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Why would that fee pay for all that? Why wouldn’t revenue from sales of iPhones pay for that?
As a developer who is good at object oriented design, architecture, and sucks at leetcode stuff, I have been able to use it to make myself probably twice as productive as I otherwise would be. I just have a conversation with GPT-4 when it doesn't do what I want. "Could you make that object oriented?" "Could you do that for this API instead, here let me paste the docs in for you."

I think people want it to completely replace developers so they can treat programming as a magic box, but it will probably mostly help big picture architecture devs compete with people who are really good at Leetcode type algorithm stuff.
At $2.2M in funding, they are (likely) on a SAFE. There's no board, meaning no real VC pressure. They used that money to build... it's not like they were a beloved, widely used developer tool ruined by VC money.

It sucks, but to build certain things, you sometimes need money. $2.2M isn't a ton – they raised in 2020, so that's roughly only (market) salaries for 3 people for those 3 years.

Not everything will work out. But good on Fig for trying, and good on Fig for finding a solution that (hopefully?) did right by themselves and their team, and good on them for leaving Fig open-sourced.

(And to the Fig-ians reading this, congrats :) )
Thanks. I had forgotten about `ghost-cell`.
Being forced to think about every possible failure state is a sure way to spend a lot of time on not creating value for the end user
That was our experience as well, although it only took a few minutes (because we didn't try to argue with it?).

>The post service needs reform too, why is it cheaper to ship from China than ship across your own city?

This Planet Money episode talks about it (although from 2018): https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/01/634737852/epis...
Perhaps it is. That doesn't mean it should be.

Governments think they are above their own laws. Warrants? Privacy rights? Due process? Why bother?
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Very nice product, I used it for years before I really ramped up my efforts to simplify my personal tech use.

It's just very slightly behind Google's built-in management, or was last I used it. Occasionally it won't auto detect when it should be asking if you want a generated password, or it won't auto fill, or will have some trivial annoyance like that.

I really like the secure notes feature though.
I had assumed Google/Microsoft/Apple had better security teams than the US Government because they could pay so much more. I wouldn't be surprised if maybe the NSA had better red teams than Google, but I'm honestly surprised the US Government outguns Google outside of that.
Have you seen protobuf.js? I've dug quite deep into its generated code and have not seen any runtime magic. It's just directly working with the protobuf wire format and transferring the data to/from fields with very explicit code.

I can't speak for Google's official implementation though.
Can anyone with app telemetry comment on uptake?
Yes, all entirely consistent with what I said. Errol has told this story many times, including to Walter. But that’s all there is — a story. Is it true? Doesn’t seem particularly consequential even if true. $600k is a lot of money, but it’s hardly unimaginable wealth.
> Any misconception you have that it's because they're super swell people should be slapped right outta you if it's there.

The idea that businesses have to be super swell people is what should be removed. Businesses doing things for money is good. Just as employees don't work for them because they're super swell people. You just shouldn't be thinking this way.
This is so strange. Just last week I wondered if it was possible to add colour to Game Boy games from just the ROM, I found it was and wondered if there was a tutorial somewhere.

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I'm not a crypto expert by any means, but it is my understanding that government actors of larger countries probably have trusted CAs in most devices on the planet that they have control over, and they could issue certificates for arbitrary domain names; and your devices would for the most part be none the wiser.

Of course this is only relevant for targeted surveillance, not mass surveillance.

Happy to be corrected though, I've been wondering about this.
The electrician was trying to make a buck if he recommended 120A to charge an EV. Practically no EV will even pull anywhere close to 120A on AC charging, most top out around 40-50A. And they're all designed to only pull whatever the Electrical Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) says its rated for, which is often a configurable setting on the EVSE.

My car can pull up to 48A. At home my EVSE is set to 40A, but I can set it to 32A, 24A, and 16A with a little switch inside the box. Even at 24A, at 240V that's 5,760W of power going to the car. Even if in the cold I was getting 2mi/kWh, charging for 8 hours overnight gives 90mi of range. You should be able to install at least a 40A charger and still have a couple 15/20A circuits for lights, additional outlets, and a heatpump. 8 hours of charging at that amperage would get you >150mi of range.

Putting it in a garage isn't going to stop the salt from the roads from rusting out the car. The car being outside isn't going to really put any additional wear on the battery, especially if it is plugged most of the time while parked at home.

EDIT, somehow I was thinking it was an 80 amp line not 60. Still, a 60 amp line could run a 40A charger and some lighting in the garage, probably not a lot of heating though.
IPhone is a status symbol. Why people buy designer purses or designer clothes. Someone people will look down on you if you text messages show up green on their phone.

