skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well damn, if ending Apple's monopoly is the key to uniting the country politically, sign me up.
> I don't think connections count as flops. If a neuron only fires 5-50 times a second then that'd put the human brain at .5 to 5 teraflops it seems to me.

That assumes that you can represent all of the useful parts of the decision about whether to fire or not to fire in the equivalent of one floating point operation, which seems to be an optimistic assumption. It also assumes there's no useful information encoded into e.g. phase of firing.
> are we just picking on apple because they are popular

"Popularity" is a precondition to running afoul of antitrust law, yes..
Reddit had $900 million in revenue last year.
Jobs wanted webapps because it tied the hands of third parties more - it was harder to write a webapp that would burn your battery (and hands).
He posts in other peoples posts. ;)
With this and node-canvas, you have everything you need to generate PDFs. I'll add an example to the examples/ directory for that. The spreadsheet library and PDFs I talked about in OP were examples of how we use this in our application, but are closed-source.
> But in the case of food, I believe we are, because evidently we require certain substances to survive, and one of the best ways to get those is to eat meat.

If it was the only way this would be more compelling. However it is just the easiest way.

Like arguably the best way to get money is to mug someone, but i don't think that makes it ethical when there are alternatives.
The Longest Joke in the World
My thoughts exactly. PG just writing a fluff piece to try to get them a lil IPO pop.
If I switch to android I lose the apps I paid for and my ability to text American iPhone users is completely hamstringed
Small ExFAT chunk size has significant performance degradation on macOS and Linux's userspace ExFAT.
It also took 5 minutes to mount an SSD with 500k photos.

Bumping it to 4MB fixed it but used more storage.

Windows and the Linux kernel module variant are unaffected.
Not to mention Steve editing users' posts, Ellen Pao being in the same social circle as Epstein, Maxwellhill conspicuously going silent when Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested, promising and then failing to deliver on direct user funding and adrev sharing, and flatly ignoring user feedback for the better part of a decade.
What a waste of everyone’s money.
And in the HN discussion about Garnet, someone said they’d never go into bed with MS. Their argument was that MS is just going to do bait and switch and will just change the license when it suits them, therefore Redis is superior because they will always be open source licensed. What a prediction.
A pretty good list. Thanks for the reminders.

I will add "Building roads to reduce traffic."

Edit:
Just adding

Jevons paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

and

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39780949
Not zombies, but loving slaves. People able to apply all of their creativity and problem–solving skills to any task given to them, but without much capacity for reflection or any kind of personal ambitions or desires.
> You can't buy an iPhone from anyone but Apple

You can't buy a Model 3 from anyone but Tesla either. But that is not what makes a monopoly.
Every snake eats its own tail eventually - we went from bit blasting onto a frame buffer in 320x200 to bit blasting vector graphics onto a virtual frame buffer. (I leave out earlier steps and later steps, but every implementation eventually tries to implement its framework - it seems like the natural flow of things)
Did growth rate take a pause?
> Considering in the Google antitrust case it came out that the companies were working hand in glove for years, what were have is a duopoly where the participants collude.

But then, the problem is that you have a cartel, not a duopoly. That’s the thing: you can only punish companies for their actions. A duopoly is a fact, in itself it does not imply any particular behaviour from either company. If there is collusion, then it’s anti-competitive behaviour, abuse of their dominant positions in the market, etc. Things that are already illegal and should be enforced.
The hearts lasted weeks, about 2 months. The test primate for the kidney lasted 2 years, which would be impressive.
I don't even want to open NYT after they sued for copyright infringement on their old news, after entrapping the models with the first phrase.
Microsoft's new Surface devices are easier to repair than ever before
AirBus sounds alright
When Digg started to do stupid things, everyone switched to Reddit.

When Reddit started to do stupid things, some people moved to lemmy but it wasn't as clear cut... I guess distributed networks are always a bit harder to get traction.
>I simply check it out of habit

Adding *.reddit.com to my DNS-blacklist was one of the single-most-productive "lines of code" I've ever added to my personal computer.

Cold-turkey, I quit.

/r/Supermod, 2010-2014, "the pineapple trees guy; erryday"
Named Capturing Groups in Clojure
Sanctions incoming...
The messaging interop point is probably DOA since Apple has stated that they will be adding RCS support to iMessage.

The smartwatch point is interesting and not an argument I've seen made before, but it's a very good example of Apple's vendor lock-in.
The danger is most of the time mankind using something wrong.
"Left" and "right" tend to decoher once you move outside a particular political space into another (e.g. one country to another). The UK right wing party introduced gay marriage, but even the most left wing part of the country (Scotland) isn't particularly progressive (e.g. majority disapproval of allowing gender self identification to 16).

