skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
App Center – The Web-Based App Store
Here in the US at least we have the concept of "fiscal sponsorship" in the non-profit space. A registered non-profit organization acts as sponsor for smaller groups and projects. The activities still have to be compliant, but the small groups don't have to go through the expense of setting up a free-standing organization. The Linux Foundation does this for quite a few open source software projects, for example. This is likely a good model for open source apps in this situation.
It's not unreasonable to say that once they can, Google will issue an update to Chrome that replaces the WebKit version with the Blink version wholesale.

That whole group applies (as far as I can tell) only to EU users.

I don't use Chrome (Brave - I know, it's still Chromium) but every chance they get Google tries to get me to switch to Chrome proper.
You might want to let Jonny Ive know his design org never made a difference lol

Apple was in shambles before the iPod/iPhone. You think the iPhone succeeded because of marketing? You don’t think the fact that they made multi-touch displays easy to use was relevant to their success?

Apple products are so desired that people get resentful when they can’t afford them. Then they post moronic takes on HN from their Samsungs
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Great comment. Welcome to HN!
Thanks. I don’t deny that the commissioner sent a letter but I doubted the existence of the secret (“Made for iphone”) plans that prompted it.
Male historians explain things to me
They talked about why they don't think it will fly anymore in the media briefing:

- Ingenuity is balanced down to fractions of a gram, and any imbalance, especially at the speed that Ingenuity spins its rotor at, will cause the spacecraft to tear itself apart.

- Most of the lift comes from the last 25 - 30% of its lift capacity. They think they lost about 25% of the rotor blade, and even if somehow the other blades lost the exact same amount to be completely balanced, there's just not enough lift left.
If you find commit messages useless, it's because you're making them useless.

It seems like the workflow where you get 20 "stuff" commits in a PR is to: git commit -am "stuff", test it, see that it doesn't work, make another change, hit up then enter on the shell window, test it, and so on.

If this is how you prefer to develop then I think testing first and squashing along the way might be better:

- initial change, test, worked? git add <files>, git commit -m "meaningful summary\n\n- meaningful note"

- small change: test, didn't work, git reset --hard

- another attempt: test, worked, git add, git add <files>, git commit --amend (new meaningful note)

If the steps you're taking to get to the end are meaningful or significant (maybe for a bisect in the future) then just commit with a meaningful message along the way.

More generally, I think it's more common create commit messages for "me", the writer, and not for the reader. Try instead writing commit messages (comments, documentation..) for an audience who doesn't have the context you have. For example: Nathan in 7 (or 2) years time who is tracking down the reason for a change you made which he suspects is the cause of a bug he's trying to fix.
Wi-Fi Alliance: Fixed management frame deauth in WPA3.

Also Wi-Fi Alliance: Refactored(-ish) deauth to unprotected power-save bit.
Am I sure I can taste the difference between beans of different origins? Absolutely. I'm confident you can too.
Oh man, you just reminded me I have this book somewhere:

Web Design Annual 1999: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/4766110781

it is amazing

edit: oh crap, it's available on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/webdesignannual100webd
> * I shouldn't have to care where the certificates are stored. Just load the os default ones without asking me.

> * I shouldn't have to know what a pem is, and I shouldn't have to open() one.

Agreed, but what you're requesting is separate from the work being discussed in this blog post, and both are actually compatible.

For the PHP community, we made Certainty - https://github.com/paragonie/certainty

You can just...

<?php
use ParagonIE\Certainty\RemoteFetch;
// cURL boilerplate
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, true);

// Fetch the latest CACert bundle, verify its authenticity, save it locally
$fetcher = new RemoteFetch('/path/to/certainty/data');
$latestCACertBundle = $fetcher->getLatestBundle();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CAINFO, $latestCACertBundle->getFilePath());

Writing a Python client should be relatively straightforward, should anyone want to.

For Python specifically, there may be some value in storing the relevant PEM files into something like SigStore. That could be an easier proposal for the PyCA team to consider.
> That seems to work. But not sure if it's more restrictive for certain types of actions, like network requests.

Yes, yes it is. This is the problem. If you want to automate something based on received text messages, you cannot.
On the other hand, antitrust lawsuits have been extremely effective historically at changing company behaviour. See MSFT.
>you're actively dragging your heels on the technologies that companies are hiring for.

because only AI, cloud, and startups are hiring? What a weird interpretation to make of someone based off of a comment history on the internet. We don't even know what domain they work in.
Those built-in ADCs are notoriously suboptimal in many ways -- but for nonprecision applications, they're just fine.

