skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Disclaimer: maybe I haven't fully understood what you meant, I'm assuming you're claiming Apple ought to be split up somehow and/or limited in its advantages)

> Hell I'd rather have an A11 from 2017 in my brand new Android phone.

Beaucse of it single-thread performance, I suppose?

> Complete vertical integration [...] is certainly creating a captive market segment which has only been growing in total size

I can't say I agree with the captive market argument. The problem with Apple is that a) it sells a lot and b) its product are probably the best ones.

But we can't say there's no alternative to Apple products - there are a lot. They're just not as good as Apple's.

Tesla is the best electric car. Is anybody thinking about splitting it up and claiming they're anti-competition? Some few luxury car brands (BMW, Mercedes, Audi) command an awful lot of the high-end car market, and offer some features that cheap cars don't have (e.g. Mercedes PRE-SAFE). Should they be split up?

A monopoly is something different. We wouldn't blame Rolls Royce for making the "best cars" at the highest price level.

Of course, if Apple sold their phones for $50 and their M1 laptops for $300, there could be a case for pushing other solutions out of the market. But this is NOT going to happen; the cheapest Apple phone on the market (iPhone SE) is 2x the price of a decent midrange Android phone, and the cheapest Apple M1 laptop (MB Air) is 2x/2.5x a cheap windows/linux option.
I think it's more similar to a McDonalds franchisee paying the mall 30% for unit rental security and utilities (Apple/Google), and paying McDonalds 30% for the franchise and rental of all the equipment, uniforms and training (Roblox).
From another perspective: Isn't it ironic that GitHub doesn't publicly expose it's own /issues?

Like GitLab does: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues

If they did, we wouldn't have to rely on random issues on random repos.
“The climate is always changing”

I wish we could build an Internet bot to go around and address this one.
It's not possible to create an alternative store for iOS or Roblox.
Maan I thought hn had a lot of 1M/year salary software developers, but just look at the amount of bike engineers.
I don’t think it’s that easy.

Timing is a factor, too. For such a thing to be successful, you also need a OS/hardware combo that can draw the notification without slowing down using the main window (rules out early Mac OS) and users who think the added distraction of notifications is worth it. I would that added distraction goes down with screen size. I doubt it would have been a success on 640×480 displays, for example.

Also, Apple had something similar in 1997 or 1999, with Mac OS 8 or 9.
romanticising the past eh?
Wow. The implementation of the windows to look like native MacOS is really good. My hats off to you. It could have fooled me.
It seems we've been here before with fees for (national) bank transactions.
Interesting, but the secure lifespan of crypto primitives seems too short to build into packet routing.
Oh, doctors. They think they're experts in everything remotely related to medicine, public health, pharmacology, and often a lot more besides. Just being a doctor is in no way a qualification to speak sensibly about pandemics, economics, or anything else outside their particular narrow field of training and experience.

Using motor oil on a daily basis doesn't qualify my car mechanic as an expert on the international oil supply chain; dealing with individual sick people doesn't qualify a doctor as an epidemiologist or economist. Maybe in this particular case your doctor friend IS an actual epidemiologist or economist, but I suspect that's not that case.
I earnestly believe that OS developers and app developers who implement pop-ups or notifications or dialogue boxes would mostly fail the Sociopath test if they were made to take it before being allowed to commit code. This sort of attention-theft feels very malicious to me.
Are there governments or other organizations purposely spreading these conspiracies? Or, do they mostly appear from emergent collective behavior?
Le Point publishes leaked Google EU lobbying strategy (Paywalled, French)
> I don't think it's about growing fast so much as, from those I talked to, Amazon now has a fairly bad reputation in the tech community.

My personal observation having known quite a few Amazon SWEs and interviewed them.

The bad rep is only for the junior roles. SWEs who work at AWS and are high L5+ are pretty solid.
IMHO putting graphics & input on the same line is underestimating the complexity. Going from metal to scene graph management can be complex. I remember when I started in OpenGL back in the day - it gave me a strong appreciation for why middle ware existed. Don’t get me started on input. :-)

Edit: e.g. good simple twin stick shooter needs at least draw call batching and the rest to draw millions of particles and hundreds of enemies. Then there is the issue of animation — and the rest. Art pipeline ? Textures or vertex colors ? Rendering engine is a pretty big deal. The rest IMHO is pretty simple in comparison...
Job of a startup CFO when there is no fundraising round?
What are the jobs of a startup CFO when there is no fundraising round?

I've been following quite a while and would be great to exchange with you if anyone has experience or articles to share. Thanks!
well said, especially

> This technology is extremely political
This link should explain it:

https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/fact-checking-the-tor-pr...

