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Finally. I'm glad this caught up to them. I used to have a lot of warm fuzzies for Google, but they've become downright despicable in so many respects. The app store has leaned toward unfair for publishers (and users) for years, I hope something good comes of this.
It's probably not a coincidence that it gets elia wrong:

> elia - A TUI ChatGPT client built built with Textual
Yes please. Lock it up for consumers all they want but let people who want to tinker, tinker.
If we’re going to solve all hunger, poverty, water shortages and all that shit before we ever do anything more, then we’ll never do anything more.
The way I’m reading it is that your platform needs to be totally open, desktop-OS-style, or manufactured as a single piece iOS/console style. Anything between those two is where the trouble comes in.
FWIW Google Cloud Datastore had similar functionality over a decade ago. They are called kindless queries: https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/samples/datastore-ki...

Essentially it allows for querying over all kinds (aka collection/table).

One usecase where these can be useful to implement account wipeout. If all entities (aka document/row) have a commonly named field like “owner” which is an account ID you can delete all their records in a single query. I mean for deletes you can do a similar use case with cascading deletes and foreign keys, but those don’t always scale well because they have too all happen in one transaction (but then it’s not transparent to the application)
So the moral of these decisions are "Go vertical, or go home?"
FTX investors are likely to see a similar return, and might even turn a profit in recovery.

Some FTX investors are looking to spin up a speculative investment coin to trade FTX legal liabilities.
It's particularly irrational because they're the ones that put you in the situation of missing child support in the first place. Seems more like extortion and racketeering to me.
Yes, for Seattle a key issue is there is hardly any supporting services available for the mass of people who need it. There are just a lot of people needing services. Seattle also has a huge shortage of mental health treatment professionals. You can't just start working with one of them, you have to wait for months on a waiting list. There's not nearly housing at night.

So you have fentanyl, not much housing, not much treatment, not enough hospital space. People get addicted, at least some move here when addicted and then they are stuck.

It's also not just a seattle problem. Alaska has also been struggling with lots of deaths from drug abuse or overdose. Wasilla - https://alaskapublic.org/2023/04/10/troopers-warn-of-lethal-..., Anchorage - https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2023/07/27/anchora...
Which isn't really "a thing" legally. The fact that there's so much money to be made on iOS for 3rd party app developers and more than Android is evidence of a competitive market in a broader sense. A company employing anticompetitive practices would drive those profits to zero.
I think the discussion should be reframed into household hours worked. It fundamentally changes the discussion.

A couple working 4 day work weeks amounts to 1.6 FTE, which is considerably more compared to the traditional breadwinner model. Now if you add that life got a whole lot more demanding/complex outside of work, the sum work load of a family is rather high instead of low.

Another interesting aspect we see in the Netherlands, where we work part-time a lot. Perhaps a little too much. There's a kind of defeatism regarding working more hours. People feel it doesn't really change their life for the better.

When you're already settled, can pay the bills and have reasonable disposable income, working more doesn't really improve your quality of life in a very tangible way.

Young people are even more apathetic. They figure they can't ever afford a home anyway, and with a pension age heading towards 70, they conclude they can't ever retire. In light of this, might as well maximize free time here and now.

Society wants you to work more to combat the population ageing or to compete with China, but on the ground people don't care about this call to arms. The societal contract is broken.
I don’t like having my own very not-homeless and not drug addict family members for extended stay…

Not wanting houseguests doesn’t somehow mean we aren’t collectively smart enough to figure out which levers need some tweaking to mitigate drug addiction and housing issues.
During the pandemic, I tried to work on my Jura, a Swiss automatic espresso machine with an integrated hopper and grinder. Totally failed :(

It's a great machine (got it refurbed and it's lasted nearly a decade already), but not at all easy to take apart. It's a lot of electronics though.

I take it the manual ones are easier to service?
— they hang you if you are caught with drugs.
This is a National Park. There is no county or city involved; it's federal land. Even the state it's in has pretty much zero say.
Nah, they shake down everyone they can.

They can't shake down someone out of their reach.

They can identify them though ( green icon... )
Fixed the "message" and "query" typos, thank you! I iterated on those examples a bit and didn't get them all back into line.

As for CSP, my point isn't really that you should be throwing `onclick`s on everything, it's more that you should think of HTML as the place to define most of the page's behavior (where appropriate) using elements and attributes. A script tag could implement that interface too.
And you can do that today by buying an Android device
I can't agree. It's much better to have a voluntary opt out like with robots.txt. I would say one of the top 10 observations about the internet is that you should consider anything posted publically there will last forever and treat it as such, otherwise you're doing yourself a disservice. Just one guy's opinion, though.
a) That's not how it works. You need to have a functioning market in order to have a monopoly.

b) Apple is not interfering with the ability of Beeper to sell their product or add new features. They are simply closing loopholes in their product.

c) I never said that anti-competitive behaviour needs to overwhelm every segment. In fact I said the complete opposite when I referred to market distortion.
> I think the bigger problem with the patent system is the patent trolls.

