skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RFID and NFC are the new Magstripe and Barcodes.

People think that they are mysterious things that are secure because they aren't able to see what they mean. But in reality, they are all still just a machine-readable number.

(even if a rolling key, challenge-response or pubkey authentication is supported, we're often still just using a single number, but my point is more about the perceived obscurity for the public)
You can't logic your way out of a crazy box
I'm not sure I would come to this conclusion. R has some adoption, but it's also really not used as a generic programming language, which most Lisp dialects are.
Yeah the point of shadow banning is so that trolls/bots continue to scream into the void, rather than creating a new account. I'm guessing it's only so long before human trolls notice, and I'm guessing that bots could just have automated ways of checking ("was my last post visible to an unauthenticated user?")
> Your list of services where you claim Apple has a dominant position is entirely products where it does not have a dominant position.

I am not claiming that. I am claiming that Apple has a very dominant position over the most important sales channel lots of companies have to rely on to compete.

Just one example is the at this point famous App Store tax. From a 10$ Apple Music subscription, 9.8$ (lets use these cents for processing) goes to Apple.

For a 10$ Spotify subscription, Spotify makes 7$ after Apple takes their 30% fee. Sure one may say, hey, but Spotify isn't forced to use Apple's service for payments, except they are. Otherwise they loose access to *the* platform most people listen to their music nowadays. Spotify also isn't allow to make Apple subscriptions more expensive and inform users about cheaper subscriptions on their website, because otherwise they'd loose access to the important platform. I guess one can see how this could be considered a abuse of the dominant marked position?

Strictly speaking, for this example past tense would have been fitting. Not because Apple is so generous, but because the EU also considered much of this behavior to be anti-competitive. Hence me wondering if the US courts would be following this line of thinking.

What frustrates me the most is Apple's double dipping. They argue that those fees are required for the development of the platform and technology, pretending as if they didn't already charge a hefty price tag on the products they sell. And in the end, its still the user who is getting screwed. It's not like Spotify or any other provider is eating the platform cost, they charge it up to the user by making their services more expensive.

Also, in their defense in the EU hearings Apple argued that Spotify's success is in large part thanks to the App Store, so it would only be fair for them to pay that amount. The amount of arrogance in that statement is astonishing imho. Developing for a platform is a mutually beneficial relationship, not an altruistic development aid by Apple. What would iPhone sales look like if there was no third party Mail client, no Twitter app and no Instagram or Facebook for their phones?

TD;DR: easy demonstration of how Apple makes more money selling the same product, not because they're more efficient but because they make all the rules.
Does this chain of thought apply to any company or just to Apple? At what market share does this become a problem in your opinion? Or are we assuming that the market is ‘free’ and people wouldn’t buy such a device/service because of these ‘restrictions’?
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. Chrome and Safari on iOS aren't using Webkit because they both use the WebKit source and compile it into their browsers... They are both using webkit because Chrome offloads rendering to a WKWebView. Chrome on iOS is not rendering anything at all
Isn't this true for Twitter as well?
Man 'recovering well' after pig kidney transplant
The complexity of the game's interface was not converted to a high quality mobile interface. It work, sure, but it was not pleasant to use

It's like viewing a desktop version of a website on mobile. It's usable, but kinda sucks and made me not want to play
Going at it a bit sideways, there's also a sense of self that's constructed in which narratives forms around it ... and yet, there's a way of experiencing the world without that separate sense of self.

Complex adaptive systems can be nested. Human families, communities, societies, governments all form greater gestalts in which humans, themselves complex adaptive system are a part of.
It's just good illustration practice to stage your scenes if you can, as a way of getting the most detailed reference possible. The technique dates back centuries, only limited by the available technologies(grid viewfinders, mirrors, lenses).

By the 20th century photography was available enough to make it relatively trivial to take a snapshot of yourself to get poses and expressions, thus there was a rise in artists claiming they did not use references for PR purposes, e.g. Frank Frazetta made this claim about his paintings repeatedly, even though the documentation exists showing that he staged himself for photos in his comics work back in the 1950's.
Most people couldnt care less with sub par video message security for most (not all) uses. The fact that every vendor want anything but a good standard stack for keeping their users captive is imo a more powerful incentive.
> What's to stop Microsoft, Meta, or Amazon from forcing you to download their own app store to use their apps?

Like Apple does now, except for every app.

> We kind of see this on PC already with every company having their own game or app store.

No we don't. Those are fringe and mostly unsuccessful. And even then, those companies should not have to pay 30% of their revenue to steam, so fuck that.

> When Chrome is on iOS and is pushed on every Google search, what happens to health of the web? Does that create a new web monopoly?

