skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What worked well for the past 50 years was freedom. None of those operating systems were forced to provide dev kits at no additional cost. They did it to compete. If Apple's additional costs' value proposition was not there, they would not be successful, they would not be able to attract good developers creating good software. Apple is not a monopoly either, there is competition. So forcing them to provide a service at no additional cost is just theft. And corporations can circumvent the hit they will get from being forced in innumerable ways in a capitalist system, all at the expense of the consumer.

The point is, nobody is disallowed from competing with Apple and its ecosystem on its merits. If Apple didn't provide enough value in return to what they ask, they would fail. Signaling that you will punish success with force means that the next Apple will be a lot more cautious about how they do things. Jacked up prices (as long as value proposition is there, people will pay, they will just pay more), requiring dev kits (can you force a company to change their hardware design so that it can be developed on? where is the limit?) / expensive partnership agreements / increasing the barrier to entry... Unless companies are "state owned" they have infinite ways to keep their profits at the expense of consumers. Apple's existing deal was a good deal - it was working, competition was (and is still) there. Now they will have to do the things that will just inconvenience users as a side effect, which is what they don't want to do, but they will be forced to do regardless.
> Sure it has the side effect of restricting the developers, because they can't reach the restricted user without Apple giving them access. But it's only a pretty recent side effect, when Apple decided to pivot their branding on “privacy”: before that Facebook and al. spent almost a decade harvesting user data for free on iPhone without any complaints from Apple.

That is not a bad example. Should they have restricted it sooner? Yes. But that is an example of the restrictions being a positive for users.

> European regulation is not about freedom for European developers (targeting every user in the world) but about freedom for European users no matter where the developer comes from.

Honestly debatable, considering the biggest names in this are Spotify and Epic. Last I checked Spotify isn't a User. Most of the push for this seems to be pushed by developers who tried to spin this as "user choice" when its really "Developer choice".
Moderation isn't driven by upvotes; it's there to compensate for the failures of the upvoting system. If HN could operate by upvotes alone, that would be great—it would be so much less work. Unfortunately, it can't.

A lot of the things you're complaining about have been established practice on HN for many years. If you want to learn how HN works, I'd be happy to help with that. But it's time that you stopped posting off-topic complaints and trying to stir up drama about these things. 18 of these comments in one thread is quite enough.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39685272

Making a safe choice by downloading an app from the app store where Apple reviews all apps for user safety and security.
Yeah it seems like basically a hybrid of a roundabout and a Michigan left, with unclear advantages over either of those alone?
Right; but the whole point of a browser extension is that it interferes with how other webpages work. But iOS apps can’t do that. They’re more like webpages themselves - sandboxed and run as isolated processes. In the absence of browser bugs, it should be safe to click any web link. Websites can impersonate one another. But my device stays secure.

iOS apps already work like that. Why does Apple have so little trust in their own security model?
Ask HN: Viability of general purpose virus on smart contracts?
I was checking the hash rate for various coins today, just to get a sense of how much computation gets used, and it was back floating at ~550 EH/s. [1] Eta, 10^18, so, ~5.5*10^20 hashes a second.

I was walking around, and thought "If I was malicious, I might want the Earth to calculate 10^20 virus calculations for me a second"

From lightly checking, it seems like there's already a malicious smart contract market, and anti-market. [2] However, most seem to be directly targeted at the blockchain and stealing your coins, rather than general purpose virus propagation.

However, I don't really know enough about the technicalities of smart contract processing.

Question: Is it possible to write a general purpose virus that will propagate with every hash calculation or coin transaction (any major coin, although Bitcoin's the obvious 1st choice with 10^20 hashes a second and $1T market cap).

Possible stuff that's not steal your wallet: bootloader, configurator, shredder, botnet link, lightweight VM, keylogger, adware, automated downloader, activity monitor, duplicator, bricker, tracert, or an exit node logger.

Is any of that stuff viable on a smart contract execution? Is this something people should have any concern about?

[1] BTC Hash rate: https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/charts/hash-rate

[2] Smart Contract Exploits, https://pixelplex.io/blog/smart-contract-vulnerabilities/
> contacted gate pitchm2 pitchcell height,and take the square root

I am having trouble parsing `pitchm2 pitchcell height`.

Assuming that you meant to use `*` and then HN's markdown assumed it was italics, and placing `×` where italics start and begin:

sqrt(pitch × m2 pitch × cell height)

Then I am left with the questions:

What are the units of pitch? Best guess: length units? (Based on: cell height having length units. `m2 pitch` being dimensionaless?

Why do the pitches "obviously make an area" then?

