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What I would rather see from OSI is defining Source Available licenses better.

MongoDB, Elastic, Now Redis do not really provide the practical freedoms one comes to expect from Open Source software - it is clearly anti competitive by design which is bad for the use who will suffer bad quality and inflated prices as you always do when monopoly is created.

Having said that Source Available Licenses are better for end user in many circumstances than old fashioned Proprietary licenses and spliting the world in black and white does not help
Let's not kid ourselves. HN already has the problem of commentors not reading the article, we're just not allowed to discuss it as per the rules.
Many 3M adhesives would hold the hotel doors closed.
Newtonian Description of Lift of a Wing [pdf]
My opinion on Go's "innovation" is well known on HN, and gonuts back when I cared pre-1.0.

I could go over those points, one by one into detail, including Russ Cox point of view on disabling binary distribution, but not feeling motivated to press the further the wound.
Summary: "Unfortunately, sometime around WWII, Newton’s laws were replaced by the Bernoulli theorem and a hand-waving argument for the acceleration of air over the top of a wing. It is our hope that teachers will return to the basics and use Newton’s laws to describe lift. Then students can explore flight in much more depth than was possible with the popular explanation using Bernoulli."
Do yourself a favor and check out any of the books in this thread, if that's your jam. I woke up to sad news, but if someone can be introduced to his work by his passing, then it wouldn't be all bad news.
To be fair, on this particular point, you aren't Apple's customer in this scenario. This is like complaining that Tesla has supercharger stations and your non-Tesla has a different charging connector, so your interactions with Supercharging stations is degraded. This really wouldn't be Tesla's problem.

Apple supports the video standards that were available via MMS/SMS when iMessage rolled out, the higher res videos only available in the first place because Apple added it via iMessage. The newer 'standard' was a Google dominated way of trying to make inroads on Apple's superior implementation and in most of the world, Messages isn't even the top Messaging app.

Now that Apple has announced support for RCS incoming, even including messaging in the suit doesn't make sense in the slightest.
People moderate on Reddit because they enjoy doing so. The mods may complain about not getting paid, but they'll continue moderating anyways. If they don't, then other people will actively volunteer to take their place.
Last week, hundreds of kidnapped people were freed from a scam center in the Philippines where they were forced to carry out pig butchering scams. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68562643
not sure "non-apple watches" is accurate here. I can do all of those things with my Pixel watch

edit: as comment below points out, I was missing the obvious context of paired with an iPhone.
> The entire premise of punishing a company for success when they haven’t violated any laws is insane to me

The government is arguing they have violated the laws, that's the entire point of a lawsuit. Apple has become a private regulator in the mobile app space, and the government is correct to break this power.

> I think dangerous to the market because you’ll stifle companies wanting to try new things for fear of someone attacking them for success.

This is the corporate equivalent of "Oh won't someone pleeeeeeeease think of the children". Give me one example where innovation was stifled because of antitrust action. It almost always goes the other way - corporate regulation is broken and small businesses and new ideas are able to flourish in its' absence.

As to your last point - having a single alternative is hardly a flourishing marketplace where the best ideas win. Distributors should not have the power to determine winners in the marketplace, and Apple's private power as a distributor of hardware and mobile apps has become such that they can ensure their own success regardless of whether they innovate or their customers love them.
Seems like something LLMs should be useful for, if not now then soon enough
Another big, annoying one is password managers. I use an open source password manager with an iPhone app, but there’s no way to integrate it system wide, so the experience of using it on my phone is terrible.

And yet! No matter how much worse third party integration is on iPhone, I still don’t want to use an operating system made by an advertising company.
I'm not personally attacking you, I'm saying your argument makes no sense, because you're trying to draw equivalences between recorded accounts of history and things that have never happened

Like how long it takes to fly humans to mars. It hasn't happened yet, we can only estimate and try to project it, so the case that it might take as long as it took to sail across some particular ocean for some particular group of people with the technology they had at the time is not only kind of irrelevant, but also not a claim that can be supported. This is what's typically referred to as "fudging the numbers"

The things you said and the point you are trying to be make by saying them is pretty ridiculous. You may choose to take that personally, but perfectly reasonable people say a lot of crazy shit. It may well be that the fact that internet fora make this a matter of somewhat durable record makes people view their arguments in this context as more tightly coupled with them as a person, but that's still ultimately for you to decide for yourself
If it is de facto mandatory for a business to make an app for Apple’s store because of Apple’s market share of smartphones, and Apple uses their market power to influence those markets for apps to their own advantage (for example, crippling other web browser apps except Safari), that is anti-competitive and may be against the law.

