skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A fair point. Surely in the question of intellectual property, it is just as relevant here as it is there.
Please don't spread misinformation. It causes real damage.

Your statement is verifiable misinformation.

I am a customer who was actually experiencing unexpected shutdowns due to voltage spikes on a naturally degraded Li-Ion battery on my iPhone 6s. This is something that happens to all Li-Ion batteries. I had experienced this on my previous Android phones too when they got old.

The change Apple made was throttling the voltage from spiking to a point that it can shut down a degraded battery when your phone estimates that it has 50% charge left. Yes, this means older phones with degraded battery health (due to normal wear/tear) would run a bit slower. This is the right thing to do because otherwise it means customers would have phones shutting down unexpectedly when they needed them the most (e.g. calling an Uber, or some other critical function). It's a serious issue that absolutely needed addressing, and I'm glad Apple addressed it (and I hope other manufacturers do too).

The mistake Apple made was not communicating this change more widely or explaining in more detail from the start. But they did communicate it in the change notes of the original update they delivered. They weren't trying to intentionally hide it like you're trying to imply.
Link without paywall:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/will-chinas-tech-titans-be-heav...
The question I have is: Were these features accidentally turned on, or were they on "free trial"?

I drove a rental model s once, and it had the autopilot features turned on like navigate on autopilot, but there was a warning "Trial period ends in 23 days" or something like that.
Fasting has lots of well-documented benefits, but your claim sounds pseudoscientific. A water-fasting proponent would probably encourage us to drink water to "flush out toxins".

What toxins, exactly, are being "drawn out" here? And if it's true: is drawing lots of toxins out of fat cells into blood and surrounding tissue a good thing? I'd love to see some sources.
I found a source that came out afterwards and made the appropriate edit. I am surprised slashdot did not provide a redaction in the original link.
In Oregon bars that serve liquor have to serve food as well. Some of the regulations:

“Substantial food item” means food items prepared or cooked on the licensed premises and that are typically served as a main course or entrée. Some examples are: fish; steak; chicken; pasta; pizza; sandwiches; dinner salads; hot dogs; soup; and sausages. Side dishes, appetizer items, dessert items, and snack items such as popcorn, peanuts, chips, and crackers do not qualify as substantial food items.
VPN providers trade a local threat actor who is probably ignoring you for a foreign one who is probably watching and analyzing everything. Best advice on this thread was doing a VPN back to your home router.

Typically, you'd use one for default internet browsing on public wifi, with the expectation that your endpoint ends up on the list of a foreign intelligence agency who ostensibly doesn't care about you or what you are interested in.

The other best advice used to be, "don't be a terrorist," but these days, it's more, "don't be a political actor," given whatever you type will be found and used as leverage if you achieve any prominence. I'd posit that security tech is sufficient for business, but not for politics.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kompromat
The primary point of clawing your way to a CEO slot is power.

Once you are in that position:

1) You are going to exercize that power that you finally have.

2) You lose most negative feedback mechanisms as everybody now wants to gain your favor.

Consequently, you continue do things until you do the one that is a bridge too far and get burned.
I gotta agree to disagree with you on this.

Python/NodeJS/Java/Ruby/Go all have a solid presence in the "I need to spin up a REST/SOA/gRPC/glue service wherever" niche. They each have a range of performance, expression, resource optimality, and ecosystem tradeoffs; but they're all still heavyweights in this particular domain. They each have a presence in other "types" of programming but I think it's also fair to compare them within this one.

Go has a few things which make it especially nice in this field out of the box. Goroutines + channels + select help solve the same class of problems that made reactor patterns, work stealing fork-join pools, listenable/completable futures so popular in Java-land. Go's sockets give you epolling for free where we'd use Netty in Java land.

In fact, they each if those language ecosystems struggle with that class of problem in this field: Good kernel thread utilization in the presence of very mixed cpu + network I/O load. What's why they all have a handful of the same approaches: Ruby/Python/NodeJS all do the reverse proxy on top n processes of of libuv/gevent/whatever event loops (reactor pattern). Java and Go are actually similar in that they actually try to use threads well within a single process.

