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> Given this, why can't we strive for a similar system on the virtual world as well?

Because there is no technical solution that allows something similar, such a solution

1. Must be exclusive to use by lawful authorities, a criminal cannot get a search warrant
2. Must have some reasonable per-instance cost to prevent overreaching

1 is very hard in a tech space if even possible, backdoors can always be used by other parties.

But even if 1 is possible, by the nature of digital surveillance it is very cheap and relatively easy to do mostly secretly, leading to things like NSA literally inspecting all internet traffic.

Yes, theoretically you could the seconds this if it is the overwhelming political will, but it isn't, and the general public doesn't care.

So in the end it's better to encrypt everything
It is important even males depilate their arms to get any level of UV penetration to produce the D vitamin
Pretty close, I mean he did hire a hitman to take her out...I mean what were you expecting?
Assume a spherical cow ...

QED
Ask HN: Is AWS bandwidth pricing making backup storage infeasible?
Maybe this is glaringly obvious to a lot of you, but AWS bandwidth pricing seems to be the biggest factor in S3 / Glacier pricing, much higher than the "retrieval fee" that everybody worries about.

Some background: I was considering using S3 Glacier Deep Archive as a solution to backing up large volumes of media files (mostly raw video/audio). For production/editing these files are kept on fast SSD based storage, but after that they're archived together with all the project files, notes etc. It's done on normal 4TB sized spinning disks and they're read maybe once a year when archive footage is needed for a new edit.

When expanding storage there was a discussion on whether backing up to AWS would be better than buying twice the amount of disks to do RAID 1. The initial idea was that non-RAID disks + AWS is better, because it's off-site for when the building burns down, and you can make make the permissions "append only" so it's much more resistant to ransomware or other issues.

The price of S3 Glacier Deep Archive is great at $ 0.00099 per GB per month, that's about two years of storing 4 TB at the price of a 4 TB drive. The much feared retrieval fees in case one of our local drives is lost (crashes/corruption happen) is $ 0.003 per GB so $ 12 to get everything back. So the fear of retrieval fees actually isn't bad at all with the S3 Glacier Deep Archive pricing if you accept having to wait 48 hours.

But then comes the shocker: You're going to pay 30 times as much as the retrieval fee to get that data out of AWS, because bandwidth is $ 0.09 per GB, so retrieving that "crashed disk" 4TB will cost $ 372 in total instead of just $ 12. Did I miss something? Or does AWS bandwidth pricing make using them as a backup a terrible idea if you ever want to be able to retrieve that backup?
Googling led me to this!

https://www.bugoutbagbuilder.com/blog/gray-man-urban-surviva...
For somebody who misses Lotus Improv, used Quantrix Modeller, and has evaluated XCubes, this feels about right. Unfortunately web-based solution (particularly those that cannot be self-hosted) are basically verboten to those who (such as myself) manage the kind of work that probably require this kind of instrument.

I honestly wish somebody would build something like this in the spirit of Lotus Improv for modern platforms, with modern creature comforts, as a native application.

Well done though, it really looks enticing.
Apparently only the qualifying was in 3D, the actual race was in 2D and there weren't even any curves (at least not visible ones, although it looks like the player had to steer from time to time going by some cues which I wasn't able to make out). The race wasn't really challenging either - the player started last, but was able to overtake all opponents in 30 seconds, same after the pitstop... but maybe the image they found was just a debug build, I guess the game would have gone through some more playtesting and fine-tuning if it had been released.
So, if I just go into a store that sells Armani suits or something, and destroy the suits, but I don't take them.. that's okay. Correct?

Edit, are you also insinuating that's the only 'rioting' they did and then magically the USA just formed out of nothing?
> you’ll be limited to 4GB RAM

This made me curious, so I did a bit of digging, and found https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/memory/physic... (quoted out of order for simplicity):

> Windows automatically enables PAE if DEP is enabled on a computer that supports hardware-enabled DEP, or if the computer is configured for hot-add memory devices in memory ranges beyond 4 GB. If the computer does not support hardware-enabled DEP or is not configured for hot-add memory devices in memory ranges beyond 4 GB, PAE must be explicitly enabled.

> PAE does not change the amount of virtual address space available to a process. Each process running in 32-bit Windows is still limited to a 4 GB virtual address space.

So, TL;DR, what you said :). But I'm glad I checked!
They're also maybe allowing decryption by anyone else who wants to, and by law enforcement without a warrant - there's no cryptographic proof anywhere that Zoom will only hand the key to police on presentation of a warrant, and never use it themselves.

In the meantime, anyone who actually cares about their privacy can use an e2e encrypted group chat today with e.g. Wire. All this gets us is that unwitting people who can't afford to pay are in the position to get spied on.
WW2 ended 75 years ago, so someone 16 serving in 1945 would be 91 today.
> What are you trying to solve that a tarball or rsync can't?

