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I get that I'm being hard on Apple. And I understand that there's no way to guarantee third-party apps.

But I still maintain that they should have explicitly warned users that installing third-party apps would put their privacy at risk. The situation with Android is undoubtedly far worse. But Google doesn't (at least, not plausibly) claim to be privacy-friendly.

I mean, consider what lengths Apple has gone to to keep customers from rooting their phones. Back in the day, they were bricking them. And they justified it all for security against malicious apps.
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you don't know what you're talking about at all. Every single point is incorrect.
What do you mean, "it was fun seeing what Apple came up with in its attempt to build the most powerful Mac ever..."?

Giving them way too much credit. Intel and AMD and a bunch of other creators came up with this Mac Pro. And Apple reduced the value of those inventions. Any hobbyist can put together an equally powerful computer for way cheaper that runs OSX. Even a rich studio with money to blow would save money, increase performance, and create jobs if they just employed a hobbyist to build them Hackintosh computers. Put those contractors under NDA - simple. If you're going to let Apple strong arm you into paying obscene amounts of money for things worth less, then you're entering an abusive relationship of which you are a part.
How much longer before they turn on the webcams on the tablets they'll be giving drivers (I assume this is how it'll work) to ensure that users are actually watching the ads?
If I were taking such measures, I would just park near a coffee shop and use their wifi, using hardware I paid cash for and periodically changing my MAC address.

VPS providers can log connections and you won't really know how long they retain the data until it matters.
The question becomes, are companies that are successful due to network effects worthy of anti-trust probes? Network effects will always lead to monopolies since the incentive for someone to switch to a new service must have an increasingly larger value proposition over the incumbent.
It's not silence, its audible disbelieve, some are even laughing I think.

Even the speaker noticable hesitates afterwards due to the audience reaction.
> Apple is going to leverage its monopoly position as app provider on the iPhone to force developers...to use Sign In With Apple.

So, is Ben making the argument that the above is illegal? I don't see any difference to Apple "requiring" developers to use a new framework.

He later says that even Android developers will be required to offer Sign In with Apple... but I don't see how that is possibly the case.
> Why can't I have fast, low instruction cost communication between any two CPUs, regardless of which core it's on?

Fizzics, specifically a mixture of C and some electrical crap about signal propagation which I don't unnerstand. Einstein, he say no.

> The RISC revolution was in part

true I suppose. Even dumber things were reputed to have been done in the design of the SPARC chips.

> Is it really worth sacrificing an entire cache line to do it?

First show me where this is mentioned in the doc. Second, yeah, why not. If you can pass 512 bits of info between threads in a few cycles, sounds ok to me. If you want another mechanism, be prepared to pay for it. Memory has been around for ages, it's well understood, and bloody fast. It'd be stupid not to use it.

Look, you can't just have stuff cos you want it. You've given no reason for needing it, or that you understand the tradeoffs at the hardware level, or any appreciation of the blinding speed of current chips. How would faster XYZ improve your life?

Go and read <https://www.amazon.co.uk/Computer-Architecture-Quantitative-... then maybe you'll understand your plaint is falling on uninterested ears (mine anyway). Suggest something constructive based on the realities of hardware then I'll talk.
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Web page link:

* https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2019-01-2019-03.h...
* https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/status.html

The News page has an RSS feed if anyone wants to keep up with major announcements:

* https://www.freebsd.org/news/newsflash.html
Unrelated, but it never occurred to me that cockroachdb and gimp were made by the same persons ! Kudos ! (If I'm not mistaken)
and so that HN'ers could heap scorn upon it while claiming that they could bang something out like this in a weekend.

In this case though, I'd believe them.
I think Microsoft of 2019 looks a lot more like Amazon of 2006?

Specifically, recognizing that for large, mature businesses, growth has to be driven by new product types that customers are demanding.

And that at that scale nothing starts off "big", but by observing metrics, demand, and properly incubating and then funding launches of internal projects, small popular services can indeed become huge revenue drivers.
The same. Apparently that whole affair hasn't taught them anything.
Didn't Apple prove to the FBI in court that they literally cannot access a users iCloud data without their password?