It is not legal to use your power in one market to gain an upper hand in another different market.
The people who would do this canvas trickery are the people that would be held back by the lack of accessibility.
Also the Philippines https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68562643
RIP lala.com, my first and favorite music streaming service - bought out by apple and summarily closed with previous users encouraged to migrate to Apple Music. I think I got a $15 credit or something. As if I needed a reason to further resent Apple.
I see. Do you think this is what Kurzweil was accounting for when he multiplied by 1000 connections?
Security. I'm quite happy as an iPhone user to have Apple be the only ones in the loop for NFC payments. I'm generally happy with all other restrictions mentioned in the suit (no 3rd party app stores, no super apps, etc). It seems that this suit is brought on behalf of other companies (device and app makers, etc) and has a tenuous benefit to the public. There is a fair alternative available in Android for those who don't want to be in the iOS ecosystem.

FWIW I use Linux on my desktop computer, believe in open source, etc. Since mobile phones have become much more than phones and are now a sort of master key to your entire life, I am happy to have that key reside in as high a trust environment as I can find.
This is like that comment on the launch post for Dropbox all over again.
ctrl-f "use the product" -- and haven't seen one mention of this. dogfood your product. shadow people using it if you're not the target demographic, understand it inside out, and you will catch up very quickly.
Don't forget Zed! https://zed.dev
Agreed, I was thinking that the API protest and the crackdown Reddit perpetrated wouldn't end up actually doing much (did still delete my account though, partly as an excuse to break the habit), and while to an extent that's true, I've noticed many more deleted or edited comments than I used to pre-crackdown. It really did drive off a lot of positive contributors.
I second this. kotlinx-html is poorly documented and has a couple quirks, but is fantastic. As I've been building one of my current projects, I've also been building a framework based on jooq + kotlinx.html + javalin + htmx + flowbite (+kotlinjs for a few fancy bits, e.g. the charting library). Aside from tailwind, you end up with a fully typed and compiler-checked application end to end, i.e. no magic strings to be seen. I'm exclusively using HX-Retarget, so the backend is in charge of where things land, meaning that the frontend can do things like:

div {
onClick(loadItems)
}

I don't know whether I'll ever actually get it in good enough shape to release, but I do plan to blog about how some of the tricks I've found it fitting it together. One thing I definitely need to do before anybody looks at it is clean up how routes and targets are managed.
2.45 GHz has nothing to do with the physics of water molecules or anything else. You could do the same thing at 13 MHz (diathermy) or 95 GHz (active denial). 2.45 GHz is just where the FCC dumps RF signals they don't want to deal with.
> Your judgement is clouded by emotions.

This is pure ad hominem. My statements are not emotional at all. Ukraine committed no offense against Russia. Georgia committed no crime against Russia before they aided Abkhazian and South Ossetian rebels. Putin committed these offenses unilaterally against these. Russia chose to steal territory and murder hundreds of thousands of people. These are not emotional statements, they are factual ones.

It is in fact your claims which are clouded by emotionality -- obvious sympathies for Russian propaganda.
It's all just so extra crazy because https://github.com/standard-things/esm has just worked for so so long. The intense module discussions kept happening, about why it wouldn't work or how it would blow up, but standard-things/esm was already out & working great.
> Could you really expect a company to justify the kind of work

Well they certainly justified it to support their own first-party service just fine. So... yes?
Instead of porting to static .NET pages + progressively enhanced Vue, keep vitepress for static pages and replace dynamic parts with progressively enhanced Vue?
This makes me so angry. You have a choice in the market! Everything on this list is a feature which I am choosing as the customer. If I didn't want these features and benefits then I would make a different choice as a consumer. As a consumer I am not a victim. I can choose between iOS, Android, or something else.
Stuff like Clion, Visual Studio, Unity Pro, Photoshop, Outsystems, Qt, macOS/Windows vs Linux Desktop, ....
To the extent that is correct [0], that doesn't justify reinterpreting “the US should adopt regulations like X” to mean “the Justice Department and not any other part of the US government should adopt regulations like X”.

[0] Its essentially those actions where the DoJ is the agency representing the government interest, including all federal criminal cases and some federal civil cases. Civil cases by other agencies have the agency name; so the antitrust complaint by the DoJ, 15 state governments, and the District of Columbia is United States of America, et al. v. Apple, but the SEC action against Coinbase was Securities and Exchange Commission v. Coinbase, Inc., and Coinbase Global, Inc.
>Can they really be separated from one another, for practical purposes?

Partially I guess - depending on willpower. I think it is possible to get the benefits of a smartphone without the bulk of the downsides. And I don't even think you need to go all the way to dumb phone. Just skipping the social media feeds is I suspect enough to tilt the balance. So facebook messenger yes, facebook main app no.

>iMessage/SMS is baked-in.

