skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I wouldn't recommend that all things must attempt to recapture the 1950's apartheid and social conservativism in all regards

I don't think you can avoid this. If you bring back religion, you necessarily have to accept apartheid and social conservatism. The two go hand-in-hand.

Religion probably worked well for bonding communities back when communities were small and homogeneous and had little contact with the outside world. But in an era of global travel and communications, it doesn't work: we have to have huge wars to decide whose religion is the correct one. Just look at what's going on with Israel lately. Different religions can't peacefully co-exist, so devastating wars are necessary to maintain order.
or perhaps Apple just had a stronger policy to not create documentation around these
I'm curious, do you have an Amazon subscription or any of the dozens of other major subscriptions that didn't go the AppStore route because of Apple' policies ?

I'm not sure at any point I experienced a "cancel all my subscriptions" in a single place, even as I was neck deep in the Apple ecosystem.
The youtube video is here : https://youtu.be/WxmJSCNFb28
I'd challenge you on that. I think 95%+ of iPhone buyers have no idea that Apple places restrictions on what they are allowed to install.
A company need not have 100% market share to have monopoly power in a market.
Epic shouldn't get special pricing either. Even Epic will say that.
> And so you've just recreated the PC gaming market again.

What's the issue with that?
I think mRNA vaccines provide a pretty strong counter-argument. And do you know how many heart patients are alive today thanks to apixaban? Before that drug people were taking literal rat-poison as an anticoagulant.
um but does Apple not have a monopoly on the iOS distribution system? if anything, Android is open to competition against Google. I'm baffled
Well, sure...there's always a one-off where you have to throw out the rulebook on salary. But any HR team worthy of the name can still compute the actual overhead on that base pretty much to the dollar.
> We can take these analogy absurdities wherever — the harsh reality is that nobody is stopping someone from building an open ecosystem phone. But there isn’t enough demand.

I don't think there's too little demand, I think there's too much profit incentive in the other direction.

Only a tiny number of companies on earth have the resources to build a successful mobile platform. If you are lucky enough to be one of those companies, you're not going to leave money on the table.
Likewise, the problem isn't the drunk driver, it's that the drunk driver killed your family.

Do you think an addict considers the closure rates on assault cases before harming a stranger?
No, android is far cheaper. Mostly they are using androids for socioeconomic reasons.

I cited my sources. You claiming it’s bizarre is itself bizarre. Seems that you can’t handle the truth.
I gave up caffeine about 6 months ago now, and did it because I’ve had persistent anxiety since I was a teenager and was desperate for something to help. I had been drinking about 6 cups a day, which was a bit cultural, but also just way too much caffeine.

When I came off of it, I stopped having anxiety attacks and had a huge reduction in anxiety. To the point where I think most of my anxiety throughout my life has been due to caffeine intake.

Just something to keep in mind if you in general are a high key person and tend to drink a lot of coffee.
I had been working on an idea for an interface "Sorting Hat" system to help kids at schools know whether something was for trash, compost, or recycling. While I had been hacking on it for a bit, Greg's "demo" was much better integrated than what I could do, so thanks Greg!

I did add ElevenLabs support to make it a little more snazzy sounding...

So, here it is the "Compose/Trash/Recycle Sorting Hat, Built on Sagittarious"
https://github.com/n8fr8/CompostSortingHatAI

You can see a realtime, unedited YouTube demo video of my kid testing it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Ya5rLj64Q
> (i report to a CISO, and we report to a board, thoughts and opinions are my own)

That sounds like an interesting role. How did you get there? Did you start as a security analyst and work your way up?
Yes, they are hurting consumers by banning competing app stores. Just because they offer an acceptable product doesnt mean they can hamstring competitors. There is a right to be allowed to compete.
> Looks like Epic is getting almost everything they wanted from both Google and Apple, given that EU

