skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn’t know soldering vs welding could damage cells, thanks for that! The battery packs I’ve built are all made from cells that have threaded terminal posts, because I don’t have a laser welder (which as I understand it is the tool that gets used for this most often).

I stand by my point though, because a laser welder is not particularly expensive or exotic equipment, you can safely operate one in a garage, and you can learn to use one effectively with a little bit of practice.

Attitudes like “IT’S DANGEROUS DON’T EVEN TRY IT” are silly, and lead to people having unwarranted fear about really basic, easy-to-understand technology.
The wonderful flip side to this is that Silicon Valley engineers also get that additional compensation bump when working for out of state companies. SF Bay engineers can demand more than twice what a Pittsburg dev can ask for and the fact they live in SF Bay is part of the resume itself. Lots of very easy work at very competitive rates to take the Silicon Valley skill set out to nowhereville and they love being able to point to their San Francisco 10x talent. Everyone wins?
This is irrelevant for the case. The question is if Apple has a monopolistic position.
Running with the dotnet executable works, debugging in vscode does not. It's readily reproducible and likely an effect from an obscure and common issue. (Maybe the "proprietary" nonsense) I could dig in and waste my time on the issue tracker, but I'm not the mega corp with a money printer.

Microsoft has many low quality teams, especially in some of their dev tooling. The natural consequence is that it's primarily tested on Windows, and has evolved many failure edge cases on other platforms.

The proper conclusion is - c# is for windows, just how it's always been. Using it is selling the business's products to Microsoft and forever ties it to their endless tech debt.
You absolutely cannot. That's the entire point.
Generative AI Model Openness Framework Whitepaper
I think they are planning a minifig series with DND.
> 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

Never heard this argument, could you name an example of this? I figured the reason for the ban was that it would sidestep most of the Apple software that comes with an iPhone, which Apple obviously wouldn't want since they would prefer to lock users in.
As an iPhone user: Fantastic. I so hope Apple looses hard.
A bit of hyperbole, but otherwise a fair assessment based on my readings. HBR has a piece from 2017 on this.

https://hbr.org/2017/12/the-rise-fall-and-rebirth-of-the-u-s...

The golden era of anti-trust was 1940s-1970s, but faded with the rise of the Chicago School of Economics.

It does indeed seem to be coming back more now.
I don’t get why people obsess over the phones. Nobody here is trying to argue Apple has a monopoly on the phone market, that is very obviously not the case (although Apple very much contains a market leader position).

The argument is very simple: due to the dominant position on the overall phone market, Apple uses this power to mess with another market: the mobile app market. And here it is obvious how Apple is issuing bullying tactics to maintain its dominance (Apple TV vs. Netflix, Apple Music vs. Spotify, Apple Pay/iAP vs literally anything).

Wether the US courts come to a similar conclusion as the EU legislators remains to be seen, but there is a precedent
> But we know the cost of providing app store services is quite low, so the convergence price is as high as the other party willing keep it at.

Or what the developers would bear. Although I think the actual costs are higher than some people would like to think (with human reviewers and stuff, not just infrastructure).

> If Apple lowered its cut to 8% tomorrow, Google would follow suit because it is still enough money to run the Play Store with.

Would they? Apple changing their fees has no effect on Android. Android suffered from the stigma of being a second-class citizen for a while, when apps were developed for iOS first. If it is as you say, why did they not drop their fees back then?

> For video game consoles, the margins are slim (or negative), so the current cut is the natural price that lets developers sell games for a profit and the hardware companies to subsidize consoles to a level that people can afford them.

Right, but that’s a moral argument, not a legal one. Negative margins on hardware is a business decision. The law does not discriminate depending on your business plan. If 30% is extorsion, then whatever you do on the side does not make it stop being extorsion.
This is not as big of problem there as it might be in other places. Here, a video of how fuel is transported in other parts of the world (popped randomly on my feed): https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGePEvYU5/. It gets the job done, everything else matters very little to not at all.
This actually kind of happened to me. My iPhone 12 Pro was stolen out of my hands last year in July. I had an Apple watch, but decided to replace the iPhone with a Pixel 7 Pro [1] since it was a bit cheaper than replacing the iPhone and I didn't have a job, and as a result my watch didn't work. Initially I was happy enough to use a dumb analog watch, but shortly after this happened, I was diagnosed with sleep apnea and wanted something that would track sleep. I ended up getting a Garmin Instinct (per a recommendation on HN actually).

I gotta admit that it would have been pretty nice to not have been forced to buy a new smartwatch, and just use the one I already had. I love the Garmin Instinct, more than I liked the Apple Watch [2], it's a very good, well-made product, and I'm happy that it appears to work fine on iOS and Android, but I really didn't need another watch. If there hadn't been an artificial limitation forcing me to get another watch, I would probably still be using the Apple Watch.

