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Certainly, the vast majority of people in rich countries can afford to care more about fashion (including bubble color) than functionality, and this is reflected in their smartphone purchases. The frustration you see in these comments comes from technologists like the OP thinking the same way and repeatedly running into leopard ate my face moments.
That is a really shortsighted view of the situation. The riots are relatively new and caused by the longstanding social and economic stagnation. The core problems are much more difficult and enduring than breaks in social order.
This is disingenuous and you know it.

As you know, there is a server-side element, the crypto mumbo jumbo makes it impossible to audit which images will trigger the automated snitching mechanism from the secret list of hashes. So it is both a secret process and doing scanning client-side.

Also Apple is busily suing companies who dare to make client-side inspection feasible, as I noted.
Yes. IIRC, you get a short-lived certificate tied to your Apple ID.
Great feedback!

1. Yes, it means the same as user. The same has been updated on the website as well.
2. Yeah, that was an experiment we wanted to perform, clearly hasn't worked out well :)
3. Don't worry about those errors. Those are just pages we've removed. Engineering team is taking care of the errors, they'll be fixed soon.

Product Feedback:
1. It's so great to hear sign up worked smoothly for you.
2. I think what you're saying makes complete sense. We'll incorporate this into our onboarding.
3. Thats bad! My sincere apologies. I've notified our team, they'll be pushing a fix ASAP.
4. That is indeed weird. We're looking into this. Should be fixed in the next 24 hours.
5. We can't wait to see what you build on Canonic.

Thanks for such a great feedback. All the images and videos helped a lot in getting a clear picture of the errors. I'm truly looking forward to what you build on Canonic. Please do share it with us. Hope you love the platform!
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What's actually fantastical about this paper (and maybe why it's written the way it is... more on that later) is that while they show clear correlation between bear genetics and Indigenous language groups, their analysis to try to determine what biophysical and geographical factors might be influencing these distributions came up basically blank. Once physical distance was removed, their remaining factors (terrain ruggedness, waterways, modern and ancient settlements, modern forestry, and language groups) could only explain a very small percentage of the distribution in bear populations.

So, on one hand, this is fantastic, since it plays into the whole notion that ecological systems (and how humans and human cultures interact with and shape ecological systems) are resistant to "straightforward" reductive analyses, which is very much in the spirit of this research.

On the other hand, it means this paper is kind of weird to write. Like it's a very enticing positive result (bear genetics and indigenous language groups are correlated), but basically empty handed in terms of explanation.

I've never written a real scientific paper, but plenty of engineering reports, and always found reports which are basically summarized to "here's ever measure and correlate we tried, and nothing is conclusive or explanatory" to be awful to write. Because you don't have a positive result to anchor onto, you're just... enumerating a bunch of stuff with no payoff.
Sounds like it needs regulation.
Slightly OT, but thinking about your comment I wonder if there’s any correlation between people who don’t care about general purpose computing and people who drive commuter cars. I would think probably so - in both cases, many just want a box that gets them from point A to point B with no interest or concern about what’s going on inside the box.
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Such a PS/2 mouse would be very exciting to me.

I love everything about the Ploopy except for the firmware - QMK makes things complicated for my expensive KVMs/KMs. A dedicated mouse protocol would be ideal. QMK doesn't provide that, but PS/2 could.

WRT PS/2, demand is too low and I don't realistically have the knowledge, time, and resources to make one.
Hah! As I remember, it had to be slacks (no jeans) in a prescribed range of colors, shoes (no sneakers, no sandals) in a prescribed range of colors, combined with a somewhat ungainly T-shirt. There may have been more rules.

For a company whose dress code for engineers ordinarily was more along the lines of "we prefer that genitals be covered when in public", it was rather restrictive.
If not for your replies elsewhere in this thread I'd assume you were being sarcastic.

Yes, a device manufacturer putting locks on my device that I can only open by "apply[ing] through a form on their website" does seem pretty evil to me.
They usually ask you for your income in the credit card application. If you lie, you may be committing credit card fraud.
I would say that iOS is clearly more secure, private and reliable than OS X is.

Apps on Mac OS X can absolutely screw up your machine. Adware in particular is a big problem for novice OS X users (speaking first hand here, having had to support these users). That’s an exceptionally rare occurrence on iOS.

