skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This talk is incredibly information dense, and Cory does not skip a beat on talking about this topic passionately. He does an excellent job at introducing the unaware to Big Tech monopolies and how they can just buy out any company that they deem a threat. In his own words, "we can just treat our users like shit because we're the only game in town".

But at the same time, Cory makes a compelling argument that this isn't something that can be resolved just by talking shit about these companies on Twitter. It requires antitrust cases, strong privacy laws, and much stricter involvement from government, where EU seems to be leading the way at least in some areas.

He also talks about manipulation in the digital economy space; fake reviews, ads, forced search results, etc.

I suppose what struck me about this talk the most is that this is how "enshittified" the web is right now and you can't really escape it unless you lock yourself away in your terminal and never again open your browser. That's insane!

And then you have to consider that if you drag any of the Big Tech names to a courthouse, you won't just magically get justice (if you will get it at all) because they will drag you through the mud for years if not decades before a verdict can be reached. That is even more insane!

So it begs the question, if I can't help from a law/regulations perspective (of which there are very few people who can), then what can I do as the average web user who has already shifted himself away from the biggest monopolies? What if I can't contribute software? Do I just wait, as Cory says in the talk, for these companies to make mistakes (cheat) to get the ball rolling?

Hacker News is arguably the best place where something like this can be discussed, so I am open to hearing suggestions how myself or anyone else can contribute to this cause in ways other than those mentioned above. If I feel so strongly about this, then am I missing out on being part of some group/collective where there is work being actively done on this?
Still infinitely better than WASM blobs where everything is painted on a canvas, which is un-adblockable. The experience will also be hellish, because every website will ship a 10 MB blob of half-baked things that your browser already does a million-times better out of the box. And for what? Because people think it will be faster (it won't).
No, I'm not being pedantic. If you mean just Openreach, just say Openreach, I did ask.

You're talking as if BT was still some wing of the government and the only ones allowed invest in UK network infrastructure.

This isn't 1995, they might be the biggest but they're not the only player.

As mentioned, City Fibre[1] and Trooli[2] have their own networks and there are others.

FTTP has already been rolled out in many parts of the UK, so saying "UK FTTP roll out has been delayed until 2030" is just not true.

I'm in the UK and using FTTP right now.

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1. https://cityfibre.com/

2. https://www.trooli.com/
The section from the article dealing with the downside of extended deployment seems hardly to match your description of it. Unless you want peer-reviewed soc. psych. studies - unlikely given the military context - then first-hand and expert opinion is the best foundation you'll get for "evidence based", isn't it?

And the section's conclusion - that this presents an increased risk of nuclear incident over and above the personal effects of this privation on the crew - is serious enough to be given consideration, though the unnecessary human cost of those privations is already good reason to question the practice.

For reference:

> many veteran submariners agree that six months underwater is longer than humans should spend in an isolated and confined environment—especially with virtually no communication with the outside world.

> Commenting in 2022, on two Vanguards that performed 157-day-long patrols—former Royal Navy SSBN commander Rob Forsyth—noted in a blog post that the “great danger is that this unchanging routine, week after week, leads to boredom, complacency and an inevitable drop-off in standards […] personal relationships are tested to the limit.”

> For comparison, Forsyth states that his Cold War-era patrols lasted only 50-75 days (averaging two months), and were carried out in allegedly less cramped conditions than the Vanguard’s. Even then, he wrote that “major effort was still needed to keep crews stimulated and alert and not allow them to withdraw into themselves […].” Forsyth noted that he himself adopted quirky habits, like tying his scrub brush to a leash and taking it for a walk once a week.

> Regarding a 111-day patrol by the Warspite from 1982 to 1983, he wrote that he was “told that operating errors, flare ups between crew members and disciplinary problems started to be a problem after the half-way mark, around 50 days in.” He adds that long patrols led to loss of sight, weight, general fitness and spatial awareness, and that the lack of sunlight lead to Vitamin D deficiencies.

> The Telegraph interviewed a former attack submarine commander, Ryan Ramsey, who said that he would “be surprised if there aren’t mental health challenges after this because it’s extreme. The reality is they shouldn’t have to do that. Those boats were designed to go on three-month patrols.”

> Breakdowns in discipline in Royal Navy submarines have received periodic media attention in recent years, whether related to harassment and forbidden sexual relationships, the abuse of hard drugs and alcohol, or raucous partying. At one point, in 2017, such scandals culminated in 10% of the Vigiliant’s crew being discharged, investigated, or compelled to resign—including the captain and first officer.

