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> Blockchain is what makes it freely accessible to anyone from anywhere without requiring a sign up

Except... You need to signup because there's literally no way to obtain anything on blockchain if you're not a miner.

Well, you could probably sell something for bitcoin, but then oops, you need to sign up somewhere to convert it into actual real money.

> I can’t sign up for a US trading account without a certain amount of capital, going through a specialized broker, and clearing certain KYC rules.

And there are reasons for that. And yes, similar crypto set ups quickly rediscover what those reasons are.

> I can do all of that without ever needing to go through a single centralized authority.

Until you pay for something and that something never arrives. Then you would be very glad to have a central authority.

> All the criticism is so first world centric and elitist

Ah yes. The tired old "but the poor people in poor countries" cries the person whose first example was "I can’t sign up for a US trading account without a certain amount of capital".

Because, as we all know, people not from the first world are flocking to open up US trading accounts and buy TSLA stocks.
Still light years ahead of whatever they use on Windows. To each their own.
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My guess would be either (1) the device asks for more than can be provided or (2) the device just draws more than can be provided and the host detects the voltage sag.
It's even worse when you consider the cost to humanity. They pay the brightest minds they can find to build walled gardens around knowledge.

This is the same reason I don't use Microsoft or Google's stuff unless I have to. Knowledge wants to be free.
It's not closed source - the source is visible when you install it.
> many of us don’t want our iPads or iPhones to be like our computers

And many of us do. I would never buy a locked-down piece of hardware like that. But I don't think it matters either way what either side wants, because it's what Apple wants that matters. They want to keep their walled garden's walls air tight, and there are apparently enough people that are OK living in that garden that it works.

I'm positive that they have done the calculus that they'll make more money in the long/short term by behaving this way. Google did a similar calculus, with a different set of values (if not an entirely different set of variables altogether) and came up with a different answer. Although it's interesting to see how their position has shifted over the years to be a bit more like Apple in some regards. Regardless, the point is they don't care what you want once they've gotten to the point of getting your money. Past that, they only care about maximizing their profit.
"the previous generation of agriculture researchers that worked on the Great Leap Forward that caused the famine"? What the hell are you talking about? What do you mean "agriculture researchers that worked on the Great Leap Forward"?
Your inability to name any of them has been noted.

The fact that some cunts felt your comment was worthy of [vouching] despite your vile comment history tells us all we need to know about this cess pit.
And "permission" isn't even the only issue. Months of Doordash account emails were lost to the ether because I made a typo (gmail.lcom) in my personal email, and it was basically impossible to change the email on an account (their SMS verification seems broken). It does explain why I never got order confirmations though, that had seemed odd.
Cautionary Tales is my favourite podcast. Most episodes concern either interesting (mis)use of statistics or cognitive biases, both of which are topics I find inherently interesting, but Tim Harford and team do a brilliant job of the storytelling too.

Tim Harford's other podcasts are great too - More or Less, and 50 Things Which Made the Modern Economy.

Does anyone have any recommendations along similar lines?
It's not the case anymore.
So much for diversity and inclusion.
the implication... without backing evidence.

Plenty of routes to responsible use - and there needs to be evidence to back accusations: especially against an individual who's presumably done nothing wrong.
The last part is one thing that occurred to me. I rented a Model X recently via Turo and struggled for an entire day with the car operating at <20 miles of indicated range (due to the long trip to pick it up + no local charging options above 7kW).

At the time I wondered if there was 'reserve' range and turns out there is at least one mile left. But it's clear this isn't the healthiest range to run the battery in.

It's possible they bumped the minimum charge a bit just to urge people to not dip so deeply into the well as often.
I've found that while you can't accurately gauge how a work environment will feel to you by the interview, the biggest sign that a workplace is going to be toxic is deception or double-crossing in the hiring process.

Places are unpleasant to work in because the people in them are unpleasant, and unpleasant people treat each other badly.

If the compensation in the job offer is lower (even just a little bit) than what we discussed, or if the job title is different, hard pass.
I agree that what Belarus did was wrong on many levels.

Just a reminder. Assange was journalist as well.

Not exactly the same case but a debate could be had that the moral high ground was given away allowing for this to be seen as more acceptable.
> Twitter creates the instantaneous illusion of social equality between influencers and normal people, but then it periodically reminds you that it’s an illusion.

I noticed a kind of "illusion of community" on Reddit.

E.g., you arrive late to a sub where, say, a female poster complained about her boyfriend. Skimming the comments you see a fairly wholesome thread. Thoughtful comments, innocuous thread-game digressions, good faith advice and disagreements, etc. You even see the OP responding to these and it all seems like an obviously valuable conversation.

