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I think it is pretty easy to review google’s deals with phone manufacturers to stop them from shipping third party app stores presintalled and quickly come to the conclusion that Google was using its market position to prevent competition between the Google play store and others on android.

Google, as evidenced by their own internal documents put into record in this trial, was not interested in creating a platform where they had any real completion with the Google play store
Is it because they own the phone and OS too?
Yes I’m sure you could get VC funding by selling an app on the App Store.
The article mentions a handful of difficult cases like international shipping, which could be addressed through carbon capture.

But I don’t think the people opposing the phase out are fiddling over 90% or 100%.
> or the complaints about Apple's "sherlocking."

And they get away with it because Apple isn't competing with anyone within their own ecosystem; it's not a market.

Really is a neat little bit of lawyering, iOS and all apps within aren't competing with each other hence the rule about too many apps with similar features, they're competing as a unit with other computing platforms.
Ha, when I flew out of of Frankfurt to Italy, I just had to walk through a metal detector like it was 1998. So did every other person at that security terminal. Made me wonder why flying in America was not like that great experience
They got punished for paying companies off to not compete on their open platform
That's an orthogonal issue to dealing with addiction, which would be a problem regardless of legalization status...
Fair enough - I do not live in a state where anyone can get Medicaid and I don’t know how that works in Oregon. Nevertheless I suspect treatment is very expensive and the potential patients are not all that sympathetic such that people are happy to pay for their care. I’m sure we can debate how benign neglect is for these people but it seems to be the path that most people will choose. I don’t think I’m all that different in that regard; I mostly look the other way at these people in my city as well.
Sydney and a large number of other cities about the globe have injecting centres and decades of public reporting on crime, death, etc. in the vicinty of such centres.

They're an interesting middle ground - dedicated medical centres that allow users to inject with clean needles, test drugs for purity, and have narcan and crash carts available for complications.

You arrive, show ID, inject your drugs, chill for 20 minutes or so, and then leave.

The long term results are no increase in crime, reduction in death from overdose and dirty needle infections, HIV, etc, improvement in drug quality (now that the users can readily test quality there's more discernment in the market and a reduction in blatant over cutting bad mixes into the illegal supply).

Public drug use | shooting up is still illegal - this is reduced as there is a centre to go to, etc.

One other benefit is being able to easily and routinely survey drug users and adapt public policy to changing situations on the ground, early detection of changes in illegal supply, etc.

They cost money to run, they save money on reduction in public funds spent on the problems they reduce.
> And remember - we did have a long experiment with legally prescribed opioids, and their widespread availability contributed to the current addiction crisis.

That is not what "legalized" means. It's still illegal to have opioids from anywhere other than your own prescription, which means that people without a prescription are basically on their own, have to get it through illegitimate means, and are all the way back to not knowing what they're getting.

If I wanted a supply of, say, LSD, I am not going to accept a doctor telling me how much I can have, when and where I can have it (as in current legalized psilocybin clinics). I want to buy some from the store, take it home, and enjoy it in my own, safe environment, with friends and people I can trust. Is that so hard to ask? It's not like it's any less safe than stuff like alcohol or tobacco, in fact there isn't even any known LD50 yet. The only risk is things being sold as LSD that aren't actually, which is basically the same scenario as the current opioid crisis.
Both sides started appeals in July, iirc.
What is the server program/environment they're interacting with?
Time should be well spent by creating meaningful apps that can solve world hunger, poverty, water shortages and all that shit. All this circus for a blue bubble is just so hard to comprehend.
Partially; it’s also because they don’t have secret revenue sharing deals with hardware manufacturers.
More wall penetration is not the solution. 900 MHz is the outcome of what you seek. It’s unlicensed so it’s filled with noise. And the noise carries far thanks to the low frequency. The entire band is only 28 MHz wide. “DECT 6.0” cordless phones use a 1.9 GHz band that is only 10 MHz wide.
"To do that experiment and do it right, it needs to be nationwide."

I'm immediately skeptical of any idea where bad results become evidence that the idea should be deployed more widely.
You realize the same company suing Google and saying that allowing third party app stores is the same company that actually introduced a vulnerability by doing so?

The entire value proposition of the App Store is the sandbox.

But Android security sucks either way
Indeed, not related, but that's the only change of security measures around flights I have ever experienced, in contrast to the american experience, I understand now.
Oh I see - I didn't understand that you liked it but thought it would be better appreciated elsewhere from your first comment.

I think I'd argue that's at least partly due to changed attitudes about railway stations. In 1865 I think it would've seemed grander and more prominent, more of a presence while bustling about between horse-drawn and train carriage, calling a porter, etc.; today's stations themselves are not grand, we bustle in broadly the same ways but perhaps more busily, heads in phones, between machinery that moves more quickly, and what was perhaps once a fairly open free for all semi-square is not, from memory, a taxi rank and a road divided by the cross?
And how has that worked for the last 40 years?
If I ran Apple or Google (and was running with the "customer safety" angle):

If you want to run a third-party app store, okay. But you have to play by Apple/Google's rules and standards.

