skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not familiar with the Elastic ecosystem, but both MongoDB and Redis have a great plenty of competitors, many of which implement the same wire protocols even, that don't make use of their license at all. So I don't think symmetric competition is affected or even a concern of these companies. Symmetric competition still drives them to improve quality and pressure prices.

It's the asymmetric competition from the platforms that's siphoning resources from these companies that could have been spent on improving the core product.

I don't understand your point with regards to Source Available licenses. Sure, source available is beneficial to the end user, but what does that have to do with open source licenses and the OSI? Source available licenses are simply irrelevant. If source available licenses need representation there should be a new organisation formed for them, no need to involve the OSI. You could call it the Source Available Initiative.
The problem isn't the messaging service, the problem is the artificial hardware requirement in order to use it. Second would be the inability to make another app the primary/default once you have said hardware.
Synapses might be akin to transistor count, which is only roughly correlated with FLOPs on modern architectures.

I've also heard in a recent talk that the optic nerve carries about 20 Mbps of visual information. If we imagine a saturated task such as the famous gorilla walking through the people passing around a basketball, then we can arrive at some limits on the conscious brain. This does not count the autonomic, sympathetic, and parasympathetic processes, of course, but those could in theory be fairly low bandwidth.

There is also the matter of the "slow" computation in the brain that happens through neurotransmitter release. It is analog and complex, but with a slow clock speed.

My hunch is that the brain is fairly low FLOPs but highly specialized, closer to an FPGA than a million GPUs running an LLM.
You're correct that other frequencies would work, but have the causality backward when it comes to 2.4-2.5 GHz being a garbage dump. The nascent microwave oven industry was making it into a de facto garbage dump, so the FCC requested that the ITU assign it as an official garbage dump. In other words, the ovens weren't put there because it was a garbage dump, it became a garbage dump because they were already there.
Great. The beauty of an open market is that you can continue to solely suck on the teat of Apple if you so choose.
I worked in healthcare tech for 10 years.

I would bet my life savings UHG developers pleaded with management for years to get the resources they desperately need to resolve these problems, but management ignored every request because it didn't have any external impact.

Management in healthcare tech is comprised entirely by some of the most mind boggling idiots on Earth, whose only qualification might be being an adult, since their ability to read, write, and comprehend information is universally worse than a child. This is without exception, in my experience.
I use photo sync for this, which was a one off payment. Of course you have to trigger it manually every few days because only Apple apps can actually work on iOS
The only part of what you said that disagrees with me is the words "just false". I don't know how to ensure "Karen from HR" doesn't fall for those things, but training is clearly not enough (or at least current training, I'm not hopeful for future efforts but...). Either way, since the attack wasn't against something a programing language can protect against no amount of fixing programming languages will help.

We need come up with answers that work despite humans not being perfect. This is a hard problem. (what gets hard is sometimes someone will lose/forget a key and so you need to issue a replacement but only to the correct person)
It is, however, also incredibly realistic.

People are not using open source for the hippie philosophy. They are using it because it is free (as in beer), but even more importantly: they are using it because non-free licenses are a terrible pain in the ass.

Legal aspects are a headache, and the amount of effort to get someone in your company to pay even a tiny amount for some library or service is a serious hurdle.

I would not be surprised if adopting a non-free library would take a typical company ~40 man hours of work. At current rates, that translates to quite an expensive license.
How Do Values Change?
The UN adopts a resolution backing efforts to ensure AI is safe
> The newer 'standard' was a Google dominated way of trying to make inroads on Apple's superior implementation and in most of the world, Messages isn't even the top Messaging app.

The RCS standard was is just about as old as the iPhone and older than iMessage. Google began supporting and pushing the standard forward in a way that benefits everyone. Apple could have done the same, or made iMessage an open protocal or any of a number of things. Instead Apple has consistently chosen to go the anti-competitive route.

> Apple's superior implementation

It was 'superior' in some ways inferior in other ways, such as communicating with people without an iphone. iMessage isn't particularly better than any other messaging app, but the benefits of user lock-in, and being the default, replaceable sms app. These anti-competitive behaviors do clearly harm users.

> Now that Apple has announced support for RCS incoming

Perhaps once the support actually lands you'll have more of a point. However, I expect half-assed support and the bare minimum given Apple's previous reluctance.
> This is the corporate equivalent of "Oh won't someone pleeeeeeeease think of the children". Give me one example where innovation was stifled because of antitrust action. It almost always goes the other way - corporate regulation is broken and small businesses and new ideas are able to flourish in its' absence.

The EU and their dwarfed tech sector because they’ve made a regulatory environment hostile to business.

This argument boils down to “does the maintainer of a platform have the right to maintain their controlling interest in their own platform if that platform itself is not a monopoly” and I’d argue the answer to that is a firm absolutely.

