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> But early this year they stopped accepting prepaid credit cards

Didn't they start taking multiple crypto currencies though? I noticed the other day there's a crypto-currency ATM in my local supermarket. I'm not sure where you live and if there's one near you, nor if the machine requires some form of verification (it probably does have a camera...), but if it accepts cash, which I imagine it would given the type of people that would want to use it, then that's a pretty easy way to get hard to trace online currency.

Just, you know, keep your face mostly covered when you buy, and don't mix that wallet with any other purchases at all.

Actually, maybe I'll head down there tomorrow and buy my first bit of cryptocurrency.
App Store as the single source of apps is, debatably, anti-consumer. You can't have an app that doesn't fit Apple's policies, at all.

Safari as the only browser choice for handling web links, too. Even Microsoft in their days always allowed users change the defaults.
can i see the code?
According to the interview with NPR the product was sent to the US and returned via mail, presumably a US carrier.
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Do you really own a Huawei phone? I think anyone that do trust them to the same degree now as when they bought it.
They were made by BOE who stole stole/copied the tech from Samsung.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Samsung-supplier-...
Makerfaire as an experience was great. Food, wonky projects, competitions, and overall a fun event to hang out with friends, connect with others and learn. I would say kill the magazine and focus on improving the event experience and focus on community building and find a way to reduce or eliminate the dependence on corporate sponsors.

Maybe the community has changed or moved on or matured and makerfair has served its purpose. Maybe this marks the end of an era and it's time to move onto something new. I went 4 years in a row while in undergrad but stopped attending after graduation I think because it was getting a bit stale. Seemed like lots of projects year after year were simple iterations or very similar to previous ones. Also it felt like at some point there was a transition from wow look at this funky science/tech/art project to hey do you want to buy my product?
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Have you tried consulting? I believe companies might be less scared to hire experienced consultants compared to hiring salaried employees.
How long until someone finds a hack...?

This is one of the reasons I really don't like "software defined cars"... that you don't really own.
I think it's worth keeping in mind that there are multiple different reasons that people use VPNs, and that different solutions are appropriate for those purposes.

Some want security, they want to be sure that the local network operator/ISP/government isn't monitoring their traffic. Those people should run their own VPN at a trusted location.

Some want to evade geoblocking or use P2P services without fear of copyright letters. This is what commercial VPN providers are for IMO.

Some want anonymity. Normal VPN services can't really provide this, but Tor and the like can.

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Personally my focus is on the security side of things. I have a VPN endpoint at home for personal use and a similar setup for my company. If I'm going somewhere particularly untrusted I'll set up a temporary VPS with a trusted provider just for use while I'm there and trash it afterward.
Here's a link to the change-log of iOS 10.2.1 (scroll down a bit) where the throttling feature for degraded batteries was first introduced: https://support.apple.com/kb/dl1893?locale=en_US

Every single person that upgraded their phone saw this change-log.

There's a line there that clearly says: "It also improves power management during peak workloads to avoid unexpected shutdowns on iPhone."

If your argument is that it's lacking detail, then fine. But that's an entirely different implication. A much less interesting one.
From what I can gather it’s way worse in programming than at least in other Engineering fields
Mullvad is what I use. I started using it after I saw the Manjaro folks discussing it, and it's all I use for VPN when I'm not using Bitmask. I pay in Bitcoin Cash.

Those interested in getting started with WireGuard on Manjaro Linux see detailed instructions here: https://habd.as/post/encrypted-internet-wireguard-manjaro-li...
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an ordinary grad student can't reasonably train an SC2 agent to do anything on their 1 GPU workstation.

that's the motive -- an RL environment that's a little more interesting than mountaincar or Atari, and that doesn't require a $500 software license like the MuJoCo based physics sims, but that is simple enough to do something on a small machine, and can scale up to a really interesting and big strategic game-playing challenge.
However, I imagine that Ken Thompson hardly had in mind somem low-brow text manipulation hacks that go as far as to clobber the textual inputs to the compiler.
Nice comment history.
Bad example.

Yes, the core gameplay doesn't work, but the app still allows you to log in, manage your account mess with your existing Pokémon and items, move those Pokémon into Pokémon Let's Go's Go Park on the Nintendo Switch.

If you try to play the core game with location permission permanently disabled, the game will alert the user that the game needs the location permission enabled but it will NOT lock the user out of those other functions.
I get a notification on my Galaxy S9 each time an app tries to access my location, microphone, etc. It's called permissions monitor and it appears to either be part of Android itself or a feature Samsung added to my device.
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Those are some pretty strong allegations to make so broadly.
The unethical part is where I follow trivial instructions online to make my printer do unlimited, concurrent printing but the printer company successfully lobbies the government to treat publishing these trivial instructions as a felony to protect their business model. Stripping me of free speech rights and a “right to repair”.
Not doubting you but it would be great to link to one/several of those stories.