Similarly, trying to judge the UK on racial issues by US standards gets quite confusing. The common British attitude towards Romani would make even the confederate flag wavers of Texas call them racists.

On the other hand, there's full support for plenty of state intervention and state support, e.g. pretty much no one says they want to abolish the NHS.
Apple users do not understand that. That was the comment's point.
Did you set out to find a vulnerability or just stumble on it?

If setting out to find a vulnerability, how do you get started?

What is the “open ide, write print(“hello world”)” for this kind of work?
Your mobile device is a gateway to much of the world. You seem to think it would be okay for a car manufacture to make it impossible to use your car except to drive to business that pay the car maker 30% of every purchase. I'm guessing you'll say people should be able to opt into such a car if they want but if that car has 60% of the market now it's effectively influencing the entire economy. Prices of groceries are 30% higher. Prices of clothing are 30% higher. Any company who wants people to come to their store are forced to sign up to pay the car company 30% or else they won't have access to 60% of the population.

Can you see the issue now? It doesn't matter that people could by other cars. It matters that Apple's market is so large that its influence is too big to be left as is.
At least in aerospace we use C++ because we need a bare metal language and C++ is the most full featured/widely used one. Rust is great but toolchain support just isn’t there yet and ADA/Spark aren’t widely used anymore for new development.
> are we just picking on apple because they are popula

Well, yes, antitrust law specifically, by design, focusses more on large market players, not small ones (there are some aspects still relevant to any participant, though.)

That's kind of central to the whole problem it is intended to solve.
Microsoft's first AI PCs: Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 for businesses
Related video I saw yesterday: TikTok is a Cyberweapon[0].

I don't love the way he presented the idea, a bit handwavey and not properly acknowledging the fact that TikTok is only different from other socials because it's a) very good algorithm-wise, and b) Chinese. But the demo of how one would astroturf a protest was very convincing. He should have just done it, it would have been groundbreaking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB7WzqUq4Nk
The fact that people are shallow is not a reason to break up companies. Some social circles will kick you out if you don't wear luxury clothes, but you don't see the government forcing those companies to lower prices.
Google already adjusts a remote employee's comp when they move geographic locations to a lower cost one.

They have smart accountants, after all.
Before trains they took stagecoaches. So people were very interested in roads.
I'm certain the "Report Junk" thing on my phone is completely ignored, if only because I clicked on it 100 times by accident when it was first rolled out (with very poor UI, IMO).
ITT: pg invented reddit, gives himself a pat on the back, has not used reddit in the last decade to see how much it has degraded
I guess another, more controversial regulatory path we could go down is:

Does the world really need gift cards? Do their few, anachronistic legit use cases outweigh the scam use cases? I personally believe gift cards are an overall net negative, even just considering the amount of plastic and packaging wasted on them, but add on the scam aspect, and we have to ask: should gift cards even be a thing?
>If Reddit could grow to the size it had with management that was harmless at best, what could it do if Steve came back?

Harmless at best wasn't enough, so let's bring in actively harmful!

I'm being hyperbolic but Reddit doesn't really seem to have grown in any meaningful way for a long time; frankly, it has regressed in many ways since Steve has regained the reins.

Steve is operating with more info than I am, so maybe all his decisions are sound from a business perspective, but as a user I've only seen Reddit become less useful, less novel, less active, and less enjoyable. As a result I use it less, and I know others use it less as well. There is no real moat to Reddit outside of it's user base, if they continue to push too hard I don't see how they survive.
I recently re-read Rainbows End, and I think "do to the world" is an appropriate phrasing. It's a strikingly unpleasant vision of a world in which every space is 24/7 running dozens of microtransaction AR games... I found the part where Juan walks through the "amusement park" particularly effective, where little robots would prance around trying to entice him into interacting with them (which would incur a fee).
I agree with this wholeheartedly. The USA is a surveillance state and Apple’s security posture combined with its market share is a considerable hindrance. The arguments against anti-competitive and consumer-hostile mechanisms ad nauseam pale in comparison to this. I very much want to see real numbers, perhaps survey data, supporting the narrative that customers are locked in, unhappy with their experience, or otherwise underserved by Apple. Because IRL, I see nothing but happy customers.
> I would bet money this is the opposite of the majority experience.

As with ICQ/AIM/MSN Messenger back in the early 2000s I bet it's regional. WhatsApp seems extremely popular in my age/peer group where I live.
Nigeria's foreign direct inflows turn negative
>Some of the instances are (imo) full of straight-up insane and, worse, perpetually angry people

This has been true for every instance of every Fedi thing I've ever tried to use or thought of using. And many instances block single-user instances so forget about running your own unless you only want to interact with the absolute fringest nutjob basement-dwellers -- because the "mainstream" Fedi is already fringe.

