skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this were true, it probably applies to both GPLv2 and v3, since they both require installation instructions.

v3 adds an additional requirement that if you mere-aggregate GPL software and other software, and put the aggregate into a consumer product, you can't disable the other software because the GPL software was modified. I don't believe this would apply in the situation that these shims are intended for - i.e. installing an OS onto a desktop machine, as those are supposed to allow you to enroll new Secure Boot keys anyway.

I also don't understand why a signature from Microsoft would actually trip any of the above-mentioned requirements. Microsoft is not distributing the software, they're just signing it - i.e. distributing a message saying "this shim with this hash can run". That's not a copyright violation, so the GPL doesn't come into play at all.

Perhaps there's something else Microsoft does with their signatures that might trip GPL...
You are advocating for an indirect choice, I have no benefit to installing Epic Game store, rockstar, or any other launcher. None, it just isn't there.

Where as my direct choice is, I want to play this game. If I want to play a specific game, the choice of launcher is being made for me.

That is not competition.

I should not have to make that choice, and until this roles out I have not had to make this choice with my phone. I have been able to confidently install anything I want from a single source and it's great.

That choice will be removed from me, that DIRECT choice. Not indirect which is what the App Store change will be.
Ask HN: How do you launch a market with zero users?
I'm in the early stages of starting a website whose main feature is a marketplace for a specific service. In order for this website to be successful useful it requires users on the sides of the market (clients and service providers).

What are some good strategies to have a successful launch? The website obviously doesn't need hundreds of users on day 0, but in order for it to be useful for either party there needs to be at least a handful of users on both sides of the market.

For context: the service provided is a skilled trade and the service can only be done if there is material provided by clients. It's similar to picture framing in a sense.
Why did she believe that? I like to believe are politicians aren’t completely insane so what pseudo/bad whatever studies led her to believe vaccines cause mental retardation?
Thanks! I don't rely on just the connector, though; that curved piece of plastic against the back of the phone supports most of its weight.

I have to swap the 30-pin cord out for a Lightning connector. I have Apple's 30-pin-to-Lightning adapter, which is the only decent solution to their idiotic removal of the headphone jack because it restores the audio line out and power in at the same time.

It's academic at the moment because I have to pull the engine out of the car to replace the heads; a bunch of Ford engines had a defect where they blow spark plugs out, destroying the hole in the cylinder head.
Rebuild. You should setup your system are arbitrary number of embeddings for a given piece of text. In production that may mean just one, or maybe two while rebuilding.
If I run an alt app store, why the hell would I give apple a single penny? What are they gunna do, pull my store from their store?
Same, I guess taking a sip out of that cup will be funny, but otherwise it looks really cool.
As someone who has tried to get the non-VAT US prices - you need a credit card issued in the country you claim you’re from before downloading any apps.
I get the sentiment, but personally I can easily imagine myself writing an autocompleter that would work fine with select before from. (I don't write much sql so I don't)

Just to clarify, my point is that when we do write sql most of us start by writing the from part, and even if we didn't I can just offer all columns from all tables I know about with some heuristic for their order when autocompleting in the select part.
Show HN: Discovering the Curse of the Hidden iOS Profile
Hey HN Community,

I've run into a little snafu that I'm trying to iron out and I thought I would share my journey with the community here.

Quick rundown: I recently traveled to Japan, and I opted for a local carrier, CMLink Japan, to save on exorbitant roaming fees. When I tried to install CMLink’s APN config file, I was met with this error: https://imgur.com/a/rqrz4HM; despite having no other profile files installed (there’s nothing in ‘VPN & Device Management’)! After a two hour call with Apple Support (Case Number 20000087197140), and many Google searches, I believe I located the source of the issue: a leftover APN setting from Vodafone UK's mobileconfig file that somehow messed up my phone's settings.

See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/roexfw/remove_carrier_settings/; https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254089964?sortBy=best

In case you're wondering, yes, I've contacted Vodafone UK. Their reps insisted that "Vodafone doesn't and can't change your phone settings", despite the fact that a download link for the config file is sent as a standard text message upon service activation:

“To get your data up and running simply connect to a Wi-Fi network and download your settings at https://vdms-prd.sp.vodafone.com/iPhoneConfig/UK/P/XXXXXX If you need to remove an existing profile, head to Settings>General>Profiles and delete it by tapping ‘Remove Profile’ before visiting the URL above.”

So, what do we have here? Vodafone sends a config file upon signing up for a new service, which can corrupt core iOS functionality while being unseen, even after you remove their SIM card. This looks awfully like a virus to me; not exactly consistent with all Apple's talk about security.

