skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't believe it is. I think we'd be upset if Tesla cars could only charge at Telsa charger (that charged 30% over the prices of electric supply). Using their position in phone sales to gain a monopolist position over apps and IAP feels wrong.
I cannot say that it will, though in theory the businesses that want to compete would want to pass the savings to the consumers while staying profitable. But I can say with certainty that increasing the commission will increase the prices. Companies do not pay this fee/commission out of their own pockets.
It is a feature, interfaces between pieces of software is some of the most expensive and challenging parts of writing it. When every piece of software is written specifically with that interfacing in mind it will just run better. Now Apple hardware is starting to do the same thing?

I am pretty bullish on Apple right now and could easily see a future where Windows isn't even used for gaming anymore. When Macbook Airs start to be capable of running high end games what is the point of getting a huge Desktop running Windows jammed with bloatware from 100 different companies?
LLMs are.. not bad at finding some semantic relationships between some arbitrary data. Sure, if you dump an unknown language into LLM then you can only receive a semantically correct sentences of unknown meaning, but as you start to decode the language itself it would be way easier to find the relationships there, if not just outright replacing the terms with a translated ones.
Not exactly what you are looking for, but if you haven't seen it, firefox has some really interesting blog posts about how their css engine works, e.g. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/08/inside-a-super-fast-css-en... that i personally found really enlightening
No MSYS install, sadly. :(
Would it be OK for your bank to exclusively support Android? Would it be OK for government apps to only support Android.

Of course not.
traditionally, lack of accessibility has unfortunately not held back people's use of tech, see Flash and most SPAs
Huh? Don’t WhatsApp, Signal, etc. work in the USA? Or does anybody pay for them?
devaslife on YouTube does, in the Japan outdoors, fairly often[1].

1. https://www.youtube.com/@devaslife/videos
The Pixel 8 pro has superior battery life and camera to the iPhone 15. And that’s to say nothing of OnePlus or Samsung.
It reminds me of this paper from MIRI a few years ago discussing models which treat themselves as an explicit part of the environment. I think it's a very productive approach - https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.09469
In a capitalist system, you don’t have to build anything to have all the wealth.

Statistically I believe op is correct, wealth is more concentrated in older demographics, and it has been increasing in concentration for quite a while now.
It's impossible for me to see this as anything but an amazing development.

But the sentient-pig SF horror genre pretty much writes itself.
Perhaps the more sensical version is "Apple controls 100% of the iOS app store market". Because no other app stores are allowed.
1. That’s moving goalposts.

2. It is fairly trivial to move, there are dedicated apps for that for iOS->Android and macOS is still kind of BSD so it’s very compatible.
Its the default iPhone messenger and it works really well when messaging your friends and family, who all also have iphones because it works really well when messaging your friends and family.

HN chronically forgets that the average american cell phone user might know what iMessage actually is. Nevermind even having the faintest idea what a WhatsApp is. Or ever even heard of signal.
You know what the problem is. Nobody cares about technicalities, what matters is practicalities. You can't buy an iPhone from anyone but Apple. It's as simple as that. No, Android phones are not iPhone alternatives and you know damn well they are not.
What is the crux of argument on how they prevent people from using Samsung?

EDIT:
The title of the post is "Monopoly". I think it is ok to ask what the argument for this is, when iPhone is NOT the majority of the market.

Company

4Q23 Market Share

1. Apple

24.7%

2. Samsung

16.3%

3. Xiaomi

4. Transsion
Show HN: Dealwise, an investment bank that scales with AI instead of analysts
Hi hacker news,

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- most founders choose to DIY their acquisition process, but it’s a LOT of work. We see many founders get stuck in a viscous cycle of try to sell → get distracted → growth declines → can’t find buyer → selling gets even harder → they ultimately shut down. The median founder sells 0 companies in their lifetime, so it makes no sense to spend months becoming a M&A expert when you have a business to run.

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The fact that our background is in engineering and not investment banking helped a lot. The finance mindset is to throw bodies (usually analysts) at a problem, whereas the engineering mindset is to invent better ways of solving a problem.

