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> So for these reasons I've never understood how someone could find their phone addicting.

This is like saying "I don't abuse alcohol, therefore I can't understand how others could abuse alcohol."

Good for you, dude. I guess be thankful that you don't have these struggles, but try to understand that your life experience isn't necessarily shared.
Couldn't you start an internship at 20K euros, and work your way up to 140K Euros after 7-8 years or so with a few job changes?
Solved the problem with a Nokia 8110 4G, which works great as Internet tether for my thinkpad too (now writing using them in fact). Browsing is near impossible as is using every other internet service, just calls and receiving SMSs from the bank from time to time, which is exactly what I need. They're slowly pushing the use of apps for authentication, but I still keep the (paid) option to stay with SMSs. The phone works great although the UI is a bit sluggish; battery life is not great but enough for use with tethering and calls (no problems whatsoever doing both at the same time). Camera is sub par just like every dumb phone out there; I use it only to make photos of products I need to remember, I never expected I could use it to shoot beautiful sunsets.
Price may change significantly, I was lucky enough to purchase it new at €49 delivered, but I've seen its price dancing up to over 200€, which is ridiculous.
If you can find it at a reasonable price, it's a nice little device that does the 3 things a dumb phone should do today.
Can someone explain how is this possible in the first place, i.e. how do those fakes pass authentication checks from the phone/sim card?
I used to feel similar but no more. I keep only the minimal must-to-have apps on my default profile and rest on a Work profile. Work profile remains switched off most of the time until and unless I need to use the apps on the Work profile. Eventually, this cut down the number of apps on my phone.

Sandbox your addictions and trim them down at your pace. That's how it worked for me.
That would essentially be at will employment, our current system. “Stopping” at two years is an improvement from our current system because employment (or rather, a salary) would be a guaranteed via a contract. People wouldn’t sign a weekly contract like that if a 2yr contract existed elsewhere
If it makes the TikTok lovers feel any better, the same person (Kylie Jenner) detested Snapchat's redesign years ago [0] which literally brought its stock down as they left Snapchat to be more active on Instagram.

Now they are complaining and are annoyed by the redesign changes made by Instagram and may ditch Instagram for TikTok if they wanted.

Either way the point is, every platform screws over their users over time and as soon as the next addictive hit is available, they will setup shop over there with the sheep following them and once a undesirable change has been done, they will ditch the old platform and will be more active on the new one. TikTok won't be any different.

An evergreen rinse and repeat cycle.

[0] https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/snap-stock-p...
There is no objective proof that Charger A is better than B. Not typically. There are preferences, and those will lead way to eventually a market that picks a winner - maybe, typically, IDK, free market works when it's actually free. Which it isn't a lot times people rant about it.

The absolute worst thing we could do is go to Apple or anyone else and say "You need to use this x or y, because someone else does". That isn't going to breed innovation, ever.

Do I wish Apple used USB-C on phones? Definitely. Does it actually change anything for me day to day except I need a specfic cable if my phone runs dead? Not really because my chances aren't a ton better running into a USB-C on demand. I want Apple to. I would buy an Apple phone with it if given the option. I would never sign-on to force Apple to do it.
Is there a good way to receive the physical good without providing your address, though?
In my understanding, this alone isn't good enough. You need to:

1. Say what you expect an implementation to do (the spec)

2. Check that the tool does what you say in step 1 (the implementation)

Part 2 on its own is not enough. The reference implementation is an implementation, but you still need an explicitly different reference to check said implementation against.

That it's a reference implementation means it's an appropriate thing to derive 1 from, which is of course what's happening here.

And rustc's massive test suite is very, very helpful in demonstrating 2.
Hell no idea why, but these stopped working; I've switched recently to LibRedirect btw - it handles more stuff. You should check it if you haven't yet
The table and chart does not support the claim "elderly are most likely to be scammed". They aren't scammed more than others (in number of people), and if they are scammed out of larger amounts of money, it's maybe because they HAVE larger amount of money to scam them out of, to begin with? Remember more than half of all net worth is with 60+.
While I generally share your view of NFTs, I don't think your dismissal of them is really fair.

I think what it really boils down to is that, in the "real world", consumers are willing to pay many, many millions of dollars solely based on provenance. That is, one mediocre painting may be worth a couple hundred dollars, but if it can be validated that the painting was actually painted by some famous (dead) grand master, that painting is now suddenly worth millions of dollars, even though nothing about that painting has changed.

So, what NFT boosters were arguing was that, if people are willing to pay millions of dollars for provenance in the physical world, why not the digital world? In my belief it's that humans have evolved to view 2 distinct physical object, even if they are exactly the same, as separate - an exact copy of a painting so that it is indistinguishable from the original to the human eye would still be a different painting and not have the provenance of the original. For digital jpegs, we don't view them that way - the same image on two different monitors is "the same image". For physicists out there it's kinda like the difference between fermi dirac statistics and bose einstein statistics.

