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Are you following the Silicon Valley TV series? In the first episode of the last season they use a botnet network to hack a pizza application, they create a lot of users and generate thousands of orders. They manage to put the pizza company in bankruptcy.

That's just a TV show, but the example is so good.
I'm pretty sure their "psychometrics" play required the data users gave them as part of the quiz. The whole point of the exercise was to supposedly figure out people's personality traits from their social media profiles and let marketers target them based on that, and I think the personality quiz was probably the only way they could get ground truth information to train their model on.
There was documentary posted here yesterday, The China Hustle. It showed Chinese companies showing fake transactions to boost revenue numbers. This could be that kind of scam, hire lots of people to show growth.
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Even if you know better and act like it, you're still going to be monitored while visiting friends.
SafetyNet is a cat and mouse game. A lot of people don't have the patience for it.
Your analogy is spot on, because both are true. Regulation increases costs, and it may also reduce costs. Static checking increases costs, and it may also reduces costs.

The whole point of what I wrote is that the net benefit depends on the tradeoff that is made between the two costs and that tradeoff will depend entirely on context and details, which excludes the possibility of coming to an aggregate conclusion (such as static typing is always better, or regulation is always good).

For example, I would never do exploratory data analysis using Scala, but I would also never write a production system in R. In each scenario it is useful to separate the various costs and benefits and weigh them against each other, as opposed to taking an ideological stand like "STATIC TYPING OR DIE".
Starting from a lower base. Now that ARM chips have nearly caught up, they almost certainly won't have the same rate of performance growth.
The Economist is required reading to understand current events the world over, but their specialty is very short form.
Yes, but Newton's OS had nothing to do with MacOS, being a completely independent system with its own API and even programming language (Newtonscript). Windows for Pen Computing was Windows.
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Germany seemed to have solved that problem - their real-estate costs are very stable - rising on average only 0.05% per year in 1970-2003.

The how is somewhat complex , google 'Evans hartwich better homes greener cities' pg 13. On mobile so it's complicated to link to a PDF search result.
Oh boy, more universal binaries.

What are the odds that Apple will just internalize x86 production, as opposed to doing a A11-style ARM derivative?
You want, exactly, all the magazines and newspapers and blogs in the sidebar of https://aldaily.com/
Hi is your DNS down? segment.com is not loading.
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Yikes. Combine this with the Chinese OPM hack, where extremely personal data for most government employees with security clearance has been stolen, and they have a blackmail goldmine on their hands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...

They can verify what has been reported on sf-86 vs what might be found from this service. Any affairs or issues not reported are ripe for blackmail. Possibilities are endless as they say.
>instead they need to have a trove of own patents as defense against patent trolls

but the whole point of patent trolling is that you're suing via a non-practicing entity, which a shell company that does nothing but hold patents, so there's nothing to sue back at.
The short happens inside the battery itself because of the dendrite growth
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwLUD41f15U)

By the time it happens, it is generally too late to shut off the charging circuit -- it helps and it happens but the battery destruction is already underway. The question next is whether it will catch fire or simply 'swell up'. At this point it's mostly up to luck, the available fire-prevention mechanisms are stronger battery enclosures, which would be heavy, bulky and expensive -- exactly the things most consumers do not want and would vote against with their money, reducing the profits of the company innovating in this direction.

Another way to prevent fires would be attempting to detect dendrite growth by the changes in observable battery state (capacity, amperage, etc). This is hard, expensive and will likely give a lot of false alarms requiring warranty replacement, once again hitting the would-be innovator in their pockets.
Because Apple started from a much lower base.

I will probably surpass Pizza Hut's growth in making pizzas this year.

Last year I made just a few, and only this month already two or three!
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Thanks for the advice. It may come down to working at a factory and moving my family to the slums so we can afford to live. In fact that's looking more and more likely. We have only enough money for April, and based on my calls today there's pretty much no chance I'll get a job and a paycheck before May.
People here were anticipating this, should be no surprise. Presumably, Intel also knows for some time, but their long-term strategy on how to stay relevant seems unclear. I could imagine them becoming a pure fab-company one day.
Indonesian ISPs are required to filter certain domains, but go further than the Denmark case - they also block access to third-party DNS servers. Using DNScrypt or a VPN (or hosting your own DNS on a port they're not blocking like 80) is the only workaround.

