skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t want to comment on if a breakup is a “good” thing for society, because I vaguely agree, but I’m not sure I agree with you on many points here.

> I think the valuation of a broken-up Google and Apple would exceed the monolithic conglomerates that they have become. So many of their business units and products don't even monetize because they're going for an intangible "platform value".

I think a lot of these products aren’t monetized because they’re actually bad businesses or failed ventures and companies have the free cash to support them. A lot more of Google’s (for example) random side projects seem to be getting subscriptions or collapses into existing ones. I also think that vertical integration creates unique value sometimes. I think spinning off these random side businesses could destroy the side businesses, but that this may still raise stock prices as the companies get better margins. I think a lot of these products are bad businesses because big tech salaries are high and that makes labor costs hard to account for.

I think the breakups obviously rectify consolidated power. 100%. But I don’t see more mobile phone operating systems coming from a breakup of Apple, for example. Gmail isn’t going to be replaced by a new email provider. Nor would we see a new YouTube, or other dominant businesses. Disrupting these massive aggregators won’t come from direct competition, but rather new product and service experiences. TikTok has shown that tech is already not impenetrable.

Finally, I totally agree that this would be a feeding frenzy for VCs, but VCs learned in the last decade how to rip off ICs even more through delaying IPOs and more aggressive dilution. So I wouldn’t be holding my breath as an IC that breaking up Google (or others) will make jobs better.
The article should have mentioned that.
Prior to this lawsuit, Apple could bluff and say they would contract with Bing or some other search engine, and indeed evidence from the trial showed that Apple would invite Bing to submit bids but internally was clear that no amount of money would be enough to switch from Google. One key piece of evidence showed that Microsoft had offered to give Apple 100% of its Bing revenue on Apple devices and that still wasn’t enough to overcome Bing’s lack of quality.

If Google is removed as an available option, Apple can longer keep up the facade and will be forced to either suck it up and keep Google for free or give their users an inferior product. Mozilla tried switching from Google once and users hated it. Apple doesn’t want to piss off its users.
Solo from Mozilla
I did not know and I must not know that to get a service running on start.
https://chainsec.io/failed-stablecoins/

23 failed “stablecoins” and counting.
Also the gg in gguf
You haven't addressed what I said. You've identified a problem (let's just assume you are correct about the problem for arguments sake). I've pointed out the problem with current "solution": making decisions about individuals based on their race, sexual orientation or gender seems far from good, but you haven't addressed that.
It is funny and a bit sad that many root for anticompetitive behavior by these companies out of what appears to be largely simply due to fanboyism.

Making markets highly competitive and open to new entrants/innovation is far better for society in the long run.

Is society better off if Visa can take 5% of every Transaction? Apple/Google 30%? Clearly not.

In a competitive market, margins will trend towards marginal value add of the player. Margins well in excess of the add are signs a market is not competitive.

Open protocols for payments, storefronts, Identity/Auth, messaging etc can solve most of these inefficiencies.

Eventually government will get smarter on technology. (Maybe on the cusp?)
It literally says "...coding aga", and there is huge m/f consent cookie banner highlighting the irony.
Your info might be outdated. Apple Maps is actually better than Google Maps in many ways (e.g. it says "pass this light and at the next one, turn left" instead of "in 300 feet, turn left")
the pass structures now overwhelmingly favor return trippers vs. day passes. So it's very possible that there are fewer people going significantly more often.

i haven't skiied in a while and I went on a trip with regular skiiers to Whistler, and while I knew that skiing had gone expensive and Whistler is a top-tier resort, the lift tickets were $350 due to dynamic pricing for lifts that close at 3pm. If you ski at the same collection of resorts a few times a year the passes make more sense, but day tripping is eye-wateringly expensive now. The $20-50 lift ticket is increasingly rare.
"Huh, we cut through that muscle every day"

-ear nose and throat surgeon
I cannot believe how exhausting (and expensive) this investigation has been for you. I had a GI surgery and one of the possible outcomes was permanent nausea, and when I woke up I had nausea for about 3 months and it was horrific. The symptoms resolved on their own after a while, and for a time I believe them to be psychosomatic, so I began meditation. In the end I don't know, but that must be scary.

