skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I already don't use Facebook, but I take your more general point. The main thing I don't want is to feel network-effect pressure from some huge non-Apple platform to install from sources with worse privacy and security guarantees. iOS is so big that effectively no mass-market mobile software can afford to ignore it, and Apple's rules force them to play (somewhat) nice when they show up.

Let's say I did like Facebook, or at least tolerated it because all my family was on it, and chose to use it only on iOS specifically because it was relatively secure and limited their snooping somewhat. Your scenario is a strictly worse situation for me. I was using it and was OK with the situation, now I have to either risk more snooping or drop it. That's not better.
They are speaking on behalf of Google. So what is effectively said is "Google is unable to ..." which is clearly BS.

I mean it is like "I'm unable to return the money [as it would be against my policy to do so]".

Though it is even worse than that as Google wouldn't even say which policy was violated. Full Kafka. The fact that people still put up with this is a clear evidence of Google's monopoly position.
> His failure to figure that out is his fault, not the people trying to help's fault

So it's pretty unrealistic to expect every fisherman to go out and read every bill that comes before Congress. Members of Congress don't even read the bills.

It's supposed to be the role of journalists to convey what the bills do to the public. And then that's what we're talking about.

If the media is telling everyone that the bill is to help someone else and not you (with the plausible implication that it could come at your expense in a zero sum game), it can't be that surprising that this gets less support than putting more emphasis on the fact that it also helps you.
I'm curious to know the improvements that have been made since this first showed up on HN 3 years ago?

Looks like it was already a functioning tool back then... Can anyone who uses it jump in on this?
Yeah, if there's one thing the worldwide politics of the last several years has shown us, it is that punishment is swift and severe when governments knowingly lie to their citizens.

/s
Specifically the building gets quite hard when apple has purchased the chip making capacity
This conflation between "critical thinking" and "critical theory" is exactly what Lukács et al counted on.

Criticism with intent to destroy is not the same as criticism with intent to understand.
Related: https://samharris.org/the-fireplace-delusion/
> Australia NEVER moves first on these things.

I think it is uncommon for Australia to move first, but we do move first sometimes. I thought the recent news revenue-sharing laws[0] are an example of that.

> They want EU or US to make a move first to see what works

It's always nice to know how a policy will work beforehand, but I don't think it's remarkable how rarely Australia moves first. Putting aside cultural differences, we're a medium power in a world with many medium powers, even in the West, why would we expect to be first, ahead of European countries, or North American ones, or developed nations in Asia?

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/australias-ne...
EU has previously declared them a monopoly when they fined Google, because they don't compete : https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_18_...

>Google's app store dominance is not constrained by Apple's App Store, which is only available on iOS devices.
> Nothing else is so important while also being so easy to address.

It's actually not that easy to address if you don't have extra cash laying around. Most people in the world will not do the things on this list.

Other things it leaves out, like frying food (edit: I'm a moron, it does mention it down the line), or buying furniture or clothes that off-gas VOCs, or living or working in a place with fiberglass-lined air ducts, or using a gas range or oven.
It's called "Google".

Here's the first hit for "early criticism of automobiles":

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/01/get-horse-americ...

I am leaving it as an exercise to the reader to verify the extent to which your concerns mirror those of people 100 years ago.
This is a bad take. Google is just as guilty of anti-competitive behavior as Apple. Sure, a third party store can exist in the Android ecosystem, but what are the chances that it can be commercially viable? It's practically impossible.

* Google shows countless scary warning dialogs to users who even think about installing a third party store. Any competitor trying to run an alternative store needs to somehow educate potential consumers on the process of enabling "unknown sources", and convincing them that doing so won't actually kill you (translates directly into higher business expenses, and is probably an impossible obstacle to overcome to reach the majority of consumers)

* Google regularly monitors apps installed outside of the Play store with their "Play Protect" thing, which is an opt-in virus scanner, except not really. When you install an APK, they ask you for permission to enable Play Protect. If you decline, they'll just keep asking you again and again until you accept either by accident, or do it so they stop annoying you. Through Play Protect, Google is able to arbitrarily block any app they consider to be "potentially harmful". Consider that they regularly ban apps by accident on the Play Store using their broken AI, and that those registered developers struggle to get those erroneous bans reversed. I'd imagine getting a ban from Play Protect reversed is nearly impossible.

* Google has a full time hit squad of penetration testers called "Project Zero" which goes around checking competitors for vulnerabilities so they can make big scary press releases about how unsafe the competition is (even though Google Play itself is riddled with malware).

