skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternative explanation to incompetence: iPhone, iPad, and MacBooks are different form factors for different use cases.

iPhone is used in more active situations. Not running in rain with iPad strapped to arm. On iPhone stereo speakers in landscape, not sure what that one means; for me it’s the iPad with speakers on both sides while in landscape. Force touch requires force, easy with a phone in your hand, less easy if iPad propped on origami Smart Keyboard. (Could be reason for button diffs too, light touch with haptics vs. real touch, or just a very common use of home button on iPad is while landscape so you squeeze a “real” button between your thumb and forefinger.) The phone is not slate sized, why should it try to be a slate? Don’t know why you’d be charging a pencil from a MacBook some way you couldn’t charge an iPad with.

To me, seem to be plausible reasons for every one of these differences beyond just “teams don’t work together”. Certainly both are possible, just saying the device modalities are different. ATV, HomePod and Watch UIs are different too.
I think their buisiness model is instead to back up your files to iCloud, not the hard drive key. Which also protects drive losses like theft and drive failure, and is generally useful for people with multiple machines. They justify charging you a iCloud service fee for this better user experience.

From apple’s perspective, hardrive encryption keys aren’t something the average user is going to care about, but files are. The fact that this drives iCloud storage is probably a happy accident ;)
What troubling precedent would the African Union set by recognizing Somaliland that has not already been set by the recognition of South Sudan and Eritrea (also in East-Central Africa)?
> it's a very silly and awkward process to find a doctor, make the appointment, wait for the appointment, show up to the appointment, fill out the history forms and so on, meet with the doc, tell them you've got [disease] and the drug for it is [drug], let them examine you until they agree with your "diagnosis" of [disease], and let them recommend and prescribe [drug].

I'm with you up until all the people who "know" they need antibiotics for things that antibiotics don't work for. There's strong public health justification for putting a doctor in the loop on occasion.
"borrowed" - Apple paid Xerox in stock to have access to their technologies.

Jobs said later that he took away the GUI and the mouse, when he really should have taken away the networking and Smalltalk. That's why NeXT used BSD under the hood and Objective-C as its development environment.
I support Somaliland's aspirations. However, I do also have this fear that granting this wish might not necessarily be a boon for the people of Somaliland. South Sudan, in the same region, has been a very good and recent example of what can go wrong. While initially the Arab Muslim north was the enemy, now the Dinkas and the Nuers do not seem to be in each others' good books.

Even within Somaliland, while the article talks of the success of Somaliland in terms of relative stability being largely because of the one majority clan. Unfortunately, this, to me, feels like an untruth that is regularly peddled. Of the 5 regions (provinces) that initially made up Somaliland, the Isaaq (supposedly the only significant clan) are a majority in only 2 of these regions: North West and Togdheer. They had to sub-divide North West into 2 to come up with 3 regions. Awdal is inhabited by a different clan that produced Somaliland's second president, Dahir Rayale Kahin. The other 2 regions are also inhabited by 2 other clans.

Now, granting Somaliland its wishes might potentially trigger the people of Awdal (the 2nd president's clan) to also demand secession from Somaliland. There could also be similar demands from the people living in some of the disputed border regions between Somaliland and Somalia (Puntland). So, while I support their agitation for independence, this might also potentially create problems for the same people of Somaliland. Likewise, the same argument could also be true for many other countries with regions within these countries aspiring to secede.
I’ve previously commented on what Sam Altman’s startup articles, presentations and talks sound like.

Sam, if you’re reading this - you do such an excellent job of interviewing successful startup entrepreneurs. Please do that more as the advice you provide to others creates more confusion/harm than anything else.
I suspect it will be quite confusing for a while; but once people have been cheated a few times because of faked video it will become something else. We will all start picking up on peoples kinematics and timing.

There is an opportunity for some type of chain of custody app that guarantees the integrity of footage from camera to screen...
We are entering a period where nothing not directly sampled by one's five senses can be trusted. Any electronically recorded evidence can easily be faked and often using off the shelf consumer-grade equipment and software.
> Yes, but that's why it's dreaming: if Catalonia unilaterally left Spain, Spain would veto the Catalan entry in the EU (and not only Spain, any country with separatism, e.g. France/Corsica).

Only out of spite, though. If Catalonia were to be independent, Spain would gain from it joining the EU.

Their commitment to keeping them out of the EU is there to deter them from leaving Spain in the first place, which likely would be bad for Spain.

Spain is working much harder to make a believable deterrent than other "countries with separatism". You don't have France, Denmark or the UK refusing to recognize Kosovo, for example.
The exact account I was thinking of when I said, "by all accounts."

