skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don’t care about privacy. What I do care about is being manipulated.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but those two sentences contradict each other. ;)

The main publicly visible application of personal data is advertising, so if you don’t want ads or manipulation, then you actually do care about privacy.

And are you certain you don’t care about privacy outside of ads? If so, why? Many people who’ve said things like that just didn’t even think at all about what happens or could happen to their personal information. Would it surprise you if you found out that insurance companies were purchasing personal information in order to increase their denial rates on claims? Would it bother you if your personal information was used to support a politcal party you oppose? Would it concern you if your personal habits were used to advertise to your neighbors or co-workers or friends or family instead of you personally?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument
Unrelated to the topic of the student debt bubble, the opening paragraph left a bad taste in my mouth:

> I hated the film adaptation of The Big Short. The acting was good and it did have a surprising amount of energy for a story that centers around men in suits doing math. But I felt condescended to. Maybe director Adam McKay tested an original cut—one minus Margot Robbie—and realized a good amount of the audience couldn't follow the plot without having a sexy lady in a bathtub break the fourth wall to explain subprime mortgages and the financial crisis.

Sounds awfully pompous, like it came from r/iamverysmart. Much of the impetus behind The Big Short certainly was to break down the 2008 financial crisis to those that aren't economics/finance wonks, or for whom a narrative holds more weight than a several-hundred page non-fiction book about it.

It's not that I want journalists to coddle their audience, I just think it's a bad look to completely dump on other creators to inflate one's ego while trying to make a point.

How about this, which still includes a bit of criticism of the director (but milder):

"While the film adaptation of The Big Short had good acting and a surprising amount of energy for a story that centers around men in suits doing math, it wasn't exactly my cup of tea. Perhaps it's because I felt Adam McKay didn't trust his audience quite enough to understand the ins-and-outs of complex subprime mortgages and the financial crisis, instead falling back on gimmicks like having Margot Robbie in a bathtub break the fourth wall to explain it all.

"In some ways, America's student-debt crisis is a lot simpler than all that."

I don't know, maybe that's not any better: and maybe by criticizing the author I've become the thing I set out to...criticize. Whatever.
Eh, I disagree.

I grew up living on the side of a mountain in Montana. 1000 foot climb from the highway to home. Could not make it home in winter with snow tires and 2WD, period. You'd end up fish tailing and generally turning a snow packed road into a gleaming sheet of ice. Which, makes it worse for those with 4WD as now the snow pack is a polished sheet of ice.

4WD helped, but was also not always sufficient. I've had a 4WD SUV slide directly sideways after coming to a compmete stop on an incline. Some of the grades were up to 14%, not highway quality, but private road.

Only relatively assured way to get home was 4WD, snow tires and chains. And you could skip the snow tires if you had the chains.
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Not invented here
Google needs a real iMessage/Facetime competitor and then they can start chipping away at Apple's network-effects. But Google has no consistent messaging strategy and is placating the carriers with RCS.
I work out in Asia and over here a big reason for ageism in tech is a misunderstanding of development talent, there is a belief that coders are coders and that's all there is to it, young coders tend to be willing to work longer hours and basically work until they burn out so management sees them as the superior option since salaries and benefits are lower.

edit: Since I'm getting down voted for whatever reason here's an article that is along similar lines https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-02/china-s-t...
Hopefully not. The long usable lifespan is one of the reason resale values are so high, which helps many justify the high price of a new phone.
> "Four is an odd number" and "Four is an even number"

How on earth is this a good metaphor for the positions being discussed here?

How about "all integers are odd" and "all integers are even"? That's much more similar to the views being discussed above, roughly "all blockchain applications are bullshit" v.s. "all blockchain applications are beneficial".

Is the statement, "some blockchain applications are bullshit" or "some blockchain applications are beneficial [to some group]" really a "bullshit middle ground"?

If your answer is "yes", then what you're doing is exercising willful ignorance -- there are examples of both bullshit and beneficial applications in this thread and that proves both extremes false.

If the answer is "no", then take a break from the ill-fitting metaphors. A metaphor should preserve the novel properties of the thing it mirrors while illustrating things in a way the reader can more easily understand. If it doesn't preserve the properties being emphasized -- say, if it reduces a continuum of possibilities down to a binary option -- then it's not a good metaphor. It's misleading; its author is pursuing some goal other than the truth.
Wonder who Google ATAP stole that technology from...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18566929
During the .com I was quite young, my friends were all doing nascent e-commerce in SF, I was doing Telecom stuff in the Valley.

