skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sandboxed apps are allowed to use itms-services:// links, it's just not allowed in the App Store - iOS enterprise apps using in-house deployments can use it for installs and updates, and sandboxed Mac apps deployed outside of the App Store can use it as well.

However, App Review Guidelines forbid App Store apps from installing other apps, so that scheme gets scanned during review.
Maybe, but its more common than this one example and more than what most people can stomach. The real problem is these people are sociopaths, and the next set of sociopaths will do it again. They don't care who they hurt because they lack empathy and if killing people drives up profits then so be it.

If you really want to show concern or right a wrong then find a way to better criminalize violations of accepted ethical norms. The best way to punish sociopaths is to take all their assets, embarrass them in public, and permanently bar them from practicing in the same industry. For example if a lawyer is disbarred they do not get a second chance.
I didn't think anyone used TeamViewer anymore except as ManU jersey sponsor which says all you need to know.
With recent govt mandates to report known incidents within XX hours, this approach will possibly become the gold strategy
.NET looks quite good, as well as Swift actually. I have most experience with Java, and those are almost as nice as the .NET bindings. I have also used Go quite a bit, and they are pretty much awful. It takes so much practice and knowledge to use them well in Go.
Which is also just why… the App Store review process claiming this is a problem doesn’t seem to make any sense.

Imagine your app embeds a WebView at myapp.com/terms. It’s your Terms of Service, you show it to everyone when they sign up. Everyone clicks OK.

After it’s on the App Store, you modify your WebView to include `itms-services` for some reason. You’ve just completely bypassed App Store review and gotten that URL handler into your app. The sandbox should stop you - but clearly the review processes don’t consider this possibility and are enforcing it before you publish. Why?

My point is that the scanning for this handler, if Apple doesn’t want to allow it, seems misplaced if they wanted the ban to actually be effective.
That is insane. Did his insurance cover this? What happens if you refuse to pay such outlandish fees? I'm sorry he had to deal with this.
I’m not on the PLDI review committee. Haven’t ever been.
> Authorities allege Gehrke and King, who got married this year, knew charges were coming and had been preparing to flee. At their home, authorities found a book titled “How To Disappear: Erase Your Digital Footprint, Leave False Trails, and Vanish Without a Trace,” according to court papers. In one of their bags packed for their flight, there was a book titled “Criminal Law Handbook: Know Your Rights, Survive The System,”

I guess "step 15" from the book was "marry your criminal associates, so you're not forced to testify against each other": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spousal_privilege?

Step 1 should be "don't buy any incriminating books related to your planned disappearance" followed by the next chapter, "step 2: too late, already".
A fascinating idea, however it looks like the E-Bike industry has "moved on" to mid-drive motors anyway in recent years, which have the advantage of better weight distribution and being able to more tidily integrate into frames. Mid-drives don't have the missing freewheel problem, but due to this can't have regenerative braking. And I don't know, I think I'd still prefer two redundant mechanical braking systems rather than having the functionality of one being basically completely replaced to act as a fancy sensor for a software controller to know how much regen to apply.
It's still great for these concepts being explored, and we're lucky to have a company like Grin Technologies in the aftermarket segment that are actively researching innovative new ideas.
I can't help but think of the old use of Saddam Hussein as a caricature in South Part when I keep seeing what Boeing is up to lately... I think we need more visibility with similar for Boeing executives.
The Office Depot Hyken is a great HM knockoff. Regularly goes on sale for ~$99 as well.

https://www.staples.com/union-scale-flexfit-hyken-ergonomic-...
Kind of like a cat, I didn't want to tickle their predator instinct. If I was on the other side of the wire, it'd probably be a different story. Or no story.
At least they have a nice disclosure page and acknowledge researchers.

https://www.teamviewer.com/en/resources/trust-center/securit...
That makes some sense, but then I have a new question: Why doesn’t Apple have different certificate schemes for in-house versus App Store (if they don’t already)? In which case, the iOS Sandbox should be smart enough, and probably does already delineate, allowed functionality based on whether an app comes via App Store or via a private deployment.
I feel like there's a semi-philosophical question somehwere here. Recursion is clearly a core computer science concept (see: many university courses, or even the low level implementation of many data structures), but it's surprisingly rare to see it in "day to day" code (i.e I probably don't write recursive code in a typical week, but I know it's in library code I depend on...)