End users can install a deb with one click without having to know about where to put the files, or how to create a shortcut in menu.
I'd like to see a brand that starts with optimizing the cost vs. quality of the touchpad, keyboard, and screen and works its way backwards from there.

This may be naive, but I'm guessing a mid-range 2020 laptop shouldn't have a worse touchpad than a 2008 white clamshell MacBook.
Except it would cost grubhub money to run an uncooperative client, so why would they ?
Thank you! Good pointers indeed.
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> I don’t think this will happen in the northern hemisphere, thankfully. There is reason to believe both that effective R drops off a cliff in the summer months, and that we’re much closer to herd immunity (or whatever is possible with this kind of virus) than most people think. If you want references I can dig them up, but I guess we’ll see either way in a few weeks.

All sources I've seen before say something different about those two things (i.e. supposedly effective R will maybe go a bit down in summer but in all likelihood not by much; and herd immunity is in most (or all) places still very far away), but I'm not following the science very close so I might very well be wrong. I'd be very grateful if you could dig up those references!
I'm very happy that now we have a choice between Ubuntu and something else.
> Restaurant owners are usually not tech people

I think a lot of the lashback things like grubhub, uber eats is getting lately is precisely because people have become more tech savvy. The "magic" of the app isn't magic anymore to the current generation of users, and they just don't see the value in it that the previous one did.

My opinion: As it becomes more and more commonplace to have "just enough" technical expertise and the tooling is easy enough to DIY, we're going to see services like grubhub become commodified and open - and they know it, so they're doing everything they can to try to keep as much market share as possible.
Congrats! What’s your profit margin look like? It’s hard to evaluate what $15k/mo means because it’s an outsourcing business.

How does payment work internally? Is everyone just a 1099 that you feed work to? How do you deal with international payroll?

How do you source designers and assign work?
So confused. Do you not have tort law in the US?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_off
Thanks for the link.

> Oakland police, who are assisting the FBI in the investigation, tweeted a statement Friday night saying the shooting appeared to be unrelated to the protest over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

So the police don't think it's related?
What are your margins?
Or just use integrated graphics for the desktop, and reserve the GPU for GPGPU work.
Great minds..
It's raw pixel data, but in general you can't just cat /dev/fb0: only part of the buffer might be be displayed on screen, and there might be colormap involved (even in 24bpp or 32bpp modes).

I recommend using fbcat for taking screenshots: https://github.com/jwilk/fbcat
It's super easy and works every time. You might want to change NIX_CHANNEL=nixos-19.09 to NIX_CHANNEL=nixos-20.03 since 19.09 is the previous stable version. I use nixos-infect along with Morph so I don't care about the custom images that much - a fresh/bare NixOS is all I need to build, push and deploy the actual configuration through Morph.
The best code is no code (2019)
yeah it was pretty damn horrible. We've done some crazy shit to our own people, and those who aren't...and probably more human rights violations from USA and Colonists than all other countries combined. I mean Columbus murdered like 5-10 million native americans alone and sold countless young girls and others as slaves... Hell the whole world could probably end systemic racism if they helped USA (a big culture leader) do it first.
> The environment argument against Bitcoin has been thoroughly debunked.

Nonsense, every bitcoin mined is unnecessary for the environment.
Is keybase fully open source? Or is the server closed source?
So they didn't try, they succeeded.
It's also recommended to have a look at other pages from Allan's site such as http://www.wirfs-brock.com/allen/things/smalltalk-things/tek... which is full of interesting facts and documents.
Hey could you give us a small hint about how can we find those already compiled lists? :)
I think we need to focus on even more basic point while deciding between refactor vs. rewrite. That is whether the basic DB schemas/Data Structures are well designed/suited to current business understanding or not. Because rest of the structure stands on top of them.

I do not see how you can refactor stuff if the majority of the DB schema/Data Structures are built incorrectly and/or not suited to current understanding/layout of the business. You will have to rewrite.

The only case where refactor can possibly work is that basic DB schema/Data Structures is 90% good and changes are only required at the business logic level.
Which is exactly what the article says...
You've forgotten about different processor architectures? Even today there's Intel and ARM, but at the start there was also Sparc which Sun wanted people to use. So, just like WebAssembly, java bytecode operates as a platform-independent instruction set. (ARM provides processors with some ability to execute bytecode directly - Jazelle - but it seems to be obsolete?)

Virtualisation is also not readily available from within userland. We're not at "each process runs in its own VM" yet. Perhaps we'd want "each browser tab runs in its own VM", which is kind of what Javascript aims to achieve.

