skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> given that you can do all these things and be secure already on basically any desktop environment

My grandma had her bank account drained by a scammer who walked her through how to install a bank-looking app on her phone because android allows sideloading. I cannot fix my grandma. I can get her an iPhone.

"Oh, but computers...."

No. No scammer will walk her through apt-getting something that will mess with her bank account access in firefox on the ubuntu linux box we left her. Too many variations. Phones are easier targets as there are only two OSs.
> Twitter is unprofitable. Reddit is unprofitable.

At least for Twitter and Reddit, these could be profitable. There's so much fucking garbage done on both platforms... remember the hexagon NFT profile pictures on Twitter or Reddit's NFT avatars? Who in their right mind other than cryptobros would/did buy these, and how much developer attention got sucked in by these projects? Reddit has around 2.000 employees, what are they doing all day long, given that most moderation is being done literally for free?
As can be seen by the specializations between human brain hemispheres. There is a bus between them, but when that communication is cut, and you can see that a lot of what we perceive as a single thought process, is a bunch of independent computing entities with an OS layer on top creating the unity that doesn't really exist.
Why are antitrust laws so reactive? Why not have proactive laws that break up companies if they grow beyond a certain size criteria? Ideally, the criteria would be aggressive enough to kill large corporations leaving behind only small to medium-sized businesses. The result would be markets with increased competition, more innovation, lower prices, more options for employment and self-employment, and the elimination of Big Corp's big money political influence.
Recommendation: your HN post shouldn't tell us more about the company and product than your website does.
Some thoughts: Browser developers today can't speak for the way browser makers in the future may build standards-based browsers. Standards provide a level of future-proofing. Also browsers are not the only tools developers will use to interact with HTML. And most importantly, the custom extensibility built-in to the HTML language is supported by all browsers as well.
I'm fine with Apple implementing BT to spec (i.e. crap) and having their own extensions to improve it. I'm not fine with them eliminating the only alternative, the jack. Since the first iPhone, there's been both BT and jack, and people clearly preferred the jack until Apple decided it was time to grow their accessories sector.
No one is suggesting breaking up apple over this, merely forcing them to allow interoperability
It's been years, but IIRC the main disparity was with responding to notifications.

On Android you could pick a pre-written reply to texts or even dictate a response.

On iOS you couldn't do anything but close the notification.
You mean other than Settings > Camera > Formats > Photo Mode?

Of the reasons I can imagine why Apple might want the camera to default to its best settings, "sell moar cloud" isn't in the top 10.
In my experience those people don't even talk about ink, it's all about paper. They must think that you get just a few sheets of paper for a single tree or something like that, when in reality you get like 10 000 sheets of paper for one averagish tree. And those trees are not rare or anything like that, and the process of making paper is nowhere near as bad as electronics industry. Using paper is as ecological as it gets.
I think the etymology for both of these kinda comes from "letterpress".

> producing many copies by repeated direct impression
Just for the record, OP is talking about the "obfuscation" tool and not about the "decompiler".
God designing us in an emergent manner or through a static blueprint are the same thing. Someone had to create the laws, the genetic algorithm idea itself and all of these components and the environment for it to operate within never mind things like colors, matter etc. Evolutionists cant see the forest for the trees.
Except the minimized ones......
I actually offered to buy that person an iPhone. But regardless, no one is a victim here.
I ended up pedaling without power on a 3 hour trip in the mountains on a 750Wh battery/85Nm motor. Can be easily done ;-)
you have to open hugo.zip, or click on the view contents link beside it
I bet the Apple apps have much, much, better background activity/services support. Doing "background" uploads is nothing short of painful compared to Android.

While we never want to compete with core Apple apps, we're constantly having to say 'sorry that's the restrictions running on Apple' with background support.

(our usecase is we have a B2B app that has visual progress reports - so we'll have the same people on a team - the Android ones get their progress reports uploaded instantly, the iOS ones 'sorry keep your phone open'.)
> This is how the free market is intended to work. This opens up the range for several android phones (which have a near split in the US, and a majority globally last I recall) to offer better hardware.

Then why isn't this happening? Google's platform is not meaningfully different from Apple's in enough ways to actually make me want to switch. Who's shipping an open phone with amazing cameras that match what the iPhone and Galaxy provide, that also allows sideloading without disabling all of Google's nice software features/cloud storage?
There's something strange going on, the comment you replied to was posted three days ago according to the user's profile, but it says 43 minutes ago here. You probably read it when it was new, I recognized it as well.

https://imgur.com/a/wkkbZ1l
It remains to be seen how apple handles RCS. It's a pretty lax standard.
What is this "Maxwellhill" thing refer to? I vaguely recognize the username as an old reddit powermod, is the implication that reddit power users are involved in human trafficking?
What limitations did Apple place in 2013 (or 2014 or 2015) that reduced the functionality of Pebble in light of a forthcoming iWatch?