It remains to be seen whether Apple will comply with EU rules outside of the EU. If not, Epic isn't getting their way, because EU revenue alone isn't going to be enough.
I am mentioning Steam as an example of an ecosystem that offers exclusive apps on different devices. The fact that I can install Steam on a Mac is sort of irrelevant considering that I can't play the games that are offered through Steam on my Mac. Many indie games are offered only on Steam, so it's a monopoly in this sense.
In the US, I'd say some people make things. The rent seekers of wall street try to covert every made thing into a rented thing you never own. Renting discourages maker curiosity and leads people to the comfortable trap of providerism.
I think that's a different context, because doctors were heavily encouraged to overprescribe it and it was marketed as non-addictive.
> Idempotency tackles the issue of handling multiple requests for doing the same thing, isn't it?

yeah... there should be no extra side effect if you call something more than once on it with the same parameters. ie foo(x) is the same as foo(foo(x)) is the same as foo(foo(foo(x)))

or in networking GET x is the same as GET x followed by a GET x etc... the GET request doesn't (*shouldn't) change anything.
100% correct. I was involved in the Netscape Microsoft anti trust case and this is specifically the finding that led to their loss (way too late for us)
I'm severely visually impaired. I walk and use public transit. Currently in the pacific northwest. My quality of life has decreased so much since covid and when these policies came into effect. I tripped over someone asleep on the train floor and they lost their shit. I was really scared. One of dozens of instances. And the cities in general must become less walkable to avoid crime. Fences around apartments that mean less sidewalk access, store entrances near transit that close early, and people camping on the sidewalk that block access.

At this moment, it feels society cares less about me and others who want to use public services than the addicts.

It's been an especially hard couple of months here in Portland. I've traveled around, hoping to find a new place to live. But all the big US cities with good transit suffer the same issues. At best, I wish I could move to another country I could live in and feel I had a sense of agency, if anyone would have me. But at this point I'm feeling like it's time to give up.
Super Bowl

That’s bold to be introducing this first ever tech, at the host city of the Super Bowl just a couple weeks after launch.
Different people on HN, different judges, judge vs jury
if you zoom out you find that Google got published for allowing other manufacturers into their Android system while Apple benefited from keeping ios closed to themselves. how does this serve the consumers ultimately
The best answer would be to take a look at the ruling, it's pretty clear why it applies to Google.

On Apple, I think the EU will do a better job as for better or worse there will be no "let us bring money to the country" defense like the last time.
Pets don't really need medical care per se. There's a huge glut of unwanted dogs, so is it better to euthanize so many unwanted dogs right away, or would it be better to just allow some of them to live on the street with homeless people, and then be euthanized when they have medical problems (which usually takes years: pets are typically fairly healthy until they get older unless they get injured, much like humans)?
y(t) is likely continuous and y_t , the subscript form, is likely the discrete version.

For example it is common in digital devices to sample something continuous(analog) every unit of time and use whatever value was captured at that moment for whatever the goal is, ideally if the something is sampled frequently enough you can even recreate the continuous version from the values.
Well, legalized meth is essentially ritalin/adderall (not exactly the same thing, but same class)
Litellm proxy is a pretty good project on its own. I am obviously biased because we are competitors. Here are my thoughts.

* Litellm is declarative and it let you define everything in yaml
* Bricks is not declarative and you control everything via API

* Litellm does not have an UI
* Bricks has a non open source UI

* Litellm is written in python
* Bricks is written in Golang

* Litellm does not persist rate limits. Therefore can't accurately rate limit across distributed instances
* Bricksllm let you create API keys with accurate rate limits and spend limits that work across distributed instances

* Litellm provides high level spend metrics on API keys
* Bricks provides granular spend, request and latency metrics breakdown by model and custom id

* Litellm is not compatible with OpenAI SDK. You have to adopt Litellm python client
* Bricks is designed to be compatible with OpenAI SDK

* Litellm only supports OpenAI completion and embedding
* Bricks supports almost all OpenAI endpoints except image and audio

* Litellm has exact request caching
* Bricks does not have caching as for now

* Litellm has OpenTelemetry integration
* Bricks has statsd integration

* Litellm supports orchestration of API calls. When this API call fails, use this model or call this API endpoint instead
* Bricks does not support orchestration of API calls since I believe that it is something that the client should handle
Monochrome or CGA?
The same people who loudly signal their progressive bona fides won't hesitate to silently vote with their feet if they feel unsafe.
ok, bro. 100% or nothing? Guess which one you'll get?
Now go after the rest of Google's effective monopoly on browsers and control over the Internet.

