skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is that I can continue with the timeline, and it will trend towards more freedom, not less:

- Google's original Android was more open than any of the alternatives. And even if Google went on the direction of closing Android and putting functionality around its Play Services, there are a good number of alternatives that build on Android and make it completely free. The number of devices that can run LineageOS/Murena/Linux is going up, not down.

- All social media was closed, and now we are seeing an explosion of open source projects. The number of people using it is going up, not down.

- Self-hosting software is easier than ever.

I fail to see any time interval where the availability of free software has been reduced. All it takes is a motivated individual.
And yet Craig Newmark is a billionaire and the owners of Reddit aren't. $900 million in revenue means nothing if you jettison it into the stratosphere.
Out of curiosity, what was this fringe opinion? I think this is the elephant in the room when it comes to Reddit: it’s been captured by a certain kind of radical ideologue.
Oh wow, that is really cool.
only if you're sure that .count is never null:

$ echo '[{"a": {"count": null}}]' | jq -c 'sort_by(-.count)'
jq: error (at <stdin>:1): null (null) cannot be negated
$ echo '[{"a": {"count": null}}]' | jq -c 'sort_by(.count) | reverse'
[{"a":{"count":null}}]
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I do not believe there is a 2024 thread, but these go back to 2020 and they are all great
if you're not joking you can see countless examples on social media sites. it's not just friends it's family, coworkers.

my friend group has a separate group chat for just android users and they get party invites after the main group does.
That's true. Apple is the leader in the vertical integration, and the resulting lock-in, in consumer smart tech.
I tried it a year ago through Nextcloud AIO and it barely worked... Has it had major improvements since? Or is it because I was using the AIO version of Nextcloud?
Well, that would be beyond me. Thanks for the info!
I think "widespread" in this case means "marketed better". There were open source implementations before ngrok, whose founder even worked with someone who'd written one of those. (ngrok back then was certainly better than a lot of those other options, though.)

Webhooks created the need for local tunneling software. Before ngrok, webhooks themselves were just starting to become more common. The need for local tunneling is much much greater than it was 15 years ago.

(Also consider that ngrok today is far more then a local tunnel proxy. They noticed the abundance of open source options years ago and have moved on from the basic concept.)
It's unfortunate that Unreal Engine is so bad at UI/UX these days. I was playing UT99 with some friends the other day and was struck by just how powerful, intuitive, and flexible it's UI/UX was, both in-game and through all the configuration/server browser/etc. menus. It's one of the first times I've really like like an old man yelling about how the modern equivalent of things is so awful.
I think you’re responding to a more basic question than I posed. I think I made it clear I understand the government can compel actions…

> that the government believes will make it so the company can't abuse its market position to harm consumers anymore

… and that I don’t believe “Apple must support Android messages” is that.

Since you mention Microsoft, I think it would be equally indefensible if the government had ordered “Microsoft must create a Windows Subsystem for Linux” as a remedy for their market abuse. Or a much closer analogy, “Microsoft must create a Windows Subsystem for Macintosh”.

I would find it much more compelling if the order were something like “Microsoft must maintain stable interfaces for Linux and/or Macintosh vendors to produce a functioning Windows Subsystem”. But it seems pretty absurd to me that the government could just mandate arbitrary labor on arbitrary products on behalf of their competitors.
> Apple’s marketing team has built a powerful association between the iPhone and privacy. The company’s ad campaigns claim that “what happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone.” And, “Privacy. That’s iPhone.”

The same thing goes for Proton as their entire business and marketing is based on selling privacy and fearmongering. Even this blog post is about selling services and they always write about it when Apple is getting hit by something and talked about. ;-)
"The laptop probably has a HiddenVM. Drug and hit the person with this 5$ wrench until we get access."

https://xkcd.com/538/
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I have a rack mount server, 3 "gaming" desktops, a mini dell, a ton of raspberry pis, and a few miscellaneous devices running. My bill is $10 more than my brother who's a nurse and has 2 computers, a Switch, and a TV.

I know in theory the electric bill could/should be way higher, but I just haven't found this to be the case.
DuckDB parses JSON using yyjson internally .

https://github.com/ibireme/yyjson
It’s quite common for redditors to consider anything short of far-left as being far-right.
7 months in industrial compost, not 7 months in use! Hopefully under 'normal conditions' it does already last 5 or 10 years...
Yeah, as someone who's been attempting to use VSCode to do Python and Rust dev over the past three years, I'm continually surprised by people who say VSCode and the Rust analyzer plugin is a Good/Great IDE env.

