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> I want Android to have stricter control of their Apps that are released in their native appstore.

Google could have this without having Android itself disallow 3rd party applications.

> I also want the manufacturer to have complete control so much that I never need to have an anti-virus. Scratch all that, I demand it. How come I cannot get this?

If you are afraid of viruses on your phone you can avoid that by using only applications from reputable sources (like the aforementioned app store). You do not need to lock down the device for everyone else just because you are afraid.

> Wait a second, why is there all this bloatware on my phone after I turned it on for the first time? How do I get rid of it? Is it really gone even though it says I deleted it? Why do I need to go on a rabbit hunt in deep tech forums to make sure of that?

What does all of this have to do with Android allowing 3rd party applications? All that is up to your device manufacturer.

> Why is everyone saying to "just" root your phone to take control over it?

Because sadly not even Android provides the ability to 100% unlock it out of the box for all devices.

> Why does this tracking feature turn back on after updates? Why do I get the uncertain feeling that this free antivirus program should be run through a separate antivirus program?... etc. x100 other questions I have. I really don't care to have any of them answered, because I have the option not to.

Note that you do not have an option here, the ability to not be able to answer any of those are forced on you by Apple - Apple never gave you any option outside not using their phones, but you cannot both use their phones (because you actually like them) and be able to install 3rd party applications.

> Instead of demanding all this or asking much of these questions, I have the choice to buy an iPhone. I understand the (great) possibilities that I'm giving up in return, and I'm very good with that. I like this choice.

What i refer to in my comments isn't the choice about what sort of device you can buy, what i refer to is being in control of your device after you bought it. Of course you can choose to not buy an Apple device, but after buying it you lose any form of control over your own device.
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Have you been in the last two years?

Weed is now legal there, so it smells like that outside everywhere.
Is there some other kind of polio still rampant?
Puck bounce is already a weird randomization. It seems like have a hole in your blade that might hook the edge of the puck would only increase that randomness.
No matter what choice you make, something else will be affected, that doesn't mean you should not be able to have any choice in the first place.
Is he a Nigerian prince?
I live in NZ and my partner has an indoor-only cat. It's considered a bit weird here, we've had friends politely suggest that keeping a cat indoors is cruel. In principle indoor cats are just as good for bird life as no cats, but either is a tough sell.
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Yet another Albertan. I would expect the AB government to not directly fund something like this. P3? Privately owned and operated?

Still unlikely.
That's $33,000,000,000 now.
Compensation goes a long way to making customer service agents care. So does equity.
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The trade war with Japan in the 80's really helped Samsung jumpstart their DRAM business -- South Korean companies, Samsung and SK Hynix, account for 80% of global DRAM production today.
As a Palantir engineer - all I can say is thank god, I have never worked in CA for a reason...
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That's not what the judge ruled at all so I'm confused by your statements about reading the injunction. All the judge "ruled" was that Apple needs to maintain the current status quo of their other arrangements until they actually rule on the main cause of the case. If Apple wins, then there's another matter to attend to. If they don't, then the status quo is still maintained and the matter is over. What the judge actually ruled was akin to "You go to that side of the room and you go to the other. Stop hitting each other while I figure out who broke the toy." The judge didn't make any kind of determination on the legality of anything and you can't make a legal judgement on a threat of doing something.
I am on board with the internet being common infrastructure, since you cannot own your own fibre cable that goes to the ISP (at least not easily and cheaply).

With hardware it is different. Nobody forced you to buy an iPhone. Nobody forced you to buy an Android, Windows, Nokia, whatever phone. Same with laptops. If you want an open platform, buy one. If you want an open OS, install one. Don't buy an iPhone, complain about the platform not being open enough for you, and then demand that all platforms be made common infrastructure so that you're absolved of making decisions about the hardware you use.
does this cover cs341 @ UWaterloo?

thanks btw
For a long time, it's been quite obvious that these 3 laws are a cornerstone of why California had the tech boom. And yet almost no other state has managed to put these on the books! I'd be willing to bet that if Nevada implements these (properly), they'll attract a lot more tech startups.
It's Stockholm syndrome.
> That probably only works if the remote sends the content-length header, right?

Correct: "If the media elements do not have Content-Length header present, then this switch will fail to block the said media elements by size."

Source: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-...
To be clear: it is good, morally speaking, for Bill Gates to contribute to the effort to eliminate polio. The observation is that Gates' ability to do so (i.e., his profound wealth) is completely unfixed to any good he produces: he could just as easily use his wealth for morally bad ends.

In others words, we're extraordinarily lucky that this particular ultra-wealthy person has decided to do good things with (some) of their money. But grounding moral and humanitarian progress on a steady stream of luck seems shortsighted.
My thoughts of this made the parallelism with IP addresses. Japan's issue can be solved by "buying some numbers" from much smaller countries.