I'm curious if fecal microbiota transplantation has been discussed? From what I can tell the gut biome is under studied and the effects are pretty scattered and wide. Thoughts?
Whether a thing can be selected-out depends on the shape of the fitness landscape in the environment.

For example, appendix-bursts are clearly rare enough and treatable-enough that they cannot be selected-out in modern humans. (But almost nothing can if almost everyone is able to reproduce, and any selection effects will be driven by the number of children which is largely cultural.)

If a thing hasn't been selected out, you can roughly conclude either that:

1. The selection pressure to do so isn't strong. Either few appendix bursts occur in an ancestral env, or they don't disrupt reproduction bc they happen later in life, or are treatable, or other causes of death kick in before the appendix matters.

2. Or, if the selection pressure is strong, there is "nowhere to go" in gene-space that improves this aspect of fitness, within the search-radius. (Which is really equivalent to 1: the selection pressure isn't strong enough to search widely enough)

3. Or there is a stronger selection pressure for it, even if you can't figure out what it is, like the "backup gut bacteria" thing for the appendix. (Which is actually equivalent to 1/2 also: the selection pressure isn't strong enough to find a way to separate the upside from the downside)
I will be honest, I only skimmed the article… But I did not see any mention of exercise. Not sure if the author will read this, but the best way I know to increase metabolism is to walk or swim. Ideally work up to something more intense like yoga or weightlifting as you start to feel better. Basically, activity work at building up an appetite and eat high fiber foods.

Also check out the fodmap diet to get your gut in order before working up to exercise.
Addressing the Affordable Housing Crisis
> GDB has an extensible, modern C++ codebase with literal decades of hard earned knowledge baked into it.

I literally laughed outloud at this. Have you ever actually opened a GDB source file? It is, as a whole, extremely poor quality code. Almost all of it is doing C string manipulation and raw pointer arithmetic; almost none of it uses C++ smart pointers, nevermind the rest of "modern C++"; the vast majority is completely uncommented, and "literal decades of hard earned knowledge" can be better translated as "literal decades of historical baggage, cruft, and hacks". I regularly cause GDB to segfault in normal, mundane operations.
Monopolists of all countries, unite!
The Future Is Too Easy
https://archive.is/zIrGs
> It's not clear to me why we'd need a new debugger

People build things for fun. Stop asking "why" and ask "why not?"

No one can really predict what's needed and where we need to go, so let people just explore. Sometimes they won't find things, but sometimes they do. And if they don't, they still gain useful knowledge that pays dividends later on anyways.

It's Hacker News, let people hack.
Idk, but to me it seemed like a fun expression of the author's feelings.
I look forward to people applying the same standards to the OpenAI's O3 as they did Deepseek's R1 release and paper in the discussions last week.
I'm still reading the details, but my first thought is that I like that the competition is actually working in this situation. I hope that someday it will be more open from all actors. And that we don't make more polarized that it is now and don't focus on the geopolitical angle and make it the core issue. I know that this hope is far fetched and more ideal than most people would think. But as someone who really find these development interesting and would like LLMs to be more useful (and don't think too much about AGI as it is the fusion project of the Artificial Intelligence field).
DeepSeek? More like DeepSneak
It’s kinda cute that Vance is a big tech skeptic when his entire political career was funded by Peter Thiel and Vance got rich living in Silicon Valley.

Amazing.
> relatively big chunk of Apple's profit margins

It's about 1/6 of Apple's profits.

And proportional to the growth of their devices i.e it's likely to go down over time as they grow beyond iPhone/Mac.
I think that was 1:1 a black mirror episode
> Now that they're not encumbered by the Google deal: build their own search engine.

