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The text in question:

> Highlighting or tapping any word will send the requests with the text to Bing Translate and Wikipedia, as well as back to Amazon.

Is there a reason why that text needs to be sent before the user clicks the "translate" button? Is there a reason why it needs to be sent to Amazon?
Yes, with many thanks to the Republican party that doesn't believe in governing competently. The party of anti-government has been doing everything it can for decades to get the government to break down and screw up. Instead of improving government, they've been systematically destroying its ability to deal with real problems.
Apple can still enforce privacy measures at the OS level.
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Worth pointing out that Amazon is busy killing this route too.

The latest format is to my knowledge currently unbroken - even with suitable plugins. So only way around is to get an old kindle which doesn’t support the new encryption and thus falls back on the old encryption
This assumes people buying Apple devices did it because they want a walled garden. I don't think that's true, I think it's the opposite. Most users dislike it.

Obtuse example: I think the vast majority of Fortnite players would have (much) preferred to pay Epic's cheaper rate.
FWIW, the original kindle used a cellular connection to do position syncing and book downloading. No user-provided SIM needed.
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I know this is really old, but I wonder if it has really been decided completely in all jurisdictions if this is legally ok or not, because on the German Amazon website the button for ebooks is very clearly labelled with the German word for "buy", and it is merely labelled as a different format like hardcover or paperback. There might be legalese buried elsewhere (while creating the account or activating the Kindle or whatever), but according to their own words you buy a book in the Kindle format, you do not rent access to it.

I buy Kindle books all the time, and would love to see this decided in court...
A great article. There is a German-derived word to describe a so called extraordinary person: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cbermensch

Also worth reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man_theory
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> Considering Germany inspired so much of modern medical ethics work, it’s ironic to see them conduct such a study.

Please read the article before commenting and making strong accusations.

In fact, they created an ultra-safe environment where the chance of getting infected would be close to zero.
Of course, FAQs originated in places like mailing lists and usenet groups, where it's arguably a good fit, precisely because there is no real standing body of text.
The trouble is that it then got shoe-horned into being used on websites.
You'd probably see cross buy from Google and the Amazon store on iOS so probably at least 4 stores on iOS would pop up.
At least with Ubuntu server it is pretty easy. The system generated /etc/resolv.conf file even tells you how to disable system control in the comments of the file.

sudo apt install -d -y unbound
sudo systemctl stop systemd-resolved
sudo systemctl disable systemd-resolved
sudo unlink /etc/resolv.conf
sudo sh -c 'echo "nameserver ::1 127.0.0.1" >/etc/resolve.conf
sudo apt install -y unbound
> Katrina used to be a once-in-a-lifetime event, now hurricanes of similar size occur every few years

I think this is patently false, although you're correct that judging by news reports one might think otherwise.

For some perspective on the relative damage of hurricanes over many years, this diagram [1] is pretty good. Katrina looks like a big statistical outlier to me.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-hurricane-nam...
https://docs.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-yo...
IMHO while both political parties are deeply flawed and both corrupted by the power of big money in our system, this whole “partisan divide” thing that makes it sound like there’s no difference between the parties is silly, and inaccurate.

The Democratic Party and the left has its problems.

But “left wing extremism” isn’t on the top of the FBIs of list domestic terrorism threats.

Of course ideally we all should be working together.

But just like saying “all lives matter”, “working together” is often a way of denying historical truth and the flaws and struggles of our nation.

Hacker News is supposed to be fact-based, right?

IMHO folks should go do some googling about what political scientists - experts who work with reason, facts, are deep subject-matter experts and rational debate - have to say about the current functioning of the US political system.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2017/1...

They talk about tribalism but it’s nuanced. And it’s not a simple “both sides need to listen and work together.”

Sorry for the rant.
As of my current device (the Oasis), no, it does not appear to be this promiscuous. I can't speak to the analytics, but the whispersync and book downloading doesn't work unless you explicitly connect it to an AP.
If your enemy still has missiles and you proceed to give him ample time to shoot them at your tail while you peacefully retreat, you might regret the approach.
That you're equating ZFS and BTRFS, and tarring ZFS with the issues of BTRFS, clearly shows how much you don't know about it. ZFS was production-stable more than 10 years ago.
It's rarely the case that Technology sees those kinds of bonuses; that's most common on the Investment side.

And yes, even places like Jane Street separate between Investement and Tech.
Exactly. We leverage gradients of wealth to extract labor more efficiently and that creates all sorts of perverse incentives.
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This all works fine right up until China invades Taiwan.

