skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Super Apps are notorious for tracking the user across the "mini" apps within it, which is the argument made by Apple for making them hard to get approval for. I'm on Apple's side here

2. I was able to use PS Remote Play on my iPhone even many years ago (pre-COVID). A quick google search shows that Steam Link and Shadow PC (my ATF) are also available on iOS. I'm on Apple's side here too

3. I think the situation has recently changed here as someone else has commented, so this feels solvable without a lawsuit. Also it's hard to single out Apple here when everyone out there has their own messaging platforms. It's not like WhatsApp is encouraging third-party clients. An argument can be made that iMessage blurs the line between what's Apple-provided vs. carrier-provided, so I can see the user confusion and the issues that come with it. I'm on the FTC's side here

4. Who cares about smartwatches. It's niche at best. Besides, there are countless other watches you can use and they work with many devices. I'm on Apple's side here

5. It's not like you can't tap your card instead of your phone. I don't think the phone needs to be just a husk with apps created by third parties, especially for things like wallets. I'm happy to trade away that freedom for increased security, Benjamin Franklin's quote notwithstanding. The payments ecosystem is made up of players charging fees from the next player down the chain, so also hard to single out Apple here, but I can see why there's need for increased transparency (I wasn't explicitly aware they charged any fees, even if I would probably guess they were if prompted). I'm on neither side here.

So based on my biases and incomplete understanding of the facts, Apple wins 3-1

It's worth remembering that this administration is suing seemingly everyone in Tech, in what I can only assume is being done in the hopes they can make a name for themselves. Lena Khan literally said "you miss all the shots you don't take".

I would prefer a more focused approach with higher signal to noise ratio.
That doesn’t sound like something that’s against the law. A company shouldn’t be punished based on their success, but if they violate a law or not.
I commend you for plugging AI into a commonly used tool in this space vs creating your own platform for building websites with AI. It's refreshing to see someone working back from a great user experience and meeting the users where they are today. This requires focus in the face of constant integration challenges and lots of design restrictions/limitations. Best of luck going forward!
Great work. I thought it looked like OpenStreetMap underneath. The totality information overlays fit perfectly into their clean display format and the center bulls-eye tracking really allows you to find an optimum place nearest your location to view this eclipse.
>The focus of pueue lies on human interaction.

How is it better than me having another window open and running my long running command there?
The one about the web developer job market
I assume/hope the newer versions in hotels that are a little l bracket that flips are little harder to get open?
Reddit banned my account without warning because I created a Reddit API mirror. I even followed their API docs by including my Reddit username in the user agent used by my HTTP client, I thought I was giving them the ability to reach out if the mirror was causing them pain but nah, they just banned me.

It was at that point that I realised all the protests that were happening weren’t going to go nowhere, and indeed that is what happened. Reddit has lost its way ever in a major way in the pursuit of profit.
I wonder when banks start offering delayed payment options, similar to vaults having timed locks.

You can transfer that 100k to the Very Reliable Businessman, but it'll require you to accept the transfer now and confirm it 2-3 business days later before it activates.

I'd really want one of those on my accounts when I get older, preferably with a limit closer to 1k.
I'll always be peeved that Valve showcased Meet the Spy in SFM when they were advertising its release[1], yet never released the project files for it unlike their earlier shorts.

If they released the full project files to the public we could render our own HD remasters as we please.

[1] https://youtu.be/Zri1c_If6Ic?t=73
>Some common situations where the purpose in life changes:

I have best heard these moments called "now what? moments."
That's interesting but I found it it incredibly difficult to read/parse through. I've read A Fire Upon the Deep many times (the whole trilogy) but the comment syntax is not easy for me to follow at all. There are snippets that make a little sense but I don't think I could read this as-is.
It's very weird that for as many problems as Reddit has, there doesn't seem to be any serious VC-funded competition. Why is that? Every other social site has a half dozen well-capitalized competitors. Is it because Twitter/X and TikTok occupy all of the social media attention? Or because a forum is filled with mostly young people simply isn't a scalable business?
If they didn't make the offer, they'd be criticized for offering any of the "pie" to users who helped them succeed.
All of the "low-nm" process fabs on that wiki page are in the US (with one in Ireland).
What if making Mountain View money was an abnormality all along?
There's always the "Ted Shred" (braking by applying your foot to the rear wheel).
You cannot buy something that doesn't exist or is otherwise unavailable.

And good packaging materials rarely make for good marketing.
The argument that the color of a message bubble is tantamount to a "degraded experience" is truly bizarre.
When do you plan to release technical details on the attack? Surely the long tail of door locks will not be replaced for a decade or more.
All the examples you mention, GM, Facebook, and Windows, pump out a ton of money on the regular.

