skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Per Macrumors:

> Apple is giving app developers in the EU access to NFC and allowing for alternative browser engines, so WebKit will not be required for third-party browser apps. Apps will be able to offer NFC payments without using Apple Pay or the Wallet app through Host Card Emulation. Apps can also access field detect, and a default app can be set to activate when an iPhone is placed near a terminal.

Although this only changes things for us developers. Regular users really don’t care what browser is running the web pages they’re looking at, everyone who downloads chrome does so to get their synced bookmarks and history.

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/25/ios-17-4-alternative-ap...
I traded it in for a new one.
Bird went from $2.5B smash hit to roadkill
Looks like we will need a similar regulation to gain the same ability here as users of Apple products.
The thing is, within normal, stable households, most of good hygiene practices - including hand-washing after using the restroom - are unnecessary. You already share all the microflora, and if one person brings in something contagious, you're gonna get exposed no matter what, and it's up to your immune system to save the day.

That said, these practices do matter in other settings shared with strangers, so reflexive habits are worth having for that reason alone.
What complexity does bring allowing an app into your store?

Apple is the one gatekeeping
Apparently Go has also been reshaped:

Humans have improved at Go since AIs became best in the world

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2364137-humans-have-imp...
Well first version it will be different WebKit wrappers, as they are the only option available on iOS right now.

But they simultaneously open the door to other browser engines, so I imagine Firefox at least will release their app with a new browser engine down the line.
unironically, I've been downloading ISO images of the cds that used to be sold with dictionaries.

They're fairly small, they work well with wine and they work offline.

I understand that you might be afraid of triggering stuff, and in that case the good old (paper) dictionary might help you.
The next step will be fan intake in the floor of the bathroom instead of the ceiling.

Now, everytime I switch the toilet fan on I think about the researches on airplanes during covid that showed that there was little contamination thanks to cabin air intake being at the floor level and fresh air coming from the top.
Surely the only added complexity is in blocking other browser engines.
Sadly no information here about the mechanisms for how alternative app stores will work, which is the most interesting part for me. Will the .ipa format be standardized like .apk and will we be able to make iOS apps without having to use macOS?
Vacuum toilets are a well-established technology that deserves more attention.

https://www.introba.com/news/5-reasons-vacuum-toilets-are-fu...
https://archive.is/U1XZb
> [ESP32 LOLIN32 Lite] Analog input maximum voltage 1.0V

Where did this number come from?

AFAIK all pins should operate at 3.3v, and I see no mention of a 1v maximum for that board, or the esp-chip either.
Cones are still subject to inverse square. What matters more is that the focal length is much longer (effectively infinite) with a collimated beam -- that is, the (virtual) tip of the cone is very far behind the light generating element. Inverse square only applies at distances from the source much greater than the focal length.
Sounds like something Louis Carroll might have had fun with
> Apple can control the safety of their SW and cannot vouch for not-their-sw,

Isn't this the main argument for a locked down app store? That Apple CAN ensure the safety of third party apps on its store?
It's literally the second paragraph of the article:

>A surrogate for human enteric viruses (bacteriophage MS2) was added to household and public toilet bowls and flushed. The resulting viral contamination of the toilet and other restroom surfaces was then determined.
The tone of the release is really something. So much shade.
Similar path, similar conclusion here. I appreciate you verbalizing your thoughts.
Microsoft to lay off 1,900 employees in its gaming division
I wanna know when I'm gonna be able to use native Firefox with addons enabled instead of Safari-coated unusable crap
Like the fact that there's an alternative and support that, but hate the name.
They state the exact opposite in the second sentence of the article. Please, at least read the opening paragraph before commenting.
I am too. After seeing what happened with the remake I'm not sure if the audience is still there. Most would be strategy games players play MOBA but I hope that HW3 can get lots of players if it has all those essentials.
In notarization rules, no executable code download is allowed
> Notarization for iOS apps — a baseline review that applies to all apps, regardless of their distribution channel, focused on platform integrity and protecting users. Notarization involves a combination of automated checks and human review.

Does anyone know if notarization is something you could turn off? If you can't, then I'm pretty sure the EU won't like this; obviously "malicious compliance."
“It’s very dangerous but we will allow our users to download and install apps from the internet”.
In the Land of the Very Old
Can’t wait for Instagram (via the Meta store) to begin ignoring the tracking pop up option the user chose.
Ask HN: Does anyone think that the pain for tech workers will end soon?
I get that there are winners along with the losers in this situation, but it seems like the pain of ending up in the losing column has no end in sight.
Or even if it does, is that a short term pain but a longer term strengthening of the immune system? We keep sanitizing our environment - which is an outlier's outlier relative to the history of the species - and we keep getting more ill, more autoimmune diseases, more allergies, etc.