I’m comfortable with the security model on macOS, but would be very concerned if that same model were applied to iPhoneOS, where users (myself included) carry significantly more private information.

On my phone, I want applications to have access to as little private information as possible, even if it’s detrimental to functionality. Call me a security nihilist, but security and privacy is by far my #1 overriding concern on mobile platforms, given the wealth of personally identifying information these devices gather.

More succinctly: the threat model on mobile devices is not the same as the threat model on personal computers. It’s inappropriate to apply the same security to both platforms.
I don't get where not being tough on crime comes from. Having grown up in a third world country with rampant crime, and also in the US (and having seen California decriminalize petty theft, traspassing and various other things), what is there left to do? Is the US system in need of fundamental changes? Yes, absolutely. But being soft on crime isn't going to make it disappear either.
I used to think it was a simple as using the sunscreens with metals in them to reflect the sun and the whiter you look, the more effective, but it looks pretty complicated when I did more research on how UVA and UVB are blocked.

https://www.healthline.com/health/beauty-skin-care/best-suns...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/phpp.12214

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/adult-health/in...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3781714/

For one, it seems legislation to study the ingredients in the US was only passed Nov 2019. Even the size of the titanium and zinc particles affects the effectiveness.

The Mayo Clinic link is probably the best summary, to just use something and avoid peak sun hours. But it seems the non metal sunscreen ingredients are also important to project via absorption.
Well the US every hundred years or so has a tradition of revivalist movements (starting back in the 1740s), basically where some evangelical preachers preach some common message across denominational lines. So there’s a lot of cross-breeding between American Christian churches: Calvinist ideas were broadly disseminated as part of some of those early revivals.
I have discovered that switching every few weeks between trackball, mouse and touchpad reduces fatigue for me. Because they feel so different, I don't lose any muscle memory.
Personally I refuse to buy any device that requires me to go crying to the manufacturer for an unlock key.

Google and OnePlus devices can be unlocked locally with no need to contact anyone and beg, so no one can refuse your unlock on a device you already paid for.
That's nice, but have you ever heard someone refer to IE as "just the normal internet"?

Anyways, Whatever the law says, us nerds should be in charge anyway, right?! Or at least we should have some inherent privilege. These guys at the IMF have great ideas.
I am talking about multicast for having applications talk to each other in a datacenter, not to have that traffic exposed to office clients.

I understand most office networks are broken and if I send multicast I would just be causing untold mayhem.

I have already resigned myself to the fact that the only way to have reliable communication with a client is to use HTTP.

But in a DC where you control all your networking devices, configuration and people who maintain it, it should be possible to find a configuration that works reliably and allows devices to talk to each other without too much hassle.
An essential part of democracy in the modern age is balancing majoritarian will with minority rights.
The inertia that you’re at war with is perception of your team from external parties. Promotion and ladder climbing is a signal that everyone is over performing and you are as a leader too. If the rest of the organization is moving up and your team remains static there will be a perception of under performance. It may not be true of course but, as they say, perception is reality.

I like to combat this by giving my team goals to accomplish or lead some task on their own. Even if they are individual contributors they can still network internally to put their problem solving skills on display. An example would be if they took the initiative to have a discussion with HR/Sales/operations/anyone external about some pain points and how my team could help. Then spearhead the solution.

Note: I manage financial analyst so it’s a bit different but they have an inclination to become siloed with headphones on all the time similar to developers so it could apply.
You are assuming Democracy is better, while at the same time saying that it isn't, due to who gets elected.

> Imagine Apple bombing the house of a Samsung user to convince them to buy an iPhone. That's what we do in Arabic countries. And while we talk about democracy, we steal what they have.

Sorry, that isn't what happens in the world. You seem to believe the justifications provided by politicians are the true causes of things. For example, consider the 20 year war against the Taliban in Afghanistan. It is ridiculous to think that the rest of the world couldn't eliminate a small group of people over a 20 year period. They are on social media. They use trackable phones. The intent was clearly not to track them down.