This is almost a no true scotsman argument.

The patent trolls are a direct result of incentives the patent system creates, getting rid of them necessarily involves seriously reforming the system.
Clarity usually improves communication and makes it easier for the intended message to get through to the audience. Clarity serves a purpose.
Yeah, blame it on Jaccard[0] needing a new tailor and auto correct swiftly recommended Taylor because of looming ticket issues.

[0] : https://www.computerhistory.org/storageengine/punched-cards-...
Custom GPTs is completely useless? Someone made a side project to prove it wrong
I, for one, am pretty sure the article is wrong there. What I've heard from geologists is that Yellowstone's magma chambers simply are not molten enough to erupt.
There are endless Doom source-ports, quite a few Quake source-ports, ioquake3 is still alive and kicking and spawned Open Arena.
I don't think it's hugely mainstream but the Doom and Quake engines have been modded endlessly.
Don't Get Triggered by Analogies – They Are a Powerful Tool for Logical R (Cont)
Google was punished for making deals to limit competition on their ‘open’ platform.

Apple doesn’t really make these deals, so they weren’t punished for that.
You're acting like people aren't emotionally attached to their home cities.

Most people are born and raised in the same city or area their whole lives. The adult illiteracy rate is 20% and less than 40% get any kind of 4 year degree. Options are limited. People will cling to hope and the life (and community!) they know, until they're broke and lost their job... and at that point, they straight up can't move to Fresno and start that Walmart job. Walmart wouldn't hire them without a local place to live, and cheap Fresno landlords wouldn't rent to someone without a local job. Neither Walmart nor the landlord has an incentive to change, they're doing just fine exploiting the local Fresno populace.

Low-skill/low-pay life situations are a completely different reality than what well-off knowledge workers know.
Right. The reason the prohibition failed was because it was not very nuanced. Whatever is done needs to be done in a controlled, nuanced way.
> I don't get it, so no company can provide a walled garden

Apple doesn't have multiple competing stores. It has ONE store.

And if you are a software vendor that makes mobile apps, you HAVE to support Apple or you will go out of business.
You're very lucky, a beautiful country and people.
Anywhere where you exist on top of someone else's service is basically killed by a 30% margin. To use an example I worked on a while back, dynamic Minecraft server hosting: Taking advantage of the fact that most small servers need much less than 100% uptime, you realize that if you dynamically spin up and down these servers, you can offer substantially better use-based pricing. You're basically an AWS reseller in this scenario, so there's a hard floor in what you how much you can charge, because VPSs cost money, but you're competing against "leave the server on 24/7", which is your upper cap. Unfortunately, unlike those "Up 24/7" servers, you need a good way for your customers to spin the server up and down. A phone app seems like a good way to do that, until you realize that 30% of that revenue potential would be forked over to the app stores.

100% AWS uptime, at cost -> your competitor's price

10-15% AWS uptime -> your marginal costs

50-60% AWS uptime -> maximum price you can really charge while differentiating yourself on price

25-32% AWS uptime -> subtract your costs and google's cut from that maximum price

When you start factoring costs like customer acquisition, it starts getting very, very tight. 30% profit can make for a pretty healthy business, especially in businesses where your prices and costs can be predictably coupled. But a business with a 30% profit margin that has to pay 30% is a failed business.
> If you want to run a third-party app store, okay. But you have to play by Apple/Google's rules and standards.

Defeats the purpose of third party app stores. The only reason I even have one installed (F-droid) is for apps that don't play by Google's rules and standards.

"Yes, you can have multiple app stores as long as they're all exactly the same."
Just require that apps have to (non-exclusively) support Apple billing to be in the Apple store.

Then you can (personally) choose to never break the glass to install something from outside the store.
> Police are a reactive force, they're useless to prevent or break up an assault unless it's a very ineffective (slow) attack

This seems like you’re implying that stricter enforcement and tougher punishments are useless?

I tend to agree, we saw bright and clear as day with the “war on drugs” that being more vicious to addicts didn’t work and the problem only grew.

Im certainly no expert though, and what often seems to be missing from these conversations is actual experts who research and actively work amongst these addicted and homeless people.

It’s wild how often we have conversations about incredibly complicated and wildly nuanced subjects with very little back and forth from those with far more expertise than ourselves. Then we scratch our heads and tilt our heads in confusion.
The first minivan... The article missed it by 30 years. The first minivan was the Volkswagon type 2 in 1950.

