder. Paying $500 for priority matching with that sounds funny.
To me the whole point is that it’s indestructible/recoverable. Things go really south you can steel wool / sand it and re-season. If it’s any coated pan it’s not usable for cooking after it takes some damage
The commenter started by saying they didn't see any downsides. Someone replied referring to specific downsides which impacted them (""use Meta omni-permission store or get cut off from FB/IG/WhatsApp"). Then the commenter said downsides don't matter because they can be used to argue against any change. That's a different argument than where they started.
90% of the smartshit I installed was novelty and now unused. Color changing bulbs? Set to one color. Dimming? Rarely used.

So I’d install dimmers and lights as normal and retrofit maybe some smart stuff later.
It seems that most companies are failing to exhibit independent leadership in their decision-making, especially when it comes to trends like remote work.

More and more, we're witnessing organizations simply follow the crowd instead of taking the initiative to make informed choices.
New businesses will form. Why wouldn't they? We have a ton of businesses that even 50 years ago no one would imagine. We can continue up the pyramid to more and more things that wouldn’t be possible or practical today.

Your mistake is you’re looking at a future world in todays state.
And yet a 10% profit margin in the restaurant business is considered high.
Every single human on earth has had COVID, multiple times. Its just that 90% of the people who "have COVID" never even know they have it, it's THAT MILD of a disease. I wonder how many years/generations it will take for people to accept the truth around COVID.
There was a time when people would give up their job if they truly believed in what they preached. But you like your work (or money) enough to not make a choice to change
So you assumed it. Got it.

I read the article. It does not say what you claimed.
The actual quote without the ellipsis is:

> If you're a leader seeking to increase employees' motivation, what can you do? Leadership experts Allan Cohen and David Bradford offer some suggestions. [4] In Influence Without Authority they articulate a set of principles and frameworks to support the development of stronger working relationships and more effective collaboration.

Your comment is irrelevant to the actual article. You are responding to a straw man of your own invention.
trully unbelievable, i lose faith in thr justice system day by day
PoC code: https://github.com/UT-Security/gpu-zip

Preprint paper: https://www.hertzbleed.com/gpu.zip/GPU-zip.pdf
On the other hand, if someone has a child who is aggressively attacking anything and everything in site, no matter how they might have heard about PANDAS, I would argue that antibiotics might still be the lowest risk intervention and most prudent option to try if they fit the profile.

Yes, antibiotic resistance is a concern if you start handing out antibiotics like candy, but if PANDAS is truly as rare as everyone would have you believe, then prescribing antibiotics to every kid that comes in with a PANDAS profile is not going to move the needle much with regard to global antibiotic resistance.

Alternatives:

Prescribe them anti-psychotics or some other medication to sedate them?

Likely much higher side-effects and risk profiles than antibiotics.

Send them to a therapist in hopes that the therapist can behaviorally condition that aggression away?

Bad news: talk-therapy for aggressive behavior in children has terrible outcomes. Most likely scenario in the mental health system is that they end up in an intensive group treatment setting somewhere with other aggressive children, learn more sophisticated aggressive behaviors, and gradually get worse.

On the other hand, antibiotics have a fairly low risk profile. Some pediatricians do literally hand them out like candy when kids come in with an ear infection or sore throat. Maybe stop prescribing antibiotics for those kids, tell them to try some tea tree oil or some other natural remedy, and save the antibiotics for the kids who fit a PANDAS profile instead?
I set up Home Assistant recently on a Raspberry Pi, and imported all of my Hue lights. So far so good, but I haven't managed to migrate completely off the Hue app + Bridge. I've purchased an HA-compatible Z-wave dongle, which will apparently let me manage all of my Hue hardware without an account or bridge, but haven't tried taking the plunge yet.
Don't disagree with this, but this is the same in almost all cloud providers. Want to get started with Digital Ocean's app platform? You're paying for Container Engine to store your containers, then App Platform Business just to support scale-outs, then multiply this for the number of services you're deploying and make sure you don't have egress overages etc etc.
I now have a couple of different app controllable LEDs. By far, the Hue app has been the best of the bunch. However, my app recently gave me the "Starting soon, you'll need to be signed in" notice. I am very unhappy with this, as everything I want my lights to do is working perfectly fine without even needing an account to be signed into.

From the moment I first saw the notice, I started wondering if I'll have to find a new app. But because "soon" has not arrived, I just have been ignoring it. I hope when "soon" arrives it will be a weekend so I have plenty of time to deal with it.
Yup. Everything thinks the other person is greedy while they themselves are made of pure virtue.
I tried Prophet via Darts, and all the models in Darts assume a regular time series.

Re: "fancier machine learning" -- I've seen different flavors of RNNs & LSTMs have some success in analyzing time series data. I've struggled to get them to work on real-world (i.e., messy) data, but have had some encouraging results with a transformer encoder-only NN.
jailbreaks.
You are missing the part where I harmed his health to comply with their expectations. He was fine and does better on a high quality diet than on a junk food diet.

Weight isn't the only metric that matters.
Can someone explain to me what this ecosystem is and the appeal of it?

I have nothing automated in my life, that I know of? I don't have a garage; the door to the house has a key; the lights I turn on with a switch; no Alexa, don't use Siri... I am not exactly opposed to automation, but I am hesitant to share even more demographic data to cloud services.
I've been saying for years—and it's been received un-popularly here on HN—that ATT has been a bad thing for the industry overall, and this thread is a primary case in point.
> Any Tuya compatible device can be flashed to work with Tasmota.

