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I came across this article[1] and this thread quoted[0] in article some time ago. I don't think of iMessage as a walled garden, it is almost like a low fence you can see across with a sign that "you must be this cool to participate".

iMessage is literally the only reason I have not tried an android phone because I don't want to deal with the fallout of all of my chat threads going back to 2011(?) getting disrupted. I don’t think I can come up with a better example of vendor lock-in.

[0] https://twitter.com/BenBajarin/status/1162048581299163136

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/90391587/why-we-dont-want-you-an...
Although, I could see executive travel (limousine/private jets) and/or airliners and trains using them, if it works well logistically.
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I think its only a US android user issue. Here in Australia there are more android users so everyone uses 3rd party apps that work everywhere.
Oops that was definitely a mistake on my side! Good pickup though, I've updated it to include a link to a full list :)
It's the same reason BlackBerry refused to make BBM available on other platforms (although I believe they actually did just that a couple of years ago when no one even remembered what BlackBerry was, perhaps after the company name was sold to a different manufacturer).
Ok I have a naive question I think someone here can answer: how long do these satellites stay in orbit? Don't they need a boost every now and then to maintain the momentum? Is that boost built in?
As an iMessage user, I'm happy with a closed ecosystem. I know that's a controversial opinion.

I have dozens of channels of communication, and iMessage is the only one I don't get spam on. I really, really like that. Anyone without iMessage can still contact me the same way, via SMS, and they're all grouped in the same place. But I love that in 10+ years of using iMessage, I've never gotten a single unwanted blue message.
Apple built iMessage and FaceTime to move Apple devices. Why would or should they open it? Not to mention, it is probably tied into the hardware at a deep level — it clearly works much better on more modern phones, and better on iOS than MacOS.
There's an update to the article at the bottom which confirms this.

> “It turns out that this was never an actual capability in any operational form whatsoever, but it was experimented with over the years in unique and intriguing ways, something we are detailing in a soon to be released special feature.”
Every other report highlights his admission that he would do things differently knowing what he knows now.

And that angle to the story actually makes it a story, while "we still believe what we previously believed" really isn't something that, by itself, would warrant an article.

But sure, this outlier is "better worded" and "balanced".

Oh, and note the URL of this article: www.startribune.com/scientist-admits-sweden-could-have-battled-virus-better/570980492/
Claiming that language limits what you can imagine is the strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and it's been pretty thoroughly debunked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
I don't follow socialist stuff too much but I thought there'd be some interesting work from Jacobin to see how they perceive it. Turns out there is:

> However, in most cities and states, police unions are treated as members in good standing of local labor councils and federations. They often work closely with other municipal unions, from firefighters to teachers, to protect labor rights and municipal budgets. Given their size and power, most other city unions are wary of alienating them.

> This is an enormous political problem. If the police are to be defunded and reined in, their unions need to be split off and isolated from the rest of organized labor. If police unions are able to maintain a common front with other city unions, they will almost certainly be able to resist any meaningful efforts to restrain them.

So basically, yea other unions are complicit and unable to reign in the abuse of police unions. It's not the way I'd try to solve it but that's how Jacobin seems to be posing the issue - other unions in the locality should be reforming neighboring unions.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/06/police-labor-union-organi...
Author of the artcile (me) or Author of Deno?
There is a significant difference in incentives, though. How many well-to-do people get evicted? Not a lot. And if they do, they can probably afford a higher deposit on their next apartment to offset the perceived risk. And they probably have the money to pay market rate, or above market rate, to get somewhere to live. And even if they can't find something fast, they can probably afford to get a hotel or an AirBnB for a little while so they have somewhere to sleep at night. They will likely keep their job through an eviction to maintain a stable employment record.

People living in poverty don't have those luxuries. Their chances of having an eviction record are higher. Their ability to pay a higher deposit are drastically lower, since just staying alive consumes basically all of their paycheck. The chances of them being able to pay above market rates are basically nil; their chances of being able to pay market rates are not great. If they get evicted, there is a significant chance they end up homeless. There is a significant chance their new circumstances will result in them losing their job as they struggle to find somewhere to live, because priority 1 is not sleeping in a shelter (which I absolutely understand). To add on to that, they might have children who also follow them into their new circumstances. 28.9% of children below 50% of the federal poverty line experience an eviction before they turn 15, and 25.6% of children between 50% and 100% of the federal poverty line experience an eviction before they turn 15.

All of which is to say, the possibility of eviction is far more threatening to people living in poverty. Their lives are not cushy even when they have stable housing. I can absolutely understand that losing their housing could be the straw that broke the camel's back, and they lash out irrationally. I don't think they suck. In fact, they're probably stronger than I am, I don't think I could endure the things they deal with on a daily basis. But I also don't discount the possibility that they react more vehemently to losing their housing than someone who has less to lose.