That’s why as we scale, we’ll be applying our experience from building LLM tooling for Psychic to automate the majority of back office tasks so we can focus our time on supporting founders overlooked by the traditional investment banking industry.
I think less centralization is actually a good thing but yes it does mean that reddit can hang on a little longer because it's less obvious to people what they can replace it with.
> yes safari is preinstalled but on an iphone you aren't allowed to install another browser

A browser is a product, and you can install many other browsers.

A HTML rendering engine is a software library, and you can not install another HTML rendering engine.

The justice department definitely cares about products. It's not clear to what degree it cares about software libraries.
It was weeks of friendship, nothing to do with investment or greed. Only after the friendship is established do they offer guidance on wealth making.
Baby boomers and Silent Generation people hold over 60% of the wealth in the United States. Gen X-ers have about 30%.

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/more-than-half-of-us-wealth-...
this wouldn't be accessible would it? For example to screen readers, so just wondering what the use case is over accessible tech
Thales – the 'first philosopher'? A troubled chapter in the histo (2022)
> otherwise it seems very suspicious to have a disk filled with random data ;-)

You could always argue that the drive was previously "securely erased" and filled w/ random data and/or that it was "securely encrypted" with a key that was then destroyed?
Syntactically, yes it is

That's a very tenuous reason to try to start a dumb tangential flamewar.
I liked it better before the modern Reddit censorship machine.

At least old.reddit.com still works. For now.
If high fees (with high margins) are there to ensure the integrity of the store, then Apple could invest more of that margin into ensuring the integrity of the store.
oh yeah, the api changes were because everyone moved to 3rd party apps, because the official one is garbage, and he had just killed the site with the use-the-app popups... so they changed the api to kill the 3rd party apps lol.
No package for Debian-like systems yet.
Isn't this what this lawsuit will decide?
But even in real life this doesn't hold.

> I can't just walk into Walmart and set up a stand and make money, if I want to sell in Walmart I have to work with them and give them a similar sized cut.

Apple's App Store might be Walmart, but the phone I bought is not Walmart.

Regular people understand the idea of "I bought a thing, and now the greedy company won't let me do what I want with it unless I buy their overpriced add-on", see printers.

Apple is no more entitled to a cut of everything I put on my iPhone anymore than Walmart is entitled to a cut of everything I put on my table simply because they made the table.
> The action of placing them, say with your hands for simplicity, into different horizontal positions means differently pushing the Earth with your legs.

This might change the momentum, but not the energy if the heights are the same. But if your point is that there will always be some difference in a conserved quantity, yes, that's a fair point.

But it also means that there will always be some difference in the spacetime geometry. None of the other factors you talk about would eliminate the "superposition gap", because none of them cancel out any changes in the spacetime geometry; they just add more changes to it.

> average-able out on larger scales

But if you don't have a theory that can represent the variations you're going to average out, you can't do the averaging. That's the problem: classical GR cannot represent "variation in spacetime geometry" at all. It can only represent one spacetime geometry. It can't represent a superposition of them, not even to do an average.
Yes, please change it to 3MM, which also abbreviates to "3 million". My first impression was strongly that 3M had some lock system that was now compromised, not that it was referring to 3 million locks in the wild.

Also perhaps consider expanding the headline character limit above 80, or maybe not count numbers in the total.
Sure, just set up the seminar to convince people to stop using what already works great so that they can include just you in their group messaging.
>>universal messaging is not possible without paying the Apple gatekeeper

There is in fact universal messaging - it's called SMS. You don't need to pay Apple to use it. If you would have added secure to your example then yes that would be correct.
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Anyone who gets a transplant needs to take immunosuppressants for the rest of their life (except some older patients with liver transplants many years post transplant).

In general for many patients, immunosuppressants have relatively little impact on daily life.

Source: liver transplant recipient.
Apple top management should have seen this coming ~years~ ago. Both Apple and Google could have prevented this by being smarter and less greedy in the first place, understanding the central role of developers and third party companies in their ecosystems.

Not sure about this lawsuit, I don't really care at this point, the whole process in unrolling and won't stop until this is over, and this won't end up in a nice place for Apple.
Considering in the Google antitrust case it came out that the companies were working hand in glove for years, what were have is a duopoly where the participants collude. This is also the case in broadband where ISPs carved up neighborhoods between themselves to reduce competition.

So sure, duopoly of real competitors is one thing, but that’s rarely the case once players realize they can set prices and divide the spoils.
The real justification for browser engine restrictions is not battery life but security.

