skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>you get an army of apologists out in force ready to die to defend all that apple does.

They defend their choices. But do that in an almost religious way.

And is not something that is particular to Apple. Try to criticize Under Armour or New Balance in front of someone wearing it.
Copying is not theft.

> I think it’s unethical and exploitive to take my labor given for free to the community and claim it as your own for your personal enrichment.

Nobody is claiming anything is their own. You gave it away. You did the labor, it will always have been done regardless of what anyone does with it after that.

There is no difference in the effect on you, so why are you mad about it? If you want to lock it in a box so nobody else can ever look at your precious baby, then do that. Don't put it out where anyone can use it and then get mad when they use it. What did you make it for if you didn't want anyone to use it?

Presumably you got something out of making whatever you did, and that was enough reason to make it. If you wanted to keep some exclusive right to it, then you shouldn't have made it publicly available.
And when the ransomware hits, nobody notices, because "computer slow" is the new normal.
I am on the side of cars (long term), even though I hate cars, the inefficiency, the space issues, the anti-pedestrian externalities, etc.

Ultimately, to design a transport system that benefits all of society, it needs to go from point A to point B.
Light rail / public transport will always need a +somethingelse, in order to do that. Or we end up expanding the rail infra so much that we have just reinvented roads, but a little more constrained. Or we end up with car shares. Either way is fine.

I just don't see how to cater for lots of different disabilities and needs without 'cars' being a (maybe small) part of it. Regardless of what path we take, I just see the evolution converging back on a car-like vehicle for a substantial portion of the freight/transport industry (albeit 'trains' of them, but not physically connected), even if it's mostly final mile. But people and things don't want to hop between transport modes. They want to step outside their door into a vehicle, then out again at the destination.

Anyway... Self driving vehicles could be worse than some drivers currently, but it sure is better than SOME drivers I have seen. For an industry that has only had 15yrs direct investment, it's already better than bad drivers from my view - So it's almost time to start making driving licenses slightly harder to get and keep, IMO (it's so easy to get a license. It's hard to take them away, unless it's after an incident. There are so many very unsafe drivers).

That's a long way of saying that I concur with your comment.
These mobile platforms are two sided markets. They only compete on one side for users. They don't compete on the other side for app developers since developers need to use both platforms to reach all users since each user is exclusive to a single platform at a time.
> We've never asked artists to "properly compensate" each other for learning/inspiration in the past.

LLMs are collections of GPUs crunching numbers. "Inspiration" doesn't really apply to them.

A better analogy is sampling, and musicians remixing music are very much required to pay for the samples they use.
There's a substantive difference in whether the artist is using the tool, or the tool works on its own. A paintbrush doesn't produce a painting by itself, a human needs to apply an incredibly specialized creative skillset, in conjunction with the paintbrush to do so.

An LLM takes a prompt and produces a painting. No sane person would say that I 'drew' the painting in question, even if I provided the prompt.

> Regarding copyright, we copyright output not input. Otherwise most photography would be uncopyrightable.

We copyright things that require creative input. A list of facts or definitions did not require creative input, and is therefore not copyrightable.

Using an LLM does not meet the bar for creative input.
> Are there any humans that can produce artwork without ingesting inspiration from other art?

Logically, the answer to this is (almost certainly) yes, so you’ll need to discount this argument.

If the answer were no, then either an infinite number of humans have lived (such that there was always a previous artist to learn from), or it was true in the past but false in the present, which seems unlikely given humans brains have generally become more and not less sophisticated over time.

I presume what you’re missing here is that the brain can be inspired from other sources than human art. For example: nature; life experience; conversation.

Not making any other comment about what machines can or can’t do, just wanted to point out this argument is invalid as it comes up a lot and is probably grounded in ignorance around the artistic process. It’s such a strange idea to suggest that the artist process is ingesting lots of art to make more art. That’s such a weird world view. It’s like insisting every artist is making art the way Quentin Tarantino makes films.

I’ve spent a lot of time with artists, I’ve worked with them, I’ve been in relationships with artists, and I can tell you the great ones see the world differently. There’s something about their brains that would cause them to create art even if born on a desert island without other human contact. Some of them don’t even take an interest in other art.

In fact, those artists that _do_ make art heavily based on other artists’ work as suggested are often derided as “derivative” and “unoriginal”.
Wow! You have preserved the dative case. "i kerken" instead of "i kerka". Dative is AFAIK not part of any standard Scandinavian language, but remains in some dialects. Steadily losing ground, though.
FFI boundaries are inherently unsafe regardless of language.
> Sometimes it is best to just move on. My favorite jobs have been fun at the start and fun years later as well.

