skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm all for openness and interoperability, but not all of these are the same category of requests. AirPlay, literally no damage to Apples business opening that protocol, because everyone still suck at creating the receiving devices, or could use the ChromeCast protocol. The only risk is having Android owners buying HomePods or an AppleTV.

The NFC, background execution and documentation for private symbols... those seem fairly specific and I feel like the competitors who've asked/demanded these, are among the last people who should have these features.

Notifications and Smartwatch integration, seems reasonable to me. AirDrop, sure I use it, but I doubt many care.

The weird missing one is iMessage.
Something that is still crazy to me, regarding time zones, is that my hometown (where my mom lives and we visit frequently) is about 1.5 hours to the west, one timezone over.

When I’m taking to her on the phone in the evening, we’ll be talking about it getting darker.

The difference in the sunset 1.5 hours away in another timezone:

About 9 minutes.

This equates to my evening daylight lasting 51 minutes than hers, and her daylight in the mornings starting 51 minutes before mine (in our respective time zones).

Which seems to negate the whole effects of daylight saving time for one of us.

Of course this is exacerbated even more if you’re across the border of a timezone from each other (which I pretty much live on the western border of ET).
You should have talked to them instead of assuming it was out of necessity. My parents retired in n social security ten years ago. Most of their friends are doing fine with savings and retirement, but they get bored and take a job at Walmart or Applebees. For the most part they enjoy it.
Markets depend on both supply and demand, and there’s been a massive decline in the number of adults living together.

So the underlying explanation is likely that your personal salary has basically zero impact on the housing market, once you make enough to cover rent you end up paying the market rate. What matters in terms of short term trends is the marginal increase or decrease in people’s willingness to have roommates, live with their parents, etc.

When times are good and more people are gainfully employed the demand suddenly shoots up, in a downturn people suddenly move in with others become homeless etc. By comparison adding 2% housing units just doesn’t have nearly the impact it seems like it should.
Apple is a monopoly due to their closed ecosystem. They do have a monopoly on headphones that properly work with iphones, operating systems that properly work with apple computers, operating systems and application delivery mechanisms that work with iphones, etc. They could get rid of their legal problems by being more open and supporting open standards, but they don't want to. So as a monopoly, they have to be forced...
I can't wait until the major routes can be majorly de-trashed — and various human remains repatriated — at reasonable cost. Unfortunately, unless said remains are disassembled onsite (to fit within drone payload constraints), I don't see that happening in the near future.
I live at ~64 deg latitude in the USA (Alaska) and 100% agree with everything you said. The timing of sunset has such a profound effect on when you consider the day "done". In Dec it's painful to haul myself outside at 5 or 6 PM since it's "night time" already. Meanwhile in June, at 11PM/23:00 when it's still bright out I have to remind myself to home and go to bed so I'm not a tired wreck at work the next day :)
This looks really very very neat.

One (not a great) workflow I have, is that I use notebooks as quicks UIs to visualize some results.
1. Run a simulation that outputs results to some file
2. Load results in a notebook and do some quick processing + visualization

Very often, I want to compare quickly between 2 different runs and end up copying down the cell with visualization, then just re-run the data load + processing + visualization and compare them.

My understanding is that this would not be possible with marimo, since it will re-run automatically the cell with my previous data right ?
> For anyone that advocates UBI. That's what social security is, UBI (with an age restriction).

That's nothing like what a UBI is, you have to "invest"[0] into social security while a UBI is just money from the free money tree or wherever.

The fact that the government turned it into a ponzi scheme by raiding its assets, thanks Reagan, doesn't mean it doesn't have qualifications beyond being a certain age, they send a letter yearly, I believe, which details your contributions and expected benefits.

[0] even though, by their own calculations, you are better off financially by putting your money in a literal mattress it is still an investment
Well played by Apple, I guess. I really thought there would have been consequences for so blatantly ignoring the DMA. Instead they got to do so for over a year for absolutely free, and since I'm seeing no kind of timeline for implementation of this decision, I'm guessing that Apple managed to squeeze out an extra 18-24 months of benefit from the uneven playing field.

There were no monetary penalties for doing that. The measures imposed appear to not be onerous in any way, but the pure minimum that Apple would have needed to do from the start. If this is the way DMA is going to be enforced, why would any company try to be compliant in good faith?
it's the other way around - ukrainians are depicted as pigs.
Сало уронили - героям сала!
Based on the list, LLMs are at a "very smart junior programmer" level of coding - though with a much broader knowledge base than you'd expect from even a senior. They lack bigger-picture thinking, and default to doing what is asked of them instead of what needs to be done.

