skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the evidence and all their past actions point to the contrary of what you're suggesting.

See examples like iAd, Siri, Photos app, Maps, and Apple Pay. Review the San Bernardino case and notice how firm they stood despite the extremely negative PR.

There are so many instances where the easiest and most profitable path forward was not the path Apple took. We as consumers wouldn't have even noticed in the moment if they went down the easy path, but we notice now because of the consistency and belief in their own actions. That speaks for itself.

They've earned the right to market the principles that they've demonstrated over and over again whether publicly or more privately (e.g the reasons for iAd's failure that another poster mentioned).

It's a business at the end of the day and it always will be, but a statement like that on it's own is completely meaningless. I think most of us can agree here that this is an example of the right and honest way to do business.

Also, whether we agree with the privacy stance or not and whether we accept the tradeoffs or not is completely irrelevant to this.
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I'm going to Hangzhou, China for my wife's student exchange program. We'll be there for a month. I was hoping to have the opportunity to get acquainted with the Chinese tech scene and perhaps make local connections. Does anyone know of such a local tech scene? How can I learn more on what's going on there?
Yea, it’s possible a thief would be so brazen as to return to the scene of the crime and show you your stolen phone just to unlock it (instead of just assaulting you till you unlocked it). Who are you worried about, the Mission Impssibke team?
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I'm pretty sick of this meme. They aren't lying to people, they've just changed how the UI functions. It is still completely possible to turn off either bluetooth or wifi.

The whole point of this change is to match the behavior people actually have. People tend to want to disconnect from a bluetooth device rather than completely turn off bluetooth, and a huge amount of time when people are turning off wifi it's because they have a bad connection to a single network (such as when they are walking away from their house) and they simply want to disconnect from the network they are on.

This isn't some ridiculous antiprivacy conspiracy, it's just swapping menus and buttons around to give people what apple (and myself) think is a better user experience.
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> There are plenty of publications today (not to mention advertising in public) which don't bat an eye at publishing nudity.

That is _directly_ due to Hefner's influence on the topic. If it were not for his challenging social vices, it is widely considered that we would be in the same position today.
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>Oh, and cats are always alive until they are not. There is no both alive and dead situation.

Of course not, this is why it’s called a paradox.
High-risk two-years old #flaw in #Linux #kernel was just patched
I am not sure it's fair to use services like that for these purposes. Even if you have a permit/license for these services, they aren't for general telecommunications such as thirdparty messages between distant land stations, whether or not a marine or aero station is involved in relaying them.

I suspect that this operation will be using phone and digital modes. CW and 10m are rather small, but interesting and valuable, niches. For this case, CW will be slow and 10m will be unreliable.

Generally, it is easier to join the party by learning to pass the General exam, than waiting for a 10m opening or learning telegraph code :)
> A planet full of similar nomads (at their normal density) would likely last a billion years on the planet.

Australian indigenous nations managed a whole continent pretty successfully for 60,000 years. Agricultural-industrial civilisation has brought it to its knees in under 200. Our climate stability is collapsing at breakneck speed, the Great Barrier Reef is nearly dead, we have the most catastrophic mammalian extinction rate of any continent, our topsoil is being flushed out to sea, our great river systems are diminishing before our eyes.

(Though it's worth pointing out that Australian indigenous people were neither nomads nor hunter-gatherers, contrary to popular myth).

> his however requires legions of poor working all over the planet and destroying it.

I see your point, but the poor are only being used as tools by the rich. It is the rich for whom our living planet is being sacrificed. They will buy themselves comfort for another 50-200 years, as our world collapses.
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They probably do? It's got to be better than starving...
Turning Off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in iOS 11 Doesn’t Actually Turn Them Off
Was an interesting to read (albeit wrong) until the election conspiracies.

You try to separate the two companies using their main source of income, but in the end they are both surveillance apparatuses. Their surveillance may end up being used against your favor despite the unofficial contracts from their PR. Read the fine print for more information.
There is a movie called "The People vs. Larry Flynt". It stars Woody Harrelson and Courtney Love.

It's an excellent film, and it's the story of how he got started and ends with his case in front of the Supreme Court.
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FBI has Apple on record asking to offer privacy subversive tool of their own hardware under seal, regardless of any signaling pro/against privacy…

Corps like Apple submit to governmental whims all around the world to make a buck, irrespective of any of our moral stances on such countries policies, to the dismay of the idealist (I suppose those of which that aren't in awe of the Kabuki performance).

If a puff piece is enough for you and others to buy phone for ~$1k, so be it… not like I think i will have any weight to changing whats forming[0]… who knows, maybe they can land a huge DOD contract?

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-25/iphone-di...
As a long time Apple user who has moved to Android, I wish that Apple's privacy also didn't come with a highly restricted walled garden.