GM made ten billion in profit in the last year
> An attacker only needs to read one keycard from the property to perform the attack against any door in the property

That’s a pretty serious vulnerability, pretty much all it takes is to be a guest at a hotel
Emails from apple executives have made clear that iMessage is purposefully used as a lock in tool. whether thats legal or not idk, what I do know is that it prevents me from switching to android and I would like the government to make apple stop.
We are booking our tickets to Comic-Con. We tap through the form, maneuvering past the cumbersome AI-generated takeover promoting a new prestige TV show. The AIs are getting pretty good, and seem to have moved beyond the glassy-eyed doll faces characteristic of the Stable Diffusion era. Nevertheless, the ads are obnoxious and we can't wait to submit the form and get off of this website.

A memory rises unbidden: we once made comics and posted them to the web, free for all to read. We would even browse the web just to find and read them. Wild.

We find ourselves circuiting the convention hall. It is a brightly lit maze, festooned with endless AI-generated promotions for Marvel supers and yesteryear reboots. The cast of Friends is back, youthful as ever, and apparently we're getting at least three more seasons. We round a corner and..

Here. Yes, here. We remember it now. This whole row was once filled with tables showcasing prints and original works of art. Behind the tables: a spouse, a friend, or the artist in the flesh. Artists, who were remarkable in their day for their contributions to the great pop culture that drew us to the convention. Artists who, despite their labor and their infamy among certain fandoms, never appeared in a legible place on the credit roll. Artists who worked a day job for years, stocking shelves, packing boxes, approving Disney licensee merchandise, so that in the evening they might bend their weary backs, put pen to tablet and spill their imaginations across the screen. Artists who did all that so that we could come to Comic-Con today and appropriate for ourselves an original work of their art.

Where once there were artists, now there is Hello Kitty. Sanrio has taken over the whole row. You can walk up to Hello Kitty and ask it for any combination of officially licensed characters, with optional accessories if you have a few more dollars to spend. A 3D printer somewhere behind the booth's facade fabricates the bespoke toy on-demand in food-safe ABS. An original work of art.
They get 0.15% of the transaction from the card issuer. And they do not allow card issuers to use the hardware on their own.
it is interesting to see for which parties these actions are taken on. they appear more like the protectionist actions that governments take in other business domains.
Locks are perfectly usable in filesystem code, but test_and_set_bit()/wait_on_bit() has lower overhead, so they'll get used as an optimization. This function is called on every metadata read, so the improved performance/scalability of raw atomics over locks can probably make a difference on fast storage.

Also the code used to use locks, and it wasn't any simpler: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/20230503152441.1141019-2...
I've heard that when working with complex data structures with Rust you often need to write unsafe code, which is a lot more painful to work with in Rust. Once in you are in unsafe land anyway, some people say Zig is more convenient.
A modern smartphone has advantages, but for dumb phone I don't think it makes much of a difference. The Nokia 6300 15+ years old, but it's still being sold.
The blue background on messages sent between two iMessage users has to be one of the most brilliant vendor lock-in strategies. It is an artificial form of discrimination. I feel a slight annoyance whenever a non-Apple user forms a group chat as I know that person will limit the messaging functionality.

In my opinion, the "monopolistic" aspect of it comes down to the fact that they tied it into an otherwise open messaging system - SMS. You cannot separate SMS messages from iMessages (to my knowledge). So, the only way to know a message was sent via SMS is the green background for incoming messages and the green background plus the "sent via SMS" for outgoing messages. This creates a disdain for SMS, and anyone who uses it over iMessage. It is such a strong feeling, that having green messages makes you "uncool", especially in the younger crowd.

On the other hand, I think the long-term sequalae of the blue-green message is to push people to use stand-alone apps like WhatsApp and FB Messenger. I think it'll be a hard sell at this point to convince a jury that iMessage is an overt monopoly.

The main question I want addressed is: If SMS messages can be directly shown in iMessage, and are not secure, then the argument of not allowing "insecure" 3rd-parties to integrate with iMessage goes out the window. All I want is Android messages to be shown in iMessage. Sure we can make them green, but at least they will be sent over the data network and not SMS.
Some googling would find you several ways to do this (directly on the phone to external storage is possible, but yeah selecting all the photos on the iphone sucks as you have to click one and scroll-select them all):
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/iphone/iph480caa1f3/io...

The easiest way is to export them via photos for mac.

If you don't have a mac, then there's ways to get the photos on a PC:
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT201302#importpc

You can also setup icloud on windows and download them, then move them wherever.
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/108994

You can also connect the phone direct to PC and download them.

So it's not nearly impossible if you don't have a macbook.
This gets really hard, really fast. That is, yes, reasonably obviously doing this completely 100% accurately requires a solution to the halting problem, but even getting to "useful" is really really hard. Even the Haskell world doesn't try to solve the "equivalence of functions" problem, and it's even more complicated in imperative languages.

