skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Posting anonymously. I worked on an app where Apple gave us special access to private APIs allow listed by the app ID and told us to keep it secret. This access gave the select few apps that got it a huge advantage in performance. I don't want to share too much details at the risk of identifying the app and getting it revoked.
The messaging claim seemed to be about carrier based messaging; SMS and MMS, and I guess in theory RCS (but is that really carrier based if Google has taken it upon themselves to enroll most Android users on a Google server)

Apps that read inbound SMS may be malicious and use that ability to steal verification codes. Or they may not be actively malicious, and meerly handle the data in an insecure way that makes messages available to others.

Performance, I dunno. Maybe they could argue something about how time between user requesting an SMS be sent and it actually getting sent is very important, and similar for display, and that they're more likely to do that right. I've certainly seen some Android manufacturer provided SMS clients that do much better than others on that, although I have no recent performance notes since I no longer get massive floods of SMS from too simple monitoring systems.
> I assert it is trivial to not buy Apple products... Honestly I’m curious - what’s the problem?

Is it trivial to move to alternatives once you've already bought said Apple products?
A leading actor might negotiate a percentage of revenue (profit rarely exists due to Hollywood accounting) but union actors, directors, writers, stunt people, etc receive residuals for reruns, syndication, DVDs, streaming, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual_(entertainment_indust...
Momentous sprint at the 2156 Olympics? (2004)
The most compelling argument I can see is that due to its market share businesses cannot avoid dealing with the app store and it's fees.
Yea that’s what I don’t get. I almost can see falling for the “Microsoft tech support” and “I am the IRS” and “Your nephew needs bail money” scams, as they all sound like emergencies and I can see people setting aside common sense to handle an emergency. At least until the iTunes Gift Cards take the stage. LOL.

But “hello Internet Stranger I know how you can invest and make $millions?” LOL how does that make any sense? Put yourself in the scammer’s shoes: you found a way to double your money. Are you really going to tell random people on the internet how to do it? Obviously not.
This lawsuit pertains to the US only...

Also, most of the US doesn't use text messages either, they use platform dependent iMessage. Hence the lock in.
Just FYI, HomePod actually supports multiple music services, and Apple Health (the data store for Fitness) supports integrations with other providers (both input and output).
> "But unlike the entire rest of Debian it's entirely & purely -dev packages."

I've heard that before and wondered what it means, so maybe someone can explain. My primitive understanding is that the regular package has the binary (executable or library) plus any additional files like man pages. The -dev package is the header files and the source package is the Debian patched source that can build the regular package. How is it different for Rust?

BTW Debian has a nice list of what is available from the Rust world:

https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=pkg-rust-maintaine...
Then you'll need a 3rd-party product. https://imazing.com/iphone-safari-history-bookmarks-reading-...
In the GP's comment, it's all a grand experiment...maybe they should move to better states? </sarcasm>

At the same time, it's not like all the funding is actually going towards those who need it: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/22/us/brett-favre-welfare-mi...
Yeah but Reddit doesn't owe the mods anything, the users do.
>I think it's debatable whether the average iPhone customer buys it, knowing it allows Apple to heavily tax all AppStore developers.

I think if you explained it to the average iPhone customer you might be shocked they side with Apple. The concept of a platform where for free you can take advantage of it and just make 100% of the revenue without cutting in the owner of the platform is completely alien to how things work in what they consider the real world.

I can't just walk into Walmart and set up a stand and make money, if I want to sell in Walmart I have to work with them and give them a similar sized cut. If I even set my stall up on the street I have to pay for permits, certification, suppliers.

Not saying I agree with the App Store tax because I actually don't but I think the way they set it up as a "Store" was very clever in making it seem completely normal when it's completely abnormal compared to all personal computing up to that point, which maybe was an anomaly? Hope not.
How does it favor the users?

> https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/22/vin-locking/

> https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/30/go-nuts-meine-kerle/
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his best idea was to "make the use-the-app popups in the browser so annoying that people will finally give up and move to the app they hate"... so all of reddit was full of hate-memes for spez recently.
Yep, let's all go to bed at 8pm to lead by example.
Probably should take down the food giants first.
Google Reader and RSS feeds were also heavily used internally :(
Their logic can be applied to all sorts of historical situations with repulsive consequence under the guise of law and order. Pure reactionism.
They could easily ban these third party applications on MacOS too. So it is more likely that it's simply anti-competitive reasons.
Current generation LLM's aren't about doing tasks that humans struggle with - they are about doing tasks that humans find easy quicker than humans can do themselves.