If you look at any iOS vulnerability reporting, Safari is a big weakness and often the source of zero day attacks. Browsers are hugely complex pieces of software with a lot of attack surface. A large part of Apple’s value proposition is being secure. It sounds like the new approach (in the EU only) that allows additional browser engines requires specific security measures to be taken.

Rightly or wrongly device security is going to be a strong defense Apple has against some of these allegations.
I’m a heavy and loyal Apple user AND an app developer.

I couldn’t care less about alternative App Stores. I don’t want them, I don’t need them.

I am very happy the way it is.
> In almost every scam there is an element of "grey legal area", where the victim thinks that they are doing something slightly illegal or completely illegal

That isn't true of pig-butchering scams, or in general.

> That is why we have the old saying: "You can't fool an honest man"

The saying is "You can't cheat an honest man". And it's also bullshit. Don't trust old sayings; you can quote me on that.
Zig Defer Patterns
Not all users are created equal. Reddit's lost a ton of valuable contributors, via enshitification, and I only expect that to get worse.
If only companies valued experience over the latest tech blip or useless coding exercises that have little to do with the skilled ditch digging that is most professional coding.
A couple of weeks ago I was curious how many binaries on my system did not link glibc. On my pretty standard Unbuntu it were exactly ten and they were 100% Go binaries.
I exported my 27,000 photos to my Synology as a backup. There's not an inherent limit that makes what you're asking impossible.
But why require clamshell mode? Why not allow you to use the keyboard with the internal display turned off?
https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2020/10/02/wealth-inequ...

Data comes from https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scfindex.htm
Are your various friends/family all tech-y people?

My "normal" friends and family are majority iPhone users. I'm Android.

I "literally ruin" their group texts. I've seen people actually reject relationships because they don't date people with "green bubbles".

Don't even get me started about work group texts.

I know restaurants where some of the servers have group iMessage chats with customers for early notification about nightly specials, Android users literally can't be added.

Likely not maliciously, but this has created almost a "second/lower class" of phone users that encompasses ~50% of the country.
> At least until the iTunes Gift Cards take the stage. LOL.

Yes, I'm amused by those too. In my experience, the IRS has always wanted US dollars. But maybe Apple gift cards became legal tender without us noticing?

LOL indeed.
If you were a scammer, and your cold call console had three buttons: “20-40 year old”, “40-60 year old” and “60-80 year old”, which one would you push to optimize your chance of finding someone with the right combination of wealthy, trusting, and lonely? Even ignoring things like cognitive decline and loneliness, I’d hit the older button every time, despite the fact that yes some wealthy 20-60 year olds do exist.
Depends what definition of "morality" you're using. Most are subjective and the remainder tend to be either descriptive, local (making use of the speaker, and their properties such as their culture, in their definition/meaning) or religious.
Apple Responds to Being Sued by U.S. Department of Justice
Long before bicycles, people observed that rolling wheels (e.g. coins) are stable above a certain speed, falling over when they slow down.

(This is actually true of bicycles, for a similar reason: like a single wheel, they steer in the direction of a fall, and that counteracts the fall, because if you steer left, you fall right and vice versa.)

The possibility that a two-wheeled vehicle could be stable when moving should have manifested itself to some of the brightest minds in European science as far back as at least the Renaissance.
Cognitive decline plays a big role in the susceptibility of elderly folks.

An uncle of mine was a notoriously a ruthless businessman in his heyday and he fell prey to a gift-card scam where he was kept on the phone for 8 hours straight while he did their bidding. We were all shocked he fell for this but then realized the techniques that they use prey upon individuals with inability to deal with stress or trigger anxiety/panic causing them to act irrationally.

As I age, I've noticed similar declines in ability to deal with multiple tasks, stress, etc.

A better defence is to reduce the attack surface. While, I have legal financial control over mom's estate, suffering from moderate dementia, I've removed her ability to interact with her finances by removing her check book (she had loaned a large sum to an acquaintance without informing us), lowering her credit card limits, removed access to online banking, maintaining a low-balance checking account. All her expenses are on autopay. She doesn't even think about her finances anymore. Whenever she gets telemarketers, she always says "you have to talk to my son". Once in a blue moon she asks me "do I have money? I don't even know" -- and I reassure her she doesn't have to worry about money.

