skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC, Apple lost that case because they colluded with publishers to raise ebook prices rather than lower them.

I think they would have won if they hadn’t colluded to set prices.
This is probably because PG encouraged spez and kn0thing to pivot from their original idea and become founders of reddit in June 2005 and Aaron Swartz joined reddit in November 2005 after a conversation with PG, who suggested he work with spez and kn0thing on stabilizing the code since reddit had an early tendency to crash.[0]

I found reddit back in 2005 and remember the post announcing that Aaron had joined the team and giving a bit of his background. Reddit was a lot different back then since there were no subreddits.

[0]https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/the-brilli...
Awesome blog post! But is it necessary to link to the tweet that links to the blog post?
not quite the same, but Iain M. Banks is in my top 5, along with Vernor Vinge.
I don't know if the phone providers are making money on scams. Phone calls that have gotten so cheap that VoiP calls from overseas may not be charged anything. It is also likely that the overseas scammers are using US machines to make the calls. My guess is that the scammers don't want to pay anything since greedy and don't want charges that can be traced.

Simpler explanation is that the phone companies don't care about the scams because it doesn't affect them. They aren't liable, and there is no mechanism to report scams to them, and make them spend money investigating.
Probably because it's pilot training bases and the maneuvers they perform tend to throw off the ADS-B due to signal issues.

https://www.gpsworld.com/one-gps-mystery-solved-another-rema...
I am less convinced. If the GMan nabs you, sees you are using a tool which heavily advertises a hidden partition, and coincidentally your drive has a large unused block of random data - they are unlikely to be fooled.
Thanks. Please note that I explicitly don't want to make _rude_ comments – apparently, it is enough that someone is _offended_ by my comments. (And yes, I know that you said "potentially rude", but still – rudeness has little to do with it.)
I took it to mean "an app like this created by Steve and Alexis still doesn't exist."

It gave me pause though, as it's a weird way to phrase it.
If you give me a choice between Ukraine being a second Belarus and risking WWIII or a nuclear exchange, my answer will be easy to choose.
Laws are just words on paper. They are irrelevant without people to follow and enforce them.

It is very common for Constitutional laws to be suspended in the event of war. Even without suspension, all it takes is a leader with enough support to ignore the law.
> iMessage is even going to support the useless RCS standard

What's useless about it? As I understand it, it will provide a massive upgrade over SMS/MMS. Exchanging videos via MMS (currently the only native OS option for Android <-> iOS communication) is an exercise in futility.
I like the part of the complaint where the government lawyers fantasize that their hard work is the reason why Microsoft allowed iTunes Store on Windows. Some real narcissism and lack of knowledge about technology on display.
I've Google TV and it allows sideloading. Yes, it should be allowed for all devices.
I agree and I question the wisdom of it, but the idea of this aggressive antitrust enforcement, which so far has more strikes than hits, seems to be to make a grinding, years- (or even decades-) long push to shift the understanding of what antitrust is and make major changes to the landscape; kind of an inverse of what the conservatives have been able to do with various issues, where their positions were initially laughed out of the room but now have the weight of Supreme Court decisions behind them decades later.
The Apple ecosystem is part of what you're buying with an iPhone. As a consumer, I really like that I can buy a MacBook, an iPhone, and AirPods, and have them all work seamlessly together because they were designed to do so. I'm even willing to pay extra for each product to ensure that they work together in concert, as well as a subscription for a service (iCloud) that glues them all together.
You can do better then that.

CYC motor kits can take up to 72v, and they don't care about talking to the BMS of the battery, so you can pretty much run any battery.

The final reduction is external, so they sell different chainring sizes. With higher voltage, you get more motor speed, so you can do a bigger reduction for the same power, which means lower motor required torque for the same wheel torque, which gives you efficiency.

I have the 52v setup from them on a full suspension mountain bike, with the 416wh battery, and I have done 30 miles on it with pedal assist and knobby mountain bike tires and basically got the battery down about halfway (im fairly fit and have a higher FTP so I don't require much assist).

If I was to build a setup like in your post, with a big 72v battery taking up the entire front triangle of the bike, and use faster rolling tires, I could either have an ebike that can probably keep up with cars on a highway under throttle, or in the pedal assist mode, do over 100 miles.
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US Attorney General Merrick Garland discussing the suit live here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqKbl0vWzaU
can someone explain how different is the iphone ecosystem anti-competitive practices vs sony playstation ecosystem?
Regarding the Apple Wallet: what about it is uncompetitive? I can add credit cards from many providers to it, and as far as I can tell Apple doesn't get anything if I add my Chase card and use it with Apple Pay. I don't think banks have to pay Apple anything for their cards to be used in the Apple wallet. Nor do non-financial cards like memberships.
I am a parent, and time spent engaging with my kid is far more important to me than almost anything I could be doing on my phone. In the rare case where I -have- to do something right now, I will tell her how long this task will take and then restore my attention at that time.
I exported all my iCloud photos and videos to Google Photos. https://support.google.com/photos/answer/10502587?hl=en
Skia does include some support for using Vello for rendering but it's just experimental, not enabled by default.
I did fieldworks in East Asia, SE Asia, and N America. Ask me anything
Interesting. I'm not a priori against interfering in cases of doxing. And Stonetoss caretoons are not even that far out (from the few I've seen, but correct me if I'm wrong). But what one wonders, if a cartoon that correlates less well with Mr. Musk's view would get the same protection.
NATO does nothing to resolve an active occupation between member states (Cyprus).