The author of this book did FOIA requests to various entities but most of them got predictably shot down for national security concerns. This one obscure government agency, Broadcasting Board of Governors, wasn't covered by these exemptions.

So the author read the emails between BBG and the Tor Project maintainers and found that when they received a bug report, rather than fixing it they reported it to their sponsors. The government would then exploit the bug for years before the Tor guys got around to fixing it.
My intuition is that this is not very good advice. I don't think it is very likely to talk someone out of a conspiracy theory - unless you're really well prepared for the discussion and they are willing to listen and change their mind.

If you model the conspiracy theorist as being similar to yourself, I think you'd have to assume there is roughly equal likelihood that you will convince them that covid is caused by a virus (or whatever), as there is that they will convince you that it is caused by their cell phone - that is, not much chance at all of changing people's minds by discussion like this.
I love how the game catches one often overlooked aspect of living in a panel block: (at least during my childhood) those places were really badly lit - probably to save on electricity.
I've (sometimes) seen good results from people politely and respectfully challenging their friends' well-intentioned conspiraloon posts on Facebook. I've seen very few successful looking challenges of strangers, bad-faith arguers or full-on nutters.
This from the article makes me sigh:

> And because geniuses understand complex things, they design complex systems that no one understands. Their loneliness makes them unique masters of their subjects, thereby nurturing their self-esteem. Knowledge remains in their heads and their presence becomes necessary for every decision.

This is of course true, a genius can do this. But given so can just about anybody else given enough time. We have a name for it when a non-genius does it: people built up technical debt that no one else is across. About the only difference between the genius and everybody else is the genius can create this gap faster than most.

Which should be a hint what the cure is, and it isn't getting rid of the genius. (I'm sure Elon Musk would be rolling his eyes at the thought, or possibly rubbing his hands in glee if you are a competitor or his.) The cure is to set up the code review systems and documentation so everyone is across what he is doing. In effect you demand he spend the time dragging everyone up to his level. If he is a true genius, he will have broken things down into clear, distinct, modular lumps, that everyone else can digest now he's walked the path for them.

The article is right in saying that solution isn't taught in technical classes. It's a social and cultural issue. That probably why it blamed the genius, and not the culture.
Much like you can hack a million dollar house with a sub-dollar lock pick?
RxTags, Simple Reactive ScalaJS
Ilhan Omar Defense of John Brennan and Logan Act: Dangerous and Unconstitutional
But then why is there a market for stolen art? There is, isn't there?
Yeah the value of being able to eliminate pod mutation as a source of trouble is pretty hard to overcome by any feature I can imagine mutability offering. Certainly not the example given. Actually the example must be over my head, because I do the equivalent of SIGTERM restarts with new configs on pods with a single command all day long when building services.
Of course. Obvious.

Actually, er, what?!

One of the nice things about HN is how it reminds me that I know nothing and others know a lot. ;)

Also, kudos for being brave enough to write this up. Even had I figured out the technique, I would have been so afraid that I missed some simple trick or tool, or that I would look like an imbecile for letting this mistake happen in the first place, that I would passed on a public blog post.
He everyone! I'm Markus, the author of this blog post and the related USENIX paper. It's great to see the interest in this line of research. I would like to address some of the points brought up in the comments and provide additional information:

- Path-aware Internet architectures and SCION in particular are not source-routing architectures. End hosts neither have/need a full view of the network topology, nor can they unilaterally choose paths. Instead, network operators explore and distribute candidate paths. End hosts get a set of such pre-selected paths from which they can then choose the one they want to use. This is one of the main points of the paper: How can autonomous systems in the Internet efficiently restrict the choices of end hosts.
- SCION does not help with censorship. On the contrary: compared to the BGP/IP Internet, some power is shifted from network operators to end hosts. It is these end hosts, who can implement "geo-fencing" not the network operators. While these still retain a significant amount of control over paths (see above) it is easier for end hosts to circumvent networks that employ censorship.
- One important point about SCION and other path-aware architectures is that the path control of end hosts is at an autonomous-system level. Thus, most problems with LSRR/SSRR are not present in SCION. For example:
- End hosts cannot choose paths at a router level and thus not evade firewalls (unless they are very poorly deployed).
- End hosts do not learn any information about the intra-domain topology, only about the inter-domain topology. This information can already be inferred today and is available in public datasets such as the CAIDA AS-relationship dataset [1]
- There is a Tor-like anonymous-communication network designed to use with SCION: HORNET [2].

Of course, path control by itself cannot solve all problems. This is why SCION includes several additional innovations such as a public-key infrastructure (PKI) that does not depend on global trust anchors and single points of failure, a secure routing mechanism, highly efficient mechanisms for packet authentication, etc.

