skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, and they hate it.

Citation needed. People hate that they can buy games from Steam rather than having to go through the Windows app store?

People will choose convenience and security over freedom most of the time.

And if that's their choice, fine. But it should actually be a choice.
"Developers who adopt the new business terms at any time will not be able to switch back to Apple’s existing business terms for their EU apps."

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

I have not seen this important aspect mentioned yet. Once you have opted in to Apple's new business terms, you will be locked in to those terms forever.

Because of this restriction, given the ridiculous €0.50 per year per install fees, no developer who hopes their new app will one day have more than 1M installs will choose these new terms, and I have no doubt that is exactly Apple's intention here.
(coming to theatres soon!)

He thought he had clothes.

He didn't.

Now, his secret is exposed. And he is KNOT amused.

The Emperor's Tiny Ring
"A password-less database containing an estimated 1.3 million sets of Dutch COVID-19 testing records was left exposed to the open internet, and it's not clear if anyone is taking responsibility."
I’m confused at the all comments here that suggest Apple didn’t vet these changes with the EU before announcing. Tim Cook met with the EU regulators at Apple Park last week. The changes that are being implemented have been in the works for literally years.
Yes, because the comment I replied to was talking about the consumers (aka the populace.

> I assume Apple is _banking on consumers siding with them_ on it but I have to wonder about the wisdom of doing that
it is worth it only because they forbid alternatives
Yes. The populace votes and supports this widely.
The paper uses the term "person-year". So, the intersection of both.
From what I've seen the indoor climate geeks do recommend prioritizing throughput over filter rating, so they'd rather use a box fan with MERV 13 filters rather than HEPA (which is ~ MERV 17 I think?).
The crusty old electrician who taught me to solder when I was nine made me practice this splice, along with the rat-tail and the T-splice and a couple of others, and I'll never forget it. I've rarely needed to use it, however, since domestic wiring has been all about Romex and wire-nuts for decades now, and in the low-voltage electronics context where I've done most of my soldering, putting any strain on a wire joint is a recipe for suffering.
Right, I did find those, but only one had a discussion. Just making sure I'm not missing anything, so thanks for the clarification.
"Everyone wants iPhones"

Anyone is free to "want" anything. But they need to be rich to actually afford it.

Also, I think it's a HN bubble thing to think that the vast majority of iPhone users know or care about Apple's fine-tuned App Store-related extortion or their privacy promises.

In fact until recently Apple had made it literally a bannable offence on the App Store to EVEN INFORM PEOPLE that Apple was taking a cut of their money.

FB collected money through their apps for charity fundraisers and Apple not only wanted 30% of that, but they refused to let FB EVEN INFORM their customers that this was happening.

I am sorry for using all caps but if you seriously do not see how insane this is becoming, we are operating on very different axioms.

Apple makes good hardware and decent software and has managed to maintain a patina of luxury and class and 'high society' for all these years, yes. Completely agreed.

Side note: I don't want an iPhone and have in 20 years of adult life never paid for an Apple product.
Best experience? Lol, nope.
For me the most surprising observation from this thread is this tweet [1] showing that the knight's moves are exactly the squares that the queen can't get to within a 2 square manhattan distance.

I.e. the knight is an anti-queen.

[1]: https://twitter.com/skidbladnirr_/status/1750285122769957129
My "come to Jesus moment" on the importance of microbiome was a feature article in the NY Times' Sunday Magazine five or so years ago.

We always hear "People with pets live longer" and "couples live longer", right? While I can imagine the emotional value of those relationship and how it enables better health, my theory is that the constant presence of other microbiomes - human and/or pet - is also a major contributor to better health. Live alone? Without a pet? You aren't exposed as much.

p.s. Thanks for the book suggestion. I'll add them to my Wish List on ThriftBooks.com
basically, all they need is that slew of upper rich people captured willing to have their lives automated.