Obviously that still isn't as trustworthy as open source tools you can verify yourself, but it's a far cry better than any privacy guarantee you're getting from Google.
We really have to push for new technologies and be ok with subsidizing them in order to help mass adoption and lower prices. Only a few people really think we should stop doing X or Y (even if they are really vocal). Instead of feeling bad, let us find a better solution that actually makes life even more worthwile. Why not aim for making travelling cheaper and even more available, while at the same time make it environmental friendly, quiter, better? See, I am a private pilot for example. And I HATE those combustion engines we still use on our Cessnas. So outdated, loud and they are quite unreliable. I would totally LOVE the day when I can do a 500k trip with the family using electric technology, as most probably this will be a lot safer to use, it will be quiter and a lot cheaper to fuek (good news: it looks like fouseater planes with good range will become a reality soon).Or thin about cruiseships: why not find a way to use hydrogen (which could be a side product of using renewable energies). Or go back to big sailships again. I do not know about you, but to me, a sustainable future simply looks and feels amazing. We have to change things, but if done right, we don't really have to stop things.
I disagree with the other responses. I think it's both. You can get very quick results and feedback for experiments related to implementation. Code compiles or doesn't, tests pass or they fail. But whether you actually built the correct thing is definitely "wicked." A lot of times subtle bugs and user feedback surface weeks or months after the fact. It can be very hard to find out whether what you did worked for the business need, which is ultimately the main point of the job.
You assume the unmotivated and lazy are a small fraction of any demographic. I have an unqualified feeling that it is a big portion, and that it is growing. I hear too many references to netflix tv shows, and a lack of conversations that spark my curiosity. I hear of people not sleeping to catch the latest episodes that aired in another country first.
Interestingly, many of the student leaders are listed as highly wanted fugitives by the PRC to this day. At least one (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu%27erkaixi ) has tried to turn himself in for trial, multiple times, in places as diverse as Macau, HK, and various embassies throughout the world, but he's been refused each time and deported to definitely-part-of-China Taiwan.
A nice story of how a young boy's enthusiasm and unhindered spirit got in the right place at the right time. I feel happy for him and his family to stumble upon this path in life - and then smashing it an building his own gold road! Alas, I also feel sad at the same time, for myself not having that opportunity and having wasted my programming skills all together after I went to university,due to outside pressures and chasing my own dick, so to say.
Just your usual "all shares are equal but some shares are more equal than others" dual stock structure that is in vogue these days: Google, Zynga (ahem) and a number of other companies have them.

It still boggles the mind that the investors place such a small premium on the right to vote.

I am trying to see how one could defend this type of structure.

It is the ultimate "having your cake and eating it" deal for the founder.

MZ could build a giant money hole with FB money in Antarctica and there is nothing shareholders could do.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
That is definitely not an option for the vast, vast majority of people in the US. Doesn't matter how much money you offer, good luck digging up Pacific Street to lay a fiber cable directly from a data center to your mansion on billionaire row.
There's a very straight forward reason why this will never happen: the nuclear chain reaction is a hoax.
Well it's either $999 or meant to be $99.
The rewards could be huge if payments via messaging apps takes off in the west. It's really too bad WhatsApp sold to Facebook of all places.

We could have a privacy-oriented chat platform with a cryptocurrency "small cash" type of transaction system built on top. Combined with some informal craigslist style mini-stores, which flourished in China via Wechat.

I'm sure FB/WhatsApp could do it via normal payment channels, probably involving Visa/Mastercard. But the privacy story is awful for such a critical piece of software. Assuming they could pull it off. Maybe Kik could take up the privacy flag?

WSJ made a nice video of how Chinese people live "cashless" via WeChat in Shenzen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75AXINUL47g
> Mozilla is very up-front about exactly what telemetry data they're collecting and what it's used for,

I consider myself relatively technically inclined. When I started using Firefox, I absolutely did not know about

- Normandy as an RCE engine to install arbitrary extensions and customize random settings

- Google Location Services as the location backend

- Which about:config settings I need to change for a reasonable expectation of privacy
Could it be that the new price tag of $6000 of the mac pro is a correction for the inflation Apple witnesses after 10 years of quantitative easing?

https://editorial.azureedge.net/miscelaneous/chart1-63651777...
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Except if they're well-heeled American dropouts at an elite school. Then the world is their oyster.
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Except Apple went to court and proved that they can't hand over this data even if they want to. US law allows law enforcement with a warrant to require Apple to hand over any data they have, but Apple isn't required to help them crack the users password so they can decrypt it.
don't worry, green texts keeps people snobby even if they don't know what it means.
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I haven't read the mechanics of this fully yet, but the first obvious scenario I can foresee:

1. Customer signs up for service on iPhone with "Sign in With Apple".

2. Customer sells iPhone.

3. Customer buys Android phone.

How does customer sign in and keep their same account on the new phone? For sure there might be other mitigation strategies (a web UI that allows account migration etc), but this decision absolutely has ramifications beyond just iOS users of apps using third party signin.

