skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As sibling points out and I have argued strongly for in past discussions here, at issue is Apple's control of texting: That is, the ability for a phone to message any other phone with a text message without requiring the other participant to use a custom app. Only iMessage can do this on the iPhone.

In the consumer's eye, all phones can text, so it is a universal way to reach someone who has a phone number. It removes the complexity of having to coordinate ahead of time with a contact about what messaging service they both have. It's why texting is so popular in the US (along with historical actions by US carriers to make texting extremely cheap and ultimately free)

Once they had this control, they then used it to make texting better only when the conversation participants each had iPhones, which produced a network effect where friends would be incentivized to pressure their contacts to also use iPhones. Apple leveraged convenience, features and security to make this happen.

I don't anticipate Apple's upcoming RCS support to materially change this. If we're lucky, we'll get higher quality pictures out of it, but it's possible to support RCS while not supporting a lot of the features that make RCS better than SMS, such as read receipts, replies, typing indicators, and yes, encryption. Encryption is not a standard part of RCS yet, but it could be made so by Apple forcing Google to standardize their encryption and then implementing it. But it's not in Apple's interest given the above to bother. More likely they will do as their initial complaint/announcement about RCS hinted at: Not even engage on encryption because it's "not part of the spec", leaving iPhone/Android messaging unencrypted.

Google is not blameless here, it's insane that they haven't worked themselves to standardize encryption.
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Very true. I suppose I should have clarified that source available in the context of a lot of these formerly open source projects, and not as a blanket term.
> This is an artificial distinction. A browser normally comes with its own rendering engine.

You're right that a browser normally comes with its own rendering engine, but I don't think it's an artificial distinction. There are plenty of components that most programs call out to the OS for—form elements, drop downs, save/load windows, file system access, and whatnot. The rendering engine is a much larger component, but I don't think it's cut-and-dried that it is categorically different.

> My guess is it's a sneaky broken part of webkit which Apple knows how to fix in Safari and deliberately leaves broken for the other browser makers to suffer the consequences

"Apple sabotages webkit for other Browsers" is a different—and to me at least, much stronger—argument than "Apple requires other browsers to use Webkit".
How do you define a copy? Is the data sent over HDMI to your monitors memory a copy?
1. It's not illegal to have a monopoly, it is illegal to abuse it or gain it though anti-trust means

2. people posting on HN with the username "InsomniacL" is not a 'market' in any sense

> Market: an area or arena in which commercial dealings are conducted.

I don't know the details of Epic's case, they may have lost the battle but seems they might not have lost the war...
From what I'm seeing in other places, there are also some pretty weak claims being made beyond this.

The first is their attempt to redefine what the market is in order to declare Apple a "monopoly": they've posited a completely separate market for "performance smartphones", and tried to use total revenue rather than number of units sold in order to push Apple up to having a very high percentage of this invented market.

The second is their characterization of how Apple got to where they are. Like them or not, you have to be seriously down a conspiracy rabbit hole to believe that the iPhone became as popular as it is primarily through anticompetitive tactics, rather than because it's a very good product that lots and lots of people like. Regardless of whether you, personally, find that value proposition to be compelling.

They also point at some of Apple's offerings and make absolutely absurd claims about how they're anticompetitive—for instance, that they're going to somehow take over the auto market with CarPlay 2.0 and the fact that AppleTV+ exercises control over the content it serves.

There are some things Apple does that are genuinely concerning and deserve more antitrust scrutiny (for instance, their anti-steering provisions for the App Store are pretty egregious), but so far as I can tell, they're not even mentioned in this suit. I'm frankly disappointed in the DoJ for how they've put this together, and would have loved to see something that was narrower and much more robust.
I had one of these working on me for a while, years ago. It took me a while to catch on but then I also am not quick to send money to someone. The scammer reached out from a public forum (language learning app) and then traded WhatsApp numbers. At first I thought it was just an eccentric person, but then I realized their goal was to get me to "invest" with their "rich uncle".

At this point I hadn't heard about this specific scam, as most scams are kind of low effort and quick to screen people for susceptibility. This one surprised me in that they were very good at acting like someone they claimed to be. Google Translate has gotten to the point where people can carry on a conversation in their own language and talk to someone in English without sounding too odd.

Before I blocked the scammer I took a closer look at "her" WhatsApp profile. She was a business account. Big red flag, I wish I had noticed that before. Still, if no money changes hands it's free entertainment? I also learned by paper trading on Forex that I suck at it and shouldn't play that game.

Crypto scammers also sometimes try to play the long game, and I think they are based in different countries from the pig butchers. I met one through the same platform and saw through it right away, but noticed that they were working as a pitchman for another scammer.
That's because the government's definition of anti-competitive is ticky-tacky and is rooted in bullshit.

