skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Photoshop ... Consumers have voted with their wallets on #2.

Did they? Or did Adobe just stop offering #1, forcing customers into #2 whether they like it or not?

I'm partly being facetious, but it's also partly a genuine question. Is there some research you know of that shows a majority of people genuinely choosing #2, when both are on the table?

For a long time the standard model was "pay $X for the current version, then $Y to upgrade to the next version, if you want." That is pretty close to the best of both worlds, IMO, from a customer standpoint.
Agreed. Love the concept, but the knights definitely need clarity.
I like it, but the knights still aren't quite right. And I'd probably give all of them square bases, so that the bishop and rooks weren't so easily mistakable with just a 45° turn.
300 per day??? That’s a search per minute for 5 hours. Are you even doing anything else?
You mean like consoles, set top boxes, and smart TVs?

Personal computers are the special case where you don’t have to pay the platform provider - there are far more phones+consoles+set top boxes than computers
> The EU already has robust digital privacy laws and is likely to continue passing laws to protect their citizens. I think it's much better to take control away from Apple and place it in the hands of regulators that represent the people directly.

Laws don't protect privacy. What protects privacy is technical mechanisms for people to do so.
That's the problem with this kind of complaining generally. Some authors (a small vocal group anyway) want their work to be indexed, searchable, publicly available with no friction, but they somehow want to control how it's used. Anyone can make a locked down site that prohibits ML trainings (which would be futile against a determined adversary but would prevent crawling), but they don't want that, they want all the benefits that come from the public internet. Releasing something publicly means giving up some control, that's reality.
Cutting public spending will be difficult now since Turkey has already made a large part of their citizenry essentially dependent on government money either directly or indirectly, and cutting on that further would essentially doom large groups of people further under poverty line and into starvation.

Not to mention a recent earthquake caused massive damage in the eastern regions, and it will probably take years to rebuild and recover completely.

This is not to say that Turkey doesn't have frivolous public spending, it's more like the hole they've dug is so deep, that probably hardly matters at this point.
Is there a way to explicitly disable Copilot/AI/collaboration features? I won't be able to use this at work if there's a risk that it'd upload my code. It looks like a very fast editor (with Vim keybindings!) and I'd love to use it even without AI :)
Yeah, I can only see this deal right now being beneficial if it's your only choice due to Apple simply not wanting to host your apps. So, 18+ apps, emulators, various apps banned from the app store over drama (Fortnite).

It's also beneficial if you keep you

1. Keep your install base under 1M. So only if you're sure you have a niche app that you barely need to maintain.

2. If you somehow have a premium popular app. A $2 app would mean Apple is taking a 25% cut, a $5 app is taking 10%. Of course, since this is per device you will probably be hit by users who use multiple devices. Worse yet, apparently the install fee is "first install per year" and includes updates. So you will take a huge revenue dive if you want to maintain, de-incentivizing devs from supporting existing users

3. Manage your own alternative storefront. I feel this is where the deal may start to hit anti-trust issues depending on how the store takes these costs. Apple doesn't have to pay it's own store fee while a new store has to pay Apple for existing. Sounds like a way to suppress competition before it starts.

I guess Epic v Apple part 2 will hit faster than expected.

EDIT: oh, I don't know the logistics, but #4 can be ad supported apps. The most user hostile style of app but potentially one that can keep making it's $0.50 back year after year if they have an engaged user base. But since I know so little about adtech I am happy to be corrected on if this is sustainable
Not GP but I was just starting my career back then. I remember commute traffic on 101 through San Jose and Sunnyvale going from bumper-to-bumper to smooth sailing, where you never even had to touch your brakes.

From the crash of April-ish 2000, it was 6-9 months before the best of the best could even get an interview, and about 36 to something approaching normality.
You could literally do whatever you desired on windows. Which is the only thing I want from iphones. There has never been a good reason not to have some form of opt in root on the phone aside from apple greed.
Sounds like a title of one of his books!
To add to this historically Apple charged for OS updates. Windows still does. With iOS Apple switched their model to making the updates free and charging developers on the backend to monetize their software.