I expect the models will continue improving though, I feel like most of it comes down to the ephemeral nature of their context window / the ability to recall and attach relevant information to the working context when prompted.
It's not artificially inflated if people are willing to buy them. If people are scalping them, Ticketmaster isn't charging enough.
The downside of the historically mild climate is a lot of older homes weren't built with energy efficiency in mind and now in 2025 we have to deal with that inefficiency on our energy bills :'(
> Headphone smart handoff (I don't even think this is possible with any standard technology, so I'm not sure what they're looking for here compliance wise)

Multipoint is part of the bluetooth standard already, Apple just has to provide a means for the headphones to determine which stream to play.

> Proximity pairing (I also don't know that this is possible with any standard technology...)

Fast Pair exists for Android and allows third parties to implement it. It's not a standard but it doesn't have to be, Apple just has to make the proprietary capability available for mfgs to implement if they want. The fact that Google+random OEMs can do it on android using off-the-shelf BT chips should show that its feasible for Apple as well.
The entertainment industry isn't doing well right now. Nor gaming. US film+TV grew by 5x thanks to streaming money in last 20 years. Gaming sector also exploded. But everyone is competing for attention with each other and decades of backlog. Netflix has milked the game to the point where they're competing against sleep - there's only so demand for the occasional hit properties. IMO it's not the same supply/demand enviroment anymore that can support unions everywhere. Very few companies are Nintendos who has a few golden goose franchise and an entire hardware ecosystem to support long term vision. And of course if most of the industry doesn't unionize, the few that could likely won't, even if the should.
Come on man, even chemicals react.
Much of what I see is just funding papers to get paid for one's academic lifestyle. They need to hit a certain quantity or citation count, maybe be at specific places, to get more grants. Plenty of research money went to colleges with huge endowments or profits. Also, to train more researchers to act the same way.

A sizeable chunk was promoting Progressive politics disguised as science. People who disagreed with them were filtered so only people in dominant groups got most of the money. Research money went to people who believed those things to produce more "evidence" of those things to establish a false "consensus" on these subjects. Voters watched the damage done.

When I look at it, I've seen plenty of works that were useful the NSF funded. Yet, I've seen much more which is hard to imagine the use of. Researchers have also told me they're actively discouraged from trying to turn ideas into something production-worthy because the system rewards paper quantity, not quality or production use. Add the replication crisis on top of that and it's hard to say what we're losing outside specific groups I respect.

One other thing to keep in mind is this is taxpayers funded research. What that means is people's money is forcibly taken by the government, a percentage allocated for NSF, and a portion spent on waste or opposing politics. Government leaders, outside or inside NSF, made it that way. So, people who don't want their money taken by the government or want it invested differently (eg into businesses or new housing) might want NSF cut. That's a lot of Trump voters and many Democrats, too.

Optimizing for the above goals, I'd definitely like to see cuts at NSF. I'd like a shift of what remains to real science with practical application. A percentage being pure or theoretical research that undergirds that. Nothing to advance political agendas of favoring specific groups. All run by people already doing real science, solid reviews, and replication. People leading groups doing science right lead policy changes to get the most out of what tax dollars remain.
I guess if the crawlers can’t actually see the trap, misinformation would be attributed to your website in case model responses expose content attribution tags to end users.
Omg! Wait till you see the German railways reliability.
I have BT headphones in all the time and my phone doesn’t have a headphone jack.
For experimentation? Absolutely. It can often be done overnight for smaller models and reasonably sized GPUs (24GB+).

It'd become a lot less practical with huge datasets, but I'd guess that a lot of fine tuning tasks aren't really that large.
Canadians don't need a visa to travel to Mexico though [1], assuming they won't be doing any work or studying. Going to the airport to go back to Canada is not work.

[1] https://travel.gc.ca/destinations/mexico
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Walter_Alvarez

Alvarez proposed muon tomography in 1965 to search the Egyptian pyramids for unknown chambers. Using naturally occurring cosmic rays, his plan was to place spark chambers, standard equipment in the high-energy particle physics of this time, beneath the Pyramid of Khafre in a known chamber. By measuring the counting rate of the cosmic rays in different directions the detector would reveal the existence of any void in the overlaying rock structure.[48]
The intention is to not allow hardware vendors to give themselves an edge on said hardware when it comes to software and services.

You can sell hardware just fine without having to disclose anything .

When you want your "hardware" to become a "platform" and offer a lot of other services on it (including distributing third party software) then you have to provide a level playing field.

And you being very large means that you can afford to add another API to the documentation.
Astral is primarily funded by venture capital firms. The head honcho, Charlie, has mentioned a few times that he’d like to develop and sell services that integrate well with Astral’s open-source tools. However, nothing concrete has been established or announced yet.
Security and privacy are two different concepts.

Securing an API has no impact on whether the data being provided via that API is private or not.
North Dakota government is corrupt so none of this surprised me.
> The weird missing one is iMessage.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/mex_24...
You don't have to quote someone to have to cite them. It is sufficient to reproduce the ideas (eg. by paraphrasing them).