If it was a "it worked and then Apple took away this API that we were going to use" that would be one thing. If it was "the iPhone didn't have the functionality for other devices to read messages over BlueTooth until 2015 with iOS 8" - that's a different claim.
The problem is Apple is corrupting SMS, which should be a public and interoperable standard. Google/Gmail is doing the same thing to email. There’s no technical reason you couldn’t have end-to-end encrypted text messages between iOS and Android.

I bet way more people would try Android if they could fully participate in group texts.
You also have to buy all apps through Apple's app store to natively download to a device. The Digital Markets Act addressed something similar, requesting that developers can sell through alternate marketplaces. Apple came back with a proposal to (1) stick with the status quo with 30 percent commission on sales, (2) reduce commission to 17 percent with a 50 cent charge on downloads over a million, (3) sell through a competing app store and pay the download fee every time. (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/technology/app-store-euro....)

I've designed several apps (Fitstar, Fitbit, theSkimm) that were dependent on the Apple ecosystem. While it's a huge tax to comply with their rules, they also do a TON to help developers succeed, especially early on. They maintain components, provide developer tools, build entire languages, design new paradigms, and ensure quality. I've had a respect for the tax on a service they provide to both developers and end users. At this point though - they're acting as a monopoly, and it feels anti-competitive.

It's not just the developer tax that's a problem. Hiding behind a veil of privacy also doesn't forgive the introduction of "dark pattern" end user experiences - such as the inability to have a group chat with non Apple users. And no non-Apple share links on Apple Photo albums. These create digital "haves" vs "have-nots" - and not everyone in the world can afford to buy physical Apple devices. There must be protocols that allow information to be more interoperable so people have optionality and control over their digital identities.
> Yes, but marginal rates are important, too.

Which is exactly the point. What's the "marginal tax rate" on low and middle income people of the existing benefits phase outs?

The >100% marginal rates that create actual cliffs are so patently absurd that no one can look at them and find any way to justify it, but even when the combined tax+phase out rates are in the neighborhood of 80-90% of marginal income, that's still not what we want, is it?
Good to know! Will check it out. Was this something they added later?
Normal BT drops to very low sound quality when the mic is in use, because it goes into "headset" mode. Apple got around that with an extension. Combined with the jank pairing and device switching, the difference is pretty big.
There are tons of articles about monkeys routinely eating fermented fruits, so advanced brains aren't required for that.

E.g. https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/03/30/monkeys-routinely-eat-f...
Euro-cloud consortium CISPE calls for investigation of Broadcom
I'll have to check this out because my wife much prefers the Peloton app to Apple Fitness.
These days the reliability problems of Bluetooth are effectively gone. Sure, it's not a perfect technology, but Bluetooth devices work completely reliably for me across tons of vendors.

Saying Bluetooth itself is unreliable is an outdated view. There are shitty Bluetooth devices yes, but the protocol works fine when paired with good devices
https://redis.com/blog/redis-adopts-dual-source-available-li...
> by converting Music.app into Apple Music

Apple made iTunes (which already supported Apple Music) into a dedicated Music app, and offloaded some of the other stuff iTunes could do into separate apps and the Finder.
I suppose to make the title legitimate Elon should’ve formally started another company, and then acquired the other?

It seems like getting in and operating in a pivotal way within the first 12 months is a valid time frame to still be given a founder title if the other founders agree to it. Since when you decide to incorporate is not consistently/necessarily at the same time for finalizing the foundational team members for a getting a company on its feet.
Yet the most important issue for many is missing (unless something changed recently) - inability to access filtered cesspool of scam, malware and annoyance that modern ad-infested internet is.

Jihad against anything actually working well (ie firefox and ublock origin) due to to be polite dubious reasons. Apple gatekeeping is just a move to ads for themselves, it was already multibillion business for them last year. Thats monopolistic behavior in plain sight.
We need proactive antitrust laws that break up companies beyond a certain size criteria. There are many markets beyond the tech sector that need a breakup. But no, lets wait until there is enough outrage before the DoJ laggardly assembles a case against them.
You have a strange definition of dead.

I would love to have a company that has 1% the success of just Windows 11 which is estimated to be on 20% of all running PCs, let alone the rest of the MS empire.

Selling 6.2 million vehicles in one year (GM) is hardly a zombie company.

Meta had 40 billion dollars of net revenue, and 3 billion MAUs, which is a pretty fierce zombie if you ask me.

IBM measures their profit in the billions too.

Even GE is still spinning off billions in profit.