The solution to reuse a number is bat shit crazy. Perhaps they can use expired cards (and not cancelled).

In the long run the sensible solution (just like IP addresses) is to move from a "IPv4" system to a "IPv6" that will largely multiply the available numbers per country/bank/entity and will solve the problems, for the next many decades.
I'm sure people are going to find some link between sciencedirect.com and the Trump administration so we can ignore it, since it doesn't fit with our worldview of Orange Man Bad
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No, that's wrong. "Hyperloop" was never going to work, so Musk spun it off into this "competition" that still has people trying to figure out some way to make something that even resembles his original mutterings. Today, this almost always manifests itself as a maglev train in a tube.

This way, Musk saves face by not failing publically.

If the idea fails, he can just say "It was in your hands, I left the idea with you!"

Pretty clever exploit...
Agreed! Thanks for posting this
Yeah my one call center experience involved cameras over everyones desk and the cruelest management team I've ever experienced that watched you like a hawk.
You would have a point if Apple offered the choice between locking your device to their services or using it as you see fit. They don't.
Ai et al. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32101510/ analysis of 1014 patients in Wuhan; Yang et al. looked at another 213 in Guangdong.

Kucirka et al (https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-1495) did a pooled analysis of seven other studies and found that "over the 4 days of infection before the typical time of symptom onset (day 5), the probability of a false-negative result in an infected person decreases from 100% (95% CI, 100% to 100%) on day 1 to 67% (CI, 27% to 94%) on day 4. On the day of symptom onset, the median false-negative rate was 38% (CI, 18% to 65%). This decreased to 20% (CI, 12% to 30%) on day 8 (3 days after symptom onset) then began to increase again, from 21% (CI, 13% to 31%) on day 9 to 66% (CI, 54% to 77%) on day 21."

A lot of folks are jumping into this thread very confident that my numbers are wrong, but they're pretty well established and uncontroversial.
Ai et al. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32101510/ analysis of 1014 patients in Wuhan; Yang et al. looked at another 213 in Guangdong.

Kucirka et al (https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-1495) did a pooled analysis of seven other studies and found that "over the 4 days of infection before the typical time of symptom onset (day 5), the probability of a false-negative result in an infected person decreases from 100% (95% CI, 100% to 100%) on day 1 to 67% (CI, 27% to 94%) on day 4. On the day of symptom onset, the median false-negative rate was 38% (CI, 18% to 65%). This decreased to 20% (CI, 12% to 30%) on day 8 (3 days after symptom onset) then began to increase again, from 21% (CI, 13% to 31%) on day 9 to 66% (CI, 54% to 77%) on day 21."
This surely should give some credit to the venerable old Solar Cat Book:

https://www.amazon.com/Solar-Cat-Book-Jim-Augustyn/dp/089815...

(Which would evidently make me an alarming amount of money if I could find my old copy of it...)
What's weird about being kind and considerate?
> Perhaps someone should contribute a patch to NetworkManager to add a similar warning

Worth noting that NetworkManager does indeed add a shorter and milder version of such a warning (at least on my machine):

# Generated by NetworkManager
search blah.blah.blah
nameserver x.x.x.x
nameserver y.y.y.y
nameserver z.z.z.z
Another good point from Kim Stanely Robinson is 2312's constructing habitats from hollowed out asteroids. Way easier than refining and moving so many tons for steel to build a habitat from scratch.

I also love the ecological designing of each habitat -- whether to go with recreating a (likely lost) natural habitat or to create a new "Ascension".
Amusement... people sharing their homemade NSFW content.
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A friend and I created a programming language that looks like Typescript and makes distributed programs shorter and easier to reason about. Alan's compiler and runtime exploits opportunities for parallelization across the computing resources available without being told to do so.
Lotsa claims, artist's rendition of possible product. Wake me up when it's on Amazon.
Exactly. Developers loved the gravy train while it lasted. 30% cut for being put into the hands of millions of people instantly was pocket change in the 2010s. Now that the market is saturated and developers have tougher competition, they're turning on Apple. Take your money, smile that it happened, and go work on open platforms from now on.
A bullmastiff easily puts off as much heat as another human (maybe two) and doubles as an alarm clock.
Ai et al. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32101510/ analysis of 1014 patients in Wuhan; Yang et al. looked at another 213 in Guangdong.

Kucirka et al (https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-1495) did a pooled analysis of seven other studies and found that "over the 4 days of infection before the typical time of symptom onset (day 5), the probability of a false-negative result in an infected person decreases from 100% (95% CI, 100% to 100%) on day 1 to 67% (CI, 27% to 94%) on day 4. On the day of symptom onset, the median false-negative rate was 38% (CI, 18% to 65%). This decreased to 20% (CI, 12% to 30%) on day 8 (3 days after symptom onset) then began to increase again, from 21% (CI, 13% to 31%) on day 9 to 66% (CI, 54% to 77%) on day 21."

