skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really wanted to believe Apple but they need to try harder.

This is not on iPhone but on a MBP so it's still quite relevant to Apple. I had disabled the "apsd" process, which serves as Apple's push notifications service, completely blocked it off using Little Snitch, and yet the process still found its own way to reactivate itself and keeping a persistent connection back to Apple servers in the background. I personally don't use FaceTime or Notifications on MBP, why couldn't Apple just let me disable this, and instead the process even circumvented around my firewall protection to make sure it could communicate back to their data center? This practice is a little shady and does not promote trust or transparency. If I have blocked a process permanently then I expect it to remain always blocked.

Their EmbeddedOS on the Touch Bar also keeps a couple always-on connections that utilize its own bridged network interface which users are completely blocked off and do not have access to. They were supposedly for TouchID, but I was viewing bandwidth usage the other day and these connections used up to almost 10MB of data. Why would something like TouchID need to send 10MB of data back to Apple? Again, this makes no sense and does not promote trust.
> > Also, in 1985 the stock villains weren't terrorists, they were Russians.

> They still are.

Or, again, rather. Everything comes around eventually.
India raised it to 20% in 2018. https://money.cnn.com/2018/02/01/technology/india-iphone-tar...

Then there is 12% tax on top of that.
I could see it useful to have “Tesla” parking spots that are 10% narrower to improve space utilization.
The average person sees the button in their browser and says "What the heck is Pocket?"
So the real slide was actually quite different from the one presented in the article. The article shows various errors not present in the real slide (vaires, e.?g., Ln, hanrd). The real slide also use different font weights and bullet symbols. Was that intentional to give a bad impression, or just really sloppy? Or were those slides cleaned up?
Maybe in A/B tests, customers who see a product with 4.9 (fake) stars are more likely to click Buy than customers who see the same product with 4.3 (honest) stars?
Ehh, the site is local news for Louisville. They might not be consciously doing anything against GDPR, just decided that the cost to make sure they're GDPR compliant isn't worth the minuscule number of added viewers.
Robots Milking Cows over 5G in England
Occasionally, it's nice to compensate people for producing something that others value. This has a couple of benefits, one of which is that same person might continue to produce interesting things.
That's the plan, but it doesn't always happen due to internal transfers. Anyway it means little because if you are highly paid then you also are high level title so you just get managed by your manager's manager but stay working on your same team.
This.

Asian schools are great at providing high test scores. Their rigid education really drills the information into the kids and works well.

But that incredible strictness simply would not work with most American children. The culture is simply incompatible with the strict discipline involved (and that’s not to say it’s bad, but only different).

America’s trouble is that there are some majorly divided cultures living together, all under the label of “American”. What works for some people just won’t work for others.
No. The sale of 500$+ phones in only in a few million.
It happens to every company. And – so my pet theory goes – this is inevitable.

Any company over size x is, by definition, staffed by average people. That’s the very definition of average. What, then, would lead anyone to believe that a sufficiently large company could possibly be full of geniuses? It just can’t happen.

(FWIW this is why I find the companies that do seem to break the mould – Apple, for example – so interesting.)
It was orchestrated by CEOs. They get big bonuses regardless.

Also you are conflating base salary with total comp in your example.
Great question. I can't speak to AVID's practices today (it's been over 10 years... damn I'm old) but for me it created a much-needed structure. Students within the program could take AVID variants of core classes similar to how they might enroll in Honors or AP. The curriculum favored collaborative exercises like group projects and peer review. The idea was to encourage many of the social and professional tools we often take for granted (collective problem solving, resource management, etc.) to at-risk students. We also had regular one-on-ones with instructors within the program who would track our academic performance and help guide us along the way. Finally, higher education was a major focus of the program and took the form of anything from SAT prep sessions to projects where we would have to research colleges and universities we planned to apply to as part of the assignment.
Apple themselves does the same. Therefore the position is that doing something Apple does makes you unqualified to criticize Apple. That would by extension make Apple themselves unqualified to criticize Apple, which is a rather unusual bar.

What I find curious about many comments in this thread is that few want to address the issue itself, but instead would rather either shoot the messenger or argue that even raising the issue is unacceptable.

Why are people so opposed to discussing this and why is Mozilla's record or reputation even relevant here?
The kickstarter appears to be for selling access.
This makes me want to have a recorder rolling all the time when I interact with people from that group, just in case.
LG G8 ThinQ: Old Dog, New Tricks
Ugh. With datalist values (Which hasn’t been fixed for 6 years) and another breakage of web standard by firefox I’ve seen, in a week. Can’t believe firefox actually insulted Internet Explorer for rigging standards.