US anti-competitive policy and enforcement has always been dancing around the double standards of who can do market manipulation, the double standards of white collar crime enforcement, the double standards of "consumer benefit" in a capitalist system, etc.

"Consumer benefit" for example is a cowardly way to say price controls. Consumer benefit is inversely correlated with price. That implies the US government should be doing price controls and setting acceptable profit margins for everyone, but in practice due to the enforcement issues and the way the law is constructed it means that the government regulates prices only in extremely detailed technical cases.

Meaning you can manipulate consumer benefit AKA prices AKA extract profits all you want as long as you don't get into these narrowly defined, often unenforced technical cases.

In fact all of these charges or facsimiles of them existed in different forms 10 years ago, they were there on launch 15 years ago. Apple is being sued now simply because other large powerful interests like Epic games, don't like the revenue split rules on the App store.

Most of these laws are written not as regulations, but ways not to regulate.
A couple weeks ago I rebuilt the https://hiresynth.ai landing page and docs using vitepress and was super impressed with the speed of implementation and how pretty it was by default.

Would recommend for any text heavy static site.
Nope, 100M consoles in an internet of several billion where Apple has literal billions of devices in market are not at all the same thing and bringing that up suggests you don't think very hard before you post or you're trying to derail those who do.
Are there any laptops that work this way? Why would anyone even want the lid open if they're not using the screen? A stand-alone keyboard is a lot more convenient and you can get one you like instead of the partial one most laptops have.
The “files” of many online services (including Google Docs and Sheets themselves, but this can even be true of third-party, non-Google services) stored in Drive do not have the data content you might think, they are basically hyperlinks to content stored in the relevant services, so if the service were to go away they would be useless even if they still technically existed in the Drive.
You could have initially responded with that instead of reasoning that apple is being focused due to being a large player while dismissing other large companies being brought up.
Do they work for more than just charging? The article only mentioned power/charging with them.
You try and make an app that competes with Apple wallet.

You will very quickly find you can never have access to the NFC hardware. And you could not trigger your app when required.
Encrypted bus mmu have existed since the 1990's.

However, the trend to consumer-grade hardware for cost-optimized cloud architecture ate the CPU market.

Thus, the only real choice now is consumer CPUs even in scaled applications.
This is a fantastic news. I got into Zig in the last two weeks and it has be a very pleasant language. The comptime is an ingenious invention. It enables type safe meta-programming and easy generic support, in the same language syntax. The native support for sub-byte types like u2, u3, or u7 make packing data very easy. The native vector support on SIMD makes SIMD level parallel programming like child play. The language is looking very good.
Having recently left a job that let me run Ubuntu and started a job that forces me to use Windows, that is an excellent example of the proprietary/paid option being awful in comparison to the FOSS option. The rest I've not used so can't say with any confidence.
Mystery of Entropy Solved After 50 Years? (Stephen Wolfram) [video]
But it still exists in their rules. That they don’t enforce it as often as they used to is cold comfort: they still can whenever they feel the need to do so. So if you get too successful they can still very easily chop you down.
It's the inter-connection of tools in the workspace. Microsoft is one short purchase of Mural or Miro away from having the complete ecosystem from documents, to meetings and calls, to whiteboarding all wrapped in a single package. They know that its the ecosystem that matters, not the individual tools.

Multi-user editing is now table-stakes. And whilst applications, like Excel, still are behind Sheets in collaborative editing, its still functional.
DuckDB as the New jq
You can upgrade all the way to Angular 17 without having to adopt the new MDC components. Only this May with Angular 18 support for the legacy components will be dropped completely.

That’s the reason we’re currently migrating all our remaining usages of Material components to ng-zorro.
I’m going on 15 years. I also don’t fly budget airlines. When this happened I was flying virgin america, AirTran, and spirit. Only once did a United flight (the majority of my travels) change on me prior to my flight

So maybe your experience is not the norm and one could be self reflective as I am?
AOL was the Google of its day. It was the internet for most people. Even the strongest giants can fall. It gives me hope for a future where someone asks "Wow Google is still a thing?"
I would like to think that Zone cut is vastly different subset of authoritative nameserver.

Go down to "DNS Zone Cut" section:

https://egbert.net/blog/articles/dns-dnssec-private.html
Oxen's Friday Paper Club: I-JEPA and a 3 Minute Challenge
In Friday's Oxen Paper Club - Greg dissects I-JEPA "Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture"
I-JEPA is a NON-generative approach to self-supervised learning from images.
- Yayyy less reliance on labeled data.
- Good performance when combined with vision transformers.

Special feature alert! At call start, I will run a "3 Minute Challenge".

Think you're smart? I will throw down 3 minutes of ML technical questions from last week's interview, including:
- The one I got wrong.
- The one where something that Greg said in an Oxen Paper Club from last November helped me get right!

