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Apple is exempting itself from this policy, keeping its own tracking on by default: https://twitter.com/eric_seufert/status/1291730115253145600?...

Previously, Apple and third-party tracking were both controlled by the same opt-put setting. Using your power as platform owner to turn your competitor’s ad tracking off by default while keeping yours on? Sure seems abusive to me.
The money printer has to stop eventually, no? It seems like the current plan is to keep the printer going until the next party is in power and is forced to deal with it.
For those who question Pollock’s artistry - see his paintings in person first. They have a mesmerizing quality that grabs you from across the room. Looking at them, it’s easy to get lost in a sort of meditative trance, which also happens with Rothko (another ‘my kid could do that’ artist.)
Haskell is like the nerdy cousin of the ML family. Everyone knows he's smart, but no one would think to ask him to fix the kitchen sink or install the new dishwasher.

Seriously, Haskell is massively impressive, both as a research language and as an implementation. But it does not shed that certain research attitude. Every known problem seems to be boring. "Oh you want a proxying http server? No problem, this is just the inversion of the endofoo over the category of abstract Monobars!". Sometimes I get the feeling that no one focuses on shipping actual software with Haskell.
WinRAR is for RAR files, as the name suggests.
App Store will not be less secure if they allow third party app stores, but the platform will.

How long do you think that it will take for scam apps in poorly moderated app stores to appear, which the users are tricked to install for "free v-bucks" or "free $10 store credit"?
Yes, I imagine saying things that aren't quite true may at scale cause people to disbelieve the real arguments.
> it's my phone not the developers, not the advertisers, mine.

Are you willing to extend this argument to Apple as well? Do you also think that it is not Apple's phone, and that you should be able to do what you want with it, if you choose to?

Because right now Apple does not really agree with your opinion that it is your phone, that you can do what you want with.
https://youtu.be/R6qFG0uop9k : ‘I got it from Agnes’.. reminds me of Monty Python’s Medical Song but only..so much gentler..
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Comparing Netflix to a single cable channel is disingenuous. I can't the only one who feels that Netflix is "too much" and that the last thing I need is even more content for more money.

Obviously, there is nothing wrong with subscribing to multiple services. But by the same token, there is certainly a market segment that is just going to buy a single service.
Interesting. The you who thought those words has already ceased to exist, in the same way as the 10 year old version of you no longer exists. There is no exist/not exist, really, there is only the continuous rearrangement of energy.
You say that with such confidence, yet at one point you did not exist, and now you do. Who's to say we won't one day exist again in some form?
WeLive apartments are basically dorms for adults. A coworker lived in one for a few months while they got their bearings in NYC. For a slightly inflated rent you a fully furnished apartment with a bunch of people in the same situation as you - instant new network of friends and connections to get you started in a new place.
Thanks COVID lockdowns for killing the competition eh.
I might be nitpicking, but this:

> A few employers ago, giving a "best guess" rather than admitting you don't know the answer to a question was an instant no-hire.

and this:

> At my most recent one, I was actually encouraged to speculate if I didn't know the answer to a tech question

aren't incongruous to me. In my interviews, I lay out two explicit expectations for the candidate upfront:

1. Please don't bullshit an answer. Confidently incorrect is considered a red flag.

2. The interview is designed to find the ceiling on your certainty and knowledge, and to see how you deal with ambiguity thereafter.

I encourage candidates to guess; I just want them to make it very explicit when they're guessing, and demonstrate self-awareness in doing so.

As ever, a lot of interview problems on both sides of the table are resolved with more communication. It is good to set explicit expectations for candidates throughout the process, and to revisit particular expectations in the first two to three minutes of an interview.
I see a lot of people arguing over what should be the minimum floor space requirement for a person. Instead of deciding this beforehand why not let everyone choose what they want, i.e. let the free market operate? The market can build houses of all sizes and the people can choose depending on their budget and taste. As an illustration many people in Japan live in shoebox apartments which may seem horrendously small to Americans but it beats being homeless.
Tolstoy, Proust.
At first I was going to say "I agree… in 2020 there's no reason not to have a mobile-friendly docs site… but in my experience with documentation sites, not many people visit from mobile devices". However, I just checked web.dev and developers.google.com/web and our mobile traffic is non-trivial.
I get teary eyed when I see Pollock paintings in person. Couldn’t tell you why but they are powerful.
Having read the whole thread, what amazes me is how most people here seem to be thinking about iOS products as general purpose computing products, when in reality the iPhone has been a console-like ecosystem from the start.

I'm personally very happy it works like an Xbox or Switch rather than Android, and that I don't have to figure out which app store a given app came from, deal with different parties if I need to resolve billing issues, etc.