Microsoft have also gone in this direction; they don't call the CLR a "VM" but it performs many of the same functions in order to run CIL/MSIL bytecode.
Sustainable stuff more importantly, for a less consumerist, egoistic human-world, less pollution pressure, more environment-friendly
I think my reasoning seems circular because we're talking about different things, but I doubt there's one single fact that all 8 billion of us would agree on. Let's try moving our focus of value away from the contents of peoples' beliefs and toward the knowledge that people sincerely believe them and we value the people. I agree that some beliefs (e.g. the vaccine stuff) are actively harmful, but from where I'm sitting it seems like browbeating everyone until they agree with us hasn't been working out too well these last few years. You can keep trying that and hoping for different results, but I've found more actual success in these matters by changing my own views in the way I'm describing. It's hard to have a conversation with someone who is telling you you're being insincere, ya know? :)
YES, absolutely.

I moved to Europe three years ago. Here, police outfits are designed to be seen in the dark, so they're day glo and neutral. In the US, police officers are terrifying creatures.
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It is also the header syntax for Vimwiki[0]

[0]: https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki
I'm full of great ideas that other people have already done.
I feel your frustration... Maybe it's not the day to start any change, but I'm sure you'll change the situation for the better eventually.

P.S. I don't have any technical background, but if you want to just chat with someone, we can be in touch on Discord... ;)
The Reuleaux triangle is for some measurements (for example material used), more optimal than a circle, while still able to roll smoothly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuleaux_triangle
Get same conclusion for photos. Ended up with Backblaze and Restic.

https://www.backblaze.com/

https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/010_introduction.htm...

Set and forget.

See how AWS S3, Azure, and Google Cloud compare to B2 Cloud Storage.

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html
Ticks all of the right boxes!!
> The person who killed Floyd does not represent the entire police department, just like the people who are looting do not represent all of the protesters.

Focusing it on one single act tries to negate the point. It's not just a single act. It's multiple acts, on a daily basis. The police are arresting journalists live on air. For failing to obey commands that weren't given. They shot at other journalists on air. If that's what they're doing on the air.

There is no dispute in police brutality, the police do not deny it, the protesters do not deny it. So why would the truth lie in between an agreed-upon truth?
"This random corner case in this function returns a null, but I don't see the consumer handling nulls."

Modern type systems tend to incorporate handling of null values in the type system though.

I can recommend looking at Crystal. You will find that the overhead of providing sufficient types is pretty small.
You are correct.
3G BTS systems used Stirling Cryocoolers[0] to cool superconducting microwave filters[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applications_of_the_Stirling_e...

[1] http://home.eps.hw.ac.uk/~ceejh3/Journals/An%20HTS%20transce...
I don't know why you claim the Southern Strategy is a Democrat talking point.

Republicans have talked about it publicly since at least 1970[1][2], and here's a book from 1971 talking about it too: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2748017?seq=1

Here's a Princeton History processor with a thread showing how real it was: https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1115712024015712262

I have no argument that Democrats kept winning elections in the South. As I said in the post you are replying to "The "flip" everyone is talking about isn't voting patterns, it is on policy."

[1] https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18000851/southern-strategy/

[2] https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30432238/the-lawton-constitu...
It's equivalent of `export FOO='bar'; ./program` , which is not same as `FOO='bar' ./program`, which, in turn, is equivalent to `OLD_FOO="$FOO"; export FOO='bar'; ./program; export FOO="$OLD_FOO";` .
> makes it harder to justify bringing a real camera along to regular day-to-day activities.

Back in the film days, pretty much nobody lugged around a camera to regular activities, it was only brought out for special events and the trip to Disneyland. This persisted even with digital cameras.

But the phone camera changed everything.

The worst photos are the ones you never took because you didn't bring the camera.
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I’m not well versed in typography by any means, but isn’t long form reading and sans-serif a contradiction in terms?
I think there is a debate here that we need to have, as a society.

But I think that broader society are not going to understand the technical issues, and are going to be swayed by overly-emotional appeals to "think of the children" and similar.

Therefore I think that we, as engineers - the people who will be asked to implement the results of any such debate, need to have this debate ourselves so we can take responsibility for our actions.

I can see both sides of this debate.

There is a legitimate need in society to gather evidence to discover the guilt or innocence of accused criminals. We cannot have a system of justice that assumes innocence until proven guilty but provides no method for gathering incriminating evidence.

There is also a legitimate basic human right to privacy. We must not be subject to constant surveillance by the state.

We have to find a middle path between the two extremes.
Got a ThinkPad T450 in my cupboard running Ubuntu as a home server.

Everything works perfectly.

I'd argue that thinkpads aren't stylish, but they're bricks that work well.
None. Its complete and utter bullshit. Any looting beyond someone pilfering a traffic cone would be all over the national news here in the Netherlands.
> trying to explain it with "just bad luck"

I didn't. No one is. It's a combination of 1) poor protection of elderly homes 2) a larger seed outbreak most likely in the Stockholm area 3) less mitigations. I think 1+2 makes the majority of the difference while 3 makes less of a difference, because people changed behavior similar to other countries (and obviously other countries just like Sweden changed behavior before regulations were put in place).

