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Apple: We want to have full control over the hardware and software ecosystem so we can guarantee everything will be high quality.

Also Apple: We don't want to invest as much in parts of the ecosystem that have relatively low returns.

There's a lot to like about Apple, but their closed ecosystem and adversity to consumer repair rights ensure I will never buy one of their products.
Out of all the things to nitpick on, you choose that?
archive.org snapshot, since the site is unresponsive right now: https://web.archive.org/web/20200403170513/https://forum.kha...
>> It's disingenuous to say PE doesn't care. They have every incentive to preserve and generate equity value. That is literally their business.

This might be the headline intent for the public, but in practice has often not been the primary intent. PE firms often extract massive fees from the companies to recover their initial investment -- long before they realize equity based gains. I'd say VCs are more aligned on this matter, not PE.
Of course it's the implementation that matters and how it's used, that's the whole point. The reality is important. It Has To Be Done Better.

Sorry about the regdb example, that was me being frustrated with it and not looking deeply into it yesterday. I saw the binary format, saw the signing and just kinda assumed the rest (I've been trying to get a stronger 802.11 signal from these usb alfa and panda adapters on this pi4 I'm using)

Anyway, it could be a bold protector of personal liberty or another cargo cult ceremony on the checklist and callously shoehorned in inappropriate places.

It could be a defense of privacy that Schneier holds dear or a way for a company to hide from the user what it's recording and tracking through closed encrypted data

It could be Zimmerman's dream or make it so people get locked out of things they own. Locked out of their Bitcoin wallets, hard drives, phones, just about everything.

The "encrypt everywhere" assumes the rosiest of intentions from one group and the most malevolent from another. It assumes perfect technology without failure or fault, perfect human memory, and perfect organization.

I call it homo securitis. Humans don't work that way. (After https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_economicus)

That's why I can sit around all day and give you endless real life horror stories. For the bitcoin example, I've personally lost north of a million dollars through mismanagement of wallets (I wasn't monitoring disk failure on a raid array around 2012 and 2 of them finally went). You can look at this list (https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses....) - there's a number of wallets, hundreds, with histories like this: https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/address/12ib7dApVFvg82TXKy..., last activity 2010. Either this person has the discipline of a soldier or they lost access to it. Hard disk crash, accidental deletion, who knows - normal human failure in an imperfect world.

Human practicality matters. Imagine if a traditional bank kept 243 million locked away forever because you lost a special ID card they sent you in the mail in 2009. This stuff matters. An excuse of "well it's your fault for not being perfectly organized on perfect systems" doesn't cut it.

Encryption and security is too often an unsophisticated hammer that's getting tossed and applied without consideration of the nuances of reality.

It Has To Be Done Better. Not "don't do it". But instead "stop foolishly doing it so naively". Otherwise there will be a large push back and nobody will want it at all.
Maybe computers aren't quite for you. Pen and paper is safer.
This comment is very ignorant about:

1. how often capitalism has bread lines in countries economically linked to, but outside of, the US and other rich capitalist countries, in the "global south";

2. the fact that bread lines in "socialist" (but not actually socialist) countries like Venezuela are in large part due to US policy and sanctions, and are over-reported anyway;

and 3. the fact that socialism has never been tried in a fair way because it is an existential threat to the wealth of people like Jeff Bezos, who prefer to strangle it in the cradle instead.

But thank you for regurgitating the ignorant "bread lines!" trope when there are actual, literal bread lines in the US right now!
There is a big delay in clicking "Run" next to each script snippet, I would add some loading animation, because it takes 2-3 seconds to load and it gives no indication that it's doing something in the background.
Achive link: http://archive.is/19P5A
Trying to means test these kinds of programs just adds administration costs. "But a rich person might get some of the food!". So what, that rich person is paying taxes to support the program. Make it simple.
Are you thinking about the documentary Amazon Empire?
> I'd prefer to use the tool that we understand is moderately secure, though flawed, rather than the tool that is a security unknown.

That's really a weak argument: bad is not better than unknown. And in this case unknown is not unknown.

Jisti is OSS, has been reviewed as such, and has been around since way before zoom was even invented.
There's more to the black market than just money: you often need to deal with unscrupulous individuals (possibly a couple of levels removed) and risk going to jail. The bounty incentivizes researchers to research and disclose, not disincentive people who were going to sell them anyways (who will pay whatever it costs to get these anyways).
I think they made a poor word choice in an effort to simplify the message while saying something less vague than "military grade encryption" or whatever. The transit legs of a Zoom meeting are TLS, which is what the customer cares about.