I would love it if the level of Apple privacy came to Android but not if it meant losing the tiny bit of openness that Android has over Apple.
One reaction, with the caveat that I may have misunderstood some or all of this:

One of the great advantages of manual memory management is that it does not require a runtime that can identify all live references. A pointer may be cast in an int, NaN-boxed, etc. - no problem.

In this scheme the "promoting live objects" phase works by copying objects to a new allocation. Crucially, this avoids the ABA problem by always walking forwards in memory. Second, it does not attempt to eagerly update all references - instead it permits references to become dangling. So let's say we have a dangling NaN-boxed pointer.

Now later, our NaN-boxed dangler is unpacked and dereferenced. This causes a SIGSEGV since the page is no longer readable. The signal handler notices it and attempts to fix it up.

IMO this is where things go off the rails:

> If the object was promoted, the handler scans all registers and the current stack frame, and patches all stale references to promoted objects.

We were so close, but now the runtime needs to be able to distinguish references to promoted objects and values that happen to share their address. We almost got away without stack maps.

> Therefore, we modify the compiler to emit meta-data describing the location of heap references in registers and on the stack for every load and store instruction (instead of just gc safe points)

Ok I give up. Now we're just building a garbage collector.

This does not help our NaN-boxing example. There's no way to easily inform the NaN-boxed value that it needs to update; we could hack it by comparing the register's value after the dereference, but that solution is hard to love.

IMO more interesting would be to modify the compiler to require all dereferences to be updatable, and propagate that back through to the original reference. In C++ speak we could imagine this:

void *dereference(void *&ptr) {...}

and force the clients to deal with the fallout of back-propagating the new value. It's a lot of work, but the carrot is "pointers cannot dangle and you don't need a GC and you don't need Rust-style borrow checking" which sounds pretty rad.

Anyways seems interesting but could be bolder?
I don't really care about multi-room audio, I want to be able to play music through my hi-fi system by requesting it verbally, which works with the Google Home and a Chromecast Audio. There is literally no stereo image in these assistant-speakers, I wouldn't really use one for more than casual music listening (which the alexa is fine for, except for the limited library).
And that's because companies have learned that customers usually aren't patient enough to wait for something rewritten. Most customers want something now, even if it's not perfect, rather than wait for something better.
So, to survive in a markplace with these types of customers, companies have to shorten time to market...
Its still quite edible, I've seen people eat pig corn as corn flour, its not great but it does make an alright stew

But then again, we shouldnt steal food from livestock to just feed humans.

I apologize for my sarcasm, I couldnt help it
> And two to three pictorials of totally nude babes.

Actually, the first few issues only contained photo-shoots of topless women - full frontal nudity came later.

(I have the 'Playboy 40 Years' book[1], which charts the evolution of the magazine. I got it the for articles [cough])

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[1] https://www.amazon.com/Playboy-Book-Forty-Years/dp/188164903...
Sure.. I wonder if one is a consequence of the other however.
I seem to recall an article online somewhere about 10-15 years ago that described the process that Apple used when shipping desktop computers. They used some sort of freight forwarding company and were able to mask the owner and contents of the shipping containers to protect against theft as well as speculation by competitors as to the type and number of computers in each container.
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It seems you're unfamiliar with the litany of frequent bluetooth vulnerabilities?

Not to mention the power-saving advantages of turning off wireless radios. Perhaps reversing this decision alone would allow the iPhone battery to last a full day?
Have they solved the "I want to charge my phone but also listen to music" problem yet? Or does it still require ridiculous amounts of daisy-chaining?
I think it has more to do with Apple. I say that because other luxury products, like expensive cars, track the shit out of you.
The Ancient Greeks and Romans as a culture had no nudity taboos.

It seems the more enlightened we become, the more repressed we are.
But with dropbox and/or alternatives you can always access raw files via the/a file browser. With Fb, OTOH, there was a story some time ago where you only could download photos in downscaled resolutions, or where downloading native resolution files was hidden in obscure option menus.
Too late to edit now but "100 million" should read "20 billion"… I missed a tree layer. (Assuming a branching factor of 200 and 4 GiB of index cache: 500 thousand inner nodes of 8 KiB each can fit in cache, corresponding to 100 million leaves, which can contain 20 billion entries.)

So hash indexes really only begin to show benefits for individual lookups when your data is terabyte-scale, and below that can even be harmful for that use case (if you could otherwise benefit from an index-only lookup). But see ankrgyl's comment (sibling to this one) for better reasons to consider hash indexes.
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You're assuming it's possible to "use well". It's delusional to believe it's possible to understand the subtle interactions within and between "smart contracts". Even if we ignore the ambiguity of the real world, malicious actors, and other complexity multipliers, we already know it isn't possible to know if a "smart contract" will halt.

