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> The fact that your device can become a complete brick, because of an issue in their completely hands-off account management system, smells like a class action suit

This is HN frontpage. It's on a big "Mac" website. The damage is done.

Many are going to write nonsense like: "Apple is still a $2 trillion company, so this obviously works for them" to which I'll respond with a simple question: Did it not work for Apple before these SNAFUs? Does it work better for Apple now, after fuck ups like that?

It's not normal behavior and they are losing customers over this.

We had an Apple "moment" in the family: around the 2012'ish MacBook Air era. Two at home and they worked fine, for about ten years. Then the battery issues, the keyboard issues, the trackpad issues. Eventually these MacBook Airs died a painful death.

I'm on Linux since the nineties (and, yup, I can get into my system with Apple or Microsoft forcing an online ID down my throat) but the Macs were convenient for the wife.

So we bought a MacBook Air M1. After 13 months or so the screen died alone, overnight: was working fine before closing the lid, was dead in the morning. There are threads with dozens of pages on that subject.

That's when I switched the wife to Ubuntu. Ubuntu, Linux Mint: she doesn't care. Heck, I probably could have her use Debian or Devuan (Debian without systemd).

Apple is done for us. It's over. We'll never ever buy a Mac again and I'll never ever recommend a Mac to anyone.

And I'm far from the only one thinking that way.

The damage is done.

Rationalize as much as you want, invoke AAPL's market cap as much as you want, and enjoy being locked out of of your devices without any recourse.
Cows' milk particles used for effective oral delivery of drugs
First mover network effects. Also, not knowing the market. It’s hard for a company without at least a cursory local presence to get local restaurants to sign up for things. There is a significant burden on the restaurant to get onboarded for a delivery company, so there has to be a good reason to do so.

But, there is definitely a margin to be had here… if you could have a lower cost delivery service that managed the white label backend like DoorDash, I’m sure you’d see companies flock to it for their in-app delivery. (Think McDonalds delivery ordered in the McD app)
There is a treatment for opioid addiction, it's called methadone. It works very well and it takes a very long time. The US actually did exactly what you said, it was American doctors and universities who developed the programs now used around the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_agonist_therapy
The very cheap artificial sapphires are basically made by melting aluminum oxide in bulk. They're usually cut in a factory, so they don't look very nice. I got very large artificial ruby (also corundum) for my wife (actually to satisfy my own curiosity), and it basically killed all interest in rubies for her. It basically looks like a chunk of plastic. Under high magnification, you can supposedly see a lot of parallel curves lines of bubbles due to how the crystals are grown.

There are also nicer artificial sapphires which are grown in similar conditions as natural ones. These have inclusions similar to natural ones, but they are usually uniform in color. Natural ones tend to have parts that are more saturated. It's not a technical limitation though, so I'm sure you can make less perfect-looking artificial sapphires that can fool your average jeweler. However, gemological testing will use advanced spectroscopy, which spits out enough data to distinguish between natural and artificial ones.
People flag for dumpster fires on the discussion page too.
"there is no 'top' to the web" <= words that were mind blowing to me at the time
>IT "Security" is reaching new heights of being bullshit. You can't win, and asking people to buy multiple devices and keep them continuously in sync is a bit much

You likely don't need to buy multiple devices. I log in from random countries/VPNs all the time and never have issues, but I do have 2fa enabled. If your account only has a password and there was a suspicious sign in attempt, it's reasonable for them to ask for additional verification somehow because you could be a victim of a credential stuffing attack. It's hard for companies to win here. Either people complain about their accounts getting randomly locked because they were on vacation in Romania and tried signing in on a new device, or the companies get grilled by the media for "failing to proactively protect their users' data" or whatever.
In the span of human existence, that is a very short time period
Banks sold a lot of mortgages at 2% rates without anticipating the rapid rise to 7%.

The unlucky banks still had these on their books instead of having already sold them off as MBS and became insolvent when the mortgages became worth less.

As long as the government keeps swooping in and bailing out the failing small banks with this issue it won’t create a larger problem for the economy. The large megabanks don’t have this balance sheet issue as i understand it.
Anyone of sound mind and health can still make a bad decision in the moment. I'd argue ever launching nukes is a bad decision, at which point we might as well disconnect the football and just not tell anyone.
This analysis is pretty weak. DoorDash is running a net loss overall - gross margin isn't covering their fixed costs - especially marketing to obtain customers. In their most recent 10-K https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1792789/0001..., they have a non-gaap measure contribution profit per order which is -0.8%. So yeah, it's not surprising that they're trying to increase fees.
I'm guessing the complexity of configurable menu items (pick any 2 of X, add Y for $Z), promotions like discounts or BOGO, scheduling those promos and making all of that easy for the restaurant manager to tweak (from my outside perspective, most restaurants are terrible at it, but maybe that's by design on their part)