When I'm making something that requires precision, though, I never use them and go with a dedicated ADC instead.
Thanks for the feedback. I thought about colorblindness and figured it wouldn't matter since the important part is the brightness, not the hue. Is that not the case? But anyway that said I'm now kicking myself for not realizing that that doesn't help with differentiating the green for correct... any ideas on how to address this?
The consciousness research community absolutely cannot agree on a clear, principled line to draw between behaviours definitively associated with consciousness and those that are not indicative of consciousness. Candidate behaviours range from anything between verbal indications of self-awareness on the high end (only possible by humans already around a year old) through to any sign of environmental awareness on the low end (demonstrable even by bacteria).

Think it should rely on having brains? Well, jellyfish have neurons but not brains, so do they count? But hold on, even fungi have action potentials in their cells. Or on the other end of things, humans can clearly perform some complicated behaviours unconsciously, such as 'blind' people being able to see (google 'blindsight').

The hard problem of consciousness isn't going to be solved or dissolved by experimental science, because it's fundamentally a philosophical problem to be resolved through first-principles. Science can give hints, but that's all. See https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niab001 for a proof of that statement.
So when do I get to set up my own furniture stores in Ikea (HQ: Stockholm, Sweden, European Union) or have my own bakery inside a Carrefour (HQ: Paris, France, European Union)?
EU regulators are civil servants, and in the EU at least this makes them nominally non political, so campaign donations won't work.

But you can always offer to look after them when they retire. Give them a nice non-exec role, or perhaps make them vice‑president of global affairs and communications....

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Clegg
This is awesome - thanks for building this guys. Any plans to maintain or improve it? Guessing not if you're focused on your main business? Any plans to open source it?
To be clear, that is sarcastic.
> So what is the desired outcome? Use Apple’s IP for free?

Can I publish an application that does not use Apple IP, let’s say something written in ARM assembler?

If not, then this argument about Apple IP is in bad faith, and not the real reason for anything.
My take? This whole situation is like a game of 4D chess where everyone's trying to be the smartest in the room. Apple's playing the long game, the EU's laying down the law, and the rest of us are just here munching popcorn, watching the drama unfold. It's like, "Oh, you're gonna charge for that? Cool, cool, cool, but remember, there's always a bigger fish." And let's not forget, in the end, it's usually us, the consumers, who end up footing the bill, one way or another. So grab your popcorn, folks, and let's see how this corporate soap opera plays out!
Chess players do, yet experience of basically any non-player I have ever heard describing it as "one straight, one diagonal" tells me otherwise. Also "moving two and then one" is ambiguous and would allow moving 3 squares into the same direction.
But it’s like a deal with a devil, just instead of selling your soul, you would be giving away a lot of tears. Frequently. In large quantities.
Yeah, the non-profit organization requirement is insurance for Apple that you aren't making money off your app some other way. Yeah, it's inconvenient for people who legitimately want to give stuff away for fun, but it isn't an insurmountable obstacle.
if you have the finances already to support a startup. The big issue in downturns is that VC money also dries up and hunkers down.
Until then, there's SSH port forwarding.
> So what is the desired outcome? Use Apple’s IP for free?

Can I publish an application that does not use Apple IP, let’s say something written in ARM assembler? Or am I forced to use Apple IP?

I can publish on windows without using Microsoft IP, I can publish on android without using google IP, right?

If not, then this argument about Apple IP is in bad faith, and not the real reason for anything.
How could the network effect reasonably not occur for any decently popular [socially-inclined] service? Whether or not the company does anything to encourage it, with enough users it happens regardless.

Sure, it enables it. Without it, you probably haven't got enough users to survive anyway.

So, the choice is on the company. Money breeds bullshit and companies want money, so they leverage their leverage, which happens to be their users. Then the shit just gets worse.

TXitter is "living" proof that people don't give a shit as long as they can get their endorphins from likes. So, to some extent it's also people feeding on the validation that likes from strangers gives them and not even people they know or care about.

I'm not sure that even without corporate greed the network effect would not turn toxic.

Picture a perfectly ethical company with 2m users logging in daily and interacting across different planes. The company can do everything it can to preserve its integrity and user rights but the users themselves will enshittify eventually.

People love validation and likes are basically crack. It's changing too with short-form content sucking peoples' lives away 30 seconds at a time. Clickbait is also becoming more nefarious and AI is being leveraged to further worsen it.

IMO, the modern internet is turning into a swamp of fast-validation, instant-grattification, and endless competition for that 0.5s you have to grab a user's eyes. It's all going to shit.

Good luck watching YouTube in any sane capacity without significant effort. Also, good luck using websites that call themselves "for the real web" but morph into Medium, Substack, Reddit, and pretty much anything else.

That's me being jaded I guess. But the internet is falling in a way that most people don't care about. Same as Reddit. Same as Twitter. Nobody gives a shit about integrity as long as they can get their dopamine hits one tap at a time.
You could invert it and make a focus for “I’m expecting a delivery soon”, with a whitelist of delivery/service apps. And with Shortcuts, you could create a script to turn it off after a set amount of time.
Android is not overrun by independent app stores.