If I’m raising sheep on my farm it isn’t my duty to provide my land to my neighbor to also raise sheep.
> This feels like it reflects similar actions taken against companies that are dominant in a market.

Not simply that a company is dominant; it is more about how and why they are dominant.

Update 2:40 pm ET: After some research, the practices below may capture much (though not necessarily all) of what the Department of Justice views unfavorably:

* horizontal agreements between competitors such as price fixing and market allocation

* vertical agreements between firms at different levels of the supply chain such as resale price maintenance and exclusive dealing

* unilateral exclusionary conduct such as predatory pricing, refusal to deal with competitors, and limiting interoperability

* conditional sales practices such as tying and bundling

* monopoly leveraging where a firm uses its dominance in one market to gain an unfair advantage in another

Any of these behaviors undermines the conditions necessary for a competitive market. I'd be happy to have the list above expanded, contracted, or modified. Let me know.
I always wondered if they continued this behavior while GPT and ML started picking up. I saw a lot of suspicious posts especially around bitcoin and crypto related subreddits start around 2013. This massively increased with the_donald and trump running for office. Covid and the disinformation policies seemed like a way to cause divisiveness and attract viewers to the site while providing a reason to cull some bots (whether internal or external). The API change and the resulting moderator backlash seemed manufactured to provide management a reason to purge moderators and more accounts. Now they have plausible deniability when people claim Reddit is the dead internet, full of AI bots. Because now their user count isn’t heavily tilted towards fake profiles (which would need to be disclosed in an IPo)

Just my conspiracy theory of the day
Ask HN: Is amazon broken for anyone else?
I don’t shop all that often, but when I do, it’s not a great experience.

Sponsored ads rule Amazon along with irrelevant search results. The clutter of options and the overwhelming amount of choices often lead me down a rabbit hole of reviews and comparisons, increasing the time to buy.

And it's not just Amazon. Whether it's electronics on Best Buy, clothes on various e-commerce platforms, or groceries on Instacart, the problem persists: a flood of options, inconsistent pricing, and a lack of personalized recommendations that understand my needs and preferences.

And now there’s the rise of influencer + social media shopping, where people follow an influencer and trust their recommendations and buy their product lines. While this trend does offer a new avenue for product discovery and selection, I find myself hesitant, lacking a trusted influencer whose recommendations align perfectly with my purchasing decisions.

But even with all the complexity of online shopping, I think it ultimately boils down to 3 steps.

1) Research what to buy - this can happen by brute force reading many product listings or by going on other sites like Reddit, Wirecutter, ect.

2) Then, compare options across different platforms, a step eaten into by sites like Amazon, who not only compete with but undercut independent merchants by offering their own products at lower prices.

3) Settle on one and buy

I wanted to build something that I could trust to get me to step 3 faster, while still doing all of the research and cross-platform product comparison, which take up the lion’s share of time. That’s why I built Claros: https://claros.so/, my attempt at solving this problem and building an AI shopping assistant that can help me buy the random purchases that accrue from living life.

Now, my ramble ends and I find myself back to the original question: how do you shop online? Would Claros help you? If not, how can I make it better?

thanks
Fast-learning Eve humanoids can now fold laundry autonomously
This sort of service can be useful for gambling addicts too.
Exactly.

Maintaining plausible deniability is all that's necessary to avoid the legal issues. Add very minimal bot detection just to claim you aren't doing nothing about the problem.

I've stopped using reddit for a lot of reasons. But a big one was that more and more of the content being posted was from fake users. I had an account for ~11/12 years and this was always an issue. But it seemed to really ramp up in 2023. I also started receiving direct messages from bots in 2023. That had never happened before.

This is an anecdotal experience. But there are quite a few users saying the same thing lately: there's a bot problem like there wasn't before.
No one else has mentioned what I think are his two greatest insights besides the Singularity:

* A Deepness in the Sky depicts a human interstellar civilization thousands of years in the future, in which superluminal travel is impossible (for the humans), so travelers use hibernation to pass the decades while their ships travel between systems. Merchants, including the ones the book portrays, often revisit systems after a century or two, so see great changes in each visit.

The merchants repeatedly find that once smart dust (tiny swarms of nanomachines) are developed, governments inevitably use them for ubiquitous surveillance, which inevitably causes societal collapse. <https://blog.regehr.org/archives/255>

* In said future human society pretty much all software has already been written; it's just a matter of finding it. So programmer-archaeologists search archives and run code on emulators in emulators in emulators as far back as needed. <https://garethrees.org/2013/06/12/archaeology/>

(Heck, recently I migrated a VM to its third hypervisor. It has been a VM for 15 years, and began as a physical machine more than two decades ago.)
> Do their few, anachronistic legit use cases outweigh the scam use cases?