This is a situation where I think the private sector does a poor job of handling the situation. In a market where there is perpetually more demand than supply (who has a housing glut, other than Detroit?), there is always going to be some bottom percent of less profitable potential buyers who get screwed. For non-necessary goods, this is fine, but not for housing. I don't think any first world countries should have citizens that have persistent worries about how long they will have a roof over their heads.
You mean, like... Jefferey Epstein?

We spend so much time defending the rights of police to use military-grade weaponry on individual citizens that we forget that the people who are actually looting this country and committing its most grievous crimes are largely ignored.
Making a comparison of Sweden (10,094,432 population) vs Czech Republic (10,707,502 population) seems to reveal a very different story.

New cases (7 day average): https://i.imgur.com/fciq4Ra.png

Total deaths: https://i.imgur.com/do9Zbvn.png
The Mac client already drags years behind the iOS client, I don’t have a lot of faith in Apple’s ability to maintain a Windows version even if they wanted to.

On the Mac side it might catch up in the next release by throwing out the original version and replacing it with a Catalyst port, but there’s no similar solution to that for Windows.

Nor can I see them de-emphasizing the 3rd party app integrations to make the service available to people who aren’t Apple’s customers on platforms that Apple doesn’t control.
"Last Updated: 2019-02-21"

what's new ?
Germany is at 6.3%: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-economy-unemploym...
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For military purposes, my idea for Starship would be the following. Starship aims to put a 150tonne payload to orbit for a few million dollars. I would look at non-nuclear kinetic perpetrators.

Put a 100 tonne tungsten rod into space (cost ~$10m), or more likely some cheaper metal. Maybe 10m long with 25cm radius. Stick a cold gas reaction control system, maybe some gridfins and a guidance package. Put it in orbit, Put some ablative on the leading edge. Once in orbit the cold gas system slows the weapon to put it on target. The gridfins and cold gas thrusters control the guidance. The gridfins wouldn't work for long before the burnt off, but recessed cold gas thrusters could continue to work. Ionisation and intense heat would stop any optical sensors or outside guidance, so aiming it would be problematic.

A kinetic warhead with a mass of 100tonnes going at sub orbital speeds (say 7000m/s) would have 2.45x10^12 joules, which is around 0.58kt of tnt. If I remember correctly once it is going past a critical speed the penetrator and target act like fluids and the rod would penetrate a depth based on the relative density of the two materials time the length. Tungsten is about 6 to 12 times as dense as rock, so it might go through 60 to 120m meters of rock.

Non-nuclear, pretty hard to detect or stop. Competitive in price with cruise missiles. Accuracy could be a problem.
IIRC, it was Facetime he said that about. I believe it ended up there were legal obstacles (plus he allegedly made the statement off the cuff), but I could be wrong.
Yes, low orbit and disposable and planned obsolescence. Which I believe they have already live-tested the EOL burnup.
Discussed from a literal point of view on MO: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/13832/analogies-between-a... .
It's all about peering. Once they're in more exchanges, and it becomes cost effective to set up peering with them, more traffic will reach them directly asdifferent providers set up peering to both reduce costs across other links and provide better access.
" who are all seriously discussing significantly defunding or disbanding their police departments."

It's ridiculous for the mayor to be doing this. Where there is crime, policing is needed. Cities that have tried to cut back in the past (the impetus usually being budget) usually end up with problems, and it usually doesn't work out.

The number of 911 calls is rising rapidly.

Surely, there's an opportunity to 'not buy big surplus toys from the Army' but I suggest that this is not a hugely meaningful budget line item.

The problem in America is absolutely not 'over-policing', it's that police are asked to play more roles many of which they might not be suited to, and of course, some police are far too aggressive, which is also driven by the great prevalence of guns in the population.
The NZ Treasury forecast (made 3 weeks ago) was that unemployment would hit 9.8% by September. I can't find any numbers for the current rate though.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/416633/budget-2020-50bn...
Yeah they're donating the money to their self-in-3-months, who has even less than they do now, with no job and no prospects and no bailout on its way.
Are you saying Windows is inferior to Linux on the desktop?
I forgot, there’s also Google Duo which is E2EE as well.
> the rest of the world hates it primarly because long term it might just prove that the lockdowns were both ineffectual and unnecessary perhaps even more damaging.

This is already what it's looking like when comparing across states in the US.
Depends on the density at the park though... I was a bit surprised at the photos from the Boston protests [1].

[1]: https://kubrick.htvapps.com/htv-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com/...

[2]: https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/06/02/george-floyd-protests...

[3]: https://www.wcvb.com/article/new-group-of-watchdogs-begins-i...
in a short term view yes i agree, but its more than just starlink (we have all sorts of sat's made of highly refined materials falling from the sky), and its over years... decades even.