But most companies have some plan to monetize their software even if they also make money on the hardware.
> If you want to publish a retro-gaming emulator as a hobby/open-source project, you can’t do that on Apple’s app store.

why can't you do that?
> The commission can (for example) put an import ban on iPhones/iPads until Apple starts complying with the commission’s interpretation of the DMA.

yeah, but they won't

the euroskeptics would absolutely LOVE it if they did
And how many people are going to actually do that?
At least at the level I play at, knights are invaluable because of their ability to jump over walls and threaten multiple pieces at the same time - they're the piece most likely to create a successful fork (threatening two pieces of value at the same time, likely forcing your opponent to pick which thing they're more willing to lose)
Good point, but I wonder if some of the attitudinal jets could be employed to push it upright, assuming there's any fuel left (and power).
Isn't Mars Sample Return pretty much dead at this point?
Woman dies after eating a mislabeled cookie containing peanuts
You should check it out (for mobile) and share your opinion.

It has all kinds of interesting features like automatically translating (and voicing) youtube videos.

Address on the bottom of the screen is a total killer.
I have a cheap RX 6400 and it is flawless in both Wayland and X.
oh ya, it was from wiki for who owned it since they were wondering :)
Happy to just download stuff and run it. Multiple app stores is the problem.
The best reason to close your toilet lid, in my opinion, is you are 99% less likely to ever drop anything into the bowl. I’ve accidentally knocked TP rolls in several times, and the phone once or twice, and probably other stuff. Ever since I started closing the lid habitually I realized I havent dropped anything into the bowl in a long time.
Was I the only one tricked, bamboozled and hoodwinked into expecting an article about ARM64 vs x64?
What was the advantage to me as a consumer if a 2015 iPhone got USB-C? IMO, USB-C wasn’t an advantage over Lightning then. (USB-C was not yet a common connector and most Apple users already had Lightning cables or could get by with the one included with the phone. Apple users had 3 years of orientation-independent convenience before USB-C arrived.)

I still find plugging in the Lightning cable to be easier (less precise alignment needed) than a USB-C and by the time the iPhone 8 arrived with magnetic charging, any charging advantage to USB-C went away.
in what way would an alternative store, managed by a third party, be a cost for Apple?
what do you mean by "a joke"? I chose not to buy nvidia due to the proprietary drivers, but I didn't think they were "a joke". In the next yearish we're likely to see decently performing open drivers via nouveau (in kernel) and nvk (in mesa) which will be really nice for fitting in with the everything else, but I doubt it will reach the same performance level as the proprietary drivers.
Extraplanetary missions are almost always many times longer than initially designed because the initial mission is largely limited by the budget which includes the price of the people here on Earth and the time available on the Deep Space Network. Building a rover robust enough to last way longer than the basic mission is a blip in the budget when you include that and the launch costs so they keep being run until they're surpassed by another mission, they run out of some consumable (on Curiosity for example there's a limited number of times they can run some of the internal equipment), or they're out of new things to find to justify the cost of going on.
Well, that and meta is the very reason behind these changes.
Exactly, this will reduce readability of a board. It's like highlighting the black key notes on sheet music. You think you're making it easier, but end up just adding too much redundant info and it clutters the page. Or like adding a ton of crufty comments to code ("// this is a loop that ... "). Or like adding a "fill these. with water" post-it notes on an icecube tray. Clever. But worse.
The notarization is the worst part. Additionally, the installation sheets, page labels, and disclosure sheets make it sound to me like they're going to do their best to scare users away from alternatives.

I hope the EU brings the hammer down on them. It's obvious, in my opinion, the goal here is to make the EU version as bad as possible so Apple can "prove" regulation is bad for developers and users.