Same is true of customers with devices in both ecosystems - Android phone and an iPad tablet, for example. If customer signs up on the iPad with "Sign in With Apple", how do they log in on the Android phone that only has the other third party login integrations?

People are going to have to think this through, and Apple forcing it on all Apps using third party signin means they are going to have to think it through soon.
Ask HN: Moving to SF. Which offer should I take?
I'm fortunate enough to have a few job offers, all at the same level and relative same comp (base + stock).

Some of these companies are public which makes the comp more liquid and some are not.

The offers I have are from Instacart, Flexport, Square, and Uber. How would you rank them?
Have you ever hiked the AT? Or certain sections of the PCT? The trail is cut 2-3 feet into the ground in some places. To stake out a tent, you have to drive stakes into fragile alpine soil, which then runs off down the mountain the next time it rains. Leaving no trace is easier said than done.
Does the website for a typeface really need to break the back button on my browser?
"For cardio you can go to any park for running or biking"

Running in a public park is a beautiful combination of boring, painful and embarrassing. Gym provides a structure. It is a place I go to exercise and everyone is there for the same reason. I hate it with a fiery passion, but so do many other people. It is just like going to physical therapy after a trauma, it hurts like hell, but if you don't do it you will be worse off in the long run.
Pray do tell how would you oust MZ legally?

He owns less than 50% of the company but he controls more than 50% of the voting shares.

Let's say FB starts losing money or spending it on really useless stuff, sure the secondary stock price could tank, but that might not matter to MZ at some point.
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Even if we could force a stop there's no telling if it wouldn't be counterproductive in the sense that to some degree it is difficult to predict how interfering with complex systems tends to pans out. People use vacations as a means to blow off steam and it only requires a fair bit of imagination to see what could possibly go wrong when people suddenly aint allowed to handle their stress the way they know of anymore.
I think this is a poor take. Since Bork, anti-trust regulation has been an afterthought in Washington. The fact that DOJ, the same agency that bloodied Microsoft, is looking in another big tech company is very big news. DOJ lawyers aren't dumb, digging into BigTech will bring a lot of bodies to the surface and the culture of anti-trust regulation will change, eventually BigTeleco and BigAg will be next.
<Remember Bitcoin came out in 2009>

Patrick Gibbs:

> First of all, you have to consider the SEC’s normal process for that sort of thing. It is very difficult and it takes a very, very, very long time for the SEC to give that kind of forward-looking advice, usually in the form of a no action letter. I mean, here we are in 2019 and they have only just recently released what I think is the very first no action letter relating to a cryptocurrency and that matter has been pending for well over a year.

> So it’s not practicable in a business that’s moving as quickly as this business was in 2016, 2017, to go and ask the SEC for a no action letter like that because the process just takes too long, and in a situation where in our view it’s quite clear that what we were doing is outside the scope of the SEC’s authority, we don’t generally think we have to go and ask the SEC’s permission to engage in business activity that is outside the scope of their authority.

https://unchainedpodcast.com/kin-sets-up-5-million-defendcry...
Not sure what you mean by "monetizing instagram". Instagram's ad revenue is already around $10B no? Plus they've added in-app shopping
May I propose an additional falsehood?

"Users won't want to turn search highlighting off."

Maybe it's just me, but this[1] seems distracting.

[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/pickle.html?highlight=pick...
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I'm genuinely curious about your assertion. Let's say I have an application for my business and I want to embedded a report on one of my pages from a separate application. This other application is a SaaS application, so I can't just "mount" it at mydomain/some-sub-path. How do I have secure reports without third-party cookies? Store cookie-like stateless tokens in my wrapping app and send them in the URL?
It's stressful enough trying to keep up with all the expectations society puts on new parents without the additional hassle of strangers on the Internet criticizing your parenting style because it doesn't agree with their preconceived notions of how you ought to raise your children. Let parents parent.
Good point. The number certainly struck me as a strange approximation!
The kernel is still quite slow at handling TCP/IP packets. Its the bane of my existence with KeyDB. I'm still experimenting with io_uring which should help a little bit but that was only released this year.
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Heh, we call it "Gristicky". I'm consistently shocked that anyone shops there. Expired food on shelves, wilted or moldy produce, long waits for slow checkout clerks, and prices that are easily 3x what comparable items cost at Trader Joe's.

