skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In a perfect world where governments are competent

Yet the general consensus seems to be that in a perfect world governments are democratic, and therefore beholden to the will of the people, not authoritarian like you suggest. But if the will of the people wants to see a change in the use of plastic, they don't need it to flow through government, they can simply change their buying habits.
Quote from the article:

> The company “undermines” the ability of iPhone users to message with owners of other types of smartphones, like those running the Android operating system, the government said. That divide — epitomized by the green bubbles that show an Android owner’s messages — sent a signal that other smartphones were lower quality than the iPhone, according to the lawsuit.

I read that as 'interop' is a secondary issue, if an issue at all; the actual case is the green/blue segregation. If Apple embedded a fingerprint in every interoperable message and shown blue messages for iMessage-sent content, green background for others, it'd still be a problem even if messages are otherwise identical - unless all the features truly work on both, in which case the color split is purely status signaling.
If iMessages have benefits (they do) then there is a technical reason to show you the bubble colors - so you know the benefits apply. If sending video to a blue contact is better than sending it to green, there's a reason to know.

Does it ACTUALLY matter? Maybe not? But people really do complain about a non-iPhone "degrading" a group chat, so it is indicating something.

At the time they made iMessage at first? It was likely a real advance and only because they could control both ends. But now? They may be large enough that it's unfair use of their monopoly in one area to affect another, and get slapped or forced to interoperate.
Besides the fact that consumers aren't as rational as your question seems to imply, some of the reasons for the iPhone's dominance are the same reasons Apple are getting sued.
I've learned to work in multiple industries and verticals and transferring what I know that can.

Generally, there's no hack around learning, other than learning more efficiently. The faster you dive in, the sooner you'll have a sense of what you know (more than you think) and where to actually focus in the next 3-6-9-12 months.

There is a course called learning how to learn that focuses on how adults learn differently that's worth checking out before going into fintech or other topics. Highly recommend checking it out as a first stop.

Fintech is a broad and vague category, not specific.

In this case if it's new to you, focus on first principles learning whether it's in finance, banking.

If you can saturate your time, consciousness with meaning full content, there is a good amount of passive spaced repetition from hearing different explanations of concepts. Podcasts can be helpful, but for learning you will probably find some things on youtube to subscribe to and work through. Have a playlist ready to go, whether it's in your ears, or on a speaker while getting ready in the mornings.

First principles learning means learning the basics and using that to build up to the other concepts. Luckily it also can mean learn it like you're 5 and don't expect to learn it as quickly as something that is partially familiar or similar. When you do this, your brain will point out what's familiar or similar anyways.

What's nice is if you're not great at math, there's still a lot of people and process interactions that can have value added too. The math can be learned too.
leaving spinning disks running all the time has definitely been proven to last longer than starting and stopping everything several times a day
> But doesn't the higher fees on dev help to keep the riff raff out?

It doesn't keep malware from getting in. If it's hurting people by limiting their choices and it isn't keeping people safe then what good is it?
I’ve found that mise (formerly known as rtx) is a better alternative to asdf:

https://mise.jdx.dev/dev-tools/comparison-to-asdf.html
The apps need to be refreshed weekly though, requiring me to connect my phone to my Mac.

Right now my preferred approach is to make web apps, but Apple already tried to take PWAs away in Europe...
https://www.justice.gov/atr/herfindahl-hirschman-index

Herfindahl-Hirschman Index

The term “HHI” means the Herfindahl–Hirschman Index, a commonly accepted measure of market concentration. The HHI is calculated by squaring the market share of each firm competing in the market and then summing the resulting numbers. For example, for a market consisting of four firms with shares of 30, 30, 20, and 20 percent, the HHI is 2,600 (302 + 302 + 202 + 202 = 2,600).

The HHI takes into account the relative size distribution of the firms in a market. It approaches zero when a market is occupied by a large number of firms of relatively equal size and reaches its maximum of 10,000 points when a market is controlled by a single firm. The HHI increases both as the number of firms in the market decreases and as the disparity in size between those firms increases.

The agencies generally consider markets in which the HHI is between 1,000 and 1,800 points to be moderately concentrated, and consider markets in which the HHI is in excess of 1,800 points to be highly concentrated. See U.S. Department of Justice & FTC, Merger Guidelines § 2.1 (2023). Transactions that increase the HHI by more than 100 points in highly concentrated markets are presumed likely to enhance market power under the Horizontal Merger Guidelines issued by the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. See id.
In addition to brewing pies, you can also prepare excess meat easily by freezing or burning it. Throw it at traps, use wands, or even potions if you're using one anyway (otherwise don't waste a potion like this.) If you can easily kill fish (archer class) then you can get a lot of excess meat.
I doubt that a regular user has any opinion on whether Safari "just works". Some developers care about Safari vs Chrome vs Firefox browser engine features, but the average end user at most is just going to think some website sucks if it doesn't work. (And, personally, I don't see any problems in day to day usage, so I doubt it comes up much to those less technical than myself.)

