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From https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/UNITEDS... the proposed restriction seems to be:

> “Google must not offer or provide anything of value to Apple—or offer any commercial terms—that in any way creates an economic disincentive to compete in or enter the GSE or Search Text Ad markets,”

That's a very broad statement that could easily be interpreted to cover more than just the default-search-provider agreement.
Sure, but learn from why the Electrons of the world are winning. It’s because browsers are already what you would get after reinventing the wheel all the way to its logical conclusion— a highly customizable, generic application runner. Let’s not throw that away and make an Nth new thing. HTML/CSS/JS are good enough abstractions with great implementations, and it’s easy to build applications against this. Portability is already solved too. Yes, we can do better than shipping each application with an embedded web browser executable, there are huge jumps being made all the time with native web view frameworks. Personally, I think the ship has sailed on making the “perfect” framework, let’s pick the one that’s already winning and make it the best we can.
It's not clear to me why we'd need a new debugger instead of GDB enhancements. GDB has an extensible, modern C++ codebase with literal decades of hard earned knowledge baked into it.

How are we better off rewriting it, especially if the rewrite isn't memory safe?
Really? We're rational here, which is pretty much meant to be the hallmark of techies.

> The whole concept of 'got noticed' runs entirely contrary to the notion of merit, to an absurd degree in tech.
>Your merit is not what you might achieve, but what you do achieve.

Taking it seriously, I can see several situations where these rules do not hold true.

However, that may be me reading in factors you exclude for the purposes of your point.

So let me turn it to you - can you consider circumstances where these statements wouldn't hold true? Or are they absolute in your eyes?

If they are absolute, I would definitely want to understand your defintions, since I can conceive of many obvious cases where these points are violated.

But since they are obvious, I am assuming you haven't overlooked them in the way you envision things.
Evolution works on a different timescale than what science divulgation headlines, and selected lineages to care about how to cross deadly valleys even though they might have appeared rarely. There's little room for baggage.
To be honest, I'm getting tired of being told what I should do.

Learn a new framework? How about a new language? Start a side project? Turn my side project into a side business? How about brush up on my AI/LLM knowledge? Let's not forget to leet code in between, to stay fresh and ready. And also, if you're dissatisfied working low level, try high level. If high level, try low level. Aren't you falling behind?

I empathize with the message. I remember when :hover and rounded corners first came to CSS. I would love to enjoy spending hours fretting over those very minor details again, without caring at all if anyone ever sees it. But aren't tech companies and tech culture what is draining the creativity out of us while demanding more and more of it in the first place?

I mean, what's the point of doing anything for fun if you can't turn it into a bonafide side project that becomes a start-up so you can escape your local-or-fired corporate hellhole?
This is fascinating in its own way. I don't know if it is the writer who is good at their job of weaving the story together, adding questions and intrigue without answers or if it's the subject itself.
>they will, most likely. it's easy (as a piece of software) to be lean and clean when you're doing very little (with little error checking and recovery).

Why would you even begin to think that openrc would ever want to include a whole virtualization manager. Are you serious?

>but they are designed to work with each other.

And they are not designed to work without one another. See e.g. dbus and how hard it is to get it working on non systemd systems.

Systemd binaries aren't drop in features.
To creatively code one must first in fact code. I went deep down the IDE->AI rabbit hole. They are amazing tools. However, I have settled into a bare-bones Sublime Text editing flow, wherein I pop into IDEs/AI as needed for one-off items. I am really enjoying it. Oh, I hit a snag? Well, let me think about it for a moment and then if I'm really stumped or need a second opinion I'll pop open Cursor.

Creativity is odd in that it is somewhat revelatory: it seemingly comes from outside of you. At least for me I need to minimize input (e.g. reading docs, AI chat, etc) in order for this revelation to "manifest" in my mind. I don't have the self control to "pause" in Cursor or other IDEs, so I use Sublime to truly read and wrestle with code.

N.B. this isn't some fanatically held rule...I'll do a whole session in Cursor if I know the task is appropriate for it (e.g. something that is mindless).
Omni Group 2025 Roadmap
Joke all you want, it's a very interesting second-order effect that most people probably weren't thinking about.
This is going to be big business I think. I have probably sent hundreds of thousands of emails, texts, chats, etc. It would be well within the realm of possibility to train an LLM on a loved ones communications corpus and allow you to chat with "them" after they're gone.