Thus, while I agree that NFTs are all scams, I think we should also be asking the question of why we are willing to assign so much value to provenance in the physical world - that seems crazy to me, too.
> any attempts to circumvent the ban only leading to more trouble

Is this a figure of speech, and not a literal situation? If you’ve already been banned, failing to circumvent that ban ultimately only leads to the same outcome: still being banned?

Or is there further punitive actions taken?
Not the parent, but I read it as, sometimes you're cooking the meal you want to eat tonight. Other times it's "What do I have in the house?"

There definitely many times when I'm "I should use something from the freezer" or "I need to use this meat cut I bought a couple days ago."
>I'm convinced 90% of the stuff he says and does is to keep Tesla and himself in the news.

The connotation that no news is bad news is just such a sad statement on the human condition. If you're in the news for wrong reasons with negative connotations && still maintaining an overall positive image, then WTF is wrong with people?

When a particular individual continues to be theirself in public like this, each instance makes me think less and less of them. It then starts to reflect on the compan[y|ies] they represent. I used to regard Tesla very highly, but no longer. The more they focus on FSD and stop progressing EV cars more in general, the less I care about Tesla. To the point now, I no longer consider them as a car I'd like to buy. I'm still holding onto liking SpaceX notwithstanding the CEO.
Nice one - rather than attack the argument that changing jobs increases your salary, an appeal to the masses of what "a massive amount of people" may or may not care to do.

Any argument without evidence can be summarily dismissed without evidence. So I argue that a vast majority, a massive amount if you will, of working people do want to increase their salary, basing this on my own goals and those of people I know and worked with over the last decade.
All these folks trying to "pay their bills" have laid waste to a verdant field of possibility.

Everything nice that they offer eventually gets changed or taken away.

Yes, I'm bitter. We could have a much better world, one that actually empowers anyone willing to step up to the plate, but instead we grab all the low-hanging fruit so we can make them smile and step on workers' rights to deliver them burritos, instead.

A happy cohort is an obedient cohort, amiright?
This is true, although I don't manage our ads. But the amount of articles from folks on a weekly basis where they broke some unspoken rule that got them banned with no recourse and any relationship point of contact ghosting them is unsettling.

Unless these are actually all astroturfing stories by Microsoft and Amazon, I will stick to the companies who will actually speak to me if I have problems. They have internal communications, so my support ticket will actually reach other teams, and even working in a start up I can get conversations with finance and technical employees to get problems solved.

Google can have the advertising dollars since they are the 80 ton gorilla, but I can't see how anyone can trust them with anything critical to the running of your business.
This was probably 2015, so it was likely that.
Yeah but nobody actually "made" any money.

To the extent anyone engaged with this project and walked away with real live American dollars they came from either VC investors, or greater fool token investors.

That's the whole point of the article. Ostensibly the project exists to provide a valuable service, that's what is supposed to create the rewards. But that ain't real.
Can you provide an example of a city with a grid-like metro? I know many grid like cities. I cannot think of any grid like metros.
Gogol was Ukrainian though. Lots of references to Ukrainian culture in his early writings as well.
Switzerland exports to Russia are booming
Especially because the whole point is to qualify the compiler. You can't say "well this code compiles under the reference compiler but in production we compile it with this other compiler," as that's like, kinda the whole point of qualification: to qualify the tools being actually used.
We can, but we should calibrate our expectations accordingly.
This has always been a thing I've struggled with. Not getting into the politics of cancelling famous people that behave badly...I hate that something like JK Rowling's body of work, which I really liked, has taken such a turn, and within certain circles, admitting you like the original series...is a risky thing to do.

I like Dave Chapelle, seen him live twice, and consider him a fantastically intelligent person.

I think an underlying fault of our current situation is a lack of nuance, an inability to compromise, and a desire to weaponize differences of opinion.
We didn’t solve e-mail spam
It doesn't seem so bad right now if you use Sway/GNOME/KDE. I have Wayland enabled on my Intel+NVIDIA laptop and it's been pretty much fine after installing the proprietary drivers.
Ask HN: Why are privacy coins like Monero not seeing wide adoption?
I consider Web3/NFTs to be a scam and the only utility I see in cryptocurrency is the anonymous and decentralized transfer of value. However interestingly the coins that do this well like Monero are not seeing wide adoption.
What’s one of the first things they teach when dealing with statistical analysis?

Correlation is not causation
There's an entire industry of people and court filings that disagree with you.
I mean "deprive people of services, police them brutally, stuff them into a small area, and work them like mules until they die" was pretty much the reigning strategy in the industrial era, and frankly we're returning to that now in slightly altered form under neoliberalism, so it's not that far fetched.
> Only in your twisted imagination.