Any comments focusing on the technical issues are missing the point. Of course it can be done. The benefit of the iOS ecosystem is knowing that it won't be done.
I know it happened in some cases. My paternal grandparents had separate beds in their house.

Grandmother is in her 90's now.
Was that not because people weren’t using CDs anymore and people didn’t want to rent music from a bunch of different places?
Source code access makes surprisingly little practical difference for discovering security vulnerabilities. People routinely find security vulnerabilities in major closed source operating systems like Windows and iOS and submit their findings to MS/Apple for bounty, or sell them to exploit brokers. Reverse engineering tools like Ghidra can decompile code back to C to make auditing easier, and black box fuzzers have proven massively useful for discovering vulnerabilities without auditing code line by line.

Tiktok is far smaller, and has a smaller attack surface. If there was money in it, people would audit Tiktok all day.
I'm not afraid of death because I'm a solipsist. But you should be afraid of my death, because when I die all of you will disappear!

That joke and singing along to Monty Python's Bright Side of Life is usually enough to snap me out of the occasional melancholy resulting from contemplating the inevitable.

Ok, but seriously, yeah, I'm terrified.
> the protests have become continuously more destructive riots

This just doesn't seem to be happening as you believe it does.

Campaign advertising is not news.
Blokada is a similar local-vpn adblocker available on F-droid. It uses the same block lists as browser adblockers, so much less configuration is required.

I don't currently use an iPhone (contemplating jumping ship as well), but my understanding is you can get similar functionality on there using AdGuard.
The BredoLab botnet was 30M PCs strong.
To cross all the t's and dot all the i's, you might be able to join a friends-and-family round under Rule 504, but your founder friend should still do the due diligence to ensure the participating friends and family investors reside in states where such an offering is exempt from registration/qualification under state blue-sky laws[1].

IANAL. Hopefully your founder friend will have had a startup attorney to ask about all of this.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/blue_sky_law
> Because it is OPEN source such efforts will be discovered and the bad actors brought to task

as the article points out this isn't realistic because nobody actually has the resources or time to audit every piece of software this rigorously, let alone read or understand the entire codebase. A ton of open-source code is maintained by one or two or at best a handful of people and we'd be none the wiser if they'd put malicious code into the software until its to late, and as the article points out the permissiveness of open-source software makes it impossible to know for sure who contributed, after all the point of open-source is to let everyone contribute.

So as a system of trust open-source is no solution. The economics of it make it impossible to audit every bit of code, and the code could come from anywhere regardless even of what a Github profile says.
Firefox removed FTP support some months ago. Ironically when I copy paste that link it now prompts me to open it in Chromium.
1. That is only in the roughly week following launch, which doesn't harm anyone.

2. They changed operations immediately after launch and so you generally can't see this anymore.

They are indeed invisible after launch. Your article is from March, before changes were made. Try to find anyone taking pictures of them in that chain of pearls form in the last few months.
> BIND9 […] supports human-readable time sufffixes such as "m" for minutes, "h" for hours, and "d" for days.

In fact, the full supported list of suffixes – from the BIND 9 source code, https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/blob/main/lib/dn... – is:

• w = weeks

• d = days

• h = hours

• m = minutes

• s = seconds (optional)

Note also that the BIND code supports any number of stacked suffixes: “2D15M” means 2 days plus 15 minutes.
Just books in general? Professional development? Science Fiction? Politics?

Can't go wrong with the classics like "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" along with "How to Win Friends and Influence People." For motivation: "Can't Hurt Me" by David Goggins... it's impossible to read that book and come up with a good excuse why you cannot achieve your goals.
The concerns he expresses are environmental, both in terms of energy efficiency (wasted fossil fuel energy) and in terms of lifecycle (component disposal).

There are many refrigerants in active use, not just R134a. The positive trend in developed countries (particularly Europe) is towards R744 (high pressure CO2) for commercial use. However, most refrigerants are still a long way from clean, including R134a. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1,1,1,2-Tetrafluoroethane
The big requirement for "more cycling", IMHO, is "more errands being within comfortable cycling distance". Mixed-use zoning makes this a lot easier.

(I have never learnt to drive, and rely on cycling, walking, and transit; I find I am generally a lot happier when I live with a lot of errands in cycling distance!)
They were comparing the Bolt pretty unfairly, the Bolt has great range and doesn't suffer from any of the issues with the E-Golf.
Do you think every house in Portland is going to be bulldozed and rebuilt inline with the new regulations? More likely it will take decades before the changing regulations are reflected in the housing stock.
Shopify for restaurants, with shopify pay?
>Under the new rule, trains would be allowed to transport up to 30,000 gallons of liquified natural gas (LNG) per tank, significantly more than has ever been allowed in the U.S., and there will be no restrictions on the number of LNG tanker cars in a particular train, nor on the routes these trains may travel, so they will be free to pass through dense population centers.