And also, this isn't related to the anti-competitive stuff, but I feel compelled to point it out:

> Android is open source

Yes, Android is open source. The operating system on your Android phone is not open source. Pretty much the only people who benefit from Android being open source are:

* Device manufacturers, who don't have to develop an OS to sell phones, and can install whatever they want on it, like spyware, ads, keyloggers, etc that can't be uninstalled by the user

* Power users and mod developers who are fighting the good fight against that kind of thing (but are hopelessly outgunned)

Saying that something is "open source" usually comes with the understanding that it's a good thing for users and freedom, except in this case it's not.

Say what you will about Apple, but at least they're honest about what they are. Google is still stuck in that cognitive dissonance phase from when they first became 100% evil.
Thank you for lending an expert opinion backed by facts to a conversation that otherwise has been devoid of it.
I was in the same boat and finally caved and bought one from antonline.com. They have them in stock but they're bundled with a $300 monitor (total price of $1,178.98, which includes tax and shipping). I resold the monitor for $275, so my losses weren't too bad.

Anyway, if anyone's been waiting for a 5950X for 6 months like me and doesn't want to pay a scalper, this might be something to consider. Bundling sucks and I hate that so many retailers are basically forcing you to buy random stuff you don't need. Almost as bad as the scalpers. Almost.
Come on. The Android "open-source" fraud has been exposed by a decade and a half of orphaned devices, as millions of users wait months, years, or forever for their telcos to dribble out hacked and essentially proprietary versions of Android for each device, ONE AT A TIME. And you continue to hear about people having to "root" their devices to do things. WTF.

In the 2000s, Google managed to produce an OS without a proper hardware-abstraction layer or driver model, so users can't simply install updates as they come. Meanwhile, ancient Windows runs on millions of disparate hardware combinations without breaking the software running on top of it with every release. And even if you allow for different mobile CPUs, that's still only a few builds that should have been needed.

Google should stick to what it does best: hiding from customers and behaving like douchebags.
I can't think if there has been a worse time to be a PC enthusiast. Everything is so hard to come by, and if you can find parts, prices are insane.
> needlessly emotional responses

This isn't objective at all - and illustrates the problem perfectly.
I think it means Dr. Oz is extraordinarily greedy since his channel chooses when to show ads.
I'm not convinced this is as big a problem as you think it is. If I chose iOS over Android specifically for privacy reasons I'd be interested in knowing what companies avoid the app store to bypass their privacy restrictions. Do you really want to use a product from a company that would do that as soon as they have the chance or would you rather label them as untrustworthy and find an alternative?
Well, I don't really like to fiddle with it that much either... but that's part of why I appreciate the App Store. I don't have to vet the software myself and if I buy a new phone everything just gets installed after I log in. It might be nice if they provided a way to install third-party apps without resorting to Test Flight or a dev certificate or jailbreaking, but I don't think I would actually use such a capability. I never did in many years of using an Android phone.
Yes, this is a more apt analogy.
Brazen lying does convey an intended meaning; an action that speaks louder than words, it always conveys the same meaning: "You're a fucking peasant who has to take what you get."

Sometimes that's true. Most times they hope you will believe it's true. Many people have been trained to believe it, true or not.

A business concerned you may take your custom elsewhere will not insult you this way. It is the mark of a monopolist or a crook.

I will make a point of remembering your relationship with truth.
If this will make Microsoft Office (specifically powerpoint) web client usable, then I will gladly pay $30 per month.
Mostly architecture diagrams, data flow diagrams, flow charts, sequence diagrams and ERD. Mostly they are used as an accompaniment for the brainstorming and design discussions and, in some cases, to serve as easy reference for future. We mostly use draw.io and Visio as the diagramming software in our teams.
> You can have third-party Android app stores.

This is only half-true. Google allows users to install third-party stores. Because only handful of geeks do that.

But if your competing app store gains enough adoption and you make deal with device vendors to preinstall it, the negotiations will mysteriously break down and the other party will grow quiet... Reportedly, because their (NDA-covered) contract with Google does not allow them to preinstall software from Google competitors.

See also: Google fined in Russia for prohibiting vendors from installing Yandex applications on devices [1]

But court decision apparently wasn't enough, so Yandex had to lobby the government to force smartphone vendors to preinstall their apps or get booted out of Russian market [2]

1: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/17/google-reaches-7-8-million...

2: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-technology-softwar...
Shoulda-Listened Futures
Apple can no longer force vendors who want access to iOS to play by the rules that I want them to be forced to play by, is the main risk of adding more stores. I bought iOS devices in part for the effects of that leverage—I chose that. It's also a choice.
Indeed, I'm really bad at closing tabs. One day I wondered how many Safari tabs I had open on my pre-M1 2018 base model MacBook Air. I went into the tab preview pane and discovered it was around 480 tabs. Mind you this was in between system restarts so some were probably suspended or something, but still. I don't even notice with both IntelliJ and VSCode open as well.
So you're arguing that diversity of background (age, previous career, class) is more useful diversity than ethnicity/race?