I've never understood how developers think Apple is on their side. I thought the app store would flop when they announced they'd gatekeep distribution, but here we are. I'm sure there will be plenty of developers claiming this current development is good for everyone.

It seems so obvious that all the platform owners are working against everyone (developers, advertisers, users) and I just can't understand how they have so many supporters.
> Building and supporting the SDKs that developers use to make money.

You're implying that this is a somehow onesides transaction and Apple is doing developers a favour while Apple always needed third party developers as much as developers need them (with iOS of course this balance changed a bit which allowed Apple to become a lot more exploitative than they were before/still are if we're talking about macOS)
I would be happy if Framework just rebadged some whitebox laser printer from China.

They don't have to develop it, just put a stamp of approval on one that doesn't suck.
No, people are already selling hundreds of millions worth per day.
I have Dogwood Designs pogies on a flat bar with SRAM NX shifters and SRAM Level brakes and they work well. I saw a guy's blog post [0] that shows them on cruiser bars, just to give you an idea of the variety of setups they can accommodate.

They make them in two warmth ratings, down to -15°F [1] and below -15°F [2]

[0]: https://jnyyz.wordpress.com/2022/01/11/dogwood-designs-pogie...

[1]: https://www.907bikes.com/product-page/dogwood-designs-winter...

[2]: https://www.907bikes.com/product-page/dogwood-designs-winter...
I'm not aware of one, but if you can insert custom css rules it should be simple with something like

tbody tr.athing:has(.title .titleline a[href*="twitter.com"]),
tbody tr.athing:has(.title .titleline a[href*="twitter.com"]) + tr,
tbody tr.athing:has(.title .titleline a[href\*="twitter.com"]) + tr + tr
{
display: none;
}

This selects for any `tr` which has an anchor to a url with twitter.com somewhere in it (with some layers in between) and the two `tr` which follow. Note that this is pretty naive and could have some false positives with links such as https://example.com/blog/a-post-about-twitter.com and such, you could be more careful with the attribute selector if you'd like

This will leave "holes" in the numbering of the list of items as the numbers are not calculated based on the structure of the document but are rather hardcoded. You could definitely fix this with some more funky css rules if needed.
they're the same people in this regard. The patch author works for codeweavers and does work related to proton.
This only applies to install numbers within the EU.

It’s exactly what many have said Apple should do to get payment for usage of their IP: split it from the commission.

So now you can pay separately for the IP, separately for payment processing and separately for App Store services or a combination of all of the above.
Yes, if people stop getting vaccinated, measles starts coming back. Thus far, in small, localized outbreaks.

You're supporting my point, not contesting it.
Just do 1800s baroque fascades but more classical modern internals
Yes, please, even if you've had HPV before, get this vaccine. The medical literature says there are benefits in almost every person, even if your insurer does not.

> In a retrospective analysis of data from two qHPV vaccine efficacy studies in young women who underwent cervical surgery or were diagnosed with genital warts or vulvar/vaginal disease related to infection present before vaccination (Figure 1), prior qHPV vaccination was associated with a significant reduction (46.2−64.9% for those who underwent cervical surgery; 35.2% for those diagnosed with infection-related disease) in any subsequent HPV-related disease, including high-grade disease.6 Other studies demonstrated that HPV vaccination before and after surgical treatment for cervical lesions reduced the risk of subsequent cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) grade 2 or higher, related to HPV16/18 (88.2% efficacy 60 days or more post-surgery),8 and the risk of recurrent CIN 2–3 post-surgery was higher in qHPV vaccine non-recipients compared with recipients (hazard ratio [HR] 2.840).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10038021/
Everything about the mission provided valuable data: especially that damaged blade. Failure modes are useful. Next, it might be useful to try flying anyway.