"Encumbered"? Apple wants a deal with Google search. Apple is 'self-encumbering' themselves: Apple wants the deal so they don't have go through the rigamarole of building it themselves.

Building would cost a lot and they'd also not be getting cash from Google: so they're doubly hit.
The parent's market share claim is for desktop OSes, where Android is irrelevant.

It's still far easier to not install chrome than it is to install it: downloading a thing, running the downloaded thing, click through all the dialogs, ignore all of Windows's nags to stick with Edge (which is probably a greater abuse of platform control than advertising on the search page), ...
If I remember correctly apple wanted Turn by Turn navigation while also not adding any ads to the app (essentially be their maps but no revenue).
It's fairly hard to pass substantial bills these days thanks to polarization -- when a significant portion of your base sees cooperation as a betrayal, the incentives get wonky. (Not pointing that comment at either the left or the right to the exclusion of the other.) The days of Ted Kennedy finding ways to work across the aisle are gone, at least for now.
Maybe, but why should we care? So far those billions haven't actually given us anything useful, it's all just toys. I'm not against research, but when the research hasn't yet produced a useful outcome then I don't feel like there is a strong societal good in keeping it going.
It's probably more accurate to say that they are complementary rather than equivalent.

- Category theory emphasizes morphisms and composition

- Type theory emphasizes terms and computation

There are important correspondences between them (like the Curry-Howard-Lambek correspondence), but they have different strengths and different ways of expressing concepts.

Sorry, I couldn't resist the temptation of being a pedantic formalist.
If you think mincing words is fun.
Since you brought up the topic--in the snow picture, is the red vehicle on the right an older 4Runner with some kind of pickup truck cap on it? Something that turns it into a Chevy Avalanche configuration.
This is not open-source. It has high accuracy and it is faster too. All you need is to point your documents to the API.
> after doubt was removed.

This really isn't quite the universal experience many in this crowd seem to make it out to be.
Who knows? The executive orders read like they were written by children and don't clearly define what they mean by "DEIA". But NSF's authorization is from Congress. Unless congress passes a law rescinding this as a part of what counts as broader impacts, or the Supreme Court rules that increasing participation of underrepresented groups is unconstitutional (by precedent it is certainly not!), then NSF cannot simply change the definition of broader impacts.
If the remedy the court and defendants/prosecution agreed to affects my ability to compete or contract, then I have a claim to that being an illegal remedy, as I was not a party to the suit and therefore did not have say in something that now binds me.

IANAL, but that’s my understanding.
It was a topic here on HN before.

Consensus was, it has to do with the moisture of the skin. Older people have drier skin, so worse touchscreen response.
> This is easy to solve though, just change the laws.

When a large subset of people only care about culture war, this isn’t easy.
Indeed, per their profile they're in Brazil, which is not a guarantee of that but does make it likely.
Are there examples of any other outcomes that prohibited two specific companies from exchanging anything of value?

This seems like a strange outcome.

Why not just prohibit payment for default search?

Doesn't Apple use Google's servers to pre-train it's AI models?

So that gets banned to?

Why?

How and why is any better for Apple to pay Amazon or MSFT for that than Google?
Makes me wonder what we'd uncover with systematic longitudinal studies (within the same culture, rather than comparing populations with distinct cultures and genetic bases) on effects of male genital mutilation.
Apple isn't a monopoly.

And as advertising starts coming to LLMs this year I would argue Google isn't either.
Wow. What a riveting read.

A violent coast-to-coast network of extremist, tripping, rationalist vegans that recruits technophile transgender women and murders witnesses. You could not concoct a more sensationalist story if you tried.
As someone with Crohn's disease (thankfully now in remission) I can fully relate. Nausea is the worst symptom because it is so debilitating. You don't want to do anything when you are nauseated and when it goes on for months that affects every part of your life.
Microsoft Dev Drive
VHD that use ReFS to improve build times
If there's a failure here, then the private sector also failed, you know.
> They do take a long time to merge any PRs though.