NATO only does things when it benefits the US.
Global Unichip Corporation (GUC): Worldwide fabless ASIC design service company
On the other hand, that time was previously spent generating value for your website, so not sure that was a good move for you.

This is what I'd like to believe, but I fear it does not really make a difference. Reddit's audience has grown far beyond its initial tech roots and the quality outside a small subset of subreddits is... let's just call it devoid of content. It's barely a blip on the radar if the early adopter drop out, because they are by now a tiny subset of the population.

And I guess that's fine. Platforms have their lifecycle. And when a social media network is for-profit, the early adopters are often only important for the initial bootstrapping. Luckily there are nice places like LWN, HN, Lobste.rs and other more niche communities.
I'm in that early millenial/xennials bracket too, and my observations/sentiment of the younger generation are similar to yours. It's funny too, because there's lots of otherwise ingenious, intelligent GenZ out there, but they have a hard time understanding the idea of keeping their data private, even for just some of the time. I'm not sure if its because their experience with computers has been largely through web apps and mobile apps, or if it's more of a nihilistic, everyone-is-tracking-me-anyways-so-why-even-try attitude. To some degree, I don't blame them if it's the latter.
> Or any nintendo or playstation or xbox. I can't just sideload games into any of them either

Homebrew is a thing, and you should be able to use whatever software you want on a device that you paid for. I have no doubt that there are people who own an iphone and wish they could have a different browser, or wish they could use a game streaming app.
But how would you know to do this if they're gagged developers from informing users about Apple's cut, cheaper prices elsewhere, or from giving them a link.

I'm sure people will pay a bit more to use Apple pay and not get kicked out to a browser and possibly fiddle with re-logging in and re-typing in their payment info to a sketchy site.

Very few will pay 30% more though, because even the people that love Apple pay will be forced to acknowledge it's an obvious ripoff, in no way commensurate to the value provided.
No limit for now. It’s basically up to your CPU
Every employee that joins Apple goes through a course that teaches a few case studies about Apple's culture. One of those is how Steve Jobs made the decision to kill Flash. IMHO it was a no brainer and if this sort of thing needs to be litigated in court, it's a travesty.
That is wildly out of touch with the majority of Americans who have no meaningful savings much less appreciating assets like stock or property. Even then you have to save half your income for that to work and you have to ignore that you'll have to spend that appreciation down so you're not taking advantage of compounding growth. It's wrong on so many levels.
There is a separate project to build Postgres extensions with Rust: https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx
Difftastic seems really nice! Unfortunately it shows some changed binary files which makes it sort of unusable. `file` reports these files as "ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, stripped" and the MIME type/encoding is "application/x-sharedlib; charset=binary" so not sure why difftastic is trying to show them as thousands of changed lines of text...
Why is it a hacker thing to denounce everybody with a different opinion or preference as "delusional" or brain washed?

For many people it is nothing to pay a couple of hundred dollars more for a device that in their experience is easier to use or in their preference looks wise, even if the geek specs are worse. Especially for a device they'll be using for many years.

> In fact, when you take a hard look, you realize they are selling update of stuff that were designed 10 to 15 years ago and not much has changed when the PC industry as a whole has evolved quite a lot.

Then why has the PC industry not been able to catch up with Apple in computer design in all this time? A 2014 Macbook still looks better than any 2024 PC laptop. It's beyond weird to me by now. Apple made a great leap in design with the unibody Macbooks, but then after more than a decade nobody else has came after, even though customers would love it.

Imagine if there was only one car manufacturer that could design a good looking car...
The difference is cars don't interoperate with each other, they operate with the road and the road is an open and public platform. Not only do you not have to buy a Tesla to use the road, you don't even have to use a car.

Apple is the road in this analogy, not the car.
If you're genuinely interested in this below are a couple things you could read to help get some background. Its actually a pretty fascinating history.

Judging by your phrasing, your interpretation of antitrust stems from Robert Bork and has been the mainstream thought for a long time. Read The Antitrust Paradox by him to see how we got here and why the courts have acted how they have for the past 40 years.

