skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except most people don't do higher-valued labor, we mainly do completely pointless busy work either because someone somewhere thinks there is a chance they can extract a large amount of wealth from having that pointless busy work be done (every tech company on the planet) or because a government has taken money from everyone else and given it to people to do pointless busy work so we can say "unemployment is only X%". Nobody would pay the millions of useless bureaucrats if they had a choice, they only get paid because the government takes money from everyone else at gunpoint to give to those bureaucrats.

More to the point, I think you are incorrect about the standard of living impact. 150 years ago almost everyone could eat safe, healthy food. Now access to safe, healthy food is incredibly limited, in many cases impossible to obtain without growing/raising it yourself. We've traded our health and happiness for pointless gadgets, that's not an unambiguous improvement in standard of living. With the knowledge and technology we have now, families could easily provide 80+% of their own food with almost no work (and I mean what we have now, no need for robots of the future). Instead of having a tiny number of farm jobs providing massive amounts of garbage "food", we should have a huge number of tiny "farm jobs" producing good food in people's backyards.
I feel a very palpable rage when I envision a future where I buy a car and a few years later ads start popping up on its display.

They're going to make the overly expensive entertainment and GPS packages standard features and then fill them with ads. I just want a slot for a phone. Let me manage the car and the computer as separate pieces. Please for the love of God please.
Because you don't know the target architecture and configuration.
Slower, but not super slow. Latency is significantly higher, if you're used to ~10ms ping from your home to your data center.

Grabbing a page from my website over tor and over normal network:

curl http://mywebsite
curl https://mywebsite
curl --proxy socks://127.0.0.1:9050 http://mywebsite
curl --proxy socks://127.0.0.1:9050 https://mywebsite

Results in these times (tor times depend on selected circuit):

0.028s / http
0.063s / https
0.394s / tor http
1.079s / tor https

If I killall -HUP tor (force changes circuit):

0.302s / tor http
0.598s / tor https
This is covered in the blog post, search for "I didn't do that"
There's a lot to unpack here, and a lot to disagree with, as I believe there's plenty of evidence Apple cares a lot about accessibility.

Also harping on specific terminology like password vs passcode is not really productive in terms of improving the underlying UX, as the word gets translated into tons of languages which may or may not have the same level of nuance.

While I don't necessarily agree with the premise, especially when compared with the competition, I will say that iOS has not gotten easier to use over time. Features like 3D touch are implemented inconsistently both at the hardware level, and in the UX — Worst is how undiscoverable they are. Here's the crazy part: Apple is about to release the iPhone XR, their 1 and only phone without 3D touch!.
I don't know. I pay $200 a season for NBA League pass, so I can watch my favorite out of market team.

My normal watch process is to watch the game after the family goes to bed, and fast forward through a good chunk of the filler (commercial breaks, halftime, free throws, etc)

When watching on my computer, they insert un-skippable ad breaks during stoppages, even when watching a replay. That means if I am too slow to skip the timeout break, or happen to slide the slider to a section of the game that is an ad break, I get stuck watching 2 minutes of commercials. Since I am constantly fast forwarding during the game, I end up spending more of my time watching ads than the game.

It is awful. If I can't figure out a workaround, this is probably my last year subscribing. My only current solution is to record the game on my DVR (using the same league pass subscription), because then I can fast forward. However, not all the games on TV are HD.... it is pretty awful overall.
People went to war over not believing in the same particular flavour of god.
Time to start buying everything used. There's enough crap out there that whatever you need, someone else is probably already trying to get rid of it. Let them take the tracking hit.
> Moreover, what would the Pentagon gain by running a UFO psy-op?

I've always wondered whether the magnitude of UFO sighting reports make it more difficult to glean intelligence about US aircraft/reconnaissance research. If, for example, Area 51 was responsible for cutting edge stealth aircraft research, it would be much more difficult to spy on the program through the civilian population if real sightings are indistinguishable from the flood of alien UFO sightings.
I have Vega 56 and was bugged by it in 4.17/4.18 cycle. Finally 4.19-rc fixed it. But there are a few DisplayPort 1.2 related annoyances that still remain.
Something that struck me yesterday as this started, is that Github isn’t really just a dvcs hosting solution, Github is a social network.

It’s easy to change the remote origin of a git repository. It’s not hard to migrate a project to Gitlab etc, and duplicate all the technical features of Github.

What’s really hard is replacing the social graph. If you’re a large project with a lot of contributors, onboarding everyone is not going to be easy. About as easy as convincing all your friends to stop using Facebook.
Gait detection can be easily be fooled, you just wear some weird shoes that make walking hard in. Your gait will change drastically. Alternate between zero drop, heel and reverse heel.
Netflix does have ads! And quite a lot of them too. They are just in the form of product placement. Sometimes entire scenes will be for pitching a product. Because of that I refuse to watch any of their original programming.
Oh most people will google "repl.it ruby" and get to that directly.