What are the units of metal to pitch? Best guess: dimensionless. (Based on the final units of the sqrt being repoted in length, and the cell height presumably having units of length).

What the units of cell height? Best guess: length units, based on what the variable is called.
Agree, it's better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick.
Mentour Pilot is for people interested in aviation. He does breakdowns/analyses of plane incidents—not just crashes. He's also a certified trainer on at least one type.
Edit: I've made the app free to download for the next 24 hours
Interesting list of Epicurean theories. Any good starting point that addresses them together and how multiple possibility thinking is related?
particularly loved the intro. i had a scroll through the rest, didnt quite catch my ear, but man that first 1.30 was magic :D
dark energy increases the distance between objects, adding to the system's energy by increasing the gravitational potential energy. Without the contribution from dark energy, after several cycles the pull from the iron atoms would cause the black hole orbit to decay.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39685272

The problem exists in the Apple app store. So why behave as if it is an issue unique to windows and android?

The apple situation makes it worse, people now expect the app store to be a safe place to download from and perhaps do less due diligence because they assume apple are doing the heavy lifting, mainly because Apple keep telling us they are doing the heavy lifting to protect us.
It’s crazy that you can leave reviews from within the App Store, nor can you report it to Apple from within the App Store.
So I propose the Musk supremacy criterion to be the following.

Suppose that a wealthy and powerful human (such as Elon Musk) were to suddenly obtain the exact same sinister goals as the hypothetical superintelligent AI in question. Suppose further that this human was able to convince/coerce/bribe another N (say 1000) humans to follow his bidding.

A BadOutcome is said to be MuskSupreme if it could be accomplished by the superintelligent AI, but not by the suddenly-evil Musk and his accomplices.

Obviously[citation needed] it is only the MuskSupreme BadOutcomes we care about. Do there exist any?
Windy uses some of the models mentioned including GFS, you can select the model you want to use. So I’m not sure it would be any more accurate than the Apple Watch.
I have tried it. More than one phone from different carriers. The parental controls are lacking.

It's been a couple of years since I've last tried, but given Google's history regarding subpar controls I doubt it has gotten appreciably better.
./install.php, the good old way to initialize environments :D
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39685272

Not exactly blocking immediately are they.
The difference here is that 737 MAX has a flaw (forward positioning of the engine) that cannot be fixed as a "bug".
GhostRace – Exploiting and Mitigating Speculative Race Conditions
This is a really hard article to read.
Hmm. I think that's interesting. I don't agree with you, but let's take your statement as fact.

What's wrong with that?

The content itself is generally him explaining from a pilot's point of view situations that have happened, like crashes or ATC issues, or responses to clickbait misinformation from other places on social media. His responses tend to be reasonable and enjoyable and for people who "aren't into aviation," maybe his videos will make them more interested. He has never made it about himself, the guy got promoted to Captain and didn't (and hasn't?) even mentioned it. Even his avatar and banner have him at 3 bars. It seems to me that he genuinely cares about aviation and informing people who aren't familiar with it. I feel like he brings a lot of value.

If you're not into it's fine, but I think it's a bit unfortunate you feel the need to play gatekeeper.
Also to comment further on my "Gaza is not occupied" point. You mention the movement of people to Israel (a different country) and movement of people to the West Bank (a piece of land occupied from a different country by a different country). I can only assume this is supposed to be some sort of supporting argument against my position.

Before 1967 when Gaza was part of Egypt and the West Bank was part of Jordan and both were at war with Israel there was also no free movement of people between those places. What exactly stopped Egypt and Jordan from creating this "two state solution", giving Palestinians their country in that territory, and facilitating all the other requirements?

Fast forward to today where again the international status of Gaza is territory occupied by Israel, from Egypt, in 1967. The Palestinians have no standing in there at all. Palestinians are asking for new rights, and they should obtain those rights via negotiations either with Israel or with Egypt and Jordan if they prefer to do so. There is no requirement under international law for Israel to allow for movement of people between those places (though in practice they do allow it, as you point out, because reality often trumps legality). It's also not generally true that people leaving the west bank cannot return and certainly people leaving Gaza (for example for training in Iran) can return. The situation in Israel vs. international law is somewhat unique. When Israel completely withdrew from Gaza in 2005 it effectively for all practical purposes ended the status of that territory as being occupied. Because Egypt won't take it back and because of the complicated politics of the situation there are still some legal issues but from a practical perspective, that territory is not occupied.