Of course you can just not write about your critics in the first place, but I don't think that's OP's intent, as that would be a huge nothing burger of a tweet.
This paper primarily considers house prices and quantities in terms of single-family homes. They use data sources like the single-family repeat-sales index and the median home value from the American Community Survey, which mostly tracks single-family homes.

This focus limits their analysis by not fully accounting for multi-family housing units or rental markets, which are far more significantly impacted by supply constraints.

This emphasis on single-family homes in their data sources affects the generalizability of their conclusions about the impact of supply constraints across different types of housing markets, especially in dense urban areas where multi-family units and rentals are more prevalent.

They also only go as far back as 1980. The difference between supply constraints between 1980 and 2025 is very small compared to the difference between 1965 and 1980. Take Los Angeles as an example [1]. The zoned capacity of many metro areas was dramatically reduced by the mid 1970s.

[1] https://www.lewis.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2020/...
If I had to guess, they were moreso referring to the java examples... The article states "The biggest issue is the same one Java had before version 5, there’s no type safety"...

But that's a weird way to put it... Java 5 was when generics were actually introduced... so comparing a C hack for generics to Java pre V5... is just... weird.
I missed seeing Mt. Fuji from my Shinkansen window seat because the train was ahead of schedule and my alarm went off after we had passed it.
The default "store" is a local FileStore. In your case, it will save the outputs to a file on disk called `my_cache`.

We plan to add more stores like Redis, S3-bucket, or an external server, since you may not always want to commit this file, but like you said want others to avoid the computation.
Apple has a market share of about 25% and dropping each year.

They are not a standard by any definition.
Maybe I've underestimating the amount of money we are talking about but I'd much rather be where I'm headed on time than travel for free, especially on a regular basis.
Are you using Cursor? I'm using Github Copilot in VSCode and I'm wondering if I will get more efficiency from a different coding assistant.
Meta already profiles and molests the data of iOS users in Safari. Apple can try to play superhero net-nanny for their userbase, but the choice to give a company your data is a deliberate choice. After all, you can't use either MacOS or iOS without agreeing to Apple's own EULA. It's facetious to pretend that Facebook users aren't aware of what they're getting into post Cambridge Analytica.

Apple has no right to moderate what iPhone users run on their hardware any more than they can on Mac. That includes borderline malware like Avast Antivirus and the Facebook app.
What differences between Zellij and tmux do you see as game changers?
This story?
https://www.jst.go.jp/EN/achievements/research/pdf/mitsuhiro...
Here's a b-tree library I wrote that uses a similar approach.
https://github.com/tidwall/bgen
Don't forget (my own) Space Nerds in Space: https://spacenerdsinspace.com (discussed here previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28343941)
How often it works out as intended is very much up for debate though.
Funny because growing up in the tropics I thought sunset and sunrise were synonymous with those times of the day, and learning people in other parts of the world experienced shrinking/lengthening day/night cycles was mind blowing. You mean it's 8PM in the night but the sun's still in the sky?
right.. but Apple watches and headphones get to use secret/enhanced calls. Apple payment software as well, basically all the things on the EU's list are using some form of the same idea to restrict any other vendor from having comparable functionality.
Forcing people back to the office was a choice. I'm making mine
Thank you so much for that insight! I love hearing that putting things away is a huge pain point—it really underscores how valuable smart reminders and nudges can be. I'll work more on the daily struggles we face and how I can decrease the cognitive load.
GitHub suffers a cascading supply chain attack compromising CI/CD secrets
Look as long as they keep being this salty about authoritarianism when a guy with a different letter next to his name shows up and does it, I'm fine with it.

My concern is that many won't.
Seems like a perfect fit for C, and glad to see we're trying to avoid stepping into that funny pitfall Go has with its function-scoped defer keyword.

Glad to see C is evolving and standardizing.
That's very fair, I've certainly tinkered with stuff for the fun of it when there were easier or more suitable alternatives.
Subpixel AA for Macs is useless anyways, the fonts will look blurry no matter what you do on a Mac.
You do recall correctly!

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/giza-pyra...
Thunderbolt on iPhones are USB 2 speeds. Just because Thunderbolt could go faster, doesn't mean Apple actually allows it on their phones.
Ding ding ding!

Still remember how when I bought my house, there was a clause for 'if the house appraises under X, buyer will pay up to Y out of pocket to match the difference' (This was to help make the offer 'stronger' according to realtor.)

Lo and behold, my house magically appraised exactly for X, despite it likely being more like X-5,000 based on realities and other sales in the area...
That's how APIs should be. Apple doesn't treat HTML as an endpoint that needs discriminatory features to prevent users from sending private information. That's how all of their software should work, as it already does on Mac.
It's a sign of deep thinking to address valid criticisms in your writing, especially if you want to make a compelling case for something [1]. Almost never is somebody completely right or completely wrong. Nuance exists everywhere and it is better to acknowledge it rather than risk having your work being dismissed as simplistic.

