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by Aaargh20318 | 2025-05-02 13:36:04+00:00
> Bloated and overcomplicated are design issues, not technology issues.

No, it's very much a technology issue. The overhead just for shipping an entire webbrowser with your app is insane. Building a decent UI in HTML/CSS which were never designed for that purpose, is an absolute disaster. HTML and CSS are for formatting text documents, not for designing user interfaces. There is a reason that there is a framework-of-the-week for webapps.

So now you have this massive webbrowser footprint, with the framework-of-the-week on top and then you have to write your app on top of this abomination in one of the most terrible languages ever invented.

The whole 'webapp' thing exists solely on the false promise of cost savings. Every kid who made a webpage for their aunt's Etsy business calls themselves a 'web designer', which has resulted in a race to the bottom. Web designer are a dime a dozen (sure, a good one may cost a pretty penny, but that's not what management sees). Now you can hire that cheap 'web designer' and they can build apps too, since that's just web tech, right? And since it all works cross-platform, you only need to build it once. What a cost savings!

They will even get an initial version out the door quickly. Look, everything worked out as expected. The problem is that it's quicksand. Your app grows and it gets harder and harder to fix issues and add features, as it's all build on shaky foundations. The more you move, the more difficult it becomes. Soon, you find yourself writing platform-specific code as the cross-platform promise doesn't hold for anything but the simplest functionality. Before you know it, you have this bloated, unmaintainable mess.

At the end of the day, it's easier and cheaper to just develop 2 native apps for iOS/Android than it is to build a 'webapp'. You can use nice, modern programming languages with very few footguns (Swift/Kotlin), good tooling, a UI toolkit designed to actually build UIs with, a set of well designed platform APIs. The whole cross-platform web-app thing sounds nice in theory, but it never delivers on its promises.
by hiatus | 2025-05-02 13:36:10+00:00
> Sure you can go with an MVNO, but they use the same networks as the big three.

The networks are not the issue in my experience with phone companies. Much of the negativity is associated with dealing with the support side of things. To that end, I couldn't be happier with Google Fi. I've moved my whole family over (except for my dad, who just wants to use a dumbphone and doesn't even have a google account). They're the least bad support-wise in my experience.
by lostlogin | 2025-05-02 13:36:20+00:00
Regarding the AfD, ‘Senior members have been disgraced for playing down Nazi war crimes and accepting suspicious payments from Russia and China.

There were calls to ban the party when it was reported party members were at a meeting of neo-Nazis where a “master plan” to expel millions of people from Germany was discussed, including asylum seekers, foreigners with residency rights and “unassimilated citizens”.

The AfD were shut out of coalition government by the “firewall”, an agreement by mainstream parties not to work with those deemed too extreme.

JD Vance, the US vice-president, criticised the firewall as anti-democratic.’ [0]

There is plenty more on the subject [1, 2, 3, 4].

> They just seem to be regular right wing by American standards.

This might be a comment on the state of American politics as much as it is on Germany’s.

[0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/05/02/afd-classi...

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-jd-vance-is-wrong-about-afd...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx88nwy934go

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/25/afd-readmits-t...

[4] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-02/german-spy-agency-lab...
by jasonlotito | 2025-05-02 13:36:21+00:00
> you now need to go to the specific company and payment system,

My credit card company. In fact, this is better because as a consumer, if I get scammed, I only need to deal with my CC company, and when I get my money back, I don't have to worry about Apple closing my account in retaliation.

> When Apple controlled the payment system,

I was beholden to Apple's whims and limitations. If I didn't like Apple's outcome, going to my credit card company was still an option. However, initiating a charge back could result in something happening to my account.

> imagine trying to sue a company in some foreign country to try to get your money back if they stole it

One phone call with my CC company (I don't even know if you still need to do the phone call anymore).

Oh, but... to be fair, I can't go to Apple's subscription page and cancel it there. So, there is that one thing.
by T0Bi | 2025-05-02 13:36:26+00:00
The anti immigration stance is not the problem in itself, it's a symptom of their xenophobic views.

