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I recently got a Nokia 6 as a secondary phone for running/ the gym.

It was 180 Euros, comes with a 1.4Ghz ocatcore, 3GB ram, 32GB storage (+ option for 128 GB SSD) and a decent GPU. This is a cheap phone that can run beautiful 3D games surprisingly well.

(I honestly don't know why I would need anything more powerful, only the somewhat weak camera is a drawback)

Most applications are not high res video editing, they are note taking, todo/task management, document editing, small group chats, ...

A lot of those could be implemented via local compute and federation perfectly well, with the help of some cloud storage and online instances for easy sharing/coordination/discovery. Especially if implemented in memory and CPU efficient (and therefore battery preserving) languages like Rust/C++.

We would just need to change our approach to application design and implementation.
You design something, you build it, by the time all of that is done you are not using the most recent hardware. This is not a problem only for VR headsets, a year is nothing, look at what you get with playstation or xbox.
It's interesting how we got downvoted for simply stating our experience. And I don't work for Google. So much negativity around such an economical service, almost seems fishy.
Unfortunately I disagree with basically everything you’re saying.

AutoPilot is perfectly safe if you look out the damn window while it’s operating. There are some disputed statistics saying that it is in fact safer on than off, even over the same type of miles. AutoPilot has in fact been safely operated for over a billion miles in the real world.

Drivers need to look out the window. It is not in any way difficult to maintain situational awareness while operating under AutoPilot for extended periods of time. In fact I find it easier to stay alert for longer periods of driving — that is, longer drives are less tiring — when using AutoPilot. It is in no way akin to “watching paint dry”.

The claim has been made that Level 2 autonomy is dangerous because of the ability for the driver to become distracted. This is actually true of all modes of driving, and relevant from Level 0 through Level 4 autonomy. Smartphones are often cited as the reason why driving death rate stopped falling for the last several years. Meaning distracted driving has killed thousands of drivers in that time. Distracted driving has also killed 3 people while AutoPilot was engaged. This is tragic, but it is wholly the drivers’ fault.

Using AutoPilot for about 5 minutes will disabuse you of the notion that you don’t have to pay attention. Anyone who has used it will testify that there is no question the driver needs to monitor it. The name of the feature, or Elon’s fantastical claims of future capabilities, is basically only perturbing to those who haven’t actually used the feature.

However, I think it is reasonable to question whether Tesla AutoPilot presents simply too great a temptation to willfully abuse the system. That is, to check your cellphone or watch a movie or otherwise take your eyes off the road. Not because it is hard or too difficult to remain focused, not because the driver believes they don’t need to be looking out the window, but because while the driver knows they should watch the road, they decide to cheat anyway. Unfortunately the same thing happens in Level 0 vehicles, which tragic results, all the time.

It’s reasonable to question how much cars should be monitoring the attention/gaze of the driver and alerting, chastising, or otherwise forcing the driver to re-engage. But any such discussion would be superficially anti-Tesla if it were to disregard the universal nature of the problem of distracted driving.

Mandatory driver attention monitoring systems, in all cars from Level 0 to Level 4 autonomy, would likely save over a thousand lives a year in the US alone. It might even save 1 life a year in a Tesla.

Your false equivalence with Boeing is egregious. Pilots stuggling to maintain control over a fatally flawed plane is not even on the same league as a distracted driver watching a movie while their car hurtles down the highway into the side of a big rig. The pilots of the 737 were in no way negligent or distracted whatsoever. They were actively subverted by a malfunctioning airframe intent on flying them into the ground, god rest their souls.
They got away from that idiocy once they starved 10mil+ people to death. Money was there and barter(vodka as premium item that could get you anything, like seeing good doctor, getting car fixed, getting caviar). Also those stores also sold from the back to their friends
Just had a thread yesterday where people raged at the very idea companies and organizations still use poor hashing algos.

Here we have google storing in plaintext by accident.
I did some research. Huawei's ownership system is so radical that probably no one in the West and few in China realized what it is. It is collective ownership in the socialist sense, or a commune. The paradox of this kind of ownership system is that the company is simultaneously owned by everyone and no one in particular, meaning all revenues and profits go back to all employees and reinvestment and no outside investors and financial capitals get anything, while nobody in particular can say I'll quit and take my share of the company - there is no 'private property' in the company.

Legally the ownership of the company is set up to be 1% for Ren Zhengfei and 99% for a owner's committee under a legally sanctioned trade union. It's a strange setup because trade unions in China are lame ducks and usually don't do anything, but Huawei's ownership is set up this way so that the trade union 'owns' 99% of the company to represent the collective ownership, which is not what trade unions were legally intended for.

