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Apple support is not really helpful. They give you general advice, for the layman, and not really profound tips for how to resolve an issue. No matter if you have a payment issue or a technical issue.

Just to give an example: I was using my iPad Pro as a second screen (primary screen is a 4k monitor) to see my terminal below the monitor. Apple calls this Sidekick. After an update of my iPad to iPadOS 15.x this technology does not work reliably. The iPad screen freezes and I need to stop sidekick and start it again. This works for a couple of minutes until iPad screen freezes again.

So I called Apple support, waited half an hour to get someone who tries to help me. Finally they suggest I should go to an Apple store. No, I am not going to an Apple store to get a fix for a trivial problem.

There are many users who have experienced this very problem and written about it, even on Apple support forums (which are the worst: written for idiots, no real help). All you get to hear is: Reset your device(s). Or: It must be a problem of third party software, etc.

I used to use an app for this feature called Duet. Whenever I had a problem, I could reach out to the devs, they would give me very specific instructions for how to solve the problem. Now you could say Apple is too large to give this kind of help. But they have a large database of all incoming issues, so they know exactly that 20000 other users are complaining about this issue, and some egineer might have solved it, so why not give specific instructions on the forum, why these super vage tips that are of no help!?

So prey to god you won‘t have real issues where you rely on Apple to solve it.

Edit: Another example: I regularly have issues with iCloud sync. Sometimes I realize that it was stuck because I need to access a document on the go just to realize my Mac could not sync it to iCloud. iCloud-sync issues are so common you can find thousands of entries on the web about this, also on Apple support forums. But neither will you find helpful answers, or any instructions from Apple how to mitigate.
Not really what I expected. I was thinking more in terms of a kubectl replacement, but this is actually pretty clever for the projects that want to run a git-ops setup.

Wonderful little project, thank you.
Does anyone know what is the rational for Bumble to do this?
I switched to usb-c as much as I could. I recently travelled for a month with all my battery-powered work and personal stuff (2 MacBooks (one Intel and one M1), 2 iPhones, Nintendo Switch, game controller, mouse (that one is micro usb), headphones and shaver). I brought only the following as a trial: 1 Anker 45W GaN charger[1], 1 30cm usb-c lightning cable, 1 1m usb-c cable, 1 usb-A to C adapter, 1 usb-C to A adapter which went unused, and 1 usb-c to micro adapter.

It went better than I expected. Sometimes I used the A-C adapter to trickle charge stuff in the hotel when I was out, taking my own charger with me for the day, and other than that just rotating what I was charging. The 45W charger is not much bigger than an OG iPhone charger and had no problem with my 16” MacBook. The difference in charging time to the Apple 87W charger wasn’t noticed.

One bonus I did not anticipate. You know how some cheap devices have usb-c charging that only seems to work with a USB-A to C cable? The adapters I mentioned can work around that.

One thing want to do but not tried yet is convert a few micro-usb things to usb-c. You can get convenient little breakout boards for it on Aliexpress.

[1] https://us.anker.com/products/a2664111
> I would bet it is some ML model to detect fraud. This model will never be perfect – it will have false positives. My guess is – while picking the precision/recall thresholds for blocking users, someone higher up would have argued it is okay to cause some false positives to prevent a lot of harm.

> And they would have justified to themselves saying there's always recourse through customer support. But customer support tools to investigate and un-ban users would be slow and painful and lacks capabilities needed to check if the complaining user even passes the basic smell tests for a fraudster. And nobody can really explain why the model blocked the user in the first place. There's no well-lit path from CS to engineering on a case-by-case basis. Escalation would happen in bulk/batches – when lots of seemingly 'innocent' users complain to CS, CS may escalate to engineering.

Can such a model be trained effectively if isolated reports of false positives are rejected without meaningful investigation? In that case, wouldn't the model be trained with bad data?

What if for each reported false positive there are more users affected who didn't report it (because their accounts were less valuable, because their time was more valuable, because they were too upset, because they were too timid, because they died (for unrelated reasons), etc)?
What's been shown is that, where the number is n, the fact that it equals n cannot be proved in ZFC.

Of course it can be proved in a theory with more axioms. In particular, take ZFC and add the statement as an axiom.
Interesting how every time a proof by induction is posted here many commenters seem absolutely stunted by it. Maybe it is time to create a "Warning: induction" tag?
Toys Prove to Be Better Investment Than Gold, Art, and Financial Securities
> Apple support is not really helpful.

They are horrible. I once called them to ask if "iCare+ Theft Insurance" works if my iPhone get stolen abroad and they just straight said "We don't know."
This sounds promising. What's a good article that explains this in more detail?
Crypto fans are always hurling accusations of FOMO on those of us who just "don't get it".

