skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> From the original Evo to Pixel 2.

We spent a good amount of time over a year keeping the Evo unlocked whenever HTC would try to patch things. I'd like to think that helped set the tone for bootloader unlockability going forward.

But to be honest, I've been in the Nexus and Pixel ecosystem since then so I haven't really seen how things have shaped up
Previous threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21217401

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21210678

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21159872
I have 5 TB backed up on BorgBase[1] and use Vorta[2] to add new data on desktops (macOS and Linux) and Dan's Borgmatic[3] on servers. (They all use Borg[4] in the background.)

This is a great setup because I get notified of failed backups and the data is compressed, encrypted and deduplicated before upload. So it's quite fast and efficient. I can also run it in append-only mode, so old backups are safe.

Since I'm involved with both projects, BorgBase and Vorta, please don't take my word for it and test it yourself ;-)

1: https://www.borgbase.com

2: https://vorta.borgbase.com

3: https://github.com/witten/borgmatic

4: https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
This isn't new information. These are contractor forms for request to access to SpaceX. They're available to any potential contractor to SpaceX and are fundamentally public.
Apple itself states that it cannot access data in China without permission from the contracting company. Why would the Chinese government ask apple for data it can't provide, but a Chinese company could?

Also note your documents are from 2016, these events mostly started in 2017.
Is there any public code for these perf tools?
> Isn't the entire idea of "being mean" an abstract and intellectual idea?

Not really, it boils down to harm prevention.

I believe that, as humans, we greatly overestimate our own reliance or abstract ideas.

If we notice someone is harming another, and we intervene, we simply act.

The explanation for our behaviour (someone was being mean) comes later as post-hoc rationalisation.

Ironically, we then further rationalise and extrapolate from this incorrect idea that human behaviour comes from a fount of abstract values and ideas, and use it to devalue animals and their behaviour (assuming they have no complex cognition, and so must be dumb).
It's my understanding that in a patent the only text that matters are the claims.

This patent has just 4 claims, 3 of which are dependent on claim 1. Claim 1 describes simulated breathing in a virtual environment.

It's not quite the all encompassing patent you thought it was...
> You should not rely on them for anything that won't give them profits.

You’re absolutely right and for the vast majority of companies put in this position I wouldn’t be happy about their decision but I definitely wouldn’t hold it against them. That said, if ever there were a company in the history of the world whose users are rabidly loyal enough, whose economic contributions in China are substantial enough, and with the “Fuck You Money” necessary to do what’s right when it comes to China, it’s Apple.

And when you consider that Apple launched themselves into America’s living rooms with the “1984” commercial, I might even go so far as to say that Apple could have leaned in to whatever negative consequences they may have suffered as a result.
Not with type C. But I’ve seen friends break the very similar wafer in HDMI ports.

All it takes is for one fragment if debris to get wedged in the wrong way, and now that port on your expensive device is broken irreparably.

It may have that durability during normal use, but I doubt that these tests account for being shoved in backpacks or banged around in potentially dirty environments. Most people I know don’t use their laptops in sterile labs.
Retrofit 15 year old think pads with modern components and ship it running bash and no gui. There's probably a market there to be honest.
Your argument seems to put aerodynamics and vision at equal priority, but I don't agree with that.

But I've been proven wrong. I thought people wouldn't buy a car without a dashboard in their line of sight and the model 3 is a top seller in spite of that.
I don't have time to dig up specific links at the moment, but if you look through https://news.ycombinator.com/posts?id=dang, you'll see that I've written about this extensively in the last few days.

China-related stories are anything but suppressed here—it has been the most-discussed single theme of the last week, and one of the most of the last several months. See these #1 stories from the last few days:

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2019-10-07

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2019-10-08

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2019-10-10
> I guess you could argue that wasn't due to a "state actor", but is anti-Hong-Kong pressure from Chinese citizens all that different?

The difference is between taking something down because you agree with the rationale the entity-that-wants-something-taken-down gives you, such that you'd do it even without that entity in existence as long as you knew the information they told you; vs. being intimidated by that entity into doing so, such that without the entity, you'd have never done anything.
>I've used Linux several times over the years and the hardware never totally works. I've always had trackpad issues, issues with suspend and hibernate, wifi issues, screen resolution issues, battery life issues, sound issues, driver issues etc.

I have a dell XPS13 that came pre-loaded with Ubuntu. It works perfectly out of the box and the hardware quality is fantastic.
Yeah, that's fine. Anonymity is important precisely because it allows one to discuss sensitive topics openly.