He's such a sharp pen. Too bad he isn't blogging. I wonder if he's got some new takes. He was a small codeshop CEO when he wrote that. Now a multiunicorn CEO.
Or they could hire people with experience working in that part of Apple, etc. That passage does seem a bit naive.
Prior to the crack, the tablet responded to touch gestures differently than my iPhone -- I have to re-apply pressure for gestures to register sometimes. Also, I am unable to register tap gestures on the device with sweaty palms unlike on the iPhone, so I just assumed Asus used a resistive touch screen.

Anyway, the digitizer/touch screen build quality is brittle as plently of people have reported similar usage difficulty from hairline breakages [0].

Thanks for the correction though.

[0] https://forums.androidcentral.com/google-nexus-7-2013-rootin...
While I share some of those concerns, in all fairness it should be pointed out that this is literally what cell phone manufacturers said about the iPhone.
افلام – سينما فور اب – افلام اون لاين
Your second paragraph is one of the sharpest and most original insights I've read on HN in the ten years I've been here. That is a fantastic analogy for vesting cliffs.
The comment aside, holy shit that article is super dark in retrospect.
Everyone's talking about fake news but I'm just excited for the potential of democratizing movie making.
The really huge problem with that is that Keychain uses your login password to unlock your world of passwords. Even if you change your login before servicing, are you going to delete your whole keychain?
I don't see any need for the repair companies to have inside information beyond what is already available. They get detailed schematics of the electronics and as far as how to disassemble, that is generally figured out quickly by companies like ifixit that race to be the first company to post a teardown video on youtube when a new device comes out.

They use elaborate equipment and even x-ray to figure out what is going on inside these things.
You're not trying to understand me. You keep repeating irrelevant or misinformed points.

You go make your thing. I'll keep enjoying the platform I'm on.
Ask HN: Libertarian thoughts on poverty/monopoly power?
I am sympathetic to many libertarians ideas; however, I have a hard time getting past a few thoughts.

For instance, if we adopted a libertarian alternative for the reduction of our government and the freeing our our markets we might be - in aggregate - a wealthier country, many people would end up in abject poverty because they cannot acquire an sustaining income (for whatever reason). For instance, the argument I hear against the minimum wage is that it suppresses the number of jobs available (i.e. If a worker can only provide $5/hr worth of production for their employer, but there is an $10/hr minimum wage, then the employer will not hire that person at 10/hr and so that person doesn’t get a job. Alternatively, they could have a job if the minimum wage was removed and the employer was able to hire them at 5/hr. Ok, sure - 5/hr is better than 0/hr. Now, if a person can only pull in a 5/hr - or 2/hr - wage that subsequently leaves them unable to access healthcare, education, nutritious foods, etc. in a free marketplace, then what is the libertarian answer to their poverty (or the inevitable social costs of their poverty)? Leave them to die on the streets?

Likewise, how does libertarian thought confront monopoly power? Ostensibly, our government is designed to distribute certain rights and powers to all citizens. If we eliminate those rights and powers, what protects me - as a relatively poor and uninfluential human being - from being exploited by my more powerful businessman, landowner, etc.? It seems to put too much faith in everyday people to act morally - or if not morally, at least altruistically. In a libertarian environment, what is preventing a monopoly from wielding private power (rather than taking advantage of public power e.g. regulatory capture) to secure or maintain their position?

I’m genuinely trying to understand this political/ethical worldview.
The end of OpenJDK for commercial use
Boring meetings – part 2
You can know whether the aesthetics of something does or does not work without being able to determine why.

For instance, I can't cook much more than eggs and bacon, but I can sure tell whether a dish at a restaurant is any good. And I can even narrow down a dish's quality into various broad classes: disgusting, bland, okay, good, really good, and great. Most other aesthetic creations are similar.
> Likewise there is no technical reason that an independent California couldn't join a schengen style passport agreement, customs union, and free trade area, with the rest of the US.

Other than the fact that the United States would never create such a thing (or, if it did, would never allow a recently exited US state to join it), specifically to prevent encouraging balkanization of the US.
Risks rising that oil prices will cause next recession
You're replying (indirectly) to a linked article which cites 30 sources to make its case. Not saying that you're wrong, but it would be nice if you have some data to back up your claims.
But the secrets serve different purposes, they aren't the same. So why not keep them in the same place? I'll admit that it is less secure of course, since someone could compromise your 1Password. But it is still more secure that not using TPOP at all, is not?

Again, is there no attack vector that exists that makes TPOP worthwhile when you're already using a password manager that makes it not worthwhile if it's in your password manager?
I created a slightly misleading title. If I read this right, it's the end of updates to OpenJDK for commercial use at the end of 2019. But that's almost the same thing - given security considerations, could you use it after there are no longer updates?
For a founder, this means picking a single adviser who can inform your thinking, rather than someone who makes decisions for you.