To the extent that they care, they seem satisfied by being able to switch to other iOS browsers that under the hood use the WebKit engine, but give them the ecosystem-integration with their desktop browser that they want. Shared Chrome bookmarks and tabs matter 1000x more to a random user than details of browser engines.
ScienceClic on Youtube has amazing videos on this topic as does Veritasium. Einstein's happiest thought helps with understanding this. He thought that there would be no discernible difference between what a man felt while falling off a ladder (let's not factor in air resistance) and what a person in 0g space felt.

We are actually "accelerating" upwards at a constant rate that is equal to what we feel and many think of as gravity. This is because spacetime is curved by the mass of the earth.

Think of a grid being distorted or squeezed / pinched. The distortion pinching is "gravity". Everything in the grid still travels in a straight path relative tot he lines on the grid but since the [spacetime] grid is pinched, it looks as if it is not on a straight path.
I presume this means that doxxing or outing a pseudonym is illegal, given Musk's words in the Don Lemon interview. I did not know this, but it's good news!
Nice work! There are a few expressions of this idea. There's a reason people keep coming back to it: it's actually really nice to write markup this way.

https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup
https://github.com/JuneKelly/sneeze
>couldn't care less what their friends type from.

Not really. They have ties to specific platforms, just that the platform is not tied to hardware. So it's either installing the app, or losing the connections, same as with the iPhone.
What replaced it - Google Wave ???.
To say nothing of the fact that Github is the cornerstone of the open source world, and Microsoft owns it.
If they're in jail, that's not going to work.
> I also stopped using reddit on the phone after my chosen reddit client was closed down (which I'm grateful for, thanks reddit).

Same here, very grateful for Reddit’s API changes. It made me realize how little value Reddit actually provided vs time spent. I refuse to use their dumpster fire of an app so I quit altogether and deleted my very old account + comments. Good riddance after all, for each “niche” subreddit I was on, I have found very active forums and communities to replace these subreddits. And they’re independent forums that are very old (in internet terms) with lots of passionate people sharing very valuable information.

Turns out I didn’t really need Reddit at all but it took their shortsighted hara-kiri for me to realize.

Oh well, thanks Greeddit!
This is a nice summary. Being an innocent beginner helps convey your ability to lead yourself and work with a team at the same time.

One tweak I do is assume your grace window is half the length you're told or believe. Building up a bit of momentum in case it's needed if something comes up is helpful.
Completely hamstringed? SMS is the standard, and yes it sucks horribly. Elevating the experience with additional software features and cloud services on one platform does not immediately entitle all smartphone users on the globe to the same experience. Google made a push for RCS, botched it, service providers either didn’t adopt it or only partially implemented it. That was upsetting to me. Do we sue Google and service providers as well?

I do agree that losing app licenses is upsetting. But this is no different than the licensing model for many softwares in the desktop market (e.g. per-user and per-install licenses).
I actually read a Fire Upon The Deep over Christmas, and then went on with the rest. The entire trilogy is pretty amazing.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gift-card-scam-get-your-money-b... says that gift card fraud was c. $200M in 2022, and that people have about $20 billion in unspent gift cards. Flow vs stock, but it seems like the majority of usage is legit. (Though maybe not for particular businesses).
This thread is so sad. Reddit was a big important part of the internet for like 15 years. People used to do massive Reddit meetups all the time back around 2010, and some of them were really fun. I still have some very close, family like friends that I met at those meetups.

But now? Almost every comment here talks about how much they hate it. I honestly agree with the hate, and again that’s really sad to me.

I truly think it’s the moderators that destroyed it. Reddit didn’t do a good job of defining their roles, and they power tripped their way into community destroying behavior.

Half the people I know who used to run and attend meetups for my city’s subreddit are now banned from even participating in it, always from some stupid petty fight the moderators had with them[1]. It makes me wonder what types of people are still posting there?

[1] there was a big push a while ago to replace the community mods with people who do “social media” professionally. The old mods that live in my city and people know got semi-threatened with doxxing (hey nice job you have there do they know your Reddit account?) and removed themselves to be replaced by “professionals”. Such pathetic internet drama.