All of the companies you mentioned have grown in the past 10 years.
Claude Talks to Claude
...gets confused, finds a way, falls in love, and becomes one with the universe
I always liked the reddits (Steve and Alexis), but I'm not overly fond of what reddit has become.

And, I fear the beatings will continue until morale improves. I just don't think the incentives are aligned with building a good community, anymore, so there's nothing pushing reddit toward becoming good again and many things pushing toward exploitation of the near two decades of conversation found there.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39772562.
I skimmed thru the post, and did not find the arguments convincing. For instance, the example seems to be watered down from the Linux mmap man page. Thus it appears that awareness of mmap and it's man page makes one a "C ace"!
I bought an Air (M1) at the same time and felt like the air was the better value. For one, the fact that you can't hit a button to volume up/down, but instead have to activate the Touchbar, click the sound icon, try to move the volume left or right to desired location is too many steps, not precise and a pain.

I bought another Air this year (M2), and again, it's a far better value.
This quote is pretty consistent with my take on what Apple has been up to:

> In the end , Apple deploys privacy and security justifications as an elastic shield that can stretch or contract to serve Apple's financial and business interests .
New Zealand's Building Boom–and What the World Must Learn from It
I have high-end Bose headphones from 2020, a new iPhone, and a new Mac. Bluetooth sucks. You're far better off with AirPods than anything else if you're going to use BT.

By the way, it's so bad that I don't use headphones anymore with the iPhone. I use the phone in speaker mode. And the only reason I even have a new iPhone is because AT&T dropped support for my old one.
Because they could have pled the fifth instead of providing the court with a known lie.

You assert your innocence by pleading innocent before a trial takes off. Not by obfuscating on the stand. If an option is to not comment on your innocence under oath, or you'd be lying if you did that, then don't take the stand or remember you don't have to admit to a crime. But unless there are provisions against what lies are applicable to perjury I don't understand how it wouldn't be perjury
3) there are tons of other apps in which exluded users can have groups an use other features with other multiplatform users.
You can't sue a company because in just their official app it won't support a protocol develop by others. Just install another app, no monopoly here.
HTMX is a client side JS file which parses the dom and then interprets it in a certain way and then provides some functionality. However the choice whether someone creates the initial html in a SPA context or a full page refresh is up to the developer. Maybe I want to generate the HTML snippets HTMX processes from the server side in PHP/Python and then have HTMX run it's magic on page load.
And people want to invest in this IPO? Seems like two trains moving towards each other but can’t tell if they are on the same track yet
> It's barely a blip on the radar if the early adopter drop out, because they are by now a tiny subset of the population.

The thing is, when people append 'reddit' to their search query, who writes the posts that get linked? When someone is looking for a home wifi router and types 'mesh wifi6 reddit' in google and a post comes up from /r/homenetworking, it is almost certainly a response to a question from someone about setting up a wireless network, or it is a guide or a review by someone who just posted to get their knowledge out there. Who writes those? Not the people who upvote videos of dudes getting into a fight in Burger King.
ACA subsidy eligibility is not annual. "Income changed" is a qualifying event.
Hey - you got this very correct. Good insights as to what we're up to. Grueling to build product for the pros, but once done it can support a lot of people.

Good automation can dissolve false dichotomies.
Scraping is a lot more dicey than using an official API. Why did Google enter that partnership? They have the data in their index. The only conceivable reason is that they prefer to pay Reddit to avoid the risk of litigating it and ending up with some unfavorable precedent.
So the parent got flagged after I did the math. I hope you don't mind my posting it here just to qualify what the justification looks like:

The exaggerated use-case:

0.0000000001% is:

0.000000000001 (10^-12)

Multiplied by 1,460,000,000

----

0.00146 persons.

And we already know that there are at least 2 people (myself and parent up there) who are interested in that. This is off by a factor of 1000. I'm willing to guess that it's actually off by a factor of at least 1,000,000, possibly 10,000,000. It seems completely reasonable to me that we could find in the entire world of iPhone users 146,000 people who would want to setup their own photos backup.

All of this is simply to say that the user base is absolutely massive, and we need to appreciate how huge it is. Even a very very small subset of users represents a very large number of actual people.

[1] https://www.bankmycell.com/blog/number-of-iphone-users (further upstream sources are provided there)
That growth is predicated on a feature set that has been more or less untouched for over a decade. That core feature set is still very good.

I've seen no evidence that anything they've introduced in the last 10 years has contributed to any of that growth, and my evidence is that just about every feature announced or implemented since then is now either gone or largely ignored by the userbase.
I assumed I paid them indirectly with my data like gmail haha
The actual effect is to know when my message is secure. No, RCS or another protocol does not mean it’s secure, even if they have some encryption. The other app can still eavesdrop after the message has reached the end.