Possible? Yes. Convincing results? Probably. Good idea? I doubt it.
Spy vs. AI: How Artificial Intelligence Will Remake Espionage
I assume this is what happens when many HN users just flag every AI- and LLM-related post out of sheer frustration with the reality distortion field around this particular topic.
Although Figma is not the worst offender, looks like billionaires siting in Davos we should consume less resources and be happy with "owning nothing" because the World is at the brink of collapse so "everyone needs to go back to the basics"

Figma is a ( good ) tool, but immense it reads a bit like Smith & Wesson telling us we need to kill less.
I took it for six months and lost 20 pounds. I've been off it for a month and I've gained a few pounds back with my old appetite, so I will go on maintenance. It's healthy.
this is significant news for me. I don't have the money for cardboard crack or its digital equivalent, and I used to play a lot with apprentice but apprentice didn't actually have a rules engine it just logged every state change and who initiated it and then counted on the players to play correctly. A functioning rules engine and real card art for free might be enough to get me back into the hobby, or at least back to reading articles and goldfishing myself

edit: oh my god it's got an adventure/overworld mode like the old microprose mtg game from back in the 90s. My heart doth soar, thank you so much for pointing this out!
Netflix's Distributed Counter
I very much needed the plain English. Thank you!
I got a cat when I didn't know how much I needed him. He brought structure and joy to my life in a way that really turned it around.

Unfortunately, two years ago he was diagnosed with FeLV+ even though he was an indoor only cat. Today we're having an at-home quality of life consultation as I suspect we'll have to put him to rest in the coming days.

Outside of beating myself up from not doing more for something that is preventable I gave him the very best care both in terms of medical and supportive.

Having this little guy for almost half of my life changed it in such a positive way I support anyone thinking about getitng a cat.
Does it make break down oxygen into ozone ? If it does maybe some people smell it
Yup! And the fact that Apple has so far appeared completely uninterested in doing this (compare this to how aggressively Apple competes against Google Maps!) proves that this anticompetitive financial arrangement harms competition, which harms consumers (and probably even harms advertisers, since having Google Search in such a dominant position means Google has much more pricing power to sell ads than they would if a large chunk of iPhone users moved over to Apple Search).
Interesting - I perceive web zero days to be substantially more valuable than desktop ones at this point, and unlikely to be wasted on me.
Soft layoff/encouraged attrition
From yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42883601
Voyage from Yesteryear (1982), James P. Hogan is my favorite. Essentially, yes, the robots can do better once shown but people create because it's enjoyable and, where desired, robots produce copies or maintain. The robots in this case have also been instructed to encourage human leadership and stay out of the way of it.
Flo lead-author here! This is spot on :) Flo aims to be a bit less opinionated than Timely in how the runtime should behave, so in particular we don't support the type of "time-traveling" computation that Timely needs when you have iterative computations on datasets with retractions.

This is also one of the core differences of Timely compared to DBSP, which uses a flat representation (z-sets) to store retractions rather than using versioned elements. This allows retractions to be propagated as just negative item counts which fits into the Flo model (and therefore Hydro).
How does it compare to gf?

https://github.com/nakst/gf
I think they're more getting downvoted because that isn't actually the popular association with ozempic, despite the best efforts of these tabloid sloprags (and it's bipartisan too: The Guardian has an intense hatred of ozempic, and is clearly furious that it just keeps getting more popular). But I'm on it myself and have never gotten any reaction in person except encouragement and curiosity; I think the hate purely exists among opinion columnists in online bubbles.
Perhaps I should have said:

“Simmer down there sonny boy, we may not speak your lingo but at least our generation can recognize obvious sarcasm”
> There is no way to obtain a CPU frequency on Apple silicon macs.

Ha! You can rip my Intel Mac from my cold, dead hands.
Of course the mitigations get disabled.

What's the threat model where your HFT application's running hostile / untrusted code?

I'd like this stuff enabled on my desktop because I'm not sure what hideous javascript is being dumped into my browser by some advertising network.

But my trading platform? If the badguys are able to execute these attacks there, it's because they've got full access already.
There would be so much opportunity in breaking up Apple and Google. And Amazon and Meta.

Just think of all the new startups and money to be made by breaking up big tech.

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" that is only achievable at obscene scale. In this hulking form, they can reach into new markets and charge nothing, killing off all the incumbents, just so that they can grow their empires larger and tighten their grips on your attentions and wallets.

Amazon gives away Hollywood movies for free because it keeps your eyeballs glued to them. And they're also a grocery store, for god's sake.

A big tech breakup would provide much needed oxygen to the ecosystem, lift a bunch of impossible to beat barriers, and result in far more competition and money making.

Imagine a web that isn't dominated by Google or a phone market that isn't controlled by a duopoly. Imagine if we could suddenly launch iPhone and Gmail and YouTube competitors. The energy barriers are too high today because the big players have consolidated every angle of attack.

No wonder Peter Thiel and Vance want it. This would turn the big tech money siphons over to venture capital, entrepreneurs, and engineering ICs again.

We should all be 100% for this.
Ozempic has been a nasty surprise for Savile Row.
> leave a gap in the smartphone market wide enough to drive a truck through

I think the opportunity is most likely going to be taken Huawei's HarmonyOS than something like Lineage or Librem.