I say this as an obsessive Java fanboy. I'm jealous of a few Go things I can't have: Goroutines (green threads) and flatter struct+array memory allocations. I can't wait for Loom and Valhalla.
Do you have a link(s) that summarizes these points so devs that are ignorant of these needs can reference?
Its getting a bit off topic, but in the US at least its still fairly common for children to take care of their parents in their last years. Particularly if ones parents aren't well off enough to afford some kind of senior living arrangement. Despite what you might think of medicare "Medicare doesn't cover custodial care, if it's the only care you need. Most nursing home care is Custodial care" https://www.medicare.gov/coverage/nursing-home-care

Getting married basically means that if you haven't already discussed this there is a strong possibility that might end up living with your spouses parents during their last few years simply because its more convenient driving them to the doctor and generally taking care of them as they go downhill. About the only way you get out of this is if some other sibling is better off or has more free time, lives closer or any number of other situations.
Same, except add nine years to the age. :). I actually did try management back in the late 90's and early 2000's, first at a startup I cofounded, then at a mid-size public company after the startup was acquired. I basically hated my life from the point where the startup stopped being a bunch of us coding and playing Quake III at night, to the point where I quit the public corp. Went back into engineering, stayed there, work at home and love what I do. Have no lack of opportunities being floated my way.
Thanks for your detailed reply, I read it carefully. Let's stay on imagemagick, except we pretend it has an AGPL license (that's not it's actual license, but this is the example I want to stick to.)

So under these conditions: if you have a server where you upload a picture of yourself, and it shows how you will look in 20 years, and the server does this by making actual modifications to imagemagick, then you don't think I have to publish my changes to imagemagick? I mean if I dig into the AGPL source code and really modify the whole program to do what I want/need. I can keep those modifications private, in your opinion? While even selling the output?
A phone that costs the same as a low end used car needs to be repairable.
It's a spillover from the right wing reddits. Always starts with "it's in their culture" never mind that almost all of the Chinese expats are just hard working normal humans. Their government might be effed up but it's a bit of a long jump to blame their culture
I was doing this for about 2 years on DigitalOcean. But early this year they stopped accepting prepaid credit cards as a means of payment (I had been buying prepaid Visas from Wal-Mart with cash).

Since then I haven't been using a VPN... perhaps I'll try again on Linode or something. Does anyone know of a good VPS provider (or trustworthy/non-honeypot VPN provider) that accepts anonymous payments?
It indeed shows which market segments just glances the startup (3, 7, 15 second stay rates) and which segments find the content more interesting. It doesn't tell you the exact emotional reason why someone leaves early.

The super-valuable insight is to know how the various segments proceed on the AIDA funnel (attention, interest, desire action) so you understand how your visitors convert.

It also reveals your best target markets and landing pages that generate the most traction. This data is not available elsewhere.
That’s well within the tolerances for my eye-ball guesstimate.
For casual privacy purposes, such as hiding Web traffic from your ISP or cafe WiFi APs, you can use Tor.
Interesting hacking task and free time is a nightmare?
> Everybody else is cumbersome or you have to wake your phone to bluetooth pair and then fuck with your phone.

uh, i've got a years old subaru where i just turn on the engine, and by the time i've backed out of the driveway, it is playing music over bluetooth. phone stays in my pocket the whole time.
I only use VPNs for downloading torrents, basically just to avoid nasty letters from the cable company.
Another scenario, leave it in an isolated hut. If I get a signal, someone is close to the hut.

You could do that already with a device, just by making an app that listens for Bluetooth or WiFi traffic. You’d also be able to grab MAC addresses of the nearby phones. Your ‘exploit’ isn’t revealing any more than you can already discover today.
My crazy 1,450-line –/.bashrc
‘We Are Never, Ever, Ever Licensing Your Software’
There's bipartisan support in the US Congress for confronting Huawei and China. It's one of the few things Democrats and Republicans agree on.

Also it's very unlikely Canada and other countries are being forced on Huawei or Chinese trade. EU and other western countries have the same concerns on both issues. It isn't like China and Huawei's behavior has been confined to US borders.
I’m blanking on the term d’art, but I see this similar to the common practice of blocking out features in an MVP where you let users click on things that aren’t implemented yet in order to measure which features you should actually go and build next. It’s a neat way to quickly get real-world data on what people will pay for and what features they want.

The alternative would have been waiting to ship these customers their new cars until the software was ready. Shipping it early with the explicit notice that eventually the software will arrive which will limit access properly is a win-win for everyone. Customers get their new car sooner, they get free access to a bunch of features they didn’t pay for, and the option to upgrade is always there if they do want it in the future.

Clearly these owners are getting a software upgrade, which is implementing new software checks to provide the correct functionality as ordered based on their SKU.

In my past company we also shipped features to customers without all the software limits enforced in firmware in order to get the build out to the field. I imagine it’s a fairly common practice, as we tend to code those features last, as nothing depends on them, and you can always ship without them when the sales guy is selling based on the price sheet, not whether the software actually implements the check. As long as customers don’t start to believe the check will never actually ship, the bug sat Unassigned.
What's the 'Big N'?
True. The invite code is a first hacking test. There is this message in the web: "Feel free to hack your way in :)".

No invitation needed, it's just the first puzzle.
Disappointed with lack of images in the article.
This is solid advice, except in two parts:

1. You shouldn't use OpenVPN[1]. Use Wireguard or, if you must, IPSec with IKEv2. Wireguard's mobile experience is excellent, as a plus.