Future generation AI's are highly likely to have more capability though - I wouldn't bet the house on the current state being the future state.
reconditerose wrote above:

> At that time Redis created an open governing board that took over, with a majority of contributions coming from the community during this time (~25% of contributions came from Redis engineers, ~75% from the community, including ~3% that came from me personally).

So, while I believe you're true in the general case, you appear to be wrong about Redis in particular.
Performance is less of an issue on computers because battery life isn’t as much of a concern. Also, they allow other messaging and payments on iOS just like they do on MacOS. They just don’t offer the unique payment chip access on iOS to third parties.
I started reading it but the line spacing is just so infuriating…
> So if there are 3 competitors and one drops out, the other two are now guilty of something?

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.

In a similar vein, if the market is not healthy any more, the duopolists may be forced by regulatory authorities to make life easier for potential startup competitors: open up file format specifications, port popular applications with network effects (iMessage, Facetime, Find My in the case of Apple) to other platforms or open up specifications to allow others access/federation.
Abusive is very far from my personal experience. It is the best influence in my and my extended family's life. Generally, it seems like those who are most happy and most educated are usually the most active. It takes a lot of work to build something that lasts across the generations. We are taught service to others, forgiveness, and kindness. It has brought me and my wife peace and a sense of security despite health and others of life's expected challenges.

There is more at my web site (in profile, tech-simple, nothing for sale).
The status quo does not favor users.

How does it favor users that you cannot sign up for Netflix on iOS?
just false, if you look at most of the ransomware cases for example. This whole fixation of "human layer security" has done more harm to cybersecurity than many actually malicious things. Wasting your money and resources on training Karen from HR to spot 20% more phishing emails yields exactly the results you'd think it does.

I hope we can get out of that nonsense and tackle cyber issues with actual technological investments as it should and can be done.
It already works with SMS, though. You can choose to use 3rd party apps like WhatsApp. I fail to see how users are meaningfully "locked-in" any more than an android
Imagine someone being so afraid of a little piece of their meat being replaced that they would rather die. My point is, you're allowed your opinion, but if you're simply deriding others for not sharing yours, you're not really enriching the conversation.
All depends by your domain registrar, in my company we simply can add/remove every type of domain records via API keys (so with a "simple" curl to our registrar endpoint)
Secretary Buttigieg Announces First Industry-Wide Privacy Review of US Airlines
I would be very much interested in articles on how to write a CSS layout engine from scratch
That's very nice, I wonder if we can write a sort of dsl for this in python.
While I hate losing the feeling that the AppStore and iOS security policy make my device less at risk I sure am tired of not having chromium and Fortnite on my iPad. I’m also torn on how the current locked down state of affairs is the only thing keeping chromium and v8 from achieving 100% market share.
I was vaguely aware of the scam, but didn't realize that most of the perpetrators are also victims. Whole thing is very depressing.
Even if not successful, it's fascinating and a necessary step along the way to something that is successful.

Good luck to the guy though!
I'm assuming 80% of your comment was in jest.
Good feels and security theater
https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/issues/560 help wanted :)
Security: there’s no cross platform E2E messaging standard they could have adopted. Given that the DoJ is already breathing down their neck for working with Google on search, using Google’s RCS extensions and servers might also be problematic.

I don’t think the government could force them to adopt RCS without new legislation or bring iMessage to other platforms.
They may or may not prevail, but in the meantime they will likely have to slam the brakes on any closed feature developments. That alone is good for consumers.
A glance at his profile shows he hasn't posted anything since the intense backlash against the API changes: https://old.reddit.com/user/spez/

Doesn't exactly inspire confidence!
They do on average, or they just think they're sending SMS messages that have somehow improved? :)
I disagree with the notion that A Deepness in the Sky requires having read A Fire Upon the Deep. In fact, I would go so far as to say that each ends with an open question that is answered by the other, so that no matter which one you read first you will discover the answer in the second.
Probably some new-age hippies at Tinder taking the 'make love, not war' manta to heart. /s
Currently hung up on CDDA. Probably the most complicated hardcore game I've ever touched. Learning curve like a brick wall. Incredibly rewarding to master though.

Really love that it's FOSS. I've got a bunch of scripts I run to scan the game files to learn things that are hard to get just from the in game menus.
Why was this submission marked as flagged? Was this post against the rules?

