skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does Apple ever have to give you a reason why you're rejected, or tell the truth even if they give you a reason?

That's probably the biggest reason I think that Society (with a capital S) should rein in Apple a bit. They have a lot of power and money over the consumer, but on top of that they have no obligation to provide transparency and truthfulness. Given how dependent people are on their phones, I think it's perfectly fair for the state to step in and say that the power imbalance between consumers and Apple should be equalized a bit.
I love this so much. I hate reading cli diffs, but this is instantly understandable.
Check this thread : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39772562
That sounds like a great add! Will add this in over the weekend!
Hate is keyword here. I really wanted to like Lemmy, but almost all instances are full of frustrated hateful people. Even if sometimes rightfully it's still to toxic. Wild tankies appearing here and there are no help either.
It seems you may have misunderstood the original argument. The iterative approach suggests increments so minute at each step that they wouldn't significantly impact an organism's survival at any given time. Also given the extremely slow process of evolution and the relatively short number of iterations it is infeasible to suggest such a solution. If a person would like to create an iPhone it's easy to tell them to start with a shitty scrap of metal and work from there. You can make that sort of argument as a solution for creating anything but it is clearly not feasible.
I also suspect that there isn't an easy way to reduce the resolution that the default iPhone camera app takes photographs at (that I could find) because Apple wants them to be big so that you will need to buy cloud storage.
I know tcl also allows you to extend the language, but i have to admit I've never looked too much into it. Like tcl, hyperscript has strong start tokens for most statement-like things (we call them commands, as does tcl if i understand correctly).

I don't think it maps well to macros, it's just an open parser that you can plug new stuff into pretty easily by adding a keyword + some parsing and eval logic to dynamically.
In real medical cryogenics, e.g., embryo preservation, vitrification is spoken of as a kind of freezing, which, of course, it is. Only cryonics advocates claim that vitrification isn't a kind of freezing.
Absolutely nothing. The claim that Apple has a monopoly on the smartphone market is just laughable. Android has 40% market share in the US and 70% globally.
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"UX is complete and utter trash" is a bit hyperbolic — you listed a handful of nits that don't affect 99.9% of their users. On the other hand, iOS is undoubtedly more efficient, smoother, and more stable than Android. I have a Pixel phone where the Google camera app crashes about 10% of the time when I tap the shutter button. The cellular connection often gets stuck in a disconnected state, without telling me. The "Always on Display" stopped working entirely. Along the core dimensions where Apple invests their energy, their software can be pretty good.
Can we stop feeding paywalled websites with free traffic? Does HN encourage me to create a paid account with NYTimes?
Not a lawyer (let alone one specializing in antitrust law), but it looks like the relevant legal standard is "dominant position". Basically, it's legal to have a dominant position, but that position can be abused through certain categories of actions. By contrast, under the Sherman Act it's nominally a felony to even attempt to become a monopoly (although the application of this by courts has apparently been both complex and contentious).
I noticed that too and agree. Baby steps I guess...
Microsoft employee, but no affiliation to Windows Phone other than a happy former user. How do you believe MS tried to create a walled garden?
Do you have to open the Google Photos app to sync or you set it and forget it, like take a photo and in a few moments its available everywhere?
The FPGA in my scope probe that is dutifully implementing the functionality of an EEPROM while loading its configuration from an even larger EEPROM exists in a state of extreme disagreement to your comment.

Yeah obviously FPGA's are unquestionably awesome devices, but IMO the real problem with them is they have no long tail or economies of scale compared to other device types. Having worked with them personally, I mostly believe this is because there aren't really any great cross vendor standards analogous to a CPU's ISA. The lack of interoperability absolutely destroys the ability of competition to benefit customers. I'd like to be able to buy a modern $5 part with capabilities equivalent to something like a Cyclone IV, but there's nothing even remotely close.
As someone who never uses Apple devices, iMessage is the only true form of monopoly based control that Apple imposes. Apple's 30% costs are harsh, but it is not like Google or MSFT charge anything less.

Such cases always seem to reach a pre-determined conclusion, that has more to do with the political winds of the era, than true legal determinism.

Looking at the accusations from that lens:

1. Super Apps - I don't see how 'Apple doesn't share enough data with Chinese super apps' is going to fly 2024 America. It also has huge security and privacy impliciations. This accusation seems DOA.

2. Streaming games is tricky, but it isn't a big revenue stream. The outcome for this point appears immaterail to Apple stock.

3. iMessage - This is the big one. I see the whole case hinging on this point.