2. VPNs do indeed require bandwidth. But their compute requirements are pretty minimal on modern hardware: you can comfortably fit a few users onto any cloud provider's micro tier with either Wireguard or IPSec. You can get away with paying <$3/month by using the free tier and only paying for the bandwidth you use.

[1]: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo/blob/master/docs/faq.md#...
I truly only care about the non-renewable resources it over uses. The economy alone will never ensure everyone has enough to live on its own. If that were the case then the US government wouldn’t be the number one, singular employer in the world. (Or whatever the qualification is.)
I'm not sure why, but in nature, any compressed stone arch's profile must fit within the profile of a hanging chain. This includes load bearing -- you can model the arch shape by adding weights to the chain.

This is only really relevant to cases where the loads are higher than the weight of the arch/chain (manmade arches typically are just symmetrical as the loads are far less than the arch's).

I'm sure someone here is capable of elegantly describing these loads in the language of math to describe the same conclusion. That's not really the why part, just a different language for explaining it.
Some sources:

https://torrentfreak.com/private-internet-access-no-logging-...

https://torrentfreak.com/vpn-providers-no-logging-claims-tes...

Of course, there's still need for some level of trust, but I think when it comes to VPNs, having public court records of the VPN provider saying they are unable to provide data in response to a subpoena is probably as good as it gets.
If you turn off Find My iPhone it will also disable the new Bluetooth beaconing feature.
Upsetting article.
How long can one plausibly leave a phone in someone's car, asking for location updates the entire time, while claiming not to remember leaving it there?
I must say it presents many scenarios that are easily found "into the wild". Google and Shodan finds tons of vulnerable machines that match some HTB scenarios.
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I made the appropriate edit in my original comment.

edit - Apple did not communicate this information to users from the start...that is not misinformation. When I replied to your comment, your comment originally consisted of just your first sentence.
algodaily.com has some really good explanations
All the more reason Taurus would be cheaper. Guns are all over Brazil.
Can you believe that people at Google still have to, like, eat lunch and stuff? And talk to each other? The coffee is the same damn color every day too.

Maybe there's a place, somewhere, for the purest-of-the-pure non-boringest thoughts.
How is that a valid defence? Try telling the MPAA/RIAA that your use of The Pirate Bay isn't stealing.
> Released a nearly identical product a few years later, and sold it at a ridiculously low price,

If it violates the patents, then why did the company not sue Huawei and get a compensation? If it doesn't violate the patents then what's the problem?
It’s not unimaginable that Apple could be pro consumer in terms of privacy (at least relative to their competitors) and anti-consumer in terms of repairability and replacability (relative to their competitors).
This story of course makes obligatory a link to Reflections on Trusting Trust, Ken Thompson's Turing award lecture, which first popularized this concept.

https://www.archive.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p7...
Cisco was a rip off of The Stanford Blue Box. AFAIK the deans of the biz school and CS school founded Cisco with tech created by Stanford and were almost sued. Stanford decided that it wasn’t worth the potential bad press to be sueing faculty.
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How can the extended range be controlled by a software feature? For me it is seems deeply unethical to limit the how long a mechanical device can operate via software. Imagine a printer that had a software limit of only printing 5 pages at a time.
people always miss the hidden stuff:

- identification - identifying you. tracking your movements, learning your habits, your demographics, age sex race religion income address, etc

- discrimination - opting you out of advertisements that are unprofitable.

If you're an <ethnic> <sex> with <education>, you will get a credit card, charge it to the limit and then make the minimum payment for the rest of your life. If you're an <ethnic> <sex> with <education> you will get a credit card, charge it to the limit, make a few payments, then default. If you're an <ethnic> <sex> with <education> you will get a credit card, pay it off in full every month and not be very profitable to the cc company.

Unless you're the first type, you may rarely see a credit card offer.

Now think about this in other ways keeping in mind that the people who buy some expensive items are sometimes the least able to afford them.

This basically subjugates a lot of people.
Why should they be available for 3rd party repair? If ifixit wants to do a teardown of the devices and document them then that's fine. I think it's completely reasonable for Apple to require a certification in order to get manuals, parts, and schematics. When something like a cheap, third-party screen replacement inevitably ends in an "iPhones suck, mine misses my taps and shuts off randomly", it's Apple that looks bad, not the 3rd party kiosk that uses shit components.
> I suddenly realize it's in the compiler. It was the compiler. And every time you compile the original code and run it puts in the subliminal message code into the source code. I'd heard of this before.

