skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> when Steve came back in 2015, I knew the world was in for a surprise.

> If Reddit could grow to the size it had with management that was harmless at best, what could it do if Steve came back? We now know the answer to that question. Or at least a lower bound on the answer. Steve is not out of ideas yet.

Does anybody know what "ideas" he's talking about? When I think back to recent developments at Reddit, all that comes to mind is the 3rd-party app fiasco and the "collectible avatars" and "Moons"/"community points" nobody but crypto speculators wanted anything to do with (and are now dead). Oh, and the death of celebrity AMAs after they fired Victoria.
Kubernetes In-Place Pod Resource Resize in Action: Kube Startup CPU Boost
The K8S operator that leverages (still alpha) feature of Kubernetes to decrease cold start times for CPU hungry workloads
The actual complaint leads off with the iBooks thing, which is a terrible start. Apple lost that case and it shouldn’t have; to this day, that result enables Amazon’s effective monopoly on paid ebooks.
This seems like a runaway or short IPO and I'm a very active Reddit user. I saw a statistic yesterday that $300 million of their $800 million in total revenue went to compensate 2 executives and spez alone accounts for more total compensation than the CEOs of three other more profitable tech companies. Nothing I want to invest in more than a company that sent over a 3rd of its revenue to 2 people while not making a profit.

It doesn't help that the entire company lives or dies on an unpaid moderation staff that is increasingly frustrated with enriching these people while being treated poorly.
Their brief will surely cite NYT articles about how some Gen Z kids don't date people with green bubbles.
very cool. More amazing work from xata. Special shoutout to pgroll too!
Sounds like something that ought to be backed up by statistics... say, a rise in otherwise-unexplained cardiovascular events that coincides with microplastic production.

Haven't seen any such studies, but I'm sure they're out there if you look hard enough.
American plastic trash does not end up in the ocean.
I was about to say that. Also, check out this

http://doc.9gridchan.info/blog/181230.ncubic.routing
http://doc.9gridchan.info/blog/190104.ncubic.algorithms

Fromm mycrovtif (RIP), a guy from the plan9/9front community.
Good, it leans left, but not so far left that it’s just LGBTQ/feminist spam. It doesn’t have a bunch of right wing trolls so far. It’s like the early days of Reddit.
Paulg taking a victory lap in really odd fashion: telling a couple of kids what he wanted them to build, saying he predicted ordering fast food on your cellphones was a bad idea and still can’t be done today (DoorDash?). This whole write-up seems off.
This hard for me to understand. Apple hasn’t changed its approach their wall garden in ages. The consumer market decided to reward that model with adoption of Apple products.
The Rabbit had a sense of morality. I do not think it intended to enslave or destroy humanity, or any other monstrous end. It kept bargains that it could have cheated, when cheating those bargains cost it nothing. This is at least a hint of a sense of justice. The Rabbit was likely the adversary of some other entity, perhaps something very Blight-like.
You're mixing the literal definition of monopoly with anti-trust laws. They have over half the market as a single company and the rest of the market is actually a fragmented zone of other companies so yes I think they are. You don't have to own the entire market to run afoul of monopoly laws they don't require there to be literally only one choice in the market.
> chimping

For those who aren't aware, the phenomenon where photographers spend too much time looking at the screen on the back of the camera and saying "ooh ooh ooh" rather than concentrating on the shoot.

Personally I check the histogram and overexposure zebra stripes when the exposure changes radically, but other than that primarily keep shooting.
I remember this; didn't last long :-(

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/09/1085420836/pig-heart-transpla...
There is always another chance. As long as your heart is beating, your body is functioning, there is hope, even for the hopeless.

Try and find a source of strength and connect with it, then it will give you the hope and strength you don’t have now. Or it may be a friend, a religion, God, a community, a historical figure, a living figure, that energy is out there and when you connect with it you will feel it again.

I hope you find it, sending a healthy portion of blessings your way.
For most of my life I kept thinking I was looking for financial independence, knowing full well I’d continue to work if I hit it. But this posed a problem: why work hard toward that if the day-to-day wouldn’t change much? Eventually I reconciled this when I encountered Epictetus: I was actually looking for a mental freedom to find my own meaning, identity, and grow my capacity to choose the good on a daily basis. It was less about the total dollar amount and more about the perception of my own agency.

In fact, I’d much rather grow the meta-skills that let me flourish in life across multiple dimensions than have a bunch of cash land on my doorstep. This is either wise or the type of thing you tell yourself when you haven't had outsized success. But, I also realize the former is 100% more resilient even if it is much harder.

From here, the fog has started to lift, and I can continue the work of uncovering my resilient core of personality.
That was part of his speech.
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That feels like an argument that could apply to bar any category of apps to compete with Apple ones on the phone.

