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The intelligence is in the parts' interactions.

Compare with an OS kernel: individual code snippets are useless / meaningless.

Executed by some CPU or VM, each snippet can be seen to modify that machine's state.

Snippets put together may be observed, and understood as implementing some specific algorithm. Again: useless / meaningless in isolation.

Some snippets may be seen to address I/O, and so it may be assumed to be part of a subsystem that controls (or is controlled by) a peripheral device.

Now put all those parts together, and you have an intricate piece of machinery that shows flexible, adaptable, goal-oriented behaviour. Behaves in a 'smart' way (for varying definitions of 'smart').

Where did the intelligence come from? The parts' properties, how they're put together, and their interactions (among themselves & their environment).

As science progresses, I think we'll come to realize it's just that: a matter of scale & how the many parts and variables interact with their environment. No magic (but fascinating & wonderful nonetheless).
I bought a pixel and there was a process that transferred everything over. Not sure how much easier it can be.
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Tim Cook came to my house and made my Wi-Fi faster.
It's so funny I'm gonna go out and say it, this is only because Microsoft threw its weight into Epics lawsuit.

I believe, entirely, that Microsoft is the most important corporation in America, by far. In that anything they want, will get done. this is why the senators turned around on Sony claiming MS buying ActiBlizzKing was monopolistic and started threatening Sony instead, this is why Bill Gates gets to sit with Xi and Xi calls him a friend, this is why MS has unopposed access to sell its games in China.

They are an "arm" of the government and not even Apple can counter it.
The problem with a software moat is that it's infecting physical objects. Hardware, sure. But things like your tractor refusing to work if you use a non-vendor approved component. Not sued, just bricked.
It's not fundamental, it's a glorified forum host, not to say that isn't immensely useful in the current landscape. But it's also very much a result of timing that it is still here.

The history is often overlooked: when digg imploded/shot itself in the foot, Reddit was in the right place at the right time and got lucky. Somewhere for the exodus to go to. Reddit itself was failing fast and on its last legs at the time held afloat by its core users and that's it. They didn't know what they were going to do and rather than being visionaries in any way really they got lucky hosting everyone with a slew of very standard web 2.0 features. And as with any social site, it's the userbase/community that pulls it thru darkness to the where it is now.
At last, techbro ageism explained.

VCs: "Ooo... Little baby founder so cute, I just want to fund you right up... Oh yes, I do! Yes, I do!"

New Techbro: "I'm the special little baby."

Same Techbro a Few Years Later: "Why are the special little babies in charge?"

Newer Techbro: "OK, boomer."
Yes, if that's what they expect "the world" to do lest it "only does whatever is convenient".
"And let’s face it: older people have all the wealth in the world anyway so they’re more likely to be fruitful targets."

Your comment would have resonated without the unnecessary last line that I don't even believe - are they they the ones who built all the technology companies in the last two decades?
Maybe you could trick the lid sensor with a magnet so the lid stays open and the keyboard is exposed, but the display turns off? Hopefully it doesn't also turn off the keyboard when the lid detects closure.
> Biodiesel can't be produced at scale without crops and farmland.

This is true, but I don't get your point. We can argue about whether it's a good use of crops/farmland just as we can argue if electricity->H2 + N2 -> ammonia is a good use of electricity.

> Methanol can only be produced inexpensively using natural gas.

The same can be said about Ammonia once you need to source your H2.

> using renewable energy, they would be superior options for marine fuel.

That's a restriction that I don't see as justified. At least not for the biodiesel.

> A little under half of global marine traffic is moving energy around, which might be a contributing factor in fuel selection as traffic declines in the future due to renewables uptake globally.

I agree. Further than that, we will stop shipping iron ore across the world to smelt it only to ship it back since the price of fuel will go up regardless of what we switch to. So shipping volume will decrease further.
I literally just wrote Twitter is not news. And you posted a random Twitter profile. I’m not even sure what you expect me to see there.

Show me any actual authoritative source not from social or drive-by media pointing out where the official Russian position is some kind of first strike.
I'd rather receive benefits in cash than paying some vendor tens of thousands of dollars to stock useless items.
Flux founder here

Our mission is to take the “hard” out of hardware

We have 240k users on the platform…hobbyists, students, small/mid sized teams to Fortune50 companies. We host millions of projects!

It’s a huge ecosystem not just of users but also semiconductor manufacturers, fab houses, etc.

Think GitHub on steroids!

And it’s the only AI first end-to-end design tool in the market…you can go from idea to research to architecture to BOM to schematic to PCB layout and then to manufacturing. Workflows that usually take months in other tools can be done in a few hours to minutes in flux.

It’s still early days though but we are moving insanely fast! So if we don’t met your teams bar today I suggest checking back in next month.

