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It would be weird if you brought up your community theater role at a commercial audition and their question was "Is this going to make you any money?"

Even if they don't consider community theater roles to be relevant experience, a casting director/interviewer shouldn't be caught off guard by them.
This looks interesting. The UI/UX is good but for the obligatory negative HN comment: what is new with this metrics dashboard vs established open source dashboards like Kibana and Grafana? The latter being very feature full, simple to run, and easy for many people to understand.
Provide sources please. This post is full of odd conclusions and non-sequitors.
> just denying them permissions, which in many cases just cause apps to refuse to function.

Factual question: which apps in your experience "refuse to function" when you deny them permission to track you?
This post is really, really refreshing to read. As a startup founder I empathize deeply with how difficult it is to "actively seek out dissent." Product pipelines move quickly, teams need to feel they can have initiative to deploy things independently from the rest of the org, as a cross-team leader it's unhealthy to squash that initiative... but at the same time you need to set boundaries about when something needs consensus.

IMO this is why it's vital to have Core Principles at a company (in this case, "user trust" might be a reasonable wording), both at a product level and a meta level, about how the world needs to see the company and the company needs to see itself. And when any employee, no matter where, feels something might breach Core Principles, it should be a five alarm fire that the C suite should know about and react to (or delegate said reaction), and if it turns out to be a misunderstanding, that employee should not feel they expended any political capital in escalating their concerns - at worst they might just require more context about why something is either a non-issue or necessary (which in this specific case doesn't apply), and leadership should be excited to see them growing by asking those questions. Ideally, it's as easy and low-risk as submitting an internal bug report.

Of course, I can imagine this stops scaling at some point. FAANG need very different approaches to this problem, and that's probably an entire business school class to answer. But I feel any smaller organization with a focused product can move in this direction!
Did you know that by judiciously chopping some words out of a sentence, you can create an entirely different sentence? It's usually considered bad form to do this while suggesting you're quoting someone, though.

Compare:

>> dropping out will only waste money you already had if you were paying out of your savings. It will waste a lot more than that otherwise.

> dropping out will only waste money

Did you not notice that the meanings of these sentences are not related? What is the scope of only in each of them?
And yet, if the voltage is low enough, it will linger for minutes to hours. Plenty of time to kill someone.

Maybe I'm just salty about having had this argument too often recently. But I strongly believe that every mains voltage or higher system needs bleeders across its capacitors. If you don't want to pay for the resistor, fine... but leave the footprint for it.

This goes 10x stronger if the thing is open-frame, sits on a bench, and is regularly being probed by engineers. Just put the goddamn resistors in there before someone gets hurt.

Ahem. Apologies for the intermission.
Certain competitive online games (well truthfully, all) are never balanced. It’s too much like real life, as in, not fair at all.

If you try to play the game just to have fun, you will basically never progress unless you are an elite gamer (gifted muscle memory).

If you find out how the game is unbalanced, and play the advantageous strategies, then you can win consistently. Even if it’s not fun.

Software field has something similar going on. Leetcode is the most optimal thing one can do in software at the moment. It’s not fair, but that’s how you win.

At scale, most online competitive games employ matchmaking algorithms that make sure you never really break even unless you are brilliant. Super depressing. You stay at a 50% win rate unless you optimize for the efficient winning strategies. It’s super fucked up.

It’s some odd version of video game Taylorism, and I fear software is going to suffer from this as we scale with more and more people. As I mentioned earlier, it’s already odd that we use Leetcode (an absurd advantageous strategy) to get ahead.

It’s depressing.

So yeah, long story short, when I get tired of losing in these games, I basically suck it up and do the optimal thing and start winning. It’s a really dirty thing and I hate doing it.
Varies a lot by manager, company, and culture. If they are determining raises and have enough for 3% per team member, allocating 6% to someone who is a flight risk is risky. If that person leaves, 3 people who got 2% raises are now getting paid less for a strategy that didn't pan out. As a manager, you may be able to get an out of cycle raise for them, or you might not.

If the other employees start looking for a job because of the low raise, you will have more positions to fill and more headaches trying to transition projects between people, reprioritizing, taking on additional work to fill in the gaps, training the new employees, etc.
Sadly, some recruiters are looking for a cog to fill a specific hole, and they do not want someone more experienced or better than what they're looking for (ie. they dont want the Einstein, they just want a math teacher). The salary would also reflect that they are specifically looking for a cog. It's best that you didn't get that position.
>But, can’t we infer from Apple’s earning statements how much they’re monetizing user data? Currently that seems like not much.