Anyway: we all collectively pour one out for the Reddit that once was. It can go to internet heaven with fark, slashdot, digg, stumbleupon, delicious, etc.
This is an artificial distinction. A browser normally comes with its own rendering engine.

In my experience, Firefox does not work as well on the iPhone as does Safari. It's obviously a rendering issue, because large pages will reload on their own over and over again while I'm trying to read them. My guess is it's a sneaky broken part of webkit which Apple knows how to fix in Safari and deliberately leaves broken for the other browser makers to suffer the consequences. Because, that's just the kind of bullshit which Apple is down for.
> We need to do more than defeat Donald Trump and his allies — we need to make cultivating solidarity a national priority.

This is satire, right?
You’re absolutely right and I can tell you’ve given this topic much more thought than I have. Thanks!
Remote Connection
There are many SSH Clients suggest me some valuable SSH client for secure remote connection.
being a broke outsider in the city, it has been very difficult to exercise my rights especially in terms of housing.

from my limited experience it seems that while in richer neighbourhoods there might be some diversity, it is not the case everywhere. there has been a move to grow the city outwards and move newer social housing further out. but the historically poorer neighbourhoods more or less seem to remain in their older state.

however you rationalize it, one ends up questioning whether it is worth living in the city given the challenges in finding a place.
A major point of the web for me back in the 90s was that everything was text. You could inspect it, you could change it, you could curl it. That’s why Java and Flash and Silverlight were so annoying, they were blackboxes inside web pages. I can’t help but see this today like those yesterday.
U.S. Government - "Hey Apple, can you stop selling so many phones because you're now becoming a monopoly; although there's Android."
Because Microsoft is the East India Company of the 21st century. It is the modern tool of american corporate imperialism.
It's nothing like a slam dunk case. In fact, it's an attempt by DOJ to stretch and redefine the edges of their rights under anti-trust rules.

It's also nothing like Microsoft -- Microsoft was a monopoly, full stop, in the 1990s. They were well over 90% of desktop market share in business, and likely close in consumer. And as 1990s era Microsoft employees will remind you if you ask them -- "there's nothing wrong with being a monopoly, only abusing your monopoly power". Forcing IE on people was considered abuse by the courts of the time, and even then was widely considered to be a result of a Clinton-era DOJ, e.g. politics were involved. As they are now, both progressive anti-big-tech politics, and bipartisan anti-consumer encryption politics.

Today there are hundreds of functional choices you could make for any sane definition of the product categories Apple is in. Mobile phone? Sure - from totally open Pinephone type systems to vanilla Android to stripped-down Android to ... Laptop? yep. Servers/Desktop? Please. Watches? Check.

Are there any major pieces of software that consumers must have that are locked to Apple, and that Apple is charging egregious rent on? Nope. Most Macbook airs are really just browser engines. As of 2020, about 50% of those macbook airs ran Google's chrome as their primary browser.

You might, like me, feel Apple's App store walled garden is on balance a net positive, leaving me with almost no worries related to upgrade problems, my family's phones being compromised by malware, etc, or you might like many others hate the controls, want to root your Android phone and install your own apks directly, and thus choose Android or some other unix-a-like-on-mobile -- more power to you.

What we've seen you won't get the US courts to do is conclude that Apple's huge user base and developer base, controlled through their App store, is somehow a 'public good' that needs to be given away to others that didn't pay to develop, build and market it -- that's pretty much settled. It's valuable, super valuable. It's a competitive moat. But it's not abuse of a monopoly position to have such a thing.
Microsoft can be targeted but that’s a pretty slow process, I wouldn’t be too surprised if they are sued in a few years if they continue their behavior
Northrop Grumman to Study DARPA Concept for Lunar Railroad
>> Apple's change was to lower the fees and open up access to everyone.

Everyone seems to have forgotten that ring tones cost an arm and a leg, that "apps" were awful (I know I designed one)... You had to pay to get your app on a phone even if it was free.
I'm not a lawyer, but I agree. I was alive and working when the US brought it's antitrust case against Microsoft back in the early 2000's.

This feels like a vastly different case, and not one that they'll likely be able to win against Apple.
Imagine that there's a little computer inside each neuron that decides when it needs to do work. Those computers are an implementation detail of the flops being provided by neurons, and would not increase the overall flop count, since that'd be counting them twice. For example, how would you measure the speed of a game boy emulator? Would you take into consideration all the instructions the emulator itself needs to run in order to simulate the game boy instructions?
I suspect so. I'm not really qualified to answer that definitively, though.
Thanks for this link, this is great
> one similar website could take them out

I’m guessing disaggregation will hollow them out by taking away many of the high-engagement subreddits, and only then will one website be able to come in to start the reintegration cycle.

