skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have a look at SiteSucker[0] - an app that essentially lets you input a url and it will suck all the locally linked files/images etc. into a folder. Once you have the "guts" of the site, you can move it, grep it, edit and update it as needed. Given this appears to be a static site, you could even just open index.html in the browser (file:/// protocol) locally without having to spin up webserver while you develop.

This is the path of least resistance and perhaps the easier route versus rebuilding from scratch for a modern platform—which is also a different price tag. IMO, sucking the static site out without needing to deal with Dreamweaver on an old machine might be reason enough.

I'm not doubting the Dreamweaver claim, but I don't see any of the stink of a site generator—it looks rather simple and handwritten—doesn't even have the generator meta tag listing Dreamweaver—I wonder if Dreamweaver was only used for the FTP interface/connection to upload the files to Webhero.

My TL;DR Advice:

1. Gain access to the old laptop only to get the FTP upload details/credentials for Webhero.
2. Use SiteSucker to get the whole website into a local folder on your machine.
3. Make changes/updates by editing the files.
4. Deploy by FTP Upload to Webhero.

[0]- https://ricks-apps.com/osx/sitesucker/index.html
The US backed Guaido's illegitimate claim to Venezuelan presidency as recently as 2022.

You're right that it wasn't outright military interventionism. In my mind, there's little difference between supporting a coup covertly through the CIA, by providing weapons and training, and invading a country. Maybe we disagree there.
> Apple is hosting, distributing, and directly marketing apps in the app store. They are reviewing submitted apps for compliance with their policies and security requirements.

They CHOOSE to do this. If there were a free and open market for app stores, competitors would pop up, who would similarly host, distribute, market, and "review" apps. And they would do it for a whole lot less than 30% and 99USD/year.

They charge 30% and restrict other installation methods because they can, but you cannot justify it based on those costs.

I firmly believe this model isn't going to last. If it didn't hurt Apple's bottom line so much, PWAs would be far more prevalent already than they are, and that's right now. In 10-20 years, this thinking will be gone. They just have to milk it as a long as they can for the shareholders.

It's their hardware, for now they can do what they want. Most consumers didn't even know about the 30%, and probably still don't. Guess who it benefits to keep that under wraps? Or convince the world they need an expensive app store to vet their apps before downloading them?

(And don't say "there's nothing like a native app experience". It's completely irrelevant. If there was a will to build it, the UX would be identical)
> It's like saying our soldiers in Iraq shouldn't have had modern rifles because the invasion of Iraq was wrong

TBF if the US military don't have modern rifles/equipments they will certainly not invade Iraq. So yes, having significantly better weapons does increase the chance of war because it increase your chance of winning (thus make it more politically feasible for politicians to push for it).
Transplant is more than just selective pressure.
The two classes of people who broadly buy Android phones are techies (“I want to root my phone”) / politicos (“software freedom! walled gardens! it’s GNU/Linux actually”) and committed cheapskates (“close enough to an iPhone for no bucks!”). There’s nothing wrong with that. But the actual working poor don’t have time for it, so they buy iPhones and just keep them as long as possible.
I do not pick sides. The only things I see are changes in quality of life. One must be blind not to see where it is going.

As for "informed decisions" - I do make those based on what I see and do not need help from TikTok or anything else. HN is about the only social media I participate in when I need a quick brake from working on computer.
> To counter this polemic comment with a more serious one: the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq after the 9/11 attacks was a central watershed moment in history that lead to a massive shift in the public opinion concerning the US military politics in many countries (and has stayed quite critical of it since then) - including lots of allies of the USA.

Nice try, but no. Iraq was bullshit, and even we protested it ourselves, but Afghanistan had the support of basically the entire world. Many of those allies you claim don't value our military anymore pee themselves a little at the thought of being left to fend for themselves by us leaving NATO and ceasing to massively subsidize their defense (e.g., the wailing and gnashing when Donald Trump was threatening to take us out of NATO).
Meanwhile civilian use of AI will be criminalized:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39009779
That is a ridiculous statement.

Just because developers have fallen victim does not mean they should all pull their apps. How would you suggest that all impacted developers go about coordinating such a strike?

Solidarity is very difficult to achieve in a large enough consensus to a point where people would pull their apps.
Unwillingness of AI companies was never a concern or a blocker. Some companies may say they are unwilling, but there are plenty of engineers and corps that are very much willing.
Ok? What's so bad about speaking Russian? English isn't my first language, I have no attachment to it. If Russian had become the lingua franca of the world I'd have learned that instead.
It just shows the ‘not for profit’ was just a ploy to sound cool. Really, it should have been ‘only for profit’.
If you're like me and wondered why the USB sound card wasn't one of the commonly-available $1 ones, it's because this one includes:

- a microphone (or perhaps two microphones?)