Anachronistic? I still give these as small gifts all the time, and every grocery or department store I go in seems to have a rack of them at the checkout stand.
Or maybe if the same HTMX logic is put into server side code equivalent which generates , the server side code can generate that extra functionality and only generate the js that is needed eliminating the step of including HTMX on the client side.
> Developers don't like to think about abstractions and naming is a known hard problem. People pick this up and now everything is easy. Every name becomes: DoThis, DoThat, DoThisOtherThing and only answers to `call`. No need to think!

This 'framework' doesn't require that though:

def double_number(r) = r.continue(r.value * 2)
def add_one(r) = r.continue(r.value + 1)
def square_number(r) = r.continue(r.value ** 2)

pipeline = Pipeline.new do |pl|
pl.step method(:double_number)
pl.step method(:add_one)
pl.step method(:square_number)
end

Just methods, with no need to implement call() because that is what a method/proc/lambda in ruby implements. In other languages like C# you could have an API that can take a Func<Result, Result> so that you can just pass delgates/lambdas/methods to it. And adding a bit more DSL could make the construction of the pipeline even less verbose.

You can use this without going full-Java and creating a dozen (or a hundred) 5-line classes in different files.
Just my opinion -- I'm a daily MacBook Pro user; I really struggle to find one thing that Apple is doing better than Microsoft from a UX perspective. Less options for customization; tiny buttons all over the place (very abundant in the system dialogs); the notch causing some apps to disappear from top bar on the right; the spatial distance between the window and the top bar as opposed to Microsoft where the app bar is attached to the window; the poor window snapping options for organizing desktops; the childish default animations; lots of issues with Finder versus Explorer; the seemingly random organization, sizing, and placement of windows in Mission Control; the weird behavior when you CLOSE all of your windows like Chrome and then CTRL+N creates a new Chrome window -- no, you need to quit the app, too.

I don't think there's anything macOS is doing better than Windows in so far as UX goes. Put it another way: I use macOS every day and I never think "Wow, I wish Windows had this feature, too" but every day I wish I had some UX element from Windows -- just basic window management feels so clunky on macOS unless you fullscreen everything.

Hardware is great, though.
It shouldn't but I've seen and had some dell docks corrupt arp tables on my switches
Yea it’s not perfect but it’s at least one step. Sadly, older people maybe just grew up in a more trusting US society, and are therefore more trusting themselves. If someone calls them up and says “hi, I’m Jim, from the County courthouse, and I wanted to discuss a matter with you,” heck they might by default believe him! It sounds ludicrous to you or I but their minds are from a different era. “Telephone calls are an expensive, special thing” their 1950s mind thinks, “surely he wouldn’t call unless it was a real thing and important!”

I don’t even answer the phone to begin with. Everything goes to voicemail. If it’s important, they will leave a message, and I can determine later whether they are to be believed.
Why is it stealing? Is it stealing for you to learn something from a public blog post without paying for the book?
Ironically, the pixel is the device you want.
People know how to use the App Store. If they want Spotify they know how to find it. It is by no means unfair, immoral, or unethical for a company to prefer and promote their own products.

On a personal note, I never in my life want to see advertisements for third-party software by default.
I'd be more sympathetic to the government's arguments if Android phones didn't exist. But they do, and people can use them if they don't like Apple's walled garden.

As things are, this lawsuit seems like the government striking an aggressive posture torwards tech companies for no good reason. It's almost like -- as the tech companies get bigger and more powerful -- the government wants to remind them who's really in charge.
YouTube Premium is on paper just no ads, offline viewing, and their music catalog (so a steal if you’re already paying for e.g. Spotify and find the Google Music catalog adequate).

Anecdotally it seems to be a different ranker with much more “interest” as opposed to “engagement” joint loss, but I could just be in a lucky bandit group.
I used to own an "eight-inch coupler" (sounds rude). It was a short piece of cable, joining two 25-pin female RS232 connectors.

Back when I acquired it, there were lots of computers, terminals and modems that used 25-pin RS232. You could use this thing to replace two modems and a telephone link. It was a handy thing to have in your bag on a field visit.
Why does it use async? I thought that was for scrapers and the like, not producing a primary web page or app.

.js callbacks later to fill stuff in, sure.
> Can't do same with ASICs.

shrug I can't really say anything except that's not the only way to accomplish that sort of thing. And if it's a common enough use case that you need to build it into millions of pieces of ammunition, it doesn't explain why economies of scale never kicked in or a more purposeful custom part was never designed.

Limitless military budgets, by contrast, explain quite well why this /hasnt/ happened.