Prior to third-party DNS servers being blocked a lot of tech-savvy people were using either Google's DNS or OpenDNS anyway since they tend to be more reliable than the local ISP's (even before they started filtering).

I'm no longer in Indonesia, but I could imagine the results people are posting here would be useful to folks back home so they can adjust their DNScrypt config.
Because they have moved past the easy parts of optimization. Apple's optimizations still have thermal throttling issues (sustained use of an A11 will not beat an Intel chip due to better cooling and IPC).

Compared to other ARM licencees they do beat the pants off of. This is probably why Apple put in a T1 chip and a touch bar in the Macbook Pro and the T2 chip (dedicated power module) in the iMac Pro. They are prototyping the individual pieces with Intel as the main processor so that they can attempt to swap the chip in 2020.

EDIT: nitpick on t1 and t2 chips.
The New Yorker and NYRB have already been mentioned; they'd be my top two.

In terms of less mainstream sources, for thought-provoking long-form pieces mostly arising out of an economic justice perspective, I'd suggest Current Affairs.

https://www.currentaffairs.org

And though it isn't a periodical, for long, smart pieces on sociology, history, economics, contemporary society, etc., I'd suggest Slate Star Codex.

i.e. http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch

Oh, and if you're interested in literature, which more broadly extends to culture throughout the decades, then the Paris Review has an incredible tradition of long-form interviews.

https://www.theparisreview.org
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To what are you sarcastically referring?

Apple's switch to PowerPC which gave them a performance lead over Intel for five years and kept them competitive for another five or Apple's switch to its own ARM Core designs which have given them a 12-24 month performance lead over the entire Android ecosystem?

Bear in mind that Apple dominates the high-end desktop / laptop market, both in market share and profit share* which could put a huge dent in Intel's economies of scale for high end consumer CPUs.

* I'm assuming these figures omit servers. Also, there was a lot of noise in around 2009 saying that Apple had over 90% of the high-end PC market, but I've not seen more recent figures one way or another. Given that PC prices seem to have, if anything, slipped, I doubt it's gotten worse for Apple (and goodness knows the tech press loves any statistic that makes Apple look bad).
When you specify that the robot should open the door, and then a human interferes, how do you ensure the robot doesn't yank the door abruptly to knock the human back or swing its arm into the human to clear that space?
You are right, it's definitely a possibility.

But as an aside, when I worked as Zenefits, we hired irresponsibly, but the intentions weren't to be deceptive; the mistake was thinking that the hockey stick curve would climb forever.
Apple does have a good record of moving their OS and software from different architectures. 68XXX to PPC to Intel was not a horrible experience. Having gone through three transitions I don't remember a lot of pain - but maybe I am repressing it!
What made you want to launch another crypto job list?

Considering that there are a few pretty big players already:

https://cryptojobslist.com
- https://coinality.com
- https://blocktribe.com
- etc…
I see the question marks but I'm not entirely sure what your questions actually are
that is a great quote, indeed that happens at all levels, sounds like a cover up for false modesty.
While it's had a rocky start, Microsoft's starting to push Windows 10 laptops based on ARM chips, so it's definitely not out of the realm of sanity that Apple is interested in doing the same.
Except PPC was Motorola and IBM, not Apple
Deep discharge is actually probably what caused that. In lithium ion batteries, if cell voltage drops too low it can cause chemical changes in the electrolyte which can cause an internal short.
The trade offs for a SoC are different than for a desktop machine, and to a lesser extent a laptop. The desktop is where we'll feel the most pain. I wouldn't be surprised if they cancelled the Mac Pro entirely.
Very cool lecture!

It would be interesting to hear him speak about the pros and cons of different body plans. Are three or six legged robots useful, compared to four legged ones? What about multi-armed humanoid robots?
The wonders of vertical integration!
Don't forget to upvote companies who actually post a salary range. You can search for "$", "€", and "£".
It's less about finding different sources and more about learning how to critically evaluate what you hear (i.e., not blindly letting your own biases accept the narrative as it's delivered).