Most of the vitriol about this issue is from a subset of security and IT people for whom E2EE is a term of art. In most any commercial service setting, E2EE is always going to be a bullshit term for someone.
>Isn't that a biased selection? It's a bit like finding that swimmers are more likely to drown or vice versa.

How is it a biased selection? Study 10-15 year olds, and ask about their porn use. Those who say they intentionally view violent materials are more likely to report aggressive behavior. True, this doesn't mean porn causes sexually aggressive behavior - but that's not the claim being made anyway.

>If you look up the first author on the study the first keyword that appears is "gender studies". All of this kind of stuff has to be looked at with extreme skepticism, especially when it's a politically charged topic.

I agree, and the field does have other problems too (in particular, the variation in how "pornography" is defined between studies) - but to call it BS science needs more than just an accusation. Homeopathy is BS, but that doesn't make the scientists criticizing it BS scientists, nor does it discount their research because the topic is politically charged. Malamuth, for instance, is a highly respected sociologist/psychologist. Either way, there's plenty of stuff out there for this, both "for" and "against". Open Google Scholar and do a search for "pornography and violence" or "pornography and attitudes on women", and select whatever date you want (after 2010, or after 2015, etc.)

It's important to remember that science does not prescribe "oughts", it just makes it harder for people who hold certain "oughts" to hold their views consistently.
> on any bailout, massively cram down the equity holding of the PE firm(s) and all executives by issuing new shares to every other stakeholder besides them, including other shareholders

IMO that's a step to far, and is a totally uneven punishment depending on how shares are held. Just make them give the government equity (or options) as part of the bailout that would dilute all existing shareholders.

Executives aren't the only ones responsible, they are hired by the shareholders.
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Not sure there is any mechanism to prevent the big core from interfering with the little core (apart from using virtualization or running OpenBSD in TrustZone).
You would like it to have a lot of entropy. It's not about being random in the sense if being up to chance, it's about making the interactions between the electrons so complicated that any passing photon does not get absorbed or does not produce stimulated emission.

When there is enough entropy/complexity/randomness the electrons have no state that they can jump to of a similar range of energy to the frequencies of light that you would like the glass to be transparent to.
Last follow-up reply- I promise....How would someone like myself go about demonstrating their eligibility for and O-1? Would someone in my position look for a job first and then have the hiring employer worry about this or is this something I should do on my own before applying to jobs? BTW thanks for being generous with your time and doing all this.
It was a surprise for me as well, but people in the US dial into meetings using their phone all the time. I don't understand it either.
That is simply not true. Management fees are such a small percentage of contributed capital. And, typically doesn't count towards your returns calculation.
No hospital in the US is currently turning away patients who have acute hypoxemia. If your friend's blood oxygen is actually 80% then he is at immediate risk of death. Call an ambulance right now.
Has PE had a history of net job gain, or at the very least saving the jobs that were already there?

My impression, without any data on hand, is that PE firms tend to reduce the number of jobs overall.
Work in entertainment marketing (theatrical trailers and promos) as a finishing coordinator (uprezzing, overcutting, versioning with different dated cards, exporting different specs for different platforms, etc) and out whole industry has essentially been furloughed. It sucks and I don't think it will be temporary, I think a lot of shops will close.
Thanks. Positional audio teleconf in the browser was something I hacked on back 5 years ago when WebVR first came out. Unfortunately, Google broke positional audio, then WebVR, then changed a lot of how WebAudio worked.

Lately, I'm involved with a few meetups that miss the dynamic of a real meetup. So I threw this together to hopefully get some semblance of the meetup space again.

It's really simple. Jitsi Meet has a web app API that basically loads a standard Jitsi Meet install in an iframe, with some inter-window communication setup using Window.postMessage. I add a small hack on Jitsi Meet's default install to take my own postMessage calls to sniff out the HTML audio elements Jitsi Meet creates and modifies their volume.

For the position of participants, I use Jitsi Meets inter-user text messaging system to send data packages. Then I just scale each user's audio volume based on a linear scale. Anyone closer than 3 squares is rendered in full volume, and anyone further than 14 is muted. And of course, settings in the scripts to scale these values. They could even be per-user, if they wanted to scale how well they can hear.

There's no stereo pan or ambisonics, but hopefully the volume level scaling is enough to make for useful meetups.
Ask HN: Being on call or not?
The company I work for is planning to have some engineers on call to keep our services reliable and available. It's payed and it's not mandatory. The thing is: one has to be on call for a group of "related" services and not only for the services one has written code for. I don't have anything against being on call for the stuff I (and my team) write, but I definitely don't want to be on call for other's people stuff (my title in the company is software engineer, not SRE).