Then you start unfolding some of the lower-scored comments. You find trolling, misogynistic statements, nasty insults, bad faith questions that turn into abuse. Worse-- you find OP had the bad fortune of interacting with many of these low quality posters before the mods and participants cleaned up the overallcontent by hiding them.

If you skim the top subs of Reddit, you're almost always following this pattern of reading the moderated content of a thread that originally had a much higher percent of visible abusive content. It seems like the digital equivalent of enjoying watching an organized sport, then joining the team and getting hazed in the lockeroom.
Depends, If I'm the buyer I don't want it but if I'm Toyota and if I can get a way with it while making more money then its no brainer.
Sorry to hear that. Well.. I think workplaces with such mid-year reviews are often not good places to be. Such performance management systems can make individuals completely focused on their own performance grades instead of working together and helping each other. As result , happiness of everyone suffers, and everyone's performance, so it is IMHO not a sensible way to run a business. Some people game the system, some hurt other team members to make themself look better. Feels like a complete waste of time to me and makes for stress. As for being criticised for being too slow, well, maybe what should count is end result not sheer speed. But many businesses don't seem to understand that. Or you may genuinely be slow but that could be stress, its hard when you got young kids, in a better environment you could be more productive. The formula which has worked for me and I share all the time on HN is, learn skills that have strong long-term value e:g linux, command-line, python, ignore fads e:g js libraries, always go for open source if possible, not some vendor that could get bought out or change their strategy. Bottom line is , a happy life should be achievable in tech, we can take not necessarily the best-paying job, not necessarily the most kudos / status, but still have a decent satisfying job that pays enough to raise a family. I have achieved that, partly down to some "vigorous frugality" at times. ;) It's do-able but you have to research employers, talk to people who work different places, find out what its like, sometimes (non-fake) glassdoor reviews can be revealing too. And be prepared to leave jobs and take the plunge. It can be scary to take a risk when you've got kids. But sometimes has to be done. All the best :)
From the link: "Preliminary testing on iOS 14 seems to indicate that Apple has changed the kernel so that this trick no longer works."

This is why the iPad needs a way to disable SIP (and the additional security features) just like the Mac. I could give a heck about the iPhone, to be honest, there's maybe one time in my life being able to JIT Python or whatever would've been useful on my phone. But they advertise the iPad as a computer, and yet their software restrictions make it a portable TV.
they won by default because tesla never responded to the lawsuit
"Because of the constraints on fuel, there was no realistic alternative to going down"

Source? Wasn't it a Transatlantic flight?

"And again, once that happened, the fact the Austrian government sent a search party says it all, no matter how hard you want to spin it"

This doesn't contradict nor invalidate my point at all.
Implementing the authoritative version is a waste since you'll also need to keep an up-to-date list of TLDs, and more importantly, you might have a typo in the input that gives a valid-but-incorrect email.

After doing your simple regex, the best move is to just send a verification email and wait for the user to click the link, if you really need to be sure.
Bacon is great food for thought.
Retail investors allow for some whole new valuations of “I recognize that, so I’ll buy it.”

There’s a long history of retail brands being “overvalued” so I don’t this this is that novel or particularly interesting.

I mean Twitter IPO’d almost 8 years ago and isn’t profitable, still.

Oatly is a super popular brand that I see lots of people talk about. Since it’s popular that may explain the price, independent of fundamentals.

People make lots of money off this psychology so it may not even be a bad buy, if you’re into this sort of thing.

ConAgra is $18B and Kraft is $50B so this seems super high for something that’s in competition with International Delight coffee creamer. I think Danone is $50B for everything.
There's every chance I'm remembering it wrong - the double the clock speed certainly rings a bell. Got a weekly video call with a friend who still regularly hacks on a Beeb, so will try and clarify and update my comment tomorrow :)
Traits are applied to types and because the length of the array is part of the type, different length arrays are different types.

It's only with the very recent launch of const generics (allowing constant values like numbers as generic type parameters) that it became possible to abstract over things like array length.

IIRC there is some stickiness about the default trait that is still blocking a const generic array initializer.
They are cheaper until their not. Family booked a flight to Colorado from Georgia one winter to go skiing. Spirit let us know an hour before the flight that out flight was overbooked and offered us another flight....4 days later.

We ended up coughing up an extra $1200 to fly Delta and Spirit never refunded us because "we could have taken the flight we offered". Last time I ever flew with a budget air carrier.

Now I fly Delta, I pay more per flight but I've been screwed over in the same manner exactly zero times since. In fact Delta has gotten me out of situations of my own doing that Spirit or any budget airline would have shrugged at and told me to suit myself.

