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> I’ve always pursued my interests without much regard for final value or value to the world ... I’ve spent lots of time on totally useless things. - Claude Shannon [1]

He is known for a large number of playful side projects.

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/cyberspace/claude-sha...
The mistake that many people do is requesting a systematic change, and then ignoring the systematic effects of it.

Maybe in theory "more stores" sounds like "more good" to you as a consumer.

But the large mass of consumers are not in a position to judge things like safety, performance, reliability, sustainability. They're only in position to judge things like "$3 is less than $4".

So the systematic effect of multiple stores will be that everyone will flock to the cheapest stores, which won't have the means or motivation to do what Apple does. Many of those stores will also be offering pirated applications.

So this will destroy many developers who will lose a lot more than 15% or 30% of their potential revenue to piracy, and it will also end up destroying Apple's own store.

This is what "be careful what you wish for" means. Eating fast food every day is cheaper and tastes better than whole foods, for you as a consumer. By the time your body is destroyed, it'll be too late to have some important realizations.
Thanks for the heads up, just added Apple's support page link.
That's the most irrelevant argument I've ever heard.
Applications of deep learning to decorated ceramic typology and classification
Nope lol
Get a Twilio number and use it for pretty much everything.

Twilio is awesome, I even have my Twilio workflow configured to receive "2FA" calls and hit the # key without my intervention, and I have it set up mess with unknown callers by putting them on hold indefinitely with music.
Show HN: Neo.mjs nominated for “The most exciting Use of Technology”
Maybe Starlink with a single ground station? I know landing makes it so much more complicated, but those Starlinks can communicate back to the station on the lunar surface easily, and the station stays pointing towards Earth on the near side. SPOF though.
Claude Shannon: Tinkerer, Prankster, and Father of Information Theory (2016)
The Historian Embodied
It could be separate efforts, eg one entity mass-exploiting APs and routers to act as outbound tunnels, the access of which is resold to users posting illegal content. Think a rouge black market version of Luminati.
Sure - if they were arms dealers or a drug company they would be doing other bad things, but their business model doesn’t need targeted ads.

People and companies should be judged on their actions not on what you think they would do if they were in some other business.
A lot of folks are aligning Apple's motive to somehow gain advantage in ads business as if they'd able to compete with Google, Amazon or Facebook someday in ads biz. I don't think that is their real motive. I believe Apple's real motive with all these privacy centric features such as ATT, Sign in with Apple, Apple card data not being tracked for targeting etc. is to create a privacy centric moat and platform/ecosystem that is simply missing from the market right now and they know that they have real advantages of keeping people in their ecosystem with this moat. I'm actually happy that they are doing this.
I completely agree, and would love to see a competitor to Apple in terms of privacy focus.

I think the reason we don't see it from competitors is that Apple is years ahead of everyone else in terms of customer experience, and privacy is part of that experience, so they focus on it.

You just have to look at how many different models of phones Samsung sell vs how many Apple sell to see how unfocused Apple's biggest competitor is. They will throw anything and everything at the wall to see what sticks. There's no focus on privacy because there's no focus on anything.
Right out of Moonraker!
I totally understand that whether you were offered the position or not isn't the key take away of the story.... But for the sake of my own wondering, did they offer you the position?
Look, if you're worried about that, I don't know how you get through life without being totally paralyzed.

You live in the USA. All persons and companies are subject to whatever intelligence activities that we got a glimpse of which are happening.

You adjust your life accordingly and live on. Because I don't know where else you can go that has the similar benefits of being a US citizen and the environment we enjoy.

Or if you do, it's probably time to put your money where your mouth is and move there. There's not a lot of good in raising these impractical concerns when there's no good alternative or change you can effect.
MITM proxies don't work when apps use certificate pinning. Many popular apps do this.

> everyone who wants to manually inspect the bytes coming out of their phone

== everyone who actually gives a damn about their privacy

Do you even know what your phone apps are sending about you? I know what my apps are sending about me. Some of it is pretty scary, honestly.
Are you OK? Everything good at home?
gatekeeping github... classic

agree with the others here. github isn't some place where only published packages go.
If that is the case, the please stop glorifying every single apple IPhone or product release like it is a gift from god and that Steve jobs and Tim cook can do no wrong.
Apple iPad Pro M1 Teardown
Please read the guidelines. Every sentence of that comment breaks at least one.
Hi Lucas,

Development is not only a technical matter, you need also to interact with people to understand their requirements and make them happy with your work.

Maybe getting some formal education on Web development could be a good idea.

Plus for all that is technical you need to learn English.
Learning and loving English is the best thing I did to help my career.

In the long run (you use the word "career") beware that Web technologies become obsolete quickly, and what is more important is to be able to understand what they mean for people of different venues, how to use them or even why not to use them.

