skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was exactly the same kind of lawsuit in France some years ago: free Google Maps insidiously put paid cartography companies without any special features out of business.

The antitrust legislation protects consumers, not businesses. If Linux provides for free what a proprietary software offered for money, it's a net win, even if that company goes out of business.

The problem with Chrome is not that it's free. The problem is that it develops more and more anti-customer traits, like making it hard to block ads, and uses its market share and compatibility issues to force these on customers.

The problem with google search is that Google integrates it with Chrome and Android, and buys the default search engine slots in other browsers, so that many customers are not even aware of other options. Sadly, Bing and DDG are not clearly superior, and, say, Kagi is paid. (Kagi is a good example of a paid product that's significantly better than the common free alternative.) Ironically the default search engine deals is how Firefox acquires most of its funding.

I don't see an easy way to find Google guilty of hurting customers through monopoly power in search or browsers: free products, a few alternatives, trivial cost of switching, no price gouging possible. Same with dumping: products start and remain free, most of Chrome is open-source and competitors reuse that same code, and customers are free to use these derivates, or adequate independent browsers and search engines.

It's a bit like coca-cola: alternatives abound, downsides are known, but people just seem to weirdly prefer it.
Yes, but the description above has to be hyperbole. A 6.2 built athlete vs small woman...
macOS Sequoia Will Require Users to Update Screen Recording Permissions Monthly
In the current beta, this feature previously prompted users to update the permission for each app once a week. Apple has changed it to ask for confirmation once a month now.
Chrome Enterprise Premium and ChromeOS/Chromebooks are existing paid offerings. They could probably squeeze a few more things out of the enterprise management toolset too though.
Or, you know, don’t install a bunch of distracting apps on your device. Delete everything you don’t need.

But, IMHO, this is not really about not having a smartphone to avoid distractions or eschew tech; it’s about a trendy backward looking tech resurgence just like vinyl that’s not intended to replace modern options, but instead augment them with something cool, different, or for use in specific instances.

Hey, nothing at all against this trend; you do you. I love vinyl and use it to augment unlimited streaming music availability via my Alexa devices for what I like to call “intentional music listening”, but to say that the majority of those using TCL Flip 2s are doing so as some stick-it-to-the-tech-man option is ignoring the more likely reality.
That's because few really like unbound density, people who move to cities want more density than a SFH-on-an-acre and/or perhaps can tolerate more of it but they do not enjoy density per se and don't "upgrade" by moving to even more crowded conditions just for the sake of having more nuisance.

Sure, many people would love to move to NYC, but how many people would chose to move to a tiny apartment over a giant penthouse in there, if given such a choice. Say the employer pays for housing with no cost to the individual and no limit, how many people would go for the smallest place in their preferred location and how many would go for the largest? If the former group is in minority this would explain how the cities, ruled by a democratic process, do not strive to pump density.
You missed the point.

The actual customer is the one buying ads. It's comically difficult to avoid Google if you're the one who wants to show ads.
Odd to see the market leader in this space not listed. It's "web scale"
CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers return to office
Maybe. I’m not a domain expert so I’m not sure that’s a meaningful metric, especially at this scale. But in general I think anyone would be happy if their business improved units sold and per unit profit. Naively I’d expect an inverse relationship.
Because they created the search engine, and truthfully profit motives produce better products at lower costs than non-profits generally across the board. The alternative is having government creating software and it’s hard to point to any public US website/app where I’m amazed.
Ignoring the hype, there are applications of ML that a suited for some general problems.

Would your product benefit from recommender systems, natural language input/output, image detection, summarization, pattern matching and/or analyzing large datasets?

If so, then maybe ML can help you out.

I'm of the opinion that if you need ML, you'll eventually realize it because the solutions to your problem you find will be served by applications of ML.

That's to say, while doing research, due diligence, etc, you will inevitably stumble upon approaches that use ML successfully or unsuccessfully.
See my reply to another thread where someone made a similar claim: that's simply not going to be possible.

The endgame here from the perspective of the companies that are pushing for this is to arrive at a similar place to where we are with streaming services: they each want their own store where they will distribute their own apps without a middleman. That's great for the companies, but choosing to stay exclusively in the Apple ecosystem will necessarily be choosing to not use any apps from Epic, Meta, Adobe, Amazon, and whoever else thinks they're big enough to justify their own store.

It's going to be a disaster for app consumers on the same scale as unbundling Netflix was for streaming.
I have the opposite problem, I learned from 18 years of competitive sports to spend the minimum effort possible to keep the coaches from being mad at you at everything that didn't matter and go all out in everything that did. Coaches get annoyed when you're not hustling everywhere, but you don't play when you're too tired to do well in scrimmage.

