skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On first glance, the browser stuff is mostly fine and seems to be motivated by security and UX concerns.

In the end it's not a big impact on apples revenue if some people run chrome or Firefox.

The store part on the other hand is really sketchy.
>Car companies or computer manufacturers could release cheaply made, low quality products for high prices and consumers might have a tough time noticing the difference for a while. But they don’t do this

That's an absolutely bizarre claim. Lots of shitty products are released in lots of industries. Computing is certainly one of them. And cars are pretty heavily regulated, so they shouldn't really be used as a regulatory-body-free reference.
Is there some reason to add degree dates? I removed them as clutter.
Quality and good engineering is one of the main reason you people cite for buying Apple in this very thread.

Now you're suggesting that there ought to be a "warranty void if app is installed" sticker on Apple's supposedly premium hardware which is running Apple's supposedly hyper-secure operating system, otherwise some unwashed piece of software is going to damage it?

No such requirement exist on macOS, for obvious reasons. The double-think in these threads is astounding, repent.
No. A license to copyrighted code does not confer the same privileges as holding copyright to that code.

Public domain is closer to “equally entitled”.
You know what japan always does though? They always respond to applications. Theres no instant automated rejection email. Theres no getting ghosted by 90% of companies.

Pay is bad though.
No it is not. Look at the fee calculator.
"This isn't the first time Mysk's tests have uncovered data problems at Apple, which has spent untold millions convincing the world that "what happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone.""

The safest "app store" would be one where all "apps" must be open sourced so that, optionally, if a customer dislikes a certain "feature" or other behaviour of the software, she can remove it from the source and compile her own version. Additonally, the customer could add "missing features". As it stands owners of Apple computers have no control over anything really . They delegate all of it to Apple. That is why every thread about these issues includes futile pleas to Apple. (That will go unaswered.) There is no DIY. That would be "unsafe" according to Apple's media spin. Perhaps the closest we have to an "open" app store is f-droid.org.

https://world.hey.com/dhh/apple-s-new-extortion-regime-to-ke...
Wouldn't Apple be the cheapest among all manufacturers offering 10ft long certified 40Gbps cables?
8 years of Elon promising things within a year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhr6fHmCJ6k

The original Youtube link is dead (I wonder why) but as far as I can tell that one's a faithful copy.
Maybe at some point it’s better to leave off your degree? Your 20 years of experience are a lot more important (and the 10 before those irrelevant).
So, if Snapchat is doing surveillance on private conversations, is it reasonable to assume almost all “private” conversations on all platforms are subjected to bulk surveillance?
Microsoft is an american company, which is why a lawsuit by the american government with the threat of breaking it up worked.

The EU can't break up Apple. Apple is calling the bluff here.
This is a pretty simple concept: the easier it is to run code on a device, the more options attackers have to trick users into installing it. Whether or not you follow the field, we have at this point 4+ decades of experience with people getting compromised because they installed something they thought was safe, and over that time we have seen attacks get more sophisticated as operating systems added safeguards. We’ve also seen the rise of entire businesses built on software which does things users wouldn’t have agreed to had they been fully informed. There’s a spectrum from classic malware to the quasi-legal stuff: spyware for governments or businesses who don’t trust their users, abusive spouses, or parents with control issues; and companies like Facebook who provide legitimate apps but also deeply detest transparency about the data they collect or how they use it. All of those represent enough money that they can provide polished apps, install instructions, customer service, etc. and many of them try to conceal their activities enough that all of the major operating systems have added limits to what applications or even administrators can access or run in the background, mandatory notifications when something sensitive like using your camera or microphone is requested, etc.

Apple’s answer to this was the App Store’s strict limits which has been effective (a lot of stalkerware has detailed instructions for sideloading in on an Android phone but either doesn’t support or has far less functionality on iOS) but that’s not the same as saying that’s the optimal balance for users. The EU is also interesting because they have strong privacy laws, so it might be the case that it’s not so bad there but would be a disaster in the U.S. without such restrictions making it riskier to hide intrusive activity. I would like to try other models but I also think that the more successful ones will look like what Apple announced where the model isn’t just “game over, buy a new phone” if someone ever makes a mistake about who they trust.
Why is Dubai attractive as a destination? It is a bunch of expensive malls surrounded by a desert hellscape.

Is it just fun for people to be around rich oil arabian men?
For once in my life, the word "anti-circumvention" actually means something pro-consumer.
Hmm, I’ve had fresh people hired into management positions because that was age appropriate, never mind that those people were not interested in managing and had only one or two token reports.
Do these changes apply only within the geographical borders of the EU, or do they apply to EU citizens everywhere? EU data protection laws, if I'm not mistaken, apply to all EU citizens, so I'd imagine that these do too. If that's the case, I wonder how Apple plans to selectively enable access based on citizenship.
It seems the "gpt-3.5-turbo-0125" mentioned in the blog is not available yet through API as of 01-26 01:18 UTC? Using it resulted "The model `gpt-3.5-turbo-0125` does not exist or you do not have access to it.". It is not mentioned in API /models either. Although there is "gpt-4-0125-preview".
If someone took the time to implement Clojure as a Truffle language [1] it could also be JITted essentially for free (Truffle automatically generates a JIT from an interpreter implementation; further information can make the JITted code more efficient).

