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It's not only about integrity of the phone.

Imagine a state requested application tracks location and sends that up (yeah, need is little as devices can be tracked over cell towers relatively good) when installing they'd certainly require permissions to be set accordingly.

Also from Apple's perspective it's about the brand. They don't want to have preloaded crap on a fresh device, where the user can't distinguish whether it comes from Apple or the state.
I guess (as someone else pointed out) it comes down to a difference in requirements and expectations.

I've mostly used Android for phones since they do the same general things as iPhones, they work fine out of the box, and stay updated since I only buy phones with good update policies.

The main difference isn't in how well they succeed, but in how they "fail". It's true that current iPhones have added most of the features I found lacking in the past, but there are still a few that have no real workaround. Changing default apps is still limited, browser restrictions are annoying, and there's no easy way I know of to enable system-wide ad blocking.

When a phone "just works" as I want 98% of the time, the difference to me is how able I am to get it working as I want the other 2% of the time. Obviously this is only based on my needs and expectations so I don't expect anyone else to share them.

I just bought a new phone for my partner and she has always used iPhones so that's what I bought for her. She prefers them and that's fine. Only real annoyance there was paying $750 for a phone with a 828x1792 LCD and 64GB storage when I paid $550 for my phone a year ago and it has a 1080x2280 AMOLED display and 128GB storage.

I know "specs don't matter" but it was still surprising. Even with Apple's market cachet and whatnot, I expected the higher price but also expected a bit more parity with a year-old phone. It's no surprise that some buyers are looking toward Chinese and other OEMs.
And they're planning on reusing the capsule after it lands in White Sands according to the press conference.
>NASA worked better when produced everything in-house.

No way. NASA is subject to the political whims of two branches of government. The executive branch is looking for short term wins and the legislative branch is looking for jobs in their districts.

The private market has introduced great innovations that are significantly driving down the cost of going to space.
From now on I will use this whenever anything unconsequential slightly annoys me
I’d really quite like to read an article about the actual architecture of the terminal software. It’s a phenomenal piece of work that operates under some absolutely brain-bending constraints.
This reminds me of a book I read about the history of extemporaneous poetry (pretty much freestyling) in Latin America and Europe, and its decline:

> The verse improvisations of Cantabria are at best dormant. Women and men skilled at creating them are still alive, but the context that produced them is virtually extinct. That context was a world in which the lives of one’s neighbors were the chief, virtually the only, entertainment; a world in which personalities and eccentricities were savored. To some of their neighbors in adjacent valleys the attacks on differences in appearance, births out of wedlock, poverty, and impotence seemed uncouth and brutal. But running through the recollections of the older men and women I talked to were phrases like, ‘nobody was offended’, ‘they took it in good humor’, ‘it was part of the fun’, or ‘we all looked forward to it’. In 1942 Cossio wrote that the people of Polaciones knew no moral laws. One could also say that they had been able to maintain their own laws, different measures for what could be said and done and what was considered an offense.

Attribute it to the internet, car culture, personalized media, whatever, but I don’t think it’s ever been easier to decide you dislike the people around you and find another community, perhaps virtually.

In turn this easy access to frictionless interaction makes people less and less tolerant of what would have been everyday interaction in the past.

I don’t remember where, but I once read something that said the great appeal of fame is not just being adored, but being adored and not having to reciprocate. We seem to be moving in that direction.
How popular is .NET in your market? Have you considered learning other technologies to enhance your skillset?

I would recommend that you attend local user group meetings and talk to people. Weak social connections are an excellent source of referrals.
The US is alienated from widespread fear of crime, immigration (aka the actual sociological results of Robert Putnam, rather than the yammerings of some Buzzfeed wanker), poisonous oligarch funded divisive politics, and the general disintegration of anything resembling a family life or social fabric in US society. There are various obvious ways of decreasing social alienation in US society; the problem with that is, most people aren't going to like it. The opposite of alienation and social atomization is basically conformity and homogeneity, and that's bad for business; and especially bad for the oligarch types who engender this kind of alienation.

You can replace US with Western Society, because everything you described I can find analogs too in the UK/Europe. Fear of immigrants - check, fear of crime from immigrants - check, oligarch funded politics - check (Brexit). Maybeeee, there is a touch of truth to the family part with the US's high incarceration rate for African-Americans that could impact families in ways that Europe doesn't have; but wage stagnation also means young adults aren't leaving the home as early as previously so there's that. I just don't think what you laid out is unique to the US.
I once interviewed at a major German elevator manufacturer in the department that works on those traffic algorithms and from what I can tell, it is quite a complex problem for larger office buildings where you have a lot of traffic that mostly flows into one direction at various times of the day, such as in the morning or at lunchtime.