I would call this a sounding board. A good sounding board is really valuable. It should be someone you trust, like talking with and communicate well with. They don't necessarily need to know your problem space all that well.

I often serve as a sounding board for my 31 year old son. He talks a lot, I occasionally comment on something he said and he walks away with a valuable insight on where to go next. I'm not even in a position to give advice per se because I don't really know what he's talking about. But even in the course of trying to understand what he is saying, I can ask questions that help clarify something in his mind.

I'm really not a big fan of either getting nor giving advice. I try to get people to engage me in discussion in a meaty way, but advice per se presumes one person knows what is best for another and I think that is generally not true. The person seeking advice typically has "local" information that simply never really gets shared and this means the person giving advice is frequently doing so without knowledge critical to the decision-making process.

When I was raising my kids, I operated on the assumption that they knew a bajillion things about their little world that I would never know -- if they were hot, if their tummy hurt but they were too young to communicate it, etc -- but I knew a lot more about life, the universe and everything generally. I tried to bridge the gap between my larger knowledge base and their smaller one for the problem space in question while leaving as much decision-making in their hands as possible.

So, for example, the summer my oldest turned two and we got a hand-me-down winter coat in the mail that perfectly matched his new shoes and he was enamored that they matched and wanted to wear them together, I didn't tell him "No, you can't wear a winter coat in summer." (It was Germany and it was fairly cool that summer anyway.) Instead, I told him "Don't put the hood on and don't zip it closed. Half your heat escapes from your head. If you leave the hood off, you should be okay." And he then put the hood on and off a dozen times to test what he had just been told.

Because of this incident, years later in elementary school in Kansas -- which was colder than Germany -- he was better at keeping himself warm while playing outside in winter than his classmates. He was typically the last child still outside for recess. Everyone else went in before recess was over because they were too cold.
As far as train tickets are concerned—which I found to be the most confusing part—the agency http://realrussia.co.uk/ has helpful resources, including a trip planner[0]. They can also answer specific questions about trains by email.

I also bookmarked this page: http://www.myazcomputerguy.com/everbrite/Page9.html ... It's old, so I would not trust the schedule information, but it's a good introduction and has links to other writeups.

Is there a particular topic/area that you wish you had an authoritative report on? Maybe I can cover it in an upcoming essay.

[0] https://trains.realrussia.co.uk/transsib/
Start identifying specific markets/customers and think about how one might move towards packaging/productizing your prototype for those customers.

It's not completely clear to me if your prototype is currently FPGA code, or maybe sensor hardware. For silicon IP a few questions might be:

Are there any customers who might reasonably deploy with your tech on FPGA?

Can you port your prototype to a GPU implementation? Would that open markets/customers to you?

Do you expect customers to port to a silicon implementation of your IP?

Other question might be, how clear of IP is your prototype. Do you own the full copyrights to the FPA code you intend to sell? Does it infringe on any patents?

Is it worth licensing into silicon IP "catalog" type companies? (This might include the FPGA vendors themselves too...)
Overview of governmental bans on encryption
In case people are wondering who 'someone' is, all the article says:

> Arman Haji, who uploaded the videos to his YouTube channel, told Motherboard he initially saw them posted to Twitter

[Edit: made it clearer that the article doesn't identify the original uploader]
Sorry, I wasn't trying to imply you called him a monster. I was agreeing with you that he was a brilliant wartime soldier and fared poorly in almost all other areas of life, but as a person he gets treated a bit unfairly by some historians.
Hey thanks!

I’ve been pushing hard on new developments and need to spend more time documenting my projects. But I have some info on another robot here:
https://hackaday.io/project/158458-rover-v2-four-wheel-drive...

There’s lots of cool robots on hackaday:
https://hackaday.io/list/158174-thp-2018-semifinalists-open-...

I also recommend browsing http://reddit.com/r/3dprinting as there is a lot posted there. And check out http://reddit.com/r/RobotBuilding

I also run a website to discuss projects that have a social impact. That’s at http://reboot.love

There’s a lot of good stuff online!
Those fines usually exist for a reason. Just because you can pay your way out of consequences for the negative externalities doesn't mean it's good for anyone but your shareholders.
> What I'm arguing is that dismissing these philosophical problems as just nonesense rooted in the vagueness of language is missing the point.

Oh, I agree, I don't think they are nonsense at all, and they do force us to think about the way we communicate and so on.

That's why I call them the Schrodinger's Cat of philosophy, while they only exist until you decide to solve them, they do force us to think about how we view the world.

But then you end up in another problem for philosophy: if what remains after you remove all the natural sciences is just the problems that humans create due to language, law, understanding, etc. and all of those are covered in subject-specific human sciences (law, linguistics, psychology, behavioral economics, etc.), what is left for philosophy?