Printers and Big pharma have realized it's actually a benefit to have a giant wealth gap, because they can continue hiking prices till they maximize the consumers vs cost. As the base amount of O&M doesnt really need to scale once it's in motion.
> There is nothing wrong with OpenAI employees voting to keep the company for profit and maximizing their own personal gains.

There is something wrong if it harms others. For example, if AI is a risk to other people outside the company, and their vote increases that risk, then it's wrong (depending on the amount of risk).

Maximizing personal gains, despite recent hype, does not at all make something right. In fact, it's possibly the leading cause of doing wrong.

> Back to reality

Maybe you can come up with some better ideas than just offhand dismissal of ideas that have been embraced, examined, and followed by a great many humans for thousands of years. That's reality.
Thanks, I missed that!

It looks like it landed on quite an incline, almost 45 degrees.
Ridiculous fee for for-profit companies that want to sell their software for free, aka where you are the product?

Sorry, I won’t be crying that no MetaStore will be financially possible. But an FDroid alternative can work, and that’s the only thing I wanted (and many end-users who didn’t even know they wanted it)
if true demonstrates a deep level of organization ineptness

It's true, but your mistake is in assuming an actual organization exists.

WSFS is just a club, the membership of which consists of the paying members of the current worldcon. The WSFS constitution is a set of rules for the WSFS business meeting which handles stuff like the bidding process for the next-but-one worldcon, and running running the Hugo awards. But there's no continuity of WSFS membership or governance from one worldcon to another except insofar as some people may be members of two or more consecutive worldcons.

It worked for 80 consecutive worldcons, then broke when it ran up against folks who didn't abide by the norms of behaviour that the rules presuppose.
Truly free apps can remain on the current agreement of 15%/30% without install fee.

The new EU stuff is opt-in.
I did this. It was actually pretty easy as long as you still have the starter cartridge that came with the printer (to be the chip donor).

Here's a youtube video showing the process:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdj-yxfHh4I
Well first of all MGS3 is superior in most respects. One of them being story and narrative.
E Pluribus Hugo – For Large Field Elections
Yes, but surely there's a market for that. I would very strongly prefer to pay what the printer really costs in exchange for not getting soaked on the consumables.
I agree that it's wrong and was shocked when a friend brought up that's what they did and several friends chimed in "me too".

Unfortunately, tons of people in the world really don't care about wrong, they only care about what they can get away with? Their argument was "I paid the unemployment tax, I should be able to take advantage of the benefit". But I agree, the point is not to use as much as possible. It's to use as little as possible. We can't have nice things because lots of people will abuse the system.
I’m originally from the Alps, so I had experience with snow, ice, and skiing before immigrating to Norway. However, I do not have the same balance and skills as the average Norwegian regarding Nordic skiing or moving on ice.

Without spikes, I walk on ice like a penguin and I struggle. I have no shame about using spikes, it’s magic and also a lot safer.
I literally could buy computers without windows in the 90-s. Probably 2 or 3 of them. And you could always build your rig from scratch - and no windows then.
I don't. And I don't actually know many people with iPhones apart from my parents who've been buying everything Apple releases since the nineties.

There seems to be a big difference between the US and the EU here.

(FWIW, I love MacBooks, but in my opinion iOS is just subpar.)
Apple isn’t forced to do business here, I much rather have large corporations that engage in rent seeking behaviour paying the costs.
If I were in Apple's shoes, I would have taken another tack...

'Your iPhone is currently in Apple-only mode. To allow installation of apps not reviewed by Apple, you must disable this mode. Doing so requires a device reset and some apps may only function in Apple only mode'.
Firefox’s Strict Tracking Protection blocks more ads than Edge’s ABP.
For me it was sleep apnea. It was undiagnosed and I have lived most of my life basically exhausted.

Once I was diagnosed, thanks to a CPAP recall/shortage during the pandemic I couldn’t get a CPAP machine so used a custom fit oral appliance which took a few days to get used to, but once I did I woke up one day, having done nothing very different from any other day, feeling fresher than I can ever remember feeling.