I personally wouldn't consider messenger apps harmful in the same sense as say insta/tiktok but that is based on opinion alone.

> feeling "left out" -- teenager that you are

Yeah that's true - easy for me to talk about willpower but peer pressure at teen level must be insane these days.
CDC: US life expectancy rises after 2-year dip
> AWS of course is the single biggest reason why projects are flocking to more restrictive licenses

Should be general competition, including AWS, right? AWS does not host a Terraform service, yet HashiCorp feels the pressure from quite a number of competitors that offer Terraform as a service.
Hi Piotr,
Thanks, we need eye-trackers for people who mostly lost access to their bodies.
Yet I tried your site and it didn't work for me (or I didn't understand the instructions)
Presumably if the flight was completely full, the same boarding pass would have been scanned twice. Why wouldn't the system have flagged this before the boarding doors were closed?
This is what the Navy calls "Command by negation". It is very successful if a team can build up a reputation and trust to make good, successful decisions.

This is how we're communicating internally with our management as well. We don't ask if we should re-prioritize X to Y or not. We tell them that based upon the dev roadmap presented, we're going to put X on hold to get Y through the door at the deadline sales apparently has sold. They can intervene, or not. But if they don't, that's what we will make happen. We move. Direct us, or accept where we end up.
Related:

Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25331858 - Dec 2020 (83 comments)

Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20443822 - July 2019 (492 comments)
I didn't say Linux was especially good competition for iOS.

But unless you can demonstrate that it sucks because Apple is doing something which qualifies as restraint-of-trade, which I would suggest is obviously not the case, that doesn't matter.
Neat, thanks for sharing. Would love if the selected city list was saved in the URL so it could be shared.
honestly I use the free version and the text is really fast. Lets take a look at a typical question I may send to chat gpt:

>I have some tasks, some of them maintenance, some of them relaxation that I do >before bed. For example, maintenance:
>brush teeth, floss, water floss, put on nose strips, take prylosec.
>For relaxation:
>stretch, massage gun, ASMR, music, tiger balm, salt bath, movie, tea, nasal >clean, moisturize.
>can you suggest some others tasks?

Google can't even handle this. if you try, the entire page is filled with Videos: ... with 4 video thumbnails from youtube on how to use a water pic.

So I scroll off down (by now chat gpt already has a response) half a page on 'people also ask' with 4 questions about water pics, keep scrolling,

finally search results, and all of them are about ... water pics/flossers.
> and you can start in just minutes.

Like I said: I built and scaled such a hosting.

But while you can start in just minutes, you don't have that publishable site that you have in your mind, in minutes.
It takes hours to learn where to find what. To select a good theme. To find the right plugins. To remove the wrong plugins. To then fix some error that comes from removing the plugin. Or to fix an error from installing the wrong one. Experienced WP devs even ask hours for this: people who do this all day, for a living, will charge you hours to build this for you.

Sure, you may be lucky and have some goal in mind that happens to be ridiculous easy with WP. Or you may not have something in mind and just go-with-the-flow to end somewhere that happens to be easy with WP (a good strategy really).

But, in general, I have something in mind. A landing page for a startup. Or the outlines of a webshop, or a simple blog even, and it will take me hours or days banging against WP to get there, whereas with hugo or jekyll that's less than a few hours of banging.
That's a very superficial analysis. These engineers are not native to Mountain View, usually not even native to California, and sometimes not native to the US.

Several of the highly productive engineers born and raised in Paris moved to Mountain View, because their in-demand skills allowed them to get a high paying job.

Their worth is not set by the Mountain View office - they were moved there because of their worth.

If you remove those borders, you still have the same highly skilled engineers in demand, the only difference is that a company doesn't need to pay for their visa and relocation anymore.
I think it's also one of the best descriptions of living at the onset of massive, disruptive technological changes, and how disorienting (and occasionally terrifying) this would feel. The fundamental problem with that book, for me, is that the main protagonist is (deliberately) an utterly loathsome individual, who somehow ends up as a good guy but doesn't seem to do very much learning or self-reflection.
> They claim it will charge overnight, napkin math has that at roughly 3/4MW. Them's decidedly not rookie numbers.

One could argue those are rookie numbers[1]:

Bastø Electric uses batteries with a capacity of 4.3 MWh. The fast-charging system has a capacity of 9 MW, according to the shipping company.

Not sure exactly how they do it but another ferry used on-shore batteries as a buffer[2], not unlike decoupling capacitors in electronic circuits. I agree a deep dive in the charger infrastructure would be interesting.

[1]: https://www.electrive.com/2021/03/02/worlds-largest-electric...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Ampere
I like the idea of finding micro-habits, activities and relationships that are fulfilling.