It's Socialism in One Company, the leadership does not own anything but has the power to decide how to use everything, and it exploits its employee like the SU and China did in their early stage. This is unfathomable to the West so the only conclusion by the media could be opaque and government-owned.
The two main issues for me are failure rates and key travel. My fingers literally hurt when I use it. The 2012-2015 form was probably less beautiful to look at (and slightly thicker), but it was much better to type with.
I see this time and time again on Hacker News, and really don't understand why people seem to think that "pro" in any way equates to "developer" or to "someone who needs a lot of computing horsepower".

"Pro" means professional. The vast majority of working professionals, in the vast majority of professional fields, run Office, a mail client, a browser, and maybe a line-of-business app. Professionals regularly attend meetings, and like to be able to carry their laptop around without breaking their backs.

The needs of professionals are generally largely in line with the needs of the average consumer.

You can come up with 'professional' jobs that need more horsepower (people like traders who want to run 6 monitors, and software devs (although personally I don't understand why software devs really need more horsepower)) but those are most definitely the exception.
Fair enough. I was extending your argument to the National level, as this same issue is playing out with slight variations in many of the major metro areas in the US. I’m on the East Coast, so I’m not familiar with the particulars of the local government structures in California and how that effects who and how those decisions get made. So, I withdraw my specific criticisms here.

On the national scale, my issue with “let the chips fall where they will” is because of how I’ve seen this issue play out in some of the places I’ve live here in the North-East. People in the position to demand that their wages match the cost of living do so, but those who work the kind of jobs that afford no barging power (office cleaning crews for example) can’t. This exacerbates the income divide, as the people who have/make more money are the ones in the positions to demand the largest increases to account for the local cost-of-living.

If the job pool starts to dry up, local businesses start busing people in and/or push local governments to subsidize public transportation. People need jobs, the jobs are in the city, so you end up with an entire economic class taking hour long bus/car trips to and from work every day. Nobody with means ever ends up inconvenienced.

You then end up with an entire economic class who doesn’t get compensated for the time spent commuting, incurs other associated expenses and complications (miss the bus and you don’t get paid), and ends up segregated to lower-cost-of-living areas outside the metro, which always see less funding for schools, parks, hospitals, public works, etc.
AFAIK, If your battery is in the service battery condition (generally, less than 80% health), then you'll get the $199 price, otherwise you have to pay for the top case. It's the same repair either way but they charge for it differently.
People die all the time, but when they get in the car, they generally do not agree to be beta testers for an FSD system that one day might be as safe as human driver. Or not.
MIT professor is accused of claiming others’ scientific discoveries as his own
I noticed that the word "battery" doesn't appear anywhere in this post. Isn't conserving battery power one reason why we delegate so much to central services?

That said, I think the wireless routers that a lot of us have in our homes could play an important role in this kind of decentralized Internet. They'd need to have more computing power than many wireless routers do, but that's OK because they're already plugged into the wall all the time.
> Of course it comes with plenty of western/foreign capitalist sabotage conspiracies thrown in to justify why their grand economic experiment didn't work.

An economy cannot work without foreign trade, being blocked from that by a major player essentially does that.

If you look at communist countries that are small enough to be self-sufficient, it tells a different story. Take Cuba, it is blocked from trade with the US and a fair chunk of other countries, however, Cuba is self-sufficient enough that it has not only survived but it has flourished, with a ridiculously high literacy rate, and a universal public health system that puts much of the world to shame.

I have but two observations left to make.

1. If the communist system was inherently a fail-state, then the US would have to do nothing but sit back and wait until it collapses. Instead of that they try relentlessly to sabotage any form of it. They tried, for example, over 600 times to assasinate the leader of Cuba. It's a real shame because it forces the communist parties to be anti-free-press, and anti-free-speech because of the risk of foreign countries abusing that to seed a revolution (Indeed, it was admitted on record that the only reason the CIA hasn't done that in Cuba is because it lacks resources, and Cuba doesn't allow full internet access (as I understand it)).

2. It took over 800 years to establish a stable republic. That doesn't mean that it could not be done, or that the republic was an inherently broken system, but it took a number of 'failures' to make a success, and the right political and societal advancements to be made.
> I live in Washington, DC, actually...

Yes, SF was just a euphemism for "rich people city", oh great now you made me say it!

> I'm also not sure that current smartphones are actually what you would want to use for such a vision. They're convenient because lots of people have them, but they're not purpose-built for the kind of work that I'm discussing here.

Smartphone technology has already created lots of nice side-effects like the super cheap single board computer craze... I honestly think this is currently the closest device that is of a practical cost and performance for almost "everyone" as a personal server.

But the main issue with all these decentralised ideas is not really if your personal server is fast enough, but whether it has enough pipe (this is still a problem even in a mesh network). Dare something be slightly popular (especially video), your personal pipe will never be large enough, this is where centralisation rules unless P2P serving technology is pushed more (there are already some nice working examples out there for video and even entire static sites).
> it's not buck-passing if you define 'simulation' in a falsifiable way.