But web3 strikes me as those very same people experiencing FOMO because they missed out printing a bunch of money for themselves in the early days of the web by actually providing novel value - which in hindsight now all looks like really obvious low-hanging fruit, hence the FOMO - so they're hoping to "get in on the ground floor" by rebooting the web and inserting themselves into and extracting a payment from every single transaction and interaction on this new web, hoping we use their magical tokens - which oh by the way are also speculative investments that they currently own a bunch of and you don't - as the currency.

Of course, I'm just a hater who doesn't get it.
Sure but the difference was that Dropbox was an order of magnitude more accessible and convenient in its experience. web3 has yet to make anything tangibly better than the thing it wants to replace - only more convoluted, risky, and expensive. It turns operations that were free and instant into operations that cost significant money and take minutes/hours
> Firstly, 99% of Apple’s customer base will never experience what I went through.

> The very next day, all my Apple devices gave the following prompt when updating apps from the App Store: “Your Account Has Been Disabled in the App Store and iTunes.”

> I called Apple Support and was advised that my account has been permanently disabled, and there is no recourse.

> I then asked what does Apple recommend I do. Apple Support representative said: “Create a new account and start from fresh”. This means I have lost all my app and media purchases and the funds in my Apple account.

> I tend NOT to blame Apple because why would they take such a drastic step.

> I am a mere civilian where we are accustomed to accepting decisions put on us and adjusting accordingly.

> So what do next?
> The only option is to create a new account and move on. Start fresh with Apple.

> Three days went by, and I took delivery of a brand new MacBook Pro that I preordered before Apple disabled my account.

> After five years, I bought a Mac, but the sour taste of betrayal from Apple made it extremely difficult for me to get excited about my new workhorse…

First question would be: Is this here actually Stockholm syndrome? But let's not get into this. More importantly:

By now everybody should know that you don't "buy" things at those companies. You're not even renting them!

They can at anytime, without reason, take away everything you "bought" there. Cause it's not your property. You don't own it.

You own stuff only if you completely control the hardware and the data. That's what all those beardy open-source freaks are telling you since forever… Maybe it's time you consider they're right?

Besides the point that most customers wouldn't find such kind words for the people they scammed them and wouldn't relativize what those scammers did ("99% won't experience that…", "I don't blame Apple…", *eye roll*) the exact same thing can happen with all the other companies who are doing the same. Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, etc. There's no difference. They're all the same. They own "your" devices and "your" data. So they can take it from you.

And most people won't be so lucky to "get things back" through divine intervention… So don't count on that.
Nix sounds like could be it, but it really needs better learning resources or maybe some beginner-friendly wrappers.
I like many of the idea's but the real work is thinking how you would use this in practice. For example take some typical scenarios and imaging how they would work in this post-SMTP world.

(1) I'm talking to someone on the phone and I want to give them my "email address". What would this look like?

(2) I sell canned soup in a store and want to put something on the can. What would this look like? (possible a QR code with an identity and a stamp?)

(3) How would you go setting up a "mail list" for a club with minimal friction, especially if everyone doesn't have their phone with them.
You can register domains for >1 year. You'll still need to renew it every year but you'll have a buffer in case something goes wrong.
Highlights of the HTTP Archive Web Almanac 2021
I was going to recommend this too! It feels high quality and has a nice, bright display as well.
Be sure to make a CCPA/GDPR request to delete all your data, including your account. You get nothing from them, they get nothing from you.
> All white people in America have an unfair advantage.

Statistical advantage you mean, but that does not translate to good outcomes for many people.

I'll agree with you that in a historically white country, white people, in general, have an advantage. But saying this completely disregards the marginalized white working class which has been under siege, like minorities, by a predatory ruling class.
Overhead electrical lines, susceptible to outages during storms (trees). Available NG or LP. Makes sense to have a generator backup.

27kw is decent size depending on size of house.

Re: the article - does the setup give more functionality to the smart transfer switch capabilities?
Priority-Based Flow Control (PFC)
Convictional (YC W19) hiring engineers to build the future of B2B trade (Remote)
I'm curious why you think this is the case. It's close to impossible (good luck convincing people to devalue their money) to increase the Bitcoin supply other than through minig.
I do have to give the actor who played the kid on 2.5 Men credit for walking away from acting and renouncing that role when he got back into religion.