That's because the goal wasn't actually to eliminate the Taliban any more than the goal is to solve any of the wedge issues in politics. These things are kept alive in order to fund politicians and special interest groups. In the case of The United States in Afghanistan, there was a 20 year war overseen by Generals who have never won a war. They spent somewhere just under a billion dollars a day. In that case, Defense contractors were the ultimate beneficiaries of the 20 year war. Now that there is a pullout, The United States is sending civilians to help get people out of the country.
Very well said. Exactly why i want to do my own thing.
That's because we don't like telling the people who need to be told that you can sideload apps, because they're the very same people who will later complain that they downloaded a "Free APK" of Sparkle Monkey Defenders eX from some Chinese app store and now their phone is vomiting up full-screen interstitial ads every few minutes. ...and we're supposed to fix it for them.
' "if I have to do all this, for someone else, and it's about the same if I do it for myself, why do I work for them?" Assuming competition is actually possible, ... '

Very true. I feel like competition is not possible in many ventures. The big players can crush you with stuff like loss leaders or just economy of scale.
I don't think switching to PETG is an automatic win? You still have a rough, porous surface that can trap bacteria.

I stay away from food-related prints but I thought the best method was to print in whatever reasonable material you want and then coat it in something food grade, like resin. Then you get the material and print properties of PLA, PETG, whatever but food safe.
Organizations are allowed to be incompetent. The real problem is they have buy in from other industries with major decision making abilities and the government has provided us no protections from them.

If Equifax went out of business today, you'd have 5 new equally shitty credit companies trying to get their market share.
Ok, but you asked "should they have been free to do that?" I don't have an answer to that question, because I don't know. I know that human rights violations are bad, but I also know that democracy means the majority rules.

But my point is that even if we come to the conclusion that democracy produced an outcome that we didn't like, how do we rectify it? Who will "correct" their "mistake"?
Please let Apple know how you feel about this: https://www.apple.com/feedback/
I remember developing an MDNS app that ran on android a few years ago. Worked great.

This just seems like Apple shooting themselves in the foot, imo.
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I've never had my income verified for anything less than a car loan. Every revolving credit account has taken me at my word.
Wouldn't a good response be to publicize the recommended and "do not exceed" dosages of the various widely available formulations of ivermectrin? Is the problem that people are using this; or that they may have wrong beliefs?

Ivermectrin is great, it's one of those chemicals that has made the world a better place. I've used it on hounds and livestock for years and am very glad to have had it available. Worms are EVIL

If this story was s/Ivermectrin/CBD/ would anyone's position on the issue stay the same?
This us what happens when you let up on lockdowns -- and why Australia is deploying the armed forces to enforce anti-COVID measures.
Hence, the key word "VERIFYING"
Video of Iranian guards kicking an old man is very mild compared to the testimony of the political prisoner that have got out
Please please please incentivize loyalty!
I can never understand more budget for hiring than incentivizing your current employees.
> It makes sense that Apple wouldn’t go out of their way to cater to that ultra-niche use case which can still get the access they need by requesting the permission.

Well, its not about expecting Apple to put more effort to enable some feature. In many cases enabling that feature is less effort and Apple instead goes "out of their way" to disable such things. _That_ is the problem - and it is not specific to iPhone, things like this have happened in the past on MacBooks too (see https://github.com/onmomo/superdrive-enabler/blob/master/src...)
I'm with you 100%. That said when I read something like this and get angry about it I really don't know what I can practically do about it. I have disposable income but I'm not the type to feel righteous and self-assured because I dropped a couple hundred dollar donation on a criminal justice reform NGO.

As far as actions to take, what immediately comes to my mind are ideas that involve becoming a federal felon for violation of the computer fraud and abuse act.

Does anyone have any concrete ideas on what to do as a technical, moderately affluent person when you come across such insidious bullshit?
"Starlink was very helpful in setting up emergency WLAN hotspots in the disaster area of the recent floodings."

I really liked that, it was a good illustration of how global orbital coverage can improve lives even in rich countries.
It’s not totally useless, it’s less useful.

I don’t think the measure is per miles driven as not all miles are comparable. I think it needs to be a mixture of miles, number of trips, number of drivers, complexity of trips. And I do want to see a baseline of how frequently cars crash into stationary emergency vehicles as I expect it is very low (what with the flashing lights and road flares and everything).
The parachute study has been done: https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094

tl;dr no significant difference in results with vs. without.
> "still speak in whistles"

"still"?