Okay, then define simulation in a falsifiable way, and we'll talk. The truth of the matter is, no one has defined this in a falsifiable way, so your statement is like saying 'religion is not buck-passing if you define God in a falsifiable way'. Without this falsifiable way you claim, it requires a belief in the transcendent.
What’s the name of the book discussed in the article. I skimmed but didn’t find the name.
My own, inexpert answer would be "it's not 'communist', except insofar as 'communist' is defined to mean 'what China does'," and my own thinking is that today it maps more to an ethnonationalist--though this isn't a perfect description as many groups are accepted, but at the same time one can see see the routine oppression of Tibetans, Uighurs, etc.--totalitarian state with a largely centrally-controlled economy. That doesn't map to any historical definition of 'communist' that I know of, but reasonable minds can differ.

We've seen other centrally controlled ethno-nationalist governments in the past, particularly in the early to mid 20th century. The confusion we have in 2019 is that we label those historical examples as "right-wing." This is actually quite strange, since these historical examples had highly centrally controlled societies and economies. The government set prices, determined working conditions, and dictated who sold to whom. Centralized control extended to all aspects of society and culture. Those are hallmarks of far left and communist governments. As in present day China, human rights were nullified, and certain ethnic groups were vigorously oppressed. As in present day China, industry "worked closely with" the government, and while wealthy oligarchs were created, they were very much subject to the whims of the government. There was also very close control of the media and information access by the public.

The only real categorical differences I see amount to stated ideology, and thus lip service: Is ethnicity important, or is class important? I think that's 1) only relevant to how the ideology is propagandized and sold and 2) only orthogonal to the left-right axis. It might also have an affect on whether and how obviously rich oligarchs are allowed to exist. (Can't contradict the party narratives, too much.)

I think the "right wing" label being applied to such totalitarian governments with centrally controlled economies and many left-wing characteristics is itself a propaganda maneuver of convenience. It's really the degree of authoritarian control which is most important in 2019.
I have the wireless Mac keyboard and I agree about the arrows. I’ve had this keyboard for years and I’m still not used to that arrow placement.
According to the Chief Architect of BT, Huawei's 5G technology is so far ahead of Nokia and Ericsson they are not even contenders:

https://www.lightreading.com/mobile/5g/bts-mcrae-huawei-is-t...

For Europeans, they have to balance the possibility of Chinese espionage against the certainty that the US and UK are already doing it:

* https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/02/wikileaks-us-s...

* https://theintercept.com/2014/12/13/belgacom-hack-gchq-insid...

In that light, Huawei equipment that the Chinese government tries to make as immune to the 5 Eyes as possible may actually be preferable.

Granted, neither Nokia nor Ericsson are US companies or subject to direct US pressure the way, say, Lucent would have been, or Cisco is, but the US has suborned equipment makers in neutral countries before, as with Crypto AG:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33676028
I will say that although most of the proprietary software that I use is closed source, one major provider has so little documentation that they're pretty much forced by customers to provide source and that is super nice. I can actually call up a dev, tell them where the problem is located, and how to fix it. This saves a lot of money in bug patching.
Year round fair weather means that roads last longer without maintenance and perform better. If there were frost heaves and common storms to worry about then road maintenance would be a bigger issue, but as it is the condition of the roads matters less and so it gets less attention. The statistics are also skewed by extreme outliers like Oakland which have an unusually large number of unusually broad streets which naturally leads to an unusually large maintenance problem. Any rational person could see that, but road maintenance is not something most Americans relate to rationally.
Ok, but that doesn't mean that programming was pink collar, or generally associated with women at that point.
Many services will happily send an SMS account recovery/reset link regardless of how vehemently we refuse to use SMS-based two-factor auth.

An attacker can call support, give them plausibly correct information gleaned from public sources, and nicely claim to have forgotten the answers to your recovery questions ("Oh, it might have been a jumble of letters and numbers... silly me..."). There are enough incorrectly trained support people who will let this through to make the tactic effective on average.

Your point is obviously correct, but everything is so hopelessly broken that it almost doesn't matter in practice.
Of course it is naive - his business is built around it. OpenSourcing takes a lot of revenue away from him. Compensating that with support contracts and cloud services won't be easy.

Not to mention the fact that probably he doesn't own all rights for doing that. Software with such a history often contains third party licensed modules.
Seems like 2FA in this case is significantly weaker than 1FA if you have a long password. I suppose it depends on if it is easier to answer the security questions or to convince a customer support rep, but my security questions are pretty obscure and I have a security question salt that I always append to the answer.
A few years back, I had a job which required me to write up science-sounding short articles to support my employer's prescription-only supplements. I have a background in biochemistry, and an absurd desire to do a job the Right Way, so of course I looked at a lot of research before writing those articles. Some of what I wrote up was just essentially copy / social media nonsense, but some of it was also handouts for doctors and talking points for our reps.

