skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But what if I want to transplant a part from my old phone to a phone same model that I both legitimately own? Why should Apple be the one to stop me? Why not let the user enable/disable the SW lock, like a lo-jack?

Do you live in an area where phone theft is rampant? Ok, then leave SW lock enabled on your phone's parts.

Do you want to legitimately transplant parts off your old phone to your new phone? Then let the user disable the SW lock after entering their PIN or Face-ID or whatever.

It's not like this is some super-complex problem Apple couldn't solve with a few line of code to have the best of bot worlds if they really wanted to.
So it's a counter-culture thing like hippies and punks of the past? I thought those all died with moderated social media.
Is it at all about "sticking it to the man" or is it purely profit motivated (by the followers of those individuals)? It's most likely a mix of the two, but to what degree.
You are conflating separate concerns.

Tracking serial numbers to black-list stolen parts (too much effort for too little value IMO but I'm not a bean counter for a nation-state-sized corporation so what do I know?) is very different from white-listing ordained parts.

Independent shops should be able to buy broken phones from individuals and part them out for repairs without jumping through Apple's hoops.
Try teaching sometime, and then get back to us: https://jakeseliger.com/2008/12/28/laptops-students-distract....
it is also possible for you [anyone] to contribute to the effort.
even if you have had a checkered past, that can be worked around.

if you use soft drugs, you can dry out.
dont lie to them about your intentions, there is a place of greatest effectiveness according to your propensities, this can be worked out.
dont lie about your past, if you hide personal leverage points of coercion you are compromised from the start

you dont have to be master chief, or einstien, just very good and very focused on what you do.

All applicants must be:

U.S. citizens (dual U.S. citizens also eligible)

At least 18 years of age

Willing to move to the Washington, DC area

Able to complete security and medical evaluations

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https://www.cia.gov/careers/jobs/

https://www.cia.gov/ehl/ [JS required]
Incidentally, Windows doesn't have the mirror ball. I guess it is a carrot to get me to upgrade to Windows 11, which I am skipping. (The key with Windows is to only use the good versions; XP, 7, 10, ???. Hoping ??? arrives soon ;)
"Just poker" says The Atlantic.

Chess is not a game. Chess is a well-defined form of computation. You may not be able to work out the answers, but in theory, there must be a solution, a right procedure in any position. Now real games... are not like that at all. Real life is not like that. Real life consists of bluffing, of little tactics of deception, of asking yourself what is the other man going to think I mean to do. And that is what games are about in my theory.

~ John von Neumann

https://newsletter.altdeep.ai/p/how-poker-and-a-spaceship-im...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24589842
IMO the best option for Canadian real estate is for prices to remain stagnant for a long time, allowing wages to catch up, and decouple the idea of your primary residence as being a good retirement plan.
Contrary to what you seem to believe, freedom doesn't have to be a zero sum game
Correct. Tech reviewers don't open phones for a living, and the vast, vast majority of cell phone buyers literally could not care less.
Only Steam [1] and Nintendo [2] releases so far, both are $25.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2060130/Return_to_Monkey_...

[2] https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/return-to-monkey-isl...
It's also non-trivial to guess a private key or to run a 51% attack.
Right. It's Sim NIMBY, not Sim YIMBY.
I actually think not - the few third party gecko browsers abandoned ship to webkit/blink/chromium over the years
> gold shares a lot of properties with Bitcoin, and therefore should be considered a sham by most of HN

Gold and gold buggery are separate. Gold and silver have deep precedence as money. They're also useful commodities. Gold buggery involves retail investors disproportionately allocating to gold as a buy-and-hold asset, often with emotional attachment. Those buying crypto because it's going to free the world or whatever resemble the latter.
I got mugged a couple years ago, or attempted to: The thief asked for my phone, saw it was an iPhone and just gave it back.

That to me is worth the whole phone bricking thing. And it's also not like I've gone through a bunch of them, I got a 6S on release and a 12 pro when I felt it couldn't play video games anymore.
If there's any company that cares about e-waste and could do this, it would be Apple. They're the only company, from what I can see, that does any kind of changes with regard to an eye on environmental sustainability.
I don't see how bringing up a right wing conspiracy meme adds anything to what your parent said. Your biometrics should be processed and gathered by the most secure parts of the device, which means going through more hoops to get a replacement.
The app runs on the USB device. The code is loaded from the host, and if it hashes to the correct value, it will be able to access the secrets on the Tillitis.
Ask HN: Are Embedded Engineers Slaves?
(If we remove the salary from the equation)
A Sports Media Empire Runs on ‘Good Vibes Only’
Sort of. For now. How much higher do the walls need to become before it's no longer reasonable to live outside Apple's garden?
No, this is not really what this is about. But the article is terrible in conveying this -- actually I find the comparison with poker to be very inept.