At this point I consider the premium on airfare an insurance policy of sorts, might pay an extra $100-200 per flight but if that means not running the risk of screwing up a trip I paid thousands to put together, I'll take it.
For cheaply storing data, sure. The dye on burnable discs tends to degrade over time, though, making them poor for archival purposes.
American SUVs and trucks come to mind. We can for now ignore the wooden, uninsulated houses built in the desert with the AC on for 6-9 months of the year.
> many of us don’t want our iPads or iPhones to be like our computers.

This nails it. I want full control and the ability to run anything on my computer. I want my phone to "just work" and I never want to fuck with it or worry about what's on it. They are different devices with different roles.

What I do wish for is open ARM hardware with similar performance. I am totally certain that it is coming now that Apple has demonstrated just what is possible. Ampere, Samsung, Marvell, etc. are surely working on high performance designs now if they weren't already.

There is nothing magic about what Apple did with the M1. They built a really high performance ARM core by applying a lot of the same things that have been done for high performance in the X86 world but without the X86 dead elephant strapped to their back. The M1 can be duplicated if not exceeded.
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The really annoying part is that there are no reasonable prices. Often the options are for example Ryanair for 50, or KLM for 500. I'd happily pay more than 50, but I'm not paying 500 for a 2h flight.
I know exactly what you mean! I went to HS in north Texas (currently live in DFW) and not once did my family ever consider SE Oklahoma a camping destination. By chance my wife went to a yoga retreat in Broken Bow and was so impressed she forced my to make the drive and we explored the whole area. It’s a hidden gem that many Texans never realized existed because Oklahoma. Earlier this year we bought 20 acres just outside the national forest (2 acres separate us from a trailhead) and plan to build a cabin soon.
It's funny that the narrative for years was "DeBeers cornered the market to create fictional high prices." I believed it myself. Most right-thinking people outside the diamond industry did.

With Russian and Canadian mines coming online over the past two decades it's become clear that they cornered the market to keep prices stable. Volatility has gone through the roof but diamonds haven't become genuinely cheap.

In retrospect this should have been obvious. Cornering the market completely for 80 years would have been impossible if diamonds weren't still pretty rare.

It makes me wonder what other myths I have kicking around my head.
The Uncle Ben brand is intended for the US market and as such is treated so that the grains are less likely to stick together. This isn't the kind of thing that Dr. Longping was interested in.
I was involved in setting up .name back in 2001. We spent ages contacting people with validation rules based on the old set of TLDs. Given that was the first expansion of the gTLD space in a long time, it wasn't so unreasonable then. But it's just astounding that it's still and issue 20 years later.
This doesn't come from fanboys, this comes from dictators.
I’d wager the majority of the population would have no idea how to do that. Even if they know how to use a VPN, all they probably know is to run the VPN program.
Blizzard and Star Citizen use torrents under the hood. Many others do as well, it's just hard to find documented confirmation.
Not the time for what-about. Why is it worth noting?
I actually like APT on ubuntu (and probably Debian), but the disk-image-based install mechanism of MacOS is just WEIRD.

Windows has installers, which makes since for "installing", but I agree there is a lot of inconsistency in windows installers. And at least Mac is consistently weird.
I quite appreciate Apple’s software and general corporate decisions. Can you tell me about a better software/hardware vendor out there?
Have you seen the graph in the article? It's clear that the drop has nothing to do with "natural" degradation.
I worry about the same thing. BTW, I really appreciate Bruce’s articles because I spend my time either creating things or being with friends and family, and I neglect spending much time thinking about security issues, politics, etc. I tend to find people who I trust who are subject matter experts, read what they have to say and fairly much ignore everything else.

I no longer work in the field of Deep Learning, so I am not sure if there is much research in building models that detect auto generated content, sort of the discriminator part of GANs.
> Asking whether tardigrades feel pain is interesting, implying that there would be ethical concerns with experimenting on them seems a bit disingenuous.

Thank you, I was just pondering the aspect, and was mindful just raising some aspects can be deemed as siding one way or another - an aspect I felt I clarified. I was basing from the perspective of what we did in the name of science in the past and how perspectives change.

However it was a sincere avenue of debate/question and certainly not aware of giving the impression I knew more about the subject than came across. Sorry if it seemed that way.

It may well be that in a few hundred years time, people may freely label such ethics of our time as disingenuous and that was the area of debate I find fascinating and the crux point I was raising. Hence was wondering if they had expected results or had some idea from data modelling from what they already knew.

Though let's be clear - I'm not ethically labelling this as good science or bad science, more that whole avenue of debate around this and how we define such ethics and how they change over time, so I'm sorry that was not as well communicated as it clearly could of been.
and the regex you provide doesn't even account for unicode..
What about Cuba? North Korea? Iran? They’ve been sanctioned for decades with devastating human consequences and little to no sign of those sanctions spurring any meaningful change.
That is true. Not a major concern for most shorter people though. As a teenager I once did a 12 hour flight (with refuel stop) on a charter 757 with 29" seat space. Didn't find it terribly uncomfortable back then to be honest. Apparently Ryanair has 30" space.
Have you not come across any of the awesome-* repos?