4. Smartwatches. Meh, Apple might add inter-op for apple smartwatches on android. I don't think this will lead to any users switching over or an actually pleasing experience.

5. Digital Wallets. This seems tacked on. Apps are PhonePe and PayTm work just fine on Apple and Android. I have never heard of anyone using a Digital Wallet that is not Apple pay, Google Pay or Samsung Pay. Are digital wallets a big revenue stream for Apple ?
There's two other active threads,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39772562 ("Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing", 19 hours ago, 141 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39775332 ("Redis License Changed", 11 hours ago, 282 comments)
I don't have an example, but I believe your question supports my point. From everything I've observed, Apple is generally better at providing a secure ecosystem than the variety of major parties that comprise the Android ecosystem. So if I remain in the Apple ecosystem I'll need to devote less energy to answering questions like the one you've asked than otherwise.
"The first iWatch was announced in September 2014 and released in April of 2015."

Just a side note: apple has in past started limiting other companies products as soon as they decide to create a competitor and sometimes years before it hits the market.

IIRC Spotify has been bitten by this at least once, which resulted in a lawsuit.
I have never understood the inverse: Apple users defending their lack of features. Being able to send iMessages to your Android user friends or install software that you wrote without paying extra would only benefit you, yet you vehemently reject having the ability to do so for no apparent reason. "Security" is the word I see thrown around which doesn't make too much sense to me given that you can do all these things and be secure already on basically any desktop environment. What makes phones the special exception? Is phone architecture exceptionally insecure by default or something?
Is BFMTV also biased when reporting words directly from the mouth of Piotr Tolstoi or are you just trolling ?
I'm not talking about the /r/Canada subreddit, I'm talking about the complete front page feed for Canadian visitors.

There are several "main" Canadian subreddits, and the only ones showing up for anon Canadian guests now are the right-wing and far-right subreddits.
Insightful summary. Thx.
> Under capitalism workers dont have autonomy to do what they want

Curious what you think people under the USSR or hunter-gatherers were doing...
> Apple doesn't have this power though. If they raised prices they'd lose sales.

Yes, that's true for every company. So monopolies don't exist?
At this point I know how to make an HN story scanner that is both timely and accurate, I just have to do it, but it will be the basis for catching most of my dupes. Thanks for the feedback.
And they still have one of the worst apps (and website) in the game. Seems like that would be some low-hanging fruit.
AMD FSR 3.1 announced with Vulkan support, upscaling quality improvements
Reddit founders made hundreds of fake profiles so site looked popular:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddi...
There is also AngularDart, which is a fork. But it’s been a while since I left Google and I don’t know how much it’s used nowadays.
glad to hear there is push-back preventing complete inshittifcation of reddit.
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> In China, WeChat does many different things, for example, from messaging to payments. This complaint alleges that Apple makes it difficult or impossible to offer this kind of app on their platform.

But WeChat is available on iOS isn't it? If not the iPhone would be pretty impossible to sell there, just like Huawei's android without Google play don't sell here in the west.
Former UPS worker allegedly stole $1.3M worth of Apple products
Dev pay in Canada isn't extraordinary in comparison to US salaries, but the average salary of an associate dev is in the top 25th percentile for all age groups, and the low end of the scale is above the 50th percentile for all age groups. Note that this does not include people with senior in their title.

I would say that any career that essentially guarantees above average pay compared to your age cohort for your entire career without the need for a degree is a rather extraordinary industry.
Yes, early humans were likely carrion feeders among other dietary strategies. Archaeological and anthropological evidence suggests that before developing tools and techniques for hunting, early hominins would have scavenged carcasses left by predators. This behavior would have allowed them to access a high-quality source of nutrients like protein and fat, which are crucial for brain development.

The use of tools made from stones to break open bones for marrow and to possibly butcher animals suggests that early humans exploited carcasses that they found or scavenged from other predators' kills. Marrow and brain tissue, which could be accessed by breaking open bones and skulls, are highly nutritious and would have been valuable food sources for early humans.

Over time, as hominins developed more sophisticated tools and techniques, they likely became more efficient hunters, gradually shifting from scavenging to actively hunting for their food. However, the practice of scavenging would have played a critical role in the dietary habits of early human ancestors and contributed to their evolutionary success.

https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/64/5/394/2754213
I've paid 4x many times for steaks that were worse than a chain like Longhorn.