Also IPhone still has more revenue opportunity. AI assistant is the next one. Chat GPT has proven people are willing to spend $20 a month on AI that doesn't even hook up to your email, calendar, or files.
Who decided that developers should be the ones paying for the development of those APIs in the first place? Are we just going to ignore Apple's own products and services that their platform allows them to profit off of? And the market share afforded to them by supporting popular third-party apps and services?

There's plenty of precedence for platforms being profitable even with free APIs - including Android, Windows, and even Apple's own MacOS. iOS is not special.

Apple would pay for those APIs whether or not the dev program fees alone were enough to cover the expenses. But they'll also take as much from the devs as they are legally allowed to. And if the fees are enough to keep devs from distributing outside the app store, even better for Apple.
This is a 'temporary' law that will be reconsidered after 4 years (most of the time this means it will just be continued).

The CTIVD will have supervision during and after the tab (good).

Private data can be held much longer without government approval (why?).

There is no permission needed to tap another server when a party, that is under surveillance, is moving there.

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I have mixed feelings about this. We know Russia is trying to disrupt the Netherlands because of previous taps. So on one hand it is good that the government can quickly react to such threads. On the other hand it has huge privacy implications.

Some people in this thread think that TLS will keep us private but that is not how it works when they can listen to all traffic.
For example they can see I posted a request to Hacker News on a specific time. Then it is a matter of finding all posts that were made around that timestamp to see what I wrote and what my username is.
I’m not sure what % of their R&D budget comes from the $99 fee vs various other AppStore percentage based fees. But… should it be a flat fee? It seems sort of reasonable to charge more successful apps more, they are apparently benefiting more from the ecosystem, right? Like progressive taxation. (If anything, why not institute increasing developer “apple tax” brackets?)

It looks like, just from some random googling, Apple makes somewhere in the range of $85B per year from their App Store, and there are around 34 Million iOS app developers. Do people really want to pay north of $2000 for their developer licenses?
> the chance of rain was reported as below 50%.

I've come to think of that as "it is going to rain 50% of the time. I don't know if that's what really is meant by "50% chance of rain," but it seems to fit.

And overall I tend to believe that the forecast is astonishingly accurate. This is in the Midwest (Chicago market) where weather has to cross large portions of the country or Canada before it gets to us. I suppose there are areas on the coast where weather is more volatile and harder to predict.
There should be a data-only pickle serialization protocol (that won't serialize or deserialize code).

How much work would it be to create a pickle protocol that does not exec or eval code?

python/cpython//Lib/pickle.py:
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/pickle.py

python/cpython//Lib/pickletools.py:
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/pickletools....
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> He addressed that, the cost of making it to 0 would be too great (C++ would have to break backwards compatibility) so we should try and be inline with other languages instead.

> I don't understand why you're acting as if he didn't make the point he made.

My confusion is that I'd expect breaking backwards compatibility to either be completely off the table or for the amount of breakage allowed to be up for debate. If you're not willing to break compatibility at all, I feel like the goal should be to shoot as low as possible without breaking anything; if it's possible to get as low as other languages, why stop there? If you're willing to sacrifice some backwards compatibility, why not be willing to break it a little more to eliminate the last few sources of unsafety?
Oh I agree that they don't care, but that doesn't mean that Apple isn't distorting the market in a way that some of us, the very technologists building the next round of innovation, find abhorrent. This is a case where the public can have it all. The defaults can be "it just works" without also ceding all control over who wins and loses and a significant chunk of revenue to Apple.
Black can usually reformat code pretty well.
> what damage could they cause

You want to listen to what they want to do before they do something to your country. This is what this thing allows you to do: every internet packet transiting through the Dutch internet exchanges will be "scanned" (largely read-only).

However:

> The powers granted to the services are broad, but also largely ‘read-only’.

Largely `read-only`, the way I read it, means that in some cases they can actually replace whatever is going through the cable.

I imagine something like:

- terrorist A and B are texting each others, and you replace some of the text that they are sending each other (before this is received over the phone, because you own the "hop"), so that you can maybe redirect them straight into the police hands.

If done properly, I believe this can prevent quite some bad damage - not the simple example above, but probably also major things like serious attacks (e.g., ransom attacks on public institutions, etc). That's my guess - how easy or realistic this is, I can't tell you.
Ditto.

An "ssh init --bare" is enough, and after the first pull everything's the same.