That's... not true. There are many items of the Tuya ecosystem resistant to flashing with another firmware.
The difference is that in C you can't make a "safe" interface, which the compiler will enforce is used properly.

C's type system is not nearly expressive enough for this. You can barely declare a pointer non-null with extensions, but you can't express ownership. You can't force callers of your function to check for error before using the returned value. You can't force correct lifecycle of objects (e.g. Rust can have methods that can be called once, and no more, and then statically forbid further uses of the object. Great for cleanup without double-free.)

C doesn't have ability to turn off Undefined Behavior for a section of code. You can't just forbid dangling pointers.

For a foolproof API the best you can do is use handles and opaque objects, and a ton of run-time defenses. But in Rust that is unnecessary. Use of the API can be guaranteed safe, and a lot of that is guaranteed at compile time, with zero run-time overhead.

For example, a mutable slice in Rust (a buffer) has a guarantee that the pointer is not null, is a valid allocation for the length of the slice, is aligned, points to initialized memory, is not aliased with any other pointer, and will not be freed for as long as you use it. And the compiler enforces that the safe Rust code can't break these guarantees, even if it's awful code written by the most incompetent amateur while drunk. And at run time this is still just a pointer and a length.

In C you don't get this compartmentalization and low- or zero-overhead layering. Instead of unsafe + actually enforced safe, you have unsafe + more unsafe.
Customer discovery in industrials – tips on not coming off like a clown
Hi HN, I'm a 2nd time entrepreneur that had a modest (small) exit this past summer. I've got a team with me looking into the next idea and we want to move into industrials/manufacturing, construction, agriculture or other areas with a large labor needs that are experience more and more difficult labor situations.

I've worked in manufacturing engineering in the past, have gotten a few calls from plant controllers - but with technicians it's difficult. I used to be part of the UAW, and am from Detroit, but I understand that many of these people don't want to speak to someone from silicon valley/SF.

I definitely haven't explored all options, I do customer discovery full time at the moment and am going to the midwest to try and do more here soon - but I explore HN very often and thought I'd make a first post to see if anyone here has experience in the space!

Our team isn't worried about handling anything technical - we've got a great team to do hard and software. We think the labor crisis is a decade+long problem that needs to be solved, and we want to address a part of it!
I'd say we don't get by fine, things are pretty awful actually.
They're pretty clear about it in the text; it's just the headline that's misleading:

> The overall job growth included 20,524 White workers. The other 302,570 jobs — or 94% of the headcount increase — went to people of color.

"Overall job growth" and "headcount increase" imply "net jobs added."
Yes! Mutton biryani and mutton steak (for the uninitiated, that's not what you think it is) are my go-to orders. At any hawker centre I usually make a beeline for the Indian Muslim stall. Of course, as you say, office workers eating food designed for labourers has its own problems.

(Mutton steak - https://www.burpple.com/f/qylhoopk)
Really the only thing keeping me from going all in on keychain is the lack of a UI for the times when it doesn’t autocomplete or I need a password in terminal or something.

I’d pay for something that provided a global hotkey and an interface that isn’t nested in Settings.
Yeah, it seems like that would mitigate most of the issues. At the very least, Chrome could introduce and respect a CSP flag on the iframed site that indicates it can be iframed but not with SVG filters. That wouldn't sacrifice backward compatibility but would at least allow sites to opt out of the behavior (and into extra security protection). (And I say "Chrome," not "browsers," because it's the only browser that satisfies the three prerequisites of the attack, one of which is adding SVG filters to iframes, as described in the site/paper).

On the other hand, it would be more effective in reverse, i.e. to require iframed sites to opt-in to allowing host sites to apply SVG/CSS filters to them. Sure, this would break backward compatibility. But who cares? What is the reason for the strong attachment to SVG filters on iframes? Is this a common use case? When is it beneficial?

For the other described prerequisites of the attack, like allowing embedding iframes with third-party cookies inside them, I understand the use case (although if we're being honest this is mostly because of Google wanting to retain YouTube tracking). But SVG filters on iframes? Really?
I can already self-sign and run software on my iPhone. Would be cool if Apple removed whatever locks prevent running alternative OSs. But iOS is already a complete, cohesive, & secure offering. I don’t really see the hacker ethos in compelling Apple to switch out bits and pieces of their operating system so Google can make more cash. Would much rather be able to install Android or similar.
There are plenty of jobs that have 40 hour workweek and meet your goals. The union just makes sure you get better (some would say fair) compensation for that extra effort
Exactly. And imagine you’re a doctor, and you have a dead child in front of you, crying parents, and a form to fill out. No possible way of filling out the form brings the child back to life, and one way makes it as easy as possible for everyone, and another results in potentially up to jail time.

Now do this repeatedly during your long and illustrious career.
Meta comment: I’m looking forward to the day my phone comes with an inbuilt summarizer that puts an end to opening an article and seeing “It was a sunny day in September 2007…”.
Large difference between "i wasn't caught" and "they knew and still let me"
There's already a platform that does this well, integrated with the huge trading community on Discord. It's called Trade Hub, they actually just released "v2.0" and named it NVSTly.