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SSL depends on national agencies and orgs overseen by national agencies.

If SSL is required, then whoever controls those agencies controls what's seen online.

I already cannot easily add a root CA for .onion addresses and then make my own certs there, without browsers screaming bloody murder.

I already cannot bypass cert errors for certain types of cert fails.

Tor onion sites, which are end to end encrypted, are considered "insecure" because we plebes cannot buy a "proper" EV ssl cert, like Facebook did.

Enforcement of SSL is just another way of controlling the user in name of "stupidity". Sure, the dumb click-anything users win, but anyone tech-savy loses freedoms.
That morning I had gotten up somewhat early to do some work, around 745 the light outside was redder than it should be. Going outside I found smoke high in the air and large bits of burnt material falling. An online fire map showed a small fire had started 10 miles north east of town. The weather map showed a 17mph wind headed south west. Out of caution we started packing a few things just in case we get an evacuation notice. However, after 30 minutes or so listening to an online emergency radio scanner and searching social media it became clear we needed to leave. Within an hour we had our 4runner packed and around 9am we were heading out, the sky had now turned dark like night and we encountered normal traffic. We stopped at our office to grab a flat of water, while there got a robocall (landline) notification to evacuate. We headed out of town and just a mile down the road (south middle of town) we saw a large patch of fire burning a few hundred feet from the road. Paradise has essentially 3 roads out, two of them are two lane roads. Often when there's a fire at least one or two can be blocked by fire.

We evacuated by car, one car, we could have taken two but decided to stick together in one. Five of us.
If you like that kind of music. There's absolutely no way in hell you will ever convince me that Kanye, or Daft Punk, have any, even most remote, relation to music, or art in general. Never heard the other ones, so I am not going to comment. And in the contemporary genres that I care about (adding contemporary, because really, Bach is better anyway, but I don't necessarily want to listen to classical all the time) it has been all downhill since the 70's.

All a matter of taste. There might have been a proliferation of genres, especially if you start enumerating all the (absolutely identical-sounding unless you are a trained maniac) varieties of Scandinavian Death Metal or electronic music, so it might be easier to come by something you like today, but it's not any better than what survived from 300 years ago, I would hazard a guess that very little, if any, of kanyes and deadmou5-es will survive even 10 years, let alone 300.
Active inference and artificial curiosity (2017) [video]
The storage of the data is a not inconsequential portion of the total cost. A lot of work is done to cut costs on genomic data storage. No better way than not storing it in the first place
They cite hemochromatosis in the second user story— My father is homozygous, and 23andme told me I wasn’t. Is this going to be that much more helpful (at least in the next 5-10 years).
Living in Vietnam, I don't believe this article for a second. Clothing manufacturing is unbelievably massive here. It isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

Clothing is a commodity item, even if it takes a week or a month to ship to the US, it does not matter. If you need it faster, raise the prices (or take a hit on the massive retail markup) and ship it faster (air vs. boat).

Having also built a successful print on demand business, we did all our printing in the US because the customers were in the US and the shipping times would have been too great because of the on-demand nature.

The garments themselves come from other countries. Notably, the people creating the designs and buying the FB ads, which target US consumers, are in SE Asia (mostly in Vietnam). Only people in the US will pay $25+ for a t-shirt that costs $1 to $4 to produce.
Yeah... it unfortunately doesn't work like that. Illumina is notorious for glossing over many of the finer points around how they get to the fictitious numbers they claim. What they don't point out are all of the reagents, prep kits, overhead, lab costs, labor costs, software costs, pipettes, etc.

The only way this company stays alive without significant venture funding (which it appears they don't have) is through partnering with pharmas. From reading their privacy policy, it looks like they are de-identifying genotypic and phenotypic data from users. This, at scale, creates a nice population based genetics study so that if I'm a pharma, I can look at a specific biomarker and all data associated with it. That helps me build drugs against certain genes, diseases, etc.

So yes, you are the still the product and yes, your data is being resold.
The sequencers they’re using are arguably of lower quality than the gold standard
Incognito.
No, Snowden "revealed" the big tech companies voluntarily cooperated with the FBI. In quotes because we already knew that. PRISM simply takes data that the FBI requested via court order and ingests it into NSA data processing system.
> GCS has...what?