But why do you think we live in a world that likes to hide recursion? Why is it common for tree data structure APIs to expose visitors, rather than expecting you write your own recursive depth/breadth-first tree traversal?

Is there something innate in human nature that makes recursion less comprehensible than looping? In my career I've met many programmers who don't 'do' recursion, but none who are scared of loops.

And to me the weird thing about it is, looping is just a specialized form of recursion, so if you can wrap your head around a for loop it means you already understand tail call recursion.
Ask HN: Will you use a service that allows you too book tickets via WhatsApp?
Imagine you're to book a flight and you can do so by typing the required details on WhatsApp. Would you use a service of that sort?

The idea is to allow people to book tickets (movies/flights/sports/etc.) and pay all sorts of bills via WhatsApp. You simply chat with my company's automated WA Business Account and get things done.
Not sure about your opinion about TeamViewer in particular, but if you manage any MacOS servers there's not much alternative but to have some form of remote desktop client in my experience. If you're on a team where everyone has Macbooks, you probably just use the builtin screen sharing app though.

For Windows environments you're probably using Remote Desktop, which, enough said there.
If they can't come back, that's pretty much the definition of stranded.
Downvoted, but the fact remains. If your settings revert after every update, you didn't tame W10 properly. So those people downvoting likely have some reading to do, or they can downvote and keep feeling hurt and keep fixing their installs every couple of months.
> Loaning money at 200% interest to vulnerable people is usury and should be illegal

Stop with the patronizing. Any transaction between consenting parties (backed by bankruptcy protection) should be allowed. We're all grown ups, let people make their own decisions.

Setting upper limits on interest rates simply makes it so that high-risk borrowers are unable to access credit. This harms those borrowers more than anyone else, by limiting their opportunities.

Regarding the Sacklers, they never prescribed any drugs to anyone. Doctors did. Why aren't we holding them responsible? It is doctors who have a duty of care to their patients, not pharmaceutical companies.
There was no parameter creep with Llama. Llama 8B is actually a ~7B model comparable to Mistral 7B if you strip away multilingual embeddings and match what Mistral 7B supports.
Leolabs says the fragmentation occurred between 13:05 UTC 26 June and 00:51 UTC 27 June.

https://x.com/LeoLabs_Space/status/1806140666222948679
@tracker1 I'm sure South Park is cooking something with boing haha
I'm sorry I'm bad with translating numbers. This means originally the new version ran at half the speed of the JS version, but ended up running at double the speed? Pretty cool.
I also hate the billing. It feels like configuring AWS more than calling APIs.
Morphine was commonly administered for post-surgical pain 100 years ago:

"The after-treatment of surgical patients, by Willard Bartlett and collaborators." (1925)

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015071056918&se...

One of the first complaints made by the postoperative patient on returning to consciousness is pain. This if due to the actual operative procedure should be at once relieved. William J. Mayo taught us long ago to give morphine during the first twenty-four hours for the pain which we make; viz., by cutting, retracting, suturing, etc. The discomfort caused by such procedures is relieved best by this drug and it is given by us if there be no contraindications for its use, regardless of the amount until full relief is experienced or its physiologic effects obtained.
https://archive.ph/2MGeo
>"outputting a sequence of tokens representing a claim that can be uncontroversially disproven," is still a useful concept.

Sure, but that would require semantic mechanisms rather than statistical ones.
> Do you think there is/was a realistic way to prescribe opioids routinely and safely?

