skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why did you have to transfer bitcoin? Surely you would just load your private key into the app unless I'm missing something.
Amazon Presses the Nuclear Button
What was the justification for the app store ecosystem?
That logic applies to Quest (at least currently).
The parent comment cited Web Distribution as evidence that Apple doesn't actually care about safety and security, when in fact Web Distribution is more secured than Marketplace distribution.

> The goal was to get out of Apple's clutches when your customers have their devices

Whose goal? Read the DMA. It is very explicit that it expects Apple to maintain security of devices and apps.
Being on or near a train platform and you can see brake dust caked on everything. Probably dust combined with grease. It's worse looking than roads.
Ever since WSL2, Windows has been objectively the best desktop os (with the only caveat that you have to have the pro version which lets you disable a bunch of the annoying stuff, and disabling that stuff takes a little bit of tweaking).

You get the advantage of having all the software that doesn't work under linux, while having a linux dev environment that works very well even with Cuda for ML.
https://archive.ph/wChkR
Kotlin, Scala, Groovy, Clojure

(None of these looking to make Java safer per se, but rather more usable/less verbose.)
You're right, I shouldn't trust a random app. Also, it's pretty much my first serious foray into Apple land. I trusted Apple's search results. There are multiple apps, far more mature and backed by serious developers, that would also match the phrase "Bitcoin Wallet".

The question is why is the scam app the #1 organic search result? For a new app with such scammy reviews and questionable metadata I would expect it to be #30 in the list. For context, the app store reports the scam app as #85 in all finance apps.
I'm not arguing that it shouldn't be opened up. I'm just stating that by being a walled garden it is safer.

When things eventually open up, when Apple is finally forced to permit other app stores on their mobile devices, I'll take a hard pass on them.
> What would Apple be charging for then?

The CTF offsets Apple's costs in developing and maintaining the "core technology": the OS and the frameworks that the developer uses in their application.
I would think it’s probably that. Also, has this been renamed to Twine from Tupperware?
What a mouthful, "Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center"
ADHD Pharmacotherapy and Mortality in Individuals with ADHD
the point is, MS and others are free to choose how they will offer their services. They can say "hey I'll provide this for free, and I will make you pay for this other thing". As long as they are not a monopoly in computing, they should be free to do whatever they want, no? If they go bonkers with what they ask vs the value they provide, competition will wipe them out - easy peasy.

Apple could have said at the beginning "hey this is iPhone, there are no external apps for it though" - which was actually the case! iPhone did not have 3rd party apps at launch.

Then Apple could have said "good news everyone, you can now develop for the iPhone. Dev kits start at $10000 per unit, apply to partner with us, call us at this number" and that would be the end of it. Lots of gadgets still work like that and nobody bats an eye.

Apple decreased the barrier to entry and provided it as a service, charged for it but created good value in return, and it worked! But now that governments signal that they will punish such success, the next Apple will likely not go the way of low barrier of entry - this will hurt the regular folk, people with not so deep pockets.
They also could have done the complete opposite. Imagine your life being in the hands of Twitter.
What were the subpar controls? I use it daily for my kids so would genuinely like to know what you feel didn't/doesn't work because for the last 4 or 5 years I have never had one issue using it.
Particularly when there are better alternatives. For example, put a physical hardware switch on the inside of the device that disables new stores from being added. Now you can set up your technically disinclined relatives with Apple's store, and a couple of others you trust if it pleases you, then flip the switch and they can't get into trouble because they can't add others.

Move the switch back and the device won't boot without a factory wipe. That's going to deter both anyone who can't successfully disassemble the device to flip the switch (i.e. severely technically illiterate people) and the people who aren't willing to press YES to a prompt that says it's about to erase all their data (i.e. mildly technically illiterate people), while leaving it possible for exactly the people it should be possible for.
why them specifically?
That seems unlikely in the short term. Estimates for V1 is that they'll ship ~300k units. Quest 2 has sold 18 million. It honestly sounds more like justifying buying a Vision Pro.
It looks like the original publication of the timeline was on Avid (the video editing software)'s Facebook page on March 1 [1]. I haven't seen any publications older than that (yet).

The timeline was later published to their YouTube channel 4 days ago [2].

[1]: https://www.facebook.com/Avid/videos/-the-full-editing-timel...
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upTs-HTThMM
Sorry, I did google search and misattributed it. All GNU and FSF projects has CLA[1]. And having GPL is an understatement for them as they created GPL and they have been a leader of open source for 40 years.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.en.html
Like it or not, it's the truth.
In the scenario you described above, you would be entitled to sue for damages if you sold shares in a company under false pretenses because the other owners deceived you.

Imagine being the part-owner of a bread focused bakery. You tell the other owners that you think the business should focus on pastries – even if everybody agrees that bread products are more important – as pastries make more money (that money can in turn be invested into the bread business).