I guess you have a point there, seeing as after many months of waiting we finally have a comment on this PR from someone with real involvement in Ollama - see https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/5059#issuecomment-2628... . Of course this is very welcome news.
It's worse than "micromanaged" for that matter. PIER plans (nominally) required the applicant to do the work to become competent at this themselves, to develop and present a creative plan themselves, to implement that plan and conduct their entire project according to that plan. All this INSTEAD of doing their science job. All the while hoping that some perfect candidate will show up that will fit all the crazy requirements. Meanwhile remaining aware of illegal HR practices even when they could have sped up the process. So they had to become amateur sociologists and HR specialists.

At least in a micromanagement situation, the PI might have submitted 3 candidates to a reviewer who would have picked one for them. But no.

Now to be fair, the project leads - I expect - usually have no appetite for all this nonsense and try to cut corners everywhere possible (most likely copy/pasting generic stuff for a start and justifying decisions rather then making the "wrong" ones since they still had an interest in the project achieving its goals) but this was still a waste of time and energy from a point of view of science achieved.

When I say "was", it probably still is because most of this current emergency change will be challenged in court and will need to be redone a couple times. So for now, this is MORE waste of time rather than less.
Replicate has Hunyuan video training now. https://replicate.com/blog/fine-tune-video

Also, Kling 1.6 Elements works pretty okay if you use the same person/face for each element.

Kling also has lip sync.

Or this lip sync with replicate: https://replicate.com/bytedance/latentsync

Or there is HeyGen or D-ID or Synthesia, or tavus.io for full interactive digital twins.
Does the article really talk about creative coding or just more unique design?

In any case, creating creative websites is nice as the creator. But visitors have a need that they want fulfilled. They don't marvel at websites, they just use Amazon.com because it has everything, not because it had colour gradients.
BYD is doing something related in China. They've got a fairly popular battery swapping service that can swap in and out batteries of different sizes.
From a legal perspective, Apple's biggest concern, by far, is that this case could set a precedent for using courts to sanction Apple without letting Apple in court. Next to that, revenue is meaningless. Because they can take your revenue from whatever source via judgement, without giving you so much as an opportunity to file a brief in front of the court.

This is one time where there is much more on the line than money. At least for Apple. Maybe for everyone if the Supremes were to say this is OK. (Unlikely in the extreme, but still.)
Yes, the customer is returning, but that’s completely normal in the bespoke tailoring process—it’s not new business. The process of getting a completely bespoke suit there's usually multiple fittings over several weeks. It's normal for the customer's body to change, and adjustments to made to create a better fit.

That’s why it becomes such an issue when customers come in requesting an alteration—it’s like being dropped into a team at the final stages of a project that leadership says is 90% done, but it’s been stuck for weeks trying to finalize that last 10% due to some "small last minute requirement changes"
Regardless of the subject's personality, these are fundamentally different kinds of relationship:

1. Try to look like you're following the law so that nothing happens.

2. Give personal favors and praise to a corrupt cop so that nothing happens.
2026: Car makers include a moist page-turning-sponge on dashboard cluster
if he can do options and hedge trading against it to personally enrich himself I'm sure he'd be game.
gf is a frontend to gdb. This is supposed to be a brand new debugger
You don't have to ferment it to get a rich flavor. You just have to use fresh ginger instead of dried or powdered. We make it with Fresh Ginger, Lemon juice, orange juice, cane sugar and molasses. Then force carb.
(2011)?
Those are all true. However, appendicitis is still the most common abdominal surgery worldwide[0] and lots of people still die of it. It's easy to make the case that someone already undergoing abdominal surgery where the surgeon has ready access to it could have long-term lower health risk by removing it.

If you live in a country with excellent healthcare and you're never far from a hospital, the calculus is a bit different. You'll probably be fine. If you regularly find yourself far away from modern medical clinics, it's easier to defend the idea.