It was fascinating to realize that I had basically lived my entire adult life of over 2 decades in a half asleep stupor.
Was the singular focus on the Wright Brothers' contributions to flight and ingenuity a fair one?

I had thought there was some shift in the Wright Brothers' attribution to flight in general.

It seemed like better recognition of the contributions by Samuel Langley and Glenn Curtiss' to flight technology were along with acknowledgement of the WB's own efforts to boost their legacy might have checked a decision to keep pouring on the WB-were-the-ones narrative.
The L is an orthogonalist conspiracy theory. There's no right angles in the knight's movement, wake up sheeple!

https://twitter.com/graycrawford/status/1750248031784763639
they're not ignorant, they're rich. _they dont need to discern a difference, money is all they need._
> Presumably Exodus also have a sandbox escape that didn't get burned so they didn't include it in the writeup.

I certainly hope not. I know these zero day exploits tend to be used almost exclusively against high profile politicians and journalists, but the threat still tempts me to just disable the JIT altogether (and maybe WASM too).
This is the correct take. Well said.
This sleep thing is so intriguing. I've treated sleep as somewhat optional - try to get 8h... but if I don't, I'll make it up later at $unspecified_date. Unsurprisingly, my Fitbit registered that, for 2023, I got 6.5h of average sleep per night. Your post suggests that making 8-9 hours per night mandatory might do some good; I'm going to give this a go. Thanks!
This is the voting system used since 2017 in the Hugo Awards.

Some folks might be interested in Bruce Schneier's analysis:

https://www.schneier.com/academic/archives/2016/05/a_proport...
But you can, e.g. you allow GPT to call functions to store embeddings that it can later retrieve for the memory. Meanwhile default context memory window is just recent info more detailed and historical info gets more and more summarized, possibly summarized by GPT itself.
It's a really vicious cycle. Right before the pandemic, I had a decent routine up, was down about 40lbs.. still big, shut down...then the pandemic, everything shut down (including my gym, permanently). About a year later for no real reason any doctor has been able to really explain beyond "well, you're diabetic and have unfortunate bone structure" I developed pressure ulcers on the bottom of both feet nearly simultaneously, in roughly the same (mirror imaged) spot. The second broke out just as the first was starting to heal in earnest. Basically spent June 2022-March 2023 on near bed-rest as that was the only way to actually get them to heal. They've both since healed, but my feet are never really gonna be the same again, plus there's nerve damage etc that basically means I don't have a ton of sensation down there anymore. Which is a long way of saying... you know how in TV commercials for gyms and the like it always says "consult your doctor before starting any exercise routine"... that's my actual life.
Devcontainers are amazing for getting a consistent environment set up on multiple computers on multiple operating systems. I was in this situation recently with a new colleague who was using a very locked-down Windows computer, and it was really convenient for the "you must install" list to be Docker and VSCode only. It's definitely not ideal - it adds overhead on Windows and Mac, there's occasional networking issues, and I don't have all the creature comforts of my usual shell - but it's very convenient for what it is.

Similarly, editing code in-place over SSH rather than rsyncing back and forwards is very useful for certain types of embedded development. I worked for a while on sensor systems where a lot of the logic was handled by a Python webserver that couldn't really run without access to the sensor data it was using. Developing entirely locally was therefore difficult, but developing on the machine was also painful because it didn't have the right tools. So we'd work locally, and then copy the Python files over every so often and restart the server. At the time, I don't think VSCode's remote stuff was working as well, but I believe now it's a lot better and could have handled that situation well - edit everything in-place, run it immediately, but still have the power of you local development machine available to you.
An App is not just code, it is an entity within the OS with permission system, metadata etc all attached to it.