If not, they still have running cameras, sensors and computer, until Perseverance moves out of range.
Couldn't they release a signature separate from the thing they signed? Leaving it as work that the open source world has to do to combine them into the derivative work? Surely an attestation/signature would be a fair use derivative work?
I'm also glad that Rambalac is back as he quit a few months ago. I've recently also started uploading 4K60 HDR content to YouTube [1] and it takes up to one week more time for them to encode than the SDR version. You can include your own LUT instead of YouTube conversion which seems to help. Here's an article and LUT [2] + a video [3] with valuable info. They allowed me getting DJI Pocket 3 HLG recordings to HDR10.

[1] https://youtu.be/0S8hw8Lrvlk
[2] https://www.wesleyknapp.com/blog/hdr
[3] https://youtu.be/4izJfgRtkZE
It is very clever, except accidental rotation can easily turn rooks into bishops and vice-versa.
The Paris style aperment seems good
It's not, actually. It's the salaries of the engineers who work on the frameworks and OS that underpin the apps these developers are writing.

Are you proposing we should go back to charging users for software updates? Personally, I think it makes more sense to take a cut from other people doing business on top of the platform.
Yeah this is what I was intending. I don’t have a problem with individuals using Chrome (I think it’s a bad choice overall but it’s their choice). However “YouTube works best in Chrome” and “GMail works best in Chrome” because they depend on some tracking API, it’s not really the choice of the user anymore.

Good thing WebDRM got delayed ‘cause I don’t want to install Chrome just to use my banking app.
If Apple are able to make the options that aren't beneficial to their business, less attractive .. isn't this just another example of profiteering?
Yup, the visually dominating pieces end up _feeling_ wrong. It'd really bother me tbh.
OP/bug finder here with some clarifying information. It's a common misconception that this issue can only be abused if you use HTTP boot. That is not the case at all, otherwise it wouldn't be Critical. This bug can be abused locally (privileged malware can overwrite the EFI partition), from an adjacent network if PXE boot is enabled (w/ MiTM), or remotely if HTTP boot is used (w/ MiTM).

More details on these scenarios:

1. A remote attacker with no privileges in a man-in-the-middle (MitM) position could leverage the issue against a victim machine that uses HTTP boot. No direct access to the victim machine is required.

2. A remote attacker with privileges and code execution on the victim machine could leverage the issue to bypass Secure Boot, even if the victim does not already use HTTP boot (as long as firmware has HTTP support). How? Several ways:

- An attacker can edit the boot order variable to specify a controlled attacker server.

- An attacker can chain shim->GRUB2->shim (via HTTP). For this technique, an attacker would overwrite the boot loader in the EFI partition to a legitimate shim and GRUB2 image. The attacker would create a grub.cfg that chainloads a new shim via HTTP. This is possible because GRUB2's device syntax allows you to specify any supported device, including HTTP (if available).

3. An adjacent attacker with no privileges in a man-in-the-middle (MitM) position could leverage the issue against a victim machine that uses PXE boot. PXE is separate from HTTP boot, but similar to the local vector, an attacker can chain together shim (via PXE)->GRUB2 (via PXE)->shim (via HTTP).
The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit, and these are exempt anyway.
I think the distinction in my head is that game consoles are explicitly single-purpose (or very limited-purpose), whereas smartphones are playing at being general purpose, but only insofar as their manufacturer approves of that purpose.

Personally I see the broader trend towards highly-restricted corporate-controlled hardware (of all types) as something explicitly detrimental that we should push back on wherever possible.
He can certainly be expected to be well-informed, but he does not officially represent WSFS in this scenario.

He is the chair of the Mark Protection Committee. The Mark Protection Committee has the power to enforce trademarks. Nothing else.
If these were better, those might be quantum computers.

Except, you'd need a phononic representation of the signal pre/post ADC and/or better voltage quantization.

Is this level of component variance the reason we can't do quantum computers with electron charge?

Qubit > Physical implementations does list Electron spin and also Electron charge, which ADCs quantize:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubit#Physical_implementations

Compared to a $3 ESP32 and a $6 Pico without a RTC Real Time Clock,

HiFiBerry DAC ADC Pro has a "Dedicated 192kHz/24bit high-quality Burr-Brown ADC"
https://www.hifiberry.com/docs/data-sheets/datasheet-dac-adc...