I think it’s good for more players to enter the market…EDA tooling is stuck somewhere in the 80s and we need to fix that.

It’s too expensive and risky to make hardware…and we deserve better!
because Apple designed it this way so that you'd spend more $ on the Pro model.
I imagine that will be the crux of the case - they need to prove consumer harm, and it’s quite clear Apple’s policies result in consumers paying more.
I quit last week with Reddit. I thought it might be a good idea to write a controversial opinion in a sub reddit. Received a perma ban. Well thanks. The content, the way the site works, dark patterns and its just not nice anymore. Happy to be loose.
As an aside its amazing how far the web has come, where the best way to make pretty pdf documents is to literally run a web browser on the server. This would have been so unthinkable back in the 90s & 2000s
They're using emotional arguments, not rationale ones. Like calling Apple's cut of app sales a "tax", as it is literally not a tax but a normal part of doing business. Similarly the lawsuit claims that iPhone users somehow are "undermined" from messaging other phones, when in reality there are zero restrictions on messaging to and from any phone. None of these arguments are based on the reality of the situation, but some emotional response to it.
You couldn’t reach the keys in clamshell mode.

But as for why you can’t turn off the display, I suspect you can somehow.
Except craigslist makes a ton of money
> At least in the government, there should be a law that any hypothetical scenario where someone making more money before government taxes/incentives would cause them to earn less after, must be quickly resolved by replacing hard cutoffs with gradients.

Multiple programs, offered by different jurisdictions, with overlapping populations, each with sliding scale benefits that reduce less than $1 of benefit for each $ of income, still can (and do) end up with beneficiaries losing in net with additional income. But instead of doing so at particular cliff points associated with each program, they do so continually over a wide range. You replace a series of cliffs with a slide.
I can see this playing out in one of two ways:
1. Suddenly shelf lives are massively extended. I think this would be a good thing.
2. Shelf lives are decreased to accommodate degradable packaging.

Given the people who are in the food supply chain are probably going to be sourcing the same packaging from maybe 2-3 vendors, I don’t see anyone able to differentiate themselves on packaging tech.
This looks awesome and the README seems to undersell it. Would it be possible for you to put code examples all over the readme so we can see what you’re talking about without needing to dig into the codebase?
How is this a monopoly though? Everyone is free to move their family to WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Facebook messenger...
But doesn't the higher fees on dev help to keep the riff raff out? Sure, it's a nice profitable margin-padding fee but how else do they keep out the bottom feeders? Do Apple users what to pay a premium to get more useless noise?

Note: I'm not defending Apple. But the higher dev fees do serve a purpose other than revenue.
Well, a judge kept Tommy Thompson in jail for 7+ years on contempt of court charges after the court asked Tommy to product some gold ingots and he "forgot" where they were.
I agree it is a problem, but I do not think teaching people about cognitive biases will solve it. It is very hard to apply it to yourself, and any kind of critical thinking is hard.

A lot of people will not even make the effort. The motivation comes from existing values and beliefs, which will have been subject to biases themselves!
> If I understand the linked chart, there are discontinuities in the <i>marginal</i> tax rate, not the effective tax rate.

True, but they are harsh discontinuities, sufficiently so to have the effects I described. And yes, there is a common combination of personal circumstances (high income plus student loan repayments plus child care subsidies) which means that any gross salary between £100K and £117K means less net income than being on £99,999 gross. I've not been able find a graph for that, but the maths checks out.

The result of this particular combination is to effectively impose a ceiling on many employees at £100K gross, because they would have to receive a greater than 17% pay rise to be better off than before.
Remember though that many of the people manning the chats are trafficked victims themselves.
A lot of hotels I've been to also have a latch you can physically lock the door with which would prevent someone from actually entering, but I bet you may be able to slowly pry that open with a jig of some sort.
Accessibility features would need to be added to canvases before that reality's possible, so we've got a ways to go yet before we need to worry too much about that.
Then you obviously haven't read much about cryonics, which involves vitrification rather than freezing to avoid such tissue damage.
" In those days the top forum for programmers was a site called Slashdot."

/. still exists, and I still go a few times a week out of habit. The level of discourse varies widely, but at least I know I'm usually talking to a human and not an Asian bot farm.
No :).
Can a argument be made that by not supporting other software on their platform, essentially platform is inhibiting competition, which hinders true price discovery and customer loses ? Like if cars don't allow other FSD on their platform, what choice does the customer has.
An insight that allowed me to get past mental blockers to bargaining (guilt, awkwardness, etc...) was the thought "I am a person, just like you, not some animal to be milked"

This allows the price to be sought in a non-adversarial way since it makes building a connection and understanding of the local situation a part of the communication.

