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Knowing nothing about Apple's specific case, I have been involved in the decision at major companies to deviate from common standards, which is not done lightly, on many occasions and worked with standards organizations to smooth over the fallout. In my experience, when a company the size of Apple deviates from a standard, there are pragmatic and arguably justifiable reasons behind the scenes.

The typical driver is that the standard is a poor fit for purpose because it was originally designed by companies operating under a more limited set of constraints and use cases. In some of the cases I've been involved in, the deviations required to make it fit for purpose would immediately save millions of dollars per year versus following the strict letter of the standard, so the value of deviating was not academic. The reason you keep any deviation close to the standard instead of designing a new one is to minimize the interoperability gap in practice.

If you are able to articulate why the standard is not fit for purpose to the standards organizations, they may use it as a driver for a new standard. However, this frequently runs into strong political resistance from the existing member base because they rarely benefit from the increased scope -- all downside, no upside. Nonetheless, the standards organizations are invested in maintaining relevance. As a practical matter, unless you go into these discussions with the standards orgs with an existing implementation of an alternative that threatens their existing standard, they are very reluctant to move.

I'm not saying any of this applies to Apple's case but the above happens a lot in my experience. It would be nice if it was easy to work with the standards organizations if you need to make a standard work for other use cases but in practice it is an extremely difficult and political uphill battle.
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"Initially assigned to the 108th Precinct in Long Island City, Queens, in 1993, he was transferred to the Narcotics Division and promoted to detective two years later. After working undercover as a detective first grade, he sought a less stressful assignment and, in 2004, volunteered for the Bomb Squad."
Jon is doing an AMA on Reddit now for any who want to ask questions: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/c71f03/im_a_phd_stude...
Like this one, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20302341, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20312593.
I did. I abused the history API on my website when it was new, and then they went and fixed it. As it turns out, sometimes people care more about the marshmallows than they do about the fire.

I don't have the website anymore, but the basic idea is detailed here: https://grack.com/blog/2011/03/07/abusing-the-html5-history-...
Could you expand on this a little for the uninitiated amongst us?
They are kept in vinyl bubbles. The only things that enter the bubbles go through sterilization: a liquid sterilization for tubes/plasticware, etc., irradiation for food, autoclave sterilization for water and liquids. Germfree animals have been around for more than 70 years - they are actually not that hard to create in rats and mice because a fetus is sterile in utero.

> I can't help but think of a GI tract completely devoid of bacterial and fungal cells as being a massive power vacuum essentially

This is absolutely true for the right organisms. Surprisingly there are quite a few common human gut microbes that cannot colonize a germfree gut. Reasons are still not totally understood.

> I would love to see a study analyzing a germfree mouse, rat or pig that was kept germfree to full life as best as possible and then do an analysis on their microbiome to see if, in fact, they are germfree at the end of their life too. I'm not confident they would be.

This paper [0] from 1971 is a good review of the 40's and 50's work showing that germfree hosts are basically normal and can be easily maintained as sterile with proper procedure.

[0] Gordon and Pesti, The Gnotobiotic Animal as a Tool in the Study of Host Microbial Relationships, Bacteriological Reviews, 1971
I watched a fascinating presentation and when I saw the speaker typing (lambda ...) and having it change to (λ ...) and not having to deal with parens.. I was jealous.

Does emacs do this?

EDIT: the presentation:

William Byrd on "The Most Beautiful Program Ever Written"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyfBQmvr2Hc
>> He had accepted money for information—“That was the first step,” he told me—and met the man who would be his handler for the years to come, Anton.

So Russian. So KGB/GRU. America will spend billions putting a satellite up in orbit to spy on a man in a tent. Russia will get the same level of information with a couple fake cops, a girl, and a few dollars paid to vulnerable kid.

>> an artillery specialist

He was the perfect target. Artillery doesn't translate into the civilian world. Artillery people are more afraid of losing their military jobs than other trades. A sex video would put more fear into an artillery person than say a pilot or medic, people who could walk away from the military into a stable civilian career.

>> While Metsavas was in Afghanistan, GRU agents had traveled to Russky Island, off the coast of Vladivostok, to meet with his father. Volin had retired there from London years earlier to be closer to his new wife’s parents, but his partner had fallen ill.