My friends were all 'architects', while I was maybe one of only a couple of people out of 100 Engs. who were under 30!

I could walk to any cubicle and 'learn for days' from whoever was there about so many subjects. Such specialization that nobody knew precisely what their cubicle neighbours were doing!

You want to know what 'full stack' really means? We did proprietary ASICS, hardware, firmware, control plane software, networking control UI and servers! From the silicon all the way up!

The team was mostly 35-45 and they were amazing, I'll never work with people like that again.

I've run into a fair number of 'young geniuses' and astonishingly talented young folk ... but not the kind I would trust a major project to.

That said, they were a little bit more 'set in their ways'. It was a time when people 'went deep' as opposed to 'wide' generally. Very high degrees of specialization, typically only one professional grade language.
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It is a computation platform first and foremost. You can pay gas in ETH. Every opcode has a set gas price, so executing a compiled contract on the network costs you some ETH. Why would you want to run code on ETH?

Most notably, it requires no 3rd party trust to execute the code whereas traditional cloud architectures require you to trust that the execution environment is kosher e.g. amazon vm is not compromised, amazon hardware does not have side channel attack.

It is ideal to write a token or currency on ETH platform as state changes like balances are better left completed on trustless architectures
Woh cool it buddy:

"Zhu Menghua, a professor at the Macau University of Science and Technology who has worked closely with China’s space administration. “We Chinese people have done something that the Americans have not dared try.” "
You realize that late binding means supplying the CMYK based on a conversion from RGB? Good.

> (color space? doesn't matter! Pick any CMYK!)

You realize that “color space pick any” has an implicit connection to the actual physical inks and what colours they print? Good.

As in it is a clear beacon that you don’t understand a shred of what you are replying to. I’m sure your professional(!) print runs that you have done have taught you that, though.
You don’t need to fix this in a weekend. Chicago is likely to be around in 300 years. So, solve 3% of the problem every decade and it gets fixed. Meanwhile runoff becomes a 3% smaller problem every decade.
> 100% hearing restored.

I think you're imagining CIs as shiny and perfect technology, but they aren't. Check out this article below for some details. [1] They take quite a long time to learn how to use. Also, for people born deaf, their hearing isn't restored, it never existed, so it becomes an addition and an added responsibility. It's two new skills - hearing and speech therapy - they have to learn since ASL/etc is already their first language. It's really just a random cultural conditioning that we tend to think we have to be perfect or even enhanced to have a good life, be loved, successful, etc., but there's much more to life than the hearing world.

> hearing > not hearing

Actually, it turns out "not hearing == hearing." They make friends, make money, program, cook, play sports, exercise, etc. You might say they can't do this with people who aren't deaf, so they have a smaller population to choose from, but their community is huge and well-connected. they actually don't need the rest of us. I sat next to a deaf guy on a plane and he ordered coffee with cream and sugar by typing on his iphone then read the whole plane ride.

[1] https://www.thisisinsider.com/why-deaf-people-turn-down-coch...
You’re wrong about Toyota. They’re just not in the habit of rushing to market with empty promises. https://www.toyota-global.com/innovation/environmental_techn...

The point about Panasonic is pretty self-evident: Tesla isn’t going to win Asian markets if its upstream suppliers are all in Asia. They’re effectively a middleman and they’re paying for the right to be in-country. It’s not hard to see them being squeezed out by local firms.
Both of those apply to iPhones as well. The only difference is that on iOS, you cannot turn off AGPS location collection, while on Android, not only can you turn it off, it's opt in.
Agree. And not to overstate the role of the CEO or to open up a can of worms about Steve Jobs, the fact is that Steve was a product guy and Tim is an operations guy. And not that creating innovative new products that will sell at worldwide scale is easy, but they haven't come up with one in a while.
Current generation Android's like the OnePlus 6t cost the same as an iPhone 7 in India. Apple may be ahead in some areas, but getting a device 3-4 years newer for the same price is a big deal.
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Heh, try blender pre 2.5
The ads weren't only displaying in the app, they were appearing over other apps. This is something that simply can't happen in iOS.