Forcing everyone to use Safari is a web monopoly.
There's some user input to this via posix_fadvise POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED but it doesn't guarantee anything.
Love this. Used jukedeck in the past and did a comp sci for music class at CMU way back in the day. After reading I understand your focus may be on people who would already classify themselves as musicians but I think theres definitely a world where you are making it easier for the amateur who makes music for recreation or are musicians in training (same market as Artiphon who I have worked with). One element of the UX as you describe is that text may be difficult, would you imagine having input being described the way some artists do with humming and audio descriptions? Something along the lines of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhOsxMhe8eo

I put together my initial thoughts here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAZAWBw7c7o
I hear your argument but I'm not convinced that reliance on AI will lead to formulaic or homogenous music. Humans produce that stuff by themselves already.
The annotations are there in the RTF files, but there is something quirky about the format of those RTF files - perhaps they predate standardization or something. If you open one of the RTFs in a straight text editor like emacs or vi, you'll see them. There was a bit of discussion around this here, a few years ago, when this version was re-released [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24876236
How many bad therapists would you recommend trying until you acquire the discernment to know a good one?
Hey we had a rush of users earlier. It’s up. Still seeing issues?
Ideally the system starts flushing buffered writes basically immediately, but with low device-level queue depth so that subsequently issued higher priority IOs do not suffer from a ton of additional latency.
If it’s pdf.js, it is all an API. Poorly documented one but an API.
One thing is Florida is much cheaper than SoCal where SpaceX is located, so there's some COLA to be made. But still quite bad.
How old is the redesign?
> it does however restrict the rendering engine

This isn't a sufficient description. Apple actually requires all third-party browsers to use the WebKit framework. If they actually allowed browsers to use the WebKit engine, then you could make a new browser incorporating the open source WebKit engine compiled into it. But this is not allowed.

> Saying there is only one browser on iOS is like saying Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge are the same browser because they both use chromium.

No, Edge and Chrome both use the Chromium engine. They are different browsers that incorporate the same engine. Edge can do this because Chromium is open source.

But Chrome on iOS doesn't have its own engine at all (not even the Webkit engine). It just offloads to the WebKit framework.
I don't know about phenomenal AI, but Band-in-a-box is a classic tool for this kind of thing.
While it’s never been officially proven, there is a interesting story behind truecrypt. It was allegedly written by one guy (Paul Le Rou) who was a programmer turned cartel boss/gun/drug runner.

But back to your question, truecrypt was professionally audited and deemed “secure”, some issues were found but none that were back doors or significant. Shortly after(might have even been during) the audit truecrypt deleted all old versions and posted a weird message telling people to use bitlocker.

After some time veracrypt picked up the torch and has continued developing what was truecrypt.
Afaict, it doesn't have any inbuilt model, you just download one yourself or hook up to someone's API.
There was an interesting talk at one edition of CCC that boiled down to saying those techniques work only if you have the right to remain silent. Which depends on the country you're in. And I heard that in the USA, even though you have the right to remain silent, they still have the right to put you in jail if you refuse to give out your key.
It's easy to transplant a pigney into a human. The hard part is keeping them alive afterward, especially in the long term. It seems like the event is not far enough in the past to know.
It really depends. There are some contactless tags that really do nothing other than transmit a static identification number which is trivially spoofable, but many systems today use cryptography (again, some long cracked and horribly outdated, but others quite strong).

I have a contactless card that runs GPG as a Java Card applet and creates 4096-bit RSA signatures. That's pretty secure!
Sure, Google tried. Nobody seems to really like it?
> However if your company goal is to ensure the software exists (as a non-profit steward), this is a resounding success!

That depends on whether those big competitors are contributing code back.

If they are, then great, the code continues to exist as high quality open source, even if you're playing a smaller role.

If they aren't, then the good version isn't open source. Your goal is failing even when you ignore profit. And at that point maybe an "open source except for those guys" license gets you closer to your goal in practice.
That is, indeed, a technical limitation of MMS.

No, it's not. It's an implementation detail. MMS is basically just SMTP on the back end. There's no technical reason you couldn't allow much larger attachments aside from cost and shitty implementations.

The last time folks got worked into a frenzy over RCS I ended up looking at the MMS specs. If memory serves 3GPP recommended an upper bound of at least 5 megabytes. American carriers typically limit attachments to like 3 megabytes or less and they mandate ancient video codecs.
Divided by Infinity
My 80+-year-old mother, being 80+ years old, still has a landline, which she still answers when there’s an unfamiliar number. However, she’s also alert enough that she apparently enjoys toying with the scammers. She got a call from someone who addressed her as “grandma” and said that he needed money because he was stuck overseas. “O⸻?” she asked using the name of my son who was in kindergarten at the time. “Yes!” the scammer asked. “Why aren’t you at your kindergarten?” she asked. The scammer hung up.