It also depends on what the story involves. The example I gave above—a plane crash—is very objective. Something bad happened, people were likely hurt, authorities are investigating, etc. Where it starts to get murky is when a story taps into an ongoing narrative like gun control.

Notice how the major news networks were (and still are) each pushing their own narrative around the Parkland shooting. The left-leaning media were pushing the need for more gun control and anchoring that to the victims, the right was babbling on about how the left was just trying to steal everyone's guns and why gun ownership is positive. It's where you're being told that one side is "evil" that your antennae should go up.

In situations like these, it's worth considering what is factually true, what is opinion/emotionally-driven bias, and working hard to form your own opinions.
Based on this article, it doesn't sound like Bloomberg has enough information to distinguish between Apple being committed to a transition, or Apple developing chips to improve their negotiating position with Intel. It's also very unlikely to happen on such a fast timetable; given the IP situation, it's unlikely Apple could make an x86_64 chip, and any move away from x86_64 is going to require significant work by third parties outside Apple who haven't even heard of the possibility of this happening until today.
Honestly I think Jobs would’ve been all for dropping x86. They also derived an immense amount of value from the effort to move to x86, so it’s not like it was wasted.
One possibly nice fallout of this would be Intel offering Xeons to consumers to leverage its economies of scale on the server-side for the consumer market (since I believe Apple is the biggest customer for high-end consumer CPUs).
> then there are a lot of people who can’t afford to pay. And therefore, as with a lot of media, having an advertising-supported model is the only rational model that can support building this service to reach people.

Hmm, but ultimately the money still comes from the target audience anyway, right? The advertiser only pays to reach a given audience if that audience is going to buy enough product to pay back the cost of advertising. Maybe you could make the argument that the really poor Facebook users are essentially drafting off of imperfectly targeted advertising?

I think the real reason for the advertising model is that Facebook is more valuable the more people use it. So it started charging money, maybe only 1/4rd of the users actually pay, the other very casual users just use the fee as an excuse to finally stop using Facebook. But now with such an exodus, the paying people don't want to pay anymore, and then you have a death spiral.
Checked out Red Matrix, and it instantly fulfills the worst tendency of alternative decentralized social networks. Centralized social media takes on the moderation in a way that typically leads to the banning of racist and toxic groups and those groups are often the first to set up shop in the censorship resistant alternstives. The very first landing page of Redmatrix takes you to the Aryan Nation Radio community and a bunch of antisemitic and racist content. This is a major turnoff to anyone pursuing alternatives and while I support free speech and think even the worst of humanity should have a home to be terrible with each other, figuring out how to keep this off the home page is probably a good idea to get these alternatives into the adoption phase.
https://longform.org/ is a similar aggregator, just to sharing.
Wake word detection (listening for a specific phrase, such as "Hey Siri") typically happens using a completely different subsystem from active voice recognition, since it's a much more bounded problem that also needs to run with far lower power consumption. (in the case of Siri specifically, Apple actually has a pretty nifty whitepaper: https://machinelearning.apple.com/2017/10/01/hey-siri.html)

That said: right now, common sense would dictate that your phone's battery really can't handle recording full audio at all times, but once that's no longer the case, it does seem problematic that we don't yet have the audio equivalent of putting a piece of tape over your laptop webcam.
That comment assumes we can all agree upon a textbook definition of 'economic regulation'. An economic regulation is generally defined as any legislation or administrative act that impacts either pricing a good or entering a market. If you follow that strict, conventional (in economics circles) definition, it's tough to argue with the comment.