This is less about playing mindtricks and bluffing, but more 'mundane'.

I.e. a decent player will know all the good mainlines of popular openings, and end up in 'comfortable' positions (among other things due to computer analysis).

The metagame is to prepare a non-garbage sideline, that your opponent is not so familiar with. Nobody at a high rating plays 'questionable' variations on purpose, in order to bluff. The resulting positions would be much too punishing.
My understanding is that the trade off in European systems is a much more stringent entrance requirement.

So, university is free, but a smaller percentage of people have the scores to get in. Only about 30% of German students go to university, vs 40+% of Americans.

This isn't the worst idea. College in the US is overly fetishized and trade schools and/or going directly to work or starting a business is snubbed. The result seems to be a deeply overeducated, but under employable population and an aging trade class that is entering retirement without having fully passed the torch to the next generation.
I fail to see how this refutes my argument.

Maybe you wanted an outlet to air your grievances or vent your frustration with past experiences that you might have had with individuals from the Muslim community, which is totally understandable, but still my argument holds true and you're painting with a broad brush here.
Yes, but not every need and desire is socially supported. Obviously this is subjective and not a given, as it has never been done before in the US.
Ask HN: Activity and reading to move through mid-life crisis?
Hi friends,

Any recommendation of activities and reading for someone who is apparently going through a mid-life crisis, aside from seeing a therapist and doing more exercises?

I have some vague idea of what I would like to achieve for the rest of my life (mostly intellectual stuffs such as studying General Relativity), but there is an invisible wall standing between them and what my mind is at the moment. I also think I should setup some other goals such as family (already have a baby son) but my mind is not particularly interested in that part. Maybe it will reveal itself when time passes.

I'm also interested in any experience of anyone who apparently had a mid-life crisis but managed to go through it more or less without too much damage to themselves and their families.

Thanks.
Central economic planning still doesn't work.
I would categorize it differently. Rather than just objecting to their policy, he is describing a reason why current policies are suboptimal, and suggesting ways that current policies could be improved. Namely, that domestic central banks around the world don't coordinate policy with foreign central banks, despite the existence of major feedback loops between foreign and domestic policy. He hypothesizes that the world economy would be better off if there were more global coordination on monetary policy.
That is why I asked, the points made were different from anything out of even the fringe.

> Comical "anything I don't like is Russian" response.

I agree calling people a bot is too common, but in this case Russians are the main people calling Zelensky's government and country Nazi.
I use uMatrix with a relatively strict set of blocks. By default, I allow first-party JS, and a handful of 3rd party CDNs. This is _even worse_ than browsing with JS off for most sites, as the <noscript> fallbacks don't work, but usually things are broken in one way or another because everybody depends on a ton of external libraries and services. I mostly do this to keep myself aware of the relationships between sites, and to disable the annoying "give us your email" popups that so many sites have these days.
Monte Carlo Methods or Why It Is a Bad Idea to Go to the Casino
> I thought "santa" meant "saint"?

Well, santa is a Spanish word meaning "holy" and saint is a cognate French word meaning the same thing. They descend from Latin sanctus; compare sanctify.

When the prayer goes "holy Mary, mother of god", "holy Mary" is an exact equivalent of "santa María".
Magnus Carlsen resigns against Hans Niemann in the second move
You're running way too hard. Focus on zone 2, and it ain't so hard. Of course, you do want to go faster, but these training should be the minority of your run.
We agree. I simply wanted to add some context / depth, because as you mentioned, the media is so good at over-simplification. And that too often skews the ability to have a full informed conversation.
Fair points all around.
> Remove KYC+AML from the banking/monetary system

Luna's downfall and Do Kwon's pending red notice have nothing to do with KYC or AML.
Not if I am forced to buy the parts from Apple or they stop providing it. The real goal behind this anti-repair feature is to prevent users from sourcing parts from elsewhere and using it to repair their device. If Apple decides to support a device for only 5 years, you will no longer be able to repair your device once Apple stops distributing the parts. This anti-repair feature prevents you from using other compatible (non apple) parts on your phone (which, by the way are often much cheaper than Apple's artificially inflated prices to force you to buy Apple care).
Right but it is government spending beyond that nation's means that is the root cause.

The Greek debt crisis was a great example of this, since they couldn't directly control the printing of the Euro, they were forced instead to siphon money directly out of citizen bank accounts to service the national debt.