I had appendicitis as a kid. If you've never experienced it, trust me, you don't want it.

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9945388/
>I did not know and I must not know that to get a service running on start.

Exactly. So why is it part of your init system? Can you think of a reason why it is not a totally separate project which is totally independent of systemd?

From a surface glance systemd and openrc are almost identical. Both require very little to get something to work. The difference is that systemd does a million things more.

What you probably should know though is that many systemd distros do not have a real fstab, the fstab is just a file which systemd uses to create mount units, which are then used during boot.

Another important piece of knowledge is what a systemd "transaction" is, that is a very unintuitive concept which you absolutely need to know if you are debugging on your init system.
Ah thought you meant Brexit agreement compelled UK to copy new EU laws. UK politicians (both Conservative and Labour) love to look around world to copy any regulation targetting business, especially ones targetting tech and online censorship, not far off actual copying China's great firewall...
Late 50s in age. I notice it occasionally. I don't think my skin is particularly dry, but don't know where the threshold is on these devices.
Probably competes too closely with whatever pay2win/lootbox microtransaction heavy shitware 40k games I keep seeing YouTube ads for.
The product of competitors is somehow not better enough to cause people to navigate a click away.
Nice work! I remember meeting you at Systems Distributed in NYC where you mentioned this project, so cool to see the progress. Well done!
Tangent but the original spotify gui was about 1mb download and blazing fast. In no small part because of the original author of µTorrent (and ScummVM) had a central role. [1]

Spotify the company only moved to a electron remake later, I can only guess because it was hard to find more quality devs.

People might not remember this, but µTorrent used to be amazingly snappy too before it got bought and shovelwared.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Strigeus
Bitcoin does not reduce the effectiveness of US monetary policy either. It has been described as a hedge against inflationary monetary policy but that is only true of Bitcoin if you only buy below the median trend price and have a long > 2 year time horizon. If you have a 6 month time horizon, then you can only really afford to buy Bitcoin at the bottom and should really be using risk free assets like CDs to hedge against inflation.

Speculative gain in Bitcoin does not make it a hedge against inflation, it makes it a speculative vehicle. As Bitcoin becomes less speculative, I really don't even see it being able to sustain enough interest to be a hedge against anything.
I suppose it's expected since the article was 2013,

but is there a video available comparing original to patched?

EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23qeQa0exe0&ab_channel=Retro...
I think it would have been interesting to send two down, one oil-filled and one not and see at what depths they break (or don't). The watches are cheap enough that destroying one isn't much of a loss.
I rather thought my original post was dripping with sarcasm, but I understand that it doesn't translate as well in text. I quote the orangeführer and his sidekick to bury them (in ridicule), not to praise them.
I'd be very impressed if it were, though.
If it’s happening I’d love to know about it
Ah, my error -- thank you!
It's not that hard to understand. Their view point is that there must be a class of citizens that the laws protect, but do not bind, and a class of citizens that the laws bind but do not protect.

Nothing more than feudalism 2.0
To "catch a serial killer" you'd need each retailer selling printers to track the ID and model number on a receipt, to be submitted to a central government agency and saved in a database. This is not what's happening in your country either, am I correct?

Instead this ordeal makes it possible for the government agencies, who do keep track of their own inventory to follow the tracks of those, who decided to leak documents to the outside world by printing them on printers at work. Like the outing of the whistleblower, courtesy of a journalist at The Intercept.

https://blog.erratasec.com/2017/06/how-intercept-outed-reali...
Is the sign with the cougar a suggestion on how to treat salesmen?

If so, I dig it.
Related to that are Searle's "Chinese Room" argument and the
question of "Mind uploading" (can you up/download mental states):
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/#ChinRoomArg...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_uploading
and Chapter 8 about Mind Uploading in https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alfredo-Pereira-Junior/...

The related Reddit conversation
https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/2ew9i2/would_it...