The other owners hard disagree and ask you to leave the company, because a) that does not fit into their bread-centric mission and b) you own a pastry-supplier in town and would obviously be profiting from this move. So you sell your shares and move on, no harm no foul.

But what if they then turn around and start producing pastries, claiming it's only doing so to financially support their bread business? What if they start entering lucrative deals with other pastry-suppliers and effectively stop making bread?

In this case I would argue that you would be entitled to some portion of your foregone gains. You sold your stock while being under the impression that the company would never go into the direction which you deem is the *only viable one*, only to find out that they did exactly what you suggested after you left.

> ... because it isn't working on tech I agree with, ...

Please notice that this is not what happened. They all agreed on the tech to be researched. The only disagreement was the business model and company structure required to fund the research.
That's actually quite worrisome. I don't really think twice about downloading the top result for things like PayPal or local banking apps if I get a new phone, for example.
True! But an example is I have a perfectly good Samsung Note 8 that isn't being used. But Lineage only supports Note 9 and 10.
The vast majority of Android users use the Play Store (or the Amazon thing) exclusively. So Android is not different than iOS in this regard.

The vanishingly few remaining users use F-Droid (sometimes exclusively), which is probably the safest app store on Earth, with GNU/Linux and *BSD distros' base repositories. Open source only, reproducible builds with public recipes written independently, trackers removed (because they usually rely on non-free libs).

I honestly don't see how having only one store makes an OS safer. That store could be an unchecked mess.

We could talk about policies around app inclusion and permission management though.
Yeah, I think that's probably the more accurate reason.
Yet, in this case, aurareturn's comment seems way more plausible than yours.
Trust but test: Vendor security testing at Canva
There's no definition of "responsible reporting" that involves hiding information from the public to support a policy goal.
All wheeled ground transportation sources that use brakes. Legged vehicles and ground effect vehicles would not suffer from this problem, and we shouldn't necessarily assume the wheel will be the forever solution, we should not fail to dream.
+1 on this as well. We have an on-prem gitlab instance, so it needs to run locally to ingest source anyway.
Apple devices are lucrative compared to Android. But Quest is not Android and given that app purchases on Quest are in the $20-60 range and there's 18M units, I don't buy that Apple is the better bet yet. It may be long term, but I would be waiting for Apple to prove itself first in a very unproven market.
OPA is a great tool for implementing a policy-as-code system. But if you're trying to use it for application authorization (e.g. fine-grained authz for B2B SaaS or a set of internal applications), you may find that its policy story is strong, but it doesn't really have a "data plane": you either store data in a data.json file and rebuild the policy any time that data changes, or make an http.send call out of the policy to fetch dynamic data.

Check out Topaz [0], which uses OPA as its decision engine, but adds a data plane that is based on the ReBAC ideas explored in the Google Zanzibar [1] paper.

Disclaimer: I work on the team [2] that builds and maintains the Topaz project.

[0] https://www.topaz.sh

[1] https://research.google/pubs/zanzibar-googles-consistent-glo...

[2] https://www.aserto.com
We have a lot of existing c++. I still cannot figure out how to mix with anything else. Nothing else wants to deal with vector for instance.
Mac app for web animation: Tumult Hype

https://tumult.com/hype/

Resulting animation can be self-hosted on a web page.

macOS-only, I believe.
Ahhh, thanks.

> One million free first annual installs. Membership in the Apple Developer Program includes one million first annual installs per year for free for apps distributed from the App Store and/or alternative marketplaces.

> Developers of alternative app marketplaces will pay the Core Technology Fee for every first annual install of their app marketplace, including installs that occur before one million.

https://developer.apple.com/support/core-technology-fee/
Would certainly keep it to myself and have some fun with it
Previously: [0][1] (7 days ago, 61+7 points, 17+2 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39608805
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39611449
The title made (program debugging me) think

"What if the chiropractor is also an MD?".

shrug.
Yes, and next year we will be 10 years away from full self driving. By 2025, we should be 11 years away if all goes well.
Honestly, I got lazy, and that's on me. I was using the standard bitcoin wallet app on android. It did seem weird I can't restore the wallet I backed up in the android app, but the android app github doesn't point to an app store app, so I figured there just isn't and the android app's backup format is something detached.

Then I figured a legit apple app could generate a wallet and I could transfer the bitcoin between them. Which is what I did. The apple app indeed received it and promptly sent it off somewhere else. What's even crazier is that the apple app shows this info! You'd expect the scammer to hide the scam but I suppose it just made it easier to pass the app store inspection.
Based on something "real" like scam/fraud metrics, or just "this is what Tim Cook wants me to think"?

Both stores are walled gardens.