But they also told me that one of their main problems is that the optimal strategy often doesn't feel optimal to the customer, so that's why they sometimes use less-than-optimal strategies.

Sounded like an interesting job.
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One of my favorite takes on this topic:

"From... elementary theories we build up descriptions of more and more complex systems. But in all these efforts we take for granted that we may use any language we wish and as many [languages] as necessary. That is, we choose whatever mathematical formalism is most useful and then interpret the symbols and measurement operations in very highly developed natural language. To a large degree, the simplicity of natural laws arises through the complexities of the languages we use for their expression."

– H. H. Pattee
Still there’s a difference between things Apple chose to include and things they were forced to include.
> Leave autistic people alone and let them be themselves. Seriously, I can't believe some people would rather let their kid die of polio than believe they could be autistic. If you think having an autistic child is that terrible, you probably shouldn't have kids.

That's very much not the case, unfortunately. Many autistic kids are very low function. Their deviations in behavior are way more serious than just some quirky flipping and pacing.
I used that to sum unique visitors on websites, by summing daily bloom filters corresponding to the set of visitors each day. It was pretty cool to be able to sum "unique" metrics, which is usually not possible in classic reporting tools.
Assuming it’s of decent quality, timely and accurate is a huge stretch. The fact it’s not going to be those things is the issue.
You should know your assets. If you know your assets, it's pretty trivial to write a script or program that checks when their certificate expires, sticks it in a database, and alerts you when it's getting close to time to renew. Of course, if you don't know your assets, you hopefully at least know your IP space and can scan that.
Onnplanet earth, where those things are launched their is an atmosphere with wind. That wind impacts where exactly the rocket leaves the atmosphere and deploys the space ship.
I thought vaccines just contained antigens which are essentially just the receptors; i.e. it's impossible to actually get sick from a vaccine since the actual bacteria/virus is missing. IANAB though, I'm sure there are many kinds of vaccines prepared using many different methods.

Also, I thought the joke was funny; I highly doubt there are any genuine anti-vaxxers in HN comments.
There's a reason they teach it in kindergarten: it's a pretty fundamental concept that people who want a functioning society should probably adhere to.

Here's another maxim for you: live by the sword, die by the sword. If you want people to be treated equal, stop singling out groups (e.g. "ignorant white yuppies") and playing identity politics.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3744577/

https://www.epa.gov/radtown/radioactive-wastes-coal-fired-po...

https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/do-coal-fired-power-sta...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...

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Possibly, but I either interpreted, or heard this somewhere before, that turbulence is way harder to make sense of and predict (?). Not a physicist, but essentially that both are nuts, but that turbulence is even nuttier
> Bring them up on a diet of ZFC and category theory? This is unlikely to work out well, ask the French.

If I understood what ZFC and category theory are, it's not something that's much studied in France, from my own experience (leaving high school in 2010). I think all high school student gets to study a little of ZFC, but not much, in the last years of high school. And I only studied category theory after high school it was in a math class while studying for an engineering diploma.
I disagree with it too, but it follows from this silly theory of not taking any action unless it's the biggest possible action.
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We're currently trying to use Github Actions but we've run into a few issues. The first is that when our team members push pull requests from their forked branches it doesn't trigger checks on the pull request. I understand this is for security reasons, but in our case the repository is private and all forks are considered trusted.

The other is that there's currently no way to label specific workers. Because of how our network/firewall is segmented we would like to be able to specify a worker for Staging/Dev/Production separately. The closest thing I found was this [0] pull request from October, but it doesn't add the ability to add custom labels.

Is there any timeline for either of these features (especially the labels)?

[0] https://github.com/actions/runner/pull/130
Glad to hear that. The Freemium solution is certainly a simple one, but I didn't feel it was appropos. Personally I'd have to start writing a day ahead to have a chance at formalizing my question before the time limit. Expert advice does benefit from codified standards but it's hopefully dissimilar in that the question I brought features a double bind; It doesn't have a 'winning' answer. There are tons of regular answers, so an expert would just tell you not to fall for it. Education against them is one of the few ways I acknowledge of their constructive use, and I'd guess logicallee still won't be satisfied with my breakdown. I do what I can.
Most SSH access doesn't use x.509, so yes that sounds right.
I would imagine that the execution logs would get rather large. Is there a way to dynamically trigger logging as well?
Wow, they really are.