Well that's good to know.
Yes, that's one of the main goals. They are encouraging affordable 6-plexes in the hopes of making housing in the city more affordable. Note that there is a rent ceiling based on the area, you can't build a 6-plex and charge whatever you want.
Currently reading: Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. A fun, quick read about something I knew nothing about.

I'm sure you'll get all the classic HN recommendations so I'll pick two that are a little different:

* Nobody's Perfect: Writings From the New Yorker, by Anthony Lane. Lane was responsible for writing reviews of many prominent movies from the 90s. We now know which of those movies hold up (Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction) and faded away into cultural oblivion despite insane amounts of hype (Godzilla from 2000, Pearl Harbor), and I enjoyed reading contemporary treatments of both. Why spend the time to read such reviews? Because Lane is a master of his craft. The blend of dry British humor, insightful critiques, and his surprising accessibility makes for really enjoyable prose. Also, the pieces are quite short, so I can read two or three before bed and have natural points.

* Meet Me in the Bathroom -- an oral history of the NYC music scene from 2001 to 2011. You can make the argument that the Strokes are directly responsible for the money-soaked Manhattan we have today. The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, and TV On The Radio were hugely inspirational to me growing up so it was really neat to watch them look back on this crazy time in their own words. But really, it's a story about transitions. New York transitioning after 9/11 to what it is today; the transition of the music industry (the author makes a compelling point that although the Strokes and Vampire Weekend were both NYC-based bands that blew up 5 years apart, their trajectories couldn't have been more different); the influence of blogs and the kids who ran them had on this global industry. It's a fascinating to reflect on what is really just the not-so-distant past and see how much has changed.
In iOS 13, Apple and third-party ad tracking were both controlled by the same opt-out setting. In iOS 14, the settings have been split, with third party tracking disabled and and Apple’s tracking enabled by default. Blatant anticompetitive behavior to promote their own tracking services in the guise of protecting users. Genius move by Apple.

https://twitter.com/eric_seufert/status/1291730115253145600?...
From my view, I think the habitual exercise in humility brings a refreshing and productive new spirit to the national discussion. Especially as we can see that the consequences of past mistakes linger on today.

We should utterly destroy and banish the kind of national pride over symbols that carry with it the opportunity to become an unchallengeable chant.

Talking about the founding of a country should be a bit like reciting the Miranda rights in an arrest. It's a moment for the citizens to remind themselves of their rights and responsibilities, of pride and humility.
> as long as I don't think the Chinese government is interested in hurting me or anyone I care about

I can't imagine why you don't think that when the CCP actively pursues Chinese activists and Uighur Muslims, including Chinese-Americans with ties (like family) to the mainland. Or maybe those people just aren't anyone you care about.
Sure, but it looks like according to Wikipedia, Concorde's flights cost 30x an equivalent economy class flight. Would you want to pay 30x the price for the perks you listed?
Facebook's entire graph API significantly undermined what developers could do compared to the old API when it rolled out in 2011 or 2012. I was working for a social media advertising company at the time and it was certainly detrimental. They didn't consult with us, the industry using their API.
Probably because Apple's total control of the platform is why this change could happen. Their ability to not allow a developer to distribute an app update that doesn't comply with the new privacy change stems from the same power that allows them to collect 30/15% of in-app purchases.
Sometimes Apple is aware of vulnerabilities before they are patched, and it only takes getting caught once for the app, company, and individual developer to be banned from the App Store.

Also, I think you may overestimate most attackers. Most of them are so lazy.
Wow, that website has impressively terrible UX.
Ha! I completely forgot I played that. But yes, this is what the framework reminds me of.
This is fun and interesting. Attempted with a few combinations around Hindi/Indian, Arabic, Japanese, Latvian, and French, and the results are amazing!
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I think the person had a qualm about specifically using Android vs an embedded Linux or other embedded software for auto control systems, and the prevalence of Android remote hacks was their concern - they were happy about the state of Android auto and infotainment consoles.

I think they are knowledgeable on the subject but I may be misquoting them or not including some nuance about the security concern.
You can also run PDF.js on Chromium browsers with the extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pdf-viewer/oemmndc...
Yes - and YT is still losing money on that transaction. $16 will become $11.20 after apple takes their cut.
Our telescopes (Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes) can only work on Earth as we use the atmosphere as detector medium.