That only tells you how they're doing competing against the other ad networks, not how much they're trying to monetize the data. Instead since they couldn't compete, they drew a moat around their devices where other companies can't get the data apple can, now.
There is a fine tradition of protest by sharing information kept as secret to avoid public knowledge of government malfeasance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers
I like that this hit the front page at the same time as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27256867
The author gives Apple credit for solving a problem Apple created.

Apple doesn't care about protecting you. They care about protecting their own advertising market share. They don't want to stop tracking your iPhone. They want competitors like Google to stop tracking your iPhone (for free). Apple wants to get paid for that.

If Apple cared about you then tracking functionality would not exist.
It's been many years since I've read it, but physics professor Richard A. Muller in his book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_for_Future_Presidents argues that agricultural planes pose a great possibility of danger in relation to terrorism. They're small, nimble (meaning quite maneuverable) while holding a great amount of liquid. Gasoline is particularly suitable (911 attack were planes with tanks filled up for long distance flights for a reason) in attacks due to its high energy density.

He speaks of the farmer's community though as a tight nit community. Used planes are sold and bought within the community, farmers themselves would be very suspicious selling to someone "shady", and the FBI knows about this threat vector as well and is monitoring it closely (iirc).

So there's an example of a small plane and its potential use case in terrorism. Not sure how easily a Cessna could be rigged up to do something of that kind.

Another attack vector in the future might be small drones. Due to them not holding tons of gasoline, some form of biochemical weapon or radioactive material could be distributed.

Muller argues that the mass panic of an incident involving biochemical materials or radioactivity would most likely be a greater danger than the "material threat" itself. Many people would be scared of "radioactivity" without much understanding. People are not particularly well educated how radioactive decline works, what half life times really mean (long half life meaning slow release, less imminent danger), why various types of radioactivity can be quite different from another etc.

So don't underestimate terrorists. Luckily, don't underestimate smart people in three letter agencies thinking about this either.
https://mobile.twitter.com/antoniogm

That guy was just fired by apple after a staff revolt described as "woke" which made news.

Separate to that, his alumn is facebook, specifically ads. Whatever spin they put on it he was literally hired to monetize for apple the private data they hold that belongs to you. There is zero contractual it enforceable commitment by Apple to prevent them from stealing and doing literally anything they like with your data for a reason. They will do it the instant it is worth the reputational hit for officially announcing their privacy marketing is knowingly dishonest. Which it is.

If they had any value at all on your privacy it would have contractual protection. Cannot be sold, cannot be provided to a third party without being legal compelled, cannot be used by Apple. It's easy to do this and they have chosen not to. It would cost dramatically less than their "these things are private" ad campaign. Orders of magnitude less. It would get orders of magnitude more reach than their ad campaign. They don't have this in contact for a reason. That reason is bait and switch. Their advertising overtures to privacy are worth even less than Google's lack of them. Apple are utterly foul.

The bar is so unbelievably low and apple, google, facebook, and all their ilk compete to get deeper below it and bash us harder.

It's our fault. We didn't do... Like they commanded. See what we made then do?

/Waves to apple zealots and gravy train riders.
It's taken me a long time to understand this, but sometimes the single mistake is something that leads to a cavalcade of mistakes. That could be putting a burned out person in the review pipeline who greenlights everything, it could be an overzealous engineer trying to make a name for themselves with retention and engagement, etc...

As pointed out earlier, we do need to let people make mistakes, and often their paths will appear to be non-linear. I struggle with this too, but a world that doesn't understand that is much worse.
Domino's India Data Breach – 13TB employee files and customer details
Vechicles have a lot of propiatiary information in them. We are dumping vechicles because Independant mechanics don't have access to repair information.

I believe only one state, which I can't spell, has a Vechicle Right to Repair law.

I went to automotive school, and have been a part time mechanic. The amount of vechicles going to the scrap yard over relatively minor problems I find disheartening.

I agree with your statement emphatically. I just wanted to add vechicles to the Right to Repair debate.
Not sure why there is so much talk about death penalty - according to other sources these is 3 to 5 years of prison at max.
That's of cause if the law doesn't change just for this guy in next few weeks.
I don't know about elsewhere , but Frontier took over FiOS management in some regions and continued to push those same APs for a long while.
Buy a horse.

Take a few rudimentary lessons; enough so you know that the even that half-asleep 30 yr old lesson horse will still scare the sh*t out of you.

Then buy a horse.

Not a green stupid horse. An experienced broke, safe, smart, high energy, athletic horse. One that knows how to behave but knows damn well enough how to misbehave too.

Get on said horse.

Don't die.

Works like a champ.
The Journal says Apple’s ads business is estimated at $2 billion currently (but this isn’t reported in their financial statements): https://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-privacy-changes-are-pois...