We also just discussed this and we're adding a language selector on the homepage.
How many people use badges as incentives? I completely ignore mine, except for the gold ones that let me mark a duplicate without waiting for anybody else. And I'm always careful to be 100% sure before I do.
People have the same sorts of problems with most non-trivial devices. In the extreme cases mentioned in the article the solution is the same that the author discovered: some who knows, teaches someone who can benefit. There isn't an obvious solution to this problem in general that wont make the system harder to use for intermediate/expert users.
Well that took a long time.
I currently own both Android and iOS devices, and have used both for years.

I think the single "Omni-Pull Down" from the top works way cleaner than the now 3 seperate pull from side of screen actions. I actually find pulling up from the bottom difficult and frustrating.

Swipe to dismiss, tap to open makes so much more intuitive sense than swipe to open.

Text editing / selection does what I expect way more often.

Android doesn't bug you about Wifi access points by default.

This one is controversial, but I think a visible always available back button is a huge accessibility win even if it's sometimes inconsistant in behaviour.

Also, the Google Assistant at this point is probably 10 times more accurate and understanding than Siri. I have a pretty standard midwestern accent and Siri understands almost nothing I say to a pathetic degree. I use Google Assistant to do probably about half of the quick things I want to do on my phone like set alarms and such. I don't trust Siri to do anything.

A lot of things of course are worse just because they vary between manufacturers and even individual phones.

The fact that many OS components are replaceable is a double edge sword. My dad for instance somehow installed a dialer that made him dismiss an advertisement before he could answer his phone. He had no idea how to get rid of it and assumed he had broke his phone.
> slip and fall lawsuits putting mom and pop operations out of business

A sufficiently bad slip and fall can put the falling person out of employ-ability.

I've had the pleasure of slipping and falling, when a neighbourhood restaurant was cleaning their floors... In near-freezing weather. The soapy water ran out onto the (highly inclined street), and as soon as I stepped on it, I fell flat on my ass.

Now, since I'm a healthy twenty-something-year-old, I got up, cursed for a few minutes, and kept going. If I weren't, and were a manual laborer, that one fall could have left me seriously injured, and destitute.

I don't care that the perpetrator in question was a mom & pop shop. Negligent behavior can destroy a life.
Bank failures were very common in the US specifically, especially in the GD. The reason is that the US had 10000s of banks because of a regulation called 'Unit Banking'. This made banks incredibly weak (not diversified) to shocks and failed often. Because of other problem in the US system this often lead to lots of banking failures. 1000s of them went down in the GD for example. Compare to Canada where no bank failed (there were less in the first place of course).

It was deregulation that finally abolished that absurd practice along with other changes, including some more regulation, and the removal of lots of old regulation that lead to an improved banking system.

The Depression of 1929-1933 was followed very quickly by a recession in 1937 but banks didn't fail anymore. Pretty much every economist agree that the reason was the FDIC and the consolidation of the banking system in the following years.

To track bank failures today on deregulation in the 80s is a really hard sell, if you study the history of banking you will see huge changes in regulatory structure, types of regulation and so on all the time, including after Reagan. To sell the old 'evil republic deregulation is cause of all evil' story is always easy but unless you are at a political rally it is a pretty meaningless statement.
You read the generated docs or get the source.
Apparently Claudia is banned from there.
A very close friend of mine led customer support for a large American IT company in the middle east where US federal agents were posed as support staff.

I worked at a large high-tech firm with business in the middle east, including content-filtering solutions and we were basically 'required' to work with Western governmental entities of a 'security nature'.

The US has massive clandestine projects in this regard and some of them are not so secret - consider the recent Wikileaks: [1]

"The US intelligence agency has been involved in a concerted effort to write various kinds of malware to spy on just about every piece of electronic equipment that people use. That includes iPhones, Androids and computers running Windows, macOS and Linux."

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...

All countries with active spy/clandestine agencies are spying on one another using malware, spyware, hardware hacking, phishing, social engineering, whatever. And many firms are complicit to one degree or another.

That Apple or AWS etc. may have been compromised with a specific attack makes for a really weird story - but that this is happening in general is a non-story - of course it is. It's not about this specific attack really.
I believe the example he gave about "doing a naughty thing" was referencing our idea of terminal-apps-as-webpages: https://repl.it/jobs for an example
Print works fine; try it. Find is indeed contingent on what's loaded on the page, same reason you can't "find in page" when you're viewing paginated page 5 of 20. Not really a valid criticism, unless you're just splitting hairs for fun.
I love how a seed round today is $4.5M...
I've come to the conclusion that ads will, if not countered, invade every space that has any potential of human attention. It's not hard to see the trajectory for one who's been around since the 1950's.