But you are using anonymity to advocate for a regime where anonymity has been systemically removed and where this conversation could never take place on a public forum. That's a bit of dissonance no?
From the sub linked article on what VCS is:

> Arzt says that Atari is targeting two groups, with one being the folks over 35-years-old who remember playing the console and playing Atari games in the arcade. The other group is the younger crowd that Arzt says see Atari as more of a cool old brand and want modern capabilities like Streaming video services such as Hulu and Netflix. Arzt says that the Atari VCS is less expensive than a PC and eliminates the need to connect a laptop to the TV.

Who the hell is going to pay $300 for a glorified emulator slash Chromecast?

Considering the 2nd group likely already has a $30-50 Netflix device and the first group has had plenty of options to emulate old Atari (and every other system’s) games for years.

Not a big fan of this Hollywood approach to branding. A retro brand doesn’t make your product interesting, at most it’s a foot in the door.
I’d add that passing objects is also way easier when you do not need to bridge languages. And you avoid gyp.
To be fair, the people lying about how long war takes are the same people in control of the education.
Enhanced thermoelectric performance across topological phase change in PbSe
No point in debating the details of which tech is more secure or what is encrypted or adulterated or whatever. Apple has made it clear that they will make sure the Chinese gov't gets what it wants. Even in a supposedly "autonomous" Hong Kong, China complains and Apple submits--flags, apps, speech, whatever. No need to even go to court, and certainly no point.

So Apple has made it clear that if China wants something, the tech details won't matter. "Oh, I'm sorry, we don't have that information to give you." "Well, start keeping it from now on, but don't tell them, because telling them would offend us, and you don't want that...."
Agreed, and in fact the FDA seemingly has already moved past that, they do support compassionate use[1].

1: https://www.cancer.org/treatment/treatments-and-side-effects...
The boilerplate ToS doesn't contradict anything they've said in the court filings I linked to or the press statements and Tim Cook's interview (linked to in the original thread) about how iPhone/iCloud security works in China.
Damn, I was all riled up to read a good critique of OLC but this fell way short of the mark, in my opinion. Things like:

> Implicit, however, is that the only way to resolve that shortened code is to make a call to the Google Maps API.

Why? If OSM supports plus codes, that'll work equally well, no?

> By allowing reference locations in plus codes these codes are tied to specific political entities

Okay, but, as I understand it, you just need to point to something in the general vicinity, close enough that it can disambiguate Athens, Greece from Washington DC. Unless the city moves half a country away, the code will still work.

> If so, what I really need to know is the correct parking, or rideshare drop off, and the closest entrance, not directions to center court, which is apparently where “Q5RQ+6V Dallas, Texas” actually is!

Are you really complaining that the coordinate you set wasn't the coordinate you wanted to set? Or that Google Maps (not OLC) isn't smart enough to route you to a stadium properly?

The rest of the article is similarly seemingly looking to pick a fight with tenuous assertions, I'm afraid.
"please review permissions" opens a table with your applications listed in rows and permissions requested by each in columns. Popups like this remind me of the internet in 2003.
Out of curiosity, did you hire an attorney experienced in litigating these disputes?
You’re not wrong- if someone treated their dog the way pigs are treated they would be immediately thrown in prison. It’s a double standard.
> Can I just deposit my checks in the UK bank account, pay no taxes, and use the money in the US without violating any British laws? What about when traveling to the UK or EU?

Yes, but this isn’t particularly surprising — I’d expect it to work the same way everywhere. The Brits would love you to deposit your money into their banking system, and if you’re not resident in the UK and the income hasn’t arisen in the UK there’s no tax basis for it there.

In your scenario, the problem is American CFC rules, where they’ll effectively declare your IOM company to be an American company, and tax it on that basis. Also if you’re tax resident somewhere (the US in your example), they’ll usually tax your worldwide income (although jurisdictions vary). Finally, though, if you’re an American citizen, it doesn’t matter where you’re tax resident, you still owe the IRS.
As I understand it (and I might be wrong, I'm just beginning to learn mobile dev) it's only for you, as a developer — i.e. you must use the latest tools, like Apple enforces the use of the latest Xcode version. Note that for new apps this has been effective since August 1, 2019. November 1 is for app updates.

Your app can still target any version it wants; but this is to ensure that you'll implement features required for API level 28 (Android 9), so that users on a recent device can benefit from those.

Nothing more, nothing less. Thus of course we must still support Oreo and before, otherwise we'd cut >85% of the user base...

TL;DR: title-bait, misleading, not even accurate (missing "for app updates").
> The moral distance a society creates from the killing done in its name will increase the killing done in its name.

"It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it". --Robert E. Lee
(tongue in cheek)

The point was that large unstoppable incumbents have always been replaced with something nobody expected.

(that said, monsanto and debeers are still around)
Are there people working on an open source web app version of this app? I'd love to see if I could involved at some level.
it's far from an ideal solution, but the only thing that keeps me sane is to have different computers for their strengths.