Apple’s services category made $16 billion in revenue last quarter and includes ads in addition to other businesses like music and TV. Apple’s growth story to investors hinges on the services category.
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You didn't get it. Apple is not making any decisions on whether to allow apps to track or not. They are simply delegating that choice to their users (and rightly so). The user has power to chose which advertisers he or she can trust showing them the useful ads and allow those apps to track. If ads are not useful or are exploitative of their data then they can chose not to allow tracking. As simple as that.
My address , email and mobile number is exposed
I’m a bit lost here. If all you want is to do MITM, what stops you from installing a certificate and a “VPN profile” on the iOS device and proxying the communication for analysis with appropriate apps? You don’t need to jailbreak to do any of this, as Charles Proxy for iOS (paid app) [1] shows.

Of course, if you need to do more than intercepting network traffic, then it gets a bit more cumbersome on iOS.

[1]: https://www.charlesproxy.com/documentation/ios/
From the article -

>> IPoAC has been successfully implemented, but for only nine packets of data, with a packet loss ratio of 55% (due to operator error),[2] and a response time ranging from 3,000 seconds (≈50 minutes) to over 6,000 seconds (≈1.77 hours).
I found a video so I could understand it better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdXIVQ-asqU

There seem to be three people involved besides the magician.

(1) the person who names a card
(2) the person who names a position
(3) the person who holds the deck and counts off the cards

I noticed that they state person (1) and person (2) are not stooges, but conspicuously don't say that about person (3).

But I'm tempted to go with those who say the secret is simply that they lie about (2) not being a stooge who knows the position of each card. That seems like the easiest way to do it.

If it really is a tremendously difficult trick that required years of training and so on, what's stopping someone else from doing it by just lying about the stooge?
Except Apple is putting its own ability to track you under a different opt-out (default opted-in) that isn't set when you first launch the iphone.
There's still a huge elephant in the room. How are we supposed to trust Apple, Microsoft or any other tech company when it emerged that they fully cooperated with the NSA and their PRISM program.

We have to just assume that's still running. Businesses could keep a lot of secrets from us and they're not transparent or accountable to the public.
I was never entry level. First programming job was senior. Like really senior.

No idea why they hired someone brand for senior.

I guess for a while I explained it as “senior” and “junior” not necessarily being descriptive.

Now I think it’s that I had related experience (I had been a teacher, and training/mentoring is a big part of the job.)
To a person reading the article, if they don't already know OpenGL then it's just confusing.
And even further, this comment renders as:

> Interestingly, this romment cenders as:

>> Happy to see that "Nacker Hews" comes up as "Hacker News" there. The circle is complete.
Hmmmmm, that's kind of interesting. You're seeing the sort of crash you get when the browser's decided your system can't handle WebGL, and turned it off. Normally that would translate to "what GPU are you using, it's probably too old" -- except Firefox is apparently fine.

I'll bet chrome://gpu either shows "WebGL: disabled" or "WebGL: enabled; WebGL2: disabled". I think `ignore-gpu-blocklist` in chrome://flags should affect WebGL.

FWIW I'm running Chrome on Linux with hardware rendering force/explicitly enabled for both video and rasterization (`enable-gpu-rasterization` in chrome://flags - don't think this affects WebGL), and it all works great (notwithstanding terrible thermal design) on this fairly old HP laptop w/ i5 + HD Graphics 4000. (The GPU process does admittedly occasionally hang and need killing so it restarts, but that's about it.)

Getting video decode requires --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder on the commandline as well, or at least it did in the last version of Chrome, I haven't checked if this is no longer required.

If poking `ignore-gpu-blocklist` doesn't work, what does chrome://gpu show in Chrome, what does about:support (and possibly about:gpu? not sure) show in Firefox, and what GPU and OS are you using?
That’s a hold out from the Android world, where apps are generally written to expect the user to provide requested permissions. Before Android 6, apps would get all permissions requested for on installation (or the user wouldn’t be able to install the app). From Android 6, when the permission model changed to be similar to iOS to get it at runtime, apps didn’t get written for this new world and would crash or refuse to work. Even today, there are apps that will refuse to function if some (non-critical) permission is not granted.
Most apps now use certificate pinning, i.e. they have the root certificate included in the app and signed as part of the app, so that method won't work.

On Android it's much easier to intercept and modify the behavior of apps and tell the system to disregard signatures and things of the sort.
Obviously. But just because Apple is in it for themselves doesn’t mean that their customers can’t also benefit. Clearly, it’s mutually beneficial - customers get privacy-focused devices, and Apple gets money from people that care about privacy.

All that said, the level of privacy Apple offers in any of its devices is superficial at best. There are way more problems Apple needs to solve before any of its devices can be considered “private.”