I'm throwing this issue into the ring here at Hacker News. What are your thoughts, and is anyone else experiencing a similar situation?
They sure love toilets on Dragon's Den (the 'inventors' anyway).
Sure, Blame the Compliance Consultant
I'm not sure HTTPS is an option for this as it requires accurate time/date for encryption. Maybe the RTC could be valid, but I'm not sure it handles different time zones well and it might have lost time anyways.
How is it a competitive disadvantage when even regular App Store free apps also have to pay the fee?

Oh I see: it seems like you only pay the fee if you choose to distribute outside the App Store.
Had a genuine chuckle
Same people that thinks they can build an Uber/Lyft/Instagram competitor by themselves over the weekend.
I though Cgroup originated from google employed engineers

It’s a shame openVz pioneered container, yet docker ate their lunch
Not likely. I haven't had YouTube installed on my device in 18 months (mostly because of Google's insistence on using it as an authentication verifier).

I don't miss it.
Intel (Fairchild) has the following in their biography:

> By the end of the 1970s they had few new products in the pipeline, and increasingly turned to niche markets with their existing product line, notably "hardened" integrated circuits for military
I’ve been through a few of these cycles and they’re usually good for clearing out the industry of average engineers. It will pass and anyone that’s any good will be fine.
I live in the Canadian Prairies, run outdoors year round. One thing I've experienced a few times is my contact lenses feeling much more rigid, which I've attributed to them starting to freeze up in extreme situations. Typically near the end of longer, 3+ hour runs where I'd be facing the wind and moving slower. Temps lower than -25 celsius and a 10 km/h wind cools things down fast.
Sometimes I feel like people don’t have real opinions any more, just carefully engineered, flexible / shifty, safe, ingroup-signaling, one-uppy, cloutchasing hot takes and meme positions.
Can anyone explain? ;
> No, the permissively-licensed shim compromise was the right choice.

Why? Why on earth?

IF Lenovo wanted to really ship a GPLv3 bootloader, all it imposes on Lenovo is they ship a method to install your own bootloader keys. Do you really disagree with that?

Lenovo has already shipped hardware which requires magical incantations to install anything other than Windows (see Secured Core hardware). Why on earth anyone shipping FLOSS software would drop their pants to allow precisely this shitshow is over me.
I agree it should be more broadly recognized as not being only for women but cervical cancer causes something like 340k deaths vs. the other ones being 1-2 orders of magnitude lower so it’s not surprising that attention has been focused there.

https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/caac...
Maybe a slightly more generous take isn't that humans are random, but their value systems have some sort of distribution. I'm unfamiliar with gymnastics scoring, but judges may have different perspectives on what matters most if you take a sport like boxing that applies subjective scoring. One judge may value footwork and the jab more, while another weights power punches more, while another is swayed by seeing a competitor who is bloodier by the end of the fight despite having a more technically proficient fight.
> We don't put the consequences of bad security practices on the people who could have taken better precautions because they're "the victim" even though they're also the only person who could have prevented it. So instead we move the cost to the merchant via the credit card companies etc., or some other intermediary whose fault it was not.

Eeeeeehhhhhhhhhhh waves hand The fact that tons and tons of what constitutes the backend of modern finance tech is the exact same shit that was originally built in the 70's is not something that I think can be overlooked so easily. A lot of what constitutes that ecosystem is just, practically allergic to security.

Your social security number (if you're American) for example is basically a unified ID number that corresponds to everything from your medical records to your credit report to bank accounts to insurance, on and on, and accessing information with that number is nearly completely insecure. If someone gets ahold of yours and your basic public info, they can turn your life upside-down in such a way that will take hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars to resolve. And it would be like, trivial to lock that behind some sort of MFA situation with a state-centralized solution.

The entire ecosystem around EFTs is just incredibly needlessly bloated and slow. I understand why they were slow when I was born, right? But we have advanced so much since then and yet EFTs despite just being like... digital checks remain basically inaccessible to working class people, despite them being objectively useful and, again, literally just checks in a different form. And their difficulty in use and desire for people to use something like them has given birth in turn to entire new financial products and services, many of which are pretty scammy in their own right, and subject to their own risks of abuse with even less overall security since most are tech companies and not insured with the FDIC.

That's not to say that people shouldn't be security conscious, of course they should be. But that requires education on how to be that, and frankly I don't think it's unreasonable to say that the finance sector could, itself, make being security conscious quite a bit easier without dinging their own profits too badly.
Yeah, it's exactly what you would expect someone like Card to write, but if you go into it knowing the views of its author, it almost becomes like a parody of his politics and becomes quite an enjoyable read on "I wonder how many crazy reasons he's going to bring up why Columbus was actually a hero".
Can anybody explain: do the possibilities of alternate distribution modes and fees (optionally) apply to all developers worldwide or only to EU based developers? I.e. is it developer based or App based?

