skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear your argument, but it's not convincing.

Your logic states that because an app can occasionally slip through the review process, that we should remove -all- protections. That isn't better, that's worse.

A scam is also a relatively low bar to set for such drastic change, since scams also frequently occur over chat apps and the kinds of access that side-loading and 3rd party stores can avail opens the door to significantly more sophisticated malware. If you truly think the situation right now is bad, just wait until there are no protections for users.

You should also recognise that there is actual data for malware on these platforms. Every year Nokia drive home the same point for why Android has such an outsized share of malware: "...most smartphone malware is distributed as trojanized applications and since Android users can load application from just about anywhere, it’s much easier to trick them into installing applications that are infected with malware."

Since all experts point to the same sources of malware - perhaps that's not the change we should be legislating. How about we do something different.
> If you ask it a question where the training data (or input data = context) either didn't include the answer, or where it was not obvious how to get the right answer, that will not (unfortunately) stop it from confidently answering!

I haven't found this to be the case in my experience. I use ChatGPT-4. It often tells me when it doesn't know or have enough information.

If you haven't used GPT-4 I recommend signing up for a month. It is next level, way better than 3.5. (10x the parameter count). (No I'm not being paid to recommend it.)
If you’re required to install software on your phone for work then your employer should be legally required to pay for your phone. And then if you want your own phone you pay for it yourself. And if your employers IT team lets corporate devices get malware that’s on them. This is a weird edge case to get hung up on.

You’re making a very simple issue way more complicated than it needs to be. Having Apple spin out EU specific new corporate entities with unclear relationships to its parent company sounds extremely complex.

Requiring Apple to allow people to install apps they want on their own device is pretty simple and should be a fundamental expectation of a free society.

If normal user wants the walled garden Apple experience, that’s fine. Make it unintuitive to install third party apps. Require checking a big red disclaimer that you might brick your phone. But just have some sort of path where if party A made an app and party B wants it on the device they paid a lot of money for, they can do that without some unqualified drone in Cupertino blocking it .

Countless examples of the App Store review being broken , and just on principle, Apple has what’s effectively a monopoly on mobile phones in that you can’t make a mobile app and ignore iPhone and for them to unilaterally decide all software that’s allowed is way too much power.

Somehow Microsoft went to the Supreme Court for putting IE on the desktop but Apple is off the hook for a complete lockdown. At least you could download Netscape on Windows 95! What Apple is doing is like if AOL and AOL keywords became the only entry point to the web. Then you go on Hacker News and people say that’s s good thing because AOL only allows quality websites and otherwise people make malware and scam websites. It doesn’t matter, it’s too much power for one company and mobile phones are more critical to society in 2023 than the web was in the 90s. Mobile phones are not appliances.

It’s still unfathomable to me this is even a conversation on this website. Apples complete lockdown of the most important computing devices is plainly bad for consumers and society.
Can we guarantee that he has no family or friends in russia that he sends money to? Or that he hires russian contractors etc?
Oh God I didn't realize there was a whole new trend where you pay a leg for the hardware and then ounces of blood each month to have even any useful functionality. Then I looked up the oura ring. Wtf indeed!
Hot wash (boiling water) with detergent, followed by hot air tumble drying also, will pretty much sterilize clothing. Of course that doesn't prevent contamination at some point later.
Years ago I wrote this dynamic tutorial that visualises branches as you read: https://agripongit.vincenttunru.com

It's aimed at folks who know how to use `git add` and `git commit`, and would like to spend 15 minutes to form a mental model to help them understand what's going on.

In case it's useful to someone.
Karabiner is life changing tool that lets you remap keys at a low level on macOS
And those people assume their phone number will not be revealed to random contacts and their contacts! A phone number on its own is PII! It is in some contexts more dangerous than knowing your drivers license or social security number.

What utter deception! And why i distrust signal even more! The entire world uses whatsapp which has its own identifiers as do most messaging apps. Signal deviated and went out of its way to collect the one piece of information even more identifying than your full name and address! Lol
We went through the same thing with self-driving cars. All the talking heads were crowing about how many jobs were going to get eliminated soon and we needed to prepare society for the ramifications. About a decade into it and they are just starting to roll out self-driving taxis in very limited controlled fashion. And the loss of jobs that everyone was worried about is easily another decade away (if at all).