What’s the point of disabling it when you can mimic the feature with javascript?
I think there needs to be a little bit of contribution by both hardware and software sides. A "sufficiently stupid" application is not possible to protect. We need a set of best practices and guarantees that you wont leak if you follow them.

And there may even need to be a third part. An understanding that nothing can be fully protected.
I never got into this situation, but heard people got options but they became underwater after IPO (e.g. Dropbox). There are several hot startups that had a lot of hype, but turned out just so so. I work for a VC funded startup now, but I feel there have been huge dilution, so I started asking if it is worth it. There is poor work life balance and liquidity risk. At the end, if a company goes IPO, I don't expect to make too much money. Why not get a job at a big company and enjoy life.
How does this compare to Roll20.net, and the others in this space?
The definition is probably cited in a lot of places because it's literally just the definition of insider trading. Which frontrunning is a form of.

A nice neutral primer on the HFT frontrunning debate can be found here, which contains a note regarding the HFT industry's attempt to advance the 'fiduciary' requirement. https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43608.pdf

Matt Levine, for instance, is very firmly on the 'keep frontrunning to only mean brokers interceeding before client orders' side of the semantic battle. Charlie Munger, by contrast, had no issues calling out the entire HFT industry as 'evil' and 'legalized front-running'. All this to say, there's clearly a lot of fight over the semantics here.

If you want to look at the official industry position, look at the communication between SIFMA and FINRA during the relevant time period wrt frontrunning regulations. You'll see SIFMA makes repeated reference to recognizing they have a duty in respect of customer orders, while the FINRA rules (5270, for instance) do not track this language. SIFMA attempted to conflate Rule 5270 (Front Running of Block Transactions) with Rule 5320 (Prohibition Against Trading Ahead of Customer Orders). I know a few people who have admitted in private that this strategy was not a mistake.

Rule 5270 notably has no exclusionary requirement that the non-public knowledge is in respect of a client trade. Rule 5270 also contains a definition of Publicly Available Information, which requires that the trade be COMPLETED prior to it being public.

To note how much of a gong show this situation was, note that in requests from SIFMA to delay the implementation of Rule 5270, FINRA said they'd grant the extension because firms needed time to train staff and retool systems - but FINRA explicitly noted that the activities prohibited under 5270 were almost all already illegal and covered by other FINRA rules.

So insider trading on non-public information is illegal and that's not news. Unless everyone does it with computers for a while. The regulator would look like an idiot for charging practically the entire industry, so instead they tell people they have a few years to knock off all that silly business while giving them a stern finger wagging.

But they only 'fixed' it for large orders, and then only in an official sense. The SEC hasn't done much in the way of enforcement on this point.
Many others do, but usually on a more limited basis to protect certain industries. Brazil does for virtually all electronics.
Somehow incredibly road rage inducing that you get squanch points forming on completely steady state unimpeded circuit and everyway I tried altering the parameters made it worse.
Stuff like this seemed to happen a lot back when webOS was a semi-serious contender in the mobile OS race. I remember that many times the downgraded functionality and bugs could be “patched” by changing the user agent. At the time I didn’t think much about it, but it may have very well been a strategy to make android more “competitive”
Does anyone know of cars that are relatively easy to control with custom software with minimal/no hardware modifications? I'd love to be able to hook up a controller to my car or some cameras and some basic self driving code on a closed road, but I wouldn't want to make big modifications.

Ideally, there's some car that you can plug a usb cable into from a computer and have access to control steering, pedals, any onboard sensors, etc., but I doubt that exists for security/liability reasons.
This is incredible, I put a cone in the middle of the road and realized the nightmare I had caused, and then quickly removed it. But the nightmare just continued to ripple through space and time. This explains all those mysterious traffic jams I've been in that seemed to defy reason.
This is so against globalisation and global trade it‘s not even funny.
Totally cool if Apple did this voluntarily, but the only reason they‘re doing it is to prevent high import taxes.

India is a huge market. So it‘s all good. Brazil is a good deal smaller and requires the same thing. So does Argentina (and is even smaller). Now imagine every country would do this.
That's true but I have higher hopes for our country's politicians.
> Tax loss carryforward is a standard accounting practice that makes rational sense. Nevertheless, it's the type of policy that helps those who need help the least, and I think we need to start to rethink these kinds of policies.

Get rid of this and you will find all manner of foolish inefficient corporate behavior. Companies with huge losses will be bought by companies with gains they want to soak up that year. Companies will make investment decisions based on their current year's tax position instead of the needs of the business. The end result will not be a more equitable system; it will be a system in which tax lawyer and accountants are the only ones who come out ahead.