And furthermore, I - as an EU based developer - have an App that is currently distributed worldwide. After agreeing to the alternate fees, they are only applied to the portion of sales from EU customers. Customers in the rest of the world are handled with the standard fees?
I was quite thrown to see DRM, but then thankful to find out it actually meant “Direct Rendering Manager”!
Here in Ontario the vaccine is given by default to everyone, male or female.
It's incredibly charitable of you to assume this was based on some sort of good-faith investigation of reputable medical research on her part.
>Infertility? Woe is me!

Even if this was the only issue cervical cancer potentially caused (it’s not, you forgot death, among others), this is a really insensitive comment.

Awareness of other cancers doesn’t need to come at the cost of reducing cervical cancer awareness. Seems like a really immature thing to have a pet peeve about.
A Berlin court ruled that DNT counts as an opt out. Linkedin was the defendant that lost, but it is a precedent. There are also talks of outright banning targeted advertising in its entirety and only allowing other forms such as contextual ads.
Typically, when I see that it's an indication that the distribution is non-normal. And for anything resembling "count" data (e.g., number of dollars, parts per million, whatever), it's pretty much guaranteed that it will be positively skewed -- because you have a hard lower limit (0) but no upper limit.

That said, I have no expertise with the field of, uhh, toiletology, to know whether they handled this data appropriately or not.

Edit: Sorry, just to add that typically with non-normal data like that, my inclination would be to report the median (which will be less affected by skew than the mean), and perhaps the interquartile distance (difference between the 25th and 75th percentile) rather than SD. But most statistical models are still designed around means and SDs, so you may still be inclined to report means and SDs since that's what you statistically tested for differences.
Another example: It used to be that telecom companies used to milk cross country calls and data within the EU. The competition to provide cheap calls between countries was basically not working. So EU made it a requirement that you should not pay any extra at all for international calls between EU countries, and whatever data package you bought at home works everywhere within the EU with no extra charges.
cheaper prices -> more usage -> larger batch sizes / better gpu utilization -> lower cost of service
Same technique as for mixed password hashing, you store the embedding model name and encode and search per each model stored, until the multiple embedding cost at search time become larger than embedding the old data again in the new for. At
To my knowledge, they aren't the ones signing the software. Microsoft runs a UEFI CA and just bless the developer's sub-CA. The developer is fully in control of their own CA and could sign whatever they want.
It's for people who rely heavily on their computer. If something is broken, you want it to be fixed asap. The best way to achieve this is if you can DIY. It's also a good long-term investment, because you can upgrade the hardware.

> or people who can't afford to buy an entirely new laptop every three years?

A laptop should really be useful for longer than 3 years.
The Performance and Power Efficiency of AMD Zen 1 vs. Zen 4C
For the benefit of HN readers who are not familiar with the Hugos, this is bullshit. Until this year, there has been no suggestion that the votes or their counting has been manipulated by the organisers.

There have been sort of political or social tussles over the awards, in the "Puppies" era, in particular, with organised slate voting by one faction, and then changes to the voting process by the other. But all of that happened in full compliance with the rules, and the rules for changing the rules. It's not comparable to what seems to have happened this year.
What is the point of moralizing?

Because the guy is framing his discouragement as "coming from a place of love" when in reality it takes roughly 2-3 weeks to go from zero-to-[LLC accepting payments on Stripe]. Which means it's really not that "fucking hard" at all to start small and begin the search for paying customers.

I've been on this board for 17 years back when it was originally called "Startup News" and full of new-company founders, sold 2 small SW apps back in 2009, and have also done the F100 corporate adventure. The emotional challenges of starting your own company can be easier than the 9-5.
You're absolutely right; parsing PDFs can be a real headache due to their inherent complexity. The format itself can vary in structure, layout, and embedded components, making it difficult to extract and compare information consistently. Even with robust tools like PDFC, edge cases can always emerge, requiring further refinements.
Tea with salt? American scientist's "outrageous proposal"
Samsung advertising new phone in my notifications
My Brother laser must be approaching 10 years, and so from my experience I would completely recommend them.

However if they are really turning HP I could never recommend with a good conscious.

This is conflicting.
i haven't needed to own a printer for decades. the rare cases where i did need a printer, i could go to a printshop. happens once a year at the most.
If there's one feature I don't want my toilet to have, its an app.
SIMD call in SBCL is explicit, which I personally like. In NumPy, as a counter example, it just happens. It is just a method of talking to the processor to take advantage of parallelization. Java will also have it soon: https://download.java.net/java/early_access/loom/docs/api/jd...
Have a look at newspapers from 100 years ago [1]. Look at pamphlets from the 16th century [2]. It has been way worse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripley%27s_Believe_It_or_Not!