LLMs are cool and useful. So is self-driving tech. But the fear mongering is a bit premature. Folks seem to have bought in to the singularity style AGI event, but reality is AGI if possible is going to be a long slow incremental process.
Interestingly, this exists for cloth baby diapers, and it made using cloth diapers a no-brainer. You don't need to own the diapers, you don't need to wash them.
Oh no, I am very much in agreement with you.

My aim in sharing that article was "how we get to a point where judges even think this is acceptable behavior/know they can usually do this kind of thing with impunity".
You imply they migrated to use crypto and stopped using traditional banking. No evidence that it is the case.

Some criminals may have easier access to crypto facilities than banks hence activity, or cost is lower that way for the initiated, yes. It doesn't mean volumes of teinted activities is anywhere as big via crypto than it is via fiat.

Common sense could take a guess, but there can't be much certainty as illegal activities happen aren't made in plain sight in either route.
Shellcheck finds bugs in your shell scripts
If you truly believe you were treated unfairly against Apple, you think they are in breach of contract or violating the law, and they are threatening your livelihood, then sue them. Complaining on the Internet is unlikely to give you the relief you seek.
Thanks for the tip! I've been wanting to dive into DS/lite/DSI.
Neither of the people on either side of that scale are what anyone would call "healthy". A 4 lb dog can be completely normal and healthy, so too a 200 lb mastiff. A 2-lb person will not be healthy, nor any 1000+lb person. Those are nano-percentage outliers.

Fyi, the wikipedia entry for Lucia Zarate cites larger numbers, as much as 14 lbs.
I've always interpreted AI "safety" as being more about ensuring ideological consistency and a particular narrative than anything about actually keeping humanity "safe".

And I'm not even talking about the culture war, just yesterday I tried having DALLE generate a picture for a DND character and it kept refusing to (and no it wasn't some sort of weird hentai thing) because it felt like it was not an appropriate image.
Software You Are Thankful For?
I think the most charitable thing you can say is this developer played with fire - engaging in scummy subscription pricing tactics - and got burnt. Neither App Store nor this developer played honourably.
It was a fire drill for AGI, and one that was failed badly.
Crypto turned exactly opposite of what Satoshi wanted....he or they wanted transparent, mathematically (cryptographically) proven, decentralized open ledger transactions, not this sh*t show of fraud and anarchy.
Having a memory safe language in the kernel is very serious. More and more C programmers I speak to say they realise with Rust they will likely never work with C again full time.

Yes Rust helps bring in the next generation of Linux devs. It needs to to survive. But it's not because young people like Rust, it's because C developers like rust too.

Yes, Rust has unsafe and unsafe rust is trickier to get right, but you use it opt in and it's only a small amount if the code. Zig is still having unsoundness bugs in relatively simple code
A few off the top of my head: the core/std split, making the core language never allocate implicitly, the design of async/await.
The plan is just to not pay and hope to settle for less then the total rent at some point in the future when the other party needs cash now. Meanwhile it helps with the cashflow.
> We're not talking about exotic and expensive varieties of steel though.

4340 steel isn't exotic. It's one of the most commonly used grades of steel out there, and it's much cheaper than titanium. There are steels out there with significant stronger yield strengths too. Meanwhile the highest yield strength of any Ti alloy is <1300MPa.

Titanium is still a really great material in certain applications. But it's not magic. You have to use it intelligently in the right application to get a benefit from it.
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This gives a decent overview of some of the areas where the focus of Zig is different than Rust. Other than that...I'd just start by reading through the standard library code and the repo to get a feel. It's very very similar to C so you will be immediately comfortable, just cleans up some stuff like removing default global allocator (you pick your malloc basically), better macros (comptime), and encouraging use of non-null terminated strings and fat pointers etc.

https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/
> why some countries stay "developing". The reason is very simple - the rate of population growth exceeds the rate of infrastructure development

Opinions are divided: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP8CzlFhc14#t=3m>
I prefer the def'n in Linebarger:

> Propaganda consists of the planned use of any form of communication designed to affect the minds, emotions, and action of a given group for a specific purpose.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48612/48612-h/48612-h.htm#Pa...

What Henderson is talking about isn't a good example of propaganda (Linebarger notes the best propaganda is true, albeit selectively so) but it is a good example of intimidation, as Sartre noted in connection with antisemitism:

> “Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
That's the point. Most modern IDEs are designed well enough that arbitrary changes to the files are handled reasonably. I am probably rare in that I like Xcode, but you can feel that it suffers from the cruft of age, or questionable architecture decisions long past. It's fragile and makes strange UX decisions that seem like the product of technical restraints being put on the designers.
The EU requires reviews from real customers and you have to describe how you are accomplishing this.