TBH when my friend's dog links my face, I sometimes lick my lips. The odds of that making me stronger are 1000x the odds of it killing me. Mind you, I'm not going to lick a toilet bowl. But perhaps some minor exposure to such things isn't so bad in the broader sense?
Are the Nebula awards more prestigious?
The NYT is not composed of impressive people.
I have to disagree, for most other email providers, this would work, however gmail this is a unique issue. Since gmail doesn't consider a dot, then by all accounts it shouldn't be considered on the application/site side as well.

Checking would short-circuit this, and simply not allow a signup at all.
> The people that play Wii sports are not the same people that play professional sports.

Right, professional athletes will go to much greater lengths to exploit a scoring sytem if they can get an edge from it. The AI sensors might be much better than a Wii, but that won't fix the core problem because they will be studied and gamed much more diligently.
To maximize human readability.

If I remember correctly from all those Byte mags back then, having understandable queries was an important factor.
yes, all mammals have.
> To reflect the DMA’s changes, developers will be able to use alternative browser engines — other than WebKit — for dedicated browser apps and apps providing in-app browsing experiences in the EU.

https://developer.apple.com/support/dma-and-apps-in-the-eu/#...
Related article from theverge.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39132487

Apple is allowing alternative browser engines in iOS 17.4 – but only in the EU
A p-zombie is, by definition, physically identical to and physically indistinguishable from another individual who has conscious experiences, yet does not itself have those experiences. It's not clear to me that this makes more sense to physics, particularly when one considers the p-zombie and its conscious twin both being asked the same questions about their conscious experiences.
I call on all software industry workers to begin unionizing. It is the only way for employee protections to be ensured as corporations continue harvesting livelihoods in the name of profit. You just need the will to stand-up and push our industry forwards.
Likely because they anticipate increased competition to the App Store now, and want to pre-empt the attractiveness for developers of moving to the Epic Store or the Facebook Store etc.
No, neither humans nor animals do.
I read that as "expanding protections to reduce (privacy and security) risks ..." but I guess you're reading it as "expanding protections to reduce (privacy) and (security risks) ..."
I found James Damores writings to be novel as he described disparities in a way that reflected reality. I find the work of Thomas Sowell to be just as novel as he can provide an alternative
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZSLy0JsoUp8?
Thomas Sowell talking about Birth order, in 5 children families the first born is more likely to be a finalist in an academic contest than the other 4 put together. The first born is more likely to be an Astronaut than the other 4 put together. If you cannot get equal results in a family where everyone has the same parents same household income and same living arrangements, how do you expect to equal results across families? across groups?
The "Pac-Man'' Gripper: Tactile Sensing and Grasping Through Thin-Shell Buckling
Looking forward to being required to use Chrome for basic browsing.

I already see numerous sites that with chrome variations on the old "we only support IE", but at least until now devs had to at least allow at least one other browser. Now they'll just say "here's a link explaining how to install chrome".
I wish I could remember where I saw this first, but the message bears repeating. I expect that the concepts expressed here are too liberal (as in freedom) for some. That said, I think of this paper as an important pushback on the Republican destruction of civil liberties, corruption of the First Amendment, attacks on universities, and suppression of ideas that don't agree with them.

I wonder if David Brin has read this piece because his, for lack of a better term and not to dismiss, rants read like an amped-up version of this paper.

https://www.journaloffreespeechlaw.org/franks.pdf

FTA: The key to understanding the current legal and cultural landscape of free speech is not some enduring constitutional value or method of interpretation, but rather the ascendance of a very specific political ideology that is best described as neo-Confederate. Neo-Confederate ideology is a constellation of values that includes investment in racial hierarchy, attachment to traditional gender roles and gender conformity, idealization of the pre-Civil War South, belief that the U.S. is a Christian nation, and hostility to democracy.

The neo-Confederate agenda renders coherent what otherwise appear to be chaotic free speech positions: the condemnation of “cancel culture” by promoters of censorship; the conflation of speech reactions with speech restrictions; the equation of the right to speak with the right to an audience; alternating invocations and dismissals of the state action doctrine. While these positions are malleable enough to occasionally serve progressive interests, they are most consistently and powerfully deployed to protect the interests of white male supremacy.
My biggest concern is that this will allow people to type a question and get a number back from the database, without being able to tell if the query is right or if the LLM just made up something.

It can work to support business analysts to crank out more reporters, but I wouldn’t roll it out to all my staff.
what is the product?
The majority of what the rags do is not high quality, but a fraction of where they spend their time is. I'd put basically all of the NYTimes' Interactive work in that category -- here's an example I was just reading yesterday: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/28/climate/groun...

And here's a WaPo example: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2023/take...