You are mistaken.
Absolutely, my career started with Angular and my co-founder created Angular Universal. We have big plans with Angular. You can actually use Tipe with any framework or platform, we're just focusing on our deep integrations one framework at a time for now it get it magical.
Others need some kind of beliefs to rationalize the modest paychecks.
there is no techinical solution to mass surveillance. Pandora's Box can never be closed and the average person will never throw away their cell phone and stop giving their Patterns of Life data to various Internet megacorps.
Likewise, there is no political solution. Given the Patriot Act was so well designed to deceive is about mass surveillance, which we never would have voted for if we the governed were asked for our consent, it is therefore cosmically improbably that any politicians will be strong enough to cast the Deep State's One Ring into Mt Doom.

that leaves only one option.

acceleration.

i have slowly become convinced that the only solution to mass surveillance is to expand it as fast and as large as possible, in order to trigger a "Sum of All Fears" scale event, a spying scandal that eclipses all prior scandals, and which outrages hundreds of millions of people like never before. faith in govt and Democracy itself will be shaken and may not survive. that is merely the cost of restoring equillibrium and justice.
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I live in Alberta. There is no way this will be economically viable in the short term.

Here's what this is competing with:

Driving from Edmonton to Calgary, downtown to downtown, takes about 3 hours. My car can do a round trip on a single tank of gas with enough left over to do a little running around. The cost is about $60 in fuel, an unknown amount of wear-and-tear on the car, and three hours of time. I've done this trip with four people, so that works out $25/person assuming $40 worth of wear-and-tear on the car. The depreciation and insurance costs are not a factor here since those happen regardless.

If you don't own a car, but have a driver's license, you can pick up a Communauto (our version of ZipCar/Car2Go/etc) and drive it down there. This would probably cost less than $100, and Communauto includes fuel, insurance, and maintenance, but the cars in their fleet aren't necessarily ones that I'd choose for a road trip.

The flight from Edmonton to Calgary takes about 45 minutes from takeoff to landing. You need to arrive at the airport 1.5-2 hours before takeoff. Plus you need to get to the airport at the start of your trip and to your destination at the end. The cost is between $100 and $300 depending on how far you plan ahead, plus three hours of time.

There is currently no passenger rail service between Edmonton and Calgary.

There is bus service between the two cities. Red Arrow runs between Edmonton and Calgary and isn't too bad. You still have to get to the bus terminal at the start and your destination at the end, but the terminals may be in walking distance if you're going downtown to downtown. The cost is $172 plus three hours of time.

To work, this needs to find the sweet spot of taking less time than driving, being less of an annoyance than air travel, and priced right to make up for its own set of shortcomings. $25 per person plus three hours is a really tough price to beat.
This is great stuff, will need time to read it and digest. I feel that CRDTs are something that should have been invented much earlier than 2011. Formalizing the conversation around what the base level assumptions are that are necessary to build these systems is really exciting. I have a conceptual understanding of the implications of distributing state and coordination of changes on that state, but it’s so much easier for us all to get things right when there’s best practices and understanding around these concepts. It’s kind of like how Raft made an easy to understand and include consensus library, or Yjs the same for CRDTs, or libsodium makes it easy(er) to do security correctly. It helps us develop the native units of computing for distributed systems, in the “geographically distinct edge computing sense” and not in the “a bunch of nodes with fast interconnects” sense, where offline is common and coordination has major performance implications to UIs.
I can recommend hot-water bottles, plus a kettle for quick assembly. It's a lot less cozy though, I suppose.
They're not enslaved. No one is forcing anyone to buy a Mac or an iPhone. As long as you have another option, your whole point is irrelevant.
How is this misinformation?
Not a glowing review of firefox lol.
2 things bother me about this proposal:
https://web.dev/web-bundles/

1) The use cases discussed by Google are largely offline. So how is this a "web" standard when it doesn't involve the web? If Google wants to implement an offline app format, that's their prerogative, but it's not clear to me why it should be enshrined as a web standard, just because it happens to use HTML/CSS/JS.

2) Google keeps talking about it as a tool for you and your "friend". I'm suspicious that this is the real motivation. Is the Google Chrome team really very concerned about in-flight entertainment? (Especially now when hardly anyone is flying anymore.) A number of people have suggested that the real motivation here is AMP. The "spin" in Google's proposal is too "friendly".
I tap in the bottom-right corner to open the menu and then tap the refresh button, which is in the bottom-right corner of the menu. So basically don't need to move my thumb at all. Much more convenient than pull-to-refresh in my opinion.
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> The loss of extensions is unfortunate, but not surprising, given they've been gone from mainline Firefox for some time.