This is a non issue.
No. It's probably better to think of the multi-mission MSR "campaign" as being reformulated to be lower cost and complexity.
...you really think the low crime rates in Japan are due to aggressive punishment?

From what I hear, it might have a little bit to do with societal expectations (NOT resulting from fear of imprisonment, btw), underreporting, it being easier to keep things under control than get them under control, and near full employment, among other things.

We have systematically underfunded social programs and evaluated their costs and benefits based on everything but their actual holistic effectiveness. Rehabilitation? Do you have any idea how quaint the idea of real rehabilitation is, at an actual prison?

Sorry, but removing all the bad guys and thus leaving behind only good guys doesn't work. Never has, never will, not least because it's based on incorrect assumptions. (And I don't even disagree that time and effort get wasted on trying to change people who aren't going to change. Especially not with the situation we leave them in.)
That's what I (and the rest of the community) was hoping for, but given that they gutted things like the art teams today... I don't think they're planning on improving anything. If anything, they're making it worse.
I think the preference to squash and rebase instead of merge is because of Github, honestly. It flattens the history out when the history is not flat at all.

If Github's UI showed branches diverging, commits being made to that branch, then the merge back to trunk like gitk does then devs could visually see why it's valuable.
HN audience is much more likely to use complex passwords, that are not reused elsewhere.

So the overall security level is probably still higher than elsewhere with 2FA, etc.
I copy/pasted. The author is up to shenanigans.
>when in reality it takes roughly 2-3 weeks to go from zero-to-[LLC accepting payments on Stripe]

okay, now tell my how long and how much it costs to g from new LLC to self-sustainable. Even some of the most popular startups aren't profitable for years.
This is absolutely not a win by any stretch of the imagination, it's a farce. Every single app will still require Apple's blessings and approval to exist in any app store on iOS.

The moment any app on "f-droid for iOS" does something that Apple disapproves of, they can revoke its notarization and banish its developer from their walled garden.
So a brain is only "intelligent" in certain (but infinite) contexts as opposed to intelligence as an inherent property of a brain?

If so, your definition of "intelligence" is incomplete. What are those contexts? Can you really generalize all of those contexts for all possible intelligence systems? That sounds like an epistemological nightmare.
> I hope someday we can treat AI with the same respect, or more, that we give each other. Society's not there yet though.

Be careful what you wish for.

We barely respect other people.
> So what is the desired outcome? Use Apple’s IP for free?

The desired outcome is for third-party apps and app stores to be able to run on iOS devices for free. Traditionally, building software for consumer operating systems, including Mac OS hasn't been considered using the OS vendor's IP such that it would require permission or payment.
Ask HN: Cryptsetup Luks Security
Luks dmcrypt is unlocked at boot from initrd image and kernel that are not encrypted which means that they are vulnerable to manipulation for anyone that has physical access to the server, is this correct? How to mitigate?
You can put an even stricter limit on it than that - net sales for services is listed as $85B, and they state

> Therefore, the Company accounts for all third-party application–related sales on a net basis by recognizing in Services net sales only the commission it retains.

So the commissions are <=$85B. Given the $1.1T number is from Apple, that implies the average commission rate is <15% (many categories of app excluded from commissions perhaps?).

They list gross margin for services to be $60B but I don't see where they break down net profit with greater granularity or "per division" (the word division does not seem to appear in the 10-K). For example they could make $80B in App Store commission, sell $5B in other services, make $80B in profit from commission, but lose $20B on other services, and that would still be consistent with the numbers in the 10-K, right? And those numbers presumably don't include indirectly related operating expenses which totaled $55B.

Apple has not revealed how profitable the App Store really is, but either way it's a LOT of profit, certainly enough to warrant expensive attorneys and stalling implementing this legislation in good faith for as long as possible.
> but they aren't "small" either any more

OK, that's fair

> And you aren't indie if you release on Steam (especially only !)

Why not? It's the best marketplace for indie games... IMO it jump-started the PC indie gaming revolution! Before that, we only had shareware of limited reach, maybe distributed through PC Gamer floppies/CDs. And maybe Tucows. It was hard to find new indie games, much less buy them. Steam changed that whole paradigm.

> [PoE performance issues]

For what it's worth, it runs like shite on my M2 Max, but flawlessly on GeForce Now. Terrific performance with everything on max.
Okay, so Apple's doing a bit of the ol' switcheroo with the rules, and the EU is like that strict teacher who sees everything. It's like when you were in school and thought you could sneak a text under the desk, but the teacher had eyes like a hawk. Now, Apple's trying to be sneaky and the EU's like, 'I don't think so, buddy.' It's all legal jargon and big words, but basically, it's a game of cat and mouse, except the mouse is a tech giant and the cat's got a whole continent backing it up. Gonna need more than cheese to get out of this one, Apple.
Apples has several revenue streams:

- They sell hardware and licensed software to consumers. Within the law they may ask for money for feature updates.