Why did you quit those?
Really enjoyed this deep dive into x86_64 paging.
Yeh, that’s my view too…

I did an MBA in my 30’s after being a CTO of a company for a few years (parent company closed us down after 9/11). For me an MBA rounded out some of the gaps in my experience and knowledge and re-enforced the concept of being able to hold to contradictory ideas in my head and evaluate them

In Europe most MBAs are people who’re mid career and already have business experience
It’s very interesting to read through the threads. I’m seeing two sides of the argument but clearly the majority here are not happy about what Apple is doing or anyone who tries to stick up for it. I hope people continue to share their perspective. Even if it is not popular to the HN crowd because I appreciate a balanced discussion.
He seems to want both, and also a change in voting power would be illegal per the article:

"Musk then went on to say that he would like a dual-class voting structure similar to the one at Facebook that gives CEO Mark Zuckerberg control of that company but which would be an illegal restructuring post-IPO."
Qualcomm X elite might be might thing happened to CPUs in last decade or so.
Apple's M series chips are so revolutionary but hardwired to Apple's experience hardware and Mac. Qualcomm can finally bring performance to windows and linux with so many different laptop vendors.
The attacks are not frequent enough. And the IT is already outsourced (because cheaper).
That analogy doesn't work, unless Kroger is the only grocery store that's permitted to exist.

There are no other stores, or other bazaars. If you want to sell an iOS app, your only option is the Apple App Store.

Apparently the courts don't believe this is a monopoly, presumably because you can also choose to toss your iPhone and buy an Android phone instead. I disagree with that reasoning; to me that's like if Whole Foods also exists in addition to Kroger, but if you want to switch to Whole Foods, you have to get an expensive operation to swap out your stomach, because the groceries at Whole Foods don't work with the stomach that works with the groceries at Kroger.
I was talking about Taiwan. I honestly have no idea to what you’re alluding.
Judges can be wrong. The justice system has many checks and balances but ultimate rule over certain court cases isn't one of them.
Core-specific cost models are a bad idea when you have a large variety of cores in use. Auto-vectorisation doesn't work well on anything, except in the most trivial cases, and none of the popular boards [1] yet have the official RISC-V vector ISA anyway -- that will change this year, hopefully.

[1] there is now in the last month or two one (1) board with RVV 1.0 but it's only single core vs the quad core in popular boards, and also has only 512 MB of RAM vs 4 / 8 / 16 GB on the popular boards (and 128 GB on the Pioneer).
I agree that Ukraine was not a thriving liberal democracy, it was an infant democracy trying to shake out a corruption infested political class. The issue was not nazi militias, that's Russia's propaganda.

Because if nazi militias is your main point of contention I'd need to point you towards the USA for you to take a look as well... Not a thriving democracy either?
Oh that was a big part of my MBA (not in US though)
> I find it fascinating that the telephone bureau was powerful enough to initiate such language change. Imagine happening this today.

You will get a chuckle out of the film The President's Analyst.
You can install only some types of apps from third party stores or sideload them. Many apps like banking apps require using Google Play Services and if you use a third party ROM like LuneageOS or Huawei HarmonyOS, good luck with installing certain apps.
Wasn't that "fabricated" (eg a mistake on purpose) rather than "hallucinated"?
I wonder if a middle ground could be found, perhaps by introducing strict access controls or advanced warnings, instead of complete deprecation.
If Apple collects a commission here, then why doesn't it collect one on advertising in the app?
Well, both GitHub and the GitLab have wiki functionality.
Not on par afaik with more familiar MediaWiki but nevertheless good enough for not just software project documentation.
No experience with transforming these wikis into stand alone web sites with different styles etc.
And that is before 'going red' has ties to performance metrics with SLA impacts ...
I did my first iOS development about a couple of years ago. Question, how in the world do you tolerate the storyboard XML files? One small change in XCode results in so many line changes. PRs are impossible to review with any confidence.
> There isn't a divine commandment as to what rights we "should" have. We vote, fight, protest and get to make up our own rights.

Not in America. The only venue to change you have is to spend, or not spend money somewhere. Since people think they profit more from developing apps for iOS than not developing apps for iOS, Apple’s profit is “right”.

And a century or so of indoctrination has made most Americans believe that this is just the natural order of things.
Or external battery bay, it was a thing.
Scotland is becoming known for growing tea
What I don't understand is this: Out of the thousands and thousands of participants in the study, some of them are sure to have unknown deficits. You'd think then that in studies like these, even assuming multivitamins are useless to the vast, vast majority of people, you'd see some slight reduced risk for things like heart disease and mental decline. Yet, the studies claim there is no benefit.

Unless people get sick from taking the vitamins and almost exactly offset the number of people that get better from them, I feel like something is missing. They clearly also state that multivitamins ARE in fact beneficial for some groups. If those groups were excluded from the studies (which I don't think should be that hard for them to do), shouldn't we then see an increased risk associated with taking multivitamins for people not in those groups?