You probably have a mental image of catching something really simple, and, yeah, "1 + 1" -> "2" is reasonably easy, but in reality there aren't a lot of those super easy changes. Most of the time there is something confounding the situation.

Truly neutral refactorings are pretty uncommon in their own right. You can see that when someone is discussing semantic versioning and pointing out that if you define a "major version" as "there exists at least one possible use of the code whose behavior will be changed as a result of this library change", almost any API change is automatically a major version change, which isn't really what anyone wants. E.g., in Python, the mere fact that introspecting on an object's methods will show one more method than it used to isn't really what we want a major version change for. In general, proving refactorings are actually 100% safe is equally difficult; even simple arithmetic changes can result in things overflowing at different times or in different ways, it's virtually impossible to rewrite an expression involving floats without the change being witnessable somehow, extracting a function could make it so that code that previously didn't overflow the stack now does, memory allocation changes can be the difference between OOMing and not and may interact with GC in unpredictable ways if you get really precise, etc.
Poor analogy. This is already an issue with servicing automobiles. Overly-complicated construction and proprietary tools that can only be acquired by licensed dealerships. Read: Audi, Mercedes-Benz.
About 12-18 months ago, I was looking for a Documentation tool. My requirement was something I could wrap on top and not worry about neither the frontmatter, nor worry about inline anything. I stumbled on VitePress and dovetails like a glove. I have been using it since as the default starter for anything documentation that I do. I'm open to migrating to something else "better" if the other team members want to. But this is my personal start and works well so far.

This is the Obsidian of Documentation. In fact, I use Obsidian to edit locally and VitePress spits out the HTML for Preview and so for the Production Deployment.

Thank you VitePress.
No no, only for Nazis. You can dox suspected liberals all you want, and Elon will laugh right alongside you.
The problem with "environmentally responsible" planned obsolescence is that it's never environmentally responsible to throw out what would otherwise be a functional device but for the fact that it was made to break down on a specific timetable. The three Rs are "reduce, reuse, recycle", not "recycle, recycle, recycle". Making the product degrade prematurely means you can't reuse, and by proxy, having to buy a new one means you're not reducing.

Degradable devices sounds like the sort of thing intended to assuage the consciences of very rich people who buy the newest iPhone every year.
As an iPhone user, if I wanted a phone with Samsung, Amazon, Epic and Huawei stores, 3 different preinstalled browsers and my workflows depended on sideloading some obscure app for a website in Turkey, I'd go with Android. Such an option exists for people who are into that.

But I chose iPhone (and I think many other customers do) specifically for it being a walled garden. Now some other corporations like Epic, who want to have a cake and eat it too, are going to ruin one of the platform's key selling points.
We live in an area that is kind of rural. Rural in that we have fairly large farms 10-15 minutes from us but we are also fairly close to the city.

4H is around here as well but from random other activities we've taken our son to we found a nature society close to us owns a small farm and allows kids to come in and help with the chickens and couple cows they have (weekend, summer programs). Not exactly the same but maybe works for your family.
Why hasn’t Android, with it’s support for alternative app stores and side loading eaten the world anyway?
It seems to me the US would be better off copy-pasting EU regulation than trying to smush apples behavior into old school antitrust violations.
'A while now' being long enough that I might expect some notable impact on Google's business by now. I do agree it could just be too early.

My iPhone/iPod timeline is referring to the time it took for the iPod's sales to be severely impacted [1]. I'm not disputing that the iPod continued to exist for a long time, the iPod Touch wasn't discontinued until 2022, but it was a pretty meaningless part of Apple's business by that point.

1. https://i.insider.com/597b68f2b50ab162018b466b?width=1300&fo...
Thanks for the feedback, we're going to link to more complex examples.

Let me know if I can be helpful with integrating GritQL.
You think I'm unfair in comparing a plastic bag to plastic packaging? If you follow this particular thread, they were talking about packaging.
most of the mystery disappears as one notices the absence of good quality roads and low-friction (fine) mechanics (as both are hard requirements for an "economical" human-powered vehicles - as even untrained everyday folks are relatively good at endurance running/walking and carrying a light backpack, but carrying ourselves plus a vehicle over bad terrain makes it not worth it)

we like to think how amazing the wheel is, but ... what's amazing is a road network. and what's ridiculous is that some empires spent their might on making flat slabs and putting them in a big pile, while others used some of theirs to make roads, but it took so many years to combine the two :)

and that's why railroads appeared before bicycles basically.

oh, and see also one of the earliest known built road things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Track#/media/File:Sweet_... it's about 5800 years old!
It's only about 5% of users, which is sizable but not unkillable by any means. The third-party mobile apps had way, way more than that and they proved very killable.
Thanks for pointing this out to me! I'll see if I can pre-render the syntax highlighting like I do with KaTeX and stuff. No reason to do that on the client.
I wouldn't be so sure. A major reason people pick PC gaming over consoles is specifically because they have control over what they are allowed to do.
Im Ok with the inevitably of that outcome. My moral interpretation is incidental to that reality.
Just a note that it is more like prices are 42% higher - because the 30% is a cut off gross, and 100 / 70 = 1.4287
>that is, the long term ability to raise price or exclude competitors.