As we've seen with Brexit and Trump, nationalism trumps economics. America is having a hard time tolerating a growing China, and frankly, China is worth opposing. It had been hoped their growing middle classes would lead to demand for a more liberal government, but that hasn't happened, and instead the CCP sees Western liberal ideas as a kind of alien mind virus which must be extirpated. Another cold war with local hotspots looks almost inevitable.
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Or just do it from the other end and have GPT create comments from submissions by GPT, the result is kinda scary in its realism [0]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/
Can you backup your DRM'ed ebooks with Calibre without striping the DRM? If so, I'd like to know how. I own a ton of Kindle ebooks and would be infuriated if Amazon randomly decided to delete them.
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E-Mail, IRC, forum software, mailing lists aren't at all comparable to Facebook. They do very different things.

I was really talking about, for example, Vine. You'd rather use TikTok than Vine. There might not actually be any social networks from late 2016 no one uses today that I've heard of, so it's hard to give an example that looks back to when 14nm was the typical node size for phones. Which is sort of my point, it is in some strict sense of the word literally inconceivable to go back. Whereas I remember what an iPhone 7 was like, and it's not that big of a change.
Question from me would be, what are the necessary conditions in an organization to create a culture that rewards recognizing and mitigating cognitive biases? Imagining that a series of Rationalist interview questions would seem a bit culty, and run the risk of going full Bridgewater.
That is incredible.

Do you know of any [non-corporate] blogs from their engineers? I'd love to learn more about them from an unofficial perspective.
I think they would believe that a lot of the things they are building are a source of competitive advantage related to trading, low latency etc.

I doubt (for instance) that they have coded up their own HR system.
Pretty much every admission system I have seen can be gamed in some way.

Standardized testing is probably the worst offender here, since while the absolute equalizer on paper (everyone gets the same test!) it really rewards over-fitting and learning how to perform well on one type of exam.
You’re framing your preference for openness as a choice and another’s preference for regulation as “having no choice” which is exactly the problem I was trying to highlight. You see your option as the only option so all others are a mistake, and so are dictating what options are available (is only yours). Do you not see this is removing people’s choice? Especially if already today there are other ecosystems that cater to your desire?
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This is probably the video you saw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLPCdDp_LE0 (Judy Swan, Scientific Writing: Beyond Tips and Tricks)
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> which sucks

Note that it doesn't just suck because you're giving up using the Kindle itself. It also sucks because you'll be losing your entire collection of Ebooks, which are DRM-encumbered and can not be ported to other non-Amazon devices/platforms/apps.

This makes it extremely difficult for other privacy-respecting platforms to compete on the market, since using them requires the user to either break the law by stripping DRM from their books, or to abandon their entire purchased library.

Future TOS/EULA/Privacy changes that might not have been in place when a user originally bought their Kindle can thus be forced on them by making it prohibitively expensive for the user to opt out or change ecosystems.
The trope I've been seeing for most of my adult life is someone moving from Boston or NYC to a picturesque town in New Hampshire or Vermont, building an out-of-scale out-of-character McMansion, then:

"Now, nobody else move here or change a thing!"

There is no disdain like that of the older transplants for the newer. IMX the real life-long residents of a place tend to be more laissez-faire about it.
How do you strip the DRM, if you don't mind sharing?
There were a lot of allusions to food. I assume the writer was hungry when they wrote the piece.
If a substantial fraction of the semiconductor industry (IDM + fabless + fab suppliers) is in Silicon Valley, then the name still makes sense even if there is a lot of other money floating around the area.

also, why would this make sense:

> of course, excepting Apple

Apple is probably the single largest customer of TSMC, and their products depend on their semiconductor design team (especially true now that they are moving to in-house CPUs for laptop/desktop). Why throw them out from a discussion of companies that care about fabs?
NYC is one of those US cities where you can do this and people are leaving in droves. Your hypothesis doesn’t hold up.
Note how the GP uses the word "world" while you use the words "the US"
Would China invade anywhere with strong US backing... I doubt it!

