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Correction, I didn't just mean chips made in the US but also chips that license US technology. This was the reason ARM, a British company had to suspend their relationship with HiSilicon, Huawei's chip manufacturer. [0]

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/22/18635326/huawei-arm-chip-...

Apples and oranges. Banning Google in China meant that its product (user data) couldn't be produced in China. That's unfortunate but they still have users elsewhere in the world and on VPNs. On the other hand ad sales _to_ China have continued growing ever since the ban.

Huawei (or any smartphone company) has no alternative to chips that license US technology.

Could VR suicide dissuade people from attempting suicide?

That's what Huawei did, which can be risky if Uncle Sam decides to take a closer look.

There are a lot of credit cards that offer cashback rates between 1-2%. I'm certain Visa is not eating that so Google (and other merchants) must be paying.

I agree with this, especially for long tail terms but I also think it is getting better with time. If it helps, you can use !g to search with Google.

As a user of both the Macbook Pro and the X1 Carbon, I have to agree. The MBP touchpad handles gestures and palm rejection really well. On the other hand I get accidental swipes every hour with the X1 Carbon that I can only bear using its keyboard in an emergency. FWIW I have oversized hands.

However, I do overshoot and tap the MBP touchbar now and then, which can be annoying.

Does this happen while typing? Do you touch-type?

As in security against stalling lead to a UX disaster that caused planes to dive into the ground?

I'd argue the moral of that story was to redesign the plane, instead of piling on hacks to save costs in the short run.

In an ideal world yes, this should be implemented at the OS level. However, the vast majority of users would not see any benefit until OSX/Windows/Android/iOS/<insert Linux flavor> receives an update for DoH-by-default and then users either have auto-updates turned on or manually apply the update.

Until that time comes, this is a fine step in the right direction, and you can disable Firefox's DNS if you don't want it.

A browser is just an application with some minimal services provided such as sync, extensions hosting, auto-updates.

A VPN on the other hand consists of an application and usually unmetered usage of the company's bandwidth, which costs money.

I've owned an S8 for >2 years and I think it can safely be used underwater.

I've gone swimming with it in the sea, swimming pools, washed it under tap water regularly and even dropped it in a bowl of yogurt once. YMMV of course.

My guess as to why they won't honor their warranty probably revolves around return fraud. It must be trivial to damage the waterproofing intentionally, get the phone water damaged then demand an exchange. It's such a big problem that even the Apple store where I live has much stricter return policies than they do in the US.

To be fair, Macau casinos are the preferred method for wealthy Chinese to bypass capital restrictions and move cash out of China.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-people-use-macau-to-laun...

I can't speak for Stadia but Steam have been shipping open source projects like Proton and pushing Vulkan. If anything, Stadia will increase pressure on Steam to keep improving desktop Linux compatibility.

Companies may start moving their Asia HQs to Singapore en masse.

You can get an Octopus without an ID, but most people have their primary octopus linked to their ID for one of the following reasons: student transportation discounts, residential/school building access control, linked to credit card for automatic top-up, verification for child/elderly Octopus.

Given that a lot of the protestors were students maybe they're buying child tickets rather than paying double with an anonymous adult Octopus.

I don't see how end users suffer from using Rails. Server side rerponse time is a very small component of page load time for most websites. It's different from being forced to download and parse megabytes of JS, which consumes CPU, battery and time.

I downloaded it last week without an account. It involved one of those non-obvious skip button dark patterns.

If the chimp was taught how to publish content (as opposed to just consuming), I wonder if it would do so of its own accord.

Even without an updater service, obtaining the new expiry date isn't too difficult, as alluded by this HN comment from 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2502530

It was less than the national average, 14/million vs 22/million [0]. Nonetheless, they did have a problem with illegal overtime, abusive management, a lack of breaks and discrimination [1]. A lot has changed since then due to pressure from both Apple and the Chinese government.

[0]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/07/10/apples-c...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides#Reports

Rational companies wouldn't be paying for ads and minting multi-billionaires in the process if the results did not surpass the costs. The dominance of online advertising over print/television/physical is largely due to metrics and ROI visibility provided by tracking.

I think the parent post was implying that their former employer pulled those shenanigans on Android, but was prevented from doing the same on iOS due to restrictions, which was a source of frustration for their business execs.

> online protest on a platform that the Chinese government doesn't control

False (for Chinese residents). China used to block GitHub but stopped doing that when they realized they could politely ask GitHub to block access to certain pages from Chinese IPs. [0]

[0]: https://qz.com/718465/chinas-fierce-censors-try-a-new-tactic...

When I didn't have a credit card, I used PayPal for all my online payments since I could top it up from my bank account.

If you're loading them asynchronously, no.

HFT firms perform a different kind of front running. If I'm an HFT firm and I see a large buy order on the books at exchange A, I can use my low-latency links to exchanges B, C to execute my own buy orders there before the rest of the market reacts.

It's not illegal, but it is still front-running the rest of the market due to latency arbitrage. Check out Flash Boys by Michael Lewis for more on the topic.

I think Atlassian handled this okay by explaining themselves and requesting proof of identity. His name looks common enough that it is probably a case of mistaken identity.

The one thing they could have done better would be to provide a grace period, but I doubt that would be compliant with the law.

It's definitely bad when you have thousands of lines of YAML configuration to maintain.

On the other hand, a thought out declarative language like Hashicorp's HCL is much saner thanks to IDE code completion/refactoring and static typing.

I think HN stores text encoded as UTF-8, so all you need to do is input an emoji via your keyboard/copy-paste.