Oxycodone is routinely and safely administered right now, to tens of thousands of people, every day. But this is kind of like, an FDA question, no?
Thank you for the reply! I am honestly not informed about this stuff and not asking to covertly push an agenda.

Follow-up Q for you. What is the realistic way to prescribe opioids routinely and safely? Are there certain formulations that have been or should be removed from the market? How do we reinstate the taboo on prescribing them?

For EG: I got a vasectomy recently and was told to expect a day or two of pain. I was prescribed a month's supply of opioids without a single comment from the doctor on their addictive nature. My understanding is that this is how people get introduced to opioids; the pathway goes "legal scrip -> addiction -> illegal supply -> fentanyl -> death" and that's the engine of the epidemic.

Should it be legal for the doctor to prescribe pain meds like this? (Or, should it be legal but discouraged? Is there a well-understood way to do this?) If it should be legal, should we expect the epidemic to continue? And if so, is post-bankruptcy Purdue a good thing or a bad thing?

(My instinctive answers here are that we should make opioids illegal for much of their current use pattern, and that post-bankruptcy Purdue is approximately as gross as Sackler-era Purdue, for what it's worth.)
I'm also unrelated to Dorkly but I'm a big believer in feature flagging. It's key to moving fast as an engineering/product team.

be happy to walk you through how we use it. Shoot me an email if you want to chat. wayne at inaccord.com
Here's the scammer's wedding registry from earlier this year. They look happy https://www.theknot.com/us/jeff-king-and-lexie-gehrke-feb-20...
Obfuscation seems like a great way to get your developer account suspended. I suspect Apple is doing a lot more than just basic static analysis of the binary on disk.

Glad they went with a config option instead.
They're not stranded then, because they can come back with other spacecraft.
Strong but respectful disagree from me. Justice is supposed to be blind. And if right and wrong were so clear cut there would no need for democracy at all.

The court is not a democratic institution and exists to uphold the textual rule of law as determined by lawmakers. If a pragmatic ruling by the court can circumvent a politically logjammed congress, so be it. But the courts deciding what is right or wrong for the American people is a very slippery slope that leads to disaster. And a court that just rules against the (existing) elite every time is a junta.
Regardless I don't think there's much to write papers on, other than maybe an anthropological look at how it's affected people putting too much trust into LLMs for research, decision-making, etc.

If someone wants info to make their model to be more reliable for a specific domain, it's in the existing papers on model training.
I wonder: would this level of fraud occur if the US had universal healthcare, or its effective equivalent?

Asking out of genuine intellectual curiosity, not with political or other overtones (even with the highly political character of the news today).
NFL hit with $4.7B verdict in 'Sunday Ticket' antitrust trial
It's fine to have such long lists because the alternative is more complicated rules that might even be subjective. Clarity from subjectivity or mistakes with complicated rules is more important when safety is at risk than having less text on a label.
Always a good idea to include test values to your IRR registry `whois -h rr.Level3.net 1.1.1.0/24`
Would you expect that kind of book to make any difference for final sentencing?
> That's basically how compiler writers treat undefined behavior - just assume it doesn't happen.

Yes, but this phrase is ambiguous. What it is meant to refer to is "ignoring the situation completely with unpredictable results," i.e., ignore that writing to that random address is theoretically unpredictable, and just do it, consequences be damned.

What compiler writers sometimes actually do is prove by static analysis that the pointer was freed, or never initialized, and then predicated on that situation, rather than ignoring that situation, generate machine code that elides it entirely. Since they know the code is undefined behavior, and they "assume UB doesn't exist," they assume the code cannot execute.

When strlen() keeps iterating through memory, the behavior is closer to the former than the latter.
And you are defending the people's retirements be able to be gambled and speculated by the ultra wealthy folks that are the major shareholders.