A JIT compiler is not above the App’s sandbox permissions.
I'm curious if anyone knows what happened to Rio Tinto's lithium extraction project from their Boron, CA mines [1]. They finished a demonstration years ago that extracted lithium from the brine waste from borax mining but I haven't heard anything about it since.

Even if they couldn't make it economically feasible I figured they'd at least use the same technology/setup for Salton Sea lithium mining.

[1] https://www.riotinto.com/news/releases/2021/Rio-Tinto-achiev...
Yes. The calculator shows a monthly amount assuming you get your annual-user-device-install spread evenly over the year. It should be showing the annual cost as the total and as a convenience show the average monthly cost.
> Don't be afraid of US companies and their bully tactics

You might disagree with Apple's move, but all the EU has is power. Apple provides value, from which it derives money. The EU is combatting it not with an environment that allows competitors to arise. It's combatting value with power.
The samples are meant to survive the vacuum of space but can't handle some weather? That seems unlikely.
Luckily laws in the EU are mostly enforced by the intention of the law, not the exact wording.

Therefore I'm fairly confident that they will be found noncompliant. That might take many years though, allowing Apple a few more years profits.
Thank god for the Internet archive, hit that donate button while you're there and hope it never goes away.
I don't follow. Assuming you're talking BLAS/LAPACK (libflame is the LAPACK equivalent using BLIS) I don't see why the implementation matters, and if you're dependent on MKL for some reason you can't run on some of the biggest and best HPC systems amongst others. You can expect BLAS and LAPACK implementations to be ABI-compatible (via a common Fortran 77 ABI), so even choosing at run time is an LD_PRELOAD away. Better, it's an ldconfig, alternatives, or LD_LIBRARY_PATH away with a sensible policy like Debian's. AMD was competitive with Opteron and Bulldozer for us long ago, if not their BLAS (done by NAG?).
Use websites.
A future in which Google degrades further because intelligent people are using Kagi et al. and Google's feedback loops further degrade their own product is a future I want to live in.

Eventually, superior products win.

That's how Google beat Yahoo.
How I Hacked Chess.com
This was one of my favorite security research findings and I decided to write my first ever blog post on it. Would love to hear everyones thoughts and any constructive criticism on it!
This style of formatting makes more sense when queries become larger. It's also quite good when you want to have readable diffs to review when queries change.
Apple needs to have two versions of iOS, & sell their phones with a choice for users. One phone is iOS as is, with perhaps even more security baked-in. The other is open, Wild West like so many here are demanding. The kicker is that the version on the phone cannot be changed to the other: the Wild West phone has to be regarded as compromised from the start, & Apple can easily market it that way. "They're both the same great phone. But you can only trust one of them." Let the market decide. I'm pretty sure which way consumers would decide, a direction which would in no way please the state actors looking to get a toehold on the data in every iPhone. [Edited typo]
> I'll disclose one long enough ago: HostGator

I was offered a job by them long enough ago, too. When I tried to negotiate a salary I was ghosted by H.R. Looks like I dodged a bullet though!
Thanks for digging in. I would certainly be interested to see the extra granularity next year as offered by Gracie Gregory in that thread.
.cptsd ?
> and the idea that the Internet would bring us all closer together.

Well that part happened! I'm so much more connected to people and knowledge than I was in the 90's.

But I don't remember any optimism that companies would become less greedy. Google's "don't be evil" was an idiosyncrasy -- literally the only company saying something like that, because they were raking in cash and could afford to (until they couldn't afford to anymore). It wasn't a trend.
And what about forking the application ? Kid school France, kid school Germany, ... just having app staying under the 1M radar.
My only hope is that some of the Apple fans start to see through the thick veil of PR bs and realize Apple is just as bad (if not worse) than the other tech assholes / technofeudal lordship wannabes of Microsoft, Google et al.
It was too late to repel them. The chairs were rife with brown-widow nests.

Anyway, now I just blast these areas with a hose from time to time. Individual spiders I will relocate if they're in an area where people are likely to sit.