"The party's prevailing ethnic and descent-based understanding of the people is not compatible with the free democratic basic order. It aims to exclude certain population groups from equal participation in society, to subject them to unequal treatment that does not conform to the constitution and thus to assign them a legally devalued status. Specifically, the AfD does not consider German citizens with a history of migration from Muslim countries, for example, to be equal members of the German people as defined by the party in ethnic terms."

Translated with deepl from https://www.verfassungsschutz.de/SharedDocs/pressemitteilung...
by nativeit | 2025-05-02 13:36:51+00:00
I think the threshold is more about how much more rent can we seek to collect from users, and making things more performant or ergonomic doesn’t do anything to allow sales to add another 10% to the per-user subscription pricing (I assume this is a product with per-user subscriptions, even though it’s almost certainly unnecessary).

But adding yet another gateway to ChatGPT’s API…that’s a $15/mo/user add-on right there, and not just a monkey, but one of the slower intern monkeys, could write the code for such an incredibly innovative and, there’s no other word for it, powerful new feature that everyone should be thrilled to pay for at a 200-300% (or more!) markup. So guess who gets that VP of New Bullshit Development position, and guess what kind of choices get reinforced?

(EDIT: grammar)
by tossandthrow | 2025-05-02 13:37:03+00:00
> ... percentage of a company’s global revenue or as a large fixed amount whichever is higher.

It should be noted that this is used to establish a maximum fine.

Then the regulator can fine at X% of the maximum fine.

It should be noted, that this is established to avoid that individual EU member states fine too little to attract business (Like Ireland has previously had issues on re. too little taxing)
by systemstops | 2025-05-02 13:37:12+00:00
Both things can be true. That fact is that some groups that were discriminated against now thrive, and some don't (even after trillions of dollars in public spending). That is why cognitive testing is helpful at figuring out what is going on.

New ideas, such as the US was "founded on enslaved Black people" really only gained attention the last few years because of our inability to solve the gaps. People wanted an explanation, so the past had to be retconned. The other Anglo colonies - Canada, Australia, New Zealand - never had slavery and ended up about as well off as the US.
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-02 13:37:28+00:00
> Philosophy can be valuable, but applying the ideas meaningfully requires discernment. I’m thinking particularly about the popularity of “Meditations”, for example.

From one translation of Meditations (I forget which), and from memory, so I may have it slightly wrong:

"You can live your life in a calm flow of happiness, if you learn to think the right way, and to act the right way".

The act the right way is the hard part. The frame-of-mind stuff that lots of people focus on is necessary, but not sufficient. On its own it can be of some help, but it can also lead to traps like going too easy on one's own deficiencies of action. The thinking bits that get most of the attention, at least in stoicism, are largely reactive—the acting is proactive, as is the thinking to support it (which gets less attention in popular takes on Stoicism, and is harder).
by shetyemanasi | 2025-05-02 13:38:06+00:00
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by perihelions | 2025-05-02 13:38:11+00:00
Related threads,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43852145 ("Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds (wsj.com)" — 585 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43856795 ("Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral (thebignewsletter.com)" — 340 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43859814 ("A senior Apple exec could be jailed in Epic case (9to5mac.com)" — 94 comments)
Show HN: Path to Philosophy – Find how any Wikipedia page leads to Philosophy
by nishanth_v | 2025-05-02 13:38:19+00:00
I built a fun game called Path to Philosophy. Starting from any Wikipedia article, it follows the first link in each page’s main text until it eventually reaches the Philosophy article (as most Wikipedia pages tend to do).

You can pick any starting page and see the full path unfold. If you find long paths, you can submit them to the leaderboard.

It’s a fun way to explore how diverse ideas often converge into shared conceptual roots.
by aronishchal | 2025-05-02 13:38:33+00:00
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by jerf | 2025-05-02 13:38:39+00:00
Yes. Now probably a couple dozen people are going to collectively spend thousands of hours going over the complaint. The watermark issue is indeed just a sideshow by comparison.