These alternative app stores will be infinitely more trust worthy than apple, amazon, google etc

If there is no payment or the trial is canceled one could use the digital id.

Apple could even gather some simple statistics. Opening the app and using it for 1 minute would be a special kind of review. You wouldn't count 1 star reviews like that until manual review-review confirms the app is really that bad.
Large Language Models pose risk to science with false answers, says Oxford study
The modern wave of Albanian-Serb hostility goes back to the early 1980s, a time when the breakup of Yugoslavia was not yet on the horizon and so there was no fear of an oppressive Albanian ethnostate. Rather, the Serb rhetoric was driven by a claim that Albanians were squatters on historic Serb land.

An independent Kosovo would have become a state chiefly for the Albanian ethnicity simply due to demographics, but it need not have become completely hostile to Serbs and Bosniaks, if the Serbs had acted more wisely. The Republic of Albania itself contains a number of Greek, South Slavic-speaking, and Aromanian villages. And had the Serbs acted more wisely, Kosovo undoubtedly would have been partitioned at Mitrovica.
Those are the two primary things I use my phone for.
i've read countless things you've commented, usually our interests diverge, but this one made me silently think "exactly!". well done!
The current models are static, they do not get modified by self learning. Unless someone already build in a Skynet backdoor, we are safe.

...and I am hoping all nuclear missiles are air gapped anyway...
I don't think it's a fair comparison because in the PC market the bootloaders are (usually) unlocked and the firmware (usually) operates via an open standard like UEFI or BIOS... whereas in the smartphone market open bootloaders and firmware are the exception.
Ahh, if the default is don't send and it's just an option then I don't see what the problem is
In addition to what the sibling comment said, the developer does in fact have a recourse to the legal system, which they wrote that they are preparing to make use of. Attempts to analogize the TOS dispute mechanisms of companies to the legal system frequently fail to note that, at least where money is involved, they exist within the legal system, not in a bubble.
I'm not sure what exactly GP is referencing, but maybe it's the rare cases when the weakened virus in OPV mutates and someone excretes infectious, vaccine-derived poliovirus. I still don't see how that's the fault of the vaccine providers, since it's due to mutation and not a mistake in production of the vaccine, and OPV is a reasonable thing to use and certainly better than doing nothing.
I'm making a pretty valid point(note Android's outsized malware share) and we'll get to see it play out next year in the EU.

It's interesting to me that your core argument is about making a choice whether or not to embrace side-loading and 3rd party app stores. However aren't users making this choice when they buy the phone to begin with. Side loading and 3rd party app stores aren't a secret, many Android manufacturers use this as a selling point and include their own stores baked-in.

I'm somehow to believe that users are simultaneously clever and dumb - and I'm not buying it.
I'm aware of that, and the point still stands for me that I'm not sure what the point of writing in Rust is if you do all of those things.
PlayMake – Create playlists using audio similarities
Another toy project. Happy Thanksgiving for them as having it.
Did you actually see how the app is monetized by convincing people to pay $4.00/week for a subscription? He is one of the problems with the App Store
You're really out of your element here.

>It's the modern version of buying "art" that isn't valuable at insane prices.

That was possible because the art world (at some point in time) enabled this. Apple and its App Store actively prevent this from happening, it's the complete opposite.
If your company mandates installation of malware, then that's not something an app store can fix. If your company mandates the installation of malware and it's not available on the Apple AppStore, do you think they'd just say, "well okie dokie I guess the policy doesn't apply to you"? No, they'd require you carry a compliant device.

If my company is mandating the installation of software on my devices, I'll request a corporate device and assume the company has root access on said device.
That, my friends, is one magic spray head
Problem with being a generalist is once you're on a role and you over perform, people think you're a specialist. They don't think to ask, what else can they do? So you have to market yourself and keep looking for ways to spread.
Bunny, Bear and Piglet: Meet the Windows 95 Team Mascots from Microsoft [video]
Well, sorry, but you're not being very clear. First you said it didn't seem designed for low level and now you're saying you aren't sure what the point is if it can do low level things?

It would help if you clarified. I don't want to try to clarify things and end up putting words into your mouth.
> This falls under customer private network information (CPNI)

Any source for that being the case here? CPNI is partially protected, but subsets of it can be freely shared and sold by companies. Do you have a link showing the data police accesses here goes under the protected category and not just the freely available category?