I haven't seen articles on this, so either its being ignored or it's not an issue. :-/

I hope its the later.
Starlink will probably make its bucks on number of subscribers, but the targeting of rural areas as the primary first consumer base will probably mean there will be enough bandwidth without throttling/perGeeBee charges.

Last I read they are targeting Canada and northern rural US
It’s the opposite. Tree Law!!!! is about people melting down over stuff a real lawyer wouldn’t even take a phone call about. That’s why they are on Reddit melting down about it.
When serious data privacy and protection concerns are in play, German govt. banking on these is no surprise.
100km = 3 light-ms - which should be noticeable in the relative pings, no?
My recollection is that FaceTime isn't open beyond the Apple ecosystem because of patents. I believe Apple had to pay millions in a related lawsuit.
What I do not see anyone talking about is the economic and social effects of having closed borders for 1.5+ years (until the population is sufficiently vaccinated).

NZ's tourism industry is a large chunk of their GDP and will be reduced significantly until borders are open again. Re-opening borders after elimination is political suicide as all you need is one person to start the whole thing again.
So what if New Zealand is an island? How many people are walking to Sweden?
That’s missing 5 or 6 zeros in order to be considered large.
There are probably clusters of Apple users there as well, usually found in higher echelons of society. That's the market Apple targets anyways.
Yes, I mean it can be obvious when ISPs have proper consistent reverse DNS with hostnames and POP designations. You might see a router in Sacramento that is a neighbor of something in Portland. Obviously there's a lot of stuff in between there but it's all abstracted away at the purely layer-3 IP network level.
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SMS is colored differently (green) than iMessage (blue), regardless of the device on the receiving end. I'm not sure how they would even know the recipient is on Android.

If I send an iMessage to a friend's iPhone when they do not have service it automatically downgrades to SMS from iMessage. My brother didn't run iMessage for years so group chats that include his iPhone were still SMS based.

In a group chat with non-iMessage users everyone gets downgraded to SMS. I'm not sure how else it would even work?

It doesn't discourage talking to users with an Android or any other phone. I do that all the time, it's all in the same app. If they wanted to put up barriers they could do that but instead it's totally seamless.
Sweden has the highest per-capita rate of deaths from COVID.

In Sweden, 4,500 people have died. In neighbouring Norway, 237 people died. Even adjusted for population, Sweden has 10x the deaths.

I'm a scientist as well and my math skills say their strategy sucks.
Apple is caught in the constant push/pull of "we're compatible with stuff" vs. "there's a reason why you buy a Mac." Curating apps and keeping iMessage for Mac users falls into the latter category right now. Might be different tomorrow.
In the Radar Man book I read, he said it’s primary mission was to take out a Soviet, radar controlled anti-aircraft gun, which I believe was called the Buzz Saw.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07932Z7WV/ref=nodl_?tag=duckduckg...

Maybe it was this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZSU-23-4_Shilka
You are presenting people exposed while doing wrong as victims of the citizens risking their safety to expose them.

If the police have an image problem then perhaps they need to promote a culture of restraint, civility, and justice by enforcing the law against their own at all times not just when the criminals behavior makes it onto television and sparks riots that threatens to burn down the nation.

> Somehow we lost all perspective and have come to expect that our officers, whose jobs regularly confront them with mortal danger and the darkest parts of human nature, will always display the same perfect virtues we carefully signal everyday on Facebook.

We can work on the them becoming paragons of virtue after they stop executing citizens in the street, attacking people peacefully protesting, planting drugs on people, and raping them.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/11/us/florida-deputy-arrested-pl...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/pennsylvania-police-officer-ch...

After we get we stop raping, framing, and murdering people yes I do in fact expect those charged with serving law and order to deal with bad people without themselves becoming bad people. People in most of the developed world seem to be managing this so I don't agree that it is an impossible dream.

Many people expressed and believed that automotive fatalities were just an inevitable consequence of the the mode of transport while others insisted on pushing for systematic reforms that drastically reduced fatalities.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/27/automobiles/50-years-ago-...

Similarly you argue that bad behavior by some police is inevitable. I don't agree

https://8cantwait.org/
Or more that police Unions in the US provide zero cross support for other unions. And their members routinely vote against interests of other unions.
> I'd love something self-hosted

You should try PhotoStructure. Self-hosted, runs on desktop or headless or docker, and auto organizes your photos and videos into datestamped directories using whatever pattern you want.

Disclaimer: I'm the author

https://blog.photostructure.com/introducing-photostructure/
I mean, that happens to iPhone users too. That's the SMS fallback for iMessage reactions.

