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phmagic commented on Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access 'weaponised'   theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/adrian_mrd
phmagic · 10 months ago
What are the best ways for citizens to get their own p2p internet going?
phmagic commented on Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living   videotoflip.com/... · Posted by u/momciloo
phmagic · a year ago
How do your customers find out about your business?
phmagic commented on Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B   reuters.com/technology/ar... · Posted by u/colesantiago
phmagic · a year ago
Good news for NVDA.
phmagic commented on House passes bill to limit cost of insulin to $35 a month   nytimes.com/2022/03/31/he... · Posted by u/boston_clone
phmagic · 4 years ago
Naive question: If the insurance providers are the payers, why aren't they incentivized to collectively negotiate down the cost of drugs?
phmagic commented on Fast.ai releases new deep learning course, libraries, and book   fast.ai/2020/08/21/fastai... · Posted by u/amardeep
phmagic · 5 years ago
I took the fast.ai courses and highly recommend them for anyone who really wants to learn ML.

Are there any plans for courses on reinforcement learning?

phmagic commented on Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist   thisworddoesnotexist.com/... · Posted by u/turtlesoup
phmagic · 6 years ago
perfect for generating passwords
phmagic commented on Launch HN: PostHog (YC W20) – open-source product analytics    · Posted by u/james_impliu
phmagic · 6 years ago
Thank you! This is much needed!
phmagic commented on Never-Googlers: Web users take the ultimate step to guard their data   thehour.com/news/article/... · Posted by u/sverige
phmagic · 6 years ago
(disclaimer: I work at a big tech firm, but I've had this opinion before working here)

I'm confused by the lengths people have gone through to "protect" themselves from internet giants while freely giving away their info to credit card companies, traditional retailers, small businesses. Credit card transaction data have been sold for years without most of us knowing about it. Small startups, boutique stores rarely have the security or data governance resources to ensure your data is stored and used properly. Data breaches are common even at large brick-and-mortar retailers.

Given the state of data security outside of big tech, my best option is to trust only big tech.

phmagic commented on Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?    · Posted by u/spdustin
imafish · 7 years ago
My entire app is “serverless” and I host it on AWS and netlify using the free tier. So far I have been able to keep resource use below the free tier thresholds.
phmagic · 7 years ago
I'd like to second this. The amount of free compute available to serverless infrastructure is insane! Serverless does have a learning curve but it's worth it to learn.

The next best is Heroku's free tier.

phmagic commented on Apple App Store Principles and Practices   apple.com/ios/app-store/p... · Posted by u/tosh
atonse · 7 years ago
Their comparison of other apps in the store is quite disingenuous.

Yes, you technically have other music players, but they're not as integrated into the OS as Apple Music is. We picked Apple Music for this reason, even though it's a rather bad UI.

Same with Maps. Not that I want to give Google more of my location data but others that want to use Google Maps as their default maps app, can't right now without all kinds of third party hacks.

So yes, the competition does exist, but due to deliberate actions BY APPLE to stifle their APIs to keep them heavily restricted, these apps really aren't first class citizens on the OS.

I largely favor Apple's approach of minimizing data sharing, but their apps are often inferior to the third party alternatives. They should use their app store stick to instead have a MFi-like certification program for data. If you want to be a first-party app for Maps, Mail, locations, etc, you have to demonstrate that you won't abuse that data, and have the right infrastructure to protect it.

Update: Look at web browsing. All those browsers use WKWebKit, so they're all actually just Safari. And Apple's fine with telling the public that they have choice here. That's just blatantly false, and I don't see how their legal team allowed them to make such a statement.

phmagic · 7 years ago
I wholeheartedly agree as an iOS dev and as an iOS power user.

However I fear regulators don't have this granular view and technical depth.

I'm more concerned about misinformed, blanket regulation more than the API-restrictions.

u/phmagic

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