Private companies can access the following according to the CPNI wikipedia, parts of it can only be shared inside the company but a very large part like location data and URLS and demographic data can be sold freely:

> Verizon shares CPNI "among our affiliates and parent companies (including Vodafone) and their subsidiaries unless you advise us not to". and states that it shares "URLs (such as search terms) of websites you visit when you use our wireless service, the location of your device ("location information"), and your use of [Application software [applications] and features" as well as other "information about your use of Verizon products and services (such as data and calling features, device type, and amount of use), as well as demographic and interest categories (such as gender, age range, sports fan, frequent diner, or pet owner)" with other non-affiliated companies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_proprietary_network_i...
Yeah, exactly. However, if you were to make it a service, those users would have to switch to 2.0.0 or stop using it, as 1.x no longer exists.
If it started gaining traction I wouldn't be surprised to see Google going closed source with chromium.
*Much easier to stop, much harder to track. A bank doesn't have a publicly auditable ledger the way crypto does, it can only be traced with the assent of the bank and their policies vary.

The distinction matters.
Do you have something _in evidence_ indicating that Signal is abusing contact information?

The rest of this is scattershot: what matters for the overwhelming majority of use cases is end-to-end encryption between parties that know each others' identities but aren't necessarily technically proficient enough to play key management games. This is the user story that matters for dissidents, journalists, public figures, and ordinary people: if you aren't servicing those people, then it's extremely likely that you're (1) servicing nobody at all, or (2) servicing people who treat security as a LARP rather than a practical concern.
How do you know what Satoshi wanted? For all we know Satoshi might be Paul Le Roux making a way to move value for his ‘business endeavors’
Same with profilers. We had to go through a lot of trouble to get unwinding without frame pointers to work on the eBPF-based profiler we work on [1], and even crazier for interpreted languages [2].

[1] https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2022/11/29/dwarf-bas...

[2] https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2023/10/04/profiling...
Judge Rules Tesla Knew of Autopilot Dangers Before Fatal Crash, but Did Nothing
Of course it isn’t. It’s about regulatory capture. They’re trying to con technically unsophisticated politicians (which is almost all of them) into granting them a monopoly or erecting a bunch of onerous regulations to make competition or decentralized open source alternatives harder.

Their allies in this are otherwise very smart people that have thought themselves into a panic over this stuff, as smart people sometimes do. Intelligence increases one’s likelihood of delusional thinking, especially when paired with an intellectual climate that praises being contrarian and intellectual edgelording as a sign of genius. (This is my personal hypothesis on why the average intelligence is not higher. It’s not always adaptive. Smart people can be way better at being dumb.)

There are dangers associated with AI but they are not the sci fi scenarios the doomers are worried about. Most of them revolve around bad things humans can do that AI can assist and accelerate, like propaganda or terrorism.
Well, I don't see how this would impact Google at all. Obviously as one of the biggest advertisers all of Google's advertising will fit within the limit and will be highly prioritized over others.
Yes it’s so heartwarming to see an app maker that charges 3.99 a week hoping people will forget about the subscription suing to keep his money.
Maybe same effect but sounds like the purpose here was to include jokes for their customers (otherwise they probably would have included other things than jokes that can be identified by anyone with a brain)
How to Save the Metaverse (and Why)
"Turn it inside out"
This is a reasonable response. There was ambiguity in you addressing it directly versus its internal name not being copilot. It clarifies and attempts to give an answer anyways
I had IBM notebook with titanium case (before it became Lenovo)
I guess that there is a congestion somewhere in the path, maybe between your ISP and CDN.
I have been worked in an ISP for a while and this was the root cause of problems like yours.
I’m on Linux. Attempting to drag a tab to a new window doesn’t work and permanently breaks the “x” button to close tabs (until a restart).
I would join as well. And donate.
But rustc is a cross-compiler, you only need a C compiler for one platform and you get a Rust compiler for all platforms. And it's not like LLVM is doing anything that fundamentally prevents it from being written in Rust (see also the Cranelift backend for Rust, written in Rust). I'm still not quite sure what the concrete concern is. Can you elaborate?
An insane new niche-within-a-niche is renting clothes rather than packing clothes while traveling, ostensibly in the name of carbon reduction: https://www.cntraveler.com/story/japan-airlines-renting-clot...
I think the first few preserved will be a novelty.

I have associates who are really into trans humanism and the services they’ve bought include the resurrection in the price. So the person interested in resurrecting is the same individual paying to preserve themself.