Maybe he means the type of writing intended for social media that optimizes for short attention spans and engagement, but many would argue that has not been a good thing for public discourse.

[1] If something seems distracting but worth addressing, put it in a footnote.
> Anyone who's maintained a private vs. a public API knows that one is orders of magnitude more expensive than the other.

Maybe this will finally give Apple something to do with their $100 billion cash on hand.
Yes, appraisers make their best effort to make the sale happen - because that is what their payers (banks) want. All they need is plausible valuation.
300-year-old Polish beech voted Tree of the Year
> I get the push for openness in devices but I'd never want to sell hardware in Europe, honestly

Then don't.

I am certain other companies would be fine occupying that space.
Apple forfeited the right to be safety arbiter for their users when they used it as a cudgel to extract supra-competitive profits from customers. Same reason why we drenched the US phone system in red tape back in the 80s and 90s to make phone service competitive. It led to a shitton of funny scams but it also is the only reason why we got home Internet service at all. The phone companies were screaming up and down about how dial-up Internet was going to kill the phone network, but we didn't listen and made them work around it.

As for Facebook[0] "abusing the DMA", the correct solution for that is for the EU to put interoperability restrictions on Facebook that let us use Facebook without their shitty apps. Apple should be allowed to write a third-party Facebook client so that people can uninstall Facebook without losing access to their friends still using it.

[0] It is always ethical to deadname corporations.
The Philistines settled circa 12-13th century BC. Leviticus in its current form dates to circa 6th century BC. And while the origins of the taboo (as well as Leviticus) goes back further than the 6th century, as the article suggests the taboo seems to enter the culture after the Philistines had established themselves.
Unfortunately, the standardization committee plays around with macros and _Generic instead of investing their time in modern metaprogramming ideas
Great read, I can definitely confirm a lot of these myself. Would be nice to see this aggregated into some kind of "best practices" document (although hard to say how quickly it'd be out of date).
What is the point of posting this?

Are you suggesting Trump, like Reagan, may have interfered to delay the release of citizens held up in unusual circumstances--for personal political gain?
Can you say the same thing about iCloud, AppStore?
This is how I do proper generic vectors in C, no template tricks needed and no pointer chasing involved:

https://github.com/codr7/hacktical-c/tree/main/vector

The problem was always pretending C is something it's not, that never works well in any language.
I can say that in the early 1960s, the understanding was that dandelions were weeds, clover was just clover. Or maybe that was just the understanding in Ohio. My wife grew up in Pennsylvania and doesn't like clover.
It's not a lack of self-awareness, it's a purposeful muddying of the waters. It's making being angry at a nazi salute the same as being angry at a tan suit: meaningless. These people aren't stupid. You can tell because what they do works.
AirDrop has 100% monopoly on iPhone. iPhone has 0% other ways to share files via bluetooth than AirDrop.

As a user, I must be able to switch platforms at the end of the lifespan of a phone or Mac. So, buy a non-mac computer and then later a non-iPhone phone. So things need to interoperate.

That position from the EU is genius because it’s capitalism at its highest form. (Next is, all Windows apps must work on Macs, sounds like a joke but you’ll notice we already live in a world where they’re all webapp/electron, so it’s literally not a problem).
That doesn't even include dividends. It's more like 166% after dividends

But also yes it's too short of an interval for retirement savings
> If you get big enough, they swoop in and make you turn everything you've invented into an open standard?

Are they asking for real open standards?

Or just Apple publishing an interface that Apple controls, which is much preferable to a company that doesn't want to play well with others, and is also vulnerable to malicious compliance.

(Which isn't to say that open standards aren't sometimes heavily biased towards one particular company. But even then, a company has to battle for their preferred standard, within in an industry consortium or a more public standards organization, or they often try to create a foundation with governance that at least has the appearance of not being totally captive to the one company. But an open standard is different than just tossing out whatever interface you want, and saying, "Here's an interface, which might or might not be suitable, but our obligation is satisfied, and try to convince a judge if you disagree, we can tie that up until our competitors go out of business.")
SwRI-led sounder instrument deploys across lunar surface
you might check out Copenhagen Megagames[1] which is the other name I've seen for this type of stuff

[1] https://www.cphmegagames.dk/
Discussion on tj-actions (265 points, 4 days ago, 302 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43367987
Administration freezes $175M in federal funding to Penn
You said:

>That sounds like an implementation issue that can be solved by Apple securing their runtime and APIs.

In response to someone saying privacy of users needs to be protected.

Privacy isn't solved by implementing a secure API.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41699730