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I see a bunch of comments talking about how Apple is being self serving and not at all altruistic when they defend our privacy.

And my response is - well duh. And this is supposed to be a problem how? Apple wants my money and nothing else. They aren't motivated to protect my privacy out of the goodness of their hearts. I am happy to pay money for more privacy.

The fact that they only do this because they want my money isn't really the interesting question to me. The interesting question to me is, why is it that they are literally the ONLY large tech company that is willing to offer me this tradeoff? I'm willing to pay a premium of probably hundreds of dollars on a phone because I want privacy, and nobody else will even consider selling me one? How much is my data really worth to advertisers? Like, a hundred bucks a year? Ok sure, where do I pay to get ownership of my data back?

Samsung, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft don't sell privacy, or if they do, they're sure doing a bang up job hiding it. None of them have any altruistic motives either, so I can only conclude that they either don't want my money or they're really bad at what they do?

Is there really no other company that wants to get in on this privacy game? Because the people who really care about this are probably affluent and willing to pay a lot for it.
Yes stencil or screen printing is much faster for mass production. It is faster and you could directly print on a variety of substrates like FR4, plastic, glass and even paper. I'll wirte about that next
This is another symptom of the sickness in our current implementation of Intellectual Property law. IP is being allowed to eat all other forms of ownership, even as whatever is left is being eroded away.

I'm not sure where I heard "In 50 years nobody will own anything, and everyone will be happy about it." to which I respond with two possibilities: 1. We are happy; great. 2. We are unhappy; and able to do fuck all about it because we own nothing.

Maybe we should sacrifice option 1 to dodge option 2.
I've heard Dave's show and while his views are extreme and his tone polemical I think his essential message is sound: unmanaged debt will fuck your life up like a car crash.

In a fully financialized society like the US where everything has been privatized and put in precarity and people are encouraged to buy colored pencils on layaway on Amazon, hearing someone, _anyone_, say something like this is a valuable dissenting opinion. This has nothing to do with whether he created a toxic environment for his employees though, of course.
The Mouryan Empire was the first pan-Indian empire. It was one the most powerful empires of the world at that time.

The first Emperor Chandragupta was guided by a scholar called Chanakya. He wrote one of earliest book on Polity in the world. He was Machiavellian (he predates Machiavelli) and always promoted realpolitik. The book is called Artha Shastra and you can read it in English.

One of the curious things I found is that sex work was legalized and regulated by state. Sex workers paid taxes to the state. This is something some Europeans and Americans debate to this day.

Chandragupta's grandson, Ashoka is one of the Great Emperors of the world. He was the earliest ruler of a welfare state. He put an end to discriminatory penal practices favoring Brahmins, the priest class. He made shelters and planted trees. And declared he cared about each and every subject of his Empire. He send envoys to different countries of SE Asia to spread Buddhism, and he took up monkhood in the last stage of his life and died.

Indians forgot about his legacy and the whole Empire. It is through his pillars spread across ahuge landmass, that the scholarly Orientalist William Jones came to know about this Empires.

Indians were thought to have always divided into very small kingdoms before the Mughal, but this proved on the contrary. And the British, at least a few of them began to have a respect for the Indians.
> Also, what's wrong with truncating the chain after X blocks?

I would say nothing. Truncating history isn't explicitly built into the protocol, but that's what most users do in practice. I believe Geth and Parity both prune old state by default. There are "achive" nodes that store all history, but they're in the minority.

Bitcoin Core also has options for pruning old state, and for disabling some validation of old history. Though, unfortunately, it will still download blocks from the genesis even if both options are enabled.
Larger tech companies generally offer this perk to new hires, sometimes after a probationary period. It’s not Ivy League tuition level, but enough to get by at a local school generally.
The quote attributed to me was on the topic of "challenging projects every programmer should try": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21790779

It's not that I would recommend every project must have customers, but I do think that most programmers will learn & grow tremendously if they take on a project where they are trying to directly satisfy a set of customers. It came to mind because whilst there's a tendency to focus on projects that are technically challenging or interesting, I think such a project would perhaps prove even more challenging, albeit in very different ways.
Take the title, it’s bullshit, but take it.

If you don’t completely suck, you can always go back to a regular developer role.

Look, 70% of us are just modern day webmasters, if you can believe that was everyone’s title once upon a time.

Good luck, as none of this will mean anything in 10 years given how ridiculous this industry is. ‘Full stack’ will encompass dev-ops inevitably anyway.
> 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.

I mean, this was true of a similar incident that didn't involve those factors. The United States' overreaction to 9/11 has cost several orders of magnitude more lives than were actually taken on that day.