It so often seems non-functional to me: auto-completion just doesn't work consistently, even on really simple things - you firstly normally have to save your file first, and even then often if I restart VSCode it will then work again on something it didn't a minute ago, and other times I can never get it to complete things. And this is happening on two different Linux machines and a MBPro M2 in multiple projects, so I don't think it's just a one-off bad configuration I've somehow got.

Its auto-indenting when writing code is insane as well, it seems everyone must be running rustfmt all the time, even on code as they're writing it? It never seems to get the indents right on new lines for me, I'm either having to add them or remove them.

At the end of the day it's what you get used to I think, but Visual Studio 15-20 years ago was pretty good (other than the bloody pause for "Updating intellisense"), I've yet to find anything as good for Python as PyCharm, and QtCreator (CLion was pretty good as well) is still the best Linux/MacOS-based C/C++ dev env I've found (but recent versions of it are getting worse IMO what with all the complicated "Kit" build config stuff).
But the reason is there only one other competitor isn't at all because of Apple or the competitor and doesn't have anything to do with their practices. The reason for it is because it's incredibly difficult and complex to put together a device like that and only certain types of companies have the resources and funds to create a product like that.
Antenna-driven methods for increased wireless network security for anti-jam GPS
That's the problem, you have to learn all that crap. Excuse me, you have to hold it properly.
What are some example "general audience" features added these last 5 years?
> right now iphones are advertised as being worth more than their competitors specifically because of those restrictions

Huh, I must've missed all the iPhone ads touting the device's inability to play Fortnight as a premium feature.
To be honest - I am not really interested in Bluetooth in my car - I just wanted a solution that would play my MP3's with random order and nothing more.

The BLOW FM transmitter I use - besides having Bluetooth - also have a builtin microphone - so I may connect phone to it and even use it for loud phone talks ... but I really prefer current MP3's on USB and just play 'setup'.

... and I do not see any difference between CD quality or this FM transmitter quality ... but I am not an audiophile either - so maybe there will be some people that hear the difference. Having 40 years at my neck I will hear less and less frequencies so I believe that will not be a problem :)

Regards,

vermaden
i like the irony of the name
Is this catalog project open source by chance?
100% agree, but I'm curious if they were doing the bare minimum required to comply with the law or proactively handing out data they didn't have to yet.

In the past I worked closely with Erik Neuenschwander, who spearheads user privacy at Apple, and I'd be very surprised to hear they didn't fight these requests.
My dentist has been on me for years that flossing is important for your health for more than just teeth. He explained to me recently the role it plays in toughening up your gums (essentially callusing your gums from the repeated abrasion of the dental floss) so that bacteria cannot thrive in there, which they otherwise easily do. And that this bacteria can cause you all kinds of health issues, including cancer.

If you search around you'll find a lot of articles from the dental community that talk about similar benefits from flossing.

After years of being lazy and ignoring their advice, this finally got me into regularly flossing!
This isn't solely about data collection, that is a distraction. A very effective distraction given that privacy issues are like catnip to HN.
But it is apples fault that they let the alternatives stagnate and refuse (until recently) things like RCS that would make SMS suck less.

It is clear that Apple considers iMessage a significant network effect and is not interested in having feature parity between iOS and non-iOS
Wait, no. You can't run it for anything commercial unless you pay up. That's their whole spiel.
This is so interesting. How do you manage to catalog all the subreddits in existence? Is there a page which lists them all? I assume the process from there is retrieving by most recent
No, just no.

Valuable user feedback (which I absolutely love) is someone pulling the server logs, filing a bug on GitHub and following through till it gets fixed. Or, even attempting to see what parts are slow and reporting it. Worse but still very helpful, providing a link to an affected instance that might help "see" what might be happening.

Spending a few hours trying random things and then complaining loudly like a know-it-all is NOT valuable feedback; it's bullshit. Nothing here is helpful, at all. There's absolutely zero indication of what could be fixed and why this particular person's deployment is broken while thousands of others on much slower hardware work just fine. None.
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Tried this a year ago, it was a real mess, barely worked and broke often.

Hopefully it changed a lot in the meantime because I would really like this to be integrated into NextCloud.

I the meantime, I'm really happy using Immich
Well the more important question is are you entitled to that functionality, or can it be taken away on a whim?

But those are more "advanced" questions. We still haven't even established the fact that I should indeed own the thing I purchased (see music or movies or anything). So we have a while to go before we get to questions of transference of services.
You have discovered why our government is so clueless. Instead of funding agencies to prevent gun smuggling primarily through native reservations the government bans law abiding citizens from owning guns.
Similarly with flipper zero, instead of funding law enforcement to inspect outgoing cargo for stolen cars and cracking down on organized crime rings they ban the flipper which does basically nothing to fix the issue of cars being stolen and shipped to the Middle East or Africa.
These are great but I’m always concerned that these adapters violate some spec or might fry my hardware…
I suspect that’s a very Facebooky user base as time goes on. As in users have accounts but don’t login and use them.