So eat your Wheaties for breakfast.
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I find it curious that the wifi interface and the USB/ethernet interface are using the same MAC address. Nothing keeps a computer from being attached with both at the same time, in which case this would definitely break things.
What does "active denial" mean in this context?
Oh they really aren't. Its sort of a tired rhetorical ploy pitting them as faith based beliefs on equal intellectual footing though.

Both are theories about the world. 'Creationism' as a theory really only became pure faith very recently as most specific claims attributable to it have been disproven or better explanations have been found. For a long time it was a perfectly cogent theory.
That won't change until there is wide enough demand to change it. Broad recognition will come long before the changes.
No actually any iPhone with a headphone jack continued to have a functioning headphone jack. And competitors marketed their phones with headphone jacks for a year and ended up also abandoning that feature.
not really for browsers, they allow them but they all have to use Safari's engine
Bluetooth remains my biggest gripe with my iphone. When I walk out of range of any connected device, my call switches from my headset to the phone, and I have to manually go in and reconnect to my headset every third or fourth time I want to connect to it.

It stands in stark contrast to literally everything else about the device, which is almost universally easy and thoughtless.
No not really. Its maybe also a good time to get rid of that annoying addiction. Lots of time is wasted by browsing and using reddit. At least for me.
Get the popcorn. This is gonna be good. It’s more or less tying or US v Microsoft no?
Ah, those tech-illiterate boomers.

Steve Wozniak, b. 1950
Guy L. Steele, b. 1954
Guido Van Rossum, b. 1956
Anders Hejlsberg, b. 1960

(Am I an old, bitter, Boomer? Guilty on all counts, but pleading diminished responsibility on two.)
The numbers are all made arbitrary/simple just to check if the general property is true: even if there's no change in the market, if you sample job seekers you will find more people who feel the job search is harder because a hard job search means you are on the market longer and more likely to be surveyed.
Are we arguing over "freedom from" and "freedom to"?

I don't like that so many people preferred to go for a closed solution and I certainly don't like virtual monopolies, but people are there out of their own volition.

30 years ago, there was no real alternative for Windows on the desktop. All productivity tools were closed. Today, people buy iPhones and sign up to Instagram/TikTok because they want to.

What would you propose, to have Stallman pointing a gun to everyone who didn't attend a install fest?
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That sounds like a lovely way to develop, what is your blog? So I can watch for your post.
> I haven't worked with pgzx, but it's possible that memory management is easier. Zig uses memory arenas, and so does Postgres. If one can map directly to the other, it would be a huge win.

Yes. This was indeed a great motivator for using Zig. It was quite easy to integrate Zig with the Postgres memory management. This way we can use the Zig standard library or other Zig libraries without a second thought. Another advantage is that in Postgres memory context cleanup and error handling are somewhat well integrated with each other. This gives us some peace of mind as almost any Postgres function you might want to use in your extension is likely to raise an exception.
> Almost all innovation comes from this type of vertical integration.

Really? That's a bold claim. Having a large number of companies that are able to offer competing products and services tends to lead to innovation.
Another three very neat ones are

- https://github.com/eza-community/eza (ls with some added visual sugar)

- https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom (htop but with graphs)

- https://github.com/sharkdp/bat (cat with syntax highlight)
Android has a 70% global market share. You really only communicate with one person of that 70%?
Things like that can cause routing "loops" in your network which can mess up everything, not just the device in question. We've had that issue with "dumb" switches.
> download random programs onto their computers and run them at random

To be clear that includes what we're all doing by downloading and running Javascript to read HN.

Maybe I can say "don't run adversarial code on my same CPU" and only care about over-the-network CPU side-channels (of which there are still some), because I write Go crypto, but it doesn't sound like something my colleagues writing browser code can do.
Which is great until someone who might or might not really be "Karen from HR" says they lost their Yubikey and needs a new one. This workflow must exist, but it is generally easy for an attacker to get authenticated by that system.
>Not only does this have negative health consequences for us and fish, but it also makes it much more difficult to ever recycle and re-use these plastics

Are there any actual concerns with pure PLA?
Three reasons why AI doesn’t model human language
it's actually because layout-via-code for arbitrary documents is a humblingly complex problem, so leveraging existing layout engines is preferred.

This impressive effort looks far better than what I'd achieve, but when this approach has been tried before, it is eventually discovered that few organizations have the resources to maintain a rendering engine long-term.
Does this mean that Redis will no longer be shipped in Linux distros?
AirPods came out 8 years ago. It’s good to hear it’s better now, though that doesn’t comport with my experience. Are you saying you’d prefer a world where innovation was held from the market for almost a decade while standards caught up and made them available to everyone and every product simultaneously?
Your use of "slaves" is a remarkably offensive way to describe volunteer software developers.
What I don't understand is the compensation. It is multiples and multiples of anything any similar company pays, albeit complicated by the fact that most similar companies are public and while CEO pay might _only_ be limited to a few million annually, there's usually millions in stock grants.