And to be clear, I only mentioned Romney's infamous 47% line because it is well known and makes the point quickly. There's no need to rail against the larger message he was giving, which doesn't bear on whether Warren's headline is accurate or misleading. It leads us down a rabbit hole of discussing whether it was appropriate in the context (stumping to potential donors, IIRC), etc. I only referenced it because many people are aware that he said it and that it was a controversial comment but a true one.
Powerful people colluding? Sounds like one of those "conspiracy theories"</sarc>

Given how these large companies have a penchant to buy a promising company just to kill the product a couple years later, it seems like it's in the market's best interest to encourage distribution of power. This includes encouraging entrepreneurship with technologists & incentives to grow individual businesses to profitability, while discouraging M & A.
Funny thing is Apple's competitors don't make money. Apple has ~50% of all smartphone revenue and 87% of the world's total smartphone profit share - iPhone X alone was 35% of global profit share with, to your point, only 22% of the market. Less, even, my data shows 19% of shipments most recently. Samsung is next in line off the back of approximately equal shipment volumes. Everyone else effectively breaks even or loses money. [1]

I'd say Apple's got this one figured out.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2018/03/02/apple-con...
Take a tour in Europe, France or Switzerland, I know some contractors who have been in the same client, if not team (through various reorg) for more than two decades.
Myself,5y same client over a 7years period, each time in a different team or close to.
> They acted irresponsibly. They should respond for their actions.

It's satisfying to point to a handful of people to place blame, but it isn't terribly scientific. We should be asking why they asked irresponsibly. The folks making these decisions didn't just act in a vacuum, they were a product of NASA, systems engineering at large, a bureaucratic institution, and our own societal norms.

It's likely that others who went through similar training and operated in a similar environment would have made the same decision. But even if the bad call was due to a few bad apples that inserted themselves into the decision making process, we should ask how we allowed them to get there.

Punishing an individual may or may not be warranted in this case, I suspect that the guilt they must live with is punishment enough. However, what's clear is that punishment won't be enough to prevent similar problems from arising again.
Does anyone know how ripgrep's pcre support compares to python/Perl/awk/sed for speed? I noticed it can do substitutions, so I'm curious.
The tool wasn't even created by the author - it's just windirstat (https://windirstat.net/).

This is cool and all, but unless I'm missing something I don't think there would have been that much work that had to be done to make this happen. I don't really think this is the kind of thing kickstarter should be used for, at the very least it should be reframed to say: "with the money made from this kickstarter, I will work on these future projects, as well as releasing this thing I've already done."

This is effectively just selling an already finished product, but abusing the mindshare that kickstarter has even though it's not really intended for this case.

Also... if the data is available freely already in a machine readable format somewhere (is it?), the script to transcribe that to the filesystem would probably only be a weekend project for a reasonable dev.
FYI, if the author or someone else would like to port it to Mac, GrandPerspective is a great tool that I use all the time and displays WinDirStat-like trees.
You don't have to offer alternatives but it does improve the piece. No one said it had to be one-size-fits-all, there's plenty of room for nuance.
I'm sure there are better ways to do this, but if you really want Python client code -> WASM -> Python host, I'd imagine you could probably run https://github.com/iodide-project/pyodide within Wasmer. But you'd likely lose a lot of the performance benefits of numpy etc. being compiled for the exact intrinsics supported by your host CPU. Container-level sandboxing still sounds like a superior bet.
What a load of horse shit. This guy became propoganda arm of the chinese communist party.
Great, and instead you get to go through a redirect which tracks the same information but is slower.
Yeah, not sure why they accepted that edit. Tailgating is something entirely different.
Well let's think it through. It would seemingly have to follow the Disruptive Technology arc. That means it would start off as a crappy computer that had really great information leakage control. And it would be marketed to a small but enthusiastic market who really values that, and doesn't mind that most everything else is a PITA.

Who might that market be?
I actually love it when I see this on Amazon, as it tells me that I can just go on Alibaba/Aliexpress and order the same thing from there for a fraction of the price.
Gmail's memory usage seems to unreasonably balloon with time on Firefox for me. I wonder if it's intentional...
Do you know if these phones will be exported to the US or just for domestic consumption in India?

Also how "complicated" is the manufacturing? Is it just lsat-mile assembling of all pre-made components shipped in from the US, China, Germany, et al. or the same technical processes and complexity that goes on in one of these Chinese plants that pump out the iPhone X, XS and XS Maxes?
I do wish mastodon had the concept of groups so I could join all the groups I'm interested in rather than having to sign up for an account on each one.
> That's the stage where a lot of problems get introduced

At enterprise scale it comes down to how well the consulting team can understand and worm their way into the business processes. They need an inside ally who can enable the consultants to navigate the silos, and not just some internal PHB barking orders.