I wish the title said Epic Win.
It’s really amazing watching trends in web UX reverse in realtime. Can’t wait to log in and find one day that flexbox/grid are bad and we’ve reinvented table and frame layouts.

There are loads of web apps that have rich interactivity where mixing presentation with supporting logic creates a real mess. Say you’ve got a grid with a million (gasp!) rows. You’re really gonna emit all that unnecessary inline JS behavior over the wire?! Why on Earth?? What if you need context binding? You could just have a jQuery .on handler registered once at the parent and filtered to all buttons, which pulls the id of the record from a data-attribute on the target element, finishing the same work in a couple of lines of code in one easy to maintain spot. Yes, adding addEventListener code all over your app would be repetitive and wasteful, but that (amongst browser incompatibilities) is why jQuery was invented, but you can hand roll your own utility or use HTMX or a million concise tools to do this. Including a right-sized dependency isn’t going to kill you. Sure, if you’ve got a stupidly simple HTML page with a couple elements with a handler or two, fine, go ahead, knock yourself out. I disagree with this one-size-fits-all assertion. We did a lot of this before and it sucked.
> Before that drug people were taking literal anticoagulant as an anticoagulant.

and now they are taking a different literal anticoagulant as anticoagulant.

w00t!

Quick question- will a massive dose of apixaban kill a rat the same as a massive dose of an anticoagulant will?

mRNA's are novel, on this we can agree, and I have no issue with their use.

Other sectors of the drug market are less novel and more about slightly different for the purposes of starting the clock on drug copyrights and licencing again.
Please stop incessantly committing appeal to emotion fallacies.

This is about as helpful as "please go to welfare office and tell everyone to just work harder" or "please go to a substance abuse center and tell everyone to just, you know, stop using drugs mkay?" or "please go to a prison and tell everyone that crime is bad and they just need to fly right and everything will be fine."
All they have to do to beat Anthropic's Claude is to skip having a permanent waitlist and let the credit cards get charged.
Those stats aren't per capita. That page says 902,000 Americans use heroin annual and 14,000 die. That is a 1.55% fatality rate. And that is strictly overdoses. Any death to which heroin contributed but isn't an overdose isn't counted.

141,000 Americans die from the effects of alcohol each year. That would include factors such as increased heart attacks, etc. It is not merely looking at deaths from delerium tremens or the like.

Nonetheless, 177 million Americans[1] use alcohol annually. That is a 0.079% fatality rate.

So, the [direct + indirect] deaths from alcohol are 19.6x smaller per user than the direct deaths from heroin. I would wager if you included indirect effects, the difference is 100x or more against heroin.

https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohols-effects-health/alcohol-to...
This sounds good, but didn't Apple get off the hook?

Anyone can decipher what the difference are?
I guess we'll merge the comments thither, since that submission was first.

Sorry ganlaw! It was a perfectly good submission and in the future we'll have some support for merging "submitter set" or something, to share credit.
Nice victim blaming here.
usually what I hear is "they've cross-licensed." That doesn't translate as "unspoken deal."
Thank you for your bravery in putting your statement out there.
> Just legalize it and let people get pure product at dirt cheap prices.

Having traveled to Portland recently and witnessed the public drug problem first hand, I have no idea how anyone would think that increasing availability of the drugs would improve the situation.