Although I suppose things get murkier if you include copycat crimes - not too easy to copy "hijack a commercial airliner", but a whole heap of people could very easily strap a biochemical threat to a drone.
The only other company I could think of that is playing in this privacy game is: Signal. And well they are a nonprofit and they prove that privacy is not only made affordable for the rich and affluent and anyone can have private communication whether they donate to Signal or not.
Your incentive seems particularly perverse to me.

How is taking money away from developers and giving it to apple somehow an incentive to the developers updating their apps? Apple creating arbitrary rules doesn’t cost Apple anything but costs the app developers a lot of time.
> My guess is less than .01%

I'd say that your guess is very bad.

> It’s disingenuous to play the “green” card here.

No it is actually disingenuous to act like this is about "tinkering with apple devices". Actually it is hard to express how disingenuous the whole spin of "If people are able to repair products they will become worse, I don't want my product to become worse" truly is.

Especially so when we start talking about devices that actually would be repairable if companies didn't spent some truly petty amount of effort to stop it, using DRM and crippling via detection.

Besides that there is a market for refurbished iPhones, actually there are shops that specialize in selling nothing besides them, and the ones buying from it are hardly the evil hacker/tinker people you describe, that want to take away your shiny apple elegance by forcing different product designs...

> I don’t think any large number of people would suddenly say they want to keep their slow, heat-generating Intel MBPs if they were more repairable.

What about the concept of a device being sold used instead of sitting in a box until it gets thrown into the trash? The whole "people just want the new and shiny anyway" is a very priviliged way of thinking. Being able to repair something is more than you keeping your device and repairing it yourself, it also means that suddenly a device still has use instead of contributing to the pollution just because some company rather wants to see you burn that thing in your backyard than seeing it get any use in the hands of someone else.

Besides that: There is more technology than Apple, not everybody has to care what the Apple fan bubble thinks. Apple (and the people that defend this mess when it comes to repairability) just reaches critical levels of hypocrisy when it comes to the "we are doing good for the environment" advertisement.
I've noticed this kind of thing on other forums too.

They're getting more powerful...

(an earlier version this comment also got flagged.)
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You forgot the scariest:

3. we are unhappy, but don't even understand it because society have lost any reference point to an alternative or any way to talk about it.
Check this out, might be interesting for you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpObgG522sY
My original comment: "Prediction: this story will get flagged and removed from the front page very soon." got flagged (despite being correct).

(*) an earlier version of this comment also got flagged.
Thank you for this comment, I think I will try that. My girlfriend is a huge fan of gems and rocks and she would love this.
Thank you for your service. I couldn’t place it!
> Grow up.

Your use of imperative tense implies a relationship that does not exist.

In both cases the knowledge of illegality was known.

There is no evidence that the activist faces capital punishment. The Guardian says the crimes as charged have a max of 15 years.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/23/belarus-divert...
It’s not just Koreans. Nearly all countries near China hate Chinese (probably except North Korea). The air pollution has been definitely the reason why it got worse but largely it’s been historical reasons
No, because a single deck can answer for 52 queries. and 52 decks (offset 0-51) will be sufficient for any card and number combo
AFAIK this doesn't support anything but ASCII. Plotting the graphs in WebGL is cool but rendering your own text is arguably an anti-pattern. Even if you think you'd only use numbers you're still likely to run into issues with dates. For example in Japan in many government documents today is 令和３年５月２４日 and not just 2021/5/24. Or if you're showing months in English you can get away with Jan/Feb/Mar/Apr/May etc... but in Japanese you'd need １月/２月/３月 etc... I can certainly imagine in 2021 people would want to use various emoji as labels.
Yea, he seems to be willfully oblivious to the fact that it's not in any way feasible to have every Apple Store staffed with people who have the skills to reflow surface mount components and debug issues with oscilloscopes.

It's orders of magnitude easier to just swap whole boards and ship the broken ones to a central place to be either recycled or repaired.
I did this exact same thing!! I was probably 10. It scared the hell out of me and I’ve respected capacitors ever since.
You need to put on quite a show to recreate 9/11. You need little to distribute biochemical or radioactive material, or fake distribute. Imagine a crop plane spraying some mass event. Let's even assume for the sake of argument it being simple water, before crash landing somewhere and a terrorist organization thereafter issuing a claim of responsibility and gloat about the irreversible imminent death of a million people. Would be interesting to see that play out. And yes, you would not need drones or crop planes necessarily, but it would probably instill more fear it being done that way.

The gasoline attack (liquid fuel in general) vector in relation to agricultural planes (planes used to spray crops) is real though and the relevant part to your comment. Fly it into a full football stadium with 100k people, so small planes are not to be underestimated.
I think he was talking about Japan rather than Germany.
While some worry that Apple's the only organization defending privacy, others are attacking it for trying to control its ecosystem (in part so it can defend their users' privacy).