Code will always have bugs, and you cannot truly understand how something written in a Turing complete language will behave without running it.

> very painful tool if mishandled

Part of being a skilled craftsman is choosing the right tools, which includes understanding and respecting their limits. The language for writing contracts makes all state mutable by default, has ambiguous operators that change behavior depending on storage location or if the operand was a literal, and doesn't defined the order of evaluation for expressions, to name just a few of it's design problems[1]. This isn't a "useful tool:", it's a strong indicator of a another fractal of bad design[2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14810008

[2] https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-php-singularity/
I am a long-time emacs user, yet I am amazed by the simplicity of VS-Code. The only downside is that it is heavy on the CPU and some basic functionality like showing line breaks is not included.

Otherwise it is a wonderful peace of software.
> who knows, maybe they can land a huge DOD contract?

If you think Apple is willing to screw over Consumers to chase large Enterprise or DoD contracts you have absolutely no idea about Apple.
I hope so, I never use my headphone jack. Wouldn't miss it for a second. Would much rather have a more waterproof and thinner phone.
Going full-caveman might be a step too far, but we could certainly dial-back a few things--especially in the US.

I look at my grandparents from the WWII generation, and I think their existences, as modest as they are, have been more agreeable--to both themselves and to the world--than the ones most people endure today.

There are many otherwise healthy young people who are morbidly obese who wouldn't have been so 50 years ago. There are so many otherwise intelligent people who cannot deal with other people in a social setting, and everyone's like "oh, it's autism," and maybe in some cases it is, but I have to wonder if some of it is just a case of otherwise ordinary people being raised by television, books, video games instead of other people.

I hardly know a person over 30 who isn't already on an assortment of maintenance medications. The doctors had me on two maintenance medications before I was 30, and if I hadn't figured out that hitting the gym and not eating like I was still a teenager works a hell of a lot better, I would still be taking them.

Then you look at other parts of the world--where the slaves that make our stuff live--and the rivers are choked with garbage and the smog blots out the daylight.

Then there is the nearly unavoidable proliferation of technology. In most tech and sales jobs, regardless of your own preference, you have to have a cell phone and e-mail--unless you want to lose your job. In most marketing and PR jobs, you have to contend with facebook / twitter / etc. "So what?" Neuroplasticity. "The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too strong to break." You are literally burning pathways into your brain for compulsively checking/responding to messages/likes/etc. It's like Pavlov's dog, but with humans, and it is a very hard thing to un-learn.

Then there's all the stuff Taleb goes on about like iatrogenics and hormesis.
Can you explain in more detail to how the GDPR applies to unstructured forms? Would those be forms specifically for inputing personal data, or any free text at all?
> On the other hand, if longevity is not your goal than smoking, drinking, and having lots of sex seems like a pretty good idea. Bonus points if you beat the odds and live long enough to bury your detractors.

Solid life advice. Welcome to HN, I'm a fan already.
I find myself dreaming more and more about PostMarketOS [0] and it's potential. I cannot wait to try this out after cell and data have been integrated (I have not checked in 30 days in case it anyway had but I suspect it is at least a few months out)

[0] https://postmarketos.org/
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I'm middle class and long ago soured on the tax vs deduction games. Better government would lead to more confidence that I'm not financing corruption. My perennial view, since I first understood what taxation was, has been dour. No event has changed that one bit.
I made a chart representing the WCS’s color chips as accurately as possible on an sRGB computer display and sent it to Kay a few years ago:

http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/wcs/images/jrus-20100531/wcs-c...

You can’t get a complete idea of what the original color chips looked like, as quite a few of them are outside the sRGB gamut (so what you get in this picture is a less colorful representation of the same lightness/hue). But it should give you a reasonable impression.

Here’s a more continuous picture of the full sRGB gamut in Munsell space, along with some points of interest:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ed/Color-map-2.p...

(For example you can see that the ISCC–NBS labels for sRGB primaries are “reddish orange”, “greenish yellow”, and “purplish blue”, respectively)

If you actually look at a chart where a bunch of Munsell color chips of different hues are all presented at the same lightness (value) and chroma, and you have standard color vision, then they should look pretty well equally spaced. (Or the same story for holding any pair of attributes constant and varying the third.)

One significant problem with trying to glance at and interpret these kinds of more limited hue–value charts (i.e. not the full set of Munsell chips) is that the chroma varies from one part of the chart to another, and chroma differences are often more salient than hue differences.

But some named categories are certainly larger and fuzzier than others.
You can also find it on libgen, if you are so inclined.
There are certainly consenting adults, some of whom want to do things and have things done to the median person might find horrifying. There's nothing at all wrong with that. The existence of consenting adults doesn't erase the prevalence of powerful people preying on vulnerable people. The "adult entertainment subculture" is full of this and if you don't know it you're blind. It's not all that way and banning it tends to make it worse.