The only thing legalization and widespread availability would help is reducing deaths from tainted drugs. While that is a significant problem, anything that increases the availability and reduces the price of a drug addiction will also fuel drug use among the public. I've heard people try to argue the inverse, but removing penalties, decreasing prices, and improving availability simply cannot do anything other than increase consumption.
Does "side-load any content" mean unlimited piracy? Otherwise I don't understand your argument at all. But adding side-loading does not enable unlimited piracy.
Just for fun... I think this should be on the efficient frontier of 8 x 8 -> 16 bit multipliers, at an average cost of around 43 cycles and memory of 1330 bytes or so. Compare 45.5 cycles and 1580 bytes for the mult66.a fastest in the collection linked.

lmul0 = $06 ; pointer into square table low
lmul1 = $08 ; pointer into square table high
labs0 = $0a ; pointer into table of abs(i-1)
prod_low = $0c

\* = $0200

; Align tables to start of page
abstable
!for i, 0, 255 {
!byte <(abs(i-1))
}
squaretable1_lsb
!for i, 0, 511 {
!byte <((i*i)/4)
}
squaretable1_msb
!for i, 0, 511 {
!byte >((i*i)/4)
}

; multiply
;
; f(x) = x*x/4
;
; return f(X+Y) - f(|Y-X|)
;
; 8 bit x 8bit unsigned multiply, 16 bit result
;

; On Entry:
; A: multiplier
; Y: multiplicand
; On Exit:
; (prod_low, A): product

mult
sta lmul0
sta lmul1
eor #ff
sta labs0
ldx (labs0),Y ;X = abs(Y-A)
lda (lmul0),Y
sec
sbc squaretable1_lsb,X
sta prod_low
lda (lmul1),Y
sbc squaretable1_msb,X
rts

;call this once to initialise high bytes of pointers to table
mult_init
lda #>abstable
sta labs0+1
lda #>squaretable1_lsb
; high byte (#2 in this instance)
sta lmul0+1
lda #>squaretable1_msb
; high byte (#4 in this instance)
sta lmul1+1
rts
The west coast cities of the US post covid are significantly more dangerous feeling than the east coast cities. In the past couple years Ive been in portland, seattle, chicago, philly, nyc, detroit, boston, washington dc and smaller cities. Seattle and Portland top the list as the cities that seem the most run down, and with the most visible violent crime.
Doesn't that mean entirely? apple makes the hardware too
They are victim of Apple's security horror story. Apple advertises their mobile app sandbox system is poor, to protect their dominated store.
Hello. Trumpian don’t tread on me populist here. Civil asset forfeiture should get the ban hammer.
We could sure save a lot of money on treating physical substance addiction if we just simply beat the shit out of people instead!
The author of the article appears to be a patent lawyer ;)
Donkey Kong: A Record of Struggle
Well for the first couple of hundred thousand years of our existence as modern humans, we didn't teach everyone to read and write. It's been essentially the past 400 years, give or take some decades. And as it happens, it's turned out beautifully, in my estimation.
Incredible victim blaming here
> 2) What gives you the right to tell people to not do something pleasurable?

this is a really good question and I had to think about it a lot. I think if all other variables were equal, I would have no problem with people doing something pleasurable. In contrast to say, a strict religious fanatic who vociferously preaches against wanking or rock music.

However, I think we can both agree that opiate withdrawals are not pleasurable, nor is the change in an addict's personality when they start putting drugs high and above everything else in life. I think we can also agree that there is a continuity between "pleasurable" and "not pleasurable", and opiates give the user so much pleasure that pales in comparison to anything else. Enough to substantially change their personality, for at least the ones who are susceptible to it (as you pointed out, not everyone becomes instantly addicted). So that's where my case for prohibition comes from.