I think they are colorized. Here one comparison of the original [0] (taken in the 30s/40s!) in comparison to the image on Wikipedia [1]

[0] http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsac.1a34931/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_the_Riveter#/media/File:...
I've been in plenty of conversations where someone has said literally "I disagree" to an idea or opinion being forwarded. It's not done rudely and it seems perfectly normal to say you disagree with something someone said as long as you have the consideration to explain why and be open to them responding to your opinion. I would find it more weaselly, disingenuous, or even offensive if someone didn't agree with something but pretended they did and then began underhandedly attacking the position.
It's weird that it has to be repeated so often on HN, but:

Autism is not a superpower.

Yes, sometimes mildly autistic people can become genius mathematicians, or whatever, but most of autistic people simply cannot function by themselves, they struggle with everyday things. So no, we can't just "leave them alone", we should try and understand what causes autism, and maybe someday we can cure it.
VLDB also just published a paper on a similar, improved bloom-like data structure
"Vacuum Filters: More Space-Efficient and Faster Replacement for Bloom and Cuckoo Filters"
http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol13/p197-wang.pdf

It would be interesting to get a comparison between Xor and Vacuum.
It's not overly insulting. The phones both Samsung and Huawei sell in BRIC and African markets are very different than what Americans are seeing from both, and I wouldn't be surprised if those phones make up a large bulk of their profits on Android.
It's really important that we blame the internet companies. Otherwise we might have to take responsibility for ourselves. Better to be victims.</snark>
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(I'm not a fluid flow person and this is probably not a very good comment.)

Yeah, that seems likely. But sometimes it's difficult to draw the line between issues that are "purely theoretical" and issues that make a practical difference. Conceivably at some scale the Navier-Stokes equations match up with molecular dynamics simulations in a way that is illuminating. Then in that situation maybe the problems with the N-S equations become nice indicators of what's going on.
Good point - I would guess that Boeing's process is a much longer and more extensive waterfall (i.e. one major iteration on a large scale), whereas smaller companies like SpaceX go through the waterfall for multiple shorter iterations. There are advantages and disadvantages to both approaches, I assume.
I think it's possible that they were in a state of stall for an infinitely small moment of time before they were obliterated. They definitely came to a halt, which is another meaning for stall.
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While listening to Tyler King from Less Annoying CRM he mentioned that the CAC of their first customer was something around $1000 (paid ads, they unsuccessfully tried other channels). I have previously given up on an idea when I didn't get any leads using $50 ad spend.

Is it normal to spend a lot of money on experimenting with marketing before seeing any kind of customer reaction? What was the customer acquisition cost of your first customer?
> my point is just that it's probably better for right handed people to shift with their left hand since it requires less dexterity.

Does everybody here agree this is generally the case with righties? I ask because I'm right handed. I bat right, write with my right hand, use my right thumb on my phone, etc. I'm not a switch hitter or ambidextrous in any way. I'm full-on right side dominant. But, I wear my watch on my right hand and I use my left hand to steer.

Is this sort of thing common? Do the vast majority of right-handed people wear their watch on their left wrist? Or is it an untested assumption?
>Heck, there could be many different mechanisms, and we're lumping people with different underlying conditions into a single category because the symptoms line up. So our model of autism is entirely based on behavior.

I thought that was already clearly established.
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>there is a touch of truth to the family part with the US's high incarceration rate for African-Americans that could impact families in ways that Europe doesn't have

Black americans are a minority though. So if they are, say 20% (which I don't think they are even that), what explains the alienation in the other 80%?
> That’s the real issue, not that the data is in China.

In the US, data requests have to be for individual accounts and go through a judge and sent to the company, who might file an appeal. This is not the case in China. The government can simply get the data it wants without any company appeal.

> It wasn’t stated that Russia was mandating device management

Nor was it stated that it isn't. My point was that the sandbox doesn't automatically imply that these apps are safe, as you had claimed.
I am an American citizen, and I think you are spot on about isolation in this country. The dependence on cars is truly awesome and terrifying. It's something that is so dominant that I never considered it until I was diagnosed with epilepsy. I was disqualified from holding a driver's license, and so years ago I decided that I would try to live in the USA without a car. I did not consider that to be an absurd idea, but it has been very, very difficult, and sometimes not in the ways you would expect.

You'll see a lot of people disagreeing with your observation here, and they characterize it as an opinion, but it simply is not. The USA is insanely dependent on cars. If you live in the wrong place, it would be practically impossible for you to walk to a friend's house or to get groceries on foot. But I don't want to get bogged down in the obvious infrastructure issues; I think the more interesting disorder is the mental dependence that Americans have on cars.