You could imagine the same thing happening with a nation on a gold standard. In fact the US did something similar in requiring all citizens to deposit their gold holdings. Inflation of a fiat currency is just one of the many ways in which governments can 'tax' citizens to pay for government spending.
Adgamator short:

https://youtube.com/shorts/QkqZxzZ4jD4
It's cases such as these invalidate the "they're not acting with malice". Thousands of google employees see this stuff, and are clearly being told they can't talk about it.
Yes they do, amphetamines would accomplish everything you wrote above. With enough hydration and amphetamines I’m certain even I could accomplish this and my general time for a mile over 20 miles is currently 8.5 minutes.
"you either call yourself russian or get marginalized"

Marginalized for not calling themselves Russian? Marginalized how?

"yet all the federal websites are only in russian and maybe english"

That's true, but only 3% of Russian citizens are Tatar language speakers and there are even fewer speakers for other languages.

Maybe you'll tell me where I can find Spanish version of the Congress website?
People are moving. They’re leaving these places and going to areas they and their families can live with a presumption of safety, without also being accused of “lacking compassion.”
Some people expect their expensive tools to withstand the rigors of daily use.
Chess grandmasters are not the most balanced human beings.

It’s a very small amount of people who have decided to consecrate an inordinate amount of time completely mastering a game and whose main focus in life is playing it competitively against each other.

It’s a lot like elite athletes but more nerdy and with longer career.
master troll Magnus. This is going to generate significantly more clicks than if he'd played and beat Hans handily
Maybe there's a conversion issue here. The fit Soldiers are running a pace of 8:00 per mile at the slowest. You (self-proclaimed unfit) are running a pace of 11:16 per mile. This is much slower. To change to speed and km, the slowest acceptable speed is 12 kmh. Yours is 8.5 kmh.

Source for Ranger numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Physical_Fi...
How does it differentiate between licked fingers and sweaty hands?
>For the healthcare, idk how it would be handled.

Bankruptcy, I bet. For me, the carte Vitale wins that battle.
non-paywall: https://archive.ph/mf7iW
I think when you look at it from a profit-driven lens, though, third-parties are always going to have to compromise on something to keep costs down in order to make a profit. Apple, historically, overcompensates on its parts and has higher tolerances so, in order for a third-party to be able to make replacement parts at significant enough profits, they need to be parts that don't match the OEM in quality or function, by definition.

Just look at screen repairs. Apple checks in software to verify the integrity of some of the hardware in screens and, in the past, it led to people being locked out of their devices when they were repaired with screens that had dummy FaceID/TouchID sensors.
That’s not how loans work, if it was credit card debt yeah you could pay a minimum forever, but education loans have terms attached with fixed payments.
No. It is an ever increasingly esoteric practice.

That 20% more work could be put in to improving the main product instead.
It's beautiful. Just imagine what'll be possible if we learn to manipulate meatspace like this.
I'm fairly certain the person you're replying to is prognosticating about the potential sanitization of the next game. I don't think the content of the older games really impacts that.
I've always found it odd that people want to share this sort of thing. Such as live coding videos or live editing.

People change behavior when they are being watched. Even when I know I'm being recorded and no one is watching, I feel a bit of the spotlight effect going on. I don't know that I could actually record my honest self without being performative. I wouldn't be free to do anything that might be embarrassing. Even in pair programming or coding interviews. It's an incredibly intimate thing, to watch someone take their brain noise and broadcast it, raw.
The allure of home ownership in America is the fixed mortgage rate among other things. (Rent goes up each year, without question).

I purchased a home at the start of this mess with an 2.6%. Right now it's hovering around 6%. I would say I MASSIVELY lucked out.

Does Canada not fix the rate? I am confused -
> I doubt this leak will affect the sales, although I can understand why the developers would prefer to not have their half finished work leaked like that.

Speaking from experience: gamedev has a lot of things that get removed or rejigged. Leaks like these not only destroy the feel of the game as a finished product it also gives unrealistic promises.

Case in point: There was a Snowdrop tech demo that got leaked which included "the division" with stealth mechanics. Such mechanics were technically impossible (for a lot of reasons I don't want to get into); but that leak had people going nuts because it looked cool.

(to be perfectly fair to the hype-train: the division was oversold in an official E3 trailer in 2013 anyway; before Ubisoft had details of the next generation hardware specs, same year as watchdogs... oops.)
And corresponding deflation which netted out to zero.

Two interesting periods of inflation were during the California gold rush, and the Yukon gold rush. It turns out, when gold is the currency, flooding the market with newly mined gold causes inflation, just like fiat money printing.
See also "donkeyspace".
Mental health courts may be a small step in the right direction, but California will try absolutely anything to solve homelessness apart from building more housing: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-will-do-anything-to-en...