A quick google search turns up a CBC article from 2012 where a former Nortel exec alleges Huawei hacking, and also, amusingly, this HN story.
The client pivoted, so there won't be a deployment.
I think most people who follow the smartphone space will recall when Samsung accused Huawei of stealing their foldable screen technology and sure enough a few months later Huawei is demonstrating folding phone prototypes. I know the row with the US government is more about security threats, but I like to think of Huawei's implosion as the consequences of refusing to respect the rest of the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnord
I support Apple trying to turn privacy into a major marketing issue, but I think we’ve basically already learned that consumers just do not care.
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Why not just do this on the shore instead of a floating ship with unmaintainable floating solar islands? I suspect the more realistic scenario though would be to use a huge nuclear power plant to make fuel by pulling CO_2 from the air.
TFA is about ageism which still affects all the “preferred” candidates you listed. How many older women engineers do you work with?
And if I'm a new user and create an account, but forbid location access - what exactly can I do with the app?
Lots of hate in the comments- but I feel this is a good thing. I think of it as my free trial to JetBrains IDE expiring - yeah it sucks. But I got what I paid for(or didn't pay for)- and it was good while it lasted.

Besides they had a clear communication about the matter- it's not as if the customers had the rug pulled off their feet. They have been informed well in advance.
> FWIW, there is a metric ton of software and firmware that is crucial to achieve the advertised range.

I think what rubs people the wrong was is that _most people_ would assume there is a higher capacity battery in the extended range version as compared to the standard range version. That's the expensive part here, the battery. It would make sense to have to spend more money to get a bigger battery. But to find out that both models have the same battery and there's just a damn software lock differentiating the two? Come on.
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Yes, sometimes the yields are too good and there are an overabundance of chips that can be sold as high end. Pentiums with cache defects are sold as Celerons, but in a pinch, a Pentium might be sold as a Celeron.

Intel at one stage dipped their toes in the water of what would be a close analogy; your chip comes with half of its cache software disabled, and you pay $50 to unlock it.

They stopped pretty quickly, but I don't think it was from the inevitable tech community backlash. It was that it economically made no sense at Intel's scale - the alternative was to fab a new line of chips with less cache to start with.

https://www.engadget.com/2010/09/18/intel-wants-to-charge-50...
I was a software dev for the military and typically the encryptions used are generally the same ones available to the public (AES, RSA, TLS). The difference is that the keys are longer that standard, ie AES-256/512, RSA-4096, TLS1.3. Additionally military grade security means multiple layers of protection. So lets say a wifi-link is protected via AES-256, there might also be channel hopping technology involved to make jamming and eavesdropping difficult. Military grade is basically overkill for most situations unless your life literally depends on it.
This reminds me I need to get my authz paper published, and now sooner than later...

I've built an authz system that is built around labeled security and RBAC concepts. Basically:

- resource owners label resources
- the labels are really names for ACLs in a directory
- the ACL entries grant roles to users/groups
- roles are sets of verbs

There are unlimited verbs, and unlimited roles. There are no negative ACL entries, which means they are sets -- entry order doesn't matter. The whole thing resembles NTFS/ZFS ACLs, but without negative ACL entries, and with indirection via naming the ACLs.

ACL data gets summarized and converted to a form that makes access control evaluation fast to compute. This data then gets distributed to where it's needed.

The API consists mainly of:

- check(subject, verb, label) -> boolean
- query(subject, verb, label) -> list of grants
(supports wildcarding)
- list(subject) -> list of grants
- grant(user-or-group, role, label)
- revoke(user-or-group, role, label)
- interfaces for creating verbs, roles, and labels,
and adding/removing verbs from roles.

Note that access granting/revocation is done using roles, while access checking is done using verbs.

What's really cool about this system is that because it is simple it is composable. If you model certain attributes of subjects (e.g., whether they are on-premises, remote, in a public cloud, ...) as special subjects, then you can compose multiple check() calls to get ABAC, CORS/on-behalf-of/impersonation, MAC and DAC, SAML/OAuth-style authorization, and more. When I started all I wanted was a labeled security system. It was only later that compositions came up.