I learned about the above story when I sat down to have the “the talk” with her.
I built an AI business plan generator so you can finally write a business plan
How many times have you tried to start writing a business plan for your product to apply to Y combinator or others and fail?
I - endless.
But..no more. With the AI business plan generator I need to edit the plan created by AI, but not creating from scratch.
It's a game changer.
Let me propose a thought experiment.

Remove the color from the equation entirely, and what do you think would happen when someone without an iPhone joins a group chat? Do you think everyone would ignore the change completely, even though it would mean they'd lose all the iMessage features that SMS/MMS group texts lack? Or do you think they'd just be more frustrated about it because it's harder to tell when it's happening, but treat people the same?

Do you really think it has anything to do with the color of the bubbles, rather than the fact that SMS's featureset is much smaller than iMessage's?
I don't lug all of this day-to-day but keep it in a bag for hackathons, preso days, "can you fix my blah", etc.

HDMI to mini + micro HDMI, HDMI to/from DVI, Display Port to HDMI (would like to find a HDMI to DP), HDMI to HDMI coupler. Cheap HDMI to USB capture lets your laptop act as a monitor for a Pi or whatever. Composite/RCA to HDMI for old console games.

Of course "dongle town" of USB-C to almost everything like ethernet, DP, HDMI, VGA, USB-A, etc. (I also have Lightning and Mac/Thunderbolt 2 versions of some of those that I take to events as loaners.)

A little USB power meter (USB-C, USB-A and I think micro USB but never tried that) is damn handy.

I keep a little headphone case full of USB flash drives (mostly Sandisk Cruzer Fits) with different distros / installers / etc. including a couple installed Linux environments. I miss the really flat Verbatim ones.

Lighting and USB-C to 1/8" headphone (and a good old pair of wired earbuds with mic).

USB to 9-pin serial and even to 25-pin printer port.

I keep a couple Anker cables that are USB-A to combo USB-C/microUSB/Lightning with a USB-C to USB-A adapter. Slow but they always work.

Those adapters that adapt USB-C cables to fit USB-A ports can be hazardous if you end up creating a USB-A to USB-A cable.
> - kids moving out of the house

I've been starting to think about this as i've got maybe 4-5 years left to prepare, it's not that comfortable of a thought. I read an article in the WSJ about new empty nesters and one guy described it as similar to getting fired. Like he had worked so hard for 18 years and then one day he gets "by dad, see you at Thanksgiving" and it was over. haha (but not really haha)
Totally agree, seems all
Google stuff has a life expectancy countdown
As a consumer, I've been a huge fan of happy returns. There's a bookstore walkable from me that works with happy returns and they've been able to take many of my returns. Even so, I still prefer to order from places with nearby shops where I can return in store.
From what I can tell, Reddit took a huge legacy forum product and pivoted into a modern social media app, using all the algorithmically addictive tricks in the modern social media app playbook.

Their numbers look really good with consistent growth in MAU and revenue year over year: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/reddit-statistics/

And IIRC they are larger than such properties as Pinterest and Linkedin. I use the app daily, and it is full of activity on a huge number of subreddits.

It seems like the only people who don't like Reddit are middle aged men on programming forums who nevertheless use old.reddit.com every day. They've basically created the TikTok of text content.
Because apple sold the phones. It's not their phones anymore. It's the consumers' phones.
I am quite aware of the landscape. I use a Pixel phone with GrapheneOS and an iPhone. I prefer many aspects of my iPhone, and can understand why many people choose one as their primary or sole mobile computer. A phone is a very special product category, it's where most users keep their digital lives. As such switching costs are quite high, and user agency is quite important. In general software introduces some very odd dynamics into ownership. If you buy a vacuum cleaner you can take it home, plug it in, and vacuum every room in your house; the vacuum cleaner is yours. If you buy a Roomba and take it home, it demands that you sign a unilateral EULA, then install an app on your phone, and then informs you that it will only clean one room unless you sign up for Roomba Pro for $20/mo[0]. So clearly Roomba still owns the vacuum cleaner they just sold you; they have the final say in what it does or doesn't do. That's ownership. Now, technically, you can legally disassemble your Roomba, and if you manage to dump, modify, and reflash its control software, then you'd be allowed to use your product to clean multiple rooms without paying monthly for the privilege. That would require a lot of effort and specialized skills and tooling, and you would then not be allowed to share your modifications with less skilled Roomba owners because doing so would almost certainly involve trafficking DRM circumvention technology, which is a crime. So in practical terms you only own the Roomba as an inanimate plastic puck.

This whole situation maps to iPhones as well. As things stand when you purchase an iPhone you own a glass brick, and Apple owns the phone part. They graciously allow you to use their phone to perform a certain limited set of activities. I am fundamentally opposed to this sort of non-ownership. Whether the buyer had an option to purchase a roughly-equivalent item with different terms is irrelevant; selling someone a product while retaining ownership of it is a mockery of property rights. Some rights are too important to allow people to sign them away with the tap of a button. When the market missteps by rewarding bad behavior like this it is the job of our democratic governments to step in and mandate good behavior.