- an amplifier (AP2068) to drive the speakers
Some people think of the App Store as a bazaar that Apple runs on its property, and it’s a 15-30% charge to setup a tent and sell your wares. Others think of it as Apple’s general store where they carry your app as a product, and you pay 15-30% for a place on the shelf.

The concept that Kroger (for instance) has a monopoly of customers in its own store is ridiculous. There are other stores, and other bazaars.

What analogy would you use to describe this situation that clarifies your position?
This will be one of the defining questions of the 21st century
I think he means play position between sessions
Steam has a literal button on your library's page to add any game you have already installed and the definitely don't charge you 27% to do that.
TIL chrome on ios uses webkit...
> Certain games are better as a subscription, those that are multiplayer with game connection features.

Not necessarily. See Overwatch 2.
Depends on how they check it. I was able to bypass major audiobook provider regional lock on some audiobooks by just changing my billing address to US (in their UI, not at my bank) - of a card that was issued by EU bank.
> Because what stops Apple from making this 40% or 50%? 30% is a fair price?

Competitive pressure. 30% is pretty in line with what other platforms charge.

Apple has had the same 30% ever since it launched the App Store, back when it was much less dominant. They presumably picked it as a level that would make revenue but also not deter developers.

The App Store hasn’t got a monopoly on computing.
Not sure who the US was defending when it participated in the Yemeni genocide, but it sure as hell wasn't me.
> What does it take for the legal system to be able to call BS on a claim like that?

A class of digital native judges.

The App Store sucks. That’s its problem. 30% fees rub salt in that wound.

Name an Apple application you aren’t forced to use that you like. Notes? Final Cut? That’s all I can think of.

The whole paradigm of iOS is predicated on a 65yo+ consumer who doesn’t know any better, and happens to be also the demographics of the government.
It’s not about cost. It’s about using their IP, which is all of iOS.
Well that would also be incorrect. There are many strains that can be used for any one style, and many styles that can come from any one strain.
Could you share the list? I may have things to add.
> Steam. ... they require apps on the platform to use their payment processing

That's not true at all. Steam literally lets you sell steam keys for your game from other stores, and takes no cut from those sales.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys
> Copyright only makes any sense for goods with a high fixed cost of production and low to zero marginal cost. Any further use beyond solving that problem is pure rent seeking behavior

100% agree. But even then it's not very good. Abolish copyright, severely limit patents, and leave trademarks as they are. The IP paradigm needs an overhaul.
>you are getting health insurance, which has a lot of value.

So much 'value' that millions of Americans still end up in medical debt, with many having to resort to medical bankruptcy even as 'insured' individuals.

Too many exclusions, too many ways to deny coverage. The private health care system of the US is broken.
I'm confused - what exactly does the Pentagon have to gain from OpenAI's products? Their front-runners are an LLM and an image generator, and I'm not sure what large-scale use case the US Department of Defense can have for either of these.
Which ones are those? The ones I follow, mostly tech such as r/apple, r/iphone, and r/mac, seem to be back to normal.
I don't think you need the ICJ ruling to press a case that Israel is perpetrating a genocide, because there is a colloquial meaning to the word that covers any mass killing that targets a specific ethnicity. That isn't the legal definition, but legal definitions aren't the only ones that matter --- especially in international law, where the legal definition doesn't much matter at all, since international law is largely performative, a vehicle for mobilizing diplomacy and little else.

I would just caution that the colloquial meaning of "genocide" covers a lot of other terrible events in recent history that people don't single out as genocidal, and Israelis are, with very good reason, especially alert to the multiplicity of different standards here. They're largely (leaving out goblins like Ben Gvir) convinced they have no intention of displacing all the Palestinians, let alone killing them all.

I agree that Serbia perpetrated a genocide that killed far fewer people than Israel did. We killed more than 3 times as many civilians as the IDF in Gaza in our doomed Afghanistan invasion, and not only did very few normal people call it a genocide, but they got angry when we abruptly left. And I again urge you to check out the numbers on Syria and Yemen, two other conflicts Iran helped instigate.

The world is messy and usually pretty horrible. I'm not trying to persuade you of anything, but I think it's helpful to know what another perspective on this might be.
Same. I stopped paying attention when they tanked one of the best multiplayers ever, included in the Brotherhood era (plus or minus a game).
It seems to be just a simple substitution cipher, replacing each letter of the alphabet with a unique symbol. Try entering the name "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", then try again with some random word, and you can see the mapping.
> Because what stops Apple from making this 40% or 50%? 30% is a fair price?