We see the results: https://seliger.com/2022/06/29/homelessness-is-a-housing-pro...
Polio is back in the United States
Agreed, but in this example they specifically cite the glass. Does seem like you should be able to replace glass without phoning in to Apple in some manner.
There's a corruption problem, and the US will use it as an excuse to target politicians unfriendly to their interests, and divert scrutiny away from those that play ball with Washington.
Indeed, the mindset is the key issue. In JVM land, where I learned most of my compiler ideas, the assumption is "optimization is not observable". JVMs move heaven and earth to make it appear as if they were simple interpreters just running the bytecodes one by one. The C/C++ world is the only one I can think of where this is manifestly not the case: optimizations are routinely observable and an endless source of confusion and frustration for developers. In the presence of even a single bug in the application, suddenly UB results in the veritable gates of hell opening and the entire lower world of the guts of abstractions comes spilling out. Woe to those who would try to debug at this level, for they fight demons of every form.
Really happy to see this write up. I’m probably in the tank, but I genuinely believe that Apple strives to do right by its customers, and to be a good company. it’s not a nonprofit, and I don’t expect them to act like one.

Sometimes I feel like people enjoy piling on because they are the big
dog.

Again, please don’t mistake this comment for a blindness to some of its operations. But it’s nice to see them get credit for the good stuff.
That user had said neoliberal, not neocon.
It also considerably reduces the ability of nation-state attackers to replace parts with modified hardware without your knowledge, as Apple can detect and terminate misuse of the tool that creates new cryptographic signing keys for the pairing of phone and part. We saw signed-pairing appear with the Touch ID system in response to Apple learning of nation-state attacks on the iPhone that used hardware modifications.

To date, no HN discussion of this crypto-pairing of the phone to its parts has revealed an alternative solution that would be effective at Apple’s scale for preventing phones from being hacked by a parts swap while also allowing any part to be swapped in — not to mention while providing the anti-theft benefits described upthread. I’d love to see a viable alternative solution described, if anyone has one.
No it's not a reasonable assumption.

Which specific groups are you aware of that think dealing with climate change by phasing out burning fossil fuels will reduce standards of living? I think you'll find a common funding source behind them.
The person who stabs me in the back for $100 is the same person who stabs you in the back for $1.
AFAIK face ID generates a key used to decrypt the data. Swapping the system wouldn't let you unlock it, unless it was performing a MitM against the user of the phone. Honestly most of the TPM and trusted enclave stuff Apple does is mostly to prevent that kind of MitM situation. For most users, I don't see it as a threat to worry about.
So it was deemed too expensive or risky to just turn it into an app? Sounds like you had your business model already figured out, building the app sounds like the easy part.
Coffin Chair
And "Real Apple Hardware" supporting "Real Apple ID" on every device in the network.
What changed is that TVs are no longer primarily being used to watch broadcast television.

Nowadays a television is used to watch Netflix and to play videogames on.
What your argument doesn't account for is where does the money come from to enable a general price increase?

> A demand for zero inflation is a demand that $1 now and $1 in a decade should buy you the same amount of gas, which .. will not continue forever.

Gas prices do not cause extra money to be printed.
I ran for 8:30 with my ancient Forerunner 235 and it still had some batteries left. Modern watches can easily do 24 hours, even the mid range Forerunner 255 can do 30 hours and the larger 955 can do 42 hours.
Activation lock is effectively a remote kill switch, which have nothing to do with the topic at hand.
Nothing solves homelessness like homes. No mental health program, court ordered treatment, financial assistance program, skills training program, or jobs program will entirely fix homelessness for people struggling with maintaining an average everyday life. The only thing that will fix homelessness for people with the inability to make income and manage their bills is to provide them homes.
I don't think they missed it. I think this is exactly the flaw they're pointing out.
There is a software called Type Studio which have a free version and supports many different languages I guess.
Why do you have to link the math library in C?
I think he meant that though the redesign is comprehensive an it's basically a different phone from the inside, reviewers still considered it an exact same design externally.
Does anyone know when MV3 will be released, or when this will start to impact a large # of users?
The best part is the reward of lying for "journalists".

If you lie and get caught, ignore it.

If the person who called you out has too much of a following to ignore, then just write a small sentence at the bottom clarifying how you're not lying, you just interpreted things different.

They still won't go away? Find one of their followers who makes a comment that's just a bit out of line. Can't find one? Well a Twitter account is free to make. Boom, the story is now how your critic is inciting violence, sexist, racist, probably voted for Trump, and insurrectionist, a climate change denier, white supremacist, transphobe, etc. That's the story now and you're the victim at the center of it all.

And the people employing these "journalists" don't just shield them from consequence, they reward them for it.
Yeah, I'm excited about what this means for indie games.