I'd go so far as to say price rarely reflects worth. Prices perverted by all manner of different "invisible hands" is more the norm than the exception.
I thought that would work for me, and I got a local number before moving across the country. Somehow I’m getting spam calls from where I actually live now, and not from my phone’s area code. No idea how that happens. I haven’t gotten a single spam call from the area code.
> "this fpga could have been an arduino"

That's giving a lot of credit! I see way more of "this FPGA could have been two logic chips and an EEPROM"
I think you're right: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/whats-coming-in-2024-on-t...
Grammatically, pronouns are used when it's already clear who is being described. In this thread, the Government of Canada was the only body mentioned. Using "they" to refer to a singular officer who had before then not been referenced would not be grammatically clear.
> In a nutshell, VitePress takes your source content written in Markdown, applies a theme to it, and generates static HTML pages that can be easily deployed anywhere.

I do this with

for file in .md; do pandoc --quiet --template template.html $file -o "docs/${file%.}.html" done

> instant server start

cd docs/ && ruby -run -ehttpd . -p8000

There is also python and many other builtin alternatives for most systems.

> edits always instantly reflected

find . -name '*.html' -o -name '*.md' -o -name '\*.sh' | entr ./script.sh

> Built-in Markdown Extensions

It supports anything Pandoc supports...which is pretty much anything I need.

Yes...I know it doesn't have many fancy features...but it has the best feature that none of those SSGs have: I don't need to read ANY docs even if I spend 1 years without touching it. Here is the result: https://alexandremcosta.github.io
VitePress is geared more for documentation websites, while Nuxt Content is more for regular websites.

Of course, VitePress can be used for all sorta of stuff. My old website used to be based on it. If you click through the sites using VitePress you can see the similarities and what you get for free with the default theme.
I think in this case, it counts as spam rather than a scam, which is why I mentioned both.
Well to begin with, it is my understanding that the specific limitations listed still exist. Can Bluetooth devices remotely start apps now, or keep them in the background? I only used Pebble as an example because I owned a Pebble, I'm not familiar with Garmen's watches.

But seperately, I think it's really bad for innovation if no new product categories can exist unless Apple makes them first! You can imagine a different type of company that would have been delighted to work with Pebble and add functionality to their operating system, because third party compatibility strengthens their core product.

And of course, if this were the Mac, Pebble would not have needed Apple's cooperation...
Besides general luck and timing, there are two other factors reddit had going for it.

1) It was never the hot social media site, and still to this day it's a dark horse with even some of my peers not "getting it." We're finally seeing it get the user base and mass market usage of other social media platforms. But it's been an extraordinarily long process. So it was never a hot place to work that attracted product managers / MBAs / status seekers that would come in and META the site. And I think even the investors and/or owners didn't know what to do with it, and were kinda content to just ignore it and let it do it's thing.

2) General incompetence. Search broken for decades. Videos broken for decades. Limited features for decades. Inability to make a native app that's usable. Not to say that I mind the UI of old.reddit.com. But that the Reddit team moved so slow to do anything. The only time the acted with expedience was when controversies occurred. Yeah, they're finally rolling out new stuff, but it's only been in the past 2-3 years that dev on the platform has picked up.

But the thing is, this is the REASON Reddit has become as important as it is. A "competent" startup would of enshitified reddit and it would of died 15 years ago. Just like Digg. Instead we got almost a decade where the site looked like the frontpage of hackernews. And in that time, users kept creating high quality text content. And that content brought other users. And it slowly snowballed to the point where reddit is now the place to get genuine human text content on any topic. This is not something that could of occurred in the sort of time frame most startups or VCs operate in. And now they're trying to play a game that doesn't exist anymore (social media in the 2010s), and destroying the site with bad UI, hostility to the primary content creators, changes to the algorithm to prioritize engagement vs. nurturing quality content. It's sad, but I'm happy Reddit existed for as long as it did.
It's just a cargo package. Is there a working rust/cargo toolchain under MSYS?
If you feel liquid running down your neck, relax, lie on your back, and apply immediate pressure to your temples. You are simply experiencing a rare reaction in which the Material Emancipation Grill may have emancipated the ear tubes inside your head.
-- Portal
I'm finding it instantaneous here on a large dirty codebase. In what way is it slow for you?
Thanks! I just saw Peter Woit's post on the Abel Prize https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13877 also speaks positively about that book.
The reason this inevitably faceplants is lack of access to real user feedback.

Invariably, someone looks at the numbers and realizes "We could make way more money if we only catered to the top 2% of our customers!"

Unfortunately, opinions and needs of the top 2% of customers != a generally useful product.

Thus, the reason to try and maintain user volume is better product-market feedback to guide development, instead of revenue.
As I said in another comment, I believe this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the intent, but hearing you and others saying it shows that the authors will need to consider further revisions.
Not that it really matters, but I found it interesting thinking of ways this could be broken...