on the flip side, there's no intrinsic reason for apps to repeatedly tweak this part of the design. in an ideal world, designers, engineers and product managers sit down, figure it out, and ship. it's not like restaurants are continuously evolving in a meaningful way... but organizations tend to breed this sort of self-fulfilling prophecy where we need more resources to support the increasing need for resources, to paraphrase that quote
Last I heard it is called Android XR and Samsung is building a device that will run it. That makes it even less likely they will let the app store and GMS apps ship with Horizon OS
Who is we? I'd like big tech to stay out of even more our lives, personally.
It actually happens if a device has been offline for about 3 days for me.
a properly configured (stateful) firewall permits replies to unfiltered outbound connections. you've made no corrections to anything i said, but merely added context to "filter most outbound connections" and with fair points.

but reasonable plumbers could and certainly do disagree on whether to allow any ICMP connections initiated from outside the firewall whatsoever.
XDG_SESSION_TYPE more of a hint thought. You actually have to do something like

(export -n DISPLAY; <app>)
Einstein Probe opens its wide eyes to the X-ray sky
It’s not a competitor to Siri…yet. But it’s pretty easy to see the two converging in the near future. The best way to make sure that your voice assistant is used and useful is to back it with an LLM that literally does and knows everything. That’s the future OpenAI is chasing, and the one Apple should be chasing. I’m hopeful that this year brings some quick advancements in this area. But judging by the fact that it’s a year behind OpenAI in the timing, it’s hard to believe that Apple isn’t behind right now.
Nobody is maintaining X. Previous X developers are the developers of Wayland. Wayland is a X.org Foundation project.
I'm guessing this is due to Apple's paranoia that someone might get an Apple ID and use iMessage without buying an Apple device.
It would be neat to catch up on what all of the people listed on https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/People.html have been doing for the last thirty years. I bet they are an interesting bunch!
The problem is that almost every kind of company entering markets to compete would have to spend an ungodly amount of money for advertising (you have to let people know you exist and drivers that you are offering a job) and the setup cost are high too.

It is simply expensive to ENTER the market and you will have to have high prices for at least the first period but with them there is no incentive to use you.

And if you give an artificially low price for your service (let say on the long term you can pay the initial fees maintaining lower prices)then the whole thing is still super risky.

It can be done, there are just more safe endeavors.
The default will change to Wayland soon because Steam Deck runs Plasma. Plasma 6 defaults to a wayland session.
Snake_Cases are easier than CamelCase for non-native speakers of English to read
This is an interesting transcript from the podcast EMBEDDED.FM under episode 460: I Don’t Care What Your Math Says https://embedded.fm/transcripts/460 . Where he promotes the idea of using snake case over camel cases to ensure good readability for none native English speakers.

> EW: And there is a talk here, "Crafting strong identifier naming practices." And this is going to be science-based?

> GW: Sure, because it is actually pretty straightforward to study how recognizable different naming conventions in code are. For example, camelCase is harder for people to read, if English is not their first language. If you think, for example, of somebody coming from a non-alphabetic language like Chinese. The notion that the capitalization of the letter matters, and then we hit acronyms, and then we hit all of the other cases. There is some evidence that pothole_case is actually easier for non-native speakers of English to read, because it does not require as much implicit knowledge.
We don’t criminalize production or possession of a car capable of exceeding the speed limit. The penalty for exceeding the speed limit is basically so minor as to be an administrative rather than criminal action in most cases. And that penalty only applies in public spaces (no speed limit on a drag strip).

If we were to apply a similar model to drug use, production and sales would be legal, possession would be legal, use in private spaces would be legal, and we’d fine (not jail) people for being high in public spaces or high risk situations.

Which is almost exactly what we do with alcohol. And aligns fairly well with a lot of other suggestions people have made around taking production and supply out of the hands of criminals.
This is exactly how I feel about factorio and any games that involved.
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Agree. I also think dancing on grave need to really brought to 21st century. Removing some negative connotation people had in past. It can really about local good, artisanal drinks and of course dance is in the name.
Guarantee an output will be consistent every time.
The cuts Uber, DoorDash etc take are astronomical- that’s the real issue. Thirty percent! Nobody filed lawsuits about pizza delivery in the past because you didn’t pay a 100% premium for delivery!

I don’t do delivery services because for a family it is entirely unreasonable. I looked once- a $40 fast food order would be nearly $90 after inflated menu prices, fees, delivery, and tip.
In particular, binary search would get difficult if you couldn't count.
more like push than drag tbf
"they chose not to accept slightly smaller margins in response to the requirement to pay workers minimum wage"

Oh, what a surprise, so communism do not work in real life and Government is not your friend? Shocker.
[flagged] means individual members of the HN community flagged it.