There's the whole "Rat Park Experiment" that I think deserves a mention. Whether the experiment itself has been debunked (I can't remember) is irrelevant. I think it's worth asking the same question of Portland: is there opportunity here? Can someone get an entry-level job and be happy? If not, why? This is a liberal, government-micromanaged city. Why are things so dismal that people are choosing not to work? (If you wonder why I'm suddenly making this a partisan issue, it's because (1) the government has their hands on all the controls so obviously they could fix things, and (2) people are suggesting regulation of dope, so if the gov can't regulate a simple local economy, why would we think they can suddenly be the new dope dealer?). Why don't they double down on their taxes and fees and manipulate the city such that an entry-level, full-time employee at Dollar General or Taco Bell
can rent his own apartment, raise a family with their spouse, have healthcare, own a car, have a vacation, and a 401k? The reason is because the far left doesn't actually represent the people. They'd rather distract everyone with gender pronouns and anti-racism red-herrings while their own citizens check-out of the late-stage capitalist hellscape their government created for them.
The only vendor lock-in to GPT3.5 is the absence (perceived or real) of competitors at the same quality and availability.
I'd like to reign in government surveillance powers, but I don't find that particular rationale very compelling: Said nut-jobs will continue either way, fueled from internally-generated fictions. For them, the details in those laws/policies are incidental, much like whether or not a maligned pizza-place has a basement or not.
The reason would be to avoid that person spreading the fatal disease, thereby avoiding M deaths at the cost of 1 death. Killing the patient avoids a greater harm than letting them walk out of the healthcare facility. This isn't a personal interpretation, it's raw math, and it occurs in every society where the "public good" outweighs individual rights.
Google lost this lawsuit because they were engaging in anticompetitive behavior on android by paying off companies to not produce third party app stores (like Riot) and paying phone manufacturers to not ship third party stores

Google, as evidenced by their own internal docs and company deals, had no interest in having any real competition for the Google Play store.

It’s really hard to see these deals when Google is the arbiter of android and anything but extremely anti competitive
But if they had made it impossible to install another app store, they wouldn't have gotten punished.
I mean, they anticipated the effect of eating shellfish and allowing women to speak up in Whatever X:YY, is this going to end the world as we know it as well?

Finding purpose and our place in the world is our individual responsibility. Don't confuse it with the lies of eternal heaven at the cost of total submission in this life that your religion is promoting.
What you're describing is a service that has an accompanying app. In those cases, you can just take the Netflix route and not offer the subscription on the app at all (only through the website), and voila, no 30% charge. Given how little of the value proposition for your service lives in the app itself, neither app store is going to have a problem with that plan.
I'm curious why privacy issues of WhatsApp and Facebook are only a concern for Americans. Does the rest of the world know that WhatsApp has been owned by Facebook for 10 years?
https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-debt-investors-buy-250...

>In line with growing demand, the price of some FTX claims has been soaring this year. Some low-ranking FTX claims have jumped 191%, surging from $0.12 in early 2023 to about $0.35 recorded in recent weeks, the report said, citing data from the crypto debt broker Claims Market.
I mean sure, but in a practical sense the company becoming the only seller of gasoline happened through anti-competitive behavior and not just because they have a superior gasoline product. I think that two app stores controlling 100% of distribution and setting their rates similarly feels pretty anti-competitive.
Your post is a prime example of avoiding everything I said with "thE ActUal RoOt CaUsE" hand-waving nonsense.
I agree. So long as all you know is Israeli propaganda, you're blinded to the truth and there's no point in discussion.

If there's a war, where is the army that the IDF is fighting? How many losses have the IDF had? Where is the front-line of this war? Where is the footage of this so called "war"?
The best model I have for TSA is that it's a jobs program by the federal government.
It is now less normal for programs to run programs on openbsd.
Why can "the government" distribute drugs at dirt cheap prices? Maybe you come from a country where that happens but in the US the government couldn't distribute masks during a pandemic.

Plus cheaper, easier accessible drugs lower crime, overdoses...how?
My recollection is that in 2007 Mexico banned pseudoephedrine in order to remove feed stock from meth labs supplying the US.[0,1] As a result of this and other factors suppliers in Mexico found fentanyl, which bypassed growing cycles of agricultural drugs like pot and heroin. During the pandemic, Mexico grew additional trade ties with China which included fentanyl precursor chemicals.[2]

0. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-crime-pseudoephedr...

1. https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2005/06/th...

2. https://coffeeordie.com/china-mexican-cartel-alliance
I don't know about the court system, but on HN many people do think the same about Apple, although obviously not everyone.
You can make a fun game with minimal own assets. However, making a game that way shouldn't result in insolvency.
Is Apple's deal with Netflix anticompetitive though?

Google is paying hardware manufacturers to use their search and for exclusivity with their store. Both of those are more or less explicitly to keep out competition.

Apple cut a deal with Netflix but what competition does it squash?

These are just different issues.