I once had the dumb impulse to reply to someone who was mad about fluoride in drinking water with "you probably get more fluoride from your toothpaste" and I deleted my account as I started to receive arguments about brushing your teeth, as it made me realize exactly the kind of people I would be interacting with on this network.

Honestly I think this is grows out of the incentives for operating a homeserver. There's a negative financial incentive so you must have some other kind of motivator, likely a desire for influence or power.
>> Standard oil was at 64% when it was broken up in 1911. [...] Apple controls 100% of the iOS market [...]

I find it maddening that a lot of people replying to your fair point have chosen to ignore the first half and decided to exclusively focus on the latter, when that part was clearly meant as an example of how market definitions can have an impact.

A fairly recent example of the latter being a commonly mischaracterized or (by members of the public) outright dismissed concern was MSFTs dominance in the Cloud Gaming market, which was often met either with "but MSFTs share of the gaming market overall is less" or the even less applicable "but nobody uses Cloud Gaming anyway", even though neither should count towards whether something rises to anti-competitive behavior in a given market.
… does it? It’s a kidney, not a brain. Brain transplants from a pig seem like a pretty obviously bad idea.
An iPhone is less like Walmart and more like a computer. We should run whatever we like on our own hardware.
Not the answer you want but with an iPhone backup you can extract all the images .
The post I'm replying to was asking for a list of citations where Wikipedia was equally accurate to Encyclopedia Britannica. That wiki article has several of those citations (as well as Britannica's attempted refutations).

I understand that you can't read every link in a comment, but you certainly don't have to post a comment like this if you haven't at least looked into what I posted.
I disagree. Just by looking at the link names, I realized the OP has a similar preference and job role, which made me explore some other options I was not familiar with. I’m sorry this didn’t work for you. But I discovered two new options to evaluate (Bear and Bruno).

It’s these little random posts that sometimes bring significant values.
Quite amazing! Doubtful we'll see any Animal Farm animals. The modified genes are for mostly endothelial modifications.

>> The Yucatan miniature pig breed was chosen because its organ sizes are comparable to human organs28. In addition, pigs with OO blood type were selected to eliminate ABO blood-type incompatibilities29.

>> The pigs were engineered to carry 69 genomic edits, using the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9)-mediated nonhomologous end joining and homology-directed repair30,31, and recombinase-mediated cassette exchange.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06594-4
> Unfortunately you'll find out it's not actually easy at all when you realize that consumers care about weight, size, temperature and battery life which are all things apple excels at. Their hardware is really quite good, unfortunately the software is horribly crippled.

They really don't. iPhone is a status symbol, especially for the new up-and-coming consumers (teens)
> I think the way they set it up as a "Store" was very clever in making it seem completely normal

The App Store was not a business innovation by Apple to set expectations, it's how all cell phone software that preceded it worked. Apple's change was to lower the fees and open up access to everyone.
They are probably not monopolies in the legal sense, since there are three of them with comparable market share and they also compete with the PC, which is open. I suspect there would be more pressure to do something about it if those weren't the case.

Apple sells something like 70% of phones in the USA due to network effects that might not be apparent to users in other countries - social shaming for not using iMessage. The European equivalent is WhatsApp, which the EU is forcing to open up.
AI images and conspiracy theories are driving push for media literacy education
Your explanation is great except for the beginning of the story: in the 80s and early 90s, CISC cores didn't have a CISC to RISC decoder frontend - they implemented complex instructions directly (though with the help of microcode). The size penalty of that was more like 300%, and it was slower, too(!). RISC was a really big deal at the time. It was even mentioned in the, ahem, documentary "Hackers" from 1995.
I've seen text to order food where you pay at pickup. There seem to be some systems out there.

https://www.usfoods.com/our-services/business-trends/text-to...
The vast majority of Android devices still are.

You can buy an "Android" phone, use it until EOL (no OS updates), get a new "Android" phone and it's a 100% different experience UI-wise and even the buttons are in different places.

Tinkerers love it, normal users just want a phone that works the same as the previous one.
I don't know Brin at all, my first thought was "Sergey?!" - will check out his books and appreciate the recommendation.
Bear in mind that the article mentions other issues, such as preventing third party banks managing your NFC wallet, degrading interoperability with non-Apple products, etc.

Also, I'm not sure why you favor the App Store. It's not safe. Apple is unable to keep malicious apps off of it, and there is no warranty if you lose money due to a malicious app. People think there is some implied safety in the App Store. There is no such thing.

Safety comes from not giving permissions to apps which don't need them.
Should this make it through, what would this mean for operating systems? Would it mean that Windows and Apple would have to be able to run Windows, Apple, and linux software?

Side thought, many Americans will purchase an Apple products as a means of projecting their identity/lifestyle. Apple, to many, is a luxury tech product company and is used to project their self image to the world.