The best Kubernetes hosting?
Please don't post sensational fluff to HN. We're looking for stories with some intellectual curiosity in them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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That looks amazing and has given me some ideas for my project. Thankyou!
Doesn't really help much if most of it is coming back to the west to be automated.
The example you quote is (bar one) people moving as pedestrians rather than with the protection of a vehicle. A vehicle offers a great deal of protection, particularly now with air-conditioning available to give a buffer against the heat. Also a slow moving vehicle moves a lot faster (away from danger) than a fast moving pedestrian. I remember a film, probably made in the 1950's (one of those Magnesium Chloride in your everyday life type thing) about "Always stay in the car in a bushfire, cover yourself with blankets and then put out the fires on the car when the fire has past". If you are out of a vehicle in a bushfire you need to dress appropriately to deal with the radiant heat, long trousers, long sleeves, hat etc. As bushfires are associated with hot weather, sadly, people particularly children are made much more vulnerable by wearing bathers (swimming trunks) and short sleeves when moving. Firefighters cover up with clothing for to deal with the radiant heat, among other things.
Actually only 41% of Swedes live in cities with >= 50000 inhabitants.
The answer is, yes hosted Oracle DBs are the "cloud" and yes hosted AD is the "cloud," in so long as they are on a pool of resources. Why wouldn't it be? How is that any different than moving your MEAN, LAMP or whatever stack from bare metal to a cloud provider on a VM? It's not. What makes the "cloud" the "cloud," isn't some serverless, edge, kubernetes fancy whatever. Most people do not use/need that stuff. It's pooled resources and a toolset that allows you to scale, provision, monitor, etc in a simple way with no human interaction. That's it. Everything else is nuance.

I think the ambiguity that people are so inclined to over engineer that they can't possibly imagine something so simple as a vanilla VM with a SQL SaaS hooked to it as "the cloud" because it's not complex enough.
> For the most part they are sales people who are good at telling others what to do, but you always feel possibly not that good or they would be running some business themselves.

Often, they are running a business (specifically, a business-coaching business) themselves.
A tool that arguably 99% of people don't need and is even up for constant debate here on HN.
Fabricating them has proven to be very challenging.

A bit like with solar cells with high efficiency. Labs create them, but fabricating it in useful volumes is also hugely challenging.

Or, if you like, GUIs, which were demonstrated in 1967 but didn't come into great use until about 20 years later.
Frankly, no. There are already a few laptop-form-factor-devices out there with a flat panel for a keyboard, and the experience is terrible. If a glass bottom was really the way to go, Apple wouldn't have moved towards physical iPad keyboards by promoting the smart keyboard covers for iPad Pros.
hosting that very sort of platform welcomes child pornography as is demonstrated by every such sort of platform or service that's come before it and I'm not talking about just the history of Tor hosting here. We used to find the same thing with free hosting, chatrooms and shell accounts in the 90s.

It's already a matter of law (in most western countries) that hosts have some amount of responsibility for what users of their platforms distribute and that's why other hosting services aren't structured this way.
That. Or maybe some people have good taste /s

Not that anything needs to be high brow, but I do find GP's comment that there's more high quality music now than ever before to be rather closed-minded to begin with.

There may be more music (classifying, for a moment, anything that has that label as actually being music) made today, both due to the population increase and to it being easier and cheaper than ever to produce something and throw it to the masses, in case it sticks. But there's probably a lower proportion of quality music being made, for the same reason -- it's just to easy to make and disseminate stupid derivative junk.
> Almost certainly dang or another mod would rate limit or shadow ban me.

See that's where you lose me, I'm afraid. This is why it's vague to the point of being irrefutable.
I also found this article confusing. The title says Facebook's PR firm but they were hired by so many others and the article mostly talks about how Qualcomm paid Definers to malign Apple.
I wouldn't be surprised if we trained ML models to map DNA to adult faces. It doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility.
Not true. If you have done enough lobbying and managed to use “guanxi” correctly in China, you got pretty much all information you need. Of course if your social class is lower enough it’s hard to do( and it’s not easier in USA either)
i think we actually agree, but use different terms or definitions to mean roughly the same thing. i am accountable to someone to fulfill an obligation. otherwise it would not be an obligation.

i don't believe in an absence of consequences. there are always consequences, even if they are not spelled out. sometimes we just don't know what the consequences might be. so at least i need to assume there are consequences unless it is explicitly said that there are none, at which point the obligation disappears.

however this is getting philosophical now, and strays from the topic.
I dislike their video portion of their website. They have no history that I can ever find. And they don't have a recently watched section. If you don't finish a movie or show, or are watching a series, there is no easy way to get back to it without having to search for it. Hulu and Netflix both have a recently watched or continue watching section.

I often find a random docu-series on Amazon and completely forget I was enjoying it or what the name was when I want to go re-find it.
To be fair, it's really the level of independent journalism and free speech in the US that makes it better than China.

Yes, the NSA has done terrible things in the past. The only way we know about it is because of journalism.
Is your difficulty simply following through on tasks?