(I am not the submitter or author)
I understand the evil practices of Apple to lock you up in their walled garden such as iMessage, easy sync between the devices etc. But, ultimately, wouldn't the choice of buying those products in the consumer's hand?
Very capital intensive means operating costs (wages) are a small percentage.

A trailing fab has very few people running the operation. This will be a trailing fab.
But they can though, there are plenty of apps that are android exclusive.
Magic! Magic justifies it!

There are tens of thousands of retail investors paying ridiculous prices for the smallish available part of the shares. That doesn't mean that there will be takers for the large part held by orangehead.
> like only Apple Music supported on the HomePod speakers

FYI, this hasn't been the case for a while. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/homepod/apd3399d3179/1...

Spotify has elected to not support this API, presumably because of their beef with Apple.
I can think of a few confounding factors for that...
One of the most valuable long-form posts I have seen in the past year was a few days ago, about the absolute dangers of reddit and other social media sites due to nation-state disinformation. Ironic.

"You're being targeted by disinformation networks that are vastly more effective than you realize. And they're making you more hateful and depressed."

https://old.reddit.com/r/GenZ/comments/1bfto4a/youre_being_t...

(Notice the "old" in the domain, because the new layout and all the apps are designed not for maximum utility, but for ad revenue).

There is so much more unoriginal content on reddit now. So little that is interesting or inspiring. It takes true effort to find content that is the combination of Interesting AND Original. /r/all is to Instagram what BoredPanda was/is to reddit: stale, shitty content maintained by bots and influencers.
It _used_ to just work. Now each release is full of features no one asked for, and there are more and more issues because of this feature bloat.

My M1 MacBook Pro is probably the second worst computer I've ever bought, and might have been the most expensive I've ever purchased.
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Another example of how fucked the clinical trial system is
Good point, although the decision to move forward with the case was made under the current administration.
The point wasn't that such people didn't exist, the point was what fraction of the human population has some awareness of that way of thinking? I buy the OP's argument that widespread exposure to software and automation has vastly increased that awareness.
Yes, definitely. In the meantime, you can still use this to get the intrinsic sizes of cells to create rows and columns, and you can use an empty inline-block and paint the image where it's laid out. I'll put something in the examples/ directory soon.
> I don't care if the developer pays

I think you, as the consumer, are the one who pays.
If nothing else the irony would be painful.
No, this breakdown of the blood brain barrier is unique, which makes it curious to dismiss as "not more dangerous than the rest"
He wasn't really a founder though. He was brought in months later because his own startup idea hadn't got any traction. He's a founder only in the same way that Elon is a "founder" of Tesla - a retroactive title that was the result of a deal.
The US should outright copy EU privacy and other related laws when it comes to big tech companies where possible, it's embarrassing how much we're lagging behind on this.
> I said if he wants to get into day trading to do it through some US based company you've heard before and if he wants to mine crypto, then I'll help him find hardware to do it.

I like that you didn't tell him to stop doing these things entirely (even though that might arguably be for his best) but instead you told him you would help him do these things if he wants to do them.
This place is ridiculous. How do I get downvoted for trying to help the victim from being stigmatized? The term is horrible, and there is no legitimate reason to use it.
VCs are pure momentum investors. There is not much intelligence there.
Apple sells a computing device. They also sell apps. They are free to choose what phone to sell, and they are free to choose what apps to sell.

They should not be free to prevent others from selling (or providing for free) apps for the computing device that consumers bought.

The problem is that user's can't shop elsewhere, because apple locked the operating system down to prevent that from happening.
Oh goody! So, what, security licensing, 'lockpicks for certified locksmiths only' instead?
I'm a Gen X developer and the struggle is real. My peers are all having trouble now. They get interviews, but they don't get called back. And you start getting turned down for the stupidest reasons.

It's a bummer for people who really love programming.

A lot of firms value quickly finished code over well architected code, and over correct code. Which is the opposite of what a senior programmer values. It's a tough match.
I totally don't get this perspective. There are so many competing messaging platforms and they all work reasonably well on iOS. Because my various family and friend groups use different messaging apps I use all the following: WhatsApp, Signal, SMS, iMessage, Viber, and once in a while Facebook Messenger. I would say iMessage is kind of middle of the pack here. If I had to pick a favourite it's probably WhatsApp, but unfortunately it's owned by Meta - so I try to use Signal whenever I can. What's so special about iMessage that people think it's a monopolistic tool?
> Good, it leans left, but not so far left that it’s just LGBTQ/feminist spam.