That's the world right now.
And Signal still leaks phone numbers to people, that's why I refuse use it for group chats. For encrypted 1-1 with people I already know it's fine though.
Tell people what they want to hear. Donald Trump is a good example of it if you have an open mind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary

Of course they'd have to want to do this.
I don't know what to make of your post. You have "seen some offensively transparent excuses to start military invasions" and yet keep asking these naive questions.
maybe Google does (or could), not sure where their algorithm stands on many subdomains.
Would people pay to have Dorodango made with the cremated ashes of their loved ones?
Thanks for this. Good read.
I feel despair because my government is supposed to be upholding my fundamental right to privacy but, clearly, the Fourth Amendment is something that can be selectively upheld or discarded. So what’s left? For me to hope that some company will respect my “rights”?
I've been waiting for someone (aka me) to build this for at least a decade! Ever since I saw the four-inch stack of paperwork a friend had for their applications, emails, resumes, appointment reminders and more it made sense to build a one-stop shop for managing all of that.

Good luck, and keep HN (or me directly, plz) informed of your success, difficulties, learnings, etc.
> My guess is less than .01%

In the beginning it is theorized that humans were a hunter gatherer species. We dedicated 100% of our time to collecting food. At some point we learned about farming and cultivating livestock. People could now generate more food then they would need. This enabled something magical: one person could generate the food required for a group of people and that group of people could do other things! This formation of a group and their social dynamics are sometimes called a "society". Soon people figured out you could do the same thing we did with food production with other things: building things, making cloths, cooking, etc.

I think, even if .01% of Apple customers worked in the repair industry you'd see this same exact effect!

For example: 1 Louis Rossman can fix ~10 MacBooks/day or 3650/year.

There's about 5 Billion internet users and 20% of them are Mac users.

.01% of Mac users would be ~100k globally. That means, if everyone of these people became interested in repair as a profession were as fast as Rossman we could fix all 1 billion Apple user's devices within 3 years. This is about the rate people buy and throw out an Apple product due to some breakage. This would essentially keep the market full of low cost devices for people who couldn't normally afford a Mac.

Also, fun fact, it's estimated there's only about 50k neurosurgeons world wide: https://thejns.org/view/journals/j-neurosurg/130/4/article-p....

So we have an estimated 2x MacBook repair people to brain repair people.

(Obviously this isn't concrete numbers but essentially even if only 40 people world wide want to repair devices it makes sense to let them)
Not default privacy, trusted setup.
A good stack of Apple's ecosystem is fully encrypted, so that Apple can't give anything to the authorities.

For example: Apple Maps retrieves routes in segments, with changing identifiers. Apple can't figure out where you navigated to.
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> Spam filtering is a a very difficult thing to do well and Google's implementation was very good, very advanced, and trained on huge amounts of data. Something a normal person could never do on their own server

I'm sure most normal people could install SpamAssassin and configure it to use community blacklists on their Dovecot/Postfix server. It's not that hard.
The people who push fearmongering on UI are those who would be affected if we had the benefit of being able to pass on harsh or dangerous conditions if that meant being able to eat plain oatmeal for free; it's preferable for them that there is no other alternative.
Yes you can do that.. a simpler way is to use screen printing directly on to a PCB
Apple is a hardware company, they make most of their revenue from selling actual physical stuff. I think the second one is the cut they take for selling software to said physical devices.

Ads are a sliver in the earnings pie chart.

FB and Google though are advertising companies with services and hardware sales to support their core business.
OK, how about that: everyone who wants to manually inspect the bytes coming out of their phone 24/7 can use Android, while everyone else can use iOS.

(also, iOS supports proxies)
How do you suggest any corporation to not cooperate with government agencies? For US based businesses it's illegal, right?

And, how's this Apple's problem or fault? Vote and elect your interest.
If you live in democratic country then vote and elect sensible smart honest representatives who will protect your interest.
This looks promising. I just created a visualization of 5M data points with Observable Plot and found it easy to make the plot aesthetically pleasing — there are a lot of examples, the built-in color scales are lovely, etc. But the browser really struggles to filter/summarize/render the data.

On your Examples page, I would recommend making it more clear that these are live, buttery-smooth WebGL canvases. I thought I was looking at screenshots until I accidentally moused over the Health and Wealth of Nations plot. It would be more convincing to, say, put the scatter plot first, animate the points, and show the framerate. Give me a button to add 10^n points at a time and see how it performs.
Kudos to you, for working on the stuff that you really like. These toy projects could teach us or the people that see them, a lot of stuff.