In some ways I agree; we're all shaped by adversity and experience. But I don't think you can ignore the incredible lack of people from black or hispanic backgrounds in tech either. The goal of increased diversity in entry level hiring is advanced by the suggested HBCU recruitment drive. Supporting it doesn't preclude recruiting from other talent pools.
i really don't mind Google's app store because:

1. most Android phones I've seen let you install other app stores. the OS is built to support running additional app-stores. it takes a manufacturer being cruel to mess this liberty up on Android.

2. i can run other browsers on Android. iOS does not allow any form of competing web technology to exist on their platform. iOS makes everyone showing web content use Safari. on Android, i can use Google's app store to load other browsers which are free to support different sets of online technologies. on Apple's platforms, i will always be restricted in connecting to others with whatever means Apple affords me in their Safari browser.

of the two entities, i only see one company engaged in outright anti-competitive behaviors. i would like to see both reduced in presence & dominance, yet i myself also often use Google's Play Store on my Android devices, and only occasionally reach out to the alternatives like F-droid. but i know, i expect & i do use these fallback stores on Android. and i do run other browsers. i would never considering buying an anti-consumer anti-competitive device like an Apple product, because sometimes good software does have a hard time making it through the gauntlet of approval & i do not want that constraint. i would not consider buying an anti-consumer anti-competitve device like an Apple product, because sometimes there are interesting new web & online standards & protocols & forever being limited to what Safari does is incredibly constraining. i would like to use Play Store less, but i am glad that the ecosystem it's built upon does not deliberately exclude all alternatives.
Sometimes I think we should have open season on farmers - bullies, over-entitled, funded by our taxes, people that close off public rights of way, and so on - that's the stereotype of the farmer for most urban UK citizens. Possibly the same in the US.

Having said that, possibly some animal introductions are not particularly desirable. My younger brother was once savaged by a coypu (not a European species) in the French countryside, and had to have stitches and tetanus and rabies injections. Also, they destroy river-banks.
Funny. Housing became a globally traded commodity, and now theres a cutoff for when it becomes patently unaffordable? Yes, this is a global problem.

No, I dont care that it keeps boomers financially safe for housing staying a "good investment." We're one crisis away from that slipping away.

All the housing producers seem to want luxury-condo money. No one wants to make affordable housing. Nash Equilibriums arent hard. A movie taught this Game Theory to even teenagers in the 90s.

So now? We have luxury homes dry rotting from underuse, and a global housing crisis. We have banks selling our houses to each other, each one turning profit on the next; somehow, no one eats a loss?

Some sources even suspect money laundering. But rampant commodity spectulation on land rather than oranges? Isnt helping. And allowing foreign investment banks to inject themselves into the housing market? Their participation can only drive up prices without contributing anything meaningful to the exchange.

This is why markets need intervention. Keep denying Bernie Sanders? And the actually "spooky scary socialists" will grow, and react with actual violence.

No exaggeration. Rent hasnt been this high ever, anywhere without a violent uprising. And the problem is everywhere.
If you lose out on an app because they decide to exclude themselves from the app store, couldn't you just find another app that doesn't exclude themselves that caters more towards your philosophy?
Because Google is among the highest paying employers so employees leaving will never get a substantial raise?
AMD64 is a really beautiful design for the constraints it was operating under.

Does anyone know who(mses) designed the instruction set?
If there's a good alternative never use Google anything. The sole fact that there is no appeal system to account shutdowns and the way they just kill services at random should be enough reason for anyone.
You can buy a pre-built gaming PC with a Nvidia 3080 today and have it delivered by the end of the week. The shortage exists exclusively on the retail side, OEMs are awash with both graphics cards and CPUs.
Bias implies deviation from the correct outcome. If Pastafarians happen to be the best at astrophysics, are you saying we should intentionally keep better qualified Pastafarians out so other religious groups can be represented?
Big companies usually refresh all their hw on 3-5 year cycle, as older hw is too expensive to maintain (too much power use for the performance + increased repair costs).

So in cases like this, it’s usually not swapping “good” hw, just ordering replacements from different vendor, when batch of hw reached their planned EOL.
Climate scientists: concept of net zero is a dangerous trap
How do you know that apple isn't using your information to sell you things?

They sell plenty of things, including these apps
wouldn’t you need to use a call graph generator? like cscope but for python?

here’s a ref to get you started: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/517589/tools-to-get-a-pi...
Some definitely do charge more for e.g. subscriptions on iOS than they do if you go through their website. They can't advertise the website option in their app, but it can exist.