On a tangent, I also think monarchy results in better management of the asset that is the country than democracy. The leader is there for life, the country is his sole property and thus incentivized to improve it and views the country as his life's work. (Obviously there are plenty of exceptions.) On the other hand, democratical leaders more often than not tend to view presidency as a means to acquire wealth, lifetime immunity, power and reputation in a short amount of time. Once elected for a term, they can engage in however much legal corruption they want, they'll be gone in a few years anyways. The POTUS poses an exception in that the country itself is a monarch and a hegemon over the rest of the world. Meanwhile especially third world countries, but even developed countries like Canada and many in the Europe have presidents promising the heaven in the election season and keep being as corrupt as last president once they are elected.

Draw the parallels with Venture Capital, board directors and whatever else you want.
Probably a lot of it is due to know your customer (KYC) rules. I am not allowed to take your word that you've done your due diligence; I have to do my own.

I've spent ~20 years working in and around finance, on the trading side. If your lawyers aren't paranoid about KYC, that's a major red flag.
It seems very dishonest, and an example of the sort of thing that makes people oppose the use of LLMs.

I would think that most people who want to see LLMs widely used would be opposed to this kind of effort, even if only to avoid bringing more opposition to bear against them.
Mourning Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
They used to be SIM and/or carrier locked here in west Europe, until if I remember correctly 10-15 years ago
Sure, it's not a binary classification. Now what? I'm confident that you can distinguish between foods with more additives and those with less.

Science will give you conclusions you can be confident in. But who would be paying for the research? Would there ever be that much incentive to investigate individual ingredients? How long would it take?

I'm sure somebody a lot more diligent than I am can point you to all of those instances in the past where we created harm by exposing ourselves to something novel, prior to it being understood scientifically. I don't think exercising caution is unscientific.
No - but $2.7B in fraud over $4.5T total healthcare spending per year is peanuts.

This appears to happen over ~5 years or more - so that's $2.7B vs $22.5T or about 0.012% of total spending.

The reason healthcare is broken in the US is not because of fraud.

It's due to the design.

By the way, fraud is inevitable.

We might be able to save about ~1% per year on healthcare if fraud was reduced to more reasonable levels. That's not going to move the needle at all.
> I'd rather see 3C of global warming than administrative agencies operating contrary to the tripartite system of government the Founders designed.

You want to see millions dead to support your political philosophy?
GP says Medicare paid for it, so the US taxpayer.
Blind User Feedback
In the context of getting feedback on mvp or startup idea, is it possible to get blind feedback from users? I feel like the feedback I get is skewed, with people being a lot more positive about it than being objective about it. is this just a me overthinking or do others feel this way too?
The other good news of the day was that the Sackler family lost much of their future prosecution immunity

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40813369
I'm somewhat amused to find a couple of files dated 2038. Wonder how that happened.
I suspect this is just a the tip of the iceberg. These clowns are just the dumb ones who got caught. I mean they bought books on "how to disappear" and "how to avoid criminal prosecution". I guess the smart ones get away with it regularly. It's sad really.

> The convictions that follow have to come with severe enough consequences to more than offset the the millions they got while hurting patients and stealing from taxpayers.

I wish they land in prison for many years and then have to pay back what they stole and for all the court fees as well.
More often than I would have expected:

> Space debris (also known as space junk, space pollution, space waste, space trash, space garbage, or cosmic debris) are defunct human-made objects in space – principally in Earth orbit – which no longer serve a useful function. These include derelict spacecraft (nonfunctional spacecraft and abandoned launch vehicle stages), mission-related debris, and particularly-numerous in-Earth orbit, fragmentation debris from the breakup of derelict rocket bodies and spacecraft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris

> There were 190 known satellite breakups between 1961 and 2006. By 2015, the total had grown to 250 on-orbit fragmentation events.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_debris_producing...
Yeah, the feature bloat makes it a hurdle to make some good quality implementations. I mostly stayed in Java for years. They are quite good. grpc-web is ok I guess, protobuf-ts are great, swift came along as nice, then I have always been saddened by how awful they are in Go. You will get terrible enums, terrible one-ofs, the interceptors and service registration are very awkward.
What happens if you don’t pay?