[1] https://www.caida.org/data/as-relationships/index.xml
[2] https://netsec.ethz.ch/research/anonymity.php
Opportunity is not luck. It is everywhere. Saying opportunity is necessary is like saying air is necessary.

The "luck theory" is the one that is damaging. Because the biggest real problem is people don't know about opportunities. This is one big advantage certain immigrant groups have over even locals. They have networks of people from their country telling them where to go, what skills to get, what jobs to get, how to deal with every detail of every hurdle. It's practically a mentoring system for how to succeed in the US.
>And as a Swiss, this is a complete fiasco.

Yes, and whats even worse, the politicians where kind of proud what they achieved with CryptoAG and called it a "grand coup". It's disgusting, first Switzerland is neutral, and second, trust in any security related product are absolutely smashed now.
That money has to subsidize free apps. If every app was a free app and the apps offered in app purchases without involving apple's payment system then Apple would get nothing. The rules and mandatory cuts have to exist to ensure the continued existence of the App Store.

The alternative to an App store with a 30% cut on everything is a store without free apps and a complete ban of in app purchases.

I personally have never understood the selfish HN user arguments against any particular cut because if you followed those arguments through they would want Apple to give them a negative cut because they only care about themselves with no single though about the consequences of their wishes.
Sometimes, yes. The current US President has offered up quite a few theories about Covid. I’m not sure it’s fair to say that he created them though as much as spread them, but there are media and political organizations that spread theories about Covid, climate change, vaccines, etc.
That's routine cost of business. Humble Bundle takes 25% of sale revenue, just for the distribution and marketing, and companies are queuing up to work with them. Steam also takes 30%. Both of these are for software you run on your computer.

In fact Steam kills the whole "Apple store is a gouge" premise stone dead. It literally is just a distribution mechanism on desktop computers, where you absolutely can side load apps and games as much as you like, and they're still considered very much worth 30% by the market.

There's a reasonable discussion to be had about side-loading on iOS, that's a separate issues, but the idea that the App Store cut is unreasonable in the market is clearly bogus.
I don't think I said that the feelings have to be expressed, but they're there nevertheless. You never have positive feelings towards objects? For example when you see a beautiful sunset, or enjoy a great tool that allows you to easily get your job done? That would be very unusual... the human internal universe is immerse in feelings, we even humanize objects sometimes.

Those positive feelings are not addressed to the "nation" itself though, they're addressed to the group of people to which a person feels like they belong to, it's addressed to the culture and traditions which one feels connected to and which they enjoy with other people. Everywhere I go I see people treating their fellow citizens differently and more affectionately compared to foreigners.
Should have called it Tight
You can do so for Android and that's a valid question. However, you can't side-load apps on Apple devices.
I agree. Once per week, someone ask why it is not possible to upvote or comment in one weird post or if HN has ads, sometimes with a screenshot in case people don't believe it.
Sadly there is no reasoning with stupid, I don't mean that in a totally derogatory way, we are all a bit stupid over something, that topic where our reasoning stops and our emotions, fears and justifications take over.

The only way to deal with stupid is more stupid.

The best example I have heard of this is countering anti-vaxers with "Is is possible anti-vax is miss-information spread by insert "enemy" country to destabilise the health of this country's population?"

Or "I wear a mask as it makes the government cameras and microphones harder to track me" (which actually isn't all that stupid probably)
Why would you care? You will still spend the same amount of money.
Also important was a much faster rate of growth in population:

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/popu...

It’s also my opinion that the internet and use of computers and high speed communications have led to more market efficiency and less arbitrage opportunities. In decades past, an individual might have been more likely than now to notice and take advantage of an inefficiency, whereas now the bigger players have access to much more data about the market, satellite imagery, pricing and sales information, etc so that they are competing on all levels.
As expected, no answer.
What tool would you pick over plz?
hors modem, you are right. So France is different. I'm 100% sure that has never existed in Finland (well, the most common packages are unlimited anyway) and 90% sure it's not common in Germany either (they use throttling after you reach the limit)

So technically, how do they differentiate the traffic?
You gotta Option+Click that green button!
yes, you're right. I chose them in the first place because they made me realize that there is no such thing as "free email", and I was glad to pay for mine to avoid ads and private data exploitation
Who do you think Ericsson and Nokia talked to when they planed their extensive and differentiated portfolio?
Decisions like these are intensely personal. Not only does the answer rely on a multitude of things like where you live, your family situation and housing, but also on what makes you content: is it travels, restaurants, wines and fast cars, or is it long walks in the woods?