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamphlet_wars
Glad it’s not just me who finds it funny!!
In my time that was called ‘ I wrote a 4k intro’
> I'm sorry that the gender and ethnicity of the author appears to be an issue for you.

Parent didn't say that it was an issue. He called it 'woke'.
GCP sometimes shuts down their own services while still supporting them for a few years while encouraging their customers to switch to partner products.

One such example is the human-in-the-loop feature of document ai.
If they publish through the App Store they pay nothing though (for a free app), so won’t this just mean free apps stick to the Apple App Store and apps over the break even price (€0.50/30% commission in the App Store) go to side loading?
> WebKit doesn't support extensions

Just to correct the common misconception. It is browser vendors that need to build web extension API support on top of WebKit. Orion browser [1] did this both for macOS and iOS . The support is still in beta and improving with each new release. iOS support remains limited to what is possible to achieve with a JS wrapper. Nothing prevents Firefox from doing the same and offer at least partial web extension support on iOS.

[1] https://kagi.com/orion
After all the media coverage that 9/11 and Flight 93 got...I suspect that "give me the controls or else!" would not be a workable plan.
You can set the context as narrow as you want (e.g., abstract reasoning specifically defines intelligence). That might make your ontology feel crisp, but it also doesn't make it correct; it's still arbitrary and a matter of convention.
Before the COVID vaccine skeptics, this one was a common drum that anti-vaxxers were beating on.
It's digital performance art.
But if you close to flush when standing next to it, it would definitely stop aerosols from flying into you.

This study is not saying anything new because everyone knows the toilet seat is dirty regardless what you do, while everyone’s concern is aerosols flying on their faces.
Well. It's still $0 USD if you distribute via the App Store.
The Stone Sky, the third book, is a joint Hugo and Nebula winner.
Would it be possible to create multiple separate apps each having max 1M users?
This Firefox1 app would host first million, then be removed from store but still provide updates. It would be replaced by Firefox2 app. And so?

Is there some clause in the contracts that says apps from same source will count as single app, no matter how many times they are uploaded as separate app?
The awards went to those books because people voted for them. They may or may not have voted based on the books' quality, and they may evaluate quality differently to you. But that is how voting works.

To put it another way, yes, the Hugos often recognise shit work, and have done for decades, but they do so fairly.
Does it make sense to get a vaccine for older ppl, like 30y, does this still apply for men?
As Winston said, "If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say.": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFX4fmldZFs
Ex-sheriff's deputy behind SF jail 'fight club' scandal to be rehired
What exactly is "slate voting" or "slating" in this context? I can find this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_(elections) but it does not seem to apply directly.
> That is the situation we are looking at here, that to use the apps I want to use I have to use those stores. Which is ridiculous, and it is naive to think it isn't going to happen when it is the state of gaming right now.

Consider the alternative where the only place to install apps (and hence games) is the Windows Store. Would that really be better? Windows Store's update process is lot worse than Steam (flaky download status, no way to make backups etc), and in many cases Steam has better integration with local payment processors.
From my experience of Oracle `FROM DUAL;` projection would give you on a coin flip either an empty table or a stacktrace error from some Java library.
Maybe Microsoft just doesn’t want to sign a GPL bootloader and so they had their lawyers come up with nebulous concerns as a fig leaf. Microsoft <3 Open Source after all, can’t be seen as reluctant for business reasons.
You'll still have the choice to just use Safari and Apple AppStore products, so nothing is changing for you as a consumer. But other consumers will now have more choices. So why is that a problem for you?

Btw, Apple is not "just one of the players". Them and Google completely control the mobile computing software market. Both them and Google are now required to stop abusing their position.
That's if you plan to pay. You can download free apps without a credit card. I changed my app store country from Russia to the US this way because I got fed up with some free apps being unavailable because reasons.

But even if you do want to pay for things, I suppose you can make a second account for the desired country, activate your iPhone and set up alternative app stores with that, and then log into your real one.
It goes much further than that, and insinuates that one ought to manually disinfect all surfaces in the bathroom after flushing the toilet.
I love Apple, and I'm frankly shocked that they would put out this statement in its current form. In the opening paras, their barely-contained rage is palpable, and sentences like

> Today, iOS users already have the ability to set a third-party web browser — other than Safari — as their default.

make me wonder if anyone proof-read this thing at all. That said, this is a good day for EU users, and I applaud everyone who worked so hard to make this happen.

The notarization requirement seems quite reasonable, and honestly better than I expected.
Oh dear. Reminds me of when a programmed a batch job processor in Groovy for Jenkins to run a build in parallell. Got it down from 26h to 2h on 14 machines.

I guess that is the point of this divide and conquer example. I did a linear and randomized division to keep it simple ...
> they were complaining about it having been abandoned.

I was specifically not. I was complaining that the same will inevitably happen to Prompt 3 - which costs 10x as much.