I ask this out of genuine curiosity - I’m not sure what happens in the US either, I don’t believe they brick carrier-locked phones that a customer stops paying for but I’m not sure. But I’ve enough experiences with enough people to know this is probably actually a fairly common scenario and I wonder what the consequences are. (A surprising amount of the time, there are no real consequences.)
It makes no objective sense at all, and merely reflects hypersensitive German policy regarding civilian ownership of anything resembling the means of force application.
Can they do that if they have not received specific training on it?
If we’re going to fundamentally alter the way programmers are educated to handle repetitive tasks, the first lesson should be on map and reduce, not counters or recursion.
Have you found any good books on mechanism design for laypeople? I picked one up (can’t remember the name) but it was quite textbooky and mathy, and I’d prefer to start with a more conceptual overview.
I think mathematical proof is the wrong framework, in the same way that chemistry is the wrong framework for precisely quantifying and explaining how LSD causes humans to hallucinate (you can point to which receptors it binds with, but AFAICT not much more than that).

Investigate it with the tools of psychologically, as suited for use on a new non-human creature we've never encountered before.
It's not just Apple that pulls shenanigans like this.

Try building a Python app with PyInstaller while you have Windows Defender live scanning on, which is the default setting. You won't even be able to compile a binary without Defender preventing you from doing so.

Similarly, try running the binary produced by PyInstaller with Windows Defender on. Defender will say it's malicious and won't run it.

It's a bit dystopian that both major OS platforms go out of their way to prevent you from distributing and running your Python apps.
I can assure you, as a life long New Yorker, that most of us do not have an especially strong identity connection to the steam system. Most people don't even know about it, besides the steam cones.

Again, the point is economical: the cost of a technology is not defined solely by its age, but by the cost of replacing it with the newer thing. For Manhattan, the cost of replacing the steam network would be immense, with marginal-to-net-negative consequences (larger demands on the city's electrical grid, higher emissions, waste of steam from local cogeneration plants, additional local emissions from per-building boilers). This doesn't mean that district steam is shiny, new, or particularly good technology (and it doesn't mean the opposite, either). It just means it isn't worth replacing, and probably won't be for a while.

(By all means, if you want to run on the "kill the steam network" ticket, I'm sure someone will vote for you. But I think that money would be better spent finishing the SAS, IBX, and building some more crosstown lines in Brooklyn and Queens instead.)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ
If you're interested in how often people get away with this kind of scam, and how they get away with it, I strongly recommend the two episodes on the subject from the popular podcast "Behind The Bastards" titled "Part One: The Fake Doctors Who Gave Everyone Alzheimer's" and "Behind the Bastards (2018)
Part Two: The Real Bastard Was Health Insurance Companies All Along"

These episodes detail several people who pulled off these same scams, including how others tried to turn them in for it and were ignored.
Nobody is forcing you to see any doctors for any of your problems.

That's pretty reductive, right? Well so is what you are saying.
> They are now likely to pay much less...

So then why did they choose to settle? That makes no sense. The only reason a defendant settles is to minimize potential losses.
> i.e. encourage them to relax their requirements
It’s really very complicated. There is a sizeable contingent of South Koreans that see North Korea as harmless, misguided brothers and sisters united by common blood. It’s unimaginable to them that their northern brethren would actually act out on their verbal rhetoric and threats.

Many of these same people view modern Japan as a real mortal enemy just waiting to strike. Many of those fancy weapons South Korea develops? They’re just as intended to be pointed at a hypothetical hostile Japan as they are to North Korea.

These people are mostly represented by the current opposition party, who already control the legislative branch, and will likely take the presidency.
My 2024 Presidential Debate
Yes, but we won't have use of the functionality that the Starlink satellites provide for the duration of the natural deorbits from ~400 KM.
What the heck, this looks cool! How have I missed it. Gonna give it a whirl.