How does a standard user know whether a small app to e.g. manipulate photos (as in this instance) is going to be updated a few days later to show ads when it's not running? Shouldn't an end user be able to trust Google's app marketplace to not feed them junk like this?
I'm sympathetic to the idea that technology decreases the per unit cost of productivity output, but the whole point of stimulating economic growth (via factors like inflation) doesn't work if the stimulus doesn't outpace the improvement in efficiency.

Technology is fundamentally deflationary. So if you believe that inflation (and growth) is necessary for social stability, you must incentivise consumption beyond technology's capacity to improve efficiency.
Really wish your landing page had screenshots.
Toyota also makes premium cars. The average selling price of a new vechile in the US is 36,000$ per year which means the market for premium cars is huge.

Now, the question becomes can you sell a premium Android phone? And based on current sales not really. Companies have flagship products, but they don’t sell that many of them because they don’t have significant advantages over far cheaper devices.
I meant innovating to create new product lines and compelling reasons for buyers to upgrade. I didn't mean technical innovation, rather the marketing genius that enabled Steve Jobs to launch exciting new products that people would stand in line all night to buy the day they became available.
>>Apple has indeed accomplished many things since Jobs handed over the reins, but delivering a new, innovative compelling product line is not one of them.

What company has, though?

My observation is that, while technology evolves very quickly, revolutionary product lines appear about once per generation. iPhones came out in 2007, so we have at least another decade to go.
I agree. This will be another manipulation cycle. It happens with AAPL every January, except this time Tim used the opportunity to slam the current President’s trade policy.
Currently 1.14 euro will buy a dollar. A year ago it cost 1.20 euro to buy a dollar.
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In Apple land all you’re getting is a battery replacement. Definitely no upgrades either. Not worth $100, as aftermarket battery replacements are cheaper, and you’re out of warranty anyway..
Phones have hit what PCs hit 10 years ago — there just isn’t any real need to upgrade them anymore. 5 year old phones do the basic phone functions great (texting / selfies / Candy Crush) so the market will have to shrink.
The Applicants' case goes a little something like this:

You don't buy the game, you buy a license to play a game, plus a copy of the game. If for any reason that license is revoked, you are making a copy of the game (from disk, into memory) without a license - which is copyright infringement.

Cheating is against the EULA, and it says (somewhere within the vast legal forest) that violation of the EULA will result in automatic suspension of your license. (Mind you, it also says in many OTHER places, that it won't). But let pretend it clearly says "automatic license termination".

If you cause OTHER PEOPLE to do the same thing, you are also responsible for that.

There is an ancillary charge of breaching an AC TPM (access control technical protection measure) but that is somewhat harder to justify, as they are claiming that their "Anti-Cheat" system is part of their AC TPM. (Anti-Cheat, Access-Control). While their Anti-Cheat is certainly (technically speaking) a "technical protection measure", it is not (legally speaking) a "technical protection measure" as recognized by copyright law.

i.e. not everything that is "technical" and involves "protection" qualifies as an AC TPM under copyright law (or DMCA).

There is an additional claim of "tortious interference" which is a classic legal ploy. Best example I can recall is the case where the husband sues his wife's lover for tortious interference, because he is a 3rd party attempting to interfere with their contract (the marriage contract).

hope that clarifies the case... and after reading the link to the previous comment... srsly.... police are not involved... catching cheat makers is not a government initiative (except maybe in china). it's much scarier. it's driven by corporations that have huge budgets and can afford 24/7 surveillance on a subject for weeks at a time, and operate with a "scorched earth" policy.

that's what should make you all scared. corporations can have search warrants issued, force you to provide the key or password to anything, and insist you tell them about any equipment or information you may have hidden.

there is no right to silence what-so-ever.

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Wisest dude I've ever worked with was >50. Sharpest was probably a friend I grew up with, he was writing C before he was 12! Some mad productive cats from 30-45 too.