Obviosly the decision to keep business and schools open weren't taken assuming it would make no difference to the outcome. There is an element of calculated risk here. No one is denying that. But very few as far as we know have been infected by school children so that risk seems like the correct one, for example.

The limits of 500 and later 50 people for gatherings was laws for public gatherings i.e. these were laws on businesses. You couldn't arrange concerts larger than that, and so on.

The recommendations towards individuals was always to keep social distancing, not socialize in large groups, not travel unnecessarily and so on.

I think in some countries there were bans even for private gatherings, e.g. laws restricting the size of private gatherings. That was never in place in Sweden (unsure if it would have required some constitutional change or similar, but it was said to be impossible).

So even when the restriction is 50 people, I can still arrange a private wedding for 1500 people. But obviously, no one is going to do that so it's hypothetical.

The question is what happened, not so much what was allowed. Most places with lockdowns saw the majority of the effect predate the lockdowns, because people change behavior. I doubt there were many cases of large gatherings any time after mid March. There will always be idiots obviously (such as the weekend afterskiers that week in march in Åre), but such things occurred elsewhere too with "corona parties" etc. The difference is that they could take place in a few places in the open in Sweden.
Do you see a fundamental difference between Zoom and telephone companies here? Or do you think how we've handled telephony over the past century has been a clear failure? If the latter, do you think most people would agree?
It's enough to distinguish them once you've figured it out, but it's not clear that they're links just from looking at them. I had to hover over them to be sure.

Conventions are useful.
Linux Mint team says no to Ubuntu snap store
Ugandan startup Logistify AI is connecting warehouses and shippers in Africa
All other police forces have the same problems.

So why is the United States police unique amongst all other developed countries for its kill rate then?

> Part of the training also drills in the fact that an untrained opponent with a sharp object like a knife is at a strategic advantage versus someone with a holstered firearm if they are closer than 21 feet away.

And yet I've seen police officers here in Europe deal with people with knives without ever pulling a gun. Why can we do this and you can't?

The idea that a man with a knife 20 feet away from a man with a gun has the advantage! - it just seems like a justification for the incompetent policing that the US is notorious for all over the world.
> why can't we strive for a similar system on the virtual world as well

because any crime in the virtual world can be uncovered by good police work. nobody has perfect operational security, including the government. so the solution to law enforcement is hard work by the law enforcers.

consider: prior to electronic communication, all private discussions were perfectly encrypted, because if you weren't there, you didn't hear what was happening. And society continued to function.

You simply can't trust the government to respect boundaries that they created but have the ability to breach, especially when it can be done completely surreptitiously.

We need to learn the lessons of Snowden, and fight tooth and nail to prevent anything less that complete, unfettered access to private communications by human beings. Anything that falls short of that will eventually be complete, unfettered surveillance, because there is no metastable equilibrium point in the middle.
Haha, sounds good. Cheers!
The server stills closed but seems there're people saying the server-side is not needed(!) to trust the platform.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Keybase/comments/77c241/keybase_why...
"The best camera is the one you have with you." - Unknown

Photographer here. Cell phones have become very capable cameras. I've seen whole segments of my client list evaporate with the last generation of camera phones. The last straw was when the iPhone got portrait mode and could render bokeh/blur like lens physics.

Two things though...

1. The phone cameras are really really good. In the right hands, professionally capable in many situations. You don't need to know the basics of photography/physics to operate a camera phone properly. It helps, but the average person can just point and shoot with solid results.

2. We mostly just publish to social media now. The need for extremely detailed, high quality media work is diminishing at the bottom line. The market is changing. The quality in which we document is shifting. 8K is a buzz word, not an archival format for future proofing.

There isn't a cell phone in the world that could even touch the capabilities of a high end DSLR or Mirrorless camera, but that simply just doesn't matter now.
That's equivalent to saying that there is a point that provides suitable authentication/privacy/… for me to ask my bank about things and instruct my bank to do stuff on my behalf, and also privides little enough privacy that any criminal goings-on can be surveilled.

Since money is key to many crimes and finding out who controls the money is an important way to investigate crimes, this in turn means that that point of agreement has to secure me from surveillance by badguys when I talk to the bank, and permit surveillance of the same badguys when they talk to the same bank in the same way.

This might perhaps be possible but the word "surely" seems inappropriate.
Sure, but that doesn't change the fact that the (real and perceived) level of some clans are terribly high. And I still believe that "don't touch it" is the right call to make, the cost of trying and failing is too high, and the probability of succeeding is small.
The same radios often/usually support AES as well, although at an additional cost. That's what one nearby PD uses.