Remove the exclusivity of their products only being able to integrate with one another, then the image of exclusivity ("part of the club") starts falling apart.

If any of this happens then Apple's in a pretty shit spot. That's a big if tho
Google dorking has been a thing for more than 20 years: https://kit.exposingtheinvisible.org/en/google-dorking.html

(Your comment downplaying someone else's work, while simultaneously showing your lack of historical knowledge on the topic about which you're commenting, based on my specific googling to find the date of coinage, might make you eligible to be "a foolish or inept person as revealed by Google".)
Alternatively, let's wish the best to both of them.
> way is simply that the user will be notified later, so it’s hard to tell what the client really did in the background.

I receive emails instantly. There is polling option in settings, I've disabled it.
This book

https://www.amazon.com/Friends-High-Places-W-Livingston/dp/0...

tells (among other things) a harrowing tale of a common mistake in technology development that blindsides people every time: the project that reaches an asymptote instead of completion that can get you to keep spending resources and spending resources because you think you have only 5% to go except the approach you've chosen means you'll never get the last 4%. It's a seductive situation that tends to turn the team away from Cassandras who have a clear view.

Happens a lot in machine learning projects where you don’t have the right features. (Right now I am chewing on the problem of “what kind of shoes is the person in this picture wearing?” and how many image classification models would not at all get that they are supposed to look at a small part of the image and how easy it would be to conclude that “this person is on a basketball court so they are wearing sneakers” or “this is a dude so they aren’t wearing heels” or “this lady has a fancy updo and fancy makeup so she must be wearing fancy shoes”. Trouble is all those biases make the model perform better up to a point but to get past that point you really need to segment out the person’s feet.)
You're just talking about a bag degrading into smaller and smaller plastic particles (microplastics) while the people above are talking about biodegrading into natural elements.
If you've got the mental bandwidth and dedication to learn these kinds of things, it can be very impressive. This is obviously a much less dramatic example, but when my wife worked for a costume wholesaler over a decade ago, she had to learn how customs regulations worked in order to design costumes that would be able to be imported without the higher duty associated with "wearable garments", and by the time she left that job, she knew the regulations better than at least some of the customs agents she had to interact with.

I have great respect for people who can learn to navigate government bureaucracies well enough to avoid getting caught up on all the deliberate snares and thorns—all the moreso if they can do so while also being poor, working 3 jobs, raising kids as a single parent, etc.
SceneScript, a novel approach for 3D scene reconstruction
The super apps point is very interesting. The quotes in the complaint from Apple are exactly right: super apps are sucky and don’t follow native platform conventions. The DOJ then says this is a good thing and pro-consumer innovation. If only they knew the tactics WeChat and others use in China to keep users trapped. (For example: have you ever tried to send an Alipay link through WeChat? Good luck!)
There was a time when teens had to be on BBM or be left behind.
> Well, Microsoft eventually got all but forced to port Office and, for a time, Internet Explorer to macOS to evade getting sanctioned by the EU.

I have seen some people assert this a few times in the last couple of weeks and I don’t know where this comes from. This is not at all what happened.

This was part of an agreement between Apple and Microsoft in 1997, long before any EU decision. Microsoft bought some Apple shares and agreed to support office on MacOS for a few years, and Apple made IE their default browser.

One can argue whether they did it to improve the optics in their (American) antitrust lawsuit (and there are several details that do not make sense if it were the case), but it certainly was not forced on them by any court.
Sadly, area codes are no longer a meaningful signal of anything. My family has three cell phones and one VOIP number; and those use four different area codes, hundreds of miles apart.
Lol. If all you can give me is a crap letter that says nothing about you and just lists what I wrote in the ad and how excellent you are at it, then I'm going to go with the people who excitedly told me about their actual experience and related interests. Don't see anything shameful about that.

CV is nice except that most people have a list of "Senior Software Engineer at XYZ" and that's it. Doesn't tell me anything, so again, if that's what you're going with, I'm going to prefer the person who took the time to actually talk about their related experience and interests. LinkedIn is nice but same problem as with CVs.

Seems like you think everyone has perfect detailed CV and LinkedIn profiles... Nope. It's mostly crap that says nothing. If your CV/LinkedIn can take the role of the cover letter then sure, no problem, but I don't see that often.

Not sure how the recruiter's notes about your nice friendly outgoing personality and good English level would help me understand your experience and interests related to the job, but yeah sure lol.

No crappy ATS at our company, BTW. Applications go to the inbox and are handled by real people.
Back to Digg? :)
What about it is wrong?
C++ is kind of a “language of last resort” type thing where you use it if there isn’t another good option for what you want to do. Eg. Most desktop development was done in C++, but now C# and newer languages have killed off C++ for most desktop apps. So C++ is still widely used in embedded/performance critical use cases, but Rust will replace a lot of it over the long term.