For instance giving a special placement to Apple Music and not allowing other apps to get the same privileges, because music playback needs to be efficient, and a bad music experience would hurt the iPhone's image. Same for movies, same for ebooks, same for spreadsheets (including needing to execute macros, so security risk is through the roof)

I feel I could get paid by Apple to come up with excuses for each app they need any.
I think it comes down to is the project there to make money or not. If it's mainly for money then it would never start out open source (ie AWS) but if it's a solution to a problem that can be improved via collaboration then it'll be Open Source (ie OpenStack). This hasn't really changed over the years.

What we are seeing here, as others have pointed out, is that companies are buying Open Source solutions and then close sourcing them because they view it as a money maker which in the end leads to forks.
Mostly, although autistic folks can also get extremely lonely and we all present differently. A few years ago I actually got one of these "random wrong number" texts and, although I thought it was real and responded, I just didn't engage when they tried to keep talking. I did suspect it was a scam at that point but even if it hadn't been, I was not interested in meeting any random person - statistically we would not likely get along!
The church would have been at the center of the village within easy walking distance.
The user is choosing an iphone because their friends have one. Do you actually think the average person thinks about these things before buying a phone? No. They are just told by apple "you don't get to do that" once they realize they want to try it.

Remember, you (nor apple) are not their parent.
You're right - I didn't think of the App Store. That's a proper monopoly. "Services" are 23b out of 120b in total sales for them last quarter, but at a much higher margin. It cost them 6b to provide those services, but 58b to make 96b worth of hardware.

Looks like 1/3 of their gross comes from services.

Only some of the services are App Store - some of that money is from Apple TV and iCloud storage.

App Store income looks to be app fees and also advertising.
Why is intelligence a bad descriptor?
AWS fixes 1-click account takeover flaw exposing cloud services to XSS risk
I think the position oft the European Union is a good approach. It classifies companies like apple not as a "monopoly" but as a "gate keeper".

I don't have a very deep understanding of that topic, but it's possible to regulate those companies a bit. In the EU similar things were already done for the car industry. The manufacturers are required to allow third party repair shops the same access to documentation, diagnostics software and parts like their own shops (not for free, but for a reasonable price). And repairs at a third party shop doesn't void the warranty.

For computers, cloud providers and smartphones similar regulations could improve everybody's life by giving us more flexibility and cheaper products by creating more competition.

In the end apple is collecting a lot of money and seems to just put it on huge piles in their bank accounts. I don't see any reason to increase competition by introducing regulations. Give startups and smaller companies a chance!
Though the average hackernews reader knows all this, it is not my impression that the average apple consumer is aware of it. Anecdotally, many of the people in my social vicinity choosing apple, are the same people who make their choices based on what they presume the 'cool kids' believe is the 'in' choice. I don't experience iphone users as tech-savvy, as much as I seem them be 'anxious to be cool'.
Edit: I give up trying to help people
The hypothesis without data is that users [mods/power users] who cared about reddit, who contributed to reddit, have largely left or disengaged to an extent.

I would like to see numbers myself, though. However, looking at reddit/r/all, I suspect much of that activity is botting.

I mean, no one can seriously post "my gf cheated, AITAH for breaking up with her?".

Come on...
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As a successful VC, this is the core of my investment thesis.
Wow thanks! Seeing Ladybird progress kept me motivated!
I think that this will be a good case study in the future of whether or not you can de-MBA an organization.

I can’t remember too many cases of organizations fixing themselves in this context. Microsoft is the largest example I can think of.
Yes, there is a lot of discretion in what cases are brought, and if a new administration comes in next year this may be dismissed/deprioritized. Still, I doubt Tim or other Apple employees will be making many donations to Biden's challenger! (Shareholders might be a different story.)

Even if the case continues, it will be a challenge to win. Apple has asymmetric information and knows what they can use to defend the various allegations.
I'm not so sure. We are fully bought in to the Apple Ecosystem (Apple One, Apple Fitness, Music, everything). In most cases (like Apple Home), I did enough research and found that it was much more well thought out security-wise and was good enough, compared to the wild west that is the Google/Amazon smart home ecosystem. Again, for the most part, the walled garden is way superior to what I see outside the garden.

Even the app store, I have all my complaints about Apple's arbitrary enforcement of App Review guidelines as an iOS developer. However, as a consumer, I love that I can spend _less_ time worrying about my non-tech loved ones finding garbage in the app store. Yes there's coercive "buy this game" garbage, and tons of it, but I'm less concerned about financial scam apps than I would be for third party app stores.