And he has family retired to somewhere accessible to Russian agents? I wouldn't be surprised to hear that his father's new wife was also an agent. Again, sooo Russian. They checked every human intelligence box. America leverages technology. Russia leverages people.
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The bulk is spent on inpatient hospital stays I believe. People like to blame pharma, but hospitals charge absurd prices and many times just make people sicker.
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Make the most of your freedoms and privilege, which it sounds you are and do things you love. Actually, I retract my original statement, it sounds like you’re having a great time. Don't let societal norms think that you have to live in any particular way.
Are you fucking kidding me? One is referring to a thoroughly researched imbalance of power in society, if used a bit callously in recent years. The other is an unfounded, racist conspiracy theory that lead to a genocide of six million people.
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Why can't people stay on subject
Sure, but I've never come across a mention that Danielle Steel uses ghostwriters.

She vehemently denies it. Quoting an interview at https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/608.Danielle_Steel :

> Goodreads Author Patti Roberts would like to know if you work with a ghostwriter.

> DS: It's a shocking question. I've been asked by my fans, "Who writes your books? Does someone help you?" And I said something to my editor not long ago, "It's so insulting that people would even say that." She said, "Yeah, but you are one of the few authors left who doesn't use somebody." There is a very, very famous best-selling author who has apparently eight writers. He writes the outlines, gives them chapters to write, and doesn't write his own books—I was so shocked. And there is not just one. I don't know if the public knows that or not. Maybe I'm the last idiot on the planet, up until 4:30 in the morning typing my own work. It's just incredible. Then you are not a writer; you are some sort of scriptwriter. Nobody writes my stuff. I find it a shocking concept. It's different if a celebrity wants to write their memoirs, and they have no writing ability. OK, then they use a ghostwriter. Otherwise it's like becoming a tennis pro and having a stunt double. What's the point of that?

She's also well known for her decades-long habit of spending 20 hours a day working on a book.
Chinese Scientists Guilty of ‘Researching as Asian’ in Trump’s America
This article whitewashes the hell out of this debacle under the aegis of "politicians messed it up." It is way worse than that. Go read the Wikipedia article; it's very entertaining. BBC fails to mention details like:

* The fire response system wasn't just broken; it was never built. Siemens (a small/medium sized contractor according to the article) is "still waiting for paperwork" to deliver the software for the smoke suction system, based on hardware which was never even designed.

* The ventilation system turned out to be impossible. The architect didn't want ventilation ducts on top of the design for aesthetic reasons, so air was to be ducted and blown down, and out to vents on the airfield. Pushing warm air downwards many meters is generally not a trivial ask.

* turns out the architect of the fire suppression system wasn't an architect, but only a draftsman.

* The sand lime brick used in the foundations apparently necessesitatss replacing big chunks of foundation, cabling, and concrete.

* The windows wouldn't open when the weather was above 30 degrees Celsius (about 80 fahrenheit). It's 36 in Berlin today.

* 80% (!) of the doors just didn't work as of 2017.

* For the opening in 2012, there were no ticket counters and the escalators did not work.

* Three rounds of bribery and corruption charges in the project leadership

* 5 different project chairpeople and presidents

* By 2017, there were still major problems with smoke control, sprinklers, fire detection, sirens, emergency bulbs, and similar critical systems.

* Big parts of the cable ducting was not waterproof, and now about 700km of cabling needs to be replaced.

* 600 fire protection walls have to be replaced because they were made out of the wrong kind of concrete.

* They had to halt construction at one point because the main roof was going to collapse due to structural issues.

* The railway station serving the airport (built by Deutsche Bahn), and the tunnel to the airport (built by the airport construction company) were incompatible and had to be adjusted.

* When they finally simulated a fire situation (2017) they discovered they needed way more water than was planned for the sprinkler systems... Which therefore needed to be replaced.

The official scheduled opening date remains October 2020, but several official letters have called that info question. Certainly no one in Berlin expects it to open then. It has been delayed 10 times so far.

This is not just bureaucratic bungling. This is incompetence, corruption, mismanagement, AND bungling. Anyone on HN who has a contracting background can tell you: no responsible or capable project management would touch this steaming dumpster fire at this point. It has more warning flags than cabling problems, and that's saying something.

Really, read the Wikipedia section on "construction delays". It's very entertaining:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Brandenburg_Airport
Thanks! I actually just learned a bout that tool a minute a go from this medium article about how to bypass paywalls: https://medium.com/black-edge-consulting/how-to-bypass-virtu...
which ironically is paywalled.

There's also a firefox extension that requests the site from a different country thus getting rid of the paywall.

All this stuff is ethically and legally dubious. I wish there was like a spotify for news.
Your comment exemplifies what I'd considered responding to your parent: rate teams and projects, not individuals. Metrics of significance are not atomically SMART, they're probabalistic, noisy, and systemic.