The most aggression we'll see is covert secret service actions, disinformation campaigns, cyber war, etc. They'll never dare drop real bombs.
There are no (very few?) universal rules in tech. The HN advice to buy instead of build is correct in the majority of cases where a startup isn't actually doing anything revolutionary on the tech side (and there's nothing wrong with that! Bringing proven tech to an industry that doesn't have it is a great business model). It sounds like Jane Street does not fit that model.
I was confused and mixed up a story about Apple blocking Unreal Engine, thinking that Epic owned Unity. I figured they had been playing the long game, preparing a Unity IPO to launch in case Apple tried to block it.
well, the article itself mentions it is "an age old idea"..
The old version of the Kindle app for PC works as long as you don't upgrade it.
I don’t mean this in a bad way at all. I’m just surprised that it’s a return to normal vs growth. Where I live though you can build with 3% down. I was surprised to see the remaining lots in my development sell out quickly.
The lack of details make it tougher to side with the apparent victim here. I'd like to know whether she really did violate DRM in a meaningful way and the closure of her Kindle account was an appropriate response. I wouldn't go so far as the author and claim that DRM means you merely rent books from Amazon and they can be taken away at any time. This is likely something that affects a very small percentage of users and is like a freak accident when it happens, though according to radical skepticism, freak accidents may be much more likely than we intuit. However I agree that the response from the Amazon representative must have been very frustrating to receive and this would cause Amazon significant problems if the same thing happened to a large number of users. In the end I hope writing such articles about the problem helps resolve it before it does affect a large number of users.
It's a cat-and-mouse game, to be sure, and the cat has orders of magnitude more money to protect the cheese. Nonetheless, I'm confident whatever new encryption method they introduce will be broken in time.

At the end of the day, as long as the decryption is protected by a key that is held somewhere on the Kindle device, hackers will find a way of exposing that key.
Here's your sign. Do the 1% support it? Yes they sure do. So the 1% will help up get a higher piece of the pie of we let them control our lives but they won't just give us the money and let us keep our freedom. Hmm. I wonder if it's a trick.
Yes I agree. But my point with the Messengers is that it's not really 'scale' so much. Or dev ops. It's more likely the 'wall of features' and perception in business as being the Gartner 'Magic Quadrant' leader etc..
I know people who work there. That comp data excludes bonuses -- and most importantly -- that employees are able to invest in the proprietary funds themselves, which generate insane returns.
This is why I am skeptical of Kindle. It's Orwellian to know all the details of a person's reading habits, and all the minutia of a reading session.

This is why I download e-books from the dark web and read them on an airgapped machine, free from The-eye-of-Amazon
Yeah I’m confused too, I thought Shopify was a platform like Wix where you could only customize the UI. Are these apps for hosted installations where you can run arbitrary code?
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Of course there are some who fit the description you imply. But there’s a huge range of political ideologies which have been influenced by Karl Marx and his intellectual successors - aka Marxism.

Lol I think there was a Marxist hiding under my bed to get me the other night ;).

Such an easy boogie-man word to use.

Even scarier are those “cultural marxists.”

Here’s some fact-based information:
https://www.nyu.edu/projects/ollman/docs/what_is_marxism.php
Hmmm, it said "2000x more reliable than a commodity disk drive" in the article which I misunderstood (I guess that is a comparison to a local HD) + plus my inability to do math late at night :-)

Thank you for the correction!
Sure, but I'm looking for an answer and not idle speculation.
Sounds like a hell of a lot more fun than setting a house on fire.
Luckily we dont have to just sit idly and watch it, we can redistribute water intelligently rather than just letting it flood rapidly back to the ocean.

I'm all for avoiding climate change, but also want us to be real that we dont have to play an entirely passive role in adapting to what might be a new normal
The investment side is engineering.

If you're talking about IT that makes the printer work, sure.
> Your own situation wouldn't be different if you had alternatives to Apple's store.

I respectfully disagree with this statement. I think an analogous situation would be the launch of Disney+: it used to be possible to watch Disney series on Netflix, but after Disney decided to launch Disney+, these series were pulled from Netflix to push the adoption of Disney+. For a Netflix user, their situation would very much be affected by Disney+ existing.
She got her collection back, but without any explanation and she could just as well get it deleted again. Without transparency and understanding which rules she broke, exactly, she (and every customer) is at the mercy of Amazon's whims.

I say Amazon, but just as easily it could have been Google, or Apple, or any other similar vendors of digital goods. There are enough horror stories out there.
Of particular interest is the part about strong emergence, but all in all this is really a fascinating interview.
I have read in forums that companies under-report salaries to the H1B database. They only need to report some number above the prevailing labor market and don't need to report the actual salary employees are paid over this.
"Routinely" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. I can confirm it's possible, as I've been in the industry and have spoken to people who make seven figures at Jane Street. But I would rather say it's "reasonably attainable" for an engineer who has been there for at least five - seven years and is really hitting their stride with the type of work. They do routinely beat out top tech compensation, and most engineers there are doing quite well - in the mid - high six figures. This is still saying a lot, since it's not really reasonably attainable for someone to hit seven figures per year even in FAANG - that would require an exceptional package at L7/E7, a good package at L8/E8, or very lucky timing and significant stock growth at L6/E6. Most engineers will never reach those levels.