You can respect women and realize the porn industry is lousy with abuse at the same time.
One example: https://www.buzzfeed.com/kateaurthur/holly-madison-burns-it-...
Ummm... does Darla know her private messages are being used for Apple marketing?!
Isn't this issue applicable to Android as well?
Sure - it's hard to make nudity special if there's no alternative state. But I doubt it was the only factor.
I've had friends, linguists, and linguist friends all tell me that Sapir-Whorf has been disproved (at least in strong form), but I find it really hard to believe them, because it contradicts my own experience of the world. I'm by no means perfect at introspection, but I can notice the effect learning new words has on my own thought processes, and it seems about as obvious as the effect of, say, my mood.

When I learn words for colors - what "fuchsia" or "teal" or the like actually mean - I mentally distinguish them from similar shades in day-to-day life whereas before I didn't. (And it's not just "hey, new word, let's use that!"; I learned both of those colors about halfway through my life.) When I learn a specialized term in a field that chunks a bunch of complex concepts together in a particular way, I can think about that topic more fluently (letting me go further with those thoughts), but only if I accept the particular chunking of that term.

Sure, I have some thoughts which are more visual or spatial or musical and don't involve words as semantic pointers-to-structures-of-meaning. But not _all_ of them.

(It's also possible I'm simply fundamentally misunderstanding Sapir-Whorf.)

[Edited to fix italics.]
I could be wrong but the data on marinetraffic.com only says "tanker" or something of that sort. How does only apply that with this kind of data?
Maybe try with a donate button somewhere, it might give you insight if people are (even) willing to pay for it? You could still sell it afterwards but if you received donations it at least shows potential buyers it raises interest.
You don't need to have an Apple account to get system updates, but do if you want to download apps from the app store.
My brother also had a psychotic episode last year, was on injections of risperidone for some months, now only zyprexa, back to univsersity, almost normal, except for bipolar/borderline behaviors and a tendency towards creating drama. People don't understand that when someone is in a psychotic state, they don't live in the same reality. It's not a question of free will or choice, or control. People see distorted faces, visions, hear things and the worst part are not these hallucinations, but delusions, strong beliefs (he thought the family conspired against him, that he was raped as a child and even that he was transgender) and anosognosia, which means they aren't aware of it. At the same time my father also started "traveling in time", not sleeping, convinced that there was some cosmic truth behind these events. He also ended up in a psych ward, but now it seems he might be having some kind of atrophy. But seeing your father restrained to a bed in front of you is not pleasant, hardest thing I had to do in my life. And now I don't even know if we made the right choice, those drugs, haldol and leponex, I mean, even after months of not taking them, he still walks like a zombie, shuffling gate, jaw dropped, open mouth, no affect whatsoever. He's not the same man and I don't know if he will ever recover.
So, how many of those who support Apple are going to stop using Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tinder, etc.? And, start going offline to protect their data?

I'm no expert but I believe that these services (individually &/or collectively) have far more detailed profiles of their users' lives than Google.
What did the expect? Everybody is waiting for the X.
No, because you cannot substitute human relationships with process bereft of soul.
You don't think stone age societies had slaves? They certainly did.
The trouble is "The customer never knows anytyhing and requires us to dumb everything down" is also a treated as a sacred principle in our industry.
I pretty much only buy dead tree books for technical reading, but occasionally the iPad Pro is more convenient -- that's why I always snap up these bundles even if I own the books already.
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Apple is trying to get tax breaks to operate in India. Link http://www.livemint.com/Industry/0AsioYCvuLwpwqx3Y2k7jJ/Appl...

The second phase of Apple Inc.’s plan to make the iPhone in India is hanging in the balance as the firm awaits government approvals and tax breaks that it says are key to making a profit, a person aware of Apple’s plans for the market said.

iPhone price is exorbitant in India. There is nothing much to separate between brand, hence Apple is using privacy as a spec feature. But at the end of it its just for Profit.
I kill many apps on the hour just to refresh. Since I've basically reinvented the refresh button with an operating system feature, why don't all apps have them? And why doesn't everything have a home button, especially Facebook.
> If you think Apple is willing to screw over Consumers to chase large Enterprise or DoD contracts you have absolutely no idea about Apple.

Are we assuming most customers are even aware/care of this stuff? Yeah… I think it might be more fitting to appropriate Stallman's "useds"…
Do you think you could read the numbers off the back of the modem for me? It's the funny looking box with all the lights on it.
I have always wondered how the monorepo design works in regards to more sensitive pieces of code. For example some of the key algorithms behind search.
Then you're doing it wrong - the correct principle is, "the customer should be able to use the product fully without having to read any documentation"