The posts on this HN story demonstrate exactly the point the judge is trying to make. This sort of optics issue looms so large in human brains that it is indeed generating accusations that the court case is not being taken seriously because the court must obviously be spending all of its attention on this visually appealing story, even though in the grand scheme of things it is a tiny fraction of just the effort that will be spent on this case overall. Justice must not just be just, it must be seen to be just, and this sort of behavior is an impossibly attractive nuisance for people. Even those defending the picture are still being sucked into a sideshow.
by Aaargh20318 | 2025-05-02 13:38:49+00:00
If you're an indie developer who self-publishes, do you want to spend your time working on your app or on payment platform integrations?

Especially the smaller self-publishing developers won't benefit from this at all. It's just the large publishers like Epic who can afford the developer resources to build their own payment systems who have something to gain here.

Apple’s rules leveled the playing field. All this ruling does is give a competitive advantage to the big fish.
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by triceratops | 2025-05-02 13:39:17+00:00
Merging into the bike lane before turning right is safer for cyclists. Drivers are supposed to do shoulder checks when changing lanes (I mean they're also supposed to do them when turning but you know) so they likely won't hit a cyclist when merging into the lane.

Once the car is in the bike lane, any bike going straight is forced to remain safely behind the car until the car completes its turn.
by panick21_ | 2025-05-02 13:39:18+00:00
First of all, I do know the difference between Singapore and the US. But my statement is true anyway. I wasn't drawing a direct equivalence of housing policy.

The person above pointed out that Singpore, is #1 on the "Index of Economic Freedom" and the rank high in other such indexes.

Housing policy in regards to ownership maybe a counterpoint to that, but we are not looking at individual policy but the at everything.

If you want to dispute the claim that Singpore is not 'free market' at all, then please direct me to an index with better methodology in that regard.

> Sure, from a financial perspective, particularly around mortgages.

That to, but that's not primary what I am talking about.

No I'm talking about zoning and many, many, many other types of regulation. Plus of course, tax code and many other things.

Typically new land for a city is rezoned, then a developer comes in, build there and often inherits the infrastructure to the city to maintain. Then the city collects some property tax from that.

That is different then the Singapore model but its also a gigantic intervention in pretty much every aspect of the housing market.

Not to mention the government hold many plots of lands that could be developed. The government owns quite a lot of land.

The direct ownership is only one aspect, what you can do is another.

And as I said, I'm not disputing that in such a ranking, their land and housing policy could be considered as a negative compared to the US.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-05-02 13:39:21+00:00
What you're missing is that we now understand things about the functional nature of language itself that nobody had the faintest clue about in 1980.

I was big into writing text adventures in those days, where the central problem was how to get the computer to understand what the user was saying. It was common for simple imperative sentences to be misinterpreted in ways that made players want to scream in frustration. Even the best text parsers — written by the greatest minds in the business — could seem incredibly obtuse, because they were. Now the computer is writing the fucking game.

You had to be there to understand what a big deal this is, I guess. If you went back in time and brought even our current primitive LLM tech with you, you'd be lucky not to be burned at the stake. NLP is indeed 'solved,' in that it is now more of a development problem than a research problem. The Turing Test has been passed: you can't say for sure if you're arguing with a bot right now. That's pretty cool.
by ssvt | 2025-05-02 13:39:45+00:00
I would add that after reading The Machine Stops you should read Kornbluth's "The Marching Morons" from 1951. Talk about prescient! It reads like a meld of Idiocracy and the current U.S. administration.

From the Wikipedia entry: "In 1988, real estate agent and con artist John Barlow is placed in suspended animation after a freak accident. He is revived in the distant future, in a confusing world filled with hypersexualized advertisements, vapid entertainment, and people who exhibit erratic, nonsensical behavior."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons
by shikaan | 2025-05-02 13:40:06+00:00
I would have assumed the same, but I haven't managed. On the other hand, I did not tinker too much with all these toggles; it's such a little amount of shared code (which is also partially different in some cases) that didn't particularly make sense to me.