When you will have my age (64) the whole "web" will probably be irrelevant.

*****

Oi lucas,

O desenvolvimento não é apenas uma questão técnica, você também precisa interagir com as pessoas para entender suas necessidades e deixá-las felizes com seu trabalho.

Talvez obter alguma educação formal em desenvolvimento para a Web possa ser uma boa ideia.

Além de tudo o que é técnico, você precisa saber inglês.
Aprender e amar inglês foi a melhor coisa que fiz para ajudar na minha carreira.

No longo prazo (você usa a palavra "carreira"), tome cuidado para que as tecnologias da Web se tornem obsoletas rapidamente, e o mais importante é ser capaz de entender o que elas significam, como usá-las ou mesmo porque não usá-las.

Quando você tiver minha idade (64), toda a "teia" se tornará irrelevante por obsolescência.
like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26628285

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Endow. Extend. Extinguished.
Well, is re-education better for society than removal? It's expensive and unreliable, whereas if you only consider the society of people whom we owe the respect of their negative rights (based on reciprocity), incarceration is cheaper and more reliable, and death penalty is cheaper and more reliable yet.
dude, the heart is in the middle of your chest.
At first we used pthread only. But after the windows branch was added, we have to make it compatible with windows and standard <mutex> was used in the some shared codes.
Codes in the "kernel" folder are for Linux only, and some of them are C.
Iery vncredible.
Playing poker and magic (really any strategy game with chance built-in) , sometimes you'll make the play with the highest likelihood to win and still lose. You can have all the advantage, play perfectly, and sometimes the cards don't fall your way. Looking to better your own plays without tilting too hard to bad luck is crucial to succeed at a high level. On the flip-side, identifying where luck was a component of your win allows you to make the most of reviewing old game states.
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I updated the link above.

I am not sure how much information Apple gets but if with an in app purchase of say a eBook, they get to know which eBook it was, it is creepy.

Apple really doesn't have to do any ad personalisation but still they are doing it as it is just more money for them. My fear is, eventually when they monetize more of their web properties, the data collection will increase.

While they might not allow others to sniff your data, they are in too much of a dominant position to not use it for themselves like the purchases data.

For me, this fight will always be, who will watch the watchmen? Regulatory hammer seems to be the only long term solution I can think of. As Apple's integration of hardware + software + software gateway + services, is just too scary and eventually will give them too much power.
Thanks, now I'm imagining a dystopia where large tech companies have their own militaries.
I recent played Onward, the War Sim on the Oculus Rift. I learned that I greatly increase my team's chance of winning if we work as a team and communicate. Going solo/Rambo was not the optimal strategy.
How the Covid pandemic ends: Scientists look to the past to see the future
Back to the future: the story of Squeak, a practical Smalltalk written in itsel [pdf]
Care to share evidence before making such allegations.
How does Maker for example not create any value? They’ve built a decentralized USD-pegged token, how is that not worth something?
Is there a link to the source? What is the tech stack here?
> For the last 4 years a failed business man con artist destroyed pretty much all he could get his hands on and he's still hailed as some sort of mythical creature.

Nothing could be more wrong.

Trump was the best President the US has had in 75 years.

He was 100% correct about:

1) The need for a border wall. Biden's poor messaging has resulted in around 100,000 children separated from their parents and warehoused in the US currently.

2) The need to address the CCP. Nobody else was able to oppose the Cold War invasion of US' education and financial institutions until Trump/Pompeo addressed this - a mythical performance.

3) The need to stop flights from China early in the pandemic. The decision is obvious today, but he was called a racist for demonstrating the leadership he was elected for.

4) Europe is now aware of their need to pay their share of defense spending, which historically was half of what was agreed.

Some con man. The Dems/Marxists are re-learning the above the hard way.

In case you don't understand what MAGA means, it means America First, which should always be our policy. Instead, the current administration is "sisterhood first", which I'm sure delights the CCP, Russia and political Islam - all ideologies against everything that made America great.
I think you’re right about the privacy moat. But I think it flows from a focus on improved user experience. Ads are terrible for user experience because they slow your browsing, block content from your app, take up space in your start menu and are a malware vector.

Once ads are off the table, what else can Apple do?
>The geographical location of the repairer does not matter because shipping is a thing.

I wasn't suggesting it did matter in regards to his mail-in business. Someone else mentioned that living in a large city makes it easier to maintain a high volume of work locally.

>Apple will charge you $475 to replace a motherboard rather that has a blow 40 cent capacitor on a MBP.

This is true. My point was that when a large computer repair shop run by arguably the most famous person in the electronics repair industry is only attracting enough work to have an annual revenue of 1-2 million a year, it could be entirely possible that a regular, non-famous person in a smaller electronics business might struggle to stay busy enough to earn enough of a living, even if certain repairs like the one you described are very profitable on their own.
> ask yourself if you are prepared to die for "democracy in Belorussia"

You should be very careful making statements like this. The United States jumped into two world wars that were thousands of miles away from its shores - and those were in periods of history when "isolationism" was considered a popular virtue.