Every enterprise org chart has a different flavor of dysfunction.
Amazon should at the least stop unverified reviews.
Indeed it made me chuckle.Like hey that's a good use for that tool.
I have a gym in my garage that folds up into the wall. I use summon to pull the car out of garage before a workout and pull it back in when done. It’s a small thing but something I do every night. The convenience is just a really great nice to have.
This looks great, I like the simple examples which show how to get a string out from the web assembly module.
One thing I didn't see in the readme or examples, however, is a way to import python functions to the web assembly modules. Is it possible, and just missing from the documentation atm?
> a 64 GB iPhone X is currently selling for around 1100 dollars.

That isn't right. The iPhone X costs (just under) 1,00,000 INR retail in India, which is over 1400 usd.

This includes taxes.

For reference: https://www.flipkart.com/mobiles/apple~brand/pr?sid=tyy,4io&
I do, to some extent agree.

I think the idea is that privacy != anonymity. Signal provides the former, but not the latter.

It's tough. I think that usernames could become messy, but I also think it'd be amazing to anonymously tip a news reporter via Signal, but at the same time the latter would not be as safe as Tor etc.
The author goes over that here:

https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/
one of the team at my company is using Perl, not sure which version they are using.
You can make some extremely delicious meals with lentils, especially yellow and red split lentils, given the right spices, which are also pretty cheap.
I have no FB cookies, and trying to open it in a private window redirects to a login. I suspect you might be logged out but have a cookie that's good enough for Facebook to track that you're watching the video.
> Under competition, acting like this is the best way to raise to the top

Do you have evidence for that, or is it your guess?

The study I am aware of on the subject concluded the best strategy in a competitive environment is to act fairly and assume fair play on everyone's behalf, but if someone crosses you, respond with all out force.

I think it's called "Generous Tit-for-tat". I don't think "be shitty when you have something to gain" is recognized as a good strategy in Game Theory.
> including letting them suffer the consequences of bad choices.

The people voting NIMBY don't suffer any consequences though. VCs and big tech companies are happy to throw money away on higher salaries. Prop 13 keeps property taxes low for existing homeowners. The only people who actually suffer are those forced into homelessness and (to a lesser extent) those paying ever-higher rents for aging housing.
I think cars should “tug” on each other (communicating to eachother over RF somehow) and also act as a cushion (braking).

When an intersection light turns green - all cars should begin rolling together. Waiting for cars in front of you in succession is burning time.
Strong government management of the economy was the foundation for the success of Japan, South Korea, and Singapore in the mid 20th century (as an example). So absolutely people do it.
"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" and "people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" we've got a pretty long history of having a higher expectation of the person/organisation doing the criticism and this is no exception.

As for the actual criticism I'd agree with the blog, the fact that phones come with an advertiser ID at all is a sad sign of the state of our industry.
> Anti-virus software makes process and file operations a lot slower.

It was a long time ago (~2006), and I honestly can't remember, but I feel like turning off anti-virus (and also backups, software updaters, and any other resident software) would have been one of the first things I would have checked. There was definitely something more fundamental going on.
That sounds like a reasonable approach! Thanks for the note.

To be honest, we use LESS fairly simply for the things it provides like variables, mixins, and nested selector syntax. We otherwise haven't had a need to make our stylesheets much more sophisticated. So when project planning came around, we didn't ideate much on LESS-based approaches, and I bet we could have and found an ergonomic approach there.
It saddens me that we're collectively going to spend a lot of effort trying to patch out a problem that we've imposed upon ourselves. We were making such great progress in terms of processing speed until someone came along and decided that we need to have multiple tenants share the same hardware, and they should have no way of knowing anything about each other. The vast majority of consumer hardware will _never_[0] be exposed to this category of attack, but will pay the performance penalty regardless.

Fundamentally, the need is for a completely different model of computation to abstract away time-channel leaks. This cannot be fixed by patching existing software and hardware, and we're going to go through a lot of pain and anguish trying. As another comment points out, the well of possible timing attacks is infinitely deep (attached hardware, network performance measurements, etc.).

The two options are performance or security, pick one. It seems the industry is trying to pick both, and it's going to take us a long time to realize that we're going to get neither.

For clarity - my proposal is segmenting hardware and software products between the two categories of "general purpose, trusted computing" and "safe for shared hosting." The 2nd category is so small compared to the first, it seems unfair that its domain-specific problems should hamper the rest of us.

[0] Thanks to a combination of reasonable software mitigations (unprivileged lower-resolution timers) and that most of these attacks require arbitrary code execution in the first place
The Sneik Family of Lightweight Cryptographic Algorithms
A predictable near-zero cold-start would be amazing for most applications. Currently in the most extreme cases we've seen 20 second cold starts sometimes which just makes it seem like it's not ready for production.
Sure. Even if the dreaded GDPR requirements actually mean "respect your viewer's privacy", and might benefit locals too...