- They also charge developers for access to their tools and access to their store front and payment handling.

That's all legit and if they want to hike prices or put parts of that information behind paywalls, the market will sort it out.

But if a consumer and a third party developer want to do business without all that, then it's my (and the DMAs) stance that apple has no right to a share of that. They EU is increasingly of the opinion that, in general, a device has to serve its owner and not the original manufacturer.

When they want to protect consumers by scanning for known malware that's fine but "Apple loses revenue" is not a threat at all.
That's reaching rather far to defend violence against human beings just for the color of their skin.
That is normally considered fine, because the profits from the subsidiary get paid to the non-profit
Seems like the NYT want to pick a fight even if it's not theirs. Kinda nice, that a publisher can push their own agenda and sell it as "news".
Indeed has never been a good site for good jobs.
> By definition half the population will have opinions ahead of curve

Nothing about that definition tells us anything about the variance. It could be imperceptibly small.

> Unless OP is brash or arrogant when sharing ideas with the team/management, there is not much to attribute to having a big ego here

The OP just claimed to be ahead of the curve, to the team of people reading it on HN. I say that's pretty brash and arrogant.

> having opinions about the direction would suggest OP is a good engineer/developer/leader/whatever.

Opinions, which are common, are not strong evidence of quality (in my opinion)
These people are fools not to have a stock of some of these objects manufactured, and quick buy links next to everything.

Some people looking at this cruft may want it.

The Klein bottle guy sells, right?
Bene Reader (ePub)
Future generations checking the vault after WW3: “Wow they SUCKED at writing code!”
Yes but only if you sell it via a third party App Store. If you continue to sell it in Apple’s you won’t have to pay the 50ct.
Can you give it YouTube video transcriptions?
Alright, let's break it down. Apple's new rules are like when you finally get the freedom to eat ice cream for breakfast, but then realize you have to buy the ice cream yourself. Everyone was excited about alternative marketplaces, but now it's like, 'Surprise! There's a cost attached.' It's a classic 'be careful what you wish for' scenario. You wanted more options? Great, but now you've got to deal with the real world where things aren't always as free and easy as they seem. It's like discovering Santa isn't real all over again. Welcome to the grown-up table, alternative marketplaces.
From the techcrunch article:

> Apple also said iOS app developers have earned more than $320 billion on the App Store from 2008 to 2022, a jump from the $260 billion reported in 2021.

> Apple says its App Store ecosystem generated $1.1 trillion in developer billings and sales in 2022

I'm having a hard time reconciling these two statements. It's been a long day, but what am I missing to make sense of this?
That's why I added the examples with descriptions, but I can understand if they were unclear. I can add a gauge to the game board, thanks for the recommendation
Life is funny.

I am making a VCS that works exactly like this!

* Commits on personal branches are called "saves," and they are meant to be an undo/redo history that can be discarded.

* Saves don't need commit messages.

* Saves can only be merged into designated branches, and those merge commits need real commit messages.

* Saves can be rebased as much as possible.

* Commits on master/main cannot be rebased. (There will be a nuclear option for things that should have been secret.)

There are other things, but that is the gist.
It does seem decent. I don't do much front end work these days (and thanks!)
It's interesting that Apple seem to be including (estimated) sales of physical goods (i.e. Amazon) and subscriptions (i.e. Netflix) that are billed entirely outside the App Store.

I guess that since those apps came from the App Store to begin with, they are counting that as revenue that the App Store "generated"? Talk about playing word games.

According to the TC article you linked, Apple previously released this figure phrased as sales that it "facilitated"[1]. A much more accurate, and far less braggadocios descriptor.

Maybe I'm being pedantic, but I see a huge difference between "generated" and "facilitated". Bad Apple.

[1]https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/06/apples-app-store-ecos...
Cool idea (and great name). I use 'STEAL' as my first word in wordle. Wondering what a good starting word would be in this variant. First thought: something distributed equidistantly across the keyboard, second thought: aim for edges so you can rule out movement in some directions and reduce search complexity.
That was an amazing run. Well done Genny!
Does anybody know what the total word count is?
This is cool. I really enjoyed choose-your-own-adventure books when I was a kid a long time ago, part of the fun being that as you were flipping to the page you were supposed to go to, you'd come across wild sections of text you hadn't quite visited, and it became a game to see if you could navigate all possible paths of the book. The really clever ones would have tantalizing pages that were unreachable paths just to frustrate you, or would trap you in infinite loops.
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