As a bonus While checking my dates I learned something neat about the type2(bus). It has exactly the same wheelbase as the type1(bug). It literally started out as "What if we put a cab over van body on a volkswagon"
Denmark: The major pork producer trying to wean itself off eating meat
Which drugs specifically, all of them?

Do you feel that the Canadian government should be tortured and put to death for legalizing marijuana?

Do you feel the same for Singapore where smoking tobacco is legal?
Ok but apple is hurting consumers with their 30% fee. I would not have bought an iPhone if I knew about that. Now Im locked in.
The lesson is loud and clear: if you want to destroy normal consumer protections, do it using technologic dictatorship like Apple and the gaming console companies, not through an open platform and then soft power with your vendors.

Feels like a "if you run somebody over with your car it's better to back up and kill them" moment of perverse legal incentives.
Several thousand Earth masses of hydrogen, with the unfortunate side effect of ending all life here.
> When someone comes to your store and says "I'll wreck your store unless you cut me 30% of your revenue" that's the mafia.

That's exactly what Apple does. If you make a mobile app (for example, a presentation manager) you _have_ to support iOS, or you will go out of business.

As a developer, you simply don't have a choice. You have to either support iOS, or get out of mobile apps entirely.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/109

states you own the property when you acquire ownership of it. if the contract is written in a way that says you are renting, leasing, or loaning the car for a period of time then the sale has ultimately not completed. whether you decide to agree to the terms of the contract or not is entirely up to you. it is also entirely up to tesla to not offer the contract or sell a car to you if you disagree.

this likely only works because of tesla's network effect. honda, for example, would be hard-pressed to do this with their civics or accords today. tomorrow is a different story entirely
I suspect that it's simply ease of use. Sure you can use a mish mash of self hosting, online dedicated services, etc, but this looks more simple and cohesive and for $20 a year you don't have to worry about the overhead of all those other things, you just add the content you want and don't worry about the details.
They aren't popular. It's a weird thing that only happens in America. It's just like asking, "I never understood why in the 21st century carrying guns around in public is still so popular." Again, it's not, it's only in America; it's not like that in the rest of the civilized world.
You're gonna get dunked on for saying that Austin > NYC in terms of tech scene, but you're 100% right about UT Austin > Rutgers + Columbia combined.
Who do you think legalizing drugs is going to benefit? What followup are you looking for?
Anyone have a feeling karpathy may leave openAI to join an actual Open AI startup where he can openly speak about training tweaks, the datasets architecture etc.

It seems recently OpenAI is the least open startup. Even Gemini talks more about their architecture.

OpenAI still doesn’t openly mention GPT4 is a mixture of experts model.
Surprisingly yes, they were caught with much credit and appreciation to the detectives of SPD. In fact the police were very helpful in accessing support and counseling, and I should be completely honest that I would have described myself as loosely "anti police" until I had this experience.

The issue was simply that these men were psychotic after using meth in an uninterrupted fashion, and emboldened by the fact that the police were not allowed to interrupt their daily drug use or property crimes. I'm very confident that if possession/use of meth had been treated criminally these men would not have been in our neighborhood and able to target me. During pretrial I was made aware that they had been contacted multiple times in the days before my assault but police were not allowed to arrest them despite the fact that they were using/in possession of methamphetamine.
they might mean an unspoken deal no to sue each other rather than a written one
Oh heya man! I’ll give it a closer read when I’m not wasting time at work on HN haha

I will say TS source mapping gives me a near identical experience to debugging JS. Even if it’s another artefact to cart around, it’s near invisible once set up. It feels close enough to the actual code I write.

While a debugger looking at an HTMX app does show exactly what is running at that moment, it peels back the mental model HTMX sets up to reveal the inner workings. That I feel like could be more confusing for folks learning.

Thanks for making cool stuff though! :) (genuine! The internet can be a snarky place)
No, the cases were very different. Mainly because Google had a whole bunch of emails and contracts with other companies that Apple just doesn’t make.
Like I said, please go to a victim support group and summon the courage to say that to somebody's face.
Sure. But there would be zero incentive for Sony, Nintendo etc to build one.

Because Acer, Asus etc could simply come along and undercut them on price and still have access to the exact same game catalog. And then they would each decide to add more proprietary features or add more performance.

And so you've just recreated the PC gaming market again.
Just giving a voice to those who do maintain responsible recreational use, because that crowd very much exists. It might go unnoticed since they usually don't die or screw up their lives because of it.

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On the flip side I've seen addiction become a much more devastating force in recent years and smart solutions are badly needed.
A. That's not exactly secret information, so your ignorance is not an excuse when you could have easily found that information if you cared. It's not a secret contract.

B. Android also charges 30%. Developers making under $1M per year pay only 15% (initially announced by Apple, copied by Google). You can't argue you'd save a penny going to Android.