I've done the same -- 2factor, using disposable credit card numbers, maintaining a separate PayPal-linked bank account separate from my main account etc, text notifications on all transactions etc.

The sophistication and technology being used is also becoming problematic in detecting these scenarios even for highly aware/technical folk.
They need to add - not on Windows to this list. Still dying to use Arc.
It's better for housing to be cheap than expensive.

It's better for landowners to have freedom than restrictions.
Reddit (the idea) is alive and spreading (federated) in Lemmy :)
> Apple will argue that security and/or performance reasons drove their decisions related to browser choice

That's true, but odds are they have a lot of e-mails and a lot of employees who can testify to the browser choice decision being driven by lock-in. The iMessage emails were pretty unambiguous with regards to how it is used in an anti-consumer way. (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/9/22375128/apple-imessage-an...) Similar stuff will exist for everything they do, because they cannot distort the reality that in 2024 their software kind of sucks, and that their customers only use it because they don't have alternatives and Apple prevents those alternatives from being viable.
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If I'm Apple, I just open the gates. I would be very surprised if they lose much "business" as a result, at least not for a very long time.

I'd suspect most users aren't going to venture outside the garden.
federated is a meaningless word.
So in a free market you'd expect them to outcompete the iPhone, no? How do you explain the iPhone being dominant despite being inferior?

Edit: in case of confusion, I'm asking this rhetorically in reply to someone who argues there is no monopoly...
There's also a news article every few months talking about how the FBI or some other government agency wants to make encryption illegal and how iMessage is a boon to pedophiles all over the world and protects criminals. So, not sure how you can confidently say "On the contrary!"
Ignoring for a moment that kernels generally disable destructors, and that "failed to clean up" is likely to leave your program in an unrecoverable state even without multiple exceptions being involved (think about what an exception means ... "failed to write to stderr" should not be an exception, and you should be doing little enough allocation during destruction that your dtor can manage even if out of memory) ...

Destructors throwing isn't broken, it just requires explicit care from the programmer to figure out which option to use in case of conflicting exceptions:

* If the existing unwind is a non-exception-unwind, there is no conflict. Exceptions thrown from a destructor just work™ and change it to an exception-unwind. Since C++11 you have to explicitly mark the dtor as `noexcept(false)` to indicate that you think you know what you are doing.

* If you're already winding due to an exception and want to preserve it, you can check for it at the start of the dtor, and wrap the dtor body in a try-catch which conditionally rethrows if there wasn't already one.

* If you're already unwinding due to an exception and want to ignore it in favor of the new exception ... doing this in C++ is pretty ugly but it's certainly possible. In order to use bare `throw` for the no-additional-exception case, you have to replace all stack variables with `option`-like wrappers so you can manually dispose them during `catch`. Other solutions exist if you don't care about correctly using bare `throw`.

* Or, you can do the safe thing and say "simultaneously unhandled exceptions means the programmer likely never considered how to handle this; give up"

Note that most languages that use `try-finally` have even bigger problems to deal with, since they have to worry about `return` as well as `throw`. Bugs and inconsistencies are frequent here.
This is basically the only actual reason for the suit.
NVIDIA and CUDA are not comparable. NVIDIA isn't preventing you from running OpenCL or Vulkan.
when old.reddit.com dies, i'll be done :peace:
Perspectives are getting darker and darker as they become more and more correct.
Of course it's non-sensical, right up until that thing grows to be a large part of the US economy.

I have no idea what the numbers are, but if 80% of all commerce on mobile is going through Apple's devices then yes, it's likely that the Government will want to ensure there is "fairness" in that eco-system.
It's worth noting that this "influential math educator" has zero actual degrees in mathematics. Her Bachelors degree is in Psychology, and her PhD in Mathematics Education.
> If the definitions set forth by the DOJ are accepted by courts, this is a slam dunk on Apple.

This is a very low bar. It is of course the case that if you assume one party's definitions are accepted then they will win. The battlefield will be the definitions (just like in patent law the battlefield is the claim construction).
My biggest fear is if they kill old.reddit.com . I can't use anything of the newer interface without pulling my hairs.
It's remarkable that a San Francisco tech company with 2,000+ employees can't seem to produce an app that's half as good as Apollo, an app developed by one guy in Canada.
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