There seems to have been an academic attempt to do that (for a subset of the language) with promising results: https://epub.jku.at/obvulihs/download/pdf/501665

[1]: https://www.graalvm.org/latest/graalvm-as-a-platform/languag...
This file does not need comments? https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/crates/multi...
But you don't really own a condo. I mean you do, but you still have to pay condo fees which in many cases are so high it might as well be rent.
But the "old rules" were explicitly deemed illegal. Is there a limit to your logic? What if Apple had set the per-installation fee to $50 instead of $0.50? Developers have a choice! If they don't want to pay $50 per installation, they can choose the old rules. There is no gun to their head.

Where is the line? Surely at some point, the choice is so unreasonable that Apple has effectively forced developers into "the old rules," thus circumventing compliance with the new rules, which may as well not exist if no developers can afford to play within them...
Architecture, the art and design of buildings, can, sometimes, just be a facade.

In other words, in the entire history of ever, no one has ever been right when they've called something "not architecture".

It clearly fits into Alexander's pattern language in the same way that neighborhoods, walkways, form, ornamentation, and doorknobs do. We must not confuse ourselves into thinking there is good-architecture and not-architecture.
There is also this requirement though:

> In order to establish adequate financial means to guarantee support for developers and customers, marketplace developers 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 prior to receiving the entitlement. It will need to be auto-renewed on a yearly basis.

Source: https://developer.apple.com/support/alternative-app-marketpl...

It doesn't seem like the fee waiver removes this requirement.

And it seems like the cost for a standby letter of credit is roughly 1-10% of its value per year? So effectively it costs €10,000 to €100,000 per year just to have an alternate marketplace, separate from the core technology fee....
> I think it's fine for apps like Spotify [...] to use Electron

Spotify uses a significant amount of power/battery while playing music when my laptop is otherwise idle. I can only image that being due to decrypting their drm'd music in javascript. Many people won't notice and therefore not care, but I do think it's quite the drawback. Much more than the ui not looking native or not perfectly integrating into my desktop.

Even running through wine would be preferable to that.
> It contributed nothing worthwhile, but I’m happy it got you your 15 minutes on HN.

That is a very rude dismissal, followed by a bad faith implication of the author's motivations. You can do better.

I got something worthwhile out of it. I'm learning Rust and, like the author of the blog post, tend to value safety (simplicity hopefully being a contributor to that) over that last bit of performance. I was actually looking over the source of some of the libraries I'm considering using, am concerned about some things I found, didn't know about ureq, now I do, and I think it's going to fit my needs.

Thanks, mrkline!
More than that, too. I bet you could guess my age within 2 years with solely a list of technology I've used. I don't think it would even have to be sorted by date.
Embassy is a separate project, but you can use it's framework directly on either the no_std or the std(esp-idf) esp projects. For the no_std variant they provide a special version of a embassy_executor tied to the esp's and for the std case you can use whatever runtime fits your bill from tokio to smol to embassy.
What’s it matter what the market decides? The EU will just step again and do the only thing they know how to do.
Training large language models on Amazon SageMaker: Best practices
How they approach problems in the language the code is written. Variable names are also an indicator of the level of effort they put in from my experience.
How is a $25 life saving medication "too cheap"? That's 1/10 of the out-of-pocket maximum per year in Norway or Sweden. Which by the way covers all of medical visits, hospital stays, prescriptions.
It will likely cause issues due to being unreasonable.
> Being in the browser and having to trust it is not sending anything online, is not ideal. But on paper the concept seems pretty sound to me.

This seems contradictory. If the main thing that's useful is that it uses URLs/browsers, but using URLs/browsers breaks the security of the system, what part of it seems pretty sound?
> What is the difference in processing and indexing something to be returned as a full original result vs being returned in a permutation?

The difference is the work done to implement that system and the cost of losing the data. The request is basically "please make your job harder and result worse because we don't like it". I'm not making a judgement here about what's right, or what should be legal. I'm saying there's zero incentive for the companies to comply here.
Their profit? Yes. They are required to account for that by law.