Hrm: PNS?
This is actually a Bloomberg story, the news organization that published the notorious spy chip article.

I want to add a few notes here. While China is the headlines the past six months, Russia is even a greater national security threat to the US, according to many. Does this mean we have to kick out all the researchers of Russia nationality?

I know of a few Iranian researchers in machine learning working here in the US. Using the same reasoning, they're almost certainly deemed a national security threat.

India is running a growing trade deficit with the US, and a lot of the software in our system are written by Indians in India. Using the same reasoning, that is a great national security threat to the USA.

Where does it end?

By the way, Russia produces some of the best mathematicians, physicists, and computer scientists in the world.
There were a few third-party cartridges that extended Atari Basic and used the second cartridge port, the most famous being Monkey Wrench by Eastern House. (http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-monkey...).

See this post at AtariAge about the motivation (https://atariage.com/forums/topic/71760-atari-400800-left-ca...): "According to Joe Decuir, the original idea Atari had for the 800 was that software would come with the base program (LEFT cart) and the add-on content (RIGHT cart). This way you could keep expanding an educational program with new lessons, for example. Plus, having the software in ROM would reduce the RAM requirements of the computer since nothing needed to be loaded. RAM quickly came down in price and many of the advantages of such a complex cartridge arrangement went away ."
> One of the commissioners, Faauuga Moliga, said before the vote on Tuesday that his chief concern was that “kids are mentally and emotionally feeling safe at their schools.”

And there I was, a naive idiot who thinks that schools are about learning. I guess we have given up that concept completely now as a nation and embrace schools simply as glorified babysitters. It sure shows in our nation's stupidity and hate of anything intellectual. And we still have ambitions to colonize the moon or even Mars while most of our citizens can barely afford food and shelter and the country is quickly turning from developed to developing. Of course we are a nation of dumbasses if the people teaching our kids are this dumb and anti-intellectual. Let's arm these idiots while we're at it so we can get a glimpse of the amazing future America has with this kind of "education."
As someone who has been very laser focused in life I often feel the opposite of you. I finished university, did my PhD, and now have a job doing research in the area of my PhD. I've been working 60-80 hour weeks for the past 10 years. I do some small activities on the side, so life isn't monotonous, but I don't invest in anything nearly as much as I do my work. I often wonder if I'm missing out on life by not committing to more things. So we're on opposite sides of the same coin. The grass isn't necessarily greener...
The point is that no one outside the US is going to accept that such equipment is completely free of American surveillance facilities. So why pay the premium? Buy the cheap stuff, and just let the big guys spy on you. Since they will do so whether you spend a lot, or a little.

That's how the Chinese are winning market share. Because in a world where everything is compromised, well, price all of a sudden is the dominant consideration.
I was more levels from the CEO at Microsoft (up to Ballmer) than I was as a lowly intern working for the US government at NIST (up to . . . well, Reagan at the time).

I could see value up to about three levels above me, and maybe a couple at the top, but those three or four middle layers were pretty confusing. We had director-level and partner-level people do flybys of our engineering groups, saying things like "We'll see each other every few weeks, you're doing great stuff!" and then vanish for six months, a year, or forever. They never seemed to do anything that mattered.

I work in a flat organization now. Not necessarily better, but there's a whole lot less dead wood, avoidance by delegation, and simple quit-in-place behavior.
OMG lol i was going to agree with you with all the recent tragedies lately and then you had to drop because of student behavior. well i have seen teachers take it out on students too...
A significant fraction of the population has a religious or moral objection to eating lard. A smaller but still substantial part of the population objects to tallow based on vegetarianism or the terrible environmental impact of cattle raising.
Sovrin[1] seems pretty interesting to me for distributed/decentralized identity. They use a distributed ledger for identity and allow for piecemeal disclosure of identity data. So by default the identity data isn’t public.

[1] https://sovrin.org/
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There is a high chance that a random traveler will understand English. The same chance for German is way lower, including in Germany.
The Source for the Linux Kernel Used in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2)
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Interesting. Perhaps real world construction and software have many similarities after all. They break down in similar circumstances.
All I know is I would very likely be in jail in the school environment today.

How did it get so damn authoritarian?
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> However, the "red danger" of the Soviets was (IMHO) an existential risk to freedom

"was" being the operative word, although I think the reality was more nuanced than "those commies are gonna get us!".

> The rising influence of China, a totalitarian state, is a cause for concern. Why would you think a dictatorship growing more powerful is a good thing?

It's not totalitarian state or a dictatorship. I also didn't say the rising influence of China was a good thing - but I'm not saying it's a terrible thing either.