Why is having more degrees of expressiveness in a vocal language considered an anachronism?
What's crazy to me is Nigeria being up there and they're still pumping out humans.
> But your belief that physical ownership of the object should mean you can make it do anything you want is… bounded by your actual capability to do so.

No object should ever actively, uncompromisingly preclude me from using it to do something of which it is capable. Objects can suggest I take a certain course of action, but ultimately they must follow my instructions without trying to impede me. Any other way and I don’t truly own the object.
Ask HN: Who started a business (digital or physical) during lockdown/pandemic?
When the global pandemic struck in 2020, millions of workers were furloughed (put on leave), or simply lost their jobs.

Given the highly uncertain economic outlook worldwide, what made you start a business during lockdown? How has your business fared since?
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> Honda does not give me an SDK and API to run arbitrary software on the computers in my Civic either. But obviously I own it.

I can install any aftermarket parts I want to install in my Civic, because I own it.
This happened to me too, I’m surprised more people don’t talk about it.
In a true liberal democracy, the people themselves enforce these rights. The people must of course preserve some spirit of resistance, which provides the "militant" twist in parent's description of a "militant democracy".
It can be simultaneously true that men have systemic problems with Eg. A higher completed suicide rate (women attempt suicide more often, but men chose deadlier methods when attempting) and also that women are also oppressed on multiple other axis that are also important to evaluate and support, such as women having significantly higher risks of being sexually assaulted and being significantly higher risk of being subjected to being a victim of sex trafficking and sex slavery.

I do think it merits a serious investigation as to why so many men are undersocialized and unable to be vulnerable and intimate outside of a relationship, which in turn forces relationships to essentially be their therapy (which is deeply unhealthy and codependent). But doing a men vs women thing is a distraction from focusing on men.
I don't know about iPhones specifically, but I know I used to sigh and grit my teeth every time I'd debug something networking-related while I was at a public coffee house or something, and there's all those apple laptops, broadcasting the user's registered name on the local network for lord only knows what reason.

They may well be trying to stop something equally stupid happening where someone decided it would be a good idea to blast the user's name and phone number out over the local network.
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It's interesting that this went so viral. I've had two friends independently send it to me and now I see it here. Seems fishy and a lot of the comments under it don't seem genuine. Lots of "I'm sending this to everyone I know" or "the people who need to hear this won't". Bizarre.

Seems to be sponsored by academyofideas.com. Good luck finding who actually runs that site.
In 2018 there were announcements on Chinese trains that smoking in the bathrooms would affect your social credit score. In Mandarin and in English.

I don't know how it is implemented, but I would be surprised if it wasn't.
Anecdotally, I know someone who got the vaccine, and dropped to the ground of a heart attack 3 days later - no prior history of any heart issues or hypertension. Thankfully, he was near an EMT unit that had to bring him back.
The ideas/promises of both protocols are roughly the same (more than a decade apart), but there's major differences in the approach. We have a summary list of pros & cons here: https://joinjabber.org/faqs/advanced/#faq-advanced-matrix

Let us know if something is missing or not clear in there. I would probably add to that that Jabber/XMPP has several producion-grade free-software server implementations (ejabberd/prosody/tigase, maybe metronome?) whereas matrix has only one (dendrite/conduit are still experimental although they made great progress). Likewise, Matrix only has one reference client implementing all features. In both cases, the reference implementation is bloated and not compatible with low-end/second-hand hardware which is very popular in the Jabber/XMPP ecosystem.

I expect the situation to keep steadily improving on both sides, or to quote our FAQ:

> As you can see, both protocols have their strengths and weaknesses, but they still operate on similar principles. In theory, it would have been possible (and easier) to build the matrix protocol on top of XMPP to avoid fragmenting the ecosystem. Why this was not done is a good question, but the fact is we now have two protocols/ecosystems with similar goals, and we should try to dismantle our egos and work for interoperability, for the benefit of end-users.

However, if your goal is censorship-resilience (not privacy) against state actors, then i would strongly recommend to use Matrix instead of Jabber/XMPP because decentralized rooms are tailored to that threat model.
Food production already uses essentially all arable land on the globe. Changing environmental conditions are expected to significantly reduce the amount of arable land fit for agricultural use.