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This isn't accurate, normal Bluetooth works much better than you might imagine. The kind of things that are added on top with Apple's solution are things like fast pairing and instant device switching. They also have their own custom codecs, but most other Bluetooth communication devices also support custom codecs which, on Android for example, are enabled by installing a companion app.

Re: Bluetooth being better than you portray: Don't get me wrong, you can certainly run into problems, but in normal usage it works just fine. And Apple isn't fundamentally improving on the potential issues with their proprietary solutions.
Similar to Mercedes?

"Mercedes-Benz S-Class stability system" - https://phys.org/news/2013-09-mercedes-benz-s-class-stabilit...
Agreed. I built my personal website with Nuxt Content, but I'm not satisfied with it. It forces you to do a lot of things yourself and is definitely targeted towards dynamic websites. Since I am building for Github Pages, I found it quite unintuitive.

I would recommend using VitePress, Zola, Jekyll, or some other tool instead if you need an SSG.
They should have added claims for:

- NFC

apple does have full NFC support for their products but for other apps there are tons of road blocks for using anything close to full NFC functionality

- Bluetooth

same, similar more usable, but some functionality is still not available for 3rd party apps at all meaning certain things can only be provided 1st party by Apple

- Strange behaviour when releasing questionable competive Apps

There had been multiple cases where Apple released 1st party apps and it "happened" that the previous leader(s) of previous existing 3rd party apps "happened" to have issues with releasing updates around that time (or similar strange coincidental behavior). Additionally such new apps often had some new non-documented non public APIs which makes it harder for 3rd parties to compete.

- Questionable app store reviews

Stories of apps running in arbitrary you could say outright despotic harassment when wrt. the app store reviews are more then just few (to be clear legal non malicious apps which should be fully legal on the apple app store).

EDIT: To be clear for the first 2 points apple always have excuses which seem reasonable on the surface until you think it through a bit more (e.g. similar to there excuse for banning PWAs in the EU, I think they might have undid that by now). And for the other points it's always arbitrary enough so that in any specific case you could call it coincidence, but there is a pattern.
There's a tremendous amount of waste and inefficiency in non-technical knowledge work that could be solved if it was expected that a well-rounded education included teaching someone how to do some basic scripting.
Are you sure the password manager is using all the APIs available to it? I use 1Password and it feels extremely well integrated.
an option for easy backup in addition to the already-mentioned google photos is to use a hosted nextcloud instance (hetzner, shadow.tech) to backup photos from your phone. the nextcloud app available on the ios store will backup to the configured remote nextcloud instance and the corresponding nextcloud app on your laptop etc. can then sync these photos to you.
It's a factor in whether "219.43 million people" is a lot of people. If that's 219 million people in the US (i.e. well over half the population), that's obviously massively more significant than 219 million people worldwide.
This is a compelling argument, but I think it's overly pessimistic. Back on the human side, the ending sees Robert adapting to his situation; he loses his left arm (his "sinister"), and it looks like he's lost his wife for good, but he's managed to find some amount of synergy with the new world and technology he's surrounded by. Combined with Rabbit's temporary "defeat" (an experience that, if he's truly a super-intelligence capable of true learning and growth, should lead him to different means and even ends in the future, if nothing else), the implicit conclusion seems to be a future with an imperfect but livable melding of humanity and technology. Not too different from what's come before. Putting all of human history onto a single drive likewise might seem like a diminishing of its significance, but the fact is that it's still there to dive into, should one desire. That's arguably a step up from the past.
So how did RedHat add restrictions on gpl code base of CentOS?
Am I Flying Boeing?
https://www.macrumors.com/2023/10/10/iphone-teen-survey-2023...

90% of marketshare with monopolistic practices is relevant?
Carbon fiber frames can be challenging to see the cracks and damages to it before it spectacularly fails. There's a good chance you won't know it is about to break until it shatters.
Looks like reddit did indeed popped. I ended up being cautious and not going for it. Oh well...
I have nostalgia for a lot of things in webdev, hacking together floating layouts is not one of them. /s

But congrats on the work! I can definitely see this being useful for text formatting and layouting PDFs. Neat!
The comment that now has a link in it, did not have a link in it when I posted my comment!
Maybe Garmin chooses not to implement it but it is all or nothing on iOS-> Garmin.
I can do all of that with my Garmin watch though?
The problem with this is that it doesn’t map nicely to HTML (or more generally XML) as do s-expressions.