Generally speaking, Americans are judgmental, moralistic, and bloodthisrty. This can be a force for good and/or evil.
The implication seems to be that by advocating for the trail, the commenter is encouraging others to hike it, crowding the trails. Which echoes a sentiment I've heard from others too; the more people who hike a trail the worse it gets, from overcrowding and overuse.
Fedora has significantly fumbled DKMS handling for Linux kernel modules
If you accept that corporations are not driven by ethics, then that doesn’t make sense.
Genuine enthusiasm is lethal in any work environment. IT is considered a cost center and people who actually care keep asking for things which cost more money or overcomplicate a manager's work day.
If Apple offers real privacy now, that's good for them and the consumers who are willing to pay premium for privacy. Two questions:

1. Is there a way to verify that Apple is not using or selling the user's data?

2. What is preventing Apple, after gathering all the users data, from changing its EULA/ToS and starting to sell the user data? Is an average user going to export all the data from Apple and jump to another platform (if there is one offering better privacy)?
If my other link didn't contain enough data for you, here's more from before COVID and before Floyd

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/12/675359781/americas-growing-co...

Yes, I agree that US police forces need heavy reform, starting with decreasing the power and influence of their unions, then with limiting their function (e.g. they should be escorted by a health professional for mental health related calls), and then with increasing their increasing pay and expecting better and more educated results.

If we're just going to swing far right ("Nothing is wrong. Everyone else is wrong and we should stay the course"), or far left ("the police can never be reformed, let's abolish it") hammers to solve or ignore the problem, then both solutions will just lead to the same result: no one wants to be a police officer anymore which imo will also increase police brutality and crime as a side effect. If we go down either extreme route, I predict that eventually machines will be our judge, jury, and executioner. I hope I'm wrong.
Apple also has a question mark attached to its commitment to privacy in China.

Even though the Twitter thread below is by a NYT reporter, it sounds directionally credible given how embedded Apple is in China, both from a manufacturing point of view and also as a growing market.

2021-MAY-18

"NEW: Apple is jeopardizing its Chinese users’ data and augmenting the Chinese government’s censorship to placate authorities and keep its business running. Here is our multiyear investigation into Apple's Faustian bargain in China: ..."

https://twitter.com/jacknicas/status/1394378309325230080
Charlie Bit My Finger to be removed from YouTube, sold as NFT via auction
FNet: Mixing Tokens with Fourier Transforms [video]
Scrub forward until you see a yellow note pad.

https://m.twitch.tv/videos/1032025987

The source to complete it is on my GitHub. My IG of same handle has progress pics, recently marketing and sales.

I’m sure there are many more similar projects out there, unsure if like I they are angling for physical communities and local taxes.

TDC and iSL have initial docs, and the CarPuter machine is like $750 of parts.

I have many app designs up the stack. Captured as video or drawings or in slices as prototypes.

City Apper. IG, .com... still turning the lights on.

I picture each community having one, like a community center. B corp.

If others run with the idea then great.

I have some unique work constraints on the .com mockup modeled after a successful real life organization and my own experience bootstrapping and being close to it.

I’m my own customer for a few years, now homeless it runs at 4-9W even Twitch streaming screen cap, web cam, and using headset audio.

Ie. we can DIY and reasonably commercialize 1-off hardware. My favorite tacos seem more expensive than chain tacos, but are way more nutrient rich thus worth the cost.

Decentralized. In line with Internet OG. RSS friendly, merchant integration, XMPP, EmailInABox, iCal, LUKS, GPS, USB 3, LTE modem, CDN caching, ....
All good at home, thanks for asking.

Just pointing out that it's easy to point fingers and criticize. If you really believe in values or a cause then work for it. Right? Both Apple and Signal whom you are criticizing are doing much better for humanity than Zynga.
Except that we already know what that landscape looks like on Android and... it's fine. Everyone still uses the Play Store.
A Japanese company cut 80% of the time needed to manually count pearls
So you like an OS that sends fake sensor data to apps, but you trust it to send real network data to you? What if it doesn't? What if the hardware sends fake network data to the OS? You clearly don't give a damn about your privacy, because everything you do can be subverted through any of those components.

People who give a damn about their privacy write their own OS, apps and install it on their custom built hardware that was built into their own semiconductor factories, using personally sourced materials and designs.

Yes, I can also play this game.
This could well be reason to prohibit such research. When things go wrong, they will be covered.