I wonder if that was his play, but, again, it should have been equity. I don't care who you are, the odds of you having an impact versus someone else to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars a year are miniscule. Good for you if you get to join the club, I guess. But if we have learned anything the last few decades (Musk, Welch, Fiorina, Schwartz, Lay, Ebbers) is that the louder they are the more likely they believe their own legend and screw up. We don't like Jobs around here, but he's maybe the last CEO that was probably worth the hundreds of millions/billions. My perspective (due to my job) is probably different than a lot of peoples, I see leadership failures all day every day.
> both of which take a big cut, both of which can be "easily" bypassed for many apps, and both of which customers don't really seem to care about from a monetary point of view.

This isn't true. You cannot bypass the stream 30% fee from the consumer side.

Because of practices that stream does, which are arguably anti-competitive, I cannot buy the same exact game, from the game developer's website, and receive a 30% discount.

If such discounts were possible, and it was clearly advertised that I could just get the game for cheaper from a different location, customers would absolutely take that option almost always.
Lac-Phe mediates the effects of metformin on food intake and body weight
I postulate people would gladly pay a cup of coffee's worth for a first party app and/or subscription. Certainly easier than shelling out a few hundred bucks for an iDevice.
I'm curious whether the increasing popularity of SUVs is skewing the average cost upward. There appear to be numerous sedans available in the market priced between the mid-$20,000s and low $30,000s, so the average figure of $48,000 seems somewhat inflated.
I came across it somewhere I Apple developer docs, I think, when I was building my app. Or maybe it was RevenueCat docs or some tutorial... I'm on my phone now but will try to find it later
It's just incomparable.

Sms - android choose 100 apps that can deal with SMS, iOS - one app, no one else can touch SMS

Phone - same

Wallet - any app can be a payment wallet, my own bank, privat24 has this functionality - iOS, only Apple can use NFC

Photos - only iCloud can sync them

The list goes on
This is what actual power looks like.
Anyone who opted in could have doubled their money this morning. Is it still a scam with this knowledge?

It was an option offered. Nobody's hand was forced.
Not sure why this is downvoted — its exactly the right question. Google has a hard fight ahead keeping its loss-leading services alive.

At some point they will need to invest properly in their Workplace suite and start competing in the corporate productivity space — or, as I expect, risk being relegated to the small-business/home-user segment.
Aw, man. This is a bummer, considering how deep into "replicating Rainbows End" we are (despite everyone and their mother's insistence that we try for a "Ready Player One" future). I find it funny that it seems to be one of his least-liked novels, because the concepts and characters it plays with have always been more approachable and relatable - and less terrifying - than in much of his other work (insofar as I can tell, being wary of reading them).

I still maintain that Miyazaki needs to adapt RE before he heads out himself: https://imgur.com/a/8PeXHlb
Covered in https://scitechdaily.com/metformins-secret-unleashed-the-ant...

https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-024-00999-9
> I strongly believe Apple is under no obligation to make iMessage cross-platform. It's their service they invented, and they get to run it how they chose.

So if it were up to you all telecom operators would be on separate networks, because you can always use smoke signals to get your message across?

(I'm with you for niche applications where the number of users is small. But we're talking mainstream communication here.)
Haha thanks to whomever shared this! I'm Shrey and I'm actually the guy who developed this site. I travel a ton (and run a travel company too!) and I kept having friends ask me how to avoid Boeing planes, so I figured i'd make this to help out. Hope y'all find it useful :)
Sorry that happened to you. I have worked with a lot of elderly people in the past and it is always a shame when that happens to them. You are right that you can't really "fix" them. Even if you lock down iMessage and prevent sideloading, scammers will still send them to phishing pages in their browsers, or get them to read out a gift card over the phone. These methods are actually way, way more common than getting them to install a malicious sideloaded app. Ultimately I think Apple's anticompetitive tactics had no bearing on your grandmother being scammed.
Now that, although ugly and wrong, makes sense.
I suspect that a large motivator of this is knowing how economically and ecologically overextended we are as a country.

Knowing that even though the machine is running off a cliff, if we stop it will all fall apart must be madness inducing in and of itself, so they're hitting the gas in hopes we'll Dukes of Hazzard our way to a safe landing on the other side.
You used the phrase “Windows deceives” to mean “general purpose PCs”, and I think it’s worth noting this because Windows Phone was a Windows device. I acknowledge that this is not cognitive dissonance if you also believe PlayStation is a monopoly.