I personally thought it was one of them but for iOS

e.g. https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
> the obsolescence is too planned in modern Apple hardware

I'm fairly confident Apple hardware has a much longer usable lifespan than competing products—that's why the maintain so much value in the second-hand market.
Except for 6 people, 4 unnamed russians, journalist and his wife/girlfriend(who is not belarus national)
What Intel’s image-enhancing AI means for the gaming industry?
> As Twitter ages and the distribution of status gets even more frozen in, Twitter will have to rely on status anxiety more and more to keep new users engaged. That will exacerbate the toxic dynamics of Twitter, where every statement is willfully misinterpreted, humor is nigh-impossible, and bad-faith attacks are the universal norm.

I’m not sure why Twitter cares whether new users are engaged in terms of replying. Twitter’s business is selling ads, and they just need readers for that, not replies. As long as there is enough interesting new content, then readers will keep coming back.

I think this is a very interesting analysis of the social dynamics of Twitter, but only the part of Twitter that is actively posting and replying. And that is a very small part; Pew says that 92% of tweets come from only 10% of Twitter active users.
I run Firefox on iPad with zero problems…
Yeah, do simple validation, and then just send an email. Even a validated email can still be non-deliverable if there’sa typo in the domain or the first portion.
Yes, but, remember mh-17 - the plane with 200 dutch citizens that russians blasted out of the sky in 2014? I'm sure strong response from the EU is coming in any minute now.
>Being able to reply to high-status people, whether they want you to or not, is a heady status-conferring experience. You can say mean shit to the most famous Hollywood movie star, and there’s nothing he can do about it. Or you can say something nice, and hopefully get a reply or a shout-out. This puts you on a plane of near-equality with people who otherwise tower over the social landscape.

Are there any young celebrities who don't have a presence on social media?

I wonder how that would affect public perception of them vs the ones who do.
There's no ML here.
This is a decades old software technology being packaged as a phone app.
US allies kept CIA black sites on their territory without raising a voice (I guess they were very happy to prove their usefulness to the big boss), I certainly doubt they would protest for landing a plane for a few hours.
ML needs data engineering like electrical devices need electrical infrastructure (i.e. generators, transmission lines, transformers, last mile lines).

It turns out companies have wildly different maturities and proficiencies with these precursors, in addition to simple company ages. Many from having under-invested in actual (not consulting BS) technology transformation and skilling for decades.

Consequently, ML is ridiculous to consider and doomed to failure for company A. While company B can toss a simple model at their well-architected data systems and get immediate ROI.

This is underappreciated, because VPs and consultants are not typically in the business of saying "Our systems are out of date and have poor hygiene, and we can't do this new thing because of that."
Ok, but why was it the case?
The article is short on the interesting part. What are the actual charges? If Tesla is openly admitting that they changed range estimates and throttle charging, what is there for the court to determine?
hotmail.com seems to meet the "short pronounceable *mail.com" criterion.
Doh, somehow I managed to not read that despite (or because?) being in a big callout box near the top of the page.
Because they are limiting. I’m personally in the iOS boat, and it’s great until you try programming on your iPad instead of your non-closed MacBook.

Phones, consoles, tablets are closed because the companies that build them didn’t have competition from open platforms. Computers are still open because they still have competition, if they didn’t they’d likely all be chrome books.

I know it’s sort of hypocritical, but the walled-garden is only nice until it’s curators considers your needs to be weeds.
> It's also bad, because besides it essentially being theft, the grey market opens the door to bad actors who pass off used/defective/rejected/counterfeit parts as the real thing.

People are not stealing macbooks and sending them to chop shops... they steal them and try to flog them so unsuspecting consumers. What grey market parts really mean is dead macbooks and phones that Apple would prefer to see shredded rather than used for spares.

RE counterfeits: I don't know how to seriously answer this, beyond saying: stop being so fucking precious about Apple electronics, no other computer manufacturer has this problem but Apple has to be fully vertically integrated - and the argument for quality has been thrown out of the window, deeo down everyone knows why Apple want this level of control over device life cycle, it's the same as their App store.
> Google did a similar calculus, with a different set of values (if not an entirely different set of variables altogether) and came up with a different answer.

Their answer isn't openness, it's surveillance. Google is a surveillance driven ad company.
Sometimes it's easier to write your headline or post title after you've written your article. You can create a placeholder for a title (e.g. "Thoughts 001") and update it once the post is completed.