I’m guessing something similar to Discord, but discoverable via search, will be the Reddit killer.

De-centralized, self-moderated, payment options available, the company optimizes the tool rather than the content, etc.

A system like that removes most of the headaches that the current Reddit ecosystem causes.
OP loves hyperscript

Some previous discussion from 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26873682
I lived in Japan for 18 years. Japan is not known for people following any of the advice in this article

> Stop seeking your One True Passion

1000s of examples of Japanese people following their passion to extremes exceeding most non-Japanese expectations.

A famous example would be Jiro from "Jiro Dreams of Sushi"

Japan is a place where lots people give their lives to their company. I've met plenty of Japanese who work 10am with 90 minute commute (so 8:30am) to 10pm (and 90 mins back) 5 days a week, all year. These people have families but they readily admit they spend more time with coworkers than family and are in many ways closer to them.
Did anybody else get offered the “directed shares”? Seems so freaking scammy to ask your users to provide you with your exit liquidity.

I’m talking about this: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/22/reddit-will-let-users-buy-it...
Digg was just a poor man's fark!
If the GTA bug was anything but just bad programming, it was a dev trying to implement their own JSON parser. It's said as much in the analysis that the JSON parser was simply poor, they could have just used any of the already existing JSON parsers.

And the other smaller problem was using a hash array instead of a hash map. You don't really need a mental model of multiple algorithms to know o(1) is faster than o(n).

The whole thing is more of a sign of how poor coding practices must have been at Rockstar for such a bug to not only make it in, but persist for years.
>The fact that it is Google's customers which are being scammed could be part of the reason why Apple doesn't prioritize safety in this case.

this is conspiracy bordering on paranoia. apple has problems, but willingly abusing customers who use the competitors is not one of them
Quoting "colored functions" is a problem of skill. It is a tell of engineer's lack of understanding of concurrency.
Linux is trademarked as well. Is Linux a competitor to the iphone?
Flagella only exist as components of something, they do not need to and shouldn't exist by themselves. If flagella spontaneously popped into existence and cells picked them up, that would be quite difficult to explain without design, but cells producing flagella because they are useful components makes perfect sense on its own.
> Pueue is considered feature-complete

Oh that is sweet sweet music to my ears!
Indeed - it's modern day corporate feudalism.

Anyone arguing for Apple's side is akin to saying we should all be serfs for the King, because he takes care of us well and protects his kingdom.
Assumed Compromise Red Team Assessments: A Guide
I just want the auto-sync experience of iCloud photos to my own NAS. Paying Apple $2.99/mo forever just so I can have an offsite backup of my photos is so obnoxious.
> They grew up using the digital products and services built by GenX

This didn't sound right to me so I had to think it through.

If you google "Is Steve Jobs Gen X" google says yes, but if you look up his date of birth you'll find he's a boomer.

Gates - Boomer.

Torvalds - Gen X.

Shawn Fanning - Gen X.

Chris Sawyer - cusp but Gen X.

Barry Appelman - creator of the AIM buddy list - Boomer.

Kenneth A. Williams - Sierra - Boomer.

Michael Morhaime - Blizzard - Gen X.

I could keep going but... I concede, you're right. Way more Gen X in that list than I expected.
I wasn't asking why Redis would be okay with this, because that's obvious, I was asking why the gpp was happy with this.
Gosh darn, thanks government for giving me permission to execute my freedoms. Sure nice of you!
The takeaway here is that when a multi-trillion dollar company breaks a 130-year old law in a way that impacts over one hundred million people, our justice system and government is so broken and incompetent that it takes five years of investigation before anything happens. Probably years more before any action is taken.

Cool, good job lawyers. The latency of your Leviathan ruins more lives than its power could ever hope to save.
> As a daily Zotero user, not really. The nicest thing I can say about it is, it has plugins and is FOSS. Maybe the new 7.0 release will blow me away, but I've been waiting for it to get out of beta forever.

Can you elaborate where you think Zotero drops the ball?
Google Docs uses canvas, yeah, and last I looked it used an empty contentEditable just to receive [rich text] input. I do think you could use this to write a document editor like Docs and side-step many of the problems with contentEditable, but I haven't tried to.

Every time someone releases a new rich text editor I'm disappointed to find that it uses contentEdtiable. Would be very interesting!
The complaint doesn't talk much about alternative app stores or web browser engines. If Apple lost, would they even need to start allowing alternative stores or browsers? I guess it would be all up to a judge in that case, but the complaint isn't specifically stating that alternative app stores or browser engines should be allowed.