I tend to over pace and not be fully spent at the end of a workout. I've had to work to just be toast 90% of the way through instead so I get the most out of my workouts.
"It looks like you might be on desktop, which I did not design for because I do not want you to bring your laptop into traffic :("

I'm in the UK. Why would I want to use a phone to browse a forum or hit your traffic camera thing?
Creatine plus exercise. I add 1.5 tsp to my morning tea, plus 1/5 tsp NAD and 1/2 tsp of L-theanine, and I've doubled my workout and no longer have DOMS. It's like I'm a teenager again.

I tried it because I'd been getting 4-5 hours of broken sleep due to peripheral neuropathy from a congenital spinal disorder for the past four or five years, and I finally feel like I'm healing. It's wild being able to fall asleep and stay asleep.
One thing DC had some well half a century ago was housing coops.

Take a bunch of folks across a block of area & convince them to band together & build big. Create a housing coop that collectively owns the building, is the people who will live there.

Right now every property owner is sort of in it for themselves. Figuring out ways to enable development while retaining ownership, without forcing owners to sell of their stake, while enfranchising future owners, worked really well. But it feels like we aren't trying to replicate this clear success.

Opportunity comes at scale Figuring out how to make that scaling possibly accessible by residents (versus someone else getting to capture the value of redevelopment) requires some legal can do willingness we haven't been seeing.
Unbiased news is literally impossible now that "alternative facts" are in the mainstream. Take climate change for example:

Party A: "As greenhouse gasses increase, so too does the temperature according to historical measurements. We should do something about this."

Party B: "There is no way to measure the global temperature, and anyone claiming to have done so is working for Party A. We shouldn't address this at all."

Whether or not you as a journalist, were to include a factoid about it being the hottest summer on record, you're now doing biased reporting. Sure, if you include the fact you're siding with Party A and saying the fact is wrong is siding with Party B. However, not talking about it all is still siding with Party B, since that's their end goal. Factually accurate, inaccurate, and ambiguous are therefore all a form of bias.
We're waiting for a change in the posture against cannabis at the Federal level [1], but it has been possible to get a security clearance even if you have used marijuana. Looking at the public guidelines [2] there's a distinction between "ever" and "in the last 90 days".

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/471...

[2] https://news.clearancejobs.com/2024/03/14/marijuana-use-and-...
Apple's case was decided by a jury, Google's by a judge.
I feel like I'm missing something, is there a dual meaning here?
AI-generated nonsense that asks if AI can implement the gambler’s fallacy.
I have lots of HTTP endpoints that we poll with a cursor but actually the underlying data is very large (we work with snapshots of it) and updates very frequently and eventually we'll move to something else (e.g. interact directly with the underlying services with capnproto) so really it would just be useful to be able to define these sources ourselves. I'm working doing full-stack engineering at an HFT currently and we were thinking of using DataFusion to allow users to join, query and aggregate the data in realtime but I haven't attempted this yet (and to do so means integrating with what currently exists as I don't have time to rewrite all of the services).
I’ve found summarizing this way is a great idea but the summarizing models are not great themselves. Would even prefer an embedding with the summary as maybe the embedding would be better.
> “We’re going to tear the barriers down, it’s just the way it’s going to happen,” said Donato. “The world that exists today is the product of monopolistic conduct. That world is changing”

Very cool!!
> I think there is business "harm" to piracy, but it's (mostly) vastly overstated. If I illegally download a song/movie I wouldn't have otherwise bought, did anybody lose out?

More than two decades of studies show there is no harm to these companies and that pirates spend the most on content.

Piracy is flat out a net good for humanity and society. No convincing counter-arguments can be made.

The only example where harm could be said to happen is with very small content-creators who would be relying on income to get started, but even then I don't think that matters.

If you're the source of a creation and people want to see more, they will fund it. It need not be funded by everybody that will or has viewed or enjoyed it.
Haven't USB hubs done this since USB 1.1?
Well if the company can build a business then you can get great software to use... while in theory it would be great if a bunch of incredible software were done purely in the spirit of community open source, in practice that's pretty limited
I think it's reminiscent of "rectum", unless I'm missing it too.
Anyone surprised by this? I remember my first programming job it was FREQUENT that the execs would fly to other offices ~12+ weeks a year. Of course our office was in Orlando so every exec would also magically have their family flown in as well to go to Disney World.

5 jobs later, its been the same at any company that isn't a startup. Execs have never been in the office, they have "offsite" meetings.
What is Relm?
Petition calls for halt of megaconstellation launches
When Nothing Ever Goes Out of Print: Maintaining Backlist Ebooks (2016)
> The BSL doesn't make it closed source […]

Yes, that’s right!

> But BSL doesn't disqualify software from being open source.

No, that’s wrong: https://spdx.org/licenses/BUSL-1.1.html

> The Business Source License […] is not an Open Source license.
And yet people just use steam and they’re fine.
I don't think Dropbox has released a song featuring this many famous musicians: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Wvn-9BXVc
> the harm done in the first case.