Or, you know, according to the quote from the article, that I included in my initial comment.
Well, space is something else that is at a premium in a city... I have two 5.5cu-ft freezers for storing bulk stuff that I see cheap on sale... have fun with that in an apartment. And especially if you are doing soups and other liquids, you really kinda want a chamber vacuum sealer, which is a big dealie that sits on your counter with a 1/4hp motor. Even keeping the sealing area very clean (wiping down the foam seals and electric seal strip regularly, etc) I cannot get one of the cheap vac-u-saver vacuum-pump machines to last more than a year, after that the seals on the packets start getting marginal and they leak air and eventually ruin the food. Someone in a new york apartment doesn't have space for 2 cubic feet of vacuum sealer and 15 cubic feet of freezers.

(do you need the chamber sealer, no, but they do a much better job, if you're doing tons of bulk food prep and sealing they're really a nice tool for it.)
I think the dismissal is fair.

For physical objects, scarcity is an unescapable fact. It would be great if we could right-click on some Michelin starred chef's food and have another copy of it, but we can't.

NFTs unnecessarily add artificial scarcity to something that didn't really need it.
> The most striking aspect of this report is that this UEFI implant seems to have been used in the wild since the end of 2016 – long before UEFI attacks started being publicly described. This discovery begs a final question: if this is what the attackers were using back then, what are they using today?

I always marvel at the ingenuity and technical complexity of these kinds of attacks, but this is also something that makes me lose sleep at night.

I can’t help but wonder just how utterly compromised we all are, and won’t know it until many years down the line.
This happened in China as well with a domino effect: 5 buses total
https://newsasiatoday.com/electric-bus-china-caught-fire/
I was inaccurate, sorry. My devices only run either Linux or rooted LineageOS, but I do run some hostile Big Tech apps on them like WhatsApp or Tinder. However, I use tools like TrackerControl and Insular to prevent them from calling hosts other than those I have explicitly whitelisted, or from accessing data they shouldn't.

I still avoid installing them when possible. Facebook, Airbnb, and many others work just fine via their websites.
Ukraine's war on Russian culture isn't just about removing Russian culture, it's about emphasizing Ukrainian culture, which the Russian Empire and USSR both actively tried to suppress.

It's not anti-Pushkin as much as pro-Shevchenko...

Edit - also interesting that the author is Russian-Swiss, presumably living in Switzerland.
>Is there any need or demand for a decent Java language DICOM parsing library?

Dcm4che is that, though perhaps there could be some debate as to whether it's decent. I don't know; I'm stuck using quite an old version.
The amount of material resources in space are breathtaking. Asteroid mining has the potential of delivering multiples of the amount of elements we've mined for our entire history in single asteroids. That alone could sustain a space economy.

There also isn't our massive gravity well. If you have materials (see point 1) it is easier to build large installations. We should be able to build GIGANTIC underground habitats in the moon.

There was also the powers-of-ten energy use as we climb Kardashev levels. That only happens with space settlement.

The other economic fact is that we have too many people for the Earth to sustain already AT THE CONSUMPTION THEY WANT. Sure we can impose a resource restriction by fiat (communism/authoritarian) or availability/poverty (capitalism), take your pick.

Space will come more easily with cybernetics. In a hundred years humans may be very very very different. But footholds are worthwhile.

But ultimately your comment harkens to the lack of vision of humanity, mostly I view it as a sign of increased control by the leisure elite over the world. They control the money and politics, and all they want are status and enjoyment, and the rest of the world to support them.

We have a thin margin for species survival right now. It's kind of like how when the tipping point for global warming in the 1990s was happening, everyone in America bought SUVs.

Sad.
I think about the Magnasanti sim city a lot when thinking about how simcity's game mechanics were designed - see an earlier comment with more references : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19313380
Definitely not a rent-seeking opportunity. Just to clarify, I'd see the public ISP service as providing a vanilla "wires only" type broadband offering at a reasonable competitive speed at a reasonable price. A value-add service might be e.g. a private sector competitor offers a broadband + sports streaming bundle or something like that which it makes less sense for the public sector to get involved in. The public sector broadband service effectively puts a ceiling on what can be charged for plain broadband, so the private sector offering has to be better in some way and they can't rent-seek.
There's no need to time the market when the market is flooded with cash. You didn't need to be smart or even lucky to make money on practically anything in late 2020-mid 2021.

The trick is knowing when to get out. And for that, simply managing your greed is enough.
No. MSFT has bet the business on Cloud and while the virtualization stack they use is Hyper-V, they have a TON of products running Linux under the hood in the cloud.

A big chunk (I don't know the real number, but it's closer to 50% than 10%) of customer vm's on Azure are running Linux.