But I'm generally of the mind that not everything needs to be public all the time, so I'm OK with not having a wiki and issues on such bare repos.
True... although hardware probably has far higher costs. I found a site giving apple's net profits for 2020 at $64 billion. If their gross was $294B, that means their profit margin on average was 21% for their sales. If the app store is almost pure rent, and you are overestimating the costs of things like reviewing and it is only a few billion dollars to run, then it could have a far higher profit margin than everything else. Perhaps even 80 or 90%? If so, that $21.7 billion gross is almost pure profit and becomes something like a third of all their profits...
You should assume so and accept nothing short of end to end encryption as a secure channel. That's been true for decades.

Assume, the Chinese, Russians, North Koreans, Iranians, Americans, and everybody else gets a copy of all the bytes you send and receive. That may or may not be true depending on who or where you are and how competent their people are. But you can't rely on that not being the case so you simply shouldn't. So make sure that whatever they intercept is gibberish.

Is there any unencrypted traffic over these cables at all at this point? It's all ssl and https at this point, I would hope. There's still some intelligence to be extracted from which IP addresses are talking to which other IP addresses. But beyond that? What's really there to be intercepted that we haven't fixed yet?
This sounds like hell.

Why on earth would you want that? Open the app, go to the account, enter the money with specificity, select the account to transfer it to, click the button.

Sure, being able to say "Transfer 200 to Steve" is nice and all but.. I just don't... consider it much better than the process we have today?
Yeah the Belastingdienst would never do anything naughty with powers like these. Let them in on it too!
The EU shouldn't even bother reacting to this. Just wait out the clock, and start fining day by day for non-compliance. We'll see how many attempts it takes them then.
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You can run ComfyUI and AnimateDiff on your PC. If you haven't checked them out, please do.

And there are other angles to consider. Apple, for one, is expressly interested in not becoming a thin client to cloud AI. They're baking a lot of inference power into their chips. If the creative class don't need their devices, that doesn't bode well for them...
> I've personally seen teams working nights and weekends, implementing solutions to never before seen problems in a few weeks, and still getting a thumbs down when they cross the finish line.

This is an important lesson that all SWEs should take to heart. Nobody cares about your novel algorithm. Nobody cares about your high availability architecture. Nobody cares about your millisecond network latency optimizations. The only thing that anyone actually using your software cares about is "Does the screen with lights and colors make the right lights and colors that solve my problem when I click on it?". Anything short of that is yak shaving if your role is not pure academic R&D.
What is the argument for Apple’s App store if there are no benefits in Android world?
Just wondering.
They have a subway system in Tel Aviv. I'm sure they will be happy to have NYPD patrolling it, keeping it safe. /s

You see things like this and wonder how that money escapes scrutiny when everything else is debated endlessly.
No, we here in the Netherlands have mast years too and we don't have any cicadas.

The claim is that they change the mast year pattern for a few years after they emerge.

Interestingly, I think the theory behind the periodical life cycle of the cicadas is the same as the one behind mast years -- there are no predators who have evolved to only be around every 13th year, so the number of predators around will be the same as in non-cicada years. Giving the huge amounts of cicadas in this year a good chance of survival.
Or, you know, spend the half hour that would take writing your stuff yourself.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Suugn-p5C1M

basically, people are dealing with a ghost. you have one person suddenly stop and now there's a permanent kink in the behavior of the traffic.
Did Errol Musk buy 50k worth of $AAPL in 1990?
I have zero evidence, but this seems extremely unlikely. Do you have more than zero evidence?
> but users also had a lot of confidence that developers would pull through and provide native binaries in a timely manner, catapulting the capabilities and battery life of their shiny new laptops even further.

Yea. There was a real concerted effort by not Apple employees to get all these *modern* tools working on M1s. I remember at the company I was at, a small handful of engineers working diligently to get our internal dev software and processes working on M1s.
Weird, but, honestly, no more weird than eating lobster, crab, and shrimp.
>It's a great aviation channel in general if anyone is interested in that stuff.

It's an aviation channel for people who aren't into aviation. Lot's of clickbait + obvious optimization of titles and topics to appeal to the masses. The Mr Beast of pilots.
Plasma could affect bullets and fragments (for example from mines). Just like current dynamic armor, which is just boxes with explosive material, and it's explosion deflect cumulative stream and fragments.

Imagine something like multiple-nozzle rocket engine.

Sure, existing proof of concept realizations are ugly, but with time they will become better.
> smells like lock-in from a million years away.

I worry too, but here you can export as sql and csv.
It's called commoditize the compliment.

If they make AI models free to use it makes OpenAI nearly valueless, which means that they can't survive and then sell Meta's competitors a better GenAI product than Meta can make themselves.