As such we should consider this almost a-kin to a DeepSeek level threat to international security. Google did a lot to secure our phones [0], and we were lucky their economic incentive forced them to be as open as they were.

[0] https://www.privacyguides.org/en/os/android-overview/#google...
You caught us in our docs-writing week :) In the meantime, the Rustdoc for streams are fairly complete: https://hydro.run/rustdoc/hydro_lang/stream/struct.Stream
Nuclear warfare that Steve jobs wanted.
Consider this part of the post:

>I've been building a debugger on my nights and weeks because it's fun
I'm IT infrastructure engineer at a software company in Sweden, and I have no idea what this product does.

Today we simply ship container images for each release, and they're deployed using IaC in a k8s cluster. What are we doing wrong that you're trying to fix?
They are currently under severe cyberattack from the US.
Agreed. I myself was involved in academia close to a decade as well and participated in studies funded by NIH and NSF during Obama, Trump#1 and Biden era. This person has no clue how rigorous and competitive the grant review process is. If appealing to DEI was so successful in getting your study funded, everyone would do it. But it was never the case at least in my experience.
They have the google deal specifically because they don't want to be in the search engine business.

> In a declaration filed with the U.S. District Court in Washington, Apple Senior Vice President Eddy Cue said creating a search engine would require diverting significant capital and employees, while recent AI developments make such an investment "economically risky."

https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/zgvoalybovd/... declaration.pdf
The law allegedly being broken is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act which prohibits the types of behavior Google is accused of.
I have not been paid because my salary is funded by an NSF grant and they've shut down the payment system and cancelled payments. (It is still down.) I'm not in the social sciences, I'm in mathematics.

The instability this has created has me looking to leave academia as quickly as possible; I'm sure others in similar situations are having the same thoughts. This has wreaked havoc on all of academia.
> I’ve never seen a proposal win or lose, or even change positions in a tie break, based on that content

This is an absolutely wild statement, because my experience has been the complete opposite. I've seen a zillion times where a straight white guy was passed over specifically to achieve DEI goals.

I don't think the pro-DEI crowd understands how discriminatory DEI initiatives became in many institutions and how that's the root of the anti-DEI backlash.

I've lost count of the number of times I've seen the best X (candidate, project, company, whatever) get rejected because they were unacceptably white and male, so that the job/grant/contract could go to a DEI candidate instead.

Heck, I was on an interview committee where the recruiters and hiring manager openly admitted they weren't interviewing male candidates, and we spent 3 months interviewing 100% of female candidates who applied while hundreds of male applicants got ghosted. That one was more explicit than most, but the same phenomenon has been happening for years at every layer of academia, business and government.
Would we be better off with a lower GDP?
There's nothing stopping creative coding. Sites like Neal.fun, packardbell95.com, and Dwitter.net come to mind for examples of sites that make more use of what browsers are capable of
Presumably crying themselves to sleep on a Holland and Sherry super 120's worsted pillow, in a lovely navy blue.
> Honda has a recall for ~40K vehicles as their start stop ends with stall

Not a Honda, but one time, I accelerated aggressively from engine-off stop and stalled in a way that wouldn't have happened if the engine were idling.
> extrajudicially destroying people for threatening the system is basically the entire reason for the national security apparatus.

This is a great take . . . if you're a liberal arts major in undergrad. It is literally sophomoric. Abuses in the intelligence community do not obviate the legitimate reasons why the government collects intelligence.
The author doesn't mention it, but many people who never played E.T. read articles in videogame magazines about this game was amongst the things that killed the videogame industry in the 80s. (Oh, see dang's post for tons of related links)
It's more like:

first they came for X, and I helped them disappear X because they gave me a share of the money X was making and it was good money for me! ... and then when they came for me I didn’t complain because that would be cringe and hypocritical.
God how I hate Electron apps (nothing against Electron itself though)... People don't appreciate how much it means for example, for Mac users not seeing the rubber band effect on scrollers, let alone everything else feeling just unnatural and sloppy. You are immediately transferred back to the 1990s. Why should I care that some big fat corporation wants to save pennies on native app developers?

I can forgive a free and open app running on Electron (hello, Signal), but never a commercial one, full stop.
it's currently expensive, until it's off patent and a generic comes out

so rich obesity sufferers are getting it before poorer fat people
The first computer I programmed on was a Data General mainframe with 8k of RAM. But shortly before my first class they got CRT terminals so I didn't have to use punch cards, and it did support BASIC.
I Use AI as an Intern
I'd say they would need at least 30 people each to support windows & mac native apps. Especially considering all the extra overhead having multiple codebases introduces. Maybe more than that.

Edit: Just to clarify "need" is in the context of working in a big company on a complex product. These products are a lot bigger than they appear.
DeepSeek: A Tragedy Foretold?
There is nothing incorrect in what I have said.