For example, one of the author's use cases is "Because I’m an idiot with reasons, I have a python daemon that launches as root via launchd." - i shuddered just reading this, i'd never attempt to do that with anything other than linux. but chromeos is perfect for my little laptop i keep in the living room to check my email on. i was also happy using an iPad for the same thing. My software dev machine is a linux desktop, but if i needed a work laptop there's no way i'd put linux on it.

maybe one day there will be an OS that i can use for all the things without complaint, but right now that doesn't seem to be a reality, and i've stopped pretending it can be.
What Does PewDiePie Believe?
> I don't even know if it's bad or just some funky new TF functionality I'm unfamiliar with.

Yes, Javascript features and frameworks have evolved quite fas... oh wait
The tariffs. Yes, indeed. A response to the US 25% tariffs on European light trucks. The Chicken Tax :)
If the alternatives are so great, why aren’t they being adopted? Surely a truly superior alternative could gain traction despite W3W’s publicity; we see new systems supplant older ones all the time in other areas.

If you identified a substitute that was clearly superior in every way to W3Ws, that would also be helpful. So far every one that's been identified here has faced usability or other objections.
So in the 80's the BBC had a program called Tomorrow's World. They had a race horse which had worn its cartilage which would have meant retirement. Surgeon opened front knee enough to drill up into bone from where the cartilage had worn our, bone marrow (stem cells) spilled out, sealed up knee and the stem cells adopted/became the tissue it was next to which included new cartilage. Horse recovered quickly, like allowed to walk around in a day or two and was back running when stiches were removed. No visible signs of pain. Hailed as a success for worn cartilage.

I don't understand why the medical professionals use metal alloys for joint replacements considering how the metal is attacked by the immune system and deposited elsewhere in the body. Doesn't make sense.
What makes the MacOS UI so much better than say Gnome or Enlightenment? I personally can't stand most of the Mac UI experience, however, I am very curious what you (and others) love about it that cannot be replicated on a different OS?
Effin A: Live Stream of Shooting in Germany Ugh
I've lived with dogs and birds and seen dogs intervene when other dogs fight, birds intervene when other birds fight and dogs intervene when birds fight.

I don't think stopping aggressive acts in one's vicinity requires more reasoning ability than plotting to long term ruin the outlooks for other specific species X, species Y is cute or some thoughts about the moral act of hunting. Most animals have some experience with others acting aggressively and would like that reduced. We don't think about who is involved either when we see a fight break out between humans or animals.

I just happened to come across a magpie that was fighting a mouse outdoors today, and the mouse got pinned in a hole in a tree where the magpie kept pecking. I don't know why but I walked over so that the magpie went up in a nearby tree and the mouse ran away. That same magpie then attacked some nearby other magpies before calming down.
Absolutely on both accounts. I've been taking Fridays off the past few weeks and LOVE it. I have so many personal projects; having 50% more free days each week gives me so much more time to pursue them (in addition to the normal house, social, and family maintenance that typically fill up weekends).

20% off current comp also means I'm still comfortably middle-class. So it would be a huge net gain to my quality of life. (If I didn't have a software engineer's salary I would not be saying that!)
> [O]ver the past several days we received credible information [...] that the app was being used maliciously to [...] victimize individuals and property where no police are present.

Okay, but even if true, I've got very credible evidence that Twitter and Facebook (not to mention Safari!) have been used maliciously to victimize individuals and property. Will these apps be banned? If not, why not?

> So then, is the complaint simply that Cook is not providing direct evidence of these claims?

The complaint, I believe, is that nobody (including Cook) believes any of this. I'm sure he did get a message from the Hong Kong authorities (aka, the Chinese government) and at least one user in Hong Kong (aka, also the Chinese government) claiming the things he says they claimed. And he doesn't really believe they are true, but feels compelled to pretend he does, so he sent out the email, and now everyone else is being asked to pretend they're true too.

And Gruber is pointing out that they can't really be true, given the nature of the app. Which is quite right, but of course, it's beside the point. Cook isn't going to read Gruber's blog post, slap his forehead, and go "I've been hoodwinked!" and rescind the decision. He knows what he's doing.

> Is that a reasonable expectation? What evidence could Cook provide that would directly tie violence (we know that Hong Kong protesters have committed violence) to this particular app?

The claim is not that the app facilitated very particular types of violence, which we do not know has occured. (Although again, even if true, that's not a good reason to ban the app.)
Microsoft’s housing pledge shows welcome innovation
I just got permanently banned from China because I liked a SouthPark tweet
Social problems, a.k.a. Linux must work for everyone and not just Google.
Crazy that the commentators have to insist on selfish reason in the end. May be for one second even if unthinkable for human that whale has a good heart.