[1] I don't have that phone anymore because the Pixel 7 Pro is a horrible product that Google should be ashamed of themselves over.

[2] In no small part because the battery is like 16 days instead of the 1.5 days I was getting with the Apple Watch.
I work for a company that manufactures access control and communication systems. The readers we develop support a variety of ID standards, from unencrypted EM-Marin and a long time ago cracked Mifare Classic to modern Desfire EVx standards. According to our statistics, more than 95% of customers still continue to use the most insecure identifiers because of their low cost and ease of operation.

Many of the installed devices are not properly maintained, even if the manufacturers continue to support them, because you have to pay for maintenance. In addition, not all equipment can be updated remotely over the network or even have a network connection to do so remotely.

Even if your cards are encrypted, it still can't guarantee you protection, because in most cases card readers are connected to controllers (not in the case of all-in-one devices like this lock) via Wiegand protocol, which doesn't provide any data encryption, so the identifier ID is transmitted over two wires in the clear form.
I must be missing something because that's simply not true in Android. I can individually grant/revoke tracking permissions for each app. I assumed the same would be true for iPhone.

For me it makes no sense to make it only about the entity. It's like saying "the US government is tracking you", instead of saying "the US government is tracking you through this app right now"
I attribute a lot of the higher expenditure and lower efficiency to the continued insistence that outsourcing to contractors, effectively picking winners in a "market" to give monopoly status, is a better way to provide government services. These firms have little if any accountability to the electorate, no incentive to set reasonable prices, get anything done efficiently, and in some cases don't even produce working services

Similarly, bringing a drug to market with a patent is not a competitive marketplace, by design, and it consistently creates an outcome wherein people are charged exorbitant sums of money because of this non-competitive market. Doing a bunch of government-backed R&D and then getting a patent for it is the government picking a winner, not creating a market

Basically, it seems like the government was and remains a lot more efficient when it directly builds the capacity to provide goods and services it determines to have an interest in providing, rather than try to do this through "the market" (again, this is almost never an actual market)
People have been saying that since before Hacker News was called Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13852

Whatever the poison is, to quote Voltaire, "it must be very slow".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21755721
And besides making you feeling good, how does it benefits anyone?
CVE-2018-1000810: Buffer overflow vulnerability in str:repeat()
False dichotomy. Labor can be funded by multiple sources at the same time.
> It's not clear to me if there simply is not room for 3+ operating systems in a widely distributed mobile market.

I think there would be, if interoperability were a requirement. Microsoft and Blackberry both tried to make their own walled gardens, and maybe that's why it didn't work out. If consumers didn't feel locked in to one platform, they'd be more open to exploring other options.

Smartphones aren't the sexy new tech they once were. They're just boring old utilities now, and it makes sense IMO to start regulating them. Forcing companies to implement open standards seems like a good idea, and maybe this lawsuit is a first step in that direction if it ends with Apple being forced to fix iMessage interoperability.
Unless you believe that engineers in Paris are a quarter as productive as engineers in San Francisco, you already acknowledge that geographically defined labor markets vary dramatically in compensation. If you remove those borders, why would you believe the rate for labor would settle on the high value instead of the low value.
Fortunately there are other options if you wish to still use JS/TS for the build while delivering zero JS to the client. Astro, Fresh.
Signed but Not Secure
How much do you pay Google to use docs?
Automating Grounded Theory Development with Large Language Models
Silent Running: 1970s Environmental Fable Remains Depressingly All Too Relevant
I am quite familiar with this space. What is your backend/database stack? That is a factor.

I'm a cofounder of PowerSync [1] which provides bi-directional sync between Postgres and SQLite and has a client SDK for React Native.

There is an RN tutorial that may be helpful [2]

[1] https://www.powersync.com/

[2] https://bndkt.com/blog/2023/building-an-offline-first-chat-a...
As someone trying to initiate new business over the phone as an insurance producer this is both reasonable and worrisome. As someone who isn't trying to scam anyone it concerns me that scams are so pervasive this may continue to be incredibly difficult by less legitimate actors.

I'm experiencing difficulties in even contact people who have expressed interest because they have expressed a broader interest than me eg they expressed an interest in foo and are now getting contacted by bar who has a relationship with foo but is not in fact foo and the contact could have occurred weeks ago.

I could stand up a website and plaster it with verifiable information but much of that info like say professional license is itself by dint of being public not entirely verifiable eg I could put up a website for Sam Spade with his license info. For the same reason you are able to verify his license number—its public—its not an actual verification that you are speaking to the right person.

Perhaps more relevant its easy to just never get to speak to the person in the first place because their defenses are rightfully up.