Do you also have difficulty finding enough time, and prioritizing your backlog of todo items? How does the service help in this case?
This the internet. It's hard to be anything other than shitty. It's all relative, and if you have an account here we need you not to make it worse.
Just FYI, "normal" people aren't highly productive for 15+ hours a day. So I want to emphasize that's a drug-enhanced state, not bringing you in line with where everyone else already is.

Also, forget about direct side effects of the drug, going nonstop all day long every day is unsustainable, the body will crash eventually.
A great article on elevators, their construction, and uses is worth a read and found here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/up-and-then-do...
Yes, a two screen device seems like the direction things are going in maybe 2-3 generations. Figuring out haptics seems to be the key (so to speak). This won't happen until after the ARM transition (and OLED), since they'll probably want to standardize the screen thickness between both halves, and be able to open it lie-flat.
I'm not certain how to interpret what you're asking. However, if what you're asking is how to derive numbers from basic axiomatic set theory, that is certainly available in metamath. An easy to read introduction is here:
http://us.metamath.org/mpegif/mmcomplex.html
Or was it that trip to Vegas?
Press releases and presentations say they used a direct-drive permanent-magnet generator with a full power converter and replaced the rotor. So it's most probably DC.

https://ecoswing.eu/project
They speak with customers who have purchased product X. Although most T&C prevent sharing pricing information with others, customers will share that info with Gartner. Want to buy product X, how do you know you’re getting a fair price? That’s where Gartner earns its value. Did you remember to negotiate for future price lock-in for “no greater than”? Gartner will advise you on what to look out for and how to negotiate your contracts.
In a world with information asymmetry, Gartner helps deobfuscate the pricing.
I understand your point but earthquakes are no joke in CA
There's a difference in that you get too old to play, and many coaches did and at the highest level: Phil Jackson and Steve Kerr come to mind.

A business coach should be capable of stepping into a business and running it.

Just to be facetious:
"Those who can, do; those who can't, teach".
That's a pretty misleading headline. It wasn't a free-fall, and it doesn't sound like the passengers were even injured when it came to a stop.

From the article: The malfunction had been caused by a snapped “hoist rope,” or elevator cable, Maloney said. Other cables were still attached, keeping the elevator from plummeting to the floor.
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I don't think I saw the parent comment; it's about as bad as yours was, though yours might have been a notch worse, since that one was attacking in the third person while you did it in the second.

The main thing to realize is that even if another comment is bad/uncivil, you still need to refrain from replying in kind. Believe me, I understand how hard that is! But our community depends on it.

Sometimes I think that HN threads are a big experiment in all of us learning how not to get triggered. If you give better than you "get" (by reading someone's comment), you'll be on the right track.
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> Imagine the hysteria of the 'free world' in unison against the totalitarian chinese if there was no Snowden and a chinese dissenter leaked something like this, and his or her subsequent global fame as a defender of freedom.

That's a silly thing to imagine. China makes no secret of doing domestic mass surveillance (and censorship) far worse than anything in Snowden's leaks.
Can you offer more specifics about what you think is so terrible about its UX?

To me it's rather simple and clean, and I would expect that they have a vast team of UX experts testing their site to make sure it meets their overall product goals.

Besides, what you might find aesthetically pleasing is not necessarily pleasing to a global population of users with varied backgrounds/diverse age groups -- e.g. older generations might prefer the super simple fonts and general design standards that were more prevalent one or two decades ago.
While it must have been a terrifying experience - the headline makes it sound like the thing fell 84 floors to Zero - it actually stopped at floor 11 so the safety mechanisms kicked in. Thanks goodness.
They’re using BGI machines, not Illumina
OK, I'm going to avoiding elevators for a while now. I shouldn't have read that.
> there is a rule [1] that says there can always be only two leaders in a single space

The problem with this “rule” is it’s a tautology. Any ordered list of N > 1 will have two leaders. (The better question, how are market shares distributed, is difficult to precisely answer given the inherent subjectivity of delineating markets.)
Disagree. Smart Keyboard is a great/necessary stopgap. Two screen mode would add a lot of expense, a significant UX redesign, and probably just incorporated into the device itself rather than an accessory, making the iPad an entirely different form factor. We're far away from that reality.
This part made me laugh " The research also found that a large proportion of Huawei users own flats and cars while Apple users do not."

Definitely propaganda
I imagine they focus on the tasks that they typically procrastinate.
In the future you're (rightfully) afraid of, people will either collect your DNA from you without consent or as a condition of service.

It's most unfortunate.
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Is there a book/resource you would recommend to someone who is interested in learning more about typography, and how/why the field has evolved the way it has? (Honest question.)
I really like how Metamath sits on an extreme edge; its underlying formalization is simple, to the point where a relatively short Python script [0] is sufficient to do verification, and this also massively increases confidence, at the meta-level, in the correctness of the entire endeavor.