However, in certain cases (like only Apple Music supported on the HomePod speakers, or Apple Watch only sending fitness data to Apple Fitness), we feel kind of "forced" to use the Apple product when there are superior competitors, because of the (manufactured) ease of use of full integration.
I think it’s interesting this is one of the first large anti-tech anti-trust lawsuits that has actually materialized since the FTC/DOJ signaled interest in going after these giants.

Perhaps the case is less complex and this could be brought earlier? Or there were some really damning things in discovery proving other justifications Apple has (security, performance, etc) are secondary to punishing competitors products.

The case for consumer harm is much more vague than what other firms are doing in my view. iMessage incompatibility with Android group texts is going to be remedied and maybe deserves a slap on the wrist.
They allow games because that's where the largest chunk of appstore revenue comes from...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1010701/apple-app-store-...
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In other words, "only in cases that you support".
14% of the US population is black, whereas 0.001% of the US is a zookeeper. So, I'd imagine that the bar for mentioning a particular group most affected by a disorder is somewhere between 14% and "so low as to be a rounding error."

If there are relevant factors that are associated with a particular disorder, mentioning that fact seems pretty relevant. This is particularly true for something as complex as a transplant, where the difference between rejection and non-rejection is small.
If apple were to pay for the android replacement phone & perform the transfer of personal data to the new device then that might be a valid argument. As it is they do their best to lock users in to prevent them from ever switching.
When the iPhone App Store first launched, Steve Jobs claimed[0] the 30% was to cover the cost of certifying software as functional, well-designed, and nonmalicious. Part of it was an ego thing too: he didn't want people fucking up apps and making his pet project look bad, so early App Review focused on a lot of UI polish things in order to make people think iPhone software was just inherently better than Android.

Even a few years in there's already evidence that Apple was entirely aware of how much of a cash cow owning the distribution market for your apps is. There's an internal letter asking about reducing the percentage because someone was worried about the Chrome Web Store (?) eating their lunch. Today, App Review is far too inadequate for the level of software submissions Apple gets, and they regularly let garbage onto the store that's specifically supposed to be curated.

I occasionally hear people complain about how Tim Cook "ruined the company" and that Jobs would never do the kind of control freak shit that he literally pioneered and is literally the selling proposition of the Mac all the way back in 1984. The only thing Tim Cook did was scale the business from "luxury compute" to it's inevitable conclusion as a monopolistic nightmare. The way that the App Store business game is played is specifically that you don't keep spending all your money on better app review. Once you have users and developers mutually hooked on one another, you siphon money out of them for your other projects (or your shareholders).

At one point, you were paying a premium for a better App Store, but not anymore. The business relationship just doesn't work out that way long-term.

[0] I personally think this belief was genuine at first.
You don't get it.

> but imo it's just because they have the power to sweep the problem under the rug

OP talks about decline in a certain place. It has NOTHING to do with sweeping problems under the rug. Why not? Because the "under the rug sweeping" didn't happen 20 years ago either! So why did things get worse, instead of better? Because of bad policies, number #1 being bad migration policies which is not merit based. This happend in whole western Europe and turns cities into what OP described, while eastern Europe cities remain what was Paris 20 years ago. So please stop denying OP or anyone to say "wow, it got so much worse here over the years"....

Now the reason I write in an angry way and the reason I'm so upset, is that there is no solution to these problems. Quite the opposite, it will only get worse. But that's another topic. So sorry if my words were a little aggressive.
I mean it's a fact that Black people have a higher chance of suffering from a kidney disease. (I wonder why too)
GPS jamming is already thought to have caused one drone accident, with fatality: http://lemondronor.com/blog/index.php/2013/3/gps-loss-kicked...

And there have been several close calls already, with passenger jets: https://spectrum.ieee.org/faa-files-reveal-a-surprising-thre...

Planes don't need radar, transponders, or even radio to fly, but they're all very important for safety.
Making large AI models cheaper, faster and more accessible
We need Ice 9: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-nine
What rubs me the wrong way about the Apple monopoly case(s?) is they sound to me like “we (the people) don’t want to actually solve the problem by through the totally-viable free market approach; we instead feel that we are owed some say in how this company chooses to develop its products; please strongarm them through legal means that don’t really apply, to make that a reality”.

People who are interested in Apple’s “walled garden” can buy iPhones. People who aren’t, can choose not to. Nobody is making people buy iPhones. Nobody is making people buy Androids either. Any company which thinks there is a sufficient market to be had in providing an alternative platform that does not use a walled garden approach can develop the hardware and software which would allow their customers a more open platform. There is absolutely nothing stopping this from happening today. The failure of companies and individuals to do so proves to me that nobody cares enough about this to take real action.

Contrast this with real trusts of days past like Standard Oil. If someone developed a competing company, they could undercut competitors by selling oil at a loss long enough to drive anyone else out of business. What would the parallel be in this universe? If someone developed a new smartphone, there is nothing in Apple’s walled garden approach that would prohibit that platform from taking off.