The current chair of the FTC, Lina Khan, was actually an academic prior to working for the government and has a long paper trail of how she interprets the law. In short (and extremely oversimplified), it modernizes the Brandeis interpretation that bigness is bad for society in general, regardless of consumer pricing. EX: If Apple were a country its GDP would surpass the GDPs of all but four nations. They argue this is bad flat out.

Can't say it was the only cause, but Khan's paper, Amazon's Antitrust Paradox - note the reference to Bork's book - is partially what resparked a renewed interest in antitrust for the modern era if you want to check it out.
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I re-read my post just now, and I may have worded it funny with the use of the word "catered", but I did mean it in a blanket sense as it applies to needs and worries.

So for their needs, they're not being met with reasonable effort. I'd even argue that some needs are not even being considered.

Likewise, for their worries, they're not being taken into consideration. E.g. If people are worried about immigration, address it. Or if people are worried about student debt, also do something. But don't let politicians ignore it entirely while talking incessantly that it needs to be fixed.

This is why I'm a huge proponent of direct-democracy, or any sort of more directed form of democracy other than representative. People recently have been correctly realizing that "democracy" is not as noble or actually as representative as they've been told since birth.

Side note, I think government/politicians/TPTB/etc are using "Democracy" as a way to have their cake and eat it. It's very difficult for peoples needs/worries to be address in government, they're always somehow mediated or ignored with the common excuse being party-lines, lack of bipartisan support, or just "hey it's those evil guys over there". But at the same time, we're told that it's "okay" because don't worry, this is democracy and it's just the will of the people.

I call BS. If it's the will of the people, we'd be 100% okay with doing referendums left right and centre on every contentious issue tomorrow.

/rant. Sorry that turned into a bit of a tangential rant.
I work in consulting and have been working for a client in finance for the past two years working on greenfield applications for them.

I haven't gone too far out of the way to learn aspects of finance other than through exposure and osmosis. As long as there's someone on the team that really understands it on a deep level, you don't have to be that person to be effective, at least on the frontend (which has been my focus for this client, although I am doing a bit more backend now).

Hasn't stopped me from implementing complicated features as requested and discussed, just asking questions for what's expected, what the data should look like when it's done correctly, etc, but now I do understand it a lot better and I can mostly follow along during deep discussions (some of it still goes over my head though).

That being said, you can pick up books on finance to help you understand things better. For me, I discovered recently (stumbled upon it at a used bookstore, actually), that I should probably pick up textbooks on Quantitative Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management in order to understand those deeper discussions better, but the focus of your startup might be different.
Maybe 3M should rename themselves to something less confusing.
Android is a brand. It's trademarked by Google.
Time will tell, for sure.

The thing is, they are both overflowing with cash, more than enough to afford being strategic about its use.

If you're only looking at cash flow for the next few quarters, sure, that was the smart decision.
General computing on a mobile device was never mainstream, or even common, before the iPhone. Smartphones are much closer to laptops than pre-smart phones, IMO.
I'd be surprised, given the technical savviness and polish of these scams, if they weren't using LLM's that are scripted such that the bot isn't "aware" it's a scam.
I edited my comment to clarify Rule #2: hang up, wait some time, then call back on the known correct number.
Things I would tell my self from 10 years ago
rest in peace Aaron Swartz
Reminiscent of the Akira Kurosawa film 'Ikiru' (1952):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikiru
A whole generation of people who don't know how horrible Microsoft was. Two decades later, people are still bitter. The amount of great tech that got stifled.... SMH.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_United_States_federal_bud...
The site really took a nosedive in about the last 6 months in my experience, I think a combination of the API fiasco + current world events has really done a 1-2 punch on the site. The front page of reddit is a nightmare zone, it's all ragebait, clickbait, shit political memes and posts clearly made by marketing interns and boosted by bot accounts. Every comment section feels intensely ideological and any comment that strays from the majority opinion is downvoted to hell. Also loads of those tacky "badges" on comments everywhere making for a lot of visual clutter. Just an all around unpleasant to use site. PG calls the average reddit user "curious, skeptical, ready to be amused" which feels almost like the exact opposite of my experience.
I think this is aspirational given the paltry https://support.apple.com/en-us/docs/software
There is no nonperishable good.

Most everywhere you're expected to pay taxes for land, hardware gets used up and requires maintenance etc. Resources can get obsolete and lose value that way too.

So this strategy is not long term savings either.
When you look at the rates of home ownership by age, I suspect you're correct:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/321065/uk-england-home-o...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/321097/distribution-of-h...

Over half of homes are owned by those 55+, and the vast bulk of them have either paid off their mortgage or don't have much left. Statistically, the vast bulk of those home owners will either be landlords, adults without kids, or parents who's kids have left home.