Market. It's capitalism, you know.

They provide users to devs (e.g. in case of Epic most people played Fortnite from iOS) and they provide apps to users. If they jack up the price and devs quit, the deal stops being attractive to users because there's not enough apps so Apple risks losing users unless they make selling apps appealing to devs again.

> Look what they did to Spotify with Apple Music. They absolutely abused their ownership of the platform to stifle a competitor.

Everyone I know on iPhone is using Spotify except me so for me it is hard to see who is stifled exactly...
We only directly applied napalm to the skin of a couple thousand children, what are those stinky hippies still whining about? They saw the USS Maddox get attacked twice while performing peaceful maneuvers in our own backyard, the Gulf of Tonkin! We only dropped 21,000,000 gallons of Agent Orange, it hardly causes birth defects any more, only a few hundred writhing harlequin babies a year at this point, what exactly is the fucking problem?!
>"OpenAI is working with the Pentagon on software projects, including ones related to cybersecurity, the company said Tuesday,..."

Can someone say how either of OpenAI's products - GPT and DALLE can be applied to cybersecurity? Or does OpenAI simply have enough extra employee and research headcount when Pentagon money comes calling?
I should have started practicing self care at a much younger age. I internalized a lot of negative stereotypes of what it means to be a man when I was younger, and am still undoing the damage I've done to my health from that.

I wish I knew how important is was for me to avoid having managers who use Adderall. My most toxic work situations involved managers on that drug. I still struggle to identify them in interviews. If I go back into W2 work, I'm thinking of straight out asking prospective managers if they're on it or another similar stimulant.

I went to college with the goal of getting a job and a career, not a BS. I was in college in the 1994-1998 timeframe, and could do web development. I wish I'd gotten on the dot-com money train rather than staying in college.
Reminder that the US drone strike a wedding in Yemen back in 2013, https://www.hrw.org/report/2014/02/19/wedding-became-funeral...
You can get it, you just have to go with an external module strapped to a common microcontroller. Infineon's Airoc chips are a good example.
I think there is a decent chance SourceGraph will figure this all out. The most important thing at this point is figuring what context to feed. They can build up a nice graph of a codebase and I expect from there they can put in the best context and then boom.

They might also be able to train a model more intelligently by generating training data from said graphs.
Novels maybe. News articles, with rare exception, and digital images absolutely do not have high fixed costs of production.
I’m not sure what to say; responsive fast output is ideal, and the larger model is distinctly slower for me, particularly for long completions (2k tokens) if you’re using a restricted grammar like json output.

I’m using an M2 not an M3 though; maybe it’s better for you.

I was under the impression quantised results were generally slower too, but I’ve never dug into it (or particularly noticed a difference between q4/q5/q6).

If you find it fast enough to use then go for it~
I can't use another company's GPS system in my car, so in the market of, "Using GPS navigation / menus / etc in my 10 year old Mini's dashboard" there's no meaningful competitor. They charge for map updates and everything.

At some point a company is just building a feature, and they're not required to make every single feature accomodate every other manufacturer's competing version of the feature. I knew I was buying the Mini system when I bought the car, and I accepted it. Same is true for iPhone users.
It's not about the cost of the App Store, it's about maximizing profits and generating shareholder value. How is Apple supposed to have the most valuable stock in the world without raking independent developers over the coals?
PLTR was doing this anyway, this is not a news. Microsoft has lots of contracts with Gov.
Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39016337
Why are they attacking the boats, and what are their conditions for stopping?
Yeah, exactly, but I wanted to compare like for like: just the commission on the sale. You can also pay for ads on the App Store, which would be in addition to Apple’s 30% take.
Android has 40% of the US market - you have no clue what you're talking about.
Thanks for your reply, I definitely see what you mean with other pricing schemes and how there is pretty wide latitude for what type of price discrimination is justifiable.

I mostly just find it silly that at no point does anyone seem to address the elephant in the room that the only way to access some hundreds of millions of users is through Apple, and that almost certainly influences the fee in a way that can't be really be explained by the value of the IP.

Does the argument require us to believe the fee would still be 30% if iPhone had practically zero users? Or is that legally irrelevant assuming that they aren't found a monopoly?
Please don't use dismissive language around the atrocities going on in Texas like "even if that's all true." It is true. The hell that Texas is forcing women like Kate Cox through is well documented. And Apple, a major tech player, is choosing to pressure women to move there.