I have 2 accounts and I’ve not been to either in over 2 years. With ChatGPT I have even less reason to ever use those accounts. Why ask something on Reddit when I just ask ChatGPT and get an equally half baked response?
I see the apparent contradiction, but the goal has been made pretty explicit, but from the outside the plan seems to be missing.
I'll second this. Clickhouse is amazing. I was actually using it today to query some CSV files. I had to refresh my memory on the syntax so if anyone is interested:

clickhouse local -q "SELECT foo, sum(bar) FROM file('foobar.csv', CSV) GROUP BY foo FORMAT Pretty"

Way easier than opening in Excel and creating a pivot table which was my previous workflow.

Here's a list of the different input and output formats that it supports.

https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/interfaces/formats
To be very clear: I support the prompters generating AI art under the same terms as fan art - you can do it for non-commercial purposes, but if you want to make money you have to get a license. I do not support the companies selling AI art models for commercial purposes without compensating the people whose work they used to train.

The NYT's lawyers and Getty's agree with me, by the way - they aren't suing users (and there are big users out there who could be worth suing).
I do agree that you have a point. But it’s an interaction model that works for many people and there are customization options to alleviate some of the pain points from keyboard shortcut (administrated at OS level) to 3rd parties software. I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect a complete reworking of the interface.
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Came here to post almost this exact sentiment. I am not sure why but in college I checked out the Peace War and I largely credit that book and a few others for getting me back into reading. A couple years ago I decided to order a first edition and it's sitting on my shelf. The deepness books were great as well. "Software archaeologists" was a fantastic concept, I felt like that today digger through excel VBA

Additionally I think he was the first sci Fi author I found who was a computer science practitioner/professor. This led me to discover other great authors like Greg Egan.
What tracking restrictions do you refer to that are implemented through app-store policies that are not (or cannot) be implemented through OS level restrictions?
That's a different species of bacteria altogether.
> Most Redis users have never paid the company behind it even a single cent. Me included.

Most users never will. That's the fallacy made by MBA types. They dream up some lofty sums "if only everyone paid us money". What they don't realize is that most users will find alternatives.
antitrust law considers things like substitutability. It refers to the degree to which consumers can replace a good or service with a close alternative, considering factors like price, quality, and performance. Conversely, if there are no close substitutes and consumers are less likely to switch, the relevant market might be narrower. If the barriers to switching are high, the availability of an alternative may not be enough to let a monopolist off the hook.
I somehow missed that article when it first appeared on HN[0], thanks for linking to it!

Surprised to "^F FTC" the article and comments, and not find any mention of the Federal Trade Commission. Given some of their prior rulemaking and caselaw around fake reviews and undisclosed compensation for endorsements, it seems the sort of thing that could be easily be prosecuted under false advertising laws. Unfortunately, I'm inclined to believe that the decision to let dying legacy media companies get away with fraud is probably a political one.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39433451
I currently use Mylio. The feature I like most is that I can store a compressed version of my entire catalog on my phone so it's very quick to find something and it works offline. I can then download the full res image if I want it.

My biggest complaint about Mylio is there is still no automatic synchronisation from Android. You have to leave the app open for it to sync.

Wondering if the Memories Android app can handle both of these points?
> This is like saying "a person typically travels at 30MPH". It doesn't mean anything.

No. It's very different. It's more like saying "a person is usually about 5'7"." It is obvious there are difference, but it's not something that varies minute by minute, and the range of differences is not stated. There's definitely not cars moving 40+ mph without making a lot of tire noise.

You're right those aren't good citations, I looked at it earlier myself and didn't like them, but I didn't go through the work of finding better ones. But seriously, can you find a single study saying wind is a dominant factor in road noise? Again, I've never heard anyone claim that.

> Then why does it make a "whoosh" sound?

Because, that's the sound it makes.

> But let's not lose track of the thread here.

This started because you claimed modern cars are not noisy except for those with modified exhaust pipes. I'm saying cars are fucking loud, all of them. Electric cars are also loud and do not solve for the problem of road noise at all. The fact that we're trying to figure out if wind or tires is the source of the noise that we both acknowledge is quite noticeable makes no difference except to support my actual point, that cars are loud.
Umm the project barely existed a year ago, it was in very early stages.
Using Termux on Android for Self Hosting
They do have some competition, and we should be supporting them. See: https://libro.fm
Can we get a black line for Vernor Vinge?
Regular plastics are truly broken down over the long term by environmental bacteria.