But they don't break that down by revenue stream in a way that would be useful. This is by design: Apple doesn't want people sniffing around and wondering what things would be like in a world where Apple had to sell their technology piecemeal. It'd be like demanding to know how much profit Apple made from selling macOS vs. Macintosh computers. Everything's one giant bundle, why calculate things separately? Are you trying to force us to unbundle shit?
A while back, I had multiple people respond to my support request, with impeccable results, no back and fourth responding to automated messages. Which easily puts the game well above the bar set by many others.
Apple is going full frontal attack and saying the DMA creates security risks in the headline, and then repeating that messaging throughout the article. Hard to believe the ECJ is going to stand by and watch Apple convince millions that the EU is working to harm their constituents security but that Apple is here to save them.
Very true, but at least at that point, she trusted him a lot more than she trusted random other people.
I think what's missing from a lot of these discussions is that web services shouldn't need to write native apps. All they need to do is provide a full API and let third-party native app developers do the rest of the work. The problem is that these companies want to control "the whole experience". People often say, "It was either Electron or nothing", but that's assuming only one company is writing every native app. The real problem with the official Slack Mac app is that it exists! If Slack just got out of the way and let Mac native developers take the opportunity to write Slack apps, we'd probably have a number of good ones.

Consider Twitter. The healthiest app ecosystem Twitter ever had, on both Mac and iOS, was when there was no official Twitter app. There were a bunch of great third-party native Twitter apps. But then Twitter acquired Tweetie, released an official app, and that was the beginning of the end. In the end, Twitter destroyed its own app ecosystem by trying to control everything.

"Why is [web service] using Electron?" is the wrong question. The right question is, "Why is [web service] writing native apps?" Let web developers be web developers, and let Mac developers be Mac developers. Each can do what they do best, without trying to do everything.
Counterpoint: not enough Macs are selling to justify native development for a lot of apps—but better to ship something than for the Mac to sell even less because of missing software.
start a thread on one of those let's discuss
Yah, when your answer for "most interesting project" involves an MCU with 63 bytes of RAM...
> Pay is bad though

I wonder if that is in any way correlated to this:

> Gov't study finds only 3,065 homeless people in Japan

https://japantoday.com/category/national/gov%27t-study-finds...
It means VR and AR in one device (i.e. reality can be completely occluded if desired)
Yup, I really don't get Whatsapps "catching up" mode, which after only like a week takes significantly longer until the ui is usable than linking a new session
> All they need to do is provide a full API and let third-party native app developers do the rest of the work.

The problem with this is that those apps are kind of boring to make and there’s not much money in them.
I got dinged hard for asking why all the VMWare cusomters don't go to say, VirtualBox.

What I ended up learning from that wasn't necessarily that VMWare products are good, which I will take the indignant replies and downvotes that they are, I don't have them, but that Broadcom's forthcoming price hikes were going to be accepted by their rabid fanbase with grumbles but bigger checks.

What's weird is that, even with AWS, what does practically every large company have as a sub-business? Accountants? Check. Marketing? CHeck.

Oh, and datacenters. Lots of them. Why hasn't industry gotten together to ... ah, nevermind. I know how this ends.
Would running through Wine really provide that much of a difference in resource consumption?
To me it looks more like your is the naive point, you're talking like microsoft is a random guy in some basement, it's a huge company with a massive headcount, how do you deny when you can request internal communication or have potential whistleblowers? Looks surprising that after all the times regulators have fined/regulated these massive corps people still think that they can "act surprised/denying"
Does it take anyone longer than a game or two to remember the rules of chess? I even taught chess to adults as a child and they caught on within a few moves. Which I guess explains why it remains more popular than FOTM overcomplicated board game #5000. It's not difficult to memorize. IMO this is a solution to a nonexistent problem.
I run it on a ThinkPad T470, I guess the Overlap between People Run Linux on a Laptop and it's a ThinkPad is pretty big
Oh, so not just me that prefers to use their phone for some stuff even if the UX itself sucks? The launch time is a big one for me.
Like so much of HN "news", this is really just one person's opinon.

For the meme illiterate, please refer to the big lebowski...

NOTE: meme illiteracy is the condion of not being able to understand anything without references to a popular internet meme
Does anyone do anything but comply with the letter of the law? I think most companies do their best to continue doing business the way they have been. Most entities will take the path that benefits them the most.

The law can't (and shouldn't) dictate ethics or morality. The spirit of the law is undefined, it's abstract and ambiguous. If an entity isn't judged for obeying the letter of the law, how can we have faith that we'll all be treated fairly? It's easy to call foul when its someone you don't like doing something you don't like.