Because we built a summarized authz data distribution system first, all the systems that have data will continue to have it even in an outage -- an outage becomes just longer than usual update latencies.

check() performance is very fast, on the order of 10us to 15us, with no global locks, and this could probably be made faster.

check() essentially look's up the subject's group memberships (with the group transitive closure expanded) and the {verb, label}'s direct grantees, and checks if the intersection is empty (access denied) or not (access granted). In the common case (the grantee list is short) this requires N log M comparisons, and in the worst case (the two lists are comparable in size) it requires O(N) comparisons. This means check() performance is naturally very fast when using local authz data. Using a REST service adds latency, naturally, but the REST service itself can be backended with summarized authz data, making it fast. Using local data makes the system reliable and reliably fast.

query() does more work, but essentially amounts to a union of the subject's direct grants and a join of the subject's groups and the groups' direct grants.

special entities like "ANYONE" (akin to Authenticated Users in Windows) and "ANONYMOUS" also exist, naturally, and can be granted. These are treated like groups in the summarized authz data. We also have a "SELF" special entity which allows one to express grants to any subject who is the same as the one running the process that calls check().
Also, they talk about methanol production, but if they are already going through the work of desalination, it would probably make sense to have an integrated processing facility to also extract products that are already commercially extracted from seawater (bromine and manganese)

Perhaps it’s feasible that other trace elements in seawater, e.g. gold, uranium, etc. could also be economically extracted...
Except in the case of Find My you don't need any connectivity in the hut whatsoever.

If you build your own BT or WiFi sniffer, you won't be able to piggyback on someone else's internet connectivity.
Well, if it is a "I think" thing, then whoever wrote this probably wants to re-think. When you are not able to think deeper, it is better to be well educated, especially when evaluating a country's culture.
> It’s difficult to morally justify withholding heated seats to a buyer (esp. one in a cold climate) simply because they didn’t give you more profit even though you willingly sold them the hardware capable of doing that.

This is exactly right.

To flip the “you got what you paid for” argument on its head, the manufacturer willingly sold me this hardware at the agreed-upon price and shouldn’t complain if I enable “extra” functionality using non-manufacturer-approves means. Unfortunately, companies that engage in this business practice want it both ways.
Code reviews complaining that your code isn't cargo-cult enough.
Thoughts on Re:Mars 2019
As I understand it, Apple increased the peak power usage of the 6S (as a result of making the processor faster), but chose to use the same battery (in order to avoid making the phone thicker). As a result, unexpected shutdowns became much more common - while this did happen on older models, it seems to have been much less frequent.

Strictly compared to the alternative of letting people's phone shut off, throttling seems like the right decision, but I would also argue that Apple produced a defective product, where the battery wore out much quicker than consumers expected (because even if it had sufficient capacity, it couldn't provide the peak power necessary). As a result, Apple's decision seems more like a way to cover up their design flaws, rather than to actually be helpful to consumers.
Well, I’d also like to retire in less than 20 years, so, factor that in (probably $2000-2500/month). Food, utilities, insurance, car expenses (I don’t drive much, but it’s fairly essential for me to have a car to get certain places; it’s also paid off, fortunately), etc. I think you can see where this is going.
I'm surprised no one has suggested Outline:
https://www.getoutline.org/en/home
That's an interesting factoid I've never thought about before. Here's my guess why it's true.

In a hanging chain, the sum of the forces pulling down (due to gravity/load) and away from the end (due to tension) on a given link must point in a direction exactly opposite the angle of the next chain link toward the end. Else that chain link would rotate until the above is true.

In a stone arch, the sum of the forces pushing down (due to gravity/load) and toward the base (due to compression) on a given stone must point in a direction exactly equal to the next stone toward the base. Else that stone would rotate and the arch would break.
I think the huge amount of regulation and barriers in the field are largely to blame. You can't really have pharma startups the way you can have tech startups. You couldn't just start a company tomorrow and start incrementally prototyping a drug by testing it on people (or even animals) with lots of genetic testing... Even though I'm sure a lot of people (eg: cancer patients) would gladly volunteer.
Really not sure why everyone is up in arms over this. The person buying the car knows exactly what they are buying when they order it. They just got some upgrades for free that they didn't pay for to try for a little bit. I think its great that Tesla includes them and is able to unlock them via software. The alternative is if you bought the low end car and later decided to upgrade you'd have to bring your car in, they'd have to tear apart seats/etc to upgrade the hardware, remove an old battery to put in a new one, etc. The system as it stands now may seem a little weird that you actually have hardware you didn't pay for but it's not unlike upgrading to get more features on some other service.

The fact of the matter again is the people who bought the cars after this update will get exactly what they paid for. If they want the upgraded version they could have either bought it from the start, or they can still upgrade.
What's wrong with Matebook? It has the same color, a similar shape, and a similar keyboard as a Macbook? If Apple feels that it violates their patents, why don't they sue? US patent laws are pretty strict and this is the normal way to resolve such cases.