This is the epitome of a relevant tech discussion. Choosing to moderate it away because it is too controversial is coming out on the side of the status quo that the state of Texas is enforcing on women's autonomy.
iOS user and a developer here. I actually feel the opposite. With native apps, there are OS level restrictions to accessing certain resources and sensors on the device so I feel safer in a native app than a browser.
if you accidentally scan something twice, frequently the machine requires an employee to delete the entry for you.
Good point. I’d be careful even writing that, because that same potentially future president might do some Xi Jinping on you with the help of OpenAI - some psychological profiling to find the people who are a threat to his mental model. You just never know… but if he could do that, you can be damn sure he would. Which means if it’s not him that does it, it is just a matter of time before the next reality TV, possibly Russian planted president does it.

The world is gearing up for WWIII, I can smell it in the air. Maybe GPT5 has figured out there’s some serious dosh to be made!
sqrt is a fundamental IEEE 754 operation, required to be correctly rounded, and many architectures implement a dedicated, correctly rounded sqrt instruction.

Now, there is also often an approximate rsqrt and approximate reciprocal, with varying degrees of accuracy, and that can be "fun."
We had that happen at one of my previous gigs except the country was Spain. A few pirate soccer streams that were quickly DMCA'ed and taken down caused some of our domains to be blocked by ISPs via their SNI filters. Was very painful (and I assume expensive) to get off the blocklist.
My experience at farmers markets tells me that I would be paying more than 100% more for the privilege of interacting with somebody that gets employed by the farmer instead of somebody employed by the store.

The analogy would work better if the grocery store sold me some sort of platform for cooking food, that only worked with certain types of food... I don't know, it's hard to find the analogy compelling at all.

People develop for the App Store because they get access to a particular customer base. I could definitely support some sort of customer protection that forces side loading options (but they must be options and easy to disable and hard to enable, otherwise it destroys one of the best aspects of the phone.) But as far as caring for slight changes in percentages for app developers, well, I don't care about that one bit at all, anymore than I care about Apple getting a "fair" deal from the other businesses it interacts with.
There's JS tooling for bundling so the code over the wire will only include the files and modules referenced.

Much like a function in a C source for doesn't output two files, the bundled and monitored output is only one file much of the time. The browser doesn't download 1400 separate files or even all the code in those dependencies.

For React in particular there are development and production versions of the library.

Not that bundles can't or don't get huge. Not that they aren't often excessive. Only in that they aren't nearly as bad at first glance.
As an engineer on call, I have been in this conversation so many times:

"Hey, should we go red?"
"I don't know, are we sure it's an outage, or just a metrics issue?"
"How many users are affected again?"
"I can check, but I'm trying to read stack traces right now."
"Look, can we just report the issue?"
"Not sure which services to list in the outage"

...and so on. Basically, putting anything up on the status page is a conversation, and the conversation consumes engineer time and attention, and that's more time before the incident is resolved. You have to balance communication and actually fixing the damn thing, and it's not always clear what the right balance is.

If you have enough people, you can have a Technical Incident Manager handle the comms and you can throw additional engineers at the communications side of it, but that's not always possible. (Some systems are niche, underdocumented, underinstrumented, etc.)

My personal preference? Throw up a big vague "we're investigating a possible problem" at the first sign of trouble, and then fill in details (or retract it) at leisure. But none of the companies I've worked at like that idea, so... [shrug]
You absolutely have to be the most popular to be a monopoly.

You can be the most popular and not be a monopoly, but the reverse is definitionally impossible.
Sure, so did Sam Bankman-Fried haha.
Prenup for assets, judges in family court for kids. Why no docs for custody and kids in general? Because a disinterested human needs to make the decisions at the time the exception occurs.

(have volunteered some time as a guardian ad litem, and most in my circle are divorced, from the homeless to a billionaire)
Your clarification fails to clarify bud
Employers need worker bees to keep delivering widgets or widget service. Any deviation from the happy path is highly suspicious.

If you sell habit forming drugs that improve corporate earnings (caffeine, methylphenidate) it’s not called selling drugs anymore. It’s labeled pharmaceuticals or consumer staples / discretionary.

If you’re generating free cash flow making games then suits perk up. The presence of money can nullify a lot of stigma or counterculture friction.

C.R.E.A.M.
Because they don't make laws just for you, they make laws for everybody including the drunk 16 inexperience texters and the new parents who survive on 3 hours of sleeps.

And those people drive on the same roads as you, so you're still affected. Don't you want other drivers on the road to be less likely to t-bone you because they ran a red light?
You can't say that; after all, Operation Northwoods never ended up happening.