There is no harm done in the first case. You say you would have bought House if you couldn't have streamed it, but I say that's nonsense. If you didn't want to pay for it you would have borrowed it from a library or a friend.
Rules for thee. None for me.
Or you participate in some activity which provides a service, like filecoin. Or you get somebody's approval of the block's contents, like in a permissioned blockchain.

I think we'll also see something where you do key-signing parties all at the same time as a way of providing sybil resistance. Or proof of having voted on whatever it is (the outcome of the vote would then go into the block).

Stake and work are just the easy ones to implement because they don't even try to be simultaneously useful.

Personally I'm not very excited about blockchains because I think global consistency is overkill for pretty much everything, and is in many cases harmful. But it's hard to take anyone seriously who classifies a technology as by-definition-useless. Its current forms are weak enough to defeat at face value, no need for propaganda.

As for the future ones... Maybe they be useful, we'll see.
> I think this line of argumentation follows and is logically consistent but if this is really how it worked then you're saying in the long run with probability 1 every executive will be a criminal.

Certainly not. For example, if a company is run by an above-average executive who can produce good results without cheating, they won't be replaced by someone who cheats. But that's no general solution because it's not possible for every executive to be above-average.

> For crimes that have a low chance of being caught the SOP is make the punishment disproportionately severe and weaponize the people likely to observe or carry out the crime.

Yeah, that's the War on Drugs strategy. It's aggressively broken and encourages the dangerous and socially destructive behaviors associated with organized crime.

> I don't see how your example resolves as anything other than the mid-level employee is guilty of bribery, and CEO of the insurance company is guilty of 2nd degree $yet-to-be-derermined-crime-name. I don't expect a CEO to somehow know of literally any crime that occurs by any of their employees, just crime by policy.

A CEO in a company that isn't the size of a country is going to be directly involved in the company's operations. That companies have grown so large that their owners and executives no longer have a handle on what's happening inside them is the problem.
Rules for thee, but not for me.

Alas, how could we?

We specialize in strategy.

Not possible in a seat.
> Adobe App Store

You’re describing a website with a purchase button, the exact situation we have on all non-mobile devices.

> Look at the Windows game stores situation.

Yes and look at their competition: GoG, Steam, Humble Bundle, Epic Games, Origin, etc. Don’t like Windows game stores, no problem just use a competitor.
Never could see the difference between a so called web app and a shortcut to the site in question on the desktop. It is not a standalone application when it depends on the browser runtime. Much rather prefer Mozilla's sadly vanished application platform, where you could create powerful standalone cross platform desktop applications with knowledge of just XML(XUL being a subset) and Javascript. Firefox and Thunderbird themselves were great examples of such apps and it would have been any day a better alternative to Electron, these applications actually respected the look and feel conventions of each OS they ran on.

Mozilla had a separate XULRunner runtime to bundle with your app for it to be fully standalone, or you could invoke it with the locally installed Firefox instance. There were several, like Songbird (media player), FireFTP/FireSSH (originally began as extensions and now available as standalone software)
It's really useful to ask the simple question "what tests could have caught the most costly bugs we've had?"

At one job, our code had a lot of math, and the worst bugs were when our data pipelines ran without crashing but gave the wrong numbers, sometimes due to weird stuff like "a bug in our vendor's code caused them to send us numbers denominated in pounds instead of dollars". This is pretty hard to catch with unit tests, but we ended up applying a layer of statistical checks that ran every hour or so and raised an alert if something was anomalous, and those alerts probably saved us more money than all other tests combined.
The purpose of this site is to take a picture of yourself using a traffic camera. This requires that you're in front of the traffic camera, which requires that you're physically in traffic, which probably wouldn't have a desktop computer involved.

But, if you want to see it, you can set your user agent to some mobile agent. In Safari, this is done with the menu: Developer -> User Agent -> Safari - iOS xx.x
Although it doesn't use them by default (preferring pyca/cryptography if available), reticulum contains pure-python hand-rolled crypto primitives. I'm not really sure why.

These implementations are not secure against side-channels, for example, here's their AES implementation indexing an array with a secret index: https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/blob/6ded42edd7ae203e...

Their ed25519 implementation doesn't even attempt to be constant-time: https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/blob/6ded42edd7ae203e...

Their X25519 implementation tries to be constant time by using... time.sleep() https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/blob/6ded42edd7ae203e...

There are also pure-python implementations of sha256 and sha512, which I haven't looked at closely, but they're already available as part of hashlib (part of the standard library, and already used as a dependency), so they serve no practical purpose.

Ditto for hmac.
Many others, partial listing:

- ABC (Australia)

- BBC (UK)

- CBC (Canada)

- CPB, NPR, and PBS (US, though with very limited public funding)

- Canal Once, Canal 22, Canal Catorce (Mexico)

- DR (Denmark)

- Deutshlandfunk, DeutscheWelle and regional broadcasters (NDR, RBB, SWR, MDR, WDR, BR, HR, SR, RB), the last for somewhat interesting denazification reasons.