Also if you Google a bit, you can see that there are similar lawsuits against US companies. For example, a Korean company believes (and had win in courts in some countries) that Apple has stolen their intellectual property: [1]

Also it is noteworthy how some countries' courts agree that Apple has infringed the patents while other countries' courts disagree.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electron....
They had an office next to Apple and Amazon and Seagate in Cupertino as well.
Apple's Find My features are what turn iPhone theft into complete iCloud vulnerabilities. This was first seen with the social engineering attacks made possible in Find My iPhone. All an attacker needs to do is spoof an SMS and phish your account credentials. It's likely this feature too will lead to clever hacks used to further damage users.
VPNs only need as much bandwidth as you want to consume. Doesn't need much cpu or memory either. You can do a basic ssh tunnel for example.
Doesn't help much with the 10% reduced range.
To an excellent approximation, a structure made entirely of string and weights has tension on the strings but no shear stress on the string. (This is because string is floppy — if you pull gently on a string, you’ll pull the other end toward you but not sideways.). If the whole structure dangles without moving, that means that all the forces (tension and gravity) balance everywhere. If you flip the sign of all forces, tension turns into compression, gravity pulls the other way, there is still no shear, and the whole thing still stays put. Now you have an upside down cathedral with upside down gravity, which is more or less the same thing as a right side up cathedral with right side up gravity.

There are plenty of ways this can go wrong. The little weights Gaudí used might not correctly model the weight of the stone. The whole thing might be unstable under inevitable sideways forces from wind and such, although one could blow on the string model to make sure it doesn’t start swinging to approximate this. And the string model probably doesn’t say much about the distribution of compression loads in the stone, especially if the overall structure is not statically determinate.
It is a coder nightmare, not a nerd nightmare. ;)
Why no max/min function for integer in Golang
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I'd modify your idea to say "consumers generally don't make decisions based on privacy alone" -- a much milder take that leaves a lot of room for experimentation in the future.
Are they doing the stereotyping, or are they identifying instances of it? That is, people not avoiding the stereotype. I doubt it's a mystery, I know the stereotypes of white people and white men, and I strive to counteract them. As far as I know it's the only way to fight stereotypes.
AFAIK some people also have a different variant of the adenosine receptor that makes it so caffeine doesn't bind to it in the same way. I recall seeing a study about this pass by, you might be able to find it with some googling.

There's also a question of tolerance of course. If you drink coffee every day, then after a while you build tolerance and the effect becomes much milder. In order to assess whether coffee is effective you would need to take a break for a week. I know that when I have no tolerance, a strong cup of coffee has a very strong effect, I feel an instant mood lift and become much more active, I want to spend energy.
Then are the instructions not clear enough, or am I just missing something....

From the website: "For example, the sequence [0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34] forms the first ten entries of the Fibonacci sequence." Entering 4 should return 2 in this case, which is correct? I don't get it.
I guess there's some logic to that. If you want the ability to navigate within a website without restarting the music all the time, you need to implement some kind of hack. Back then, it was frames. Nowadays, it's SPAs.
It just feels bad. The comments reflect that and there will be more in the future. It'll make the company look like some game company that sells DLC.

It's bad marketing.
keeping "repair" well-scoped is important in maintaining the right and saying Tesla is in the wrong here seems silly. You aren't repairing your car if you enable features you didnt pay for.

You should gladly by this product thats artificially limited since the cost to enable that new feature is theoretically lower and faster with less chance of things going wrong. They are able to offer you a better product with more price points by engaging in software-gating. If they did not do this it would be difficult to maintain so many different SKU's and youd wait longer to get your car. Servicing it would be more work and youd be less satisfied.
Linkedin. If you can't find the person who manages that department, find anybody in that department and ask them about the job and the manager. One "trick" is to let them know you're looking to apply at the company and want to ask them for career advice. Most people love giving advice.
Seems like a lot of accusations against the Chinese and their tech is being force fed down our throats lately. Not surprising, since we are currently within a trade war and any opportunity to drive out Chinese competition would be taken - especially since Huawei would have been a huge competitor in the smartphone market (I heard their camera quality is currently the best).

I"m skeptical, as some of these accusations are not that far-fetched. What I'm more concerned of, is whether or not this is driven by some higher entity so that mass-hatred for the Chinese and their tech is accumulated, which would mean state driven media.

Despite all of these accusations of being one step behind, Huawei seems to be on the forefront of a lot of things - especially in the field of 5G, so it would seem possible that the US would pull some propaganda antics to make us reconsider Huawei and Chinese Tech

Its tough trying to read and discern for yourself anything on the web nowadays - as for this matter, I'm putting my thoughts on Huawei and Chinese tech on hold since I think both cases are true - That there are some concerns with tech theft against the chinese, but its also being extremely exaggerated.
It's so rife in the academic world that it goes beyond stereotype.