If a compliance law doesn't result in the compliance we desire, the law was poorly written.
No, it's still not the same category. QML doesn't pull in a full featured Chrome with all its runtimes, dom, full scripting, multiple levels of JIT, etc. You're still significantly lighter. Even Avalonia with bundled .net is lighter.
That achievement is spectacular! Based on my experience flying drones, 72 flights is about 72 flights more than I can do without damaging the blades....
NTSB confirms blown-off door plug of AS1282 was made in Malaysia
Perhaps at a higher cost to end users.
they have a broader catalog here https://www.nps.gov/subjects/gisandmapping/tools-and-data.ht...
Monopolist scum being monopolist scum, I really hope the ecj grow a backbone and remove apple from our lovely union
Ahhh, yes, from that pov, yes totally!
Web notifications are a thing, and Whatsapp could popout a window without browser chrome from a webpage
The Most Important Article on Psychiatry You Will Ever Read
I can see talking yourself into that definition, but any 4-year-old can look at that picture and tell you it didn't land perfectly. "No, silly! It's upsidedown!"
This exact issue happened to me. I think it was related to crossing timezones during the flight. The experience has definitely made me think twice about adopting Logseq my primary notes tool.
Flagging is just if you get downvoted enough, really. Posting spicy enough takes will generally get you flagged, but that's just how it goes sometimes.

FWIW I largely agree with you; a duopoly is only one more choice than a monopoly, and both Google and Apple have done a variety of things that annoy me. If I could pick a third option I would, but it's essentially impossible to enter the market at this point.
That argument carried a lot more weight when per-unit profit margins were lower than per-unit manufacturing costs.
I read it slightly differently.

> the author just wants a simple HTTP client for Rust that prioritizes simplicity over raw performance

I saw it as:

> the author just wants a safe HTTP client for Rust that prioritizes safety over raw performance

That resonates with me as well.
Pretty cool! As others mentioned, color blindness is an important consideration (affects 9% of men), so having an alternate way of expressing the heat map would be useful. But for folks without that issue (I dodged it, even though it runs in my family), I think the current implementation is intuitive and works well.

Up next, Dvorakle?
Not adding this to say "the Malaysians can't make doors." Pretty sure they're able to make doors as well as anyone from South Carolina. Just thinking that the international supply chain will complicate the NTSB's investigation.
California Solar Industry Faces Cash Crunch Amid Policy Change
https://kagi.com/orion/

Orion uses WebKit and has uBlock origin so I'm not so sure it's a limitation of WebKit itself.
Yes, I feel like the idea of a website/web-app you can install made sense at one point, but the reality is that it's not really much of an advantage on a browser, and if you're still running a browser too, you may as well just use it as a part of your existing browser.

Firefox pulling the plug on their PWA efforts was pretty frustrating.
My experience across 2 Lenovo machines is that Linux support on Lenovo hardware is pretty much 1st class compared to other major PC brands. Not surprised they've done this to be honest.
Also!! From the full terms at https://developer.apple.com/contact/request/download/alterna... :

> If the Core Technology Fee does not apply to Your Applications under this Section 4.4, any Alternative App Marketplace (EU) You distribute may only distribute Applications from You or another developer registered with the Apple Developer Program and not subject to the Core Technology Fee under this Section 4.4.

So a hypothetical F-Droid for iOS would need all its apps to be from registered developers with fee waivers. (And individuals are not eligible for the waiver, so it could only contain apps from other non-profit organizations.)
Note, however, that only a few hundred thousand shares trade on LTSE each day, for a market share of approximately 0.00%.

https://www.cboe.com/us/equities/market_share/
Hate science o'clock on the orange website.

This shouldn't be remotely controversial controversial. When my partner expressed that children were in her life plan, even 22 year-old me had the sense to say "well shit girl we better get going! neither of us wants to be tired for childrearing!"
To be fair they were going to license the tech but instead hired employees of the company whose tech they said they were interested in buying. Allegedly. It is quite often just worth going to court and settling rather than paying extortionate fees forever. It’s very unlikely at Apple’s scale a court will give them a percentage of sale price of an Apple Watch as the headline number would just be too large.
This is answered in the post you didn't read.

"Next week we are introducing..."
Please see https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05720

Beyond Surface Statistics: Scene Representations in a Latent Diffusion Model

"... In this work, we investigate a basic interpretability question: does an LDM create and use an internal representation of simple scene geometry? Using linear probes, we find evidence that the internal activations of the LDM encode linear representations of both 3D depth data and a salient-object / background distinction. These representations appear surprisingly early in the denoising process−well before a human can easily make sense of the noisy images. ..."
Infrastructure isn’t free. View access cost money too so not surprised by it.
I understand why cops would have give leeway, but here the measurement tool would be your speedometer. Although I’ve heard some manufacturers make theirs a little on the slow side, I’d think they’d be pretty accurate in general.
>That's precisely the kind of thing that turns people off codes of conduct.

https://eev.ee/blog/2016/07/22/on-a-technicality/
Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, Netflix and Microsoft should just demand 30 % of the device purchase price before allowing access to any services. If Apple is allowed to limit access at their own terms then others should be able to do so too.

I don't think any company with a huge market share should be able to do so, so I hope Apple will have to open up at least to the degree Android has done.