The word "difficult" may be interpreted subjectively, i.e. what is difficult for one may be easy for another and what is easy for the first may be difficult for the second, but in any case I have not compared the difficulty of the control loop of a frequency comb with the difficulty of another component of a frequency comb, but only with the difficulty of the control loop of a PLL, which is the device replaced by a frequency comb.

There is no doubt that the control loop of a frequency comb is much more difficult to design than the control loop of a PLL or of any other simple regulator with a single degree of freedom.

Perhaps you have designed yourself the control loop for a frequency comb and it is indeed "very simple", but I have seen tons of books and of research papers about optical comb frequencies, which describe a lot of details about other parts of the optical frequency combs, but none of them ventures to present the details of how the control loop actually works.

While I have designed PLLs, I did not have the opportunity to design a frequency comb, so perhaps the additional difficulty is not great, as you claim, but I suspect that this is not true, because if it were easy to describe that in a few words such a description would have existed in one of the many publications about frequency combs.

In any case, when you claim that a text is "confidently incorrect", you should better point to the exact affirmation that is incorrect.

When you just do not agree with some subjective assessment, like whether something is easy or difficult, using the word "incorrect" is itself incorrect.

In this particular case you cannot even disagree with my use of the word "difficult", because if you claim that designing the double control loop of a frequency comb is not more difficult than the single control loop of a PLL, that claim is certainly incorrect.
I have a suspicion it’s worse than beginners (absolutely nothing wrong with beginners).

There’s a cohort of marketers on Reddit that profit off of beginner-aimed content. Lots of “oh I just built a successful game doing this”, link off to a blog. So the shepherds in those subreddits are not really elders, but sadly, grifters. In turn the beginners sort of stay perpetual beginners. It’s horrific if you go to the /r/startup type subreddits, the grift is super strong there.

Makes you really appreciate HN, good shepherds (not perfect, but good).
https://github.com/phylum-dev/birdcage
https://github.com/servo/gaol

and several others ?
and before they were... fiercely independent? Ll0l
WhatsApp Says Some Users Targeted by Israeli Spyware
> Second, it would actually benefit Google if they weren’t able to pay Apple revenue share if Apple kept Google as the default search engine because it’s the best on the market and Apple doesn’t want to provide an inferior option to its users.

That doesn't make much sense to me. If that were the case, Google could've stopped paying it long ago?
(not a lawyer) What's gut check on how likely this is to succeed? Is this one of those things like preliminary motions to dismiss that are almost always filed but rarely successful, or has a decent shot?
Apple created maps because Google refused to implement turn by turn directions in the ios version of google maps (for a few years at least).
I'm not a hater (or OP), but I think it's because GLP-1s are often talked about as if they're a kind of miracle drug. And it's very rare that drugs don't have some kind of side effects, especially after long term use. They might not even be universal, and we might not know what they are for years.

Yes, I understand there's an obesity epidemic, I also understand that GLP-1 drugs can have benefits outside of overeating. But with any drug, it's worth being thoughtful about its use.
> The appeal of Go is that it has just the bare minimum feature set to be useful for modern backend engineering

I know that many people love Go, and I respect that, but I was never able to grasp its appeal (despite my two-year stint as a professional Go programmer). To me, the philosophy of Go seems to prioritize simplicity in the language at the cost of making software written in it more complex. Writing in Go often felt like a constant exercise in haveing to reinvent even the simplest things.
Oh that's neat. I, myself, have an internment camp set of scripts for something similar.
Why use power and memory to run a screensaver when you can put the display to sleep?
I hear stereo, but no 3d effect beyond distance from microphone attenuating volume.
Britain got what they voted for in the referendum and that's to be outside of it. It's permanent and 100% legally binding with no going back. It's pointless trying to compare the tranquil and prosperous days of EU membership with the bum deal they have today. Totally pointless.
How to have a career even when OpenAI's o3 drops
This can be a sleazy industry. Servpro is the big corporate side, but the New York Times reported a few years ago about actual criminal intimidation in the industry (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/03/nyregion/fire-truck-chase...)
prep for court judgement release:

"In lieu of the court ruling, Apple today announces the availability of Apple Scout and Apple AdSight. Apple Scout will serve as the new default search engine in MacOS and iOS."

"Markets were shaken today as Alphabet plunged 20%..."
I, a php/js web developer, have over the past few years launched and maintained a C# .NET app and can testify that the experience has been overall pretty positive as somebody that had never even launched visual studio before except for playing around unity and doing some tutorials.

And I say this even after the adventure of trying to decipher whatever Microsoft is doing/going with their 4 or 5 competing frameworks and SDKs.

But I still find huge value and love a good web app whenever what you need doesn't really need to be native which was not my case.

There will still be uses for native apps for a long time IMHO.
According to the latest public information, Slack has 2,545 employees and Spotify has 9,123.