Your IP still gives away your location, apps can remember if they were installed on your phone, you can’t turn off network or sensors for individual apps, etc.
Right? Reading this discussion and posting this comment from an iBook G4 from 2005. It actually works great (other than many websites being inaccessible due to SSL compatibility issues). That said I'm only using it for the heck of it while the battery is charging… ;) Still, yes, I wish there wasn't such a constant expectation from tech companies to constantly update to the latest & greatest (complete with persistently-nagging update reminders, UX dark patterns, etc.) So much waste inherent to the industry IMO. Though people seem to just happily go along with it too…
>Belarus triggering a defence treaty with Russia? Pffff, he can trigger it upon his own head, as did Armenia.

Armenia did not trigger anything. It was not under attack.
I guess we are having a language problem here, because when we have three options to refer to, it is obvious that it depends.
yes that's true, liquid inks usually have more resistance and this is a drawback. This is because the ink contains non-conducting materials which are required for the right viscosity and to prevent the silver to agglomerate.
These can usually be removed by heating.

One can also use high intensity light to "weld" the silver particles together without damaging the plastic substrate. This requires an expensive setup but improves conductivity drastically...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photonic_curing
I feel changes a lot between locations

A lot changes between times, too. Decades ago, those of us who did computer "stuff" in places like the Bay Area were typically nerdy science/math lovers who were an unfashionable segment of society with hobbies like ham radio, astronomy, homemade electronics, science fiction, math competitions, etc.

Meetups like the West Coast Computer Faire, little shops like Weird Stuff, amateur radio "hamfests", astronomy clubs, and so on were everywhere. Programmers knew how to use soldering irons and slide rules. Tech companies were rounding errors compared to, say, car companies.

But the intellectual fashion enforcers with wealth and power that tech companies are now, with tools to make society submit to their will are not the culture we were. Like Wall Street before them, they have bigger plans than ordinary, little people with their quaint hobbies. So even though we pocket protector and slide rule types still exist and can form a quorum online, the in-person meetings mostly (not entirely but mostly) vanished back in the dot-com mania.
At one point WeChat wouldn't permit logging in without location permissions. RoboRock vacuum cleaners also must be set up using an app that requires GPS permissions, and they send your GPS and Wi-Fi passwords and things to their server. It's sad, but they make one of best actual vacuums.

I'm not sure if that's the case still but I've run into several other apps that do similar things. It's pretty widespread.

In any case, it's awesome to have an OS that can make apps think they got permissions and just shove fake data at them.
I believe it is you who has a misunderstanding. Let's word this differently.

Apple gives apps the ability to track and users the option to disable that feature, but they built it with dark patterns.

Now they've removed the dark patterns, but you can still have this awful feature that nobody wants. Why?

And why is Apple getting credit for removing dark patterns that they created earlier? Why does this feature exist if 99.999% of people don't want it in the first place?
Exactly! You're on the right track.

It also has something to do with what A means in ADE. To make long story short next questions you should ask are:

* what antibody classification systems exists, which one is used and why?
* what's the difference between non-cyclic (natural smallpox, plague, measles) and cyclic (HIV, T-cell leukemia, serum hepatitis, herpes)?
* what does ID have to do with the IFNγR1 gene?

https://doi.org/10.35825/2587-5728-2020-4-3-338-373
I've been developing my new website and use "x days ago" which is a feature of most date libraries like luxon or moment. I modeled what GitHub does where you can mouse over the text and it produces the actual timestamp. On mobile that doesn't work, so I print the date in disabled text.
“The way this virus attacks multiple systems and has such a wide range of symptoms, I am convinced it is a man-made supervirus.”

Convinced how?

I don’t understand the reasoning. It’s not unusual for a virus to attack multiple systems or to have varying symptoms.
You don't get it. Apple doesn't allow you to opt out of THEM tracking you. You have 2 options

1. zero tracking (not even sure you can do this)

2. apple tracking, and the ability to chose others who track you

To be equal Apple would have to allow blocking Apple's own tracking while still allowing user selected 3rd parties to track. Apple doesn't give this option. If you don't want them to track you you're required to turn off all tracking, not just Apple's tracking.
With all due respect that is nonsense. How would they come close to competing with Facebooks ad system which is built into the FB product?

The overwhelming majority of Apple revenue and profit is still hardware, app store and music etc. Whatever Tim Cook et al truly think about their customers privacy they can take the "moral high ground" when it comes to privacy because they are in a different business and it doesn't hurt their revenue (and perhaps helps it).

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202074
> The UI/UX is good

It's illegible… rgb(229, 231, 235) on rgb(243, 244, 246). (~90.5% grey on ~95.6% grey.)