"Degradation and metabolism of synthetic plastics and associated products by Pseudomonas sp.: capabilities and challenges"

https://enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf...

Long-term exposure to sunlight and physical abrasion contributes to the formation of microplastics (<5 mm). Microplastics can be degraded further by microorganisms. Consequently, biological degradation and subsequent metabolism have the potential to eliminate plastics from contaminated environments.

...

With respect to plastic degradation, the species of the genus Pseudomonas are amongst the most cited degraders of various extents for a wide range of plastic polymers. Complete biologically mediated elimination of plastic polymers first requires breakdown of the polymer into smaller oligomers and, eventually, monomers that can pass through the cell membrane followed by assimilation and subsequent intracellular metabolism. Here, we present a review of the capabilities of species of the genus Pseudomonas to degrade and metabolize synthetic plastics.
There is a blog post describing the criminal history of a particular mod. If you post that link on Reddit you are automatically banned.
Nextcloud itself is a PWA. Did you have to do anything special to make what seems like essentially your own PWA inside another? I ask because I'd love to turn the nextcloud/tasks app into a PWA but was concerned about how it could work.
The project is a little over a year old, so yeah lol
It was my opinion on the Russian war in Ukraine in worldnews. My opinion was not in line with the bubble and received a ban for spreading false information.
> It doesn't seem fair to attribute most of that to Reddit the product.

So when everything becomes crap, it become acceptable? I guess Digg was simply ahead of its time before it can capture the market that would resonate with the low quality imageboard style of threads.

> There are still plenty of deep threads on Reddit if you know where to look.

The last time I read a chain deeper than maybe, 6 comments that I didn't regret was years ago.

But in all fairness, most of those deep deep threads are just two people trying to get the last word in. So it wasn't a high percentage even before the shift.
They offer a lifetime price of $128.

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As far as I am aware, the NSA seems to have classical computers that can break 2048-bit RSA today.

https://theintercept.com/2017/05/11/nyu-accidentally-exposed...

The idea of using QC for codebreaking was kind of cool in 1990, but Moore has had 35 years to catch up with the hype.
Consumers are not terribly harmed by this because gaming is a leisure activity while smartphones are critical components of everyday life. Also, no game company has billions of users and there are several players with little moat who actually have to compete to win users so prices come down even if there isn't much cross OS play.
Wouldn't they? Google gets away with it.
Not much, it works pretty much out of the box.
Of course you can.

You can't if your offer directly competes with redislabs - ie. you are cloud provider and you're selling redis as a service. You have to share your profit margin with them through licensing in this case.
That doesn't explain a discontinuity, and moreover, the effect of the pace runners has yet to be controlled for, so there is no more explanation required.
That's not the doctrine.

The doctrine is that you can't exercise monopoly power in certain ways. Monopoly power is an empirical question, and does not turn on merely whether it is possible to describe a market in which another product exists, but whether that is a real market in which the products are in fact competitive.

But even if you have monopoly power, if you aren't illegally exercising it, you aren't in trouble. So you aren't punished for being an empirical monopoly.
Does it work now? When I tried that a couple of months ago it was broken.
First one is interesting, not possible at the moment.

The Nextcloud app is used for auto-upload, that does support background upload at least on Android.
What was wrong with the post titled "Will Jan protect me from jokes, like ChatGPT?"

I'm sick of you fragile cunts. Please delete this account.
Largest issue seems to be regarding corruptions, BSD platforms seems the only ones to include updated UDF file system check/repair tools.
The problem is you need to wander from oasis to oasis, as oppose d to circumnavigating shitholes. To me that seems like a wastelnd.
I've just bought a couple of USB-C right angle adapters, in the hope of jogging the cable at the back of a keyboard up 1cm. Tilting keyboards backwards for ergonomic reasons has long gone out of fashion, so the cables get in the way.
The trend of these apps (admittedly, there are worse offenders than these guys) which stress how your data is completely safe, encrypted in transit, not stored on our servers, yours forever...by the way, everything is piped straight into OpenAI is a bit tiring.
We're talking about a specific practice here, and in fact I rely on the lack of general prudeness to elaborate on my point in another reply.

Because people have been getting it on quite creatively forever and because they were often writing about it (and because many older living people got around too), we can make reasonable -- if not authoritative -- suppositions about the specific things that people were getting up to in various communities at various times
I’m having a hard time parsing the implication here, are you saying that proton is guilty of violating user privacy despite their marketing claims?
Yeah, you're right. You should say "please file a detailed bug report and consider contributing to the project", instead of being a dick about it.

The other comments you posted are also a bit odd without you disclosing you're the author. just saying
Fair enough. I appreciate the thoughts.