Outside of textbooks, economic regulation has a much bigger meaning such that a statement like that would be highly confusing and inflammatory. Outside of textbooks, economic regulation can refer to anything from health/safety legislation to antitrust legislation to taxes/tariffs/freer trade. Economic regulation = increased costs only works if you use a conventional definition of regulation...
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This is not unexpected for LiPo batteries. The anode in LiPo battery packs degrades overtime and outgasses oxygen which is why the packs puff up. This by itself won't cause an explosion but if you puncture the pack and expose it to water or flame you might get some fireworks.
I wonder if location data would/could/should be an optional flag in DNS requests, instead of relying on physical location of the resolver.
In the x86 transition, Apple was discarding the previous effort which had been required to move from 680x0 to PowerPC, and that seems to have been the correct choice.
This is why the 10/20/30/40 vesting schedule which companies like Snap have is so problematic. Snap is laying people off and are saying that they expect to save a large amount of costs related to stock based compensation because of it (given they are a business I don't blame them for this line of thinking). However, from the laid off employee perspective this is pretty bad: 1) they worked hard to get Snap to this point but didn't get an equitable share of the rewards given backvested stocks 2) some of them might have just ended year 2 or year 3 of their tenure at snap and the big pay off was about to come and just like that they were laid off. Worse, being laid off destroys your negotiating position as you are trying to get a compensation package from your next company. An equitable 25/25/25/25 vesting schedule would have dealt with this much more fairly from the employee's standpoint.
President Trump is cutting regulations and despite all the hysteria to the contrary he is actually reducing the administrative powers of the executive branch and shrinking the size of many agencies. All of this makes libertarians happy - at least for those who care about bite over bark.

In spoiling the veneration many people hold for the imperial office, and reminding them to be wary of its powers, you could interpret the bark as also good for libertarianism.
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While I certainly tried to avoid any flavorings, or vendors that couldn't tell me what was in their flavorings when I did use a vaporizer, the diacetyl scare is overblown. Regular cigarettes contain diacetyl in orders of magnitude greater concentrations.[1]

We're talking about exposures to ten micrograms in various e-liquids, versus 7,000 micrograms for smokers. On a daily basis, in both cases.

Even more curious, traditional smoking has not been shown to be a risk factor for bronchiolitis.[2] Should those flavors be avoided? Yeah, but I honestly wouldn't get hysterical over it. We're talking about fractions of micrograms in the end product. You certainly are exposed to far more diacetyl in second-hand smoke than a vaper is exposed to in a day, on average, in liquids that contain this flavoring.

FYI: I quit smoking completely using e-cigarettes, and quit using e-cigarettes last year. I wrapped my own coils and built my own atomizers at one point, so I'm probably biased, but the numbers speak for themselves.

To say nothing of my opinion on the hysteria over nicotine, which has never been shown to have strong reinforcing properties in any study. Nicotine, by itself, has simply never been shown to be more addictive than caffeine.[3]

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Waiting for your answer pretty much was like that, and yes I did a lot of completley unrelated stuff. I don’t think computers model the “real world” pretty well. Though they can model a lot of other things very well. The real world isn’t asynchronous, it’s continuous with something seemingly unrelated. If this world were asynchronous, there would be an possibility that I would have given this answer before you gave me an question. Where are the synchronizing primitives in the world making sure that this never happens?
I wonder how these things were before. Maybe there was a bit of data sharing but at such small scale and speed that it didn't really matter.
bitmain certainly cares enough about asicboost to oppose a bitcoin extension that would break asicboost (segwit).
So SNAP lays off another 7% of their workforce to save $34M a year whilst their CEO pockets $638M in compensation (3rd highest CEO payout ever) before they're remotely close to profitability. Not sure if company-wide layoffs and paying their CEO more are going to achieve their growth/profitability aspirations.
34 Million a year for 220 employees? I know that includes office space, equipment, and benefits, but that still seems like a lot to me.

Edit: I must have had a brain fart when I wrote this, because I was thinking over a million per employee. Now it seems too low.
The effort to move to x86 has paid off tenfold already in the ~10 years since the transition. They now need another effort to sustain the Mac, or whatever comes next, for another 10 years.
Please don't use allcaps for emphasis in HN comments. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
>>> They also derived an immense amount of value from the effort to move to x86, so it’s not like it was wasted.

That's a good point and a reminder to me of the sunk cost fallacy.
> it's unlikely Apple could make an x86_64 chip

Why is it unlikely that Apple would make a x86 chip? Because of IP/licensing, or for technical reasons?
I'm with you on this, but don't count your chickens. Young people are historically crap at voting and there are also structural barriers placed in the way of their doing so in many places (eg not accepting college ID as a valid form of voter ID).