From my reading of the NT, there's a lot of walking away from worldly things by those who chose to follow Yeshua, so I do respect it when those to talk the talk actually walk the biblical walk.
in principle, and in the long term, I agree that is the correct attitude. but in the short term the characteristics of the various tech building blocks shape what can be solved as "low hanging fruit" and that creates a dynamic of its own.
Isn't it more like Amazon has 300 Million customers so 1% is 3 Million, and 0,1% IS 300000 people?
That's not 100% true. One of the best things I ever did was ditch all my clients who used my servers for mail onto corporate gmail accounts. They actually do get someone on the phone when they have a problem. The thing you have to consider is that someone on the client side is getting paid $8/hr to call Google and someone on the Google side is getting paid $8/hr to respond, and as long as it doesn't bubble up to being anyone else's problem this is probably better than having a CEO call a dev lead at 5am and ask why the mail isn't working.
Wouldn't an SMTP that requires authentication and non forgeable sender addresses solve 90% of the problem of spam etc.
> All my kindle/audible/etc media immediately became inaccessible.

gen.lib.rus.ec

Also lookup myannonymouse for audio books, have all the latest titles. Getting an account is pretty easy, they literally checks if you can read their account policy.
I've been Googling the word SPA and I keep finding places to go for a holiday, but nothing relevant to what you're talking about.
I spent a lot more time on that website than I expected to.

Thank you for the heads up.
> Google Photos still, after nearly two decades, won't tell you if they're storing an original copy or compressed facsimile of your photos.

One recent anecdote: When I used my Pixel 2 with its free original quality backup, I used motion photos for a few things. 3 years later, now, on another phone (or even the web viewer) some of these motion photos are not loading. Some of them then load on the web but have video compression artifacts (i.e.: B-frame artifacts).

I'm glad the original photos are intact from what I can tell, but this is extremely off-putting, given I was 100% in the Google ecosystem -- from hardware to account setup -- and still got burned somehow.
I agree that cryptocurrency is a pyramid scheme, but the web is incredibly centralized.

The whole point of DNS is to normalize an easy to remember name to an address so that everyone can access that same address easily. That is almost the purest essence of centralization.

In practice if you want to share family photos with your family do you upload those photos to a third party like a social media site or a cloud provider for all your family to access? That is centralized: an agreed upon location for everyone to access.

In contrast decentralization means no third party. Grandma pushing the family photos directly onto the kids hard drive from across the network, for example.

The confusion here is most people confuse the web for the internet. The internet is a big decentralized network thanks to BGP. The web is an application riding that network thanks to HTTP.

The goal of the web, as it was invented. was to allow decentralized content access via hyperlinks. That vision is essentially dead. Content is now an index on a database behind a walled garden.

On the web content is king. In a true decentralized platform autonomy and availability are king while content is trivial.
Have three kinds of backups. Physical drives (2) and an online backup that's not through Apple, Amazon, Microsoft or Google.
And don't use any of their built-in services; in fact, firewall yourself from them.
Then it's no fuss. You'll never have to deal with their "customer service".
> transfer your likes to us

Yikes! Not likes!

Mob just became too brazen. Allowing employees to work on their own stuff while [ab]using company's dough was a company's good will and great trust. That employee should go back to normal and work for company during paid hours.
I've asked this before and never got a straight answer, but I'll ask again: what exact clauses do I need to modify in the employment contract, and what exactly must they say, in order to avoid this sort of situation? (relevant to UK employment that is). If you've solved this for yourself, please tell us all how and what it's written in yours so we can do the same.

Here is a link to what my previous employment contract stated about copyright: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24220800 (right now I'm just a shareholder in a company and not employed). Basically it says employer owns all, and I'd like that to say something else... but what?
Hopefully more people notice these problems and stop using online services so much.
Exactly. Copyleft is more about "freedom for society" as a whole, ensuring all users (which includes developers) retain this version of freedom. Permissive licenses are more about "freedom" for the individual to do whatever they want, with the potential to take freedoms away from others as a result. I think the stupid anti-gpl sentiment mostly comes from American idealisms of freedom, and developer selfishness, but that's just imo. The GPL still lets you do whatever you want in the privacy of your own computer, but when you put that GPLed software into the public, you need to ensure that you give the same freedoms to everyone else to have within their own computers as well.

I think that's much more noble and kind.
But as long as it's free software, I'll still use it and be happy it is, regardless of the license.
And tbh it'd be nice if the small, loud minority of BSD lovers, GPL despisers would shut up. They give the BSD crowd a terrible look.
Yeah, I can only imagine how bad it would be to have an Arab name and only one of them.
Move to Ireland? This is incredibly normal there. No London UK also works for this.
As a Brit, I think the lack of ID* is fairly silly nowadays, however it's an orthogonal issue to the surveillance one.

