> Which is fine as well if that's really the case (which I don't think it is, Europe apparently makes up ~1/3 of Apple's total Airpods revenue).
So your belief is that, if DMA didn't exist, Apple still would not ship this feature in the EU?
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So your belief is that, if DMA didn't exist, Apple still would not ship this feature in the EU?
Someone at Apple did math on this and it's not worth their time to make this feature interoperable just for the EU market. That's because of this law. They wouldn't have even considered it without the law.
I wish people would stop treating this topic like it's not nuanced. It clearly is not as straightforward as either side would like to think.
Interesting. My hot take is 99% of the time non-founder CEOs end up on the dustbin of history, successful or unsuccessful.
Terry Semel. John Akers. John Sculley, Carly Fiorina. Except among those of us in tech, all are now long forgotten failures. Even Gil Amelio, who made one of the most genius acquisitions ever, was fired and his name lost to the sands of time. My bet is nobody's going to remember Tim Cook or Sundar or Satya in 50 years, maybe even 20.
Possibly the only non-founder CEO who has made a real legacy in the last 100 years is Elon. I would also say TJ Watson Jr. but I very much wonder if that many HN commenters know who he is!
I was just reading a different article[1] that pointed out 4 of the top EV sellers in the US (Tesla, Ford, Kia and Hyundai) have announced Q2 drops in sales. BMW is the another top EV seller whose sales dropped in Q2[2]. Of major sellers, only GM has risen.
It's probably too early to say that "the market for EVs" is declining, but this doesn't seem great.
[1] - https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-sales-q2-2025-e2087...
[2] - https://www.theautochannel.com/news/2025/07/01/1549392-bmw-r...
I pay $130 for 1.4gbit and unlimited data. It's expensive but I also have no other choices. Sonic stops only one block over and we haven't been able to convince them to wire up my block.
https://theonion.com/small-towns-cryptosporidium-daze-fails-...
Today, Apple wastes my time.
Instead of the old experience of common sense, today the repair people apparently must do whatever the diagnostic app on the iPad says. My most recent experience was spending 1.5 hours to convince the guy to give me a replacement Airpods case. Time before that was a screen repair where they broke a working FaceID ... but then told me the diagnostics app told them it didn't work, so they wouldn't fix it.
I'm due for another year of AppleCare on my MBP M1, and I'm leaning towards not re-upping it. Even though it'd be 1/20th of the cost of a new one, I don't want to waste time arguing with them anymore.
Until now, this has been an acceptable tradeoff because there's some friction to theft. Directly cloning the work is easy, but that also means an artist can sue or DMCA. It also means the original artist's work can go more viral, which, despite the short-term downsides, can help their popularity long term.
The important difference is that imitating an artist's style with new work used to take significant time (hours or days). With an LLM, it takes milliseconds, and that model will be able to churn out the likes of your work millions of times per day, forever. That's the difference, and why the dilemma is new.
> Ultimately "AI did it" should never be allowed to be used an as an excuse
With the exception of an LLM directly plagiarizing, the only way to prove it didn't is by not allowing it to train on something. LLMs are the sum of everything. We could say the same about humans, sure, we are a model trained on everything we've ever seen too. But humans aren't machines who can recreate stuff in the blink of an eye, with nearly perfect recall, at millions of qps.
Commercial art producers have always ripped off minor artists. They would do it by keeping it very similar to the original but just different enough to avoid being sued. Despite this, I personally know two artists who have sued major companies who ripped off their work for ads, and both won million-plus settlements. Why would we embrace this now that a computer can do it and there's a level of deniability? I don't understand how this benefits anyone.
"Schaumburg Man Dimly Aware Of Shadowy, Non-Schaumburg World Out There"
"Clinton Injected With Highly Unstable Experimental Growth Serum"
"Beer! It kicks ass!"
Lastly, the 9/11 issue is one of their greatest achievements. They struck the perfect balance/tone, avoiding "too soon": https://www.theonion.com/issue-37-34-the-september-11th-issu...
All I can picture is the device John Lithgow uses in Buckaroo Banzai.
I might need to try this soon. I've had tinnitus for about 6 months after a cold. Last week, the doctor said my hearing is perfect and to just wait it out. It's frustrating.
> "Turquoise Hexagon Cybernetics"
Nice homage to Boards of Canada!
What was being proof-of-concepted? What's the metric of success for introducing Rust in a case where no one was doing any sort of active work anyway?
As a pedestrian, I always try to make eye contact with drivers before crossing in front of them. It would be nice to know that the car is doing the driving.
The problem isn't that humanities jobs are all worthless, it's that there are a very, very limited number that have enough of a value add to society to make a good living. For every successful author/artist there are 100 or 1000 struggling ones. The numbers just don't work.
Universities--especially private big-name art schools--have preyed on this lack of perspective on this asymmetry. The other commenter is right about administrative costs, but this particular scam of selling an unrealistic dream has got to stop somewhere.
Well the SE is like 1986 technology that predates the web. NCSA Mosaic came out in 1993.
I can't find the min spec for Mac Mosaic 1.x other than "System 7" but you could give it a try. Even Mosaic would have been mostly targeting Macs in wide deployment at the time. Those would be more like Mac II, Centris and Quadra machines with 68030s or 68040s with more RAM and built-in HDDs.
Fun project!
"Threads" (UK), "The Day After" (US) are two big ones. Two lesser known ones that had a profound impact on me were "Special Bulletin" and an episode of the new Twilight Zone called "A Little Piece and Quiet"[1]
[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or1UX7z8YBM .. this run of the new TZ had many episodes about nuclear destruction
It turns out transportation is not a zero sum game. There's no "AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol" watershed moment for AV. Instead we progressively work towards a good-enough level of AV driving that minimizes the risks compared to human drivers. Transit will always have accidents and deaths, even for public transportation, and we try to reduce that risk over time with new solutions.
Personally I'd like to see the evidence that Cruise and Waymo are riskier than human drivers in SF. My anecdata is that they drive by my house every 5-10 minutes during the day and are the best drivers on my street. Just yesterday, a Cruise slowed down nicely to edge into the other lane while I was getting into my car on the street. Most humans (including Muni drivers) speed past, inches from me.
In the case of this accident, sounds like the fire truck hit the Cruise. That actually happens a lot with non-AV cars. Emergency vehicles go into a red light expecting the green side to stop and they don't. So let's learn from it. Did the truck have its siren going? Could the Cruise car see the truck around the corner (it was at Turk and Polk)? Could the truck see the Cruise? What could the Cruise detect that could have indicated the truck was coming?
Soon, everyone will be a Principal Engineer, like everyone is a VP at a bank.