What are you talking about? How have extensions been gone from mainline Firefox for some time?
You mean like all the anecdotes in this discussion, which some might call "replies"?
Perhaps I didn't understand the question. I thought the question was about why anyone would save a lot of money from software going "only" 10% faster. Most large datacenter operators will get unreasonably excited about even 1%. But you're probably right that Google itself will not directly benefit from making Chrome faster on macOS.
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Android is better, but far from acceptable. Alternative app stores cannot install and update apps in the background. Without root that is – which Google also fights against.
Kind of like how a totally OT comment about the Tacoma Narrows bridge doesn't get down voted...
I'd say the biggest ethical question is what determines if an action is ethical.
As an extension developer, this is highly frustrated.

Mozilla already broke our extension (Almonit extension) in browser a few weeks ago, when they changed default behaviour unannounced, without supplying (yet) an alternative solution. We actually had to found out about this change because people started to complain.

Now our extension was removed and is impossible to reinstall after this upgrade. It's highly frustrating because we're trying to build a stable user-crowd here, and it's impossible to do if the user experience is being hurt so badly every few weeks.

On the positive note, the people in Mozilla's Add-ons Matrix room were super positive and helpful. The problem was that there's not much that they could really do.
We don't make revenue from ads in pages, or lose revenue if Google smuggles ads into SWF-like WebBundles via AMP imposed on publishers under pain of search rank loss. Brave user ads fill user inventory, not in-page ad slots (perhaps you heard misinformation claiming otherwise). So even as an ad hominem rhetorical ploy, what you wrote doesn't work.
Hm, seems you're right - I think what I must have been remembering was comparing control of home automation products via Alexa/Google (voice and app are similarly responsive) to non-voice HomeKit control. (But even Siri voice seems more responsive than e.g. Alexa voice for Hue, presumably because commands just bounce to Apple and back to me, rather than to Amazon, then to Philips, then back to me.)

I don't actually use voice control on phone, so I guess what I actually want on my Android phone is just HomeKit, and not Siri. (Would also let me switch my camera to HomeKit Secure Video, which I can't practically use with my primary carry being an Android phone, despite owning all of the prerequisites.)
Genetically modified mosquitoes seems to me like a much better way to deal with the problem, though it is controversial: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/genetically-modified-mos...
Most checksum algorithms that I know of for credit card numbers only decrease the number of available digits by 1.

Or equivalently it increases the length by the length of the checksum (usually 1 for credit cards) and doesn't otherwise affect the available numbers.
What about using WordPress instead of raising a seed round?
> either the application writers put in the effort to properly support it

Given the hiccups that we've had with MySQL and locking, I'm not sure that's the case. (Less so with Postgres.)

I have only a moderate amount of knowledge of the applications that the dozen research groups use on the cluster, I just make sure the bits flow and haven't heard too many complaints over the years.
The basis of William Binney and Patrick Lawrence and other grifters is:

1. Filesystem timestamps are a reliable indicator of transfer speed, mechanism of transfer, or anything at all
2. It's impossible to transfer files over 23MB/s over the internet

The first is hard to disprove, admittedly. There might be some cases in which filesystem timestamps, which can be changed by all sorts of different things, are relevant.

The second though is laughably absurd. I don't know what internet the DNC server hosted in a colocation facility had. I do know for a fact that from my residential internet connection in Iowa I could transfer data well in excess of 23MB/s (a mere 184mbps) over the internet, even to servers in Russia.

From these two claims above, they state without any reservation that the DNC hack must have been an inside job, that Russia was never involved, etc. The intelligence community, the Mueller report, and multiple bipartisan Senate Select Committee on Intelligence reports all point to the hack being committed by Russian state actors.
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I was homeless for a period of time that extended to my first year at college. Was honestly not a bad life. I learned something fundamental... that one can get used to anything except being cold. I would go to sleep when the parks closed, around 10. Cold would wake me up at around 3 or 4 in the morning, and grab some more sleep around mid day. It’s one reason why homeless people have dogs... they serve as hot water bottles.

One thing it left me with is that it changed the way I walk through the city. For most people, streets are places they use to get from one place to another. They do not inhabit them as places in themselves. For me and other homeless, they were our homes. This changes how you walk a street... gives you something approaching a swagger.
Binney seems like such an interesting person who stood up for what most folks on HN would probably agree with - that the government had been overreaching in surveillance - and he was mostly sidelined for his opinions.

People shunned by the establishment often end up being abused by the enemies of the establishment - so in this case, Fox and Infowars who would love to give this guy time on air.

He could be right, but I think his lack of awareness of why he might be wrong has really hurt him, he seems to like the attention he's been missing for the past twenty years, so I guess we're all human.
To be honest, it seems like a really bad idea to give third-party app installers root access to your phone though...