One onboarding experience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39685272 :-D
Our local TV station weatherman has a YouTube channel[1] where he geeks out every morning about the weather, providing a much more detailed forecast than he has time for during the brief windows he has on the TV news. Walks through the HRRR, NAM, GFS, satellite pictures, and other sources of information. It's a nice compromise if you find the raw data to be overwhelming.

1: https://www.youtube.com/@markfinanweather
webxx: Declarative, composable, concise and fast HTML and CSS in C++
>Hey I'm trying here it takes time to build something as large as this solo.

No one is objecting to the time it takes to build something. They are objecting to what is starting to feel to them like spam marketing. HN will be far more receptive when you have a thing people can try themselves. Until then, not so much.
Promoted results in Google are loaded with scams. According to one recent report, 75% of brands are affected (https://searchengineland.com/google-search-ads-brands-fraud-...):

The researchers who conducted the report found that retail giants such as Amazon, American Airlines, Lego, Pizza Hut, and Samsung were all victims of identity fraud within Google Search Ads.

Here's a Google SERP for "Facebook" which shows Facebook as the URL, redirects to an Apple security scam: https://youtube.com/shorts/gTEuqXYAp58?si=lzFV9mfX31_8nzd1

Google even vouches for the advertiser:

https://twitter.com/leanmediaorg/status/1724467969344905534/...
how is this different from using Earthly and a private Nexus instance?
In hindsight, this is quite obvious. Coming from years of using Google Pixels I just got used to trusting the search results. I've never hit a fraudulent app when searching in the Play Store. I trusted apple that at least the top 5 results would be legit.
EDIT: added the word 'top' at the end
The boiling surface of giant star Betelgeuse may be creating an illusion
You’d be a lot less snarky if it was you getting rich.
The problem is that all the bad stuff from cars by definition is OUTIDE, where it's essentially impossible to filter besides wearing a properly fitting respirator.
There are two types of subpoenas in use: 1) police-issued ("administrative"); 2) court-issued ("warranted").

Having been the victim of these on many occasions, I can also see the original article seems to have things slightly twisted. The SCA gives the power to any governmental body to subpoena metadata from providers under an administrative subpoena without notice to the user. 18 U.S. Code § 2703(c)(2) I think.

It's the content of records that starts to get into constitutional areas such as 4th Amend. requirements.
"... the charging circuit is, to put it mildly, primitive. There is no charging indicator. Nor is there a sign that the batteries are fully charged. The HX-20 manual states that empty batteries should be put on charge for 8 hours. Leaving them longer risks damaging them, but without any way to tell that they are full there is no way to be sure you’ve timed it right. "

This is normal for NiCd and later NiMH batteries. They're recharged applying regulated (ideally constant) current for a given time, and it's impossible to get a figure of their charge status just by sampling their voltage like with Lithium cells, which are dangerous indeed if abused, still much much easier to recharge. The only known ways to check those cells status are to either continuously sample the energy put in, or to intercept the so called delta V and delta T, a very slight (millivolts) decrease in cell voltage near the end of charge, paired with an increase of temperature which indicates the cell can't store more energy. This becomes even more difficult with battery packs, and makes measuring their status very hard when charging, and completely impossible if kept in use at the same time. Many portable safety anti-blackout lamps from the 70s to the 90s used NiCd and NiMH batteries, and many of them broke after some time because they kept their batteries under constant charge.
Why even terminate the warranty? It's for the hardware. It's a law in many countries that the warranty still applies unless the manufacturer can prove that you yourself broke the device.
It wasn't a promoted result, it's an organic search result, and it's still there!
This has been a very noticeable problem to me for some time.

I won't search the App Store anymore. I go to the web site for the app I want and get the App Store link that way.

I wish the App Store listings would specify the domain of the entity they come from in plain text, backed by a validation method similar to what we do for TLS certs.
Most subscription mobile apps don't make money
It does have that: “report an issue.”
Maybe I don't want to have to worry about if a PWA is good enough, and will remain good enough?
Subpoenas are never "backed by a warrant." Probably what you mean is a subpoena signed by a judge, rather than the self-issued "administrative" subpoena being discussed here.
My first real programming job involved creating cellular computation simulations for a physics professor. I used Excel and VBA... worked surprisingly well.
Yes, it was CC-BGG that had the incident and landed in Auckland, then the flight to Santiago was cancelled.
> Even the King James Bible has been colorized for... some reason.

*Checks link.*

> Read the Bible…in color. Search the Bible…in color. Match words from the Bible…in color. Guess words from the Bible…in color. This hack brings Wisdom Tree’s Game Boy Bible to the GBC.

> NOTE: This game has dodgy compatibility with emulators/hardware, due to it using the unlicensed Wisdom Tree mapper. BGB will work the best. View the readme for more info.

https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/6708/

Sounds like a valid reason to me. In color.