This is probably going to demand a new type of GMO human, one that can concentrate on main content while at the same time processing ad content.

Or, we can stand up as the humans we are and demand that ads be banned from being shoved down our throats at every juncture. In lieu of legislation (don't have much hope there): some sort of manifesto that specifies how ads be displayed (i.e. exclusively behind a 'show ads'-button), coupled with shaming of the corporations that violate such an advertising 'code of conduct'.

It should really be tried.
Most Codes of Conduct prescribe to ideas of patriarchy or intersectionality - if you don't believe in these, then you are generally reeducated or expelled.

I have seen equal evidence for the existence of a God as I have the existence of a Patriarchy.
Because 'the truth of the Bloomberg story' is not important - what matters is 'what's actually happening' in the world. And this kind of hacking is definitely happening irrespective of how right/wrong the Bloomberg report is.
From my scouring some time ago on Ebay Google seems to use board designs modified and produces to their specs from some Taywan nonames. So while they also can potentially be similarly attacked, it wouldn't be the same attack.

Wrt. the subj of the Bloomberg story - back in 90ies Russian FSB would comb through the internals of every PCs they bought for their use. That though was before Intel ME :)
The economy as a whole does not matter. It is not a person, it does not have any moral or ethical value. The only people who benefit from "the economy as a whole" growing are people who have positioned themselves as parasites who extract wealth from everyone like bankers. People want healthy, security and happiness. "The loss of your job, home, lifestyle, culture and heritage is irrelevant. Move to generic urban cell block #45725 and acquire a generic cubicle placement in order to procure generic toxic soyloaf to avoid starvation." does not produce health, security or happiness.
There are persistent bugs in common functions also. E.g. in messages attach a photo, press the left arrow and then come back to the conversation. The photo will be messed up (XS with the latest update).
Why doesn't Netflix just show some pre-roll video add? It's easy money.

They will, eventually. Or they'll get replaced by a service that does.
There's this social norm where you don't cause discomfort such as noise or pollution for other people. Some people overdo it with way too much perfume; those are equally annoying.

The difference however is that although such might over-sensitise someone with e.g. (undiagnosed) autism your example is not proven to be harmful for the lungs, nor does it make you stoned.
A number of years ago, I was employed by an Apple Retail store. I don't know how it is now but when I started (in 2010), they would hold employee-led workshops on the basics of iOS devices and how to customize them.

By the time I left, they had completely revamped those workshops to be mere Q&A sessions. My biggest gripe about these Q&A style workshops is that most of the people attending weren't aware of what questions to ask.
Which stabilization?
It's one of the reasons why US and mexico are major oil producers.
> Are they really going to potentially devastate their entire economy over the long term over such an easy to detect hack?

That didn't make the NSA afraid of targeted interception campaigns.

I believe that secret services are doing everything we normal people dream of already, including stuff such as the hardware injections either in the Supermicro case or in the stuff the NSA did, and a good bunch more which we don't even know of yet.

Cyber warfare is all too real now.
Ok, I need to say it. This article just has iPhone in the title to get more views. This is a problem with not just all smartphones but all rapidly evolving technology products. Do you think you could hand an android phone to one of those example cases and have them do any better with it?

Also half of the time I am in an apple store I am helped by someone who needs to use the accessibility features to check me out/in. I think it is awesome that Apple dog foods their products that way.
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Honestly, we think of it as an A. We're planning to get (back) to profitability on it ;)
That's intriguing... Could you tell us more?
Fair. Thanks for that edit.

It is amazing the number of replies in this entire HN thread that have no idea every single question and answer on Stack Overflow is editable, even by an anonymous user. The first item in my list was Stack = wiki for a reason!
All of those are true and reasonable points. Mostly what I take away from this is that no solution suits all situations.
"better environment" - worse is better. Its explained in the comment above you about entrenched interests. Whether js and html are worse in the browser is one thing but I think you could argue strongly that they are worse on the desktop. As a user, the experience for me is pretty bad.
Noam Chomsky defending Holocaust denier's freedom of speech (1980)
We have seen production users choose to make this port to save on server costs. You can always scale horizontally, but it comes with a price tag.
Two screens to send a photo sound like a bit of a hassle.

On my Sony phone I can take a photo, press the "share" button to get a context based share menu and my most recent signal/email contacts appear right at the top ready to send without leaving the camera app at all. If I want to send it to someone not on that list I have to get into another screen but not two.

The Facetime menu sounds quite crazy and very "un-Apple".