Similarly, The Guardian on the Panama Papers: https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/panama-papers

----

Somebody has the report "the news" and that's both untrustworthy and commoditized at this point, but it's not like traditional newspapers aren't also doing any investigative journalism, or intentionally not adopting multimedia methods of presentation.
So I'm guessing you didn't read the article then?
> To qualify for the [MarketplaceKit] entitlement, you must:

> [...]

> Provide Apple a stand-by letter of credit from an A-rated (or equivalent by S&P, Fitch, or Moody’s) financial Institution of €1,000,000 to establish adequate financial means in order to guarantee support for your developers and users.

Just let us sideload IPAs, please.
Meh they already have similar or better relations with Microsoft. If anyone, they would be the one acquiring HF. And it makes sense, aligned with GitHub in a way.
Apple had a chance to embrace the DMA, even to save face, and become a (albeit mandated) champion of these changes.

Instead, they've gone for hostility and pettiness and, no doubt, fully intend to maliciously comply.

> The screen also interrupts EU users’ experience the first time they open Safari

And it will be the last time.
Absolutely! That's how the "walled garden" business model works.
My first three SysAd gigs got acquired, all three were for the worse.

I'll disclose one long enough ago: HostGator

100% start looking, the company will fundamentally change

Sure, hopefully for the better, but I'm batting 0
Why do some people feel tired all the time?
From the blog post being passed around (9 categories of entries with distribution per nominee)

2022 was a semi-normal year. https://alpennia.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public...

2015 is the worst prior year. https://alpennia.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public...

2023 has weird cliff voting. https://alpennia.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public...
Separate any discussion about the "tone" of the article, could someone who is better at reading between the lines better than I explain the changes to Out-Of App Store payments?

Is it a 10-max 20% fee to Apple, no matter the distributor, in the EU? Or are those rules only for the App Store, and anything else won't be touched by commissions to Apple?
> Core Technology Fee — iOS apps distributed from the App Store and/or an alternative app marketplace will pay €0.50 for each first annual install per year over a 1 million threshold.

This seems unusually high. I would expect that a large number of apps meet this threshold.
Am I correct in thinking this applies to apps that aren't monetized?
I can see how this would be.

I've been in the unfortunate position of receiving very confidential financial documents, which I could have done a lot of damage with.

Most times I have sent a friendly "this is not the person you think it is" type reply, but with automated systems, this is impossible.
Somebody who served in the Carter administration was caught writing a prescription for low-level staffer with what was not the staffer's name on it. When the young woman was caught, the MD went also. He was the editor of what I recall as a very sensible book on substance abuse. My recollection is that this was Peter Bourne, the administration's "drug czar", but his Wikipedia entry makes no mention of the incident.
they were pretty consistent about picking good artists though, which was great for scenes i dont follow myself

no one person can sift through every scene and genre to find the good shit, and there's plenty of bad shit. i can do that for like, one scene

bandcamp articles generally delivered me more quality finds with more variety than automated "you may also like..." curation systems a la spotify or last.fm.

it's not like the latter are truly democratizing anything either--once getting big on spotify (or nowadays, tiktok) became important commercially, you got a whole ecosystem of influencers behind the scenes offering promotion in those systems. getting boosted via a faceless "chill sunday morning coffee music" playlist is still curation
> which in retrospect were best understood as dry runs for Gamergate

Gamergate kicked off between the 2nd and 3rd Sad Puppy slates and before the 1st Rabid Puppy.
Show HN: I made a retro video game console pet voting system
OK, back on topic then: do you even dispute the main point, that today false confessions are being coerced out of suspects in Western precincts?
"Liberal arts" comes from the Greek and Roman world - so, much of Europe, though probably not Finland.

From wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_education):

"Originally these subjects or skills were held by classical antiquity to be essential for a free person (liberalis, "worthy of a free person") to acquire in order to take an active part in civic life, something that included among other things participating in public debate, defending oneself in court, serving on juries, and participating in military service."

So "liberal" was "for free people" as opposed to slaves.

If I understand correctly, the "liberal arts college" is more in contrast to a trade school - basically, teaching things that enrich your life rather than things you depend on to make a living. Universities kind of span both - they teach philosophy and literature, but they also teach things like engineering.
I wonder what happens if you travel from the US to EU and then back. Will you be able to install alterative browser while in EU and then it gets blocked?
Show HN: Lumos, a local LLM Chrome extension
Lumos is an LLM co-pilot for browsing the web, powered by local LLMs (Ollama).

- Summarize long threads on issue tracking sites, forums, and social media sites

- Summarize news articles

- Ask questions about reviews on business and product pages

- Ask questions about long, technical documentation

- What else?
There was very sad case of an abused girl named "Genie" who was never spoken to by her parents - kept in a locked room as a toddler and she was rescued at age 13 and made a ward of the state but never learned the ability to speak despite best efforts of linguists and therapy.