> The Ministry of Defence’s unwillingness to discuss the length of nuclear patrols on the basis of operational security has earned the ire of critics who argue that the strain on the crew from lengthy patrols increases the risk of a mishap involving the UK’s nuclear delivery systems.
Are you threatening me with more evidence that your close text readings are bogus?
If someone used this to promote their product to me as a reply, it would instantly disqualify them. It would be so impersonal and robotic, it would clearly indicate a company that I would not want to do business with.

When I ask for recommendations to my social media network, I'm looking for real, authentic replies from real humans, not bots or the company.
> Land use might be an issue in some places

It really isn't the land that's the problem, there is absolutely plenty of land to support the entire earth's population of trash in landfills. Just like with food, the problem is moving it to the places you want it to be.
Apple's hardware is incredible but the software is increasingly grating for any kind of power usage. Xcode is frustrating, the permissions system is flagrantly designed for Apple's self interest, window, monitor, and app management is rife with ancient bugs and half baked design decisions.
This is an important detail that makes iPhone a viable option for me. I thought the problem would be the elapsed time until E.U. actually passes/forces that, but I had forgotten about the full glass backs.
Because I like iPhone hardware. It's high quality and lasts.

The EU has the right to mandate rules on what corporations sell to its population. No one is forcing Apple to keep selling phones in the EU. They could even create a version of iPhone exclusively for them. Hopefully that hasn't been the case and finally we all have USB-C. Thanks EU.

Hopefully they start being much more strict about repairability and openness.
Pre-trial detention is a thing pretty much everywhere despite literally locking innocent people up before a trial.
“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

-- Douglas Adams
Not if you want to run WhatsApp or your bank's app.
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US: Apple first at 42% in 2022 (Samsung second at 35%) [1]

Europe: Apple second at 23% in 2021 (Samsung first at 29%) [2]

I wouldn't say that most Americans use iPhone, but the market-share is significantly bigger.

[1] https://mobilityarena.com/top-5-mobile-phone-brands-in-the-u...

[2] https://www.phonearena.com/news/smartphone-market-europe-202...
Exactly. I met many people like this. The notion of groupthink comes to mind: "Unquestioned belief in the morality of the group, causing members to ignore the consequences of their actions."

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink
You conveniently skipped part of my comment where I suggested that people who want to install software from outside of corporate app stores are free to vote with their money and buy a phone that allows that? I just want to be free to continue buying safe razors and locked devices for use-cases I deem beneficial.
Yeah, as a person who uses an M1 MBP for work and literally not a single other Apple product, the listed features are all completely irrelevant to me.
You don't need iOS17 for Siri to do things like that, It hapeenes on many other versions of iOS (or in my case Homekit)
Why? Is history too complex? If at least one person was encouraged to read about events in this part of the world during and around WWII, my goal is reached.
LinkedIn has gotten weird
You might also want to check out https://felt.com/ (also OSM-based).
> we have to keep our actual belief in line with the evidence.

That's what everyone does.

Just with varying degrees of success and with differing levels of intellect and experience. But we are all faced with the same conundrum of evidence being less than perfect. Everything comes down to a best-guess in the end. Even for the most rigorous scientist, all conclusions are provisional, and susceptible to the emergence of new evidence.
Separating parsing from semantic analysis simplifies the parser considerably.

If one of Go's aims was to make different trade-offs than [C++][1] did, then the choice not to use "<" as a grouping operator was a good one.

[1]: https://youtu.be/WfIr7lKT4Sk?t=204
Do you have a setup script to automate everything when you got a fresh system? How long does it take to start being productive after a fresh install?
I want the keys to the machine. I want corporations to accept that and deal with us on our terms.
Just use android if you care about things being open. Apple products are good because of the walled garden. Most people just want things to work out of the box, not to tinker with options.
I would argue bumping down makes it even easier to reason about alignment.

Anyways, you can find a full article about up vs down at https://fitzgeraldnick.com/2019/11/01/always-bump-downwards....
I'm guessing the Navy are going to get a lot of important scientific information about the consequences of extreme duration dives from this journey. If there are issues with something like this then its better fin out what they are so you can mitigate them in the future. In fact it's possible they put these measures in to see if any difference was made.
No, these features have been enabled by default for a decade+ on every platform that isn't desktop Linux, including such modern browsers as IE9
Being able to run self-signed software for more than a week at a time without pressing a button to renew your signature is a basic right?
China lists mobile app stores that comply with new rule, but Apple missing
I'd do it from my computer instead of a phone.

But aside from that, do you have issues with Face ID in the dark? For me it works in pitch darkness. It sends out some laser light when scanning your face and hopefully not frying your eyes.
Have you tried yabai?
Subscripts and sizes should be signed – Bjarne Stroustrup [pdf]
If it needs to be done in 8 they’re gambling if it’s not done in six.