I wish there was an easier way to authenticate as legit.
When setting up my Windows machine I was given the opportunity to pair it with my iPhone via Phone Link. In doing so, my Windows machine was able to get all of the notifications that I saw on the Lock Screen of my iPhone, and call history (make and receive calls too).

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/sync-across-your-dev... and https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2023/04/26/phone...

I assume that this functionality is available to other devices too.
They are not regulating computers, they are regulating markets.
Zuck threads.net: First post in the Fediverse
Playstation PSN Network down worldwide
U.S. versus Apple: A First Reaction
He was no slouch when it came to programming.

He taught classes that going through the actual 68000 assembly to perform the context switch between threads in an interrupt service routine (copy the saved registers from the running thread on the stack to a separate area, and overwrite them on the stack with the registers from the thread you want to switch to).
*Teenagers, who are of course known for being perfectly rational in such things.

Next you can sue designer clothing companies for not handing their products out for free to poor teens.
You can store passkeys directly in Proton Pass and access them via mobile or desktop (which doesn't require additional hardware).

You can also keep a backup on a Yubikey as a webauthn passkey, protected with a pin which will self destruct after enough failed attempts.

A passkey is a cryptographic key pair that stores a private key pair (encrypted) in password manager/server or on a Yubikey etc..) and a public key that is stored on the originating service.
Bootstrapping Alpine Linux without root
If you were doing this during the protests, comments on closed (protesting) subreddits were hidden from users' profiles until the sub reopened.
"apple is making too much money, so let's loot them"
I am also thinking about social media as being the defining digital experience for Millenials and GenZ, an innovation of GenX.

Jack Dorsey/Twitter - GenX

Tom Anderson/Myspace - GenX

Jeremy Stoppleman/Yelp - GenX

Sergey Brin+Larry Page - Genx

There's some elder millenial crossover with Zuckerberg and the founder of Reddit but if you consider them Xennials then it still works for me.
He got his last name from his Norwegian ancestors.
There is no reason to believe lack of background activity support on iPhone is the reason smartwatches haven’t taken off as a computing platform.
RIP to author of one of my favorite books.

If Vernor Vinge doesn't deserve the black banner atop HN, then nobody does.
I think what's more likely is "mode switching" in which you can disable these components of the CPU for a certain section of executing code (the abstraction would probably be at the thread level).
The extreme result is indeed what Apple wants to avoid because you would more or less have a custom operating system at that point and could ignore Apple's software, which they would hate. Obviously it is not as good as being able to flash an actual new OS onto the device but it would still impact Apple's bottom line.
Notch Code
> In the IBM case it opened up an entire industry of third party "compatible" peripherals and saved consumers a ton of money

I’m curious what market opportunities the Apple suit could open up.

- Xbox cloud game streaming

- WeChat like super apps w e-commerce (X wanted to do this play but more likely Facebook Messenger and the like)

- iMessage on android

- a receipt tracking app or something directly tied into Apple Pay tapping
I've read the distance story (https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles for the curious) but not the altitude one. Do you have a link handy?
That's the issue. The thing that made them worthwhile was a very basic set of functionality. Every single other feature they've tried to add was poorly implemented and not picked up by users.

It just doesn't make sense as a business. You don't need a million devs to run a forum site, you need them to add more and more bloat to convince investors you're growing.

All they have done is pushed ads harder. That is all they really have to offer.
>and will almost certainly get worse

If you are so sure go make millions on the stock market and stop complaining!
Hey, neat - clicked around a little bit! Bug report: the contact page had some comments related to an article that definitely weren't related to the contact page.
Good luck getting them to listen and take you seriously rather than engaging the standard ego defense of "I would never fall for that".

And in general "don't give out money or information to anyone calling on the phone" is good advice, but thinking it's a complete solution is a bit fanciful. I'll admit to personally finding myself on the receiving end of a call from $bank, and in a moment of weakness having supplied various bits of low-stakes personal information for their "verification". I had called them earlier and was expecting a response, but it could have just as easily been a scam calling at the perfect time. After the mental gears started turning and I realized how little I actually knew about the incoming call and how the requests were escalating, I stopped the conversation and asked where I could call them back. The point is it took a realization on my part, because these banks utilize highly deficient security procedures that make people comfortable with insecure behavior (starting with the use of effectively public information for "identity verification"), and the scammers only need a very tiny sliver of success rate to make it profitable.