The cost of making a chip is proportional to the size of the chip and the process node, and that's the end of the story. FPGA and CPU quite literally cost the same to manufacture; it doesn't explain why the one categorically is priced 10 times higher than the other by die area, even in the long tail of the supply chain.
Avoid litigation and possibly of getting some injunction. And on other hand money can go to fund Reddit litigating others. As now they have proven someone paid so they could stop others using data. Slowing them down in process. And the sum is peanuts for Google, they waste that amount regularly...
Does U.S. make it simple to get into a mobile business so that I could compete with Apple? Can I easily manufacture a phone and get an approval from FCC? If not, then Apple should sue the hell out of DOJ in response.
I like the app store, I like the restrictions, I don't want apple to change anything about it. I sort of think apple shouldn't try to comply with these sorts of potential lawsuits by making their app store worse, they should just let people jail break the phone and offer zero support for it.

If people want to buy an iphone and shit it up, let them do it.
It's gonna hurt me to say this because I'm one of those rabid lefty bust-up-the-corporations types, but the universe is a nuanced place so here it is;

Whether Apple's practices are motivated by blocking competition or not (and I'm pretty sure that's part of their thinking if not the principal driver), there are other effects of a lot of these practices that I would hate to lose as a consumer.

Not having to work to maintain compatibility with a bunch of stuff that might or might not work, and being able to focus on ecosystem interoperability, all adds up to my tablet being a seamless second monitor, being able to shuttle data between my devices, and being able to manage messaging and all sorts of other stuff on whatever device I happen to be looking at at the time, whether it's my tablet, phone, watch, or laptop.

No one else does this even remotely well, and so much of what I do these days would fall under the effort watermark and never happen if it wasn't for this insane level of convenience and "it just works".
Check out "Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind", by Marquis de Condorcet, 1794. The last chapter, The Tenth epoch/The future progress of the human mind. There he lays out unlimited advance of knowledge, unlimited lifespan for humans, improvement of physical faculties, and then finally improvement of the intellectual and moral faculties.

And this was not some obscure author, but leading figure in the French Enlightenment. Thomas Malthus wrote his essay on population as counterargument.
> I think this sort of thing never came to fruition because (aside from it being very hard to make) it would be way too bulky what with having to come in the form of a single app package.

Note that the Android equivalent (custom launchers) doesn't need to, and iOS's implementation (Springboard.app), while more integrated than that, is still more modular than you describe. It's only App Store restrictions that prevent you from having an app that opens other apps. (If all apps cooperate, you can use the custom URL handler mechanism to work around the App Store restrictions.)
And with 100M users instead of billions, it also simply doesn't matter what Nintendo thinks.
Is there an equivalent of Reddit run by a non-profit?
I think you're underestimating the impact that the webhosting industry had on the popularity of Apache httpd, all of these related ecosystem projects like PHP, MySQL, etc., and even Linux itself. How many small businesses launched because cheap and good webhosting was plentiful? How many developers cut their teeth making web apps that worked on the average cPanel/WHM webhosting provider? The answer to both of these is "A lot. A whole lot."

The butterfly effect would be massive.
The AP was disappointed, considering there had been productive discussions with both news organizations, spokeswoman Lauren Easton said. The news cooperative remains hopeful that both chains would continue to support AP beyond their current contracts, she said.

https://apnews.com/article/gannett-associated-press-contract...
Ok, but about the percentage fee?

If Apple removed the transaction cost entirely, then there wouldn't be much complaint.

That absolutely raises prices and effects consumers.

If Apple takes a 0% fee, or allows other competitors some way of charging 0%, that would obviously benefit consumers.
It’s a poor subset of the functionality available to the Apple Watch. One obvious example is that you can reply to a message on an Apple Watch, not so over the API Windows uses.
Do you actually use the dongle? It doesn't work with inline mics, making it useless even if you were to carry it around everywhere. It also doesn't work with previous iPhones, so you can't share say a car aux between an old and a new iPhone.
> This goes back to the whole “shareholder value” thing.

Shareholder value is not the only thing there is. Corporate social responsibility is also a thing. They are sometimes seen to conflict, but they don't have to.

https://archive.is/cGWM5#selection-2103.4-2103.376
(https://hbr.org/2002/03/the-virtue-matrix-calculating-the-re...)
> So it does not explain why western Europeans not invent the bicycle in that period

They were too busy fighting wars, like the 100 years war. Also the Inquisition might not have seen bicycles with good eyes. The bicycle couldn't have happened without the Reinassance and the Industrial Revolution.
One option would be for people to stop downloading viruses and then running them.
Well, maybe I didn’t give the DoJ enough credit: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/technology/apple-doj-laws...

I’ll be convinced when they do NVIDIA and wage fixing, but they’re at least making some noise.