I wish I had an option to turn off reactions, or at least turn off notifications for reactions. When my sister gets a few minutes to review the family group chat she goes through and "loves" and "likes" and "laughs at" almost every message. My phone pings for every single one of them.
Every time you could spend five more minutes playing with your kids, you should, in my opinion. That's pretty much the meaning of life.
Well Starlink will be the majority of all satellites pretty soon, so it really only matters for Starlink for the foreseeable future, if it matters at all.
It could be a PR stunt, but it says in the article that all the funds remain in the fund to invest in future businesses. And that they are basically managing the fund for a non-profit. So I don't think they stand to directly earn money from the fund.
Yes. They have built-in thrusters to maintain their orbit. If they stop working or get retired their orbit decays and they burn up in the atmosphere. See the 'ion propulsion systems' graphics at starlink.com.
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I strongly suspect it's the latter - since "Every day, Earth is bombarded with more than 100 tons of dust and sand-sized particles." [1] and the satellites burning up aren't going to approach that mass simply due to launch costs.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/overview/fastfa...
If France and Sweden were the same population, here's a chart of confirmed cases (7 day average) and total deaths.

https://i.imgur.com/oiybcsx.png

Sweden will easily pass France in the next few days, yet new infections are now 500% greater than those of France.

Again, please keep in mind this is a per capita chart.
> either a very persuasive graduate student

LOL. This was smart and funny.
Zoom appears to have released an update fixing the Virtual Cam Support.

"Changes to existing features

Re-enable virtual camera support
Support for virtual cameras will be re-enabled for users on client version 5.0.4. "

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201361963
> Having insurance pay for everything from flu shots to regular check-ups makes it something else entirely, that's no longer insurance,

I don't disagree with that sentiment. However, it's my understanding that traditional health insurance in the US pays for those things (often without co-pay) because preventative treatments are cheaper. If you add a co-pay for getting a flu shot, or even worse don't cover it, many more people might skip it and some of them will inevitably develop the flu. Treating those cases will likely end up costing way more than paying for flu shots for all the insureds.

I get that HSAs are an attempt to give patients more pricing information and agency, and encourage them to shop around for their healthcare. But (to me) it comes off as a self-managed insurance plan that you use to pay for your actual health insurance. It's insurance for insurance. Which is slightly bananas.
It definitely matters. I’ve hit #2 or #3 here or on Reddit when any other day that’d week I’d hi t#1. Sometimes you just get unlucky and a big story comes out. Clicks are logarithmic, but there’s no way around that.

I’ve tried experimenting at all times of day. I like around 8am pacific. That’s almost lunchtime on the east coast, but Europe is still up to. It takes time to rise. If you take off then you’ll be placed high from east coast dinner time and hopefully through west coast evening.

Getting more than 10 clicks on HN is a complete and total dice roll. As best I can tell there is no rhyme or reason. Not for my content at least. r/programming r/cpp and r/rust have been highly reliable for me. Consistent top 5 placement.

For context here’s my archive. https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/
The company I work for has an interesting setup. Marketing drives what products we need via marketing research, Product Owners(PO) represent those products and further research the problem space, Product Managers(PM) are coupled with an engineering team and the PM negotiates with the team around estimations, priorities, and planning. But ultimately the team decides what it does, but they are held accountable for delivering business value.

As a team, we can't just go all vigilante, but we can push back and have at times gone over other people's heads to make sure the proper people understood the problem. Most of the time we got what we thought was best for the customer by going over people's heads, but there's been plenty of times that a middle ground was reached.

The main thing is to not just say "we can't". Our job is to deliver solutions, not products. If there is a problem with priorities, we find an acceptable way to make things "work". Maybe that's adjusting timelines, or features, or just asking the customer how important that timeline is to them. I can't tell you how many times I've been told about "deadlines" that the customer never actually said was a deadline.

Us: Yo cust, can we slide that project 2-4 weeks?

Them: Sure. Heck, move it back 2 months if you want, but we absolutely need to start testing on our end in 3 months.
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I sold over 1,700 copies as of now (2+ years since 1.0.0 release). Some people have emailed to say they've given more because of it. Most people probably just by the app without knowing $3.50 goes to charity. Many choose to pay more (I suspect because they like the app so much - I get may emails with praise).
The alternative is allowing more housing development.
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Other ways of turning policing away from "tacticool" policing and towards community policing: offering cops more $$$; requiring a degree or two; placing residency requirements (x cops in a precinct must live within y miles of the community they are to serve) to help weed out the bully types.

That can be done in a reasonable amount of time.
I'm also tired of the "X has always been bad and been happening for a long time." While I think some people mean it to highlight how prevalent a problem is, it often comes across (or is in fact intended to be) a way to both virtue signal and put down people who are less informed.
I feel like all I need is a good script to filter out bots and spiders. I could take the rest from there.