More seriously, isn’t Christianity like one of the three biggest religions in the world? Makes sense that one of its followers would find it useful to make an enhancement to the game. In color.
Not sufficiently detailed to be answerable.

For example 1000 people — but only if you get to choose who — is sufficient to take absolute control of both the US congress and the Russian State Duma (or a supermajority of those two plus the Russian Federation Council), which gives them the freedom to pass arbitrary constitutional amendments… so your scenario includes "gets crowned King of the USA and Russia, 90% of the global nuclear arsenal is now their personal property" as something we don't care about.
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Such barter deals were also popular during the 00s Internet Bubble.

Here more on the deals (2003):

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/aol-saga-ope...

Popular names included AOL, Cisco, Yahoo, etc.

Not sure if Amazon’s term sheets driving high valuation are nothing but AWS credits (Amazon’s own license to print money).
Expanding a little on what the sibling comment said, Jack Welch was also responsible for changing corporate thinking to prioritise shareholders above all else: workers, and society.

Before Welch corporate had first a duty to its workers, providing good pension systems, training on (and for) the job, loyalty to employees by avoiding mass firing/layoffs even if it meant cutting other expenses and management salaries (or negotiating pay cuts across the board to whether a storm), taking good care of their workers as a principle; secondly a duty to society by providing and/or producing services and products that benefitted society, funding education to train a new batch of workers but also as a return to the society that created the foundations where the corporation sprung from; and thirdly to shareholders and investors.

Welch took over GE and implemented his vision of what we now see as a corporation: trim the "fat" by cutting whatever is considered a cost at the moment, inverted the duties of corporate to prioritise shareholder value above workers and society, what we now see repeated ad nauseum as the only true responsibility of corporations (here on HN is a consistent mantra of the business types), and so on.

GE is far away from the powerhouse of R&D from before mostly due to Welch's changes, those have trickled into becoming the zeitgeist of corporate thinking over time when many MBA programs simply adopted his methods as the right way to do business. In my opinion this thinking is what makes almost every contemporary corporation rotten in their cores.
My comment was from the point of view of the security provider. The security provider receives your freedom and gives you security. Of course, from the point of view of the freedom holder, there are no guarantees that the security provider will fulfill the promise in the sense that you expect (i.e. that they won't violate it themselves) but you can generally expect that they will at the very least reduce the number of individuals threatening your security from private individuals plus the state to just the state.

Your full and complete security can't never be guaranteed unless you hand over your full and complete freedom. Sure, today there are many scans in the App Store but today there are also way more mobile users than there were in the early days and phones have gone from digital toys to holders of digital personal life.

If you want to see what a world where you keep most of your freedom looks like, try using the Google App Store with an average phone (see: phone with no security updates since 2021) and see how many scams you get. Guaranteed way more than Apple. Like an order of magnitude more.

Let me give you another analogy. You are a villager in a corrupt country besieged by out of control armed gangs taking control of areas of the country. Areas such as yours. You got a corrupt country making your life hell and gangs making your life hell. Now you have a choice to move to another country where there is corruption but no gangs. That other country is Apple, Singapore and basically any South American country got its gangs under control. There are millions of people that literally want to get an Apple, get into Singapore and get into this kind of SA country. Sure, a world where higher powers don't abuse their power is nice but that world does not exist in our reality. You choose the lesser evil. That's what Apple is doing here.
> Let the people willing to relocate do it

Well, sure. As long as they don't cause serious environmental and safety problems while they do it. But that's obviously a personal choice; it's absurd to expect the public finances to support the project. If they want to make money out of weekender tourists, then presumably they are making some kid of business plan; I'm fine with them losing all their money.
Nope. Moreover, simulating it even with AVX-512 is quite an experience. Been postponing it for 2 years now... But first of all, you need to choose the version of float8 you want to implement, as the standards differ between GPU vendors.
We'll be waiting on baited breath
> What should I do if I have both

Already messed up. Shouldn't buy things you don't approve of.
I was kind of interested in the Playdate but couldn't bring myself to buy one. Last summer I stayed at my brother-in-laws place for a week and did some DIY work around his house, and while I was there played with his Playdate. Really enjoyed it, but still couldn't bring myself to "pull the trigger" on buying one. I'm really busy with work and life these days and don't often find I have time to game.

3 months later a package arrived from Playdate; as a thank you for the DIY work my BIL bought me one.

It's a very well designed and executed device, the crank handle is well used in many games, and it's nice to have a device that just does one thing and does it well. It can be a little tricky to play depending on ambient light.
But Microsoft has a single store for both Windows and Xbox apps. So why isn't the EU forcing Microsoft to open up the Xbox?
with greater power comes greater responsibilities, I hereby present you

https://eusprig.org/research-info/horror-stories/
No, it’s a “do no harm to children” decision by the public healthcare service in the UK based on evidence and NHS England doesn’t stand in the election in case that wasn’t obvious.