They want to be the ones doing all the gambling, not you. And the more the insist on lies the more misinformed they will be.
Show HN: instant.dev - Rails-Inspired JavaScript ORM and Migrations for Postgres
Hey HN! We've spent the last couple months packaging up a JavaScript ORM that we've been using for the last ~8y in production. We built it initially because Node.js was (and still is!) missing a Ruby on Rails caliber data manipulation library. We had another company we were working on so we didn't focus on releasing this as a library, though it got plenty of battle-testing in production -- over 1 billion records in a 4TB database. :)

It's heavily Rails-inspired with a bit of Django patterns for the query system, think ActiveRecord for Node.js. The command line utilities come baked in with easy model and migration generation, as well as the ability to generate endpoints for Vercel's serverless platform and deploy. We've even baked in a quick psql alias that supports SSH tunneling if your database is eg running in a VPC on AWS.

Would love to get your feedback! As I mentioned, this has been in production for nearly 8 years so we think it's ready for your production servers. That said, this incarnation of it is somewhat new (just getting it OSS-ready) so we'd appreciate feedback, testing, issues, or just general chit-chat.
It could be, but communication issues could also be at play, plus overeager doctors/social workers.
In Romania they go at great lengths not to pull children out of family environments, in Denmark and other more developed countries it could be the opposite.
Oh wow, basically my story! With the difference I have no practical experience with BSDs yet (was eyeing FreeBSD for a while now), so I use very minimal barebones Arch Linux installation with sway wm. Why had you chose OpenBSD?
Well you don't really need to speculate because the normal Deno runtime (aka Deno CLI) has been around for ~5 years and you can assess the quality of work that has been put into it.
Yes which as I have said done since the early 1990s
I’m happy with my 15% but the 30% never bothered me either.

I still remember the cheers when the 30% was announced because it was vastly better than what the splits were before the launch of the App Store and even now it’s an industry standard.

> (instead of coming up with all the weird ways you have to qualify for lower rates, which don't cover all scenarios)

Not sure what you’re alluding to here.

You essentially automatically qualify if you have less than $1MM in revenue, you tick a few boxes and answer a few questions and within 3 minutes you’re done.

There are some very niche edge cases that might disqualify you to prevent gaming the system, but those are extremely rare.

More than 90% of the developers fall under the lower 15%, but I’m sure some of the big juggernauts are still unhappy that they’re on the 30% tier.

In a fit of irony, lowering the commission to 15% will prove to be a big defensive argument in future antitrust cases, as all developers, including myself, simply pocketed the difference, killing one of the main arguments in cases like that: that these commissions cause higher prices for end users.

The way the experts gave testimony in the cases that so far have occurred, a percentage point or two difference in commission rate would cause huge price swings, moreover, their impromptu studies to support their testimonies claimed that a price difference of a few cents would have huge implications for consumer’s willingness to make the purchase.

It sounded counterintuitive to me then, and now I’ve seen that it truly was nonsense.
Apple in the meantime has been able to collect a treasure trove of data that shows that even a cut of 15% (roughly 3x more than the most ambitious hypothetical in testimonies) couldn’t sway the prices downwards for the end user.
>parents lose custody for 2 months. Horror story.

If you read the rest of the article, you will realize that this was the absolute happy path in that kind of situation. That's the real horror story: that the default path involves stuff like losing custody forever, incarceration, suicide, divorce etc.
More generally that relates to "innovation VS progress". Systematically linking the two concepts is a bias.
You can see from my comments elsewhere on the topic that I'm anything but sympathetic.
What does it have to do with forcing Apple to allow installing iOS software outside of their approved appstore? Manually installed FF from hypothetical non-Apple store will somehow magically pass remote attestation on iOS or what?
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Yes — i thought the same. Here’s a 2015 article that got me into the topic: https://hazlitt.net/feature/goes-all-way-queen-puzzle-book-d...

The human ability to find meaning in anything (to see patterns that aren’t there, etc.) — apophenia - gets cranked up to 11/10 when an incentive — such as the treasure hunt — is added to the mix.
No, I don't have any bias, it's everybody else having biases. To be sure, I just checked how many times before I was biased (it's zero times), so I can't be now.
TIL that my mental picture of Lincoln's assassination had been wrong: I thought the presidential box was at the center of the theater, behind and above the seat rows, as it is in most theaters (having the best view of the stage), but it turns out that in Ford's Theatre it's at the side of the stage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford%27s_Theatre#/media/File:F.... Now the phrase "Front-row seats to President Lincoln's assassination" makes more sense (although it still sounds a bit distasteful)...
> By replacing labour with robots and not compensating them, you're sending a clear message that you don't respect people and the value that they bring.