C. You can always sell your iPhone, if it matters to you now, and buy an Android.

D. It is no secret that the 30% fee has nothing to do with consumers, but will instead be used to increase the developer's profit margins. Expect to pay the exact same after the fees are lifted.
Lots of things people do for entertainment cost money that they would be better off saving. Why pick on this one thing? A lot of people blow their money shopping or travelling or on luxury goods. They may be affected negatively by these pursuits. It’s not my business. All I ask is that these folks don’t come for my money when they run out of theirs.
Humans don’t need a better way to ID people, computers do
Even if this bizarre claim were true, that wouldn’t make them “incels”, as they voluntarily chose to use Android.

Desperate men blaming everyone and everything for their own dating shortcomings is nothing new.
Which is similar to what Microsoft did with PC manufacturers to kill off alternative operating systems.
These alternative networks are mostly lefty Twitter refugees whom indeed carry on their joyless identity politics and everything that comes with it. Everything is political, there's lots of dunking, excessive safety-ism and universal ideological agreement on everything.

Toxic positivity, it's incredibly tiring and alienating. I think the whole world is done with it.
I'm getting a blank page on firefox for android.
The "solution" is to simply leave insert mode more often. That works great if you are using Vim for editing. If you are using Vim for writing... well, not so much.

Then again, if I am writing in Vim, I generally prefer the flow of actively editing what I wrote rather than undoing it.

This really applies to Vim as a whole: if you enjoy its UX, it's damn near perfection. If you hate it, you can leave. If you love it, but want it to behave just a little differently...then you can probably accomplish that with a plugin/configuration.

...but if you want to change Vim's UX more than a little, you're fucked. It feels totally possible until you realize it just isn't.
There will be appeal after appeal until the US Supreme Court rules on some obscure fact. My guess is that a conservative court will side with Google. Google might have to change something but it will be minor.

The definition of a monopoly is legally different than what most people think so a jury will get it wrong. To prove a monopoly it must be proved that the customer was harmed. In the app store, Epic is not the customer so they will eventually lose if you follow past case law.

I side with the Jury but a lot of case history has to change for the jury verdict to stand.
Epic didn’t sue for damages. They sued to get the rules changed. The jury did not award Epic any money. The judge will be deciding how Google must remedy the situation
I have been thinking about how I (and many others) go to work for a corporate job that has ultimately no meaning in life just to be able to get paid to provide for a family that i only get to hang with on saturday and sunday and if i'm lucky 2 weeks straight out of the year. am i alive?
Being sued for different things - yeah you tend to get different results.

And what is the definition of nasty here? It's very subjective. Apple doesn't own the mobile market and are below 50% control of it so they are not really a monopoly. I'm also not sure how you can use anti-trust or anti-monopoly against them when they have been found again and again to not be a monopoly.
150 years ago was very different. If you didn't do useful work, you and your family could be in serious and immediate risk.

Now there's more of a safety net (money, foster care, and ambulances/ERs) which is largely good, but provides more opportunity to enable addicts.
> really don't understand the negative sentiment against Apple

I just want them to be better.

They take 15-30% of my gross revenue and are the source of most of my stress (through regular rejections of my app updates). It would be nice if they charged less and stopped rejecting me for mentioning Android in my app copy.
Do we know for a fact Apple made fewer deals like these? I don't think we do.

Apple makes a lot of deals. A lot. I'd expect them to be about even.
No. The APIs are vastly different between modern mobile OSes and win32 from the 90s.
Looks like Epic is getting almost everything they wanted from both Google and Apple, given that EU is giving their hands to do all the jobs necessary for the Apple's case. Those two stores will remain dominant (>95% share) for a foreseeable future, but at least customers will have a choice.

Now I wonder what if Google/Apple decided to decrease their cut to a more reasonable level, around 10~15%? App store/Play store fees are not their primary revenue stream so this must be a reasonable cost for them to mitigate this kind of legal risks, but they choose not to do so.
How many things should there be?
I still don't know how the jury squares the circle on Play Store being a monopoly when F-Droid is right there... But the thing about juries is they don't have to.

Good news for Epic.
I agree. Any one city that gets out in front will be overwhelmed with a national population of addicts flocking to it. Legalization has to happen nationally.

Imagine if prohibition had ended just in Chicago. Chicago would have been overrun with alcoholics.
But they are the ones that allowed those companies to compete in the first place. And I'm not saying that they should have won. Both Apple and Google losing would have been the best outcome. However, Google losing and Apple winning is the worst. Because its makes open platforms even less attractive to businesses.
Yet again I am struck by how incredible it is that Braben and Bell, two undergraduate students, could produce something as ground-breaking as Elite—all the way down to writing their own multiplication routines.
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No one is proposing using biometrics exclusively. There is always physical id as backup