Just like they have guidelines for their own store's apps, have the same guidelines for third-party stores. It puts the onus on third-party stores to make sure they're just as stringent as the parent store/platform. If you fail to be compliant per a specific set of rules (not ambiguous), your store gets booted.

If it's a purely a money concern, charge a "store developer" fee on an annual basis and tier it out based on number of sales/customers.
All I’m hearing is we’d significantly reduce ewaste and force consoles to compete to keep themselves relevant by not allowing them a monopoly.
Perhaps Steam Deck model is actually the future of the consoles...
> Heroin is very different from Tequila, so I don't think it's fair to compare them just because they are both "drugs".

Very true, alcohol is much worse by most metrics, both in terms of number of addicts, number of deaths/year [1][2] and general damage done to the body. [3][4]. (I'm not trying to be cynical, just stating facts.)

> Prior to fentanyl, what was the percentage of high functioning heroin addicts compared to people living on the street? I can't find any research on that question, and I'm somewhat skeptical that your friend is the norm.

There's no data on self-reported addiction, for obvious reasons, but there is data on overdoses: "Fatalities involving only heroin appear to form a minority of overdose occasions, the presence of other drugs (primarily central nervous system depressants such as alcohol and benzodiazepines) being commonly detected at autopsy." [5]

I've met good people addicted to heroin. They've been through more hell than the rest of us can ever understand, almost entirely because of those times when they couldn't access it. If I could press a button to forever ban them access to any opioid, I'd press that button; they'd get over it in a few months and thank me. But that's impossible. The second best option is to allow them access to a clean, low-cost, prescription of it for the rest of their life.

[1] https://drugabusestatistics.org/alcohol-abuse-statistics/
[2] https://drugabusestatistics.org/heroin-statistics/
[3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/002239...
[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7328574/
[5] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1360-0443....
It's sad that you're getting downvoted when you're objectively right. Roe was the poster child for judicial activism where the justices literally invented a constitutional right out of thin air in order to justify their decision.
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What does that have to do with anything? Being a bad pet owner doesn't make you a non-pet-owner.
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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.

When someone comes to your store and says "I made the streets and regulate the power, water supply, sewer, and everything else in this place, cut me 30% of your revenue in taxes" that's the government.

And you'd do well to not confuse those so haphazardly. Apple didn't come to your app and with no cause blackmail you to get your money. They created an ecosystem that did not exist before, and they have to maintain it. Paying for it is completely rational.
No, actually we should be trying to fix the stupid mistakes that were made in implementation of the plan, not roll it back and keep on fighting an equally moronic, ineffective, and racist War on Drugs elsewhere.

The best available evidence is that decriminalization essentially had no effect on overdose deaths (https://www.opb.org/article/2023/10/03/ballot-measure-110-di...). It was going to go up no matter what because of the nature of fentanyl. The only thing the failure of Measure 110 has demonstrably done is waste taxpayer funds and give businesses in downtown an excuse for why they are failing (when in reality it has more to do with the death of downtown for purely economic reasons post-COVID, just like other major West Coast cities).
Apple has global dominance on market profits
In the middle of reading the article, I went and tracked down the copies from Archive.org (I was surprised they're still in copyright!) and made a note to finish them after reading a few pages.
So random websites I go to are now gonna be able to take over my phone?

Why aren’t we seeing this scale of attacks using JavaScript?
Interesting approach. For my LAN bachelor party I just used Dropbox. But I was into retro games at the time, so downloading wasn't the issue. Our trouble was getting everyone the same games and all the fiddly settings needed. Dropbox sync (and pause!) was a decent way to help make on the fly tweaks.

Of course modern games don't run as portably. Spewing configs everywhere.

Most recently for a work social I resorted to a Google Drive share and bash scripts to get everything aligned. Still, played old games though; Doom and some crazy mods over Zandorum.
Having margins because no one can legally compete with you is pretty remarkable in the chip industry. No one else has carved out such a large market like this.

The other bit that blows me away is that sometimes it feels like Qualcomm's perpetual inability to integrate chips is a vast submarine point no one using Qualcomm sees coming, but which forever works out in Qualcomm's favor. I don't know how many chips a MediaTek cellular modem takes, but iPhone 15 pro has 6+ chips dedicated to cellular, probably more. Modem, two transceivers, an envelope tracker, and probably a bunch of in this case non-qualcomm power supplies but most probably use Qualcomm pmics, maybe plural. https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPhone+15+Pro+Max+Chip+ID/16532... . There's also separate but non-Qualcomm solutions for wifi & bt too, where-as again I rather expect a company like MediaTek has much more working together.