[0]: this is made up to illustrate a point, I don't actually know how Roomba service works
Why do they show up in other asian markets, like Grab and such?
Wow I am surprised to see this coming from the US. Though this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to actions the government could take to empower competition/innovation in the space. I wonder how far they will go?

Right to repair? Unlocked boot loaders? Driver schematics?

After seeing the EU crack down on monopolistic practices, I'm starting to feel hopeful that we might one day see competition, choice and innovation return to the modern computers.
This is excellent. Definitely useful and well communicated on your site. Curious where you want to expand it, seems like it can be used to track not just your own apps but the apps of others and track information and new UX from competitors as well (I've seen apps like ChangeTower for the web). Is this the direction you're planning to take this? More initial thoughts here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrLNG2vtxsA
It's fine if it's the default honestly, as long as it exists as a setting you can change.
Your sadness is valid. But we should not stop research because of it.
I’d love to see some of this data, because despite all the Senators pointing at the terms of service where it says “we collect your data”, none of it really shows anything beyond what any other company operating in the US does. Including the many other Chinese companies that do so already and will continue to do so, if you consider those to be a foreign threat or whatever.
>> A lofty, and a little too idealistic goal.

Guix has accomplished, as in put into real world practice, their ideas.
I agree with this take. My one concern is it has the potential to diminish the entire brand. Even with giant warnings about losing warranty/support when installing 3rd party app stores or side loading apps, at the end of the day the back of the phone has a big Apple logo on it. So when the customer fucks it up and Apple refuses to fix it, they’ll still blame Apple.
Ask HN: Measuring the Influence of the AI Trend?
Are there any sources or reports about the AI trend for companies in the industry? Things like marketing pages changing, tag lines changing, pivots for startups, the increase in job numbers, etc? I'm looking for something a bit consolidated, mostly out of curiousity but if there are magazine articles or websites that talk about it that would be great too! I'm also trying to do some research independently. I can look through the NASDAQ companies and maybe Crunchbase to take a look with the waybackmachine to see what significant changes in the last 2 years happened I guess. I don't think the Bureau of Labor Stats has info on AI in particular so that is a bit more difficult to guage.

Anyone have any other ideas?
I had the Science Fair 150-in-1 kit. It really takes me back to my tinkering. I saw one some years ago on Ebay (among other childhood things) but I thought it's best left to memories.
Looking overengineered like that strange Juicero-fad. Also 1800 Watts only. Gimme 2500W, and I'd bet you could do the same with some Ikea-gadget, given you'd the right cookware and knowing how to use that with induction.
That may be true, but a lot of the creators of open source do in fact do it for the "hippie philosophy." That disconnect will eventually kill it. Why work hard to just be free labor for SaaS companies and people who don't care about you?
Saying they don't have a monopoly over those services is still a stawman. They don't have a monopoly on music streaming, but they actively force Spotify to effectively support their own competitor via their 30% fee. Apple TV+ does not have more subscribers than Netflix, but apple famously makes rules that hinder Netflix ability to be competitive on iOS.

And if Apple was all about making the better product, why don't they allow the app developers to use their own payment processors. If Apple IAP was so superior to everything else, users and developers alike would surely gladly pay the 20x markup?

But heck, they don't even allow an App developer to tell their users about a cheaper price on their website or why the product is more expensive on iOS.

Wether you like it or not, as soon as a platform becomes as big as iOS or Android, market watchdogs will come to town. And that is good thing, because with competition the user usually profits over the long term.
Yes. And you need to go and configure them in settings if you want them to have the access. https://www.idownloadblog.com/2020/08/24/manage-widget-locat...

The example given there is the Weather app and widget which I've gotten notifications for myself.

You will also note:

> Navigation apps like Google Maps, Waze, Apple Maps, and so forth work best when they can pinpoint your exact location with precision. But a weather app, on the other hand, works just fine even if it’s only allowed to determine the city where you live or just an approximate region.

Maps, Messages, HomeKit, Clock, Siri, Weather, Wallet - they're all in there. System services too (and you can disable the system service's access to location data - e.g. Apple Pay Merchant Identification, Compass Calibration, Setting Time Zone).

For things that like to access the location in the background (Weather especially does this) you may get "Weather" has been using your location in the background. An example of this can be seen at https://www.lifewire.com/turn-on-mobile-location-services-41...

Its not just "I am using the location data always" but also "this has been accessing your location in the background" which is the type of thing that Tile does.

Apple tends to not have apps that access location information in the background and so this sort of message is not one that people tend to see. Weather is the one that does for weather alerts.

Apple Maps doesn't access location in the background so one wouldn't ever see the a message from it.