Years ago I moved to a very temperate area. Low humidity, plenty of parks, lots of places within walking distance. I walked everywhere I needed, or, if it was out of the way, I'd take a bus. I would talk to people about my daily activities and found that everyone seemed to be repulsed by my stories of walking just a few kilometers. Friends offered rides non-stop and seemed very concerned that I would be walking for 20 minutes in 15C weather.

Live in your house, get in your car, drive to a strip mall, go into a business, come back out, get back in your car, repeat. These days, I can't help but view the typical car-bound American as a terrestrial astronaut who has to embark on Extra Vehicular Activities to survive. He manages, but every second outside of the conditioned environment of his ship, he is scared to death of the vacuum of nature.
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Yes, but this is fear of crime. Over the past few decades, in general more Americans have believed crime is increasing than decreasing [1].

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/1603/crime.aspx
The reason adoption is 0 is because they cannot be distributed through app stores.
All I am saying is that by the time you are flying the thing, you should have high confidence in it. A failure at that point should lead to a serious reevaluation of that confidence, regardless of whether the failure occurs on a test or an operation (the exception being those tests that are to destruction, or at least well outside the operational envelope, and only then if the failure occurs at about the point you expect, or beyond it.)

I agree that SpaceX is looking very competent.
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Keep reading articles regarding some of these Navy patents released regarding new energy and propulsion technologies. My understanding is that the Navy and various aerospace companies within the US want these on the books to hold patent rights for when other countries start building them for their own respective space navies. Any engineers or physicists on HN that can verify any of these claims? Seems legit but honestly don't have the technology background in these fields to really tell if they're just more "free energy" snake oil. Thoughts on how this would connect to newly found Space Force?
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We had a freeze starting the 18th /19th for deployments
Probably nothing to do with Microsoft. Just a community being a community, defining outsiders as well as insiders. (I’m not affiiated. I need to use Java at work, but like C# much better.)
Also, the CIA may prefer other techniques than spamming social media. There's no good reason to think they're following the same playbook as the FSB.
> One thing I've learned over the year is that people lie, even anonymously.

How do you know?
Gotta love those Stepford smiles, right?
That timeline interestingly lines up with the Cold War-era. Perhaps domestic propaganda and "cultural engineering" left some lasting damage...
> I don't care about ECC https://blog.codinghorror.com/to-ecc-or-not-to-ecc/

And that's fine. Though as a counterpoint:

https://louwrentius.com/please-use-zfs-with-ecc-memory.html

> I had hardware raid 5 before and it failed, because I used similar hard drives ( 3 drives failed within a month, wasn't expecting that).

Which goes back to my point. You're comparing your home system, with something like one-9's uptime (90% availability over an entire year) with a cloud provider that is going to give you five-9's or better.

These are not the same things. And you are going to pay more for each additional 9 of uptime.

For your own stuff, yes, of course it can make perfect sense to host it yourself. I've got a personal server running on positively ancient hardware that still manages two-9's availability, and that's fine for my use case. But I wouldn't directly compare that to a cloud provider either.
Jonathan Haidt has an excellent article that changed my mind on this topic:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/12/social-...

I think the problem with social media is that the loud crazy voices that are usually confined to the corner streets in cities can now shout all the way around the world.

A simple fix would be to limit the distance a ‘voice’ could travel to geographic boundaries that are a function of population density.
There is not necessarily a direct relationship between the spread of crime and the spread of fear of crime. I see this as being related to the difference between risk and perceived risk.
We take a belt-and-suspenders approach, mainly because I have a huge fear of the embarrassment of letting a cert (or domain name) expire.

We built a DB to track them; nothing special, it sends email reminders. Been meaning to just publish calendar reminders, but haven't gotten to it.

We also check expiry dates on the live certificates via one of our monitoring systems (Zabbix, but this isn't a built-in check) that will start yelling, I think, 2 weeks before expiry.
Atlas V burn was nominal, this error didn't happen until the capsule was out of the atmosphere.
$200 for large companies (revenue over $1MM), $100 for smaller + devs. Maybe $50 for students if you want to spoil them in their youth.
> This conversation is so common that there is an agreed upon structure for it. Bloomberg parses all your conversations and provides you with an aggregated view of all quotes brokers have offered you. You can then chart/do whatever you want with this data.

I appreciate when a human interaction becomes so formalized that it becomes a de-facto API that computers can use. It would be funny to imagine a future where that interaction is happening between 2 chatbots and report results back to their humans.
>I doubt that Apple is going to let the Russian government create the image or use some type of nationwide MDM or Enterprise.

>On the other hand, this should be an excellent test of Apple’s security and review process....

In between your two contrasting comments, lies the rub of how much further Apple is willing to capitulate to the demands of nation states ─ who demand nothing less.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/28/world/europe/crimea-apple...