ADC: Analog-to-digital converter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog-to-digital_converter :

> In electronics, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC, A/D, or A-to-D) is a system that converts an analog signal, such as a sound picked up by a microphone or light entering a digital camera, into a digital signal. An ADC may also provide an isolated measurement such as an electronic device that converts an analog input voltage or current to a digital number representing the magnitude of the voltage or current. Typically the digital output is a two's complement binary number that is proportional to the input, but there are other possibilities.

Integral linearity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_linearity
yes, i used to work in investigative journalism and have expertise in the subject matter. i think your generalization here is inaccurate and shows little understanding of the industry.
I did mention that part briefly. And I am still a bit confused about the decision as well given some of the subjects that suppressed.

I guess 2010's Google didn't want any trace of a popular gaming store to take over, given that we now know F2P mobile games are 70% of the app store revenue (and I'm sure it's similar to Google). If EA made the supposed Steam of Android and most games chose to focus on the EA store, that's a huge cut into Google revenue, even if most other apps would still be on the play store. So better not to risk it at all.
I thought it might be about all the flavors of ARM and the death of a “compatible” standard.
Anecdotally (N~1) it does seem like the new GPT-4 Turbo is less lazy. I cut out of a bunch of my system prompt which was designed to encourage full code gen and re-tried some previous examples: it now works completely fine without all the fluff about how I'll die if you don't complete this code, I'll tip you $200, I'll do anything you want, etc etc.
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I think that monopolies are generally bad for the user, but I don’t think that government regulation is the proper solution.
Browsers that bring their own javascript engine will likely also need to support JIT in order to be able to compete with Safari on performace. Doing JIT on iOS requires a special entitlement grant from Apple in order to map memory pages as executable. An application that has permission to map memory pages as executable is a coveted target for spyware and malware as it provides a much better starting point for pivoting to root and pwning the entire OS. Most other regular apps, even if they have a buffer overflow somewhere, will require a lot more fiddling in order to execute arbitrary code, and are thus a lower risk for users to install.

In short, browsers will have higher privileges that normal apps, as they can execute arbitrary code in memory, so they are naturally held to a higher standard.

To be honest I am happy about this. I don't trust a random banking / government / public transport app contracted out to the lowest bidder to be safe from all buffer overflows or other memory safety issues, so making sure they are sandboxed away from executing arbitrary code is a good thing.
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In Australia (and Singapore, soon) there is BinaryLane: https://www.binarylane.com.au/

(Disclosure: one of the co-founders, though I no longer work in the business.)
And what is this clarity of the Holland-registered company being an arm of Putin is based on? Specifically in terms of software/privacy.
I think a lot of your complaints are kinda myopic but symptoms of a larger problem. Why isn't Firefox trying to create an enthusiast's browser - or even plugins for that? Why did Firefox try to make their own phone os? Why isn't there Electron But With Gecko? Why isn't Servo being productized? Why do they need so much upper management?

I get that they're doing services in an attempt to gain revenue, but trying to implement something like BAT (without branding it as a currency) would go a long way. Or even a short way (I think BAT kinda sucks), but at least it's something besides _Pocket_!
It feels like there is an almost unprofessional level of snark in the way this is written. I assume Apple is banking on consumers siding with them on it but I have to wonder about the wisdom of doing that. The EU seems to be very unafraid to take on big tech, and i wouldn't want to be the company that triggers them to decide to make example to deter future malicious compliance.
Nothing quite says "high trust ecosystem" as when the people charging you 30% also make a buck on top from competitors putting their app in front of customers looking for your app by name.
Except there is a trick: In a switch, a port can only associate with limited number of hardware addresses. If you spam it with generated hw address, some switches put that port into open mode, some switch shutdown that port, the other just misbehaves.
Almost none of them keep a LRU list correctly