So basically since they don't make money directly on GenAI, it makes sense for them to release it for free so no one else can have something better, so they don't have to compete on GenAI abilities with their competitors.
Its a silicon valley startup promising a new structure to an old business. So at best the startup will survive and be a bad deal for the authors or most likely it will fail. So no, if I'm a good author i dont need their so called 'services'. I want my money upfront. If I'm a bad author, then, well, I'm fucked and should have learnt programming when I had the chance.
Thanks Matt! Alex from DBOS here :) We do provide a full stack serverless infrastructure that obviates the need for setting up your own containers, k8s, etc. And even though our first release focuses on Typescript web apps, we envision support for many more use cases and languages in the future. Keen to hear more feedback about which languages and use cases might be of interest to you.
And if you don't trust an app vendor without Apple's underpaid Chinese reviewers playing with it on an iPad for 5 minutes to guarantee your safety, then don't use those apps that pull out of the App Store. If YouTube or FB pull out of Apple's App Store and go to their own, Apple will have to cut it's hosting fees to get them back or lose that business and you'll suffer not because Google and FB pulled out of the App Store but because Apple pushed them out with exorbitant fees. You should want Apple facing that threat because it'll lead to lower App Store prices as developers won't pad a $5 app with $1.50 in extra cost to you to cover the exorbitant Apple fees. But you'd rather blame users who want to run what ever software they want on the computers they purchased than blame Apple's shitty business practices. That's on you, bud.
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I'm not saying that free speech need be chucked away, but that we should strive to maintain a balance which protects societies from bad actors. Merely misgendering someone isn't necessarily abusive, but a pattern of consistent harassment is. If a privately owned company want to allow the former and not the latter, then I'm okay with it.
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Yeah! Used it back then too. It's lovely and I was happy to see that it was revived. Here's a bit more about the history: https://chyrplite.net/wiki/A-Brief-History-of-Chyrp-Lite.htm...
I’m not sure the DMA works like that. Someone correct me if I’m wrong but as far as I understand the DMA applies to Apple’s operations in the EU, not devices that are sold in the EU. If you buy a “locked” iPhone outside the EU and bring it to the EU and set it up in the EU, I believe that Apple still has to comply with the DMA for that device because all of Apple’s services are still operating in the EU. So Apple wouldn’t be able to charge a premium for “unlocked” devices.
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I wonder if two prime numbers evolved as a way to make this as rare as possible.
> No one ever invents ... fringe theories on baryonic acoustic oscillations

BAOs are clearly the sucker-marks made when the great and mighty Kroll <https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Kroll> seized the walls of the universe!

https://insidetheperimeter.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Bar...

I'm not nearly as bothered by people typing out what they themselves admit are essentially physics fantasies (especially when prefaced with "I'm not a physicist" or the like), as by people who try to convince readers with even less exposure to physics that some alternative to good theories is clearly better but that the powers that be of theoretical physics are somehow suppressing it, and then clearly have little understanding about how the good theories work. There's a lot of that, especially in DM threads.
(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39679103)
Agreed, and I think that many of the problems that people think LLMs will become capable of, in fact require AGI.

It may well turn out that LLMs are NOT the path to AGI. You can make them bigger and better, and address some of their shortcomings with various tweaks, but it seems that AGI requires online/continual learning which may prove impossible to retrofit onto a pre-trained transformer. Gradient descent may be the wrong tool for incremental learning.
How so?

Creating things doesn't imply using those things to make money.
Yes, parts of this law are very likely to be struck down by the European Court of Human Rights, if a case ever gets there. Specifically the 100% automatic powers to hack and intercept anyone who is hacked by state backed hackers are pretty unlikely to be legal under the ECHR.
> > Our governments and society have made it clear, if you don't produce value, you don't deserve dignity.

> It's not somebody else who decided that. It's you.

No. The Republican National Convention cheered the idea of letting the poor and sick just die off in the streets. They cheered. Ron Paul asked "what are we supposed to do? Let our sick and poor just die cold in the streets?" and they cheered.

Jobs are sacred in the U.S. Job creators must be worshipped. Hard-working Americans are the lifeblood of yadda yadda. As soon as you don't have a job: fuck you, scum, you deserve to die in the streets. You are no longer of use to the wealthy, so you do not even have the dignity to sleep on benches or under bridges: they add spikes to any area you might find any comfort. Your children cannot receive an education. You get to disappear from view into some secluded slum until you die of the cold. It's not GP that decided that. It's tens (hundreds?) of millions of Americans who will cheer on your death if you lose your job. Most of which, of course, are a couple paychecks or a major illness away from being homeless themselves. Do not act like that's not a real thing.
Interesting! As a contrast, I'm using historic weather data to predict future weather - couples use my free wedding weather predictor to find the perfect date for their wedding: https://dropory.com/