Also many of these scams are legitimate-business adjacent (medicare billing, medicare advantage, save money on electricity/tv, political campaigns, etc). Old people just want someone to talk to, effect their own fading agency, and really do believe the spiel of a friendly sounding person promising to help them. The potential damage there is lower than accounts being drained, but the continuum makes it hard to draw an absolute line when the "helpful" quasi-scammers blow right through it.
Abstract: Generative AI (GAI) offers unprecedented possibilities but its
commercialization has raised concerns about transparency, reproducibility,
bias, and safety. Many "open-source" GAI models lack the necessary
components for full understanding and reproduction, and some use
restrictive licenses, a practice known as "openwashing." We propose the
Model Openness Framework (MOF), a ranked classification system that rates
machine learning models based on their completeness and openness,
following principles of open science, open source, open data, and open
access. The MOF requires specific components of the model development
lifecycle to be included and released under appropriate open licenses. This
framework aims to prevent misrepresentation of models claiming to be
open, guide researchers and developers in providing all model components
under permissive licenses, and help companies, academia, and hobbyists
identify models that can be safely adopted without restrictions. Wide
adoption of the MOF will foster a more open AI ecosystem, accelerating
research, innovation, and adoption.
This doesn't track. They spent a lot of time and energy coordinating with the authors of popular mobile clients, and could easily have extended some means of letting them continue to operate given that they were clearly not harvesting content for themselves. Meanwhile, content can still be harvested for LLM training without the API (by using the HTML site).

It seems like the real intent was to regain control over the surfaces users use to consume the site, especially on mobile.
You are agreeing with the parent poster, who is saying that the 80% matters, and it's nonsensical to call the 80% 100%.
I much perfer MacOS over Windows.

Windows is horrible, it's messy, overly cluttered and bloated. MacOS is so much cleaner and nicer, that with nice hardware is why people buy Apple devices, at least that is the same with everyone I know.
I had a CS class with him in the 90s, the stories were true :)
If you can get a reasonably high percentage then this might not be a problem. Include something in the crisper treatment that acts as a marker that protects the cells to which the treatment is successfully delivered. Then kill everything without the marker. I don't know what fraction of of your CD4 cells you need to maintain a healthy immune system, but I imagine even a double digit percentage reduction is probably tolerable, especially if the reduction is only temporary.
Correct. I, the consumer, see a price on an app, and either I pay it, or I don't.

How the pie gets divvied up is no skin off my nose. None of my business.
Sapir-Whorf is bunk
In my line of work, I can't go for long without a USB to Serial adapter.
> Not evil for the sake of evil, but rather reasoned decisions with terrible prices

The Emergents and their system are pretty clearly just evil, and there's never any indication given that they actually care about those terrible prices, or even reflect on them for long. Vinge is very good at channeling the Orwellian language that regimes like these use, but I didn't find his intent at all ambiguous.

The really compelling and ambiguous character in that book is [redacted spoiler], who really does grapple with the moral implications of his decisions, but ultimately chooses the not-evil path. Personally I think this also highlight's Vinge's biggest flaw as an author for me, which is that in all of his books, the most fully realized and believable protagonist is a scheming megalomaniac, with second place going to the abusive misanthrope of Rainbows End, and third to the prickly settlement leader in Marooned in Realtime. All of the more sympathetic characters feel like empty vessels that just react to the plot.
I simply installed Google Photos app and now every single iphone photo is automatically synced to my google account.

Super easy, barely an inconvenience.
Change license from BSD-3 to dual RSALv2+SSPLv1
In this case... the largest submarket of....computers.

If you think one can regulate the market for X without understanding how X works... you should work at the DOJ or FTC. Lina Khan has a job there waiting, I'm sure.
> The question is, can you buy a car from a different manufacturer? When it comes to cars, yes you can.

You can, but why would you if you have no idea that your Apple purchase comes with all of these negative consequences?

I would guess that most Apple users don't know the implications of their purchase, and therefore they have no real incentive to look outside of Apple. Garland even addressed this in his speech: Apple disincentivizes you from choosing non-Apple products. They make it look like their products are better, but really it's the opposite: they make their competitors look worse due to their own purposefully terrible interoperability.

Contrast that to an Apple Car that only lets you drive to Apple Grocery stores with a 30% toll: the user is going to see how bad that is and naturally they'll find better alternatives on their own.
And one that says a bit about Sir William Crookes and shows of some of the Radiometers he made:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0f5i7r02dg by Objectivity
Right, except the author also mentions two obscure languages with very little uptake at all, so it can't simply be a popularity thing - they're not useful at all, by that limited metric.
It will be interesting to see the different takes from power users that opted in and out of the IPO at $34. I imagine that bitter power users who balked[1] at the offer will be further embittered if they lose out on a significant windfall. Stock is currently at $52 and dropping [2], and if I understand correctly, there was no post IPO lockup period. If so, I bet there was some champagne being popped at 1030 AM by those who opted in.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39772319

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/RDDT
Apple Pay doesn’t offer single use card numbers for third party cards. They are different from your regular card number but they stay the same between purchases.