Good save.
Instinctively? Dunno, whales seem pretty smart. They communicate, they take care of their young, have advanced feeding strategies, and interesting interactions with humans.

Seems quite plausible they understand the relationship between feeding, reproduction, and population growth. They are clearly aware that killer whales feed on baby humpback whales. Doesn't seem a stretch that humpbacks would do whatever they can to prevent killer whales from feeding.
Let’s call it what it is: bribery and corruption. It’s under the guise of market access, but it’s effectively still a payout by a government to do that you’re told. Apple wants to have it both ways, we are a moral authority in the US where we don’t have to worry about government interference but because we want access to the China market we’ll do whatever the government tells us to do. How much more dependent does China need to be before China can control other behavior it doesn’t like.
I suspect COPA might have something to do with it.
DMCA is so easy to abuse.
From what I've seen of the behavior of police in HK, I think knowing where the police are might well affect the immediate physical safety and well-being of HK citizens.
It's a website already, try https://hkmap.live

Which is why I don't understand the outcry coming from what Apple is doing here.
It has upsides and downsides.

You realize that you're criticizing someone right now for having a take on relative weaknesses of the US system? Going so far as to immediately accuse them of loyalty to another country?

Not to snark too hard, but 'physician, heal thyself' comes to mind.
You haven't actually explained the behavior, just restated it in simple terms. "Because they can" doesn't explain motive or reason, only opportunity.
Oh, I see. Yeah, that's unfortunate.
Good question, here are their public filings: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08430008/filing-h...

Most recently for 2018: 11.4 million GBP loss on 273k GBP of income.
With the level of frustration I've had with mac for a while now, my latest desktop is now running Linux... though that had its' own series of headaches. First, the onboard audio and wifi only work with Kernel 5.1 and 5.2 respectively. I upgraded. When an rs 5700 xt finally got in stock with non-reference designs, I ordered one, that lead me to 5.3 kernel, and binary downloads (which were locked at 1080p on a 40" 4k display, too big).

In the end after trying things, borking my install, trying manjaro architect (failed), trying arch (not sure how I failed, but no boot) and finally reverting to Ubuntu LTS and forgoing the onboard audio for an external soundblaster usb and using wired ethernet anyway, I have a working system.

But at the very least, I'm not entirely beholden to Apples whims, which means eGPU and a lot of issues for Nvidia graphics. In the end, I'm not developing iOS apps or mac apps, and even if I do an electron app, have no intention of giving Apple any more of my money.

I haven't bought a Sony hardware product in about 20+ years since their bad behavior (though they do get revenue from blueray and make components). I can live without Apple too.
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What I bring to the table: I've been doing data analytics in varying ways since 2012 (quantitative and qualitative). With Data Science I now can statistically analyze large datasets. Compliance has also taught me project management, relationship management, and leadership enabling me to carry a project across the finish line.

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Is there a easy to use Golang library for eBPF? I do know that Cilium / cloudflare are attempting to build one but I gather that the project is not yet ready
No wonder you cannot apreciate Sun Tzu's work if you fail to grasp the difference between >>subduing your enemy without fighting<< and >>getting what you want without fighting.<<

It's not even subtle. One requires, but is not limited, to activelly foreclose the enemy's opportunities to deploy their assets against you; the other simply consists of siting on your hands and waiting for the good life to happen to you.
Freelance Platform Are Broken; Why Grupa.io Is the Solution
The rate at which product ideas and startups are generated outpaces rate of talents entrants; Hence the talent pipeline scarcity problem.

There’s the scramble to hire and retain software engineers as Businesses become software enabled, and companies seek to “own" their resources/talents. Also, human potential of existing talents are limited and underutilized due to 9-5 work mode and labor contracts/laws. The current work models which was once suited for manual labor, no longer applies for creative work, hence "Engineers seek for more flexible options and the opportunity to do their best work with their crew and at their terms"

Although Freelance platforms offered self employment, but they are broken as they are designed for projects, not PRODUCTS (which are built iteratively). Plus they offer no guarantee for work and management of products.

“Product Engineering In The Cloud” calls for the need to reinvent commitment (how we find and engage talents), and how we build Products; This is why we built Grupa (https://www.grupa.io) ; a platform that provide access to elite engineering teams using iterative-subscription model to product engineering.
https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/tree/master/examples/cpp/pype...
I've never seen head tracking applications at all, and I'm not surprised that they're underwhelming, but I hope the state of practice gets better because it would be really cool to have an AR setup where metadata is projected onto the windshield and windows such that it lines up with the driver's perspective.

Imagine a thousand foot tall semi-transparent google maps pin, resting lightly on the head of the person you're picking up, visible for hundreds of miles but only to those who are interested.