Space based telescopes can simply not be build large enough no matter how cheap some tons to LEO will get.
Yeah let's take away depressed people's fear of death, that ought to end well!
I thought about this point as well, but I think the consideration that you’ll miss out a huge customer base with a lot of money (Apple customers) should be taken into account. I’m really talking about risky projects that need a lot of funding up front, where the risk of losing Apple’s customer base means ruin and lack of funding.
If the requirement is for US Companies to provide encryption backdoors what about allowing someone to provide their own PGP (or other) certs -- would that side-step the requirement since the encryption is being performed by the user and not the company?
camming is a concretely tangible theft.

when a movie is being sold on disk after theatre showings close out, there is already a return for investments and disk sales are just gravy.

disks are played many times lent out to family and friends watched in recap after the theatre and donated to thrift shops. a large group of people can "steal" by watching for free multiple times, but millions have been made in theatre wages paid and investors pacified.

when a movie is cammed this cuts into the revenue.

i believe in a co-existence being possible however thats short circuited by the one "free" view == one lost/stolen sale mentality.
You're at least 100 years too late for your random art to be considered novel.

Mozart was creating random compositions with dice as far back as 1792.[1] Pollock was playing with randomness in painting in the 1940's, around the same time that John Cage was innovating with randomness in musical compositions.

The use of randomness in the arts and music has been going on for a long time, so something like your ascii art is probably not going to raise an eyebrow today, though maybe if you did it 100 years ago and managed to get it in to a museum or gallery it might have looked novel then.

That said, I wouldn't put it past some galleries to display it anyway, especially if you do it in a large quantity -- say having random text cover all the gallery walls, or make the font really gigantic. I'm sure some people will love it and consider it some kind of profound statement on the mechanization of modern life or something.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musikalisches_Würfelspiel
Indeed. We have people who are suing their neighbors who grew large pine trees in a forested area because it disrupted someone's view. I'm not even sure if the trees in question were planted or just allowed to grow.
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Ten years ago I was working in that industry and it was already known the attacks are plausible even for not particularly resourceful attackers, because it’s already been done.
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You probably already suspect as much, but it's not about being useful as such, in much the same way that most art and culture isn't particularly useful in the practical sense.

In 1800 more people spoke Irish than spoke Dutch, Swedish, Danish or Finnish. It adds perspective what the value is if you consider what would be lost if another of those languages died back as comprehensively as Irish did, to be replaced by something like English or German.

A whole world of poetry, insults and turns of phrase are opened up to me. I can understand the meanings of place names around the country (Baltimore means "the town of the [Downton Abbey-esque] big house"). It's a rebuttal to the notion that the Irish are really just West English, despite their exceptionalism.

As for how I use the language; I struggle through novels, I listen to Irish language radio and podcasts (I don't watch much TV, though there is an Irish-language station), I talk to my partner in Irish when we want to discuss something private while in public, I talk to other people in Irish when the opportunity arises.
> Fix death please, that's a good way to prevent the fear.

Even if you were able to postpone your non-existence to some late stage of the Universe, it's all but assured you will have to end eventually in light of postulated Cosmological denouements. In other words, you will not exist forever due to physics.

That being said it would be nice to know it's possible to get at least a few hundred years of healthy and happy living in. Yet, would the fear of the end grow even greater then?
The satellites were only human eye visible because SpaceX let them tumble for a while right after launch. They changed operations and now they're no longer visible to the human eye (generally).

See here: https://www.spacex.com/updates/starlink-update-04-28-2020/
Something tells me that if the fictional Star Trek "replicator" would suddenly be invented today, with the ability to copy any physical item, we'd see a similar story. Imagine, the removal of goods scarcity. Feed everyone on earth. Everyone could have anything they want just constructed out of thin air for them! It would be a utopia. But the same people would make the same argument against that utopia: "What about jobs? You can't just copy someone's hard work without paying for it!" They'd get the government to ban replicators and criminalize their use. Or, they'd only allow certain, licensed companies to use replicators, maintaining an artificial scarcity so that things could still be sold. We'd toss away world-changing technology in order to maintain the status quo where people had to work and pay for scarce goods.
> Generally, if I don't see value in something a large number of people do, it causes me to reflect a little to try to figure out what I'm missing

I do as well.

But a lot of times I come to the conclusion that everyone is just participating in a social meta-game aka "the emperor's new clothes". The art community (in my opinion) is especially vulnerable to these social meta-games (because there is no way to objectively measure art in a way everyone agrees on), where you have to pretend to like and admire stuff to curry favor with peers and critics. Criticize Pollock and you stand to lose a lot of social standing. Praise him and show your learnedness and you climb the social ladder. And as you climb the ladder pretty soon you've fully bought into the status quo yourself.