Much of the awkwardness comes from not really understanding how the local market and local way of life works while also basically being royalty from an economic perspective. This out-of-touchness creates a principal agent problem where the "foreign" other is distrusted but also relied on for "truth".

The negative experience doesn't come from the literal economic damage of being scammed but being treated (or programmed) like a pig let to slaughter.
> That is why enterprise shops than get all the cool toys

...what enterprise shops are you working in? Everywhere I've worked the paid software sucked, often in direct proportion to its cost.
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I completely understand that, but in the real world, you will need to get your hands dirty with a bit of code because no matter how complete, there will be an edge case where you need to jump outside the box.
> there’s no cross platform E2E messaging standard they could have adopted.

Could they not have made their own? I don't think they'd be required to use open standards for the argument to be made, they just need to release an iMessage app for Android.
Arguably phones are becoming less like stores and more like a significant part of life. This is especially true as more and more of modern life demands a smart phone and apps.

And the only options are to take the deal -- modifiable at any time by the platform owner -- or burn down your digital life and start over on the only other practical competitor.
> easy to make alternatives to Apple products

Please, go do it. You'll be very rich very quick and I'll eagerly buy your products once you succeed.

Unfortunately you'll find out it's not actually easy at all when you realize that consumers care about weight, size, temperature and battery life which are all things apple excels at. Their hardware is really quite good, unfortunately the software is horribly crippled.
I was a frequent and enthusiastic contributor to dozens of niche subreddits about various techy topics, chiefly because it was a great way to kill time while using the restroom, shopping with the wife, all manner of things that are notable in that I don't have a computer. After using Apollo for so long, the reddit app is downright torture and I refuse to use it. I still occasionally reddit on a computer since the mobile experience is abysmal both in app and browser, but I'd be shocked if I manage 5% of my previous rate of activity.

On the one hand, thanks reddit, I got a ton of free time back. On the other hand, that time was previously spent generating value for your website, so not sure that was a good move for you.

Edit: Also, and this is strictly second-hand info from the Apollo dev who obviously is far from an unbiased source, but I have to admit alongside the thing just being objectively worse to use, my views of the reddit corporate structure also soured significantly. I think what they did with the API changes was a boneheaded move to be sure, but the way they went about it was so uniquely shitty to the people who had built small businesses around theirs that it truly boggled the mind. The dev for Apollo posted quite a bit around the "negotiations" if one wants to be generous and call them that in the lead up to the API changes, and the CEO just blatantly lied about him numerous times, in obvious ways, trying to paint him as this entitled kid in such a way that as a millennial, I have to admit I am THOROUGHLY sick of. Reddit as a company simply jacked the price, with barely any notice, refused to negotiate on a single point throughout and made numerous bad-faith claims about the developers who were (understandably) caught off guard.

Like if you just want to close the API, fine, close it. But then that would paint reddit as the obvious bad guy, so instead they went round the back way with this "api price change" that was so ludicrously expensive that no app could possibly cover it, and then reddit gets to PR speak the thing as "well we tried to work with developers" in a blatantly bullshit way without technically lying. It's gross and tiresome and frankly, insults the intelligence of every reddit user.

I can't say for certain if this wasn't the case that I'd still be using it more, as the app and mobile experiences are truly shit even without that. But this certainly has cooled my fervor to try to find ways to use it.
> Apple controls 100% of the iOS market

“AlotOfReading” controls 100% of your HN posts.
> I think you, as the consumer, are the one who pays.

And you somehow think reducing the commission to, say, 5%, will reduce prices?
Or any nintendo or playstation or xbox. I can't just sideload games into any of them either.. or any of my 'smarttvs' etc.

Would this mean that anyone must be able to load any software into any platform that runs on software, or are we just picking on apple because they are popular. And got popular while doing all these things.. if people didn't want it they wouldn't have bought into it in the first place.
They are only a stranger on the first day, right? After weeks of chatting, you feel like you know them. They take their time, and only into the second or third week do they offer to share their wealth making technique.
Sure. "While I think there are feature phones with GPS/mapping support, they are harder to find than a regular feature phone." just means I don't know of a modern system, while I do know of feature phones w/o GPS (haven't looked for a couple years though).

What modern options were you thinking of?
Yea, that is pretty much what I meant. This would be good for everybody in the end.
It just shows that when you put people who don't have subject matter experience in positions that require said subject matter experience, they do stupid things based on what other "experienced" people say, or what is politically expedient at the time for votes or otherwise.

François-Philippe Champagne is a lawyer, who was formerly the minister of foreign affairs, the minister of infrastructure and communities, and minister of international trade.

Why do you have someone who held positions in industries or areas not related to technology being put in a position to make these kinds of decisions?

The government should be at the very least:

- Cracking down on gang activity at sea ports where stolen vehicles are put into containers and sent off to be sold in foreign countries.