Because each individual had their own individual reasons, there's no explanation beyond that.

For me, "my writing did not connect with the HN audience" is the only healthy way to think about flagged submissions (and downvotes too). Because better writing (or more attentive story selection) is the only thing in my control.

It's feedback and feedback is invaluable. Good luck.
In this case, their analogy seems to be based on reality.

The key point of their analogy is that buying another condo isn't a good solution to someone locking you out of the one you paid for, just like buying a new phone isn't a good solution to Apple locking you out of your phone that you paid for.

Your complaint with their analogy seems to boil down to "they used an analogy", without actually addressing the point above. Try to focus on the point instead.
Because multiple people accusing a single person does not make them guilty and is not compelling evidence.

Many people accused women in Salem of being witches. Literally zero of them were guilty. But they were made pariahs, ostracized, and then killed, nonetheless.

As a private individual you can do anything you’d like; but that doesn’t mean anything you’d like to do will be fair or right.
I could easily access my computer from the internet when I'm not home back in the days... all the ISPs in my country have moved to CGNAT and there is no v6 support, probably because of lack of demand and ridiculous "static IP" pricing.

Result: I'm constantly checked by Cloudflare etc. and sometimes blocked altogether by some hosts as I'm probably in the same public facing IP with many non-savvy people whose devices are infected with botnets.
Train their successor.

Once they absorb theorem provers, they will be able to do lots of math provably correctly. That does mean they should be unable to state "I have proved theorem A in Theory T with proof merkle root R" unless they actually did just that.
They aren’t really. Even if the overlap was completely perfect and all spam contributions were the ones done to boost resume, you still shouldn’t judge the contributor for trying to boost their resume but judge the contribution by how useless and spammy it is.
No one's arguing that Trump isn't forceful. It's to what end. The "kleptomanic" part is important, exemplified publicly (at the very least) by the way he changed the tax code to advantage wealthy individuals and businesses, while middle class and working class Americans have seen their tax bills rise. (Again, Biden is not so good on this either, as he didn't repeal Trump's changes).

Of course, the books go into more detail. Unfortunately, if you don't read them, your opinion that the issue was "cooked up" remains baseless and bereft of value. :)
> No one has opinions on my database design or architecture.

Oh dear, if you only knew ...

I have personally seen both those things gridlock entire teams, to the point where people would rather quit than continue working.
ChatGPT just released a memory feature.
The drug supply in Amsterdam is heavily regulated by the police. They have closing hours at 11 on weekdays and at 1 on weekends. There are arrangements where some people make money so other people don’t.

A few years ago, all the encryption for dealers was broken [1]. Many of them agreed to continue under certain circumstances. It’s a reasonable balance.

During Covid, they shut down all the coffee shops selling weed — and that lasted a day. Because they realized the black market would step in. Keeping things flowing in a regulated market is always preferred to a completely illegal (unregulated) market.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/encrypted-phones-crime-encrochat-...
Additional datapoint: my account just got locked, was forced to change password.

I use a gmail email as my login
> The article should be titled " What can LLM never do, yet".

I don't think it should. It's more interesting to know what LLMs will _never_ be able to do (if anything).
It was easy to think, because of movies or pop culture, that cops are a bunch of mean uptight jerks throwing harmless kids in jail for “smoking the reefer”. But that view was a little naive.

It now seems that everyone from citizens who call the cops to judges and parole boards are not just arbitrarily cruel but have a pretty fine tuned sense of “this person is harmless” or “this person is an antisocial menace and needs to be off the street”.

At least this has become my view after working with prisons. We were doing an ok job and have changed in the name of progress.
Math reasoning is still a non solved problem even if the rest of the capabilities are getting better. This means the transformers architecture may not be the best way to approach all problems
CSS Access Denied Page from Jurassic Park
Everyone has a brand they're never buying again because of a few problems they had in the past. For every new brand they _are_ still buying, there are 10000 other people who are never buying _that_ one again because of a few problems they had in the past.

The only difference I've seen between Apple and my previous laptop brands is that their support techs are useful.
They don't have the venture capital to burn at start... It all begins with dumping. First prices and intro offers are unsustainable... You can not start competing when other side started by burning massive piles of money.
I'm not saying 'all bootcamps are bad' here, I'm saying 'this particular bootcamp is bad'.

I think there's a clear distinction between CS and Software Dev.

The latter _can_ be self-taught, or learned with a bootcamp, if it's good. It's essentially a trade which means practice is everything. And also includes a good bit of project management.