I'm really interested to see chip identifications of the upcoming desktop/server class Qualcomm Oryon, supposedly by the Nuvia team (one of the strongest possible cases for anti-trust I have ever seen). https://www.semiaccurate.com/2023/09/26/whats-going-on-with-... is not partial journalism, but this cavalcade of ridiculousness is entirely the sort of poorly integrated Qualcomm solution I'd expect, that both builds terrible terrible products but which also lets Qualcomm fail upwards by requiring 5x more board components than is reasonable. Terrible for consumers, OEMs are in tears, but oh sorry, your design is late hot over priced and seemed reasonable but you're going to have to add a bunch more pmic's to get to market because we are Qualcomm and we spend more on lawyers than design.
Only thing flash-y related to C# was Silverlight but that's long since dead.
A beautiful future
Focusing in on the contrived example re: native <form> behavior and nothing else, if given the choice I would rather remove the default behavior / "action" than adding more functionality to html.

I love html, and I love writing nice clean markup that clearly defines a document, so that you can look at the html without css and js and know what information it is presenting to you. I really don't want it to do anything else.
https://www.voanews.com/a/whereabouts-of-jailed-russian-oppo...
> The jury

These cases always goes like this. Jury awards 1 billion dollars etc. It always gets revised by the judge later on. Is this any different?
If you want to multiply by a constant, you instead do Bitsifts and Additions/Subtrations in a particular sequence.
It's the numbers for gasoline produced by US refineries. They're exporting more crude and buying back refined products.
It’s optional to use your position as the OS developer to squash other app stores.
I don’t think Nintendo has ever sold consoles at a per-unit loss. It would actually probably help them since it would raise the cost of Sony and Microsoft’s offerings even higher over theirs
Anyone with a few hundred dollars can buy mics, steady cams, action cams and more off of amazon that would give them quality above the black and white or 16mm film that some directors started out on.

Anyone could go and make their own clerks or reservoir dogs and some people are going out and trying. Where are all the incredible movies?

Even forgetting the tools where are all the incredible scripts since everyone has access to books on script writing and a computer?
but the appeals might?
I've been looking for it, but NASA apparently likes to fully wipe any historical documentation off their site once every few years. After 20 minutes of this, I'm sorry to say, I'm way to frustrated to continue. I can't believe NASA is still this bad at holding onto history. Would a redirect have killed them?

It was in a single STS missions space walk manual. It was the literal "sequence of events" manual. It had the timeline for the entire mission, the absolute procedure for every single movement, down to where to put your feet, which handrail number you were to grab with your hands, and where exactly your tethers where to be for each movement.

The case I remember reading had to do with unbolting and replacing a piece of equipment. If my memory serves me correctly it had to do with the cooling system and either an upgrade or maintenance replacement.

In that specific section, it had a small note, for the astronaut and for their handler on board, about the maximum rate at which the bolt could be wrenched. It specifically called out vibration throughout the station as a particular factor. this may have been related to the position of the equipment, which should have been on one of the solar and cooling support spars, and not directly on a habitat module.

Anyways, it stuck in my mind because as I started reading the document, it just kept getting into deeper and more specific detail about every single aspect of the mission, when I finally arrived at the bolt movement section, I was completely taken aback. I wish I would have had the good sense to archive it for myself.

If you've got the time and better skills that my outdated google fu, you should be able to track it down. I want to say STS130 or STS135. Good luck. Let me know if you find it please.
HF has been pretty good for training in my experience. Both accelerate, deepspeed and other improvements are available and the ecosystem is vibrant. One thing you might want to look into is to write your own training loop rather than using Autotrainer, but that's if you want to get you hands dirty and get finer control over how you call layers, your loss function etc.

Inference is where it falls short really, and solutions like vLLM are much much faster.
The judge cannot override the jury's ruling, so unless Google's appeal succeeds, the ruling stays.
Clues to preventing AD come from patient who, despite genetics, evaded disease
The government does not (and legally cannot) give a darn on "dominance in market profits." If it isn't hurting consumers or illegally propping up market share, that's just called good business. As it should be, otherwise you end up with very bad incentives.

For example, what's stopping Samsung then from using the world's most inefficient and old manufacturing techniques, and then complaining Apple's more efficient (but expensive to research) techniques are propping up their profits? Nothing. It would even be easier for Samsung to do that, and then use their competitor's own cost-cutting innovations to take them down.
That’s why I still use a desk phone at home.
Shh don't mention Voice. Google obviously forgot that they still had it turned on. If they remember it'll get killed.
They are refusing to acknowledge that everyone will suffer if the climate heats up too much. There is no escape.
Why not (1983) BBC Micro … click bait is a waste of our time here?
That's terrible. I'm glad that never happens in places with harsher policies.
My neighbor bought a Rivian truck cash when it came out. Sat on it for 4 months then turned around and sold it for twice his buying price while it was difficult to acquire. Sat on his hands for 6-8 months then bought another one, which he kept for himself, with the profits. He said he would do the same thing with the Cybertruck in a heartbeat
Why shouldn't they?