While I think we should be very careful applying things like taxes which can be seen as actively "punishing" folks who've worked hard and paid off their mortgages. It's important that those people need to understand that they're actually causing housing problems for the generations below them, it's not the younger generations having "unreasonable" expectations, it's their generations distorting the markets.
Everything needs to be litigated.
What about - hear me out, I know this is crazy, but... holding elections on Sundays?

You know, when people can go without taking a day off from work?

Like any other democracy?
So the question is, if Digg users fled to Reddit, where are Reddit users fleeing to now?

Before anyone replies with "the fediverse"… I've heard people talking about Mastodon etc. for years now and afaict it's still a fringe nerd thing that most people outside techie HN-adjacent circles haven't heard of. It doesn't seem remotely comparable to Reddit in terms of popularity, or potential popularity.
That makes no difference.
those in the diy space are very well aware about assembling your own batteries as mentioned by others.

their approach does not seem too different from the norm, but it is interesting to see it happen at commercial level. from an economic standpoint, the countries producing commodity cells can stand to benefit a lot from cottage industries like this to increase electric mobility.
If Ford only let you fill up at Exon stations and only allowed you to drive to Home Depot over Lowes, do you think they would get sued?
Anyone who has run a forum knows that mods are paid, usually with ego or duty or power, but they certainly get something from it. Else hundreds of people wouldn't want to be moderators of small phpbb forums much less thousands of people on reddit.

Either way, I don't think compensation swivels the "entitled, power-tripping reddit mod" trope where they ban from their subreddit if you make a comment they disagree with. It's one of reddit's biggest problems.
They could still try rubber-hose interrogation techniques until you remember the key...
Passionless devs exist in droves, but I've never met a dev who didn't enjoy the salary. It's not far fetched at all to say that an individual working on something they care about has different incentives than an employee earning their pay.
If not gift cards, something else.

They're just currently the most effective "give me some numbers over the phone and now I have money" currently available.

It used to be Western Union, but it would move to something else.

Cash, money orders, PayPal, Zelle, any number of things have been used and will be used.
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I've been a loyal iPhone user since what? the iPhone 3.

The moment Apple is forced to "open up to the competition", all Meta apps are going to magically move to the Meta Store, where they'll likely be able to shove all sorts of tracking garbage down my throat.

Same for Alphabet, same for Samsung, same for Microsoft.

The experience will turn into a hopeless struggle against EULAs and consents, unless one refuses to install any third-party spyware and do the digital equivalent of moving into a forest cabin. The oddball, while everyone else sheepishly complies.

Evenyone loves to hate Apple, everyone forgets that the first commercial music store to sell unencrypted and hugh fidelity AAC files was Apple's. The rest was "squirting" tunes on Zune or inflicting Realmedia on their paying customers.

Nope.
Jim Browning did a thing on these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu-Y1h9rTUs

The second half of the scam — the cryptocurrency theft. The one I've seen recently is variations on any of the terms "ChatGPT MEV arbitrage ETH slippage bot"; in essence, the author claims to have used ChatGPT to write a bot that waves hands does something something with arbitrage and makes tons of money. The explanation is technobabble, and the claims are often like "earn returns of $2k/day", which is of course solidly into the "way too good to be true" territory. The "smart" contract just steals your money, it's that simple.

I have been seeing these all over my YouTube sponsored videos. I.e., the scammers are running these as ads. I've reported them as I see them, but thus far, YouTube has taken down exactly none of them, AFAICT. (In fact, my entire report history is 0% removed, despite every entry being a rather crystal clear ToS violation since I'd otherwise have been too lazy to go through the flow for it.) As I write this, both ad slots on the homepage are this scam.
This is how the free market is intended to work. This opens up the range for several android phones (which have a near split in the US, and a majority globally last I recall) to offer better hardware.

Modern Samsung phones are very good. You’re asserting that Apple should be punished purely because they make good hardware and are successful - and if their hardware wasn’t good and competitive then you wouldn’t care.

Part of why I have Apple devices as a tech enthusiast is the good software and the ecosystem that comes with it.

Would I like to run an IDE and code on an iPad? Absolutely. But I’d rather have the iPad than the android tablet.
They probably would if Ford found a way to prevent any after-market accessories from being sold without taking a cut or made proprietary trailer hitches that you had to pay them directly for. Pickup trucks are some of the most hackable devices on the planet.
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100% support this approach. My knowledge of product has always been less important than my knowledge of the people, resources, and structure of my organization. I don't need to know things, I need to know who knows things. At least at the start.
But they already do support Android to some extent. Apple Music (don't know if you can subscribe via the Android app), Shazam, and an AirTag detector are all already available.
The devs at Reddit don't get to choose what they work on. They are paid to build what they are told to build. And that's fine. It's just a job.
There are no such assets. Unless you consider slave labor one of these.

There's only so much you cannot increase wages to compensate before people will take matters into their own hands.