Apple doesn't have this power though. If they raised prices they'd lose sales. And they haven't been able to exclude competitors, there is a robust ecosytem of Android manufacturers.

There's a reason the FTC has been losing almost all of their cases recently. They internalized the idea that a large successful company is inherently bad and focus on that rather than any objective legal standard.
The EU legislation wouldn’t fly for a second in the US system of law.
Not sure but there seems to be a lot more bots on reddit. Entire threads with hundreds of comments from bots are all around reddit.
> If there wasn't a monopoly (or duopoly or oligarchy or whatever you wanna call it), then this would have happened.

I...don't think that's sufficiently self-evident to stand on its own.

Fundamentally, it's hard to have a world with more than a very small number of operating systems for the major form factors of device—unless those operating systems are mandated to interoperate in significant ways.

Creating a new operating system for phones also requires some things that are not at all easy to get:

1) You need hardware. This means that either you're creating an OS for an existing hardware platform (in this case, Android or iOS) or you're building your own phones. Given the legal frameworks that existed over the past decade and a half (as distinct from the particular dominance of one platform or another), that basically means you're building your own phones. Some people have tried to do that, but it adds hugely to the up-front cost of getting an OS going.

2) You need to get a critical mass of people using it. Until and unless this happens, what you've created has to live or die based on the apps and services that you build for the phone. No one's going to dedicate their own time, effort, and money to creating software for a phone that only 10,000 people have ever bought.

Now, I can see a pretty strong argument for a new legal framework that would make #1 much easier—specifically, requiring all hardware platforms (possible "all hardware platforms over X sales") to provide a fully-open specification for third-party OS makers to use (with appropriate clauses about dogfooding the open API to prevent the hardware maker from just using a bunch of private APIs to preference their OS). This would allow people to create their own OS for the iPhone without Apple's interference.

But that's not what we've had since 2007, so your bold but unsupported statement that the lack of third choices for mobile OSes in and of itself proves that Apple is a monopoly (or at least that Apple/Google together make up an abusive duopoly) does not hold up to scrutiny.
The methods in question are not the ones that the open source community has agreed upon, they are ones that the FOSS community had identified as being non-viable, with detailed reasoning, before the OSI was even founded. The fact that a handful of founders and VCs decided to ignore this established wisdom does not constitute an general agreement by the “open source community”.

The consensus that simply selling FOSS software (and renting access to it is not substantially different in this regard) is not a viable method of monetizing FOSS as an independent business centered around a particular piece of FOSS because large established firms with established hardware, professional services, and other associated lines of business and the ability to integrate it with their other offerings would eat your lunch was established by, at the latest, the mid-1990s.
Neat! I knew about the existence of all of these individual things, but I appreciate the article laying out the photos and use cases for each. By the way, I recommend against "RJ45 Join Adapters" and instead towards "RJ45 Keystone Connectors". They do the same thing, but they're intended for patch panels for full speed CAT-6 applications, so they're pretty high quality, and dirt cheap.
the new form of corp + government collusion does these weak investigations and charges, tying up the space for years and ultimately losing. It allows politicians to claim they are doing something, while securing access for intel agencies and insuring pro status quo election messaging.

These charges also undercut the next administration's leverage to negotiate with Apple, now that the threat of anti-trust charges are taken off the table.
"the reality that in 2024 their software kind of sucks, and that their customers only use it because they don't have alternative"

That's an extremely hot take. When devices are mostly just slabs of glass and the interface and what is done, is entirely the software, customers are choosing the device based on the Apple software, not in spite of it.
It's science these days. They need funding, one way is to get people to recognize the importance of their work
Why is now the time for a reddit IPO? Is it because of the idea that "data is oil", and reddit can sell enterprise subscriptions to access to its data? Someone who has reviewed the S-1, how are they making money? And what's the point of the IPO, deploy more capital to accomplish what?
I don't think that reddit is "backfilling." I don't have time to check right now, but I suspect that PowerDeleteSuite goes through your profile to find things to delete. Your profile is limited to showing 1k entries. IIRC that's the top 1k according to whatever ranking you're using, so you could get some more comments by re-running it sorting by top, controversial, etc, but if you made a lot of comments PowerDeleteSuite just won't be able to find everything.
Is it though? Or is it based on the value the seller gets?

It's both of course, but I think they price based on the value rather than on the cost. (ie: percentage of sales, not per shelfspace)