It's been a few years, but I remember 1) hating the whole freaking industry, with it's unwillingness to fund good research, inability to conduct good research, and willingness to adopt bad research as gospel, and 2) thinking there could actually be something interesting to DHA.

So every now and then I consider doing fishoil supplements. But then I remember
how absurdly unregulated OTC supplements are, and think about the issues with commercial fishing, and that's that.
Thanks to your post! I think they are good enough to test my data analysis job.
What? If somebody launches a nuclear ICBM, I don't care where it's heading, I want it downed ASAP, preferably right next to where it launched.

An ICBM also likely isn't going to be above my territory when the propellant drops. After that the tiny missile heads are going to be very hard to hit. That's why you need these laser systems in space (the "Star Wars" program) so you can hit them right after launch.

Lastly, the risk of "dropping radioactive waste" is far lower than the risk of having a nuclear warhead detonate at its target destination.
Increase your risk level by using the latest technology (alpha products) but ones with some backing from big companies. This way you might have a chance to offer interesting work.
So I come from the weird world of Thinkpad point-stick users so take my ergo desires with a grain of salt if you hate that thing. I don't like having to use a buttonless touchpad to begin with and while the MBP touchpad is the best I've ever used I loved it on my 2015 and despise how large it is on the 2016 I've got now. I do EVERYTHING I can to not use this laptop as a laptop. It's keyboard and touchpad experience are just awful, well, the keyboards awful, the touchpad size is just an annoyance.

When I sit with the laptop on my lap, like on the couch, I find that I'm constantly adjusting things to not touch it. Whether it's my jacket or a blanket or my phone cable or my own hand. I just constantly trigger it and I'm sure I have it on the lowest sensitivity with palm rejection. I'm pretty sure even when I'm on a desk I'm constantly adjusting where my arms are because it's getting triggered (or I just feel like I have to pay attention to it).

FWIW, I dislike every single Apple keyboard, mouse and touchpad ever created and refuse to use them to the point that I bring my own kb/mouse to work because every job hands me those. I have tried them, at times, for months.
I just think it's easier to call China a totalitarian capitalist state, without torturing other labels to make them fit.

I think calling them capitalist doesn't involve much less "torturing labels" than calling them communist.
EDIT: I misread the punchline of the joke. Ignore this.

That's amusing, but at the same time it is horrifically anti-semitic. Especially given what the Jewish people went through in the years leading up the the Russian Revolution (One toddler was torn apart by a fascist mob, in another town a number of months later Jewish people were forced into a church and then the church and people burned alive).
Lenovo stole a fan's video to promote the foldable Motorola RAZR
> But in the end, looking at statistics, it's still safer to drive with AP indeed.

There's no publicly shared statistics that show that. You may have been confused by Tesla's PR.
What if I just want my browser to be a browser?
I'd say our main hope at the moment is the Librem 5 https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
Just walk away from the Mac.

Windows is perfectly viable for doing development, so is Linux. You can easily get a laptop that is cheaper and more reliable than a Macbook. About the only thing you'll be missing is a cool Apple sticker, but you can get those on eBay. Your wallet will thank you, and so will your fingers.

A Macbook was a reasonable, even logical choice in 2012. Now, not so much.

Apple can have me back if they want -- hey, take my money! -- but they have to stop fucking up. I don't know why the Apple board isn't simply pounding the hell out of the management that's been allowing the poor quality and user-hostile decisions of the past several years.

[Hmmm, I just looked at their board members. That would explain a lot...]
Keeping all those radios powered on and transmitting/receiving for mesh network servicing/upkeep is going to burn through battery pretty quick :(
I agree. It's also why I can't understand people who root against Theranos. I, for one, am on the side of health.
That's because it is genuine. Take it from a Canadian who has had to wait many months multiple times for MRIs. Right now I have a tear in my hip joint that needs an MRI, been waiting since November, still nothing. Meanwhile I'm yelping in pain when I try to stand up from sitting down.

Here's a Canadian woman with cancer that went undiagnosed for 2 years because she couldn't access a family doctor: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/health-care-plea-...

Note that she also tried to get access to mental health services to cope, in January, and has to wait until the summer.

Health care access is one of the major issues in Canada right now.
The Galaxy S10’s ultrasonic fingerprint reader is amazing
Well a good therapist also gives you tools to help you manage and cope.
When you weigh this against all the harm organized religion does, I am not sure this argument holds much water. Humans will be fine. We don’t need dodgy 2000 year old books to hold society together.