Compensation doesn't fix the problem. As more and more jobs get replaced with AI or robots, the number of ways of earning a living shrinks and people have no money to buy the products and services offered by the AI-poweered industrial complex. It's a problem that the billionaire gods don't want to see. The politicians don't have a clue how to address it either.
Good luck man! Its your money to waste.
Power attracts the corruptible.
Has it occurred to you that Apple might not be that different from other companies you listed. It's just good marketing strategy like Google had "don't be evil" years ago. Essentially apple is like only I can access all user data for profit, improving products, ads, while others can't.
I realize it was possible before. My point is that now it's the only way for me to set the lights to be a color other than what my presets happened to be when I upgraded to iOS 17.
Yeah, just buy a phone that doesn't allow you to run the messaging services you need to communicate with your family and business contacts. Just buy a phone you can't run your banking app on because they only support locked down platforms. The freedom of choice is astounding.
Automatic translation is huge for those of us living abroad! It's the only thing that keeps me going to Chrome from time to time.
I remember reading a study that said lamb was actually slightly worse for the environment (on a kgCO2e/kg basis)
What is your evidence that caring is enough to build the most popular global business?
Basically, you want to replace statistics ("large enough samples will average out variation") with AI. I'm afraid that's cargo cult instead of science.

AI can lie. It means a "truely personalized medicine" would sometimes poison its patients. See for instance Donald Knuth experiment with Chat GPT, starting with "Answer #3 is fouled up beautifully!" with some totally wrong AI answers https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/chatGPT20.txt

Of course medical science could make a better use of statistics, get help from AI, and discern more profiles (e.g. one US adult out of two is obese, and it's often unclear how to adjust medication to person mass). But that's a long process, with no obvious path, and much distinct from the magic "AI will solve it all".
Easy. Buy an Android device from a reputable vendor. Then you get both a solid device and user freedom.
I agree. This is clearly visible in trials where emotion plays a big part. An innocent childminder being charged with murder can't really compete with the extraordinarily charged testimony of grieving, devastated and sincere parents who have been made to believe in the strongest way possible that she killed their baby.
Or rather: EU tells Apple to separate their platform from their applications to allow fair competition.

Noone asks them to open "everything", i.e. their hardware design or application-architecture.
The Homebrew UX is great as long as you're on their happy path. Speaking from experience, as soon as I see the warning message I shared at the top, Homebrew gets way worse.

For instance, installing ripgrep now requires building the latest version of Rust from source, which takes three hours per Rust version; installing Pandoc requires building and storing the whole GHC; etc.
The guy from Stuff Made Here makes incredible machines, but they're mostly pointless; he seems to choose his projects based on difficulty alone (for instance, a machine that solves huge puzzles made of blank pieces).

This is useful and beautiful, so it's more interesting IMHO. I would totally buy that machine, or even order something from it.
I've never heard someone pronounce it that way in my life until I saw the video. Maybe it's a regional thing, but it sounds like the wrong vowel sound at the end to me.
Well, billionaires may stop being billionaires when nobody can consume their product/services because they can't afford them
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I'm pretty sure my Android phone allows me to communicate with my family and local business contacts. Banking apps also work fine on it. And I even installed bunch of coolhaxxor software like WiFi scanner or a browser with real ad blocker from third-party app store!
Do we want to let foreign states with an agenda to have an outsized impact? Can we have healthy debate about our country and future with them dominating the conversation with the most toxic and divisive statements?

Is our society capable of elevating to an appropriate level? Seems like we're better at escalating to an inappropriate level :/

It's not just X who's going to be struggling with this, youtube is seeing an uptick for the '24 cycle
Right now we just pass a single user prompt to the chat model. Setting the system prompt could also be done in the `@prompt` decorator. I've added a github issue to track https://github.com/jackmpcollins/magentic/issues/31
Agreed, I remember growing up in country WA and we would have mutton as it was a cheaper option afaik, but it’s almost impossible to get these days - all lamb.
This must be the first time those words have been used in that order. I suspect possibly also the last.
Weird place you live in. In my country, scalping (selling above face value) is illegal, simple as that. Tickets still sell very quickly to popular events, and you often find people reselling them in the days/weeks before the event for below face value due to their own circumstances.

I'm unsure why the bands or the ticket vendors should be involved at all, it's a simple and sensible area for regulation.
The same as “pass”?
Especially when air quality is hazardous in many places, particularly around high motor vehicle traffic areas.
Can't wait to see how hollywood accounting and business structures run roughshod over this.
Just think of how fast you'll be with a1z26 ciphers!
This comes to around $5/mo cost per free user. Who would pay for that?
>the number of ways of earning a living shrinks

Is this true? it seems there are new ways cropping up all the time