It's not quite _spam_ but I think it's fair to say it's much more left-leaning than mainstream Reddit.

Some of the biggest communities, even non-political ones, are on instances such as Blåhaj (LGBTQ-oriented), Lemmy.ML (Marxist-oriented), Hexbear (Marxists on meth).

Short of subscribing to a defederated instance, you need to go out of your way to avoid left-wing content on Lemmy. Whereas on Reddit you could get rid of most of it by unsubscribing from the top 100 subreddits - which is something you wanted to do anyway for the sake of quality, even if you were the world's biggest leftist.
Wait, wait, wait… the scammer actually made good on his threat to send the Big Gulp Schlong picture to all your friends? LOL I never knew what they did when you called their bluff. That’s amazing!
Sprawling industrial-scale agricultural areas seems to be mostly a product of motor vehicles.

Before that, most farms were run by a family group and the farmhouses were typically within a couple miles of a community center which provided access to a church, school, store/market, inn/tavern, etc. (There were self-sufficient estates and plantations but they seem to be more the exception than the rule.)

For example, the town I live in now was founded more than 250 years ago when the families (mostly farmers) who lived at the outer fringe of their town got tired of having to walk 2+ miles to church and school. So they petitioned the government to split off and then built their own church and school.
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> Most certainly a serf-subject in one of its puppet states, then, perhaps an active member of NATO - already well known across the globe for committing decades of atrocity in states deemed inferior by a heinously racist oligarchic ruling class in the Western hemisphere.

It's infinitly amusing how you keep trying to pin Anglo-American obsessions on a person like me from a completely different culture. We don't have oligarchs, because Russians stole everything when they occupied the country and forced us into communism. Real estate, businesses, factories, even single-family farms deemed too big were confiscated. Economically speaking, the entire country had to start from scratch in 1991. Nor do we have much history with racism, because until the USSR collapsed and borders opened up, virtually no-one had ever met a black person. I was well into adulthood when I met a black person for the first time. Felt like meeting an alien. :)

As to serfdom, my grandfather's grandfather was born as an actual slave in Russian empire. Bought and sold like property. I don't find many similarities between my current situation and his life back then.

> The USSR is long gone.

The way Russian Federation treats its neighbours is no different from how the USSR or the Russian empire treated them. There was a glimpse of hope for change in early 1990s, but those were crushed when Russia launched an extremely violent war against Chechenya, and when Soviet hardliners managed to consolidate power and put their man in charge of Russia again.

> I highly doubt your country would tolerate having its enemies begin construction of hostile bases along its borders.

Nobody was building any bases anywhere before Russia invaded Ukraine. Europe saw unprecedented reduction of both domestic and foreign troops, down by 5-10x compared to Cold War levels. For example, German army went from 300k+ soldiers and 3800 tanks in 1980 down to 60k soldiers and 225 tanks in 2015. The US had 5000 tanks in Germany in 1989. By 2015, none were left. The story about "enemies building baseses along Russian borders" is complete nonsense. Have you not bothered to look up facts?

> Would you be so willing to have your enemy build 10 bases along your border, all the while saying they "don't mean you any harm" while their military is busy actively demolishing countless sovereign states around the world, murdering millions of innocent people in cold blood, building 1,000 bases across the landscape for the purpose of torture and other highly illegal activities?

That's the life I'm living right now, less than 200 km from Russian border. Russia has been modernizing, rebuilding and expanding their army since mid-2000s, and they started/are currently waging the largest war in Europe since the WWII on completely fabricated excuses. For three decades, Russians have been threatening that "the masters will be back". Should we bomb Moscow before that happens?
Apple frustrates the hell out of me with their deceptive tactics to create walled gardens while pretending not to. They feign ignorance to keep you stuck and create the illusion of open doors out of their walled garden that are actually broken and they have no interest in fixing.

I've been paying for iCloud for my wife's iphone for the last several months because of how difficult Apple makes it for us to export our photos. Copying them off the phone with a usb cable is nearly impossible if you don't have a macbook, exporting them off of the website is nearly impossible if you have over 1k photos.. meanwhile google takeout allows me to download all of my photos in my browser in a couple clicks. In my experience, it feels like Apple makes getting out of their walled garden as difficult as legally possible.