But perhaps the courts would want to weaken security. It’s definitely a thorn in their side.
Something similar I said in 2021, glad to see it still applies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26540187
I'm one of those people. The thing is, I try again every decade or so, and every time without fail there are issues. Intel is the 1990s Apple of the CPU world. "It just works", and I'll pay a fairly high premium for that.
The point of the suit is, they should be free to make that choice on their iPhone. No one is going to remove the app store, and if you love sucking from the teat of Apple so much, you can continue to do so in an environment where there are competing app stores
> it was founded by Steve Huffman and Alex Ohanian

That is true. But a bit later Reddit was joined with a company Aaron Swartz had founded, so he became a cofounder of this new arrangement of Reddit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20241

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#Entrepreneurship
EU Commission Encourages Use of New Anti-Piracy Toolbox
Based on our initial analysis with RAGAS a few months ago, it didn't provide the results that our team was expecting. Required a lot of customisation on top of it. Nevertheless a pretty solid library.
If you travel or even move around a bit during the workday, laptop weight becomes a consideration fairly quickly.
Foundry comes out of stealth with a $350M valuation
Yeah! Microsoft owns 100% of the Windows market, so users shouldn't be able to install software on their Windows devices unless they use the Microsoft store. Installing your own software from the internet or writing your own code would be non-sensical because Microsoft owns that.
I'm pretty sure you're asked whether or not you want to enable Location Services when going through Setup Assistant during the initial device provisioning.
200 dollars? For less than 30 bucks you can buy broken bluetooth headphones on ebay and a linear voltage regulator. Plug them into the barrel jack, done.
Thanks Mike! We're still in VSCode -- thank you for kicking off that very first extension.
I have rented my entire life, and “change all the locks” has always been the very first thing I do. I have a couple of different size high security cylinder locks, and whilst no cylinder lock is unpickable, I’m pretty happy with mine.
I’m more familiar with Preact Signals. How does Angular Signals compare?
I don’t think the security community is also going to become experts in chip design, these are two full skill sets that are already very difficult to obtain.

We must stop running untrustworthy code on modern full-performance chips.

The feedback loop that powers everything is: faster chips allow better engineering and science, creating faster chips. We’re not inserting the security community into that loop and slowing things down just so people can download random programs onto their computers and run them at random. That’s just a stupid thing to do, there’s no way to make it safe, and there never will be.

I mean we’re talking about prefetching. If there was a way to give ram cache-like latencies why wouldn’t the hardware folks already have done it?
Basically this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-W0CBOGnnI
I've experienced a similar situation where a USB-C hub would bring down everything connected to the switch, but only when it was disconnected from the laptop. No clue how this stuff makes it out of the factory...
My experience of cookie-less Reddit (and the reason I don't go anymore) is getting served default subreddits like /r/Canada_sub.

I'm very open to being wrong or outdated in my impression, however!
This is the issue: FOSS has largely become free labor for SaaS companies.
You have to open it at least every few days. Only Apple apps can work reliably on iOS.
Electronic project kits: hands on with a vintage 160-in-1 (2016)
So MMXXIV = 1,000 * 1,000 * 10 * 10 * 1 * 4?
Yes, I did that. I see in there the vinge novel but NOT the version with annotations.
Sony is currently facing antitrust lawsuits in multiple jurisdictions over the Playstation Store.
The important thing here is that distributions are gonna start moving the packages to non-free repos or removing it altogether. So you'll have to get it as if were a closed source project anyways.
I think the connection between u/maxwellhill and Ghislaine Maxwell is dubious. The account is named after the town Maxwell Hill in Malaysia, and they had posted in Malaysian subreddits years before any of these theories came out. It seems more likely to me that the similar names are a coincidence and that the account owner quite reasonably stopped using the account when they became suspected of being involved in a major international conspiracy.
I used to have a dell vostro notebook that every time I logged into the network with windows, it would drop every other device on the wifi.
Funny thing, is that if I used linux, the router would be alright and not collapse.

Never found out the reason. In the end I divorced the wife and she got that notebook.

Wifi is weird.
Under "Features":

>Pause/resume tasks, when you need some processing power right NOW!

How is the pause and resume done?
Welp - seems there are out of date parts of the website. We launched router last Tuesday so have to update that we are end to end now. Thanks for the pointer!
But none of them work like iCloud. No one but Apple is allowed to make an app that reliably ships your photos to the cloud.
Also a link to the manual: http://www.zpag.net/Electroniques/Kit/160_manual.pdf
Don't even have to wait until fire season starts, there are several wildfires going on in the US right now. Texas seems to have the worst of it at the moment.

Source: https://www.fireweatheravalanche.org/fire/current-list-of-us...
Foundry: Orchestration of Computation