IMO when consumers buy products, they are entitled to the product they knowingly bought, not the product that they want.
Yes, they could target specific portions of the brain. Have to re-read the book!
Question: How do companies automatically setup subdomains by asking to add CNAME
I'm trying to build a custom domain network on my website but I couldn't figure out how people can use my subdomain to see their content
I'd love to give an AI a list of workflows to try out every time I push an update to my site.

In addition to pass/fail, I can see it even leaving some comments about ease-of-use. There's a lot of value here!
If you are training people and they aren’t staying, isn’t the implication that you aren’t paying them enough? Those union apprenticeships are often hard to come by because 1) they pay quite well compared to other viable options and 2) people don't want to leave because of #1. If the job is demanding, the pay should be commensurate. The exception is if it’s rewarding on some other axis (e.g., socially).
This is wonderful, I love it. I recently wrote a blog post about generating HTML in Python using LXML (https://ricardoanderegg.com/posts/python-build-html-componen...) and I didn't know about your library. I'll update it to add a mention to it.

Apart from the simplicity, I like the fact you can "install" it by copy-pasting the code at the top of your script, or running:

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/j4mie/hotmetal/main/hotmetal/__init__.py >> myscript.py

which is nice when you want a self-contained file.

I think I'll be using this in the future.
It feels weird at the beginning, but after a bit of practice I found it pretty nice to write HTML in Python.

Here is an example of a HTML page layout written with the DOMinate [1] library for example, in a "JSX-like" way:

https://github.com/olivierphi/zakuchess/blob/main/src/apps/w...

It may hurt your eyes at first sight, for sure... But similarly to technologies like Tailwind CSS, it's mostly a matter of getting used to it - and after a while it end ups feeling very natural to use :-)

1: https://github.com/Knio/dominate#readme
Nice one. I’ve been using Veracrypt for many years now, after the whole Truecrypt fiasco.
Just one friendly advice… always have a decoy partition or decoy OS, otherwise it seems very suspicious to have a disk filled with random data ;-)
A really good idea, that had an honest to the user direction originally, it seems the natural progression towards making financial sense for people who got involved unfortunately has pushed some of the communities away from it a bit.

It would be good to go back to a real user driven approach instead of "user driven, when values and priorities are in-line".

I've had many memorable years there, but after leaving I haven't felt I am missing anything special anymore. It's a lot of recycled content, bot heavy, power drunk mods.. I'll cross my fingers for an improvement but not so confident.
PSLF is the only thing that makes it economically viable to pursue several critical careers, such as teaching. From time to time, people call for its demise, but this would be a very bad idea.

The only way we should ever get rid of it is if we return higher education to affordability.
We need regulation and regulators with a minimum of technical skills, common sense and bribery/lobbying being adequately punished that it's no longer seen as worth it.

Currently that's not the case, so the excuse of not being able to trace the source of the spam is successfully preempting regulation as nobody involved has the skills and/or financial incentives to ask "hold on, how come you know who to bill but not who's originating the spam?".
The Zelda Key Glitch Unlocked in Detail [video]
Ok 100, or 500, both way below the hundreds of years they now last.
For those who don't already know, this is built on tree-sitter (https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/) which does for parsing what LSP does for analysis. That is, it provides a standard interface for turning code into an AST and then making that AST available to clients like editors and diff tools. Instead of a neat tool like this having to support dozens of languages, it can just support tree-sitter and automatically work with anything that tree-sitter supports. And if you're developing a new language, you can create a tree-sitter parser for it, and now every tool that speaks tree-sitter knows how to support your language.

Those 2 massive innovations are leading to an explosion of tooling improvements like this. Now every editor, diff tool, or whatever can support dozens or hundreds of languages without having to duplicate all the work of every other similar tool. That's freaking amazing.
I really don't need to see Trump in every second post and read about people who hate cars, meat, Twitter, Reddit, etc.

Exactly. All I see online is people talking about politics, their jobs, their families, their hobbies, the environment, technology, etc.
I like my iPhone, and want to be able to use Kagi as my search engine. Why can't I?
Does anyone know how to enable this for .html.erb files? I found it doesn't work properly in Ruby .erb files which makes it fallback to just regular ol diff behavior.
> I do not understand why Microsoft stepped out of the mobile market.

Because they failed. And not just once!
You know that they meant there should be an option to enable software sources other than Apple’s App Store.
Could I use this together with Pixi.JS ?
Oh, yeah; I'm just not convinced there's any particular reason to think that LLMs would be useful for decoding languages.

(That said it would be an interesting _experiment_, if a little hard to set up; you'd need a live language which hadn't made it into the LLM's training set at all, so you'd probably need to purpose-train an LLM...)