I wonder about how Metamath compares to wholly-constructive approaches common in abstract algebra, category theory, and computer science. I suspect that, much like Archimedes with his levers, a category theorist with a sufficiently-large blackboard could draw a diagram to constructively prove anything that they like, and it's unfortunate that this style of argument is not compatible with current formal methods.

[0] http://us.metamath.org/downloads/mmverify.py
My point.
Also not wrong. But the US, while not a dictatorship, and with its own share of problematic foreign policy, has been caught with its hand in the security cookie jar.

DUAL_EC_DRBG was included in BSAFE and Juniper products. So even if we assume the worst of Huawei, it's really a matter of which back door you want in your networking equipment. My hope is that these constant accusations make Huawei drive big improvements in reproducible builds, source-available software, and verifiable hardware. But I'm not holding my breath.
Why would you say that? Automation is a good thing for humanity and it's a lot more efficient than shipping from China.

What doesn't it help? Is this a "jobs" argument?
They don't have their own labs based on how they phrased it within their About Us section. Given that + the turnaround time I'm seeing on the web, I'm willing to bet they outsource this to universities who have sequencer downtown.

Also, in their About Us section they have every technology listed under the sun (Illumina, PacBio, Thermo, BGI) so I think it's just whatever they can get their hands on based on which labs have open runs. Seems quite questionable from a data integrity perspective if you're trying to do population based genetics. The quality between sequencers varies dramatically.
I’m wishing for a nice handwriting application that I can use Apple Pencil to write code literally.
Yet we have photos and video of US “customs” intercepting Cisco shipments and loading backdoored firmware or tampering with the hardware. They boast about it.

If it came to a war, the US and China are both going to shut down whatever communications channels their “enemies” are using. This is just one of the reasons that US DoD is so interested in SpaceX’s StarLink.
How do sources influence media content? tv news, social media etc.
I feel exactly the same way. For most of my life, I had to worry about what food cost and carefully manage what I put in the cart. Now I don't have to, and there is a feeling of amazement about that every time. I don't think I'll ever lose that feeling, and I hope I don't.

In my case the immigrants were grandparents, and what they went through is impossible for me to imagine.
Question: Would you say iPads are better paired with Magic keyboards than with Smart Keyboards?
Someone in 1920's UK:

"Living in Manchester, I don't believe this for a second. Cloth and clothing manufacture has become unbelievably massive throughout Lancashire since the spinning jenny in 1760. Manchester wasn't called Cottonopolis for the last 100 years for nothing. It isn't going anywhere soon."

They produced for all levels of the market from the cheapest to the most premium. Mostly cloth, but a big apparel industry on the back of it.

By the time of WW2, almost half a million had left the industry. Through the 50s and 60s mills and garment makers were closing weekly. By the 1970s or 1980s there was essentially nothing left. Nothing in stores is UK made any more, except the highest end and bespoke.

Cheap T's and the like will probably always come from wherever's cheapest. For the rest, never say never. :)
What about the rest of the world?

Samsung and LG are both Korea-based, and Sony is from Japan.
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Which, infuriatingly, is disabled in some tier-1 Google apps, including Youtube and Google News.
PM rotor generators have several disadvantages: they're heavy; magnetic flux fades in time, moreso under heat; inability to control the rotor's magnetic flux; probably expensive as well.
> to a certain extent it astounds me that it's even legal.

I prick up my ears when people start to talk about criminalizing speech.
No, five years ago, it would have been too early to call it a disappointment. Now, it is a disappointment, and there will not be 5-10 years for this to course correct, probably only 1-2 years -- if they play the Kubernetes card perfectly.

There is an extra dose of disappointment because on technical merits, GCP's basic VM substrate -- Compute Engine and Cloud Storage -- is far superior to AWS even five years ago, but AWS kept their ear to the street, anticipated every managed service and ancillary feature that their customers could have wanted, and executed relentlessly. Google has not mounted even half as vigorous and urgent a response as needed under the circumstances.

There is nothing at the outset that would prevent someone from choosing GCP, many might even be predisposed given the reputation of Google's own infrastructure, but when more and more of the tasks that you might want to offload to cloud are still not available or not reliably working on GCP, and you're stuck with operating VM's, you might seriously consider the competitor, and once that decision is made, you are not coming back.

It's an execution, and perhaps cultural, problem with Google, not one of technology or market.
Yea pretty much, I thought we all agreed post WW2 that critiquing jews = antisemitism.
It no longer exists in sheets either. Definitely miss this.
A programming language exists within an ecosystem of libraries/developers/companies/jobs/... It will take a looooooooong time for Rust to match the huge size and breath of the C/C++ ecosystems. It might actually never happen.
Monero?