When the Palestinians say "occupation" they mostly mean Jewish presence in Mandatory Palestine (A British territory following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire). I've even heard that term extend to Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Spain and other places. That has nothing to do with the international law regarding occupied territories but that line is conveniently blurred.
How is it free equity? Spending money to invest it somewhere involves risks. You might recover some of it if the investment is valued by others, but there is no guarantee.
They've already overreached in the past.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2432715-inlichtingendiensten-moeten-g...

https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/tech/artikel/5294998/aftappen-aivd-...
Then couple that with the stress of testifying. I have none of these issues but testifying like this would be hugely stressful.

I would have to suspect he felt trapped and this was the only way out of testifying.
Mars could be driving 'giant whirlpools' in the Earth's deep oceans, new study
The only reason you do is to negate negative commentary or performance around battery usage, and the increased drain of always allowed location.
the problem is that I don't always know what I'm interested in. It's hard to filter content since the dislike count has been hidden. And I don't have 20 min to spend every time I feel like watching a video. All of this is the point of the recommendation algorithm, which unfortunately is failing on youtube because of SEO. Ideally, it would be nice to have a community-run recommendation algorithm.
Do you have any examples of such programs being used maliciously?
Evidence for a player in Earth's multimillion-year climate cycles: Mars
air filtration isn't expensive nor hard... last generation cleaned water, perhaps we should clean the air. start small, indoors and transportation, reduce exposure simple stuff and just gotta do it.
I didn't claim that it's perfect, just that it's safer.

Regarding smartphone safety, the only truly safe thing to do is not not use one at all.
I thought the Apple platform had the best consumer experience and that's why folk love it -- it "just works" -- cause they keep the riff-raff out of their gated community.

Perhaps they let this one slip through because their team was too busy dragging out the review process for our cannabis compliance application, they can only afford so many reviewers after all. We wouldn't want children accidentally getting their hands on regulatory compliance data for deadly deadly cannabis. (which could happen with our application, after they had signed up and verified their agency cannabis license (which only takes many months/years and $$$$$s to get))
You're right, and I've done both. My review doesn't appear in the list of reviews.

What's crazy is that a scam app is the #1 organic search result for 'bitcoin wallet', above blockchain.com and coinbase.
I'm gonna let you reflect on what you just said.
I think the main point is the theft protection and protection from state. The US and the UK's democratic systems are broken.

In the US the social structure is slowly collapsing which increases theft and other petty crimes, at the same time the federal state has a huge surveillance power.

Solving the societal and political problems so there is less incentive having your iPhone stolen is hard. Expecting a state-like company to benevolently save you is the way they cope.

TBH without the EU, legislation like DMA would also be hard to come up with. The independent countries have less power to exert over American behemoths. This is the nice thing about EU.
An app on iOS or Android cannot access the storage of any other app, which fact does not fit into the description you give (i.e., your second paragraph).
> the left is also known for lying,

Democrats are known for lying for sure. Establishment democrats like Pelosi, definitely. If that's what "left" references OK, I don't really disagree. AOC and Bernie, Stewart, and other progressives are not generally known for lying.

> which is why both sides are constantly bitching at each other.

No. This is some weird false equivalency thing that is popular with "enlightened" people. Some of Americas top brass (Mattis and Milley) have nearly explicitly said that republican dogma is to divide and conquer.

Mattis accused the president of pursuing a divisive strategy.
"[he] is the first president in my lifetime who does not
try to unite the American people— does not even pretend to try.

"Instead he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences
of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the
consequences of three years without mature leadership," he said.

If one party explicitly tries to drive division, you are going to get it. It's no different than Ukraine's lack of unity with Russia. Of course there cannot be unity. Of course they are "bitching at each other." One is attempting to dictate to the other how it is going to be.

> reputation destruction

This is a load and a bad faith argument.

For one, it conflates reputation harm with reputation destruction in order to justify actions that should cause reputational harm. Second, when there is "destruction", it usually follows doubling down on the anti-social behavior that caused the reputational harm in the first place.

A world where reputations can be harmed is absolutely a better world. You can argue that sometimes there is non-proportional harm, ok, but that's not the usual argument. "I am against cancelling" is too often equivalent to "I am against consequences."