While Ikigai may have been repurposed by the West, its new incarnation and Venn diagram seems like a pretty valuable tool for young people to navigate life, even if it's a radical semantic shift from the original Japanese. It also has the merit of trying to awaken peoples' ambition, to raise the ceiling on what they think they might achieve, and how to get there, which Anne-Marie's originalism lacks.
I would love to do the math on this.

The average Janitor I salary in the United States is $34,623 as of February 26, 2024.

Average home price in the United States: $417,700.

Monthly payment for 30-year mortgage is $2,950.

Monthly gross pay is $34,623 / 12 = $2885.25...

Hm...it's literally not doable.
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Epic's sentiment certainly resonated with the European Commission, and apparently the DOJ as well. Do any of us really believe Apple's App Store control is harmless?
> Can't tab cycle through minimized windows

This drives me absolutely NUTS and I thought it was a me problem. Where the hell do things go when they're minimized on macos!!? There's all these questions asking about cmd+tabbing to minimized windows and the answer is to hold option while you hold cmd after selecting the minimized window and then let go of cmd.. but if there's 2 Chrome windows and one is minimized this doesn't work at all.
Those are the ideas that he's talking about. Paul Graham is a dinosaur. He thinks that spez's rampant monetization is a great idea, despite the fact that it has outraged the community that gives Reddit any power at all.
Similarly you can get Bluetooth receivers that plug into an aux input.
Sorry, that was a joke. I should have lathered on more obvious sarcasm. The DOJ don't understand very basic computer security. It's disgraceful. Agree with everything you say here - the antitrust regulators seem to have forgotten who they are supposed to be protecting - consumers, not apple competitors.
Constitutions can be ignored if everyone wants it so.
Facebook has best-in-class behavioral advertising tools, and can be used to create highly specific segments for ad targeting. You can sell pretty much anything on Facebook, so that attracts advertisers.

Reddit on the other hand has a bunch of anonymous users whose preferences are much harder to figure out.
That would almost certainly end up with the internet becoming one gigantic linkedin and everyone leaving it to flock to whichever underground 4chan-esque service pops up with a promise of pseudonymity.
The smartphone market is irrelevant.

If my water provider said "We're the only water provider so we're raising rates 1000%, take it or leave it", you would still say that's a monopoly even though i could move house to an area with another water provider.

Apple has a 100% monopoly though it's AppStore on 2 billion devices though which $90,000,000,000 in trade is conducted. If that's not a market big enough to be considered for Anti-Competitive practices and illegally maintaining a monopoly then i don't know what is.

That's more trade than the entire GDP of Luxembourg!
The more pertinent matter is that it took this long for RFID exploits to start catching the public eye. RFID is the least secure communication protocol that could be used for locks. At the very least we should have NFC be the standard.

Someone with the intent and know-how to crack RFID readers could put together a hardware tool to do so. Does the Flipper Zero provide such a tool? Yeah. Does the responsibility of following ethics fall with the user? Debatable, but I think absolutely yes.

If one carries around a lockpicking set and learns how to use it, they can go right ahead, correct? We accept the fact that people exist that can pick locks and yet 80% of states allow possession and use of lockpicking tools in a legal manner.
yeah its a novel expansion of antitrust law to say that merely maintaining features that the market chose is an antitrust violation

if you weren’t anticompetitive to get to that place, thats been good enough?
Self immolation implies making a personal sacrifice in the name of a cause. In this case, they betrayed a set of their users with the goal of greatly increasing their wealth, and that outcome is now happening.
I'd like to see PDFs move to Computational Notebooks. One can dream.
> it also appears to be the standard used by almost all of their competitors

FWIW - this is further evidence of anticompetitive behavior. In a competitive market, entrants would be trying to drive distribution costs to 0. The fact that Apple makes its entire App Store revenue off those distribution revenues is highly telling.

It would only be considered predatory if they charging a rate below their own costs of distribution. I.E. If it costs Apple $0.10 to cover the costs of app distribution per download, then it would be completely legal for them to charge $0.11, but illegal and predatory to charge $0.09.
The intent of the color doesn't matter. The actual effect of the color is what matters. Hopefully to the courts, anyway.
Adapting the Definition of Open Source to AI
Seconded, and it touches on the key themes he developed later. I love how a throwaway plot element became a central part of an unrelated novel later, like he had more ideas than he had time to fully explain.
> If their tight experience is so superior, why do they restrict competition? Wouldn't they win anyways?

iOS today regularly updates with improvements across the full software stack, up to the Apple apps themselves. Sometimes these changes are major. In the world the justice department is asking for, big changes to —for example, Messages app— would have to be coordinated with every app developer in that category. Changes would takes much, much longer, and in many cases would have to be watered down.