- EBC (Brazil)

- ERT (Greece)

- NRK (Norway)

- Polskie Radio (Poland)

- RNZ/TVNZ (New Zealand)

- Sveriges Radio/Television (Sweden)

- TVN (Chile)

- VOA, AFN (US, not broadcast domestically)

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_broadcasting>
One App Store per application, almost like if they would sell software straight from their website. What a horrible scenario.
Have you tried it? It may be one of those "you have to see it to believe it" things but I can assure you that was not hyperbole
Maybe Mozilla shouldn't have paid their CEO $6.9M per year.

Maybe Mozilla shouldn't have wasted so much money on metaverse, AI, chat, social features, etc.

Maybe they could have doubled down on Rust, WASM, the browser, and become a developer tooling vendor that engineers loved.

MDN, Mozdev, Servo, Rustls (not Mozilla, but could have been incubated), and so many other awesome things could have had so much potential if simply thought through, cared about, and coordinated.

The future of everything is making the web first class on mobile. Regulation was always going to catch up and force Apple and Google's hands. Rust, WASM, and Servo could have been the basis of that.
Interesting, I was just diving into the permission system today. I was wondering if it was possible to delegate administration of a directory, e.g. give permission to some non-root user to delete files created by others in that directory.

Turns out it doesn't seem possible. Even if you use ACLs, whatever default ACL you set can just be removed from sub-directories by their respective owners. This seems like a big blind spot, unless I just missed something; all those groups, access lists, bits, and I can't even do that?
Where's the IP?

It's like phone books--a collection of data, no creative content.
Differing priorities. Edge is based on blink now anyway , so as a core browser engine they’re roughly the same. It’s the higher level UX that is differentiated.

Safari has largely caught up now for web standards and mostly only lags behind in experimental features that are largely driven by Google anyway. But Safari has better battery use and privacy.

Chrome is good because Google see it as their play at a web OS. That’s why they shove everything and the kitchen sink into it.

So it’s just different priorities and the resulting differentiators. I don’t think any major browser is actually significantly better anymore today.
No, people use Steam and also have to install the Ubisoft launcher, the Epic store, the Paradox launcher, the EA store...

PC gaming is a good example of why the complaints about the 30% tax are overblown, but it's also a terrific example of what happens to consumers when a platform isn't able to vertically control every aspect of the distribution experience. It's not great.
Will this include Apple's own screen recording and sharing tools? If I share thru Facetime, or my Mac screen to an Apple Vision Pro, will that prompt every month too?
11 meters is in a different part than ham and is usable unlicensed.

Doesn't mean you can send encrypted traffic and there are FCC rules about duty cycle, etc.
It's also about making deals with entities smarter than you are. Essentially the same thing can be found in Science Fiction (e.g. Culture Minds):

> Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively gleeful relish and are generally perfectly capable of contriving to give one an utterly unambiguous impression of their future course of action while in fact intending to do exactly the opposite, but they never lie. Perish the thought.”
― Iain M. Banks, Look to Windward [0]

In classic Fantasy, it's dragons who take the same role, manipulating and deceiving mortals into doing bad things (e.g Tolkein's dragons, based on the old Norse traditions of dragons being sly and deceptive [1]).

And of course, the Djinn's classic Three Wishes is all about being careful what you wish for. The Djinn does exactly what the wisher wishes for, but if there's any way of manipulating it for evil, they will.

We now have AI and tech, so it's natural that we start telling these same stories about our smarter-than-us entities. I don't think the Terminator gets into this kind of story; it's more as you say about our children being a danger to us (but then the Greek creation myths are all about that, too).

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/83257-oh-they-never-lie-the...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragons_in_Middle-earth
I'd be interested in what if any media sources you find to be unbiased, and, more importantly, why they are that way (as in causally, not as in descriptive characteristics).

The following would address specifically how (or if) journalistic business / financing models need reform.
This horrible scenario you’re describing is the World Wide Web: each company free to sell their software on their website directly to consumers.

This is the reality on Apple’s own macOS.

This is a pretty weak boogeyman.
Railing against time: tools and techniques that got us 5X faster tests–Martian
The mind fairly boggles. That's depressing.
I’ve been training jiu jitsu for over 6 years now. The myth of the 130 lb woman doing anything to the <insert any weight above 180 lbs> is overused and not true; unless the man is being a gentleman.

I routinely get beaten by small women because I’m not a spazoid and I want my training partners to enjoy training with me.

But if my life was on the line, there’s no way they could tap me. Not even a chance.
It doesn't exist in most of Spain/Catalonia either; it's in a few of the largest cities.
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