There is a caveat to mention: keep in mind that compensation at these firms exhibits survivorship bias. A new grad engineer at Jane Street will receive around $300 - 400k all in first year compensation: around $150k base, $150k guaranteed end year bonus and $100k sign on bonus. From there, what typically happens is further recalibration a year later. Either you're good enough to maintain at least that level of comp, and you stay, or you're out within a year or two.

This means that you may not get an initial pay raise by joining, if you're extended an offer. Engineering offers from top trading firms are often an initial paycut, or an equivalent package, for anyone who is senior or higher at a place like Google and Facebook. You don't generally get to really significant compensation beyond tech until you're a few years in, and implicit in that assumption is that you'll actually stay there.

So let's say you're a new grad with offers from Jane Street, Citadel, Google and Facebook. You'll probably get $400k from Jane Street and Citadel and $200k from Google and Facebook, including sign on bonuses. If you join one of the trading firms right out of school, you'll develop an affinity for the work faster (if you're good enough to stay), and you can reasonably expect to make up to $1M/year by the time you're 30.

But now let's say you're L6/E6 at Google/Facebook. Maybe you're 30 and have $500k total compensation per year. Jane Street isn't going to offer you significantly more than half a million a year just because of your level in tech, unless they have a really pressing need and you're an industry expert. You will probably receive about the same package, with the possibility of making significantly more after developing more experience with their tech stack and work, after a year or two.

The "shock and awe" competitive packages are given to new grads who can be developed from day one, but senior hires require further calibration. There is a ceiling on what trading firms are willing to offer people who have exceptional promise but otherwise no domain experience in finance.

In any case the people I know at Jane Street are consistently exceptional. I highly recommend the firm if you're interested in their work. Likewise Hudson River Trading has a very similar profile but is smaller and has more of a startup feel to it.
That's the reason I like having some classes as pass or fail. It really encourages students to take some classes that are out of their comfort zone and try something different. Else they'll stick to the optimal path and might miss out on some things they might have been good at.
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I agree with your statement, yet the argument is that you are purchasing a license to consume the eBook and enforcement of that license is partially guaranteed by DRM built into those licensed copies, and since in some jurisdictions it is ilegal (immoral/unethical?) to break DRM and breach the license than, legally you shouldn't do that.

Edit: personally, I don't like to be told how I should compute so I reserve the right to do what I want with bits (state of my sillicon) I have. Regarding IP of the content: I make sure not to distribute things I'm not licensed to distribute.
No, but they have a lot of technical content on their corporate blog. They recruit from all the topcoder kind of competitions for those interested in meeting people who work there.
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Yeah - 'lessons learned' is idiomatically more tantamount to something 'learned after having made an error'.

I'll bet there are words in other languages that more perfectly capture the meaning of 'learnings' - and admittedly it's a really ugly colloquialism ... but I would accept it out of a resigned pragmatism.
At least according to many iPhone owners in this thread, that is precisely why they bought an iPhone.

It's also one of the many reasons that I did not.
I don't disagree with this more nuanced framing.
>Plenty of companies are quite transparent about their data collection practices (set up an Apple device recently?)

I have not, not recently, but what you say is simply bullshit. They're "transparent" in that they give you a ToS loaded with legalese that they know you couldn't easily read through to find just how much and where they're squeezing your life for information to store. In cases where they simplify this with some less legalistic declarations of data use, what you often see there are numerous weasel words and phrases to very ambiguously describe what's being done. You know, things like "We MAY collect some information for the sake of improving user experience" and blah blah....

Then of course, there's the outright lying, which also happens, in which big tech companies simply fail to mention some types of data collection anywhere (the Amazon Alexa voice recordings being listened to by humans is a good example iof this)
Google Firebase SDK swizzle too, so swizzle is allowed, from here it's a cat and mouse game.
Have you considered reddit? Or possibly 9gag?
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Awesome!

I did a deep dive into K8s in the last two weeks (usually doing serverless) and I think it really needs projects like HyScale to step up its game.

Even with EKS+Fargate, which remove master and worker provisioning/maintenence, K8s is still orders of magnitude behind serverless solutions in terms of dev experience.