Also, if your current work situation is carving at your self-esteem or general life satisfaction then you might not have any other choice than to get out before crash landing, and then that money in the bank will give at least give you some time to evaluate your options.
The saddest part of conspiracy theories is when they simply support business activities. There was this woman in the US behind a very active anti-vaxxer group on Facebook. Membership numbers in tens of thousands.. So someone went digging to see what's going on there.Turns out the group owner sells vitamin C in huge quantities, literally bags, as an alternative solution for vaccines... Back at home we've got this tech millionaire, who recently started anti-vaxx campaign, across all possible channels from mainstream TV to YouTube..So was thinking why would he do that and what's the motivation...Turns out he's got alternatives medicines online store ....
Can’t actually read the blog on iOS. I suppose it must use web workers.
... nothing about Switzerland is neutral
> Think about it this way: imagine you run a business, and suddenly one day you no longer have to pay wages to your employees... it doesn’t make your company produce more stuff

I don't really understand this argument. Surely reducing one of the operating costs of doing business to zero leads to economic growth right? In your hypothetical scenario, wouldn't the business owner just invest some of that profit into growing the business, thereby increasing productivity?

Alternatively, they can lower their prices in order to beat competitors. If they're producing a commodity, this can have the knock-on effect of lowering the price of finished goods using that commodity.

Another point of comparison is, in places where they discover "free resources" like petrochemicals, like Norway, that does lead to prosperity, doesn't it?
It's logical to be concerned about complexity in a specific thing even if there are other complex things in the world. That should be self-evident.
50mb.

"slimmed down"

lol.
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Not collective - driven and organised. Some recent examples.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/troll-farms-macedonia...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/21/groups-f...

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...
Can I remove a video from the list? Sometimes I follow a link in HN, it is horrible/boring/stupid and I really want to forget about it.
You’ve perfectly captured the nature of this problem. Thank you, I really appreciate your comment.

A powerful and dysfunctional IT department is indeed a horrible business practice.

The transactions between IT and staff are glibly treated as some sort of internal vendor/client relationship. But the vendor (IT) isn’t responsible to the client (me.) The vendor’s performance is reviewed by their management, and their management’s management.

At some point up the tree the reporting structures do converge, but that nexus is sufficiently distant that any technical feedback is weeks old and diluted.

Luckily, the battle with IT is such a tiny part of my job that I’ve decided to just check out completely. For part of my work I provide my own devices, network, and software and I’m quite open (constructively, with my manager) about the fact that I do so, and why.

I’m stoic about how the org chooses to interpret me voting with my feet like this. Meanwhile I can focus on doing work, which is mostly what I care about.

Sometimes though, the idea of working at such a dysfunctional org makes me feel a deep unease. My employer might also feel unease. We may choose, unilaterally or bilaterally, to terminate our relationship and find partners that are a better fit. Life’s too short to fight all the time.
As a swiss, and after that second accident i would say ZERO.
Reindeer was domesticated. So they didn't need to hunt them.
You said "in Europe", when you must have meant "in Norway".

In the UK there were DEFINITELY carrier branded phones, tethering was disabled by many carriers, and you couldn't even use a regular SIM card in a non-phone device - you needed a "data sim".

I travelled around Europe for 2 years using local SIM cards - and also encountered carriers which disabled tethering.

There were even android apps specifically to work around these tethering restrictions, by making the phone act as a proxy.
Schwalbe recommends inflating once a month on butyl tubes.
> The openness of the PC should be enforced legally

Oh fuck no.

If you want a PC you can get a PC. Stop trying to force your mediocrity-for-all BS on those who don’t want PCs.
So the company should fire someone that hasn't been found guilty, simply based on one person's complaint?

Where did "innocent until proven guilty" go?
> And you’re completely ignoring the fact that they are using these employees who they hired for an actual job as props for diversity brochures.

Yeah, I am completely ignoring that. "My presence in the workplace was excessively celebrated" isn't a complaint. There is nothing there to respond to.

If you want to argue that could technically be racist behaviour I agree, but typically when people talk about racism they are actually going to serious issues like money, power or personal safety. Photos taken for promotional material is not something that needs a defence - it is a frivolous thing to argue about. Any company might do that.
If "Synergistic Management Solutions" isn't taking the piss, I don't know what is...
From a scientific point of view, the problem is that there are no definition of what a "conspiracy theory" is.

Some theories are scientifically proved wrong (earth is flat), other are partially wrong (climate has always changed... yes but not that fast), and others are just far fetched ( hydroxychloroquin has been fought against by big pharmas to try and sell their own expensive drugs). And then there are theories or rumors that happened to be correct after all ( watergate, contras, etc).

This is not a black or white thing.
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Cyberbrain is a new Python debugging solution with automatic variable backtracing, aiming to free programmers from debugging.
Theoretically, one could spend the requisite money and years to develop a competing device and software, like Apple and Google did to RIM, Microsoft, and Nokia.