It is if the basics of language and fine motor control required of the vocal cords/tongue/mouth in her brain was not primed and that ability was forever gone.
> actually choose a different browser, or are you choosing a different WebKit wrapper

I understand the "WebKit wrapper" for iOS criticism and do want different rendering engines available (e.g. Firefox's) and yet...

The worse thing about Firefox for iOS is the wrapper part, not the lack of rendering engine choice part. The UI of Firefox on iOS is inconsistent and buggy, and syncing doesn't sync well, etc. I doubt using FF's own rendering engine instead of WebKit would help the situation, as it'd drain engineering resources away from making the "wrapper" more usable.

I've always used Firefox, on Mac, Linux, Windows, Android, everywhere I can, but I find myself using it less and less on iOS... and it's not because of the rendering engine!

But since this change for the DMA will allow FF to use its own rendering engine (in the EU), hopefully maybe it'll reenergize the development of FF and improve the "wrapper" part more - even for non EU users!
> Core Technology Fee — iOS apps distributed from the App Store and/or an alternative app marketplace will pay €0.50 for each first annual install per year over a 1 million threshold.

If I'm reading this right (and I did double check this with ChatGPT [0]) if you have an app with two million unique installs annually, you owe Apple 500 000 euros. That seems to include free apps as well.

[0]: https://chat.openai.com/share/905c5c45-657b-477c-a746-0468dd...
Is there any record of another browser engine being summited to the app store and the outcome? AFAIK when I worked at Mozilla I'm not aware that Gecko was ever submitted even though I saw a working local build.
I heard that the number of students graduating in psychology each year is greater than the total number of psychology jobs in the country.
I wonder if the same is true of Sociology.
So now European users could be using Firefox with mobile gecko engine, but no one in the US will ever test with that because they're not allowed to have it. Fun!
I want to make some joke about Blizzard not releasing software/employees until they're ready, but I can't.

Being laid off just plain sucks.
Um, no. Regular users care about being able to run ublock origin.
People online also love to stereotype Americans as trigger-happy psychopathic maniacs.
> Having said all that, I have heard the analogue inputs aren't that great on the ESP32.

Yeah they have wide deadzones and just aren't great, they're really only useful for really coarse things, like reading a photoresistor to turn a light on/off
No, you'll need to install through an approved alternate marketplace. See https://developer.apple.com/support/dma-and-apps-in-the-eu/#...
See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39132453 (apple.com)

Apple Announces Changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39132487 (theverge.com)

Apple is allowing alternative browser engines in iOS 17.4 – but only in the EU
There is no special need to protect the head from getting slammed in an avalanche. What the bag does is that it protects you from being buried and crushed beneath a ton of snow. Both by making you "float" higher when caught in the avalanche. But also by taking up space when buried, so that when it deflates you're in a "pocket" and not getting crushed.

Haven't seen the video before. But In often see racers being "bulky" when skiing down after an accident. Looks funny, but it's useful.
I feel like every article about this misses the real problem.

Internet users do not want a "we are moots" relationship with their search results. They want a content creator to content consumer relationship.

It is literally insanity to expect a professional review or recipe site to exist in such way that it doesn't make money. Professional, by definition, means income. If you want such site that isn't littered by ads and calls to subscription, what you want is an amateur site, which, as the word implies, is going to be low quality since they are literally not in the business of making reviews or recipes.

It simply makes no sense for just somebody's blog with random stuff to rank high on Google. Most people who search search for resources, and resources means there should be a collection of similar stuff on the site, and that means the whole site has to be dedicated to reviews or recipes, and not a recipe from your grandma and then photos of your vacation.

If someone makes such site and put in all this effort, they likely intend to monetize it. You can not escape this fact, specially not when the web is as large as it is now. This isn't a tech problem. This is a people problem. People simply aren't motivated to create the ideal web world.

You could try to make a website that collects random posts from third party blogs to create this web paradise that you want, but unfortunately that already exists: it's called Tumblr and it's bleeding money.
Not all people who subscribe to the definition of marriage as put forth in the Defense of Marriage Act also believe that gay people are subhuman animals.
That last line is surprisingly congruent with the article. A bit less breadth, a bit more depth.
> ... as well as memory and type safety (the latter enabled by ML powered type checkers...

I find that highly unlikely.
I remember that mythbusters episode and I thought the conclusion was that the toothbrush bacteria cultures were no different than the control, which was a toothbrush right out of the package?
That line also applies to some management types and children of the rich and powerful.
I've been through it several times at this point... For example, React was a pretty hard sell the first couple years, then it just took off.

HTMX, Rust and even Go is pretty hard though as current points of interest. Let alone other paradigm shifts along the way.

Don't get me wrong, I'll work with things in place and don't generally advocate to replace working systems. It's more about green or forward looking projects.