E: had to come back and say that the best PM's I've worked with have all been >40 year old women who have bigcorp experience. They don't take shit from anyone and protect their people.
https://github.com/ityonemo/imsocultured/blob/master/device....

is an example.
"and allow charging without authentication - who cares where I get 65 W of power from"

That 65W of power on USB-C is coming in at 20V most likely. Many devices simply will not tolerate that high of a voltage. This is why authentication and negotiation are absolutely essential.
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I spend many hours a day using my phone. More than I use my personal laptop, really (which was a lot more than EUR1400). Not quite as much as I use my work laptop, I suppose (c'est la vie because I like to eat and that requires money.)

Consider it like buying an expensive bed and mattress because you use them an awful lot (20-30% of your life, pretty much, for most people.)
> I’m of the mind that I won’t buy a 5G device until the infrastructure is there so I’m okay with what I read to a point

If you want any other innovation (camera, screen, cpu, etc.), you will be forced by Apple to pay for 5G tech too.
> Pablo, the main researcher behind this discovery

Trivial quibble, but Cao Yuan's the first author and lead researcher for these papers and unfortunately not directly mentioned -- I heard he had to argue for taking this approach to graphene.
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Micropayments is a strong real-world use case. Basically, pay half a cent to each website you visit or for each news article you read. Transaction fees are too high for this to be viable with traditional payment systems, however solutions like lightning network solve for this.

Gambling is another big one, trust is a problem with online gambling but with blockchain it is possible to make it provably fair by basing randomization seeds on blockchain data. There are many sites running similar setups, and these sites cause a large number of on-chain txns, arguably already paying for sustained innovation.

Smart contracts have a lot of potential but are still in their infancy, and bugs have caused significant financial losses, however, those problems are solvable.
Hard to imagine many Apple people lined up for that opening day: "Here's an iPhone-4-shaped thing running Android!"

Even if they nailed the form factor, how many people are really willing to switch? You see some people swearing off a brand (on the internet, anyway) when something egregious happens but there's definitely inertia that keeps most people firmly in one ecosystem or the other.
By the by, it’s not clear that proof of stake is good for crypto, although reducing the CO2 budget is unambiguously good for the rest of us.

Most PoS systems I’ve seen basically reward the oldest money holders with the right to stamp new transactions. This reduces the cost, but is extremely centralizing, bordering on neo-feudal.

The cynic in me also notes that developers of these chains are regularly the oldest money, making their motivations suspect at best.
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Soooo, after a few evenings of work, I've 100% broken Widevine L3 DRM. Their Whitebox AES-128 implementation is vulnerable to the well-studied DFA attack, which can be used to recover the original key. Then you can decrypt the MPEG-CENC streams with plain old ffmpeg...
Note that this says you can only get out if you file bankruptcy and can show that any form of repayment will cause undue hardship.

More realistically you're going to get one of the other two options.

> Your loan may be partially discharged, and you will still be required to repay some portion of your loan.

> You may be required to repay your loan, but with different terms, such as a lower interest rate.
What's weird about doing Advent of Code in C++? You'll find a sizable number of the people on the leaderboard do it that way. I think it's partially due to competition programming habits dying extremely hard.

Of course, Python is by far the most popular, but C++ isn't that much more verbose.
Not always the case though Prof. Erickson seems to be the exception
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Only for wealthy professionals. The smartphone market is a bit broader.
I'm not sure how asm.js is relevant here. The issue is that function-level lazy compilation makes compilation too hot to allow for an mprotect call, no? Wouldn't a function-level lazy Web Assembly implementation have the same problem?

It seems to me that the solution is the same for both wasm and asm.js: make the unit of compilation larger than the function, so as to amortize the cost of mprotect.
If mining had always been 1/10 of what it is now, then that would probably be true since everyone would have 1/10 of what they would have had otherwise, but if the mining reward was suddenly axed now, then there's no reason for that to be true.
> I'm using SOGo for my family's groupware and although SOGo provide plugins for Thunderbird

I used to use SOGo but found it used way too much resources. None of us really even used 'webmail' so I ditched SOGO.

I went with https://radicale.org most of my family either uses mail clients, Thunderbird, (with Lightning), Canary Mail (the mac user), DAVx⁵ (formerly Davdroid). Radicale allows for ldap authentication which was a must for us.

On a side note the SOGO Integrator plugin took AGES to be updated for Thunderbird 60. I found https://gitlab.com/CardBook/CardBook/ to be WAY better, particularly as it replaces the crufty-old Thunderbird addressbook.