Apparently, this is covered partially by this week's NPR Philosophy Talk:

https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/does-science-over-reach
maybe it's just fakenews for you, but I've watched the video and decided that Obama saying: "stay woke bches", is the reality I want to fucking live in.
The problem (as stated in this article) is that we can't even trust that. Because we only have our memory of what our five senses detect, and these fake videos can alter our memory.

One of the most vivid examples I recall was back in high school, seeing a video that was debunking the myth of "back masking" (having hidden messages when an "evil" metal song was played backwards). They played the same sound clip, with a transcription of the supposed hidden message on the screen, and I could clearly hear that message. Then they played the same clip but with a completely different message on the screen, and I could also distinctly hear that alternate message, in the same sound clip.
Funnily enough, Chrome has a reader mode on Android but not in the desktop version. At the same time Chrome Desktop has add-ons, Chrome Android doesn't.
The first thing I thought of when I saw that photo of Cory Jansson was Peter Gibbons at his first worksite, glad to be in the sunshine and out of the rat race. Fuckin' A, man.
In the US it's common for people to shake hands, regardless of gender. Many people like to hug, even with people they've just met.
at the moment, there are telltale signs of deepfakes if you know what to look for. various video editing issues, image glitches (visible in the obama/ahmadinejad photo in the article), lighting inconsistencies, sound oddities, etc.

frighteningly, these glitches can be hard enough to detect even when the fakes are made with an amateur's level of attention to detail. this implies that there is already a very widespread use of the technology by people with the capability to edit out these glitches.

with the technology of today, i think that state actors or potentially corporate actors could very easily generate nearly undetectable deepfakes if they cared to do so. i expect that they already have, in fact. but probably not where there would be a massive public eye to scrutinize an improbable or a ridiculous forgery. that would be too risky.

instead, the state of the art of deepfakes is likely invested in making the realm of the plausible "into reality" in a targeted way for the sake of shifting opinion of small populations rather than 100% forming new opinions or causing an about face of prior opinions.

consider, for instance, two allied militant groups in some warzone that the US has an interest in.

the default condition for these populations is the fog of war, wherein information is often hard to come by and rumor runs rampant, especially among the combatants themselves. the US doesn't want the alliance of the groups to persist for whatever reason. now, introduce a very convincing deepfake video of the commander from one militant group plotting to do something that the other group -- and perhaps some of the original group's members -- would disagree with.

there might be immediate chaos between the groups, but probably not. the most likely result will be that some people from each group see the deepfake and get convinced, then perpetuate the false information to others who haven't seen it. over time, the relations between these two groups will become strained, and their alliance may fray or fall apart altogether.

the incentive to be able to cause these kinds of changes is undeniable. especially when populations are compromised in their ability to fact-check information by hard problems like insufficient internet access, deepfakes will be especially effective.

the article worries about the total capitulation of reality at home to that of the fabricated image. no, that is not the risk at present. we have too many alternative channels to validate information. in fact, we are likely to evaluate information without even intending to by discussing information learned via one channel -- perhaps a deepfake -- with other people who may have learned about it via a different and contradictory channel. skepticism is becoming built-in. for people who aren't in the deep-information environment, however, deepfakes are already powerful enough to tilt reality to its preference...
How to Install Glances on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
This is where it comes down to user behavior. One of the security engineers from Stripe gave a talk about this at Blackhat last year -- she had phishing campaigns that had users ignore that autofill didn't work and manually copied/pasted their password manager credentials into the phishing sites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z20XNp-luNA
Unfortunately the $20 one is only available with USB-A, not USB-C.
> Sure but can you refuel with more hydrazine on the Moon?

Water might be present on the moon in always-shadowed craters and it is not 100% proven. Those same craters might also contain other volatiles that could maybe be used to synthesize hydrazine or methane.

If water is found on the moon it could definitely be used to produce hydrolox which has amazing isp, ~450.

> Also, is hydrazine so efficient below 30 watts?

Hydrazine monopropellant is decomposed with a catalyst, it doesn't need external power.

If you need an external power source then you're competing against various ion thrusters which can get 10x the Isp. Maybe it's main advantage is extremely small size, or perhaps it gets higher thrust?
No LEGO is definitely over priced for what you get now

My kids new LEGO sets have had multiple bricks brack. We’re using the few I had as a kid that have held up for 30 years, as replacements

Their remote control train never worked, after 3 months of receiving the wrong parts, finally getting what we hoped was the right one, the battery box stopped powering on

They’ve become a second hand junk shop buy. No more supporting their throwaway this plastic in 6 mos crap
> Spain relinquished it's colonial claim over it and Morocco and Mauritania rushed to claim parts of the territory

Is this a case where the colonial power should have been more firm when drawing arbitrary lines in the sand? The opposite of what they usually get criticised for.
The World's Shortest Review of the 15-inch 2018 MBP
haha, true, indeed