- Forcing vehicle manufacturers (at their cost) to recall their older vehicles and retrofit more modern keyfobs with new security (for model years within the last 10-15 years) with non-compliance resulting in being unable to sell their new vehicles in the country.

- Increasing the severity of punishment for anybody who has stolen a vehicle, with an even more harsh penalty if they're found to be stealing vehicles with technology designed with the capability to capture and replay these keyfob signals.

It's a weak government with no idea on what they're doing and the Flipper Zero ban was a misguided, uneducated decision that was done to gather more votes instead of actually dealing with the problem directly.

Put ministers with actual industry/tech experience into these positions. Canada is slowly failing under it's current government, and I'm confident any other mainstream running party won't just bring more of the same ineptitude.
> As I was reading the specific charges detailed in the article, I was thinking this case seems like a stretch and will be difficult to prove.

If this case is thrown off how long can it take for them to make another antitrust case with a different set of stronger arguments ?

Given that they started in 2019 for this one, if lost there is real risk of waiting another 5 years for any meaningful change.
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This is a framing issue. I think your comment is a great comment and probably does reflect a popular understanding. A farmer can't just set up shop in a supermarket without first paying and submitting to some vetting by the store owner. The problem here is that Apple doesn't just own the store or the platform for publicity and distribution. They also own the platform on which the software is run. It is analagous to Walmart also owning your house and not allowing you to buy home goods from any store except Walmart. I don't believe an average consumer would find that to be an acceptable business practice.
This process was mandatory at my last company, and it was really helpful. People are way more likely to respond to your email or do something for you as a newer employee if they've met you, particularly so if you can meet in person.

Taking notes during or immediately after the meeting, then synthesizing them to form a narrative is also helpful when you're meeting so many people.

The other thing I do is start a file literally titled "Everything I know about <company>" and just write everything down. I make diagrams, write sentences with highlighted blank spaces for gaps in knowledge, etc. As you get to the 10th meeting, you have a decent mental model of how things are intended to work, and have probably heard about some of the systems the 11th person works with. When you communicate some of your understanding of the system to them, they can fill in gaps or correct misunderstandings.

The other thing I always ask about is what a cadence or work looks like? Is there seasonality in their availability? Finance/accounting are best left alone the first week of the month as they're dealing with month end. Some people are slammed Monday and Tuesday, catching up from things that happened over the weekend. If an entire business is seasonal, it makes sense to prioritize heavy lift projects to the off-season.
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You could make the asymmetric information argument for any defendant.
Is it bad though? This is of course a rethoric question, I don't know myself if I think it's good or bad, yet.

What I'm thinking is: there's been soo much discussion around "we have corrupted the Web", "Web standards were never made to build apps on", etc. with sometimes good and sometimes really bad arguments.

If we can build viewports in canvas that behave more like just a desktop environment where apps can be built, maybe that could be good? It could mean a split between the informational web and the "apps on the browser" paradigm, and in a ideal scenario this could make things simpler and more organized for everyone? Or it could just mean more work, more standards, more rupture and more siloing. Honestly don't know.
True, but he allegedly told a family friend that he was definitely not suicidal and that if something did happen it was foul play..
Why does it seem like Microsoft is flying under the DoJ radar this last decade?
My theory: the problem is iCloud encryption at rest. The solution is to hang this over Apple until they relent.
The article leaves out a ton over the actual compliant // filed in Eastern NJ for a reason. They must be going for Verizon or Samsung witnesses? If the definitions set forth by the DOJ are accepted by courts, this is a slam dunk on Apple. If Apple can redefine things like 'Super Apps' and 'Mini Apps,' then this thing is a wet paper bag.

Personally I see avenues for both outcomes.
Do they have a GDPR-like process where you can just export a .zip file of all your data?
As a tangential point of comparison $23 per hour is a common rate for nannies/baby sitters in Atlanta Georgia without a degree or development certificate. One we use is a former teacher who disliked the work.
> Furthermore I don't think people have a conception of how good these models are going to get within 5-10 years.

Pretty sure it's quite the opposite of what you're implying: People see those LLMs who closely resemble actual intelligence on the surface, but have some shortcomings. Now they extrapolate this and think it's just a small step to perfection and/or AGI, which is completely wrong.

One problem is that converging to an ideal is obviously non-linear, so getting the first 90% right is relatively easy, and closer to 100% it gets exponentially harder. Another problem is that LLMs are not really designed in a way to contain actual intelligence in the way humans would expect them to, so any apparent reasoning is very superficial as it's just language-based and statistical.

In a similar spirit, science fiction stories playing in the near future often tend to have spectacular technology, like flying personal cars, in-eye displays, beam travel, or mind reading devices. In the 1960s it was predicted for the 80s, in the 80s it was predicted for the 2000s etc.