There's a tiny baby spider roosting in my oven hood right now. The two last evenings he has descended on a web to look around. I considered putting him outside, but it's too cold so I just let him return to his hiding place.
I look forward to having 6 different app stores and launchers installed mostly apps I open once a month.
> I was referring to the internal logic

That's the problem. I think the first question is interesting (and a fundamental theological question - similar to why does God make people 'harden their hearts' and do evil at times), it's applying the Bible to the outside world.

The second question just seems purely internal - how does that affect our external reality?
Courts in EU and US have all agreed that Apple is well within its rights to charge a license fee for use of their technologies. No different to companies like Epic or OpenAI.

And I would have doubts that any regulator would want to get into the business of deciding what is a fair percentage to charge for an SDk or API.
how does this compare with PCA?
HP CEO: "Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription." - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39119807 - Jan 2024 (93 comments)

HP's CEO spells it out: You're a 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39087776 - Jan 2024 (62 comments)

HP's CEO spells it out: You're a 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39060793 - Jan 2024 (157 comments)
Right I agree, the new model does seem quite punitive especially if you don't have an existing business model.

Imagine a new developer publishes a free app without a plan for monetization, and then it goes viral. They would be on the hook for thousands of dollars.

Unless they have a reason to switch most new apps will likely stick to the old model
> In fact, this new default will be used for any profile which does not enable `debuginfo` anywhere in its dependency chain, not just for the release profile.

won't this destroy stack trace support?
I know the Android vs. iOS conversion rates first hand for many years. Working for a large US fashion company that had >50% of transactions online, the conversion rates for Android were comically low.

I have a feeling there will be a similar split with iOS users who are installing 3rd party app stores vs. iOS users who choose to stay locked in
I quite like Apple hardware -- and indeed I'm typing this on a (second-hand) Macbook. I'd prefer not to have to use their software though, thank you very much. The good news is that Firefox works on pretty much everything that's not an iPhone or iPad.
AI Is Already Better Than You
Before only "dumb" people gets fallen into the trap. Its like getting scammed by a Nigerian "prince" scam. Now its much harder to tell apart fake and real. Pictures and videos can be AI generated so potentially you could be sold on an event that didn't happen. Or you can be convinced a real event was fake. It would be much easier to assume all footage of 9/11 was AI generated and fake because its unfathomable to think 2 planes actually flew into those buildings.
There's also the issue that it was taking something that was supposed to just be a fun recreation, applying a score mechanic, applying competitive sport pressure, applying money rewards for certain results, and destitution for others, applying nationalism pressure, and then saying it needs to be "artistic." Except now they're mostly trying to skate "correct" for national glory and endorsements.
Yes.

Apart from getting things cheaper, there are multiple reasons from country to country (people prefer to not share private data, generic dislike for big tech, pirate party)
Webhooks are now generally available
Sure, and most people do. However, for the rest of us, a printer is pretty important.
Apple made it clear that they will not revoke apps for the content they provide only if they are used for malware or viruses.

Given that they have not behaved similar with macOS we should assume the same here.
yeah someone else once said this to me but it doesn't make sense for me to put money into industries I know nothing about
Yes, but the more important point is that you are forced into a position of compromise. The only options are for you to accept their malware, or for you to not participate. There is no practical way to convince them to remove their malware requirement.
For a marketplace to install an app they call the MarketplaceKit installApp() api. Apple can track this as it 1) then points to a url of the marketplace storage 2) the item is notarized and contains thus developer id that needs to pay
> Kinda short sighted.

What do you think is more likely, that an App Store developer doesn't understand the App Store, or that the remark was sarcasm?

> for example if you forget to cancel, apple will refund you

LOL no they will not.

> Free apps (your 15-30% is being used by Apple to subsidize free apps)

I'm painfully aware of this. For some reason, little indie developers are tasked with subsidizing corporations that make $billions per year in advertising revenue.