What I do find to be of concern, is western politics, corruption, FUD spreading and war-mongering.
The author sounds a bit over dramatic and with many logical jumps, ocaml might not be in the news and what cool kids use this days, that doesn't make it a bad language. The base code doesn't look impossible to restructure. The attack vector is know for long time.
Also it's not like we haven't seen before important code being pretty much unmaintained written in far more popular languages e.g openssl.
I hate that articles like this get posted to HN just for people to feel outraged. On the order of nobody here has heard of this mural before today.

I guess this sucks. I wish the mural went to a museum instead. There are more important things to care about.
That Kenneth Reitz comment reminded me of a drama in which he was accused of siphoning off money and buying new Mac from funds meant for some OSS development.
I grew up free range. And I mean like, "going to the woods for a couple days, very back Sunday..." type free.

Was not able to do that degree with my own kids, but they had considerably more than their peers did. (Yes, I had to deal with helicopter parents a few times)
Is there any chance they're developing Fuchsia for use in their data centers? As like the Kernel/OS for Google's servers? They already use a custom version of Linux, right?
As much as I believe that Efail was the result of badly implemented email clients it's not like the OpenPGP standard hadn't any involvement with it whatsoever. DJB for example suggests small authenticated and encrypted packets, something that OpenPGP does not have. See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/boring-crypto/BpU...

Since I am apparently replying too fast and I need to slow down, here is my reply to the child post by Sir_Cmpwn:

> I don't really see the link between the email you posted and efail

GPG decrypts the whole message which might be gigaoctets long and throws it to the output. After it has been decrypted it checks the MDC (if it exists) and throws an error if the MDC does not match or if it is missing. Meanwhile if a OpenPGP message was composed of small authenticated packets GPG would be able to first authenticate if the MAC of the packet is correct and then return an error right away if it does not match. If it did match it would return plaintext and move on to the next packet. You can see now how efail would be prevented, right?

> PGP

Do people use PGP nowadays? I was under the impression that pretty much everyone used GPG ever since it was released.
I'm also extremely curious and honestly I'm not sure if it is a curse or a blessing. I dream of projects where I could put all my skills to work but these seem totally inaccessible to me.
The artist was a communist. Do you really think he was celebrating slavery?
I had no idea that happened. Yet another fact to become infuriated about when thinking about the stupidity of the WWI.
Fox News Didn’t “Steal” Your Parents
Exactly, the more I think about it the more I see a Forstall-maps-redux-pattern at play here. That is build a narrative where all the blame on current hardware designs must be attributed to Ive, because now being out it is a convenient scapegoat and doesn't hurt nobody at Apple.
If this is true my next build will be AMD. I've spent and overseen the spending of probably around $500,000 easily in the past 6 years on Intel builds, workstations & servers. All of these processor bugs, performance regressions and Intel's lack luster response has me seriously ready to switch over.
It's death by a thousand cuts though - we spend so much money because the entire system is so inefficient.
Bloomberg impresses me. I did a somewhat roundabout assessment of online quality a few years back, some interesting standouts:

Tracking the Conversation: FP Global 100 Thinkers on the Web

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3hp41w/trackin...
The same thing has ruined potato chips. All the good chip brands in this country now have limited regional distribution at best. The tyranny of Frito-Lay has totally ruined the chip industry.
Do you and they not have a baselevel implicit trust simply due to being coworkers?

Do people some people think it's appropriate to guffaw at simple questions like, "What do you work on here?"

If somebody were offended by that question, I would imagine it is not due to any overreach on my part. It would take an especially megalomanical (or highly confidential) work environment where superiors would dismiss work related inquiries outright.

I can imagine in other countries with clear hierarchies, this might be different. But I imagine even in such places it can be advantageous to be social and informed in the work place.
It's one of my favorite as well! And that's an awesome little saying from your grandad too!
They just announced it today. They don't have a probe yet. They have to design and build and test all of the equipment and systems that are going to go into space. I think it's pretty reasonable for this to take 6 years.
Use ldap as your centralised auth, add a schema extension for ssh public keys, configure sshd/pam/nss to use ldap (and the keys contained therein) for users/auth.

Use groups or a host attribute in ldap to manage access to specific servers or groups of servers.

Bonus: you can manage sudo access from ldap too.
Berlin is no longer cheap, at least compared to Berlin of five or ten years ago. The housing surplus has turned into a housing shortage.

It’s still not quite SF or NYC or London prices, but it is much more in line with the rest of Germany now.
You can buy spreads which are just hazelnuts and chocolate. But they cost several times as much as nutella, unsurprisingly.