Last time I made that mistake the site's subscription management interface was rather... uh, minimum viable product. Switching to paying the Apple premium was well worth it.
I'm not sure which claim you're looking for a citation for, but if it was the CO2 and cognition claim, then I have a few for you.

This study made quite a few ripples when it came out: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp.1510037

> On average, cognitive scores were 61% higher on the Green building day and 101% higher on the two Green+ building days than on the Conventional building day (p < 0.0001). VOCs [volatile organic compounds] and CO2 were independently associated with cognitive scores.

There was also this one, about decision making: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp.1104789

> Relative to 600 ppm, at 1,000 ppm CO2, moderate and statistically significant decrements occurred in six of nine scales of decision-making performance. At 2,500 ppm, large and statistically significant reductions occurred in seven scales of decision-making performance (raw score ratios, 0.06–0.56), but performance on the focused activity scale increased.

This one is a high-level overview of the literature on air pollution and health: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP4869
It’s definitely not going to help the regulatory scrutiny from various governments.
How come this never happened to Amazon and Samsung app stores?
And fragmentation is competition. The issue with Apple App Store is they're using their monopoly to stop competition.
The science of why the sun makes us feel so happy
Interesting that despite the shortages AMD isn't really pushing up their margin. It only increased by 1% over 1 year ago, and was flat against the previous quarter.

> notebook revenue is up once again, setting a sixth consecutive record for AMD

Great to see notebook manufactures finally shipping large numbers of AMD machines.
The real problem is that because of the dollar’s (still) hegemonic status as the world reserve currency, dollars will never be cheap enough for manufacturing jobs in the US to come back. Trump’s tariffs really can’t do anything about it.
I continue to be amazed that the people writing ransom aren't brought to justice. I'm not talking about the small time ones that want a few thousand. There have any multi-million dollar payments.

Can thse be taking in payments (even bitcoin) that with enormous legal effort can't be tracked down? Even if they are in Russia or some place that won't prosecute them, they can make life hard by putting out international warrants for their arrest. So big companies just don't care enough to try to get them prosecuted?

Also it should be considered an illegal payment, extortion at least. This feels like an actual real job for international crime fighting.
When I was a boy, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, we were explicitly taught that “no” meant “you’re not trying hard enough” and this message was backed by popular media/movies and sometimes actual testimony from the opposite sex. It took decades of unlearning to acquire a healthier sense of what consent meant. Not forgiving or excusing, but adding some often-missing context. I don’t think the current younger generation was raised with this warped view, thank goodness!
Stories like this always scare me because they remind me that all of my domain names are on Google domains, including the one I use for my work email address.

I gotta migrate out one of these days.
Yes. M1 / A14 is also a 5W+ Core. So a different set of trade off.
I mentioned the M1 because it is the question that always comes up and people keep banging on about it. I wish most tech site would simply point this out since they have the reach. But it is obvious neither Apple nor ARM have the interest for their pieces to be named and compared in this way. And I guess tech site wont do this to harm any relationship.
Datree: Prevent Kubernetes misconfigurations from reaching production
data is local to your browser. it doesn’t need a privacy policy.
Isn't the payment extortion? Like if you put a lock on their front door (even electronic) that prevented you from using it.
We're living in a time where if you don't have a mobile phone you can't complete the online form and therefore the transaction becomes impossible. This is even worse if you're on the phone and the person on the other end of the phone that works for the company is the one filling in the digital form.

The fact that its now further embedded in an app. owned by international conglomerates is hardly suprising. They're slowly losing what control they had.

Governments are incapable of doing sensible things involving ever changing technology. There are too many things understood by too few people for sensible decisions to be made, let alone worrying about do these things age well and just add to the behemoth of red tape^H^H^H^H digital bureaucratic cloud storage.

Paper systems didn't have these problems (although they certainly had some disadvantages).

The ACCC is one of Australia's few good independent bodies, but pretty much all of the others have had their funding greatly reduced over time. Whatever good ideas they come up with just get ignored a lot of the time, because corruption pays and ineptitude is normalised. The financial watchdog is basically toothless at this point.

The Robodebt scheme [1] is just one of their recent screwups. Interestingly, there's now something similar that's come to light regarding Post Office budgets in the UK from a few decades ago.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robodebt_scheme
On a similar note, it seems a lot of media articles copy and paste the same dumb phrases. Search any trending news and half of them are quoting the same exact thing in the title, maybe only one or two bother to throw in a synonym.
Agree, except

> 99% correlation to racial discrimination

suggests that other races do not occupy the lower classes in any significant numbers compared to Blacks. I'd say 40ish %, which is still very high.
I love this article. But the article misses the use of plants to improve air quality! HEPA air filters can't filter out nano-sized pollutants