Ken Thompson, "Reflections on trusting trust", 1984. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=358210
TSA is keeping your loose change
> The 20th century was the century of physics

I'd argue that the 20th century was the beginning of the information age, and if you'd like to roll that under physics, then I would respond that computers are as much physics as medicine/biotech is.
There were some stories where Huawei's source code included the Nortel copyright at the top. Just 100% blatant.
The elephant in the room here is strong cryptography. We now have the technology that makes this kind of interop pretty much impossible.
My wife had about 130k in student loan debt when we married, and we went on a ten year repayment plan. Total payment is about $1700 a month...

So your rent plus debt servicing should be around $4000... leaving your around $4000 a month for everything else. You should be able to live pretty well on that! That is more than most people make total.
If it was patented, why didn't the company sue Huawei and ban import of the product?
They said during WWDC that the key would be broadcast even when your iPhone or Mac are completely shut down.
Intelligence agencies from other governments e.g. Australia are also wary of Huawei equipment.

This isn't about Trump or his trade war.
I don’t know, man. What i am about to say is anecdotal, but as someone who went through educational system (up until beginning of high school) in Russia, it was the same there. As soon as teacher left for a bathroom break in the middle of the class, there would always be a few students who spring up to the desk and search real quick for answer sheets for the upcoming exam or something like that. No one would call them out, because the students who try to find the materials were considered the righteous heroes risking being caught for the common good.

After talking to my dad (who still lives there) recently, I only reinforced my opinion that it is definitely a cultural issue in Russia. I cannot speak for China specifically, but I don’t see why it cannot be the case there as well.

P.S. It sucks I even feel the need to mention this, but I have zero affiliation or interest in anything even remotely right-wing.
Yes, but you often don't have all the facts until it goes to court.

Person A reveals plain-as-day romantically suggestive emails, blows the lid off the story, gets media attention.

Only until sometime later does Person B provide the emails proving it was a two way thing.
The whole popup window experience is like Windows Vista.
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This is wonderful. Well done, I've been looking for somewhere to get my branding colors for my side projects!
Top N companies, with N abstract.
What do you find deeply unethical about it? I don't care how it's implemented - if it works as advertised and I decide to buy it for a given cost, seems like an ok deal. Said printer would not be good, I would not buy it.

EDIT: FWIW, there is a metric ton of software and firmware that is crucial to achieve the advertised range. So if it makes you feel better you can think of it as not the mechanical product operating differently, just the software product.
Except that people are misrepresenting all 3 of those situations to make their point. Apple didn't slow down people's phones in order to get them to buy newer models. They actually slowed them down to extend their lifespans when the battery started to fail. While I do think that they could have communicated that better and that their current solution is pretty decent, it's a huge leap to say that this was an intentional move on their part to screw their customers over.

And the repairability and replacement are also 2 things that I understand because it forces users to ensure that they're using genuine Apple components that won't detract from the device or the experience of using it. When so much of your business stems from the reputation of having quality products, third-party repairability seems like a terrible trade-off if there's no quality control.
VPNs are the perfect vehicle for selling something warm and fuzzy to the masses with minimal deliverables. I place them right up there with military grade encryption.
I posted this a while back about why Samsung rushed the release of their foldable phone:

a) Samsung spent a ton of money and research in building foldable OLED screens.

b) This technology is allegedly stolen by a supplier and sold to BOE Display: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Samsung-supplier-....

c) Huawei uses the foldable BOE Display technology in its Mate X smartphone and is on track to be the first to release it.

d) Samsung panics as it learns that the technology it built might be released by a competitor earlier than them and consumers might think of them as less of an innovator. May sound silly but the Chinese companies have been getting a lot of traction recently e.g. P30 Pro.

e) In addition Samsung goes into lock down as it fears there might be more leaks to other companies.

f) Combination of d) and e) means that there is less real world testing of the device than for other phones. And hence how we got to this point.
Further, the removal doesn’t yet seem to have been confirmed as intentional. Make sure to read the linked bugs too.
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A courtroom verdict doesn't "prove" anything. All it means is that a set of lawyers and witnesses were able to convince the people on the jury to believe beyond a reasonable doubt (or not) that the events that were alleged actually happened.

Trials are the best way our society has figured out to come to the correct conclusion, but don't make the mistake of thinking the verdict always accurately reflects the events as they occurred. There are many, many cases with unjust outcomes.
lol, yeah. i've never even heard of someone in the bay having it.
I'm not convinced coding on a phone will ever be a thing. I've tried a few challenges on my phone while interviewing and it was just a clunky and slow experience
> Imagine a printer that had a software limit of only printing 5 pages at a time.

Most inject printers have exactly that. There's a chip on the ink cartridge which tells the printer how much it can print, the printer then decrements it as prints occur until it reaches 0.

Often ink cartridges will be 1/3 full and refuse to print because they're "empty." You used to be able to bypass this by blocking a contact point on the chip, but no longer.
Yes, they did. It's in the changelog for the version of iOS that introduced the battery performance changes.