The former is a scientific field, much like physics, sociology, etc. and having a CS degree is useful for doing research (which in CS could mean coding, and could mean writing software, e.g a new type of database/algorithm/other) hence the confusion between the two. And some/most Software Devs need to understand/improve/adapt artifacts from the field of CS, so a CS degree is often beneficial for software devs, but not needed.

So, I don't think it's fair to say that it's a 'fake programming vocational qualification', it's not what it's for, and people that say the contrary misunderstand what a CS degree is.
>The gig economy companies have a long public history of skirting labour laws.

>So when they say "DoorDash has claimed that the new fees they’re charging are a necessary result of raising pay for workers" (according to this page anyway) they invite this type of analysis.

The two paragraphs don't follow each other. Are you saying mcdonalds gets a free pass on price increases (on which they at least partially blame on rising wages), because they have employees rather than contractors? Why should be this the case? As the consumer, shouldn't I be equally angry if mcdonalds is jacking up prices to pump their profits under the guise of "higher labor costs"? Sure, there's plenty of reasons to hate on companies using gig labor, but hating on them for price increases specifically seems closer to bitch eating cracker syndrome[1] than any sort of rational analysis.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bitch_eating_crackers
mostly solved with grammar for local LLMs
Yes I had 2fa + OTP, however being a new phone they still ask you to tap on the old phone.
It's easier to read for English speakers as well.

When working with databases, all properties / columns that I use are lowercase snake case.

Much faster to work with, you learn to type _ pretty quickly.
It’s a very optional luxury. People getting mad about the price of milk is entirely different than people getting mad about the price of Rolexes.
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Fantastic essay. Highly recommended!

I agree with all key points:

* There are problems that are easy for human beings but hard for current LLMs (and maybe impossible for them; no one knows). Examples include playing Wordle and predicting cellular automata (including Turing-complete ones like Rule 110). We don't fully understand why current LLMs are bad at these tasks.

* Providing an LLM with examples and step-by-step instructions in a prompt means the user is figuring out the "reasoning steps" and handing them to the LLM, instead of the LLM figuring them out by itself. We have "reasoning machines" that are intelligent but seem to be hitting fundamental limits we don't understand.

* It's unclear if better prompting and bigger models using existing attention mechanisms can achieve AGI. As a model of computation, attention is very rigid, whereas human brains are always undergoing synaptic plasticity. There may be a more flexible architecture capable of AGI, but we don't know it yet.

* For now, using current AI models requires carefully constructing long prompts with right and wrong answers for computational problems, priming the model to reply appropriately, and applying lots of external guardrails (e.g., LLMs acting as agents that review and vote on the answers of other LLMs).

* Attention seems to suffer from "goal drift," making reliability hard without all that external scaffolding.

Go read the whole thing.
How about lunch sometimes?
Maybe the wording is correct. Looks like a hard limit on doing what a LLM just do. If it goes beyond that, then is something more, or at least different, than a LLM.
Nothing. It’s just a link to the generic legal notice on apple.com
The graphics system absolutely is a part of the security boundary. You can pass through your X11 or Wayland server socket in the container to run graphical applications. This is more of less what a Flatpack is.
Just look at worldwide prices for netflix subscriptions
I would agree with you if there actually was anything different in a suspicious way about those logins. There weren't. Same devices, same ISP, same browsers, not even an OS update in between. Just one day, few days ago, out of the blue, Facebook decided to pop up a conformation request, offering no alternative to confirming from "another device", and that's with them knowing (or at least having that information available) that there are no live sessions of that account (the whole browser in private mode thing).

Maybe the companies can't win, but they also have themselves to blame. They shouldn't have convinced people to entrust their only copies of data with them. Your vacation photos should not depend on someone's cloud platform. Half of your entire offline life shouldn't depend on Google not randomly locking you out of GMail. But here we are, and I'll keep calling those "security updates" bullshit because they don't care about long tail, and they don't care about hazards they create for most of their users.
I feel like these random behind the scenes issues happen a month or two before WWDC to give Apple the foundation they need to announce new services.

I had read Apple is switching the name AppleID to be Apple Account or something similar at WWDC. Me thinks they are quietly pushing code that somehow is causing this for people.

Maybe it’s an age of account issue or some other commonality.

I signed up for an at me account twenty years ago and still use that as my living and haven’t had issues. Maybe icloud.com users?
The big question is if LLMs are capable enough to converge to AGI. It might very well be that as we pour in more resources that they converge to something only slightly more useful but similar as we have today.
Technology amplifies intent.

LLMs are as friendly to society as nuts and bolts. It's up to those who wield it to be moral.
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