I know for sure that if it were possible to sideload software onto my Switch or PS5, that would definitely benefit me as a consumer. The fact that I have a reasonably powerful computer attached to my TV but can't install software on it without convincing Sony to sell me a janky dev kit for way too much money is just wasteful.

Just about the only objection I can imagine is "piracy", but the locked-down nature of these platforms has surely not stopped piracy from occurring. Nor has piracy caused the failure of Valve's game store or the downfall of their gaming hardware.
Hope it doesn't happen to Apple as I like and prefer that I can only buy stuff and most importantly have a single place to cancel all my subscriptions without dark patterns like having to talk to a person to cancel.

I'll again make my argument that the developers should respect the choice of the users. If the user chose iOS maybe they chose it because they wanted the curated experience and the locked it product. I certainly do so and so do my parents who haven't had an issue with random apps scamming them and stealing their card details or passwords.

I really don't understand the negative sentiment against Apple - guys, it's a phone/tablet. The consoles are much more like a General Purpose Computers and we are not really touching those or being that vocal which to me shows that it's not really a moral stance and it's a "my profits are affected stance".
I'm genuinely curious why you think she should get clean. I fail to see what sort of burden she'd put on the health care system. AFAIK, long term opoid use is less dangerous than cigarette smoking, and the highest danger is of falls.
(https://fpm.ac.uk/opioids-aware-clinical-use-opioids/long-te...)
That's when the user knows what they're taking..
And this is why posters on HN make horrible lawyers.

How is a market with three competitors, four if you count PCs and even more if you count phones “a monopoly”?

Btw, the judge in the Apple case said that Apple doesn’t have a monopoly in game distribution
That isn't a bad thing for customers.
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No, paying off phone manufacturers and companies to not create or preinstall third party app stores on to devices is what hurt Google here
No but they make a lot of money through licensing and Nintendo Store sales.

That would all disappear if you could side-load any content.
Probably as many regulations as there are on alcohol or tobacco or pharmaceuticals (which I'm also not a fan of the doctor/pharmaceutical gated access to other drugs). If you produce it has to be pure, tested, not adulterated, with standards for production facilities. If you consume, only in particular establishments or at home, and you can't drive while under the influence.

If someone breaks those regulations, then they face similar kinds of penalties as people who produce and consume alcohol would. I really do not understand why people do not draw the same conclusion as if we don't already have a terribly destructive drug that society has more or less made peace with.
Ah, looks like they created a much lower-power TETRA in a different band for North American use (search for "low power tetra"):

https://www.powertrunk.com/pressroom/tetra-in-north-america/

That's cool, but it's going to be a niche use at those power levels. One of the things that make TETRA and P.25 so attractive is that you can put a huge, high-power repeater on a hill or tall building and cover a big chunk of a city using (fairly) small low-power handsets. Then multiple agencies (police, fire, spooks, clowns) can all use that repeater and share the cost burden.

The power-limited version looks like it'll always be a fairly niche single-agency-in-single-jurisdiction use. So the threat, while technically not zero, is not at the five-alarm-fire level that it is in Europe.

Edit: also looks like MTA bought their own spectrum license just for this one use:

MTA owns licenses in 700 MHz and 800 MHz
What's stopping banks from increasing this charge to $10 or $50 or a percentage, on top of the Fed charge? Because if they can, I'm sure they will.
This is the best and most concise summary on the thread.

The equivalent would be if Microsoft, when they had the largest market share of email clients in the US in the late 1990s with Outlook Express (OE), decided to make it so OE-sent group rich text emails with attachments could only be received by other OE users, whereas non-OE users only received plain text emails with image thumbnails and downscaled video attachments. People would have lots of good reasons to use a different email client, like forthcoming Thunderbird, Gmail, or Apple Mail clients. But they'd find they couldn't communicate well with Microsoft OE users.

If Microsoft had made this change early enough and also made it so non-OE responses were color coded with a green background to indicate they are "lesser emails," we'd be in a world of Microsoft Outlook Express users would wonder why everyone doesn't just switch to Windows (the majority OS, at that moment) to make everyone's lives easier. And friends/family would exclude non-Windows users from an email thread as not to "degrade" the thread.

Communication via text with friends and family should be an open standard. Barring the availability of such a standard (e.g. RCS), at a minimum, the chat clients to communicate with friends and family should be x-platform (like Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, and LINE all manage to be).

Ergo iMessage should, at least, have an Android app, even if such an app requires an Apple ID.