I'm probably missing something?
Yet the majority of crypto companies are scams.
imho everything came crumbling down when folk [even developers] stopped making websites. Took whatever one could from generous others then gave nothing back.

We search google then find a spam page repeating our question, then we blame google! LOL

In the old days, if you had an interesting question, you would write down your progress in a draft blog post, you would polish it (or not at all) and present the answer to those looking to do the same or you would leave it to your comment section for others to rage about the problem, sometimes answer it for you, sometimes they would write a post of their own.

If things are good enough someone will link to it... but now? Nothing is ever good enough? If everything is anonymized dumped on on stack overflow no one maintains it. There is no free flow of dialog about the topic. It tries to be all work, no fun. Who wrote this stuff? What else did they do? Why are all these wrong answers on the page?

Anyway, to state the obvious, Google doesn't make websites.
You do realize that's literally what miners, developers, and users do?

Go make a fork "fixing" these problems you speak of. Demonstrate its utility and people might adopt it.

It's opt-in yet you speak of it as an authoritarian power.. when in reality government currency is literally this.
I view such companies as Trolls under the Bridge (i.e. appstores) that connect the app developers and the users.
Pretty much everyone that invests in the public equity markets holds equity in Apple. In fact, Apple would be most public market investor’s biggest holding (or 2nd biggest due to Microsoft’s recent increases) via index funds.

Even if you are not invested in public equity markets, you can be exposed to them via local and state government’s pension fund investments, because if those do not perform as projected, then your taxes have to make up for it.
but you made money and got time now.

other founders aren't so lucky to find a buyer.

many just shut down
In the Netherlands there are payment processors with a fixed cut like 15 cents.
For example, how many artists drawing street scenes credit the designer at Ford Motors for teaching them what a generic car looks like? How many even know which designers created their mental model of a car?
Not sure about Shotcut, but from my experience the layout of Flowblade seems pretty standard. Anyone who has used premier or DaVinci should be up and running in no time. The NLE interface is pretty much a done deal at this point. Major changes in interface philosophy would be of doubtfully utility.
> Avoid caffeine after 10:00am

Also: Avoid caffeine for the first 90 minutes of your day.

The lifting did it with me. And going to bed at 10 every night for two years in my early 30s, because there was someone next to me I wanted go be like.
For everyone who thinks Google is some paragon of cooperation and openness as compared to Apple, they just got slammed in court effectively attempting to call their platform open while paying off companies to stay in the Play Store in a very similar case to Epic v. Apple. In fact, this was Epic v. Google. Why did Google lose and Apple largely win?

Because Apple had always said their platform was closed and were up front about it.

Google, on the other hand, called their platform open and then engaged in anti-competitive behavior to get the benefits of a closed ecosystem.

You might not like Apple’s approach, but at least they’re up front and honest about it.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/antitrust/alphabet-loses-googl...
Using cloned monkeys for medical research is dystopian.
truly impressive.
I'm in my late 30s. Some recommendations:

- If you want to have kids one day, better get them early.

- In times with low tax rates, invest. Especially in property.

- Start investing ASAP (ETF). DCA.

- Don't do daytrading.

- In your 20s, feel free to do risky / hard jobs. E.g. found a startup, get into one of the large consulting companies. This takes a lot energy but opens the door to powerful social networks and high income jobs.

- Take care about your surroundings (e.g. community, relationships). Your environment has more impact on you than you think. Surround yourself with those bragging success narcissists and you will enter a questionable spiral yourself.

- Reflect about yourself to learn what really drives you. Writing your own eulogy helps.

- Stay true to your values.

- Surround yourself with people that share your values.

- Invest in social networks. It's a loot harder to make good friends later in life than e.g. in university. Most chances lie in people that don't belong to your best friends (weak ties).

- When you can have either one chocolate bar today or two bars tomorrow, better aim for those two bars tomorrow. Not always (have some fun today!) but most often. One night stands, big cars, bagging stuff... Usually cool for the moment but worthless over time.
"calling bullshit" is a reasonable act and we all should be able to wield that power.

That said I often wish there was an effective way to communicate whether one calls bullshit because of gut feeling or not convinced by the readily available evidence and/or priors, or whether one calls bullshit because they know more details and are just deflecting actual well known bullshit but for some reason preferred to omit the details (e.g. because they value terseness).

Terseness is beautiful, but not when it actually hinders communication
> "it's worth investing in making the UX less crap to increase productivity".

I guess this is the mantra they used to redesign the Windows UI. It didn't work (they stopped at 15%). Now all they do is to use the same mantra to start over and over.
you are trippin
Does anyone serious do this?