It took WHO over a year to be able to enter China. And what did they do? Release a memo denying laboratory theory without any evidence. No bat, nor intermediate has been found (not the case with SARS/MERS). Sure there is no evidence on lab theory either. The Chinese army has been running that lab since this started.
Privacy is fundamental human right. Don't need to be interesting person.
If you're dissipating significant energy in a resistor in a switching power supply, you're doing it wrong.
If you've chosen to buy something from Apple, it's hard for Apple not to know that you've bought it.

I don't think that's an issue.

What is an issue is the cross-correlation of any given company's data on you with lots of other "big data" companies, building a profile, not just of what you've bought from X, but from Y, Z, hell throw in the whole alphabet, why not ?

Then there's the machine learning that says when X,Y,Z are all bought within a small time window, that means alpha is likely, and decisions can be made on that basis.

It's the spread of the network that is the problem, IMHO, not the knowledge per se. My butcher knows what cuts of meat I like, there's no need for my cobbler to be aware...
Microsoft’s privacy efforts are limited to what’s minimally required to achieve certain data storage or other compliance conformance.

Even worst, consumer products like Windows 10 and tools like Visual Studio Code come with extensive telemetry and tracking enabled by default. Remember recently the office 365 fiasco when they thought it will be ok to track employees and make reports out of it?
The Next 700 Module Systems [pdf]
Be seen where they search
I can't decide if this is perfectly cogent or utter bullshit. The site itself makes plenty of sense and is even mildly technical. However, the Twitter account associated with the site (https://twitter.com/UAPTheory) is, uh, rather bonkers. Despite the perfectly decent (if qualitative) reasoning on the site itself, I can't help but feel like the pseudonymous author has too many intellectual red flags
A plane was travelling between two countries. The head of state of a third country gave the direct order to hijack said plane in order to murder someone onboard.

I can't see how you'd interpret that as anything except an act of war. That doesn't seem like an offensively transparent excuse to me. Certainly in comparison to "My fortune cookie said they might have WMDs" or whatever the line was two decades ago that was apparently good enough for the US.

I'd say "what does it take, a literal invasion?" but that already happened in Crimea.
The willingness to generalize about and castigate meat eaters is telling.

>pretty decent lives for the animals

There is a romanticized vision of nature which isn't entirely accurate. Consider animals in a state of nature. Most will die horrible deaths after suffering sickness or death. Humanely treated domestic animals live charmed lives in comparison. Their health is valued, protected by human incentives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTVlifTAdlM
I deny functions to apps in Android all the time. I've yet to run into an app that will refuse to run unless that denied function is explicitly needed for that app to do what it was designed to do: eg, location for maps.
All block chains in practice require trusting central authorities (trust the code, trust the protocol, trust the math behind it, trust the hardware, trust people to honor their off-chain transactions, trust authorities to help when they don't etc.) so this whole fantasy about 'trustless systems' is meaningless anyway.

You can't create trustless electronic systems for humans. There is simply too much complexity in even the simplest hardware and software for any single person to be able to understand without trusting others. And this doesn't just apply to the 'unwashed masses', but to every single CS researcher, OS programmer or Linus Torvalds.
Spoonerisms are fun, especially when they make funny sounding words. Recently found the book Runny Babbit by Shel Silverstein with my son which is now one of my favorites.
Sad to see articles like this. Just because startups aren't for you, it doesn't mean it's not for everyone. Consider that all great companies today were startups sometime ago, I consider startups in tech are a majority source of innovation and disruption. Yes joining a startup is risky, and it may not justify the effort if all your focus is the financial return. But some ones will have to do it, make better products or services, and enable others to do even greater things.
Which UX is good can be a matter of opinion, some people may prefer different programs. I use a IRC client which doesn't do a lot more than display raw IRC protocol messages with syntax highlighting and a few other things (such as shortcuts, macros, filters, auto-pong, etc), and I think it is better than any web chat that I have seen (profit or not), but I am strange, anyways. But, I am the kind of guy who use Heirloom-mailx for email (one thing it has is the ability to write an attachment to a pipe; most modern programs only support files and not pipes; a lot my own software is designed to import from and export to pipes instead of files, since I think that is more useful), who want to read the RFC before using the internet, and who learned Magic: the Gathering by reading the entire Comprehensive Rules before starting the game, and disliking USB, and preferring Plain TeX instead of LaTeX; which I think are the kind of things that most people hate. So, it is a matter of opinion, I suppose.

It seems to be a lot of more modern programs seem to have worse UX, in my opinion (part of the problem is lack of documentation, too); not whether or not it is profit. At least in my experience, profit makes many things worse because they try to be mass-marketing and more trying to earn money, rather than being first the quality of the product. And also, they put too many fancy animations and stuff.
> You can't run a complex machine like a human body and never, ever do any analysis to ensure it's running within acceptable levels.

Well, it's been how humans have lived for the vast majority of the time we've existed. You don't even have to go back 100 years and medicine was closer to superstition than science.