I see my mother struggle quite a bit with her iphone as well and she wants a dumb phone again but I think that would happen with an android too!
I really hope the legalization of Cannabis is going to make some progress in Germany. If you are German and sympathizing with this - then please support Deutscher Hanfverband (https://hanfverband.de/unterstuetzen). They (and especially Georg Wurth who is heading this organization) are doing a fantastic job promoting this request.

For me Cannabis legalization is a symbol for science and reason based politics and legislation. And I am so sick of the fear mongering FUD-based reasoning of CDU and AfD.

My personal theory for why right-wing politicians (except for those of the extreme libertarian fraction) are so passionately against legalization of Cannabis is because of group formation reaching back to their youth. You identify with a group also by rituals, habits and enemies. And I guess they just developed a bias against this other group of "hippies" who used to smoke joints. And they carry this resentment with them into their adulthood and agenda.
Is efficiency the best health metric for an economy, or is it just an easy one to use? Many of the most useful things become natural monopolies because they are so good.
No it’s not. It’s much more like saying the Saudis probably killed the journalist because we do it too.
>Co-opting the word violence, is great marketing but dishonest.

I disagree that it is dishonest, and I doubt Marshall Rosenberg (founder of NVC) was the one to coin it. I recently read another book on communications (not associated with NVC), and it categorizes poor communications into two categories:

- Silence (withholding your information from the "pool")

- Violence (forcing your information into the "pool")

Neither is literal. Silence in this context doesn't mean not talking. One can be categorized as silent while still talking in great length. In fact, I think they categorize someone who is continually throwing insults as "silent". The person is trying hard not to talk about something and is attempting to deflect. It's more about whether his words and actions are focusing on adding or withholding. Likewise violence is more about suppressing others' perspectives so that you're sure the other side hears yours. Or talking too much, essentially trying to dump as much as possible into the pool.

Just an example that the notion of "violent" communications is not unique to NVC. It seems to be a term used often.

Personally, I do wish it wasn't called NVC - too many people think it is about serious conflict resolution, or about pacifism. It's merely a recipe for speaking.
>This one is controversial, but I think a visible always available back button is a huge accessibility win even if it's sometimes inconsistant in behaviour.

As a recent iPhone switcher I can't stand the "back" behavior. I was so happy to discover the swipe right to go back feature until I realized that it didn't apply to images and other full screen elements (where there's an "x" instead of "<back" in the top left corner). For those you swipe up to dismiss. So now I have to keep mental state for what type of content is currently displayed to know how to get back to where I was. This is more annoying than Android's inconsistent back button experience IMO.
This seems like good science, but it doesn't do much to change the idea that life started ridiculously early. Is 200my a big deal in that question?
Dumbbell squats are safe, but I don't like doing as much weight as I do with bar squats, because I find 60+lb dumbbells very hard to manage.

I also prefer using one dumbbell held with both hands (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3siyLMUr_Q) to holding a dumbbell in each hand. I think its easier to maintain good form engaging the posterior chain, but ymmv.

I've never liked deadlifts personally, so I'm a bad person to ask. I tend to target lower back with back extension machines, or supermans if no machines around.
Yes. If any smartphone vendor exposes all of its settings front and center right now, then people would just throw their hands in the air and quit right there and then.

I am not overly fond of how Apple does things but they are doing a so-so-okay job trying to pander to the least-common-denominator.
All tech is hard to use. All our interfaces expect a certain amount of familiarity with abstract concepts that have little to no relation to the real world. Most people get by because they memorize the most obvious processes (how to save a file) and build their own largely incorrect mental models that happen to give the correct results most of the time (assuming a consistent environment). As soon as something minor breaks or changes, these models become completely useless.

I've had somebody come to a PC repair shop for columns being the wrong size in Thunderbird. She wasn't a dumb person, but it's clearly a deeply flawed and incomplete understanding of the interface and computers in general that led to her inability to cope with the entirely new state of her desktop (yes, I'm still talking about the columns).
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>On my Sony phone I can take a photo, press the "share" button to get a context based share menu and my most recent signal/email contacts appear right at the top ready to send without leaving the camera app at all. If I want to send it to someone not on that list I have to get into another screen but not two.

You can do that on the iPhone too. What the person you're replying to is talking about is if you're already in messages, the interface for pulling a photo in is now an extra step over what it was before.
Are there any laws that protect minors from this form of tracking and data collection?
It really speaks to the disgustingly privileged and cloistered attitude of many tech geeks that they would consider a $400 consumer electronics device like the Oculus Quest cheap. And that they would rather see mainstream VR crash and burn, or dwindle to a tiny, dying niche, than make even the slightest concession to people who can't or won't spent $2k+ to indulge in the latest fad. What a joke.
Also complexity - managing an order of magnitude more instances is more hassle.
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