All this to say, MSFT is highly invested in the Linux ecosystem. They would be shooting themselves in the foot to try and kill it off at this point.
This feels like a very tech-industry answer. The solution to too much tech in our lives is more tech? AI? The latter especially I don’t buy. In my experience, apps and services that try to learn your usage patterns rarely do a good job of it. I know there’s really great uses of AI out there, but this idea that we can just sprinkle some AI dust over problems and they’ll be solved, feels like such a tired pitch by now. Often AI turns services into grey boxes that become very frustrating to use when their predictions are wrong. I don’t need to cede even more control of my life to algorithms that are opaque to me and are often trying to monetize me in ways I never consented to.

As far as more tech being more realistic than people opting for dumb phones en masse, you’re probably right, but AI being an actual good solution to tech addiction I disagree.
IDK, I've been on Wayland (via Sway) for about 5 years now, there were a few annoyances in the first few years but now I can't remember when was the last Wayland related thing that I needed to fix.
It just feels like a massive risk to my business that they could take my business and essentially shut it down, and block any communications.

Surely they should be able to see that OP is an actual customer and not some sort of scammer.
The “WD40 is not a lubricant” trope isn’t true - it is a lubricant. That said, it isn’t grease, and can displace/remove grease in situations where you might not want that.

[0] https://www.wd40.com/myths-legends-fun-facts/
If UK will take weapons and go on a killing spree to “restore the great empire”, I’m gonna boycott them just as much.
How Mark Zuckerberg Is Leading Meta into Its Next Phase
Ask HN: Did you play in the crypto roulette?
Honestly, I always had a bad vibe on crypto.
I did buy some bitcoin and ether, and played a little with it but despised the computational complexity for anything.
Also gotta confess I lost pretty much all my money on it, but never went on Axie or any P2E game.
Yeah, I'm speaking in general terms of the software industry, and common hiring processes, which according to your comments you seem to fit into pretty well.

I don't mean to criticise you but rather suggest that the hiring process should focus less on intelligence and coding skills, and try to hire people that have intellect. That can pair judgement with intelligence. That can relate decisions to goals beyond their own personal preferences.

I have too many bad experiences with highly intelligent, but myopic and immature software developers who are left to "self organise" and just end up being lose cannons of raw intelligence, that does much more harm than good.

Software development, is more an organisational problem than a technical one.

The organisation itself is already so vastly complex that no human being can comprehend it, and that's why you have a hierarchy of information and specialisation of roles. Even if your system by some miracle has zero accidental complexity, it's still going to overwhelm even the most intelligent person, just by the amount of essential complexity. So you will need an organisation of hierarchy and/or specialisation to manage this. And the biggest determining factor for how successful you are, is this organisation and how it works as a whole, rather than any individuals superior capacity.

I just think it's a really bad idea to try to hire "extra smart" people to try to solve these issues, because it won't work.
Ah, but it won't work on the internet once ISPs are forced to use remote attestation to prove you're using a government approved device.
I found nearly 300k errors in MS COCO object detection
Wider E2EE adoption was the only hope for clawing back some privacy for users who do everything on cloud services. If the EU bans E2EE and starts mandating all kinds of scanning of data stored on third party servers, it would be a massive loss.
> What are they doing?

Microservices.

I haven't worked there, but I've worked at incredibly similar companies with the same scale.

Every single business function split into fine grained services, with teams of size 5-20 (larger teams have split services, oncall, etc.)

Auth, API gateway. Layers of devops teams. Traffic, monitoring, data store, many different analytics support teams. Kubernetes maintenance.

The payments platform is probably huge. The app teams too.

Infosec of various flavors. Vendor integrations...

Think about the sprawling functionality of a company at scale.

Anyone else is sales or support. And other business functions, like various legal departments.

10,000 is the right size for an org like Shopify.
That's a point that deserves deeper study.

They have (from memory) 13 countries on their borders, and almost no "natural" borders, e.g. rivers or mountain ranges. They have a history that's blood-curdling. Expecting a new czar to make it like Denmark is a bit much.

The West tried in the 90s, and Boris Yeltsin is not remembered fondly over there. The emergence of gangster capitalism was the result.
Leave something to be somebody else's problem
I am definitely not being sarcastic. Sorry to hear that was even a consideration.

The article you posted has a lot more epistemic value. In contrast, the article in this thread is a very basic frustrated rant. It is just unfortunate that the seemingly more discussion worthy article did not receive more discussion.

I am intrigued by Voice Dialogue. Would you care to expand a bit on that? Pointing to any resources would be much appreciated.
Uhm... It always has been. One could even say it's the only reason wars end up happening, as a lack of cultural conflict creates a much easier road for diplomacy.
I would not say it's hidden, everything is public, but honestly even I wasn't 200% sure about which product we used / were charged for before writing this post!
Are there any computer or table top war games that deal in a somewhat realistic way with logistics?
The Science of Problem Solving (2014)
A very interesting article. Previous submission doesn't work anymore as the URL changed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7918766