Those grocery stores would easily be extinct with more meaningful competition. The only thing that keeps them in business is the "natural monopoly" caused by the fact that most Manhattanites don't have cars and aren't willing to travel very far for groceries.
But your failure analysis showed that the point of failure was not the dowel, or the glue, but the wood near the wood-glue interface. The wood failed at planes parallel to the glue plane, such that the glue was left holding on to little splinters. If the glue did not form a plane, whenever the wood cracked parallel to the glue, those cracks would be misaligned, such that they would not immediately lead to joint failure by forming a shear plane. But it still has to be close enough to a plane that you can make the join in the first place. Grooving or dimpling one of the surfaces would be like nailing the dowel to the hole from the inside of the dowel as the glue dries, or adding o-rings that prevent lateral movement to a piece that requires lateral movement for assembly. The glue spikes/rings would have to shear off, or the wood would have to crack from the outermost extent of the spikes/rings.

Weakening the dowel is okay, since it wasn't the dowel that failed. It's probably more important to rough up the inside of the hole anyway, since the failure photos mostly showed that the glue was still stuck to the dowels, and it was wood from the inside surface of the hole that broke away. And the end-grain in the rail somehow frustrated the cracks better than the grain in the post.
And yet I've had to deal with telecom companies placing incredibly low data caps, overcharging for bullshit reasons, throttling consumer bandwidth when visiting certain sites or using certain protocols and more.

If Facebook decided to ban me tomorrow for whatever reason, I still have access to the rest of the internet. If my ISP decided to charge another $100 a month to access the internet, there would be nothing I could do to fight it.

You'd have to make an argument that site access is a right, which throws out moderating a platform for abuse or spam entirely.
I'm remaking my CV in preparation for a possible shakeup after years in the same job and keep hemming and hawing about the word "generalist". So many people are "hummingbirds" (they come in touch with this and that flower and cross-pollinate) that call themselves generalists. I'm more of a "bites deep into whatever problem is thrown his way".

"Polymath" would be a better fit but it's a bit self-aggrandizing.
>http://stevenlow.org/the-fundamentals-of-bodyweight-strength...
Why do you think this will pierce the veil? I don’t know the rules around that.
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There this python tutorial for it, but you also need ffmpeg: https://pythonbasics.org/transcribe-audio/

Not sure if that helps you or not.
There are a few attempts, I have no idea how good they are. And they're manual transcription only.

There are several open source speech recognition systems (like Deepspeech and CMUSphinx) but there don't seem to be any user-friendly frontends for them.

http://gkarsay.github.io/parlatype/

https://github.com/juanerasmoe/pmTrans
I don't think things like the Northrop YB-35 had much in the way of computer control. Never heard about flying wing aircraft being intrinsically unstable. Maybe the designs you've heard about were (things like fighter jets are designed to be unstable)
You lost me at "the website for a typeface".
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Every July in the California Delta near Rio Vista I go to a weeklong festival called Ephemerisle, created 15 years ago to promote interest in seasteading.
It’s full of Burners, SV people, and seasteading investors hanging out on yachts, barges, tugboats, and lots of DIY crafts: DeLorean hovercraft, flame boat with 100kW sound system, etc.
I'm not directly accusing you of anything, but you sort of come across as a shill or extreme fanboy of TorGuard. How can you give them 5s across the board?

-Speed: During my testing with PIA and TorGuard, PIA was consistently 50% faster.

-App: The TorGuard app is lacking in features and poorly designed.

-Price: It's substantially more expensive than most providers.

-Reputation: They've had not too great a reputation for a while now

I do not believe that you are an objective party here.
Honestly, that sounds a lot less scammy than nearly every other ICO out there. Kik is an established company with a social network product used by millions. Given their market position, I think their idea isn't totally farfetched. I could be missing some aspects that indicate it is a total scam, but just from that paragraph alone (which is all I know about the topic), I could see warranted interest from investors.

Look at all the payment integrations that've been added to platforms like Facebook lately. It isn't cryptocurrency, but the idea seems to be pretty similar.