If you know how to make it happen and/or want to contribute, hit me up (:
by Someone1234 | 2025-05-02 13:40:06+00:00
It really is interesting watching John Legere's impact on T-Mobile. T-Mobile was doing meh when he came in around 2012, turned it into the best of the big three, was wildly successful in both expanding the network and subscriber counts, and then left in 2020.

Mike Sievert has been slowly undoing all of John Legere's reforms rolling back to pre-2012 T-Mobile that was a middling network on the downswing. This is just yet another example of the enshittification of T-Mobile back to irrelevancy at Mike Sievert's hands.

PS - It wasn't all rainbows and sunshine under John Legere. He definitely had a "move fast and break things" approach, and broke a lot of things, often with stores hearing about promotions after customers. Plus the network had multiple break-ins during his tenure.
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by WillAdams | 2025-05-02 13:40:18+00:00
For my part, one of the most striking things which I recall from my youth was reading Dumas' _The Count of Monte Cristo_ and the Abbé Faria contending that everything a gentleman needed to make his way in life was contained in less than 100 books --- which he had memorized the content of, and could impart to the young Edmond Dantes.

A naïve younger me tried to brute force this by reading one non-fiction book from each major section of the Dewey Decimal system catalog, but was stymied by the paucity of a high school library in a county in the second smallest tax base in the state....

Since then, I've actually been trying to put that list together (and lightly updating it for availability from Project Gutenberg/Librivox).

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/21394355-william-adams...

Suggestions and comments and recommendations welcome.
by snotreal | 2025-05-02 13:40:26+00:00
Why? Have you actually ready Synadia's comments where they made it clear that they always intended to maintain the Apache 2 Version by contributing the stuff they build back to the main repo? It just won't be as fast, so they can make some money first which will fund them giving it away.

You said "I also built a lot" Are you making money off those projects or get paid for your services for that use?
by lordloki | 2025-05-02 13:41:02+00:00
I would say that many of those cheap goods are simply trash that people buy impulsively that either collects in their homes or ends up in landfills in a short period of time. Fast fashion being a well known one, where people buy lots of cheap clothes that are of poor quality and may only be worn once before being thrown out. We don't need these things and the environment doesn't need to be full of landfills of this junk either.
by MildlySerious | 2025-05-02 13:41:34+00:00
They are not expelling extremists based on extremism. They are expelling extremists based on public fallout. The remaining ones are effectively their spokespeople.

Germany has a wide range of political parties that cover the entire political spectrum. A party of extremists is not needed for a strong opposition. What German politics needs is momentum, and the will to actually get stuff done, even if it'll be unpopular. The fact that the AfD managed to use and abuse that mindset to gain popularity does not make them the right ones to make a positive impact. In fact, even putting their extremism aside, their contrarian and anti-progressive "everything new is woke" mentality is the exact opposite of what the country needs, for all I care.

I've answered your last question in a sibling comment to yours.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43869432
by awanderingmind | 2025-05-02 13:41:53+00:00
Good insight about how feelings of 'superiority' or 'sophistication' can suck the joy out of life. I fell into this trap myself, and it took a long time to get out of it.

That said, there are times when a certain type of appreciation of 'sophistication' is warranted - you just shouldn't use it to believe you are therefore above other people, or beyond the simple pleasures of life.
by aurareturn | 2025-05-02 13:42:42+00:00
Apple stands to lose the most in a physical or trade war with China.

Every physical thing they make comes from China - even if it's assembled in Vietnam or India. China is also nearly 20% of their sales - maybe more if they include services.

Therefore, Cook is just doing whatever he needs to do to appease Trump and China at the same time. Trump responds well to flattery and taking credit that he doesn't deserve. That's what Cook is giving him.

Disclosure: AAPL shareholder.