Abuses of government power that the average person might experience here tend to come from lower levels like the civil service, police, tax office, immigration or councils. ID card databases could make that easier as they tend to be more accessible (of course, otherwise they'd not be useful). The other thing we don't want is for it to be easy for companies to demand ID for basic things knowing that everyone will have one, or future governments to be able to make carrying an ID card mandatory when in public, and for police - or anyone else - to demand to be able to see it. That situation is often derided as a Nazi Germany "papers please" police state. The idea of needing a permission slip from a state authority to breathe the pure English air is a line the majority of people would absolutely not want to cross at this point in time.

The secret services aren't something that most people think about. We don't typically worry about being mistakenly or maliciously classified as an enemy of the state. Unlike being maliciously classified as an enemy of a local councillor, which is fairly common. Also, you can be pretty sure your secret services are doing exactly the same things as ours, irrespective of what your law or constitution says.

(* Physical ID cards are a bit old fashioned though. We're planning on replacing physical driving licenses, non-citizen residence permits, etc. with digital versions. I suspect we'll end up with a national digital identity system by default without ever having a physical ID card. Some people are worried that will lead to another Windrush situation, however.)
Angkor: Asia's Ancient 'Hydraulic City'
>I was in uni around 2007-08 and realised it was using a serious amount of my time and energy.

The first public version of Minecraft came out in May 2009.
Antibiotics hadn't been discovered when the black plague ended. The bubonic plague that can described today is not the black plague.

There had been several pandemics of black plague, but at some point it didn't come back. Why?

Maybe there was a bacteriophague virus which caused Yersinia Pestis to be lethal? (Hypothesis) But why would it be gone?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27281573/
Isn't it so that if the employee published the code under lets say gpl license but the company acquired the rights, the company can reserve the rights and the code cannot be forked
I think the li-ion battery is good enough for now.
Popping the Hood on Golden Cove
It will be something that we might never know

Maybe juste to spite a leaving employee.
I don't know whether it was the topic, good writing, my low attention span or all three but this is the first article which I've read in its entirety in a while and has prompted me to check the author's other articles.
SPA in this context would likely mean Single Page App. A Javascript module, to be run in a browser.
When I visited the Pyramids, I first felt underwhelmed—they looked like mere piles of rocks. Coming from Sri Lanka, the ancient hemispherical stupas of my country seemed to be more complex structures (in an engineering sense).

...then I realized that when our stupas were built, the Pyramids were already ancient.

Something I find just as impressive is how far south ancient Egypt extended—not just to the border of contemporary Egypt ("Khemet"), but also to modern Sudan ("Wawat" and "Kush").

Given that this was 4000+ years ago, the logistical and administrative challenges of maintaining such a vast empire must have been incredibly challenging.
TIME's Top Photos of 2021
I don't find this very interesting, but some movement where there is a browser, search engine and 'start page'/webring all with only sites/content that's not primarily there to make money seems good. Can be made / look like the modern web but cannot be commercial-first, have ads (or at least not javascript tracked ads), have javascript traffic checking etc. Not sure how to moderate that type of thing but it would be nice.
So might be a good idea if they refund him then.
Amazon has been fantastic for my small business.

The fees aren't too crippling (around 15% of revenue) and FBA is an absolute Godsend for anyone based outside of the US trying to crack into that market (similar for Europe).

I could not thank Mr. Bezos more for the opportunities Amazon has given my family. The income from FBA was a major factor in my decision to quit my job back in 2020, and because of that my daughter can be with her daddy every single day.
The story gets more interesting if you consider that Bumble is also developing two libraries under their official name, badoo/MVICore and badoo/RIBs, which are conceptually the same as MVIKotlin and Decompose respectively.

What do you do, if a framework/library is effectively a rewrite of something developed by another team at the same company, but also released officially under the brand of same company?
It's definitely something really complex. My contract does have a clause requiring me to notify them about side activities.

It's a small company and, from what I gathered when I discussed the contract with the founder back then, a lawyer advised him to add this clause to protect the company indeed.

My advise to any company that is thinking to do the same thing that this one did to this developer, if you're interested by the open source projects of one of your employee, sponsor it, give time to your employee to contribute in his/her working hours for example. You'll have a much better outcome.
eBay’s Stalking Campaign against a Natick Couple
Then perhaps tax it to oblivion?
Web2, in the social media sense, was about advertising and merchandising. Let’s not reinvent history with a fiction that never was.
NASA makes plans to return to Venus to probe the chemistry of its atmosphere
> you might as well pirate stuff

I want big corporations to abide to the law. To pirate is a patch that does not solve the problem. Let's fix that corporations do whatever they want with your digital property.

I want to buy digital movies, games, music, ... without being at the mercy of some algorithm that can automatically steal what is mine.
Just imagine you hiring someone just to play with his Ruby pet projects all day long...
Qualcomm is doomed, long live Apple Silicon
Who's maintaining the service instead of AWS in the web3 scenario?