"Senior Developers" doesn't mean that they will relate to everything related to software development. Either, they stick to the domain they work on or, to the ones that makes money.

Personally, I've always been fascinated with systems programming, thought I'm not much proficient or put in much effort. Whether something is going to make money or not, like many personal stuff we do (art for example), isn't eventually going to make us money, rather it gives us a sense of satisfaction.

Keep doing what you do!
While I understand the other parts it is your last sentence that explains it really. People will go to great lengths for a moving/fun experience.

Thank you.
EU has GDPR and California has CCPA.

Y'all just need to get your elected officials to copy & paste CCPA to a federal level.
> Few things are farther away from day-to-day programming that a white-board problem, but kernel development might just be one of them.

Kernel development involves reading vague documentation (that might be wrong) and figuring out how to make things work with not always useful or immediate feedback. And reading other people's similar code to check for clues.

If that's not relevant to day to day development, I've been working at the wrong places. Yes, you don't do a whole lot of page tables day to day; but ocassionally you might need to make something work better or faster, and having deep knowledge of how you might put something like that together will help a lot as you dive into the murky depths of whatever actual OS you work with. Or you could open a support ticket with your vendor, I dunno, people always say that's an option, but I've never seen it happen, and it takes longer to make a clean example program to share outside the company than it does to dig in and fix the problem.
> No. It is the domain. No one else in this business has a short pronounceable *mail.com

Except for, oh, I don't know, maybe https://mail.com/ ?
> PIA or Lee or whoever directed a bunch of money to Freenode or people involved with freenode, isn't contested by anyone.

Because many of the things presented by Andrew Lee (rasengan) seem to be distortions and half-truths, the statement above deserves some scrutiny.

Andrew Lee claims to have donated an amount greater than 1 million (assuming US dollars) to Freenode.

As far as I can tell, this was not to Freenode the IRC network, it was for the FreeNode Live conferences. This conference took place in 2017 and 2018, and had approximately 250 attendees in 2017 and 150-200 attendees in 2018.

The relevant parts as far as I can tell:

• the exact amount donated (1 million) has only been mentioned by Andrew Lee, and has not been verified by anyone else

• the amount donated is only for the two FreeNode Live conferences

• the FreeNode Live conferences seemingly have nothing to do with the freenode IRC network

• none of the money was every given to the people who donate the servers that run the freenode IRC network, or the operators that volunteer their time to run it

A lot of people seems to conflate the two. Andrew Lee's comments seem to encourage that ambiguity (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27236734), presumably because it seems to legitimize his hostile takeover of freenode IRC.

His contribution to the Freenode Live conferences (whatever monetary amount that was) should not entitle him to freenode IRC, he has not given a penny towards that.
Not in this case mate. I paid them.

I am the creative cutting edge!
I feel this question was tailored for me!

I grew up to love history. And read mythologies like the Mahabharata and always glorified wars. I was like 13-14.

It was written in the newspapers that war was bad, my History teacher taught us so, and my father always told me so. But I never bought those. To my early teenager tiny-brain, war was something glorious where you fought for your country/clan. And killing other people effectively was fabulous!

This all came to change when I played Call of Duty (1). It is set in WW2. There were so many deaths! And those deaths were so horrific! I had a sort of an epiphany that each corpse (and there were a lot) lying in there is somebody's brother, son, lover, and so on. And they were dead. Quotes about war was flashed across screen after each "mission".

There was a church scene and so many people died there. The condition was so horrific. I realized for the first time in my life that war so horrific and always a bad thing.

Very few transformations in very few persons' lives are dramatic. But this was exactly as I write. Call of Duty (1) taught me to hate wars. I grew up to be a person to whom wars are a very bad thing.

Especially for the people who have to fight.

I loved to play Call of Duty but decided that wars are cool only in games. Not in real life.
> 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.

This really doesn't increase my confidence in Android as an OS. I'd rather prefer it to be really hard to intercept and modify the behavior of apps and to make the system disregard signatures.
I disagree - they didn't ask GP because they wanted to gauge their interest in programing - they asked that question because they wanted to figure out what kind of colleague they would be, and if their experiences would mark them as more suitable for role compared to other candidates. GP's answer was probably from the left field (for them) - put yourself in their shoes: how would you gain insight into gauging their suitability for "cog" work based on completely unrelated hobbies?

Always keep this in mind at the back of your mind when interviewing - your answers have to relate to the job you're interviewing for in some shape or form, hopefully in a good way. I'm guessing the interview wasn't at a kernel, embedded devices or compiler companies - those would have dug into GP's projects in detail, with enthusiasm. GP would still be cog there, obviously.
Decentralized was already solved by https://morph.is/ but then the British author was killed under mysterious circumstances.