Under these circumstances, nobody in my team wants to be on call (managers accept this since it's not mandatory). I am the tech lead of my team, and I'm not sure what to do. I don't want to do it, but I don't think it's responsible to be the only team that has zero people on call.

How does it work in your company? I am being too extreme by saying "I don't want to be on call for stuff I didn't write"?
Hi Peter,

Is there any risk in filing for adjustment of status in another area to speed things up? Are there any rules/residency requirements in doing so? It appears the Texas service center, for example, has been processing cases ~3 months faster than the California service center.
Don't read slashdot (never seen it TBH)
Since you are Norwegian, and presumably working for a Norwegian company, I am curious how such a layoff was possible. Was it an actual layoff or are you permittert?
It seems like you are defining political as:

Political - (defn) relating to the ideas or strategies of a particular party or group in politics

Whereas in within the context of this discussion, i.e. is Grothendieck an Anarchist?, political is being used to mean:

Political - (defn) an ethical philosophy of society and government.

However Grothendieck is political under both definitions:
(1). he formed and participated in a political group which attempted to advance policies (defn 1), (2). and those policies were based on an ethical philosophy of society which he believed in (defn 2).
I fundamentally disagree. Webex has been around longer and despite the zoom founder trying to trash it, has been more reliable for me.

They just apparently spent their money on building an enterprise-worthy app instead of marketing.

https://help.webex.com/en-us/n80v1rcb/Cisco-Webex-Available-...
This is literally just a link to an App Store product page.
The point of OP's post isn't which has better performance, it's about sticking to ethical principles in the face of challenges.
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I’ve taken to downvoting anyone who says this, not because in certain ways it’s not true, but because it’s just such a lazy comment that adds nothing to the conversation.
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Webex is free right now, they just haven't really marketed it:

https://help.webex.com/en-us/n80v1rcb/Cisco-Webex-Available-...

Hangouts Meet which I've had bad luck with but others have told me works well is free:

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/helping-busin...

And MS Teams has a free trial (had good luck with this as well but don't like the interface as much as webex):

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2020/03/0...
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Does it adapt to network conditions? Usually my network does not lose any packets, sounds wasteful to spend so many bytes for a rare event.
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No but it sounds like a good idea. I suspect it would require a jailbreak though.
Here in the Netherlands, the government have taken the action to help out affected companies fulfil their payroll obligations, meaning the govt is effectively paying the salaries of an extra million people (12% of our total workforce).

As the only IT guy in a company that does pretty much all its business online, and being the longest-serving employee in the company, my job is safer than anybody else's, but we have seen revenue plummet and we're having to let some people go - which is heartbreaking. Even though our society will make sure that they will not be in real trouble, and it ensures the survival of the company, these are valued coworkers and genuinely nice people and I'm sad to see them go.
Sure, they had the system in place but the fact that so many people are fed is impressive (for free).
Keynote:

Zoom’s encryption and decryption use AES in ECB mode
OK, so my wife and I are both over 70, and she's immunocompromised. Even so, personal issues aside, I agree that a global shut-down for a year or more would be hugely, even unimaginably, disruptive. And I also agree that health impacts for those not at high risk would be relatively minor.

However, once Covid-19 was circulating freely in the general population, isolation for old and otherwise at-risk populations would arguably be less effective. So we'd need more effective isolation for them.

I don't know what that might look like. Upon reflection, I don't believe that relocation-based isolation would be acceptable, and it probably also wouldn't be safe.

I've been trying to imagine how my wife and I might avoid infection for a year or more. We're lucky, I suppose, because we live in a well-organized community. And there are teams of younger people who do most of the shopping.

But for most people, there's no structure for anything like that. Except for those who belong to churches, I guess. And maybe it could develop via social media.
The Outline might have been the only "digital media" site to actually have interesting looking ads. I can't find an example right now, but the ads were full-page and swipe-based, so you could read it as a story.

My adblocker catches the usual suspects, but I'm guessing these were not served from a third-party domain. I'm perfectly happy with ads that look like some effort went into them, and don't carry the numerous trackers that we now accept as part and parcel of real-time bidding networks.

They never had the Taboola/Outbrain chumbox as so many "reputable" publications do. They never had hideous Adsense ads breaking up the page.

It's too bad the site didn't have a clear identity; the topics were all over the place, and it didn't have a unique tone of voice.