The very same people against "canceling" will turn around and claim that a store theft or car window smashing should be punished progressively disproportionately until it is a real deterrent to crime including death. Reputational harm until it is a deterrent to the thing that caused the reputational harm is the very same principle.
Sure. There should be only one =. Sorry.
at the end of the day, you are still moving, storing and manipulating 1's and 0's, whether you are a front end engineer or a backend engineer or systems engieer or an ML engineer or an infra engineer
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Discord is actually using WebGL/WASM tech for embedding the games inside the application, funny enough.
For years I had the idea of making a quantum version of the breakout game. In conception quite similar to this, but in detail I pictured modelling it as a photon in an infinite square well. Start with it very localized as a wave packet. Let the bricks be observations: continually they either exclude the photon-ball or observe it to have location within the brick boundaries (and then very uncertain velocity subsequently by Heisenberg uncertainty). A brick would be removed when that occurs. I never got around to coding though...
> does a scam app become the #1 organic search result (not promoted) in the app store

It's possible that it's just because it was literally called "Bitcoin Wallet", an exact match for your search, or boosted by fake reviews, or it was actually an ad that you didn't notice. Though it shouldn't have gotten past review at all

But I don't really understand why you'd blindly trust some random app?

Also, would be interesting to take a look at the app, sadly know nothing about ios apps or how to get the IPA, only android.
The big win here is co-locating tunnels on existing domains with real websites. If anyone has a site that would be willing to host a tunnel but doesn't want to run a full tor bridge, email me (in my profile) and I can help you configure your server to forward traffic to my bridge.

If you want to setup your own details are here: https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/webtunnel/
It needs to be a bit more controlled than that right now in my opinion. We'll get there very soon. But right now whilst it's so early, with regular breaking changes, it makes sense to stay in the Discord community until there's a published stable release.
I guess I'm referring here to the unit test standards that seem typically employed by automated code review frameworks - i.e. "100% coverage" checkers. With those, any subsequent change to the system requires understanding and modifying both the original code and the set of tests and seems to end up being around double the effort. It's not actual duplication - but mocking expected inputs/outputs takes on its own system (and often programming language in most frameworks) which is not always trivial. You may be referring to something different though.

In those situations, yes I stand by them being a costly overhead - which makes sense in large collaborative systems, but not so much in small agile MVPs.
> And do that several times until it's good enough

Or just write the damn thing yourself.
So much for Apple "security"
No repro. Same search string gives me the Bitcoin.com and the Coinbase app at the top. Scrolled through several dozen wallet apps and the one in the Reddit link never surfaced.
I don't think I've ever searched for something on the app store and not got a scam as the first result

just tried it

- my bank? I get crypto.com
- train company app? knockoff app that charges extra fees
- my broker? CFD gambling app
- official government app for paying my tax? intuit product

I dare to think how many people this lures in

scammy ads plastered everywhere is what I'd expect from Google products

not for the Apple equivalent that commands a significant price premium
As for "glimpse" ...

One or two general elections ago[0] the Danish Peoples Party (which at the time was often declared far right and compared to the likes of Geert Wilders et al) got a 25% vote.

In the media it was described as a "protest vote". It was a landslide and IIRC they became the second largest party in terms of votes.

So, what happened next? First off the party leadership at the time declared that they did not want to join government, which was kind of weird given their extreme share of votes.

Second, a very normal government coalition formed, having the DPP as support but not as members. In local terms this was a "right wing" government (in US terms probably not right wing enough /s).

Third, parties across the full political spectrum began being verbose on immigration (ie "asylum seekers" because, well, IDK... that's the term they prefer I supose, while immigration is seen as beneficial, or... well, it's complicated) at the very least creating an image of concern, and in some notable cases even calling for action. The new government IIRC even crafted a few new media-friendly laws in this area - notably a law on "ghetto demolition" which got a lot of media attention even internationally

Time went by, and the traditional government did more or less what it would have done in any case, with a bend towards being tough on "foreigners-and-Danes-with-certain-foreign-ancestry-but-only-those-related-to-select-geographical-areas-and-mostly-criminal-ones-unemployed-ones-or-asylum-seekers" (sorry, I find it hard to find a single descriptive word here).

As the next general election came the vote of the DPP plummeted to near nothing. Next government was once again a very normal coalition in that region doing what they otherwise would have done, only with a slight bend towards being tough on "x, y, but not z unless a, b ,c ...". Since then the DPP has been split up, and the most of the "right wing" has gone though some hardships, so it's not really the same political landscape now.

I'm not sure this tale is comparable to Dutch politics. In Denmark it was more of "a glimpse" than anything else, and the media and political establishment right now is entirely focused on something else than "those people" (US interests/"Foreign Policy" mostly, domestic not much).

[0] I don't recall if it was the election where the PM accepted an offer of a well paid NATO job while on duty, or the one where the former PM accepted an offer of a well paid Facebook job immediately afterwards... (as for our current PM, she alleges publicly that she "is not interested if an offer should come" confirming the trend by denying it... )
A bit similar to Microsoft Orleans.
This reminds me of the issues with calculating the zeros of the Riemann zeta equation - your code design quickly becomes dominated by numerical implementation considerations