That’s an honest question, from a pretty experienced SRE.
I suppose my interpretation of his message is that if you think of a “ray of light” that is not a mono frequency laser as an “input signal”, a convex lens will smear it out in to its constituent component frequencies. From that perspective you can analyze the original signal (aka color) with a geometrically/spatially separated spectrum of values.

It was a single spatial point of ray intersection with your sensor or eye. You’d need color filters/retinal cells to pick apart the frequencies in the complex waveform.

After rainbow separation, the components are spread across multiple sensors giving you a frequency domain view.
Both Apple and Google do nasty things. Other companies, too.

This thread is dedicated to Apple's own wrongdoings. If Google does nasty things, that doesn't mean Apple should get a pass.

Most people here care about consumers, not about companies, especially about monopolistic companies.
Its a joke how bad a future white people have ahead of them. Even their best here are hopelessly clueless about the situation they are entering into.
> SWIFT/IBAN

You might be thinking about SEPA. SWIFT is slow, expensive and also available in the US.

One reason is that credit card fees are much higher than in Europe (up to 3% or so) due to lack of regulation (of course a significant proportion of those fees are returned to the card users as cashback, so it’s not like American companies are much more greedy, it’s still not a very efficient system of course..)
> So why aren’t the users picking the software that’s faster

This software exists? When all your alternatives are bloated enshittificated crap, what exactly can I as a user chose?
Looks like no.
I have difficulty following this argument, especially the "stealing" part. App Store does not just randomly take money from the devs. App Store also provides a service. They do world-wide payment and VAT processing, refund processing, discovery, distribution, user login management, APIs, distributed cloud storage, etc. It costs money to run these things. As a small-time developer, I think this is a great deal for 15%. At the price levels of most small apps it would cost more to use a payment processor + hiring an accountant, not to mention the extra work involved in setting up and maintaining these things. For behemoth like Epic — sure, the "Apple tax" hurts, they'd rather gouge their customers without Apple's involvement. But frankly, I don't see any reason to punish one multi-billion corporation just so other multi-billion corporation can make more money. I care primarily about the interest of the small-time developers.

And this is the point that should be made more often IMO — App Stores (and Apple bing one of the first ones) have democratized software development by making the barrier of entry extremely low. Anyone with some talent or idea can go and write an app, without any additional financial risk. App Store is based around sharing your success. The relatively few successful devs carry the costs to keep that barrier of entry low to everyone. And I really don't want that to change.

On a serious notes, what are the alternatives? What exactly is your argument? That Apple should be charging nothing? Ok, then they also shouldn't be providing any services. You want to do distribution or payment processing? Take care of it yourself. Epic would love this of course, Joe the indie developer instead is dead in the water. Or are you arguing that Apple is charging too much? Well, there are solutions to that as well. They could charge for services individually for example, but that again hurts the small developer, because trying out things starts costing them money.

Frankly, my idea would be to split the App Store into a separate commercial entity and make it nonprofit. I am sympathetic to the argument that the Store itself is not a product but is used to support and create value for Apple's ecosystem. I do think that the devs should pay for running the store, and I like the current success-based model and it's low barrier of entry for new devs, so basing the fees on actual operating costs seems like a good compromise. Of course, similar considerations should apply to other stores as well.
The entire point of the patent system was to say inventors can put their design on the net without it being stolen; so future inventors can build on their work.
This effort is truly specular!
Not having a "PC desk" is common in some countries. They need laptop even if it's not quite portable.
The first thing that should be regulated is the app search functionality. Randomized results for a given query, max. 1 ad supported first entries per page.
I'd put it all in index funds, but I'm still fairly young and my dream has always been to be able to max out my kids' Roth IRAs from birth somehow. (I'm still working on the "how do you get a baby to have taxable income" angle.)
Yes to the vendor contracts.

The important piece of that vendor contract however was the integration with the point-of-sale system of each liquor shop. That's how Drizly knew what was on the shelf, and was able to sell inventory.

Drizly was one of our customers at my earlier company where I learned about these integrations. The world of POS systems is highly fragmented and arcane - there's no one system.

One asset that Drizly had developed was an integration platform that connected to any possible POS any of the liquor stores were using. No one else had done that. They just kept chipping away at it. Literally every sprint, they'd add more integrations. I believe the goal was 2 integrations per sprint. That includes data model, etc. to create the analytics downstream.

That integration platform was almost something like a natural monopoly. Hard to replicate by another party.
Weird Ruby: A Weird Way to Filter Out Elements
When a UK court made Apple merely put a notice on their website for two weeks (due to stealing Samsung's design elements) they similarly found the worst possible way to "comply". So much so that the court issued another order to do it properly.

The comments on the above Apple news website were all "why should Apple comply with a UK decision anyway".
I am happy for you that you were able to go out of the THC induced schizophrenia. Many people do not.