Plus, I'm guessing media buyers were not pleased about having to actually create interesting looking ads that were closer to interactive sponsored content than a two-line Adsense ad they could A/B test to their heart's desire.
The Free Software Foundation refers to free as in freedom and not free as in cost.
That's not my point at all. And it is a myopic conclusion to draw from my comments. Unfortunately in our society we have been conditioned to expect a singular outcome from any such discussion and immediately avoid it on grounds of offensiveness.

The point is that here you literally have a mechanism which is explicitly prioritizing traits which have nothing to do with merit. Regardless of whether our other metrics are appropriate, it is by definition clear that with this system you will inevitably dilute competence -

Incidentally this is a source of political bias in academia; you get your way if you can convince a generation or two that that having people with different skin colors working together is somehow going to improve the quality of science that you practice.
So you have more complicated SQL then, but it doesn't make a difference between DBs selecting from a 100M table with indexes.

If it ends up being a full table scan then PG only recently got query compilation and parallel execution so at best it would be even with, but not better than, MSSQL/Oracle that can do vectorized executions on columnstores.
Had a pretty steady contracting gig doing fun new things for a photobooth company. Not any more!

Fortunately I have a few other things to pay the bills (so far), and fortunately I have enough savings not to have any short-term worries, but that was my main source of income.
Tons of non-tech companies drug test, and they have lots of tech roles.
Tom Francis, maker of a number of indie darlings, has started a great youtube series on how to make games in Unity with limited experience. Does a great job (so far) balancing why you do stuff, and just doing the stuff and telling you how to mess with it.

It reminds me, in many ways, of the QBasic programs I used to mess with as a kid. (Looking at you, gorillas.bas)
Maybe there should be a radio button upon installation that asks people whether they have something to hide and offers a special version with super good encryption for those who say yes.
Ask HN: Have you built a hybrid mobile app? What's your experience been like?
I recently read about how Basecamp uses an iOS/Android "shim" and serves up Rails-rendered HTML/CSS/JS in their mobile apps:

https://m.signalvnoise.com/basecamp-3-for-ios-hybrid-architecture/

Have you used this approach? If so, what has your experience been like?
It's better from an ethical perspective; I don't think the FSF would use it internally if it weren't.
Much as this may seem like sitting on the fence, I would suggest that even with the considerable data we have collated so far, we do not know enough to predict outcome or outlook. For instance, a BMJ article was posted earlier [1] which, if you overlook its many valid caveats, suggested that Covid-19 might well be far more widespread than generally imagined. Until we know the answer to just that one question, it seems that speculation about outcome is idle or fanciful.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22770263
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Couldn't the same be said for highly-leveraged workers?
Wow, this is amazing.
Zoom just works great ... just focus on making a better product (aggh Google Hangouts) than hyping up the hysteria by adding China to the mix.

It is rather suspicious to see all the articles of late.
> On the other hand, the second and third order consequences to providing a stronger social safety net to people might be highly beneficial.

Possibly, but not necessarily. I'm in Germany. We have UBI for all intents and purposes, you get an apartment, utilities, TV, a washing machine etc, health insurance and money for food and stuff. Yes, you are expected to take a job if you can find one, but you're not pushed too hard if you half-ass it and don't find any.

We're still looking for those highly beneficial consequences. We have plenty of intergenerational poverty and our social mobility is worse than in the US.

It's apparently not that simple, unfortunately.

> Not every social experiment is a one-way door that cannot be tweaked, improved or abandoned.

It pretty much is though. It's very, very, very hard to turn back the clock on benefits once people have gotten used to it.
the answer to this really depends on your deployment process.
Unfortunately those were immediately susceptible to tempest attacks, at least at old hard drive speeds.
Forward isolation is not necessarily much better than -60 dB depending on the exact op amp.
I don’t think meeting people’s needs and helping them to develop are mutually exclusive.

It’s perfectly fair we say that we should provide everyone with their basic needs as a safety net that prevents people from starving. Then building on top of that to give people the support they need to better themselves and reduce the need to rely on outside support.

Sure some people will abuse the system. But condemning the majority just to punish the minority feels a little petty.
Not quite what you're asking, but on a tangential note, I've found the 12 principles can be adapted to almost any complex system. I had a decent amount of success applying them to my jiujitsu class, so there may be a way to employ them in tech as well.
I don't follow politics much. But I think it just underlines to get stuff done in many areas of life you need to be willing/able to compromise and build coalitions.
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage."

--Alexander Fraser Tytler

s/public treasury/untapped wealthy individuals and corporations/g

Also, which step are we on? Seems like we are on the "From apathy to dependence" stage.