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> It sounds like SOLID the protocol requires the pod server to have access to your data, because it requires the server to both enforce access control and deliver plain text?

Yes. Exactly.

> That is not what I want as a consumer.

Okay. Don't use it then.

> I want [magic beans].

Good for you. I want Heather Graham as my wife.

More seriously, what you want doesn't exist yet. Not in a useful way at least.

Maybe go build it yourself if it's something you really want.

Or maybe accept the fact that security is not an absolute, it inherently comes with tradeoffs.

Like life, really.

> The comparison with email is apt, because no one in their right mind would design email as it is today without E2E encryption baked into the protocol.

Have you ever worked at a company where they were legally required to do audits or handle large financial transactions?

Cos baked in E2E encryption would make detecting malicious employees (defrauding clients etc) really difficult to do, and prosecuting them nigh on impossible.

Like I said, security comes with tradeoffs.

Golden rule of security: it can't be 100% secure and usable.

The one time pad is a classic case of this golden rule.
I'm not sure I understand the comment about prosecutors. Why does any involvement in the justice system disqualify one from public office? Surely some crimes are worth prosecuting?

Also, what are these agendas to change the social fabric of the country through engineering schemes? I don't know what that means.

How do you feel about Trump's attempts, with support from others like Lindsey Graham, to undermine confidence in US elections? ISTM that encouraging the public to doubt the foundations of democracy is pretty dangerous. (And I we can agree that this was his plan all along if he appeared to be losing, as it was in 2016, and that he doesn't actually have evidence of widespread fraud, or obviously he would have shown it by now.)
There’s a very healthy community of people refunding purchases for reviews on WeChat, there’s even people who’s full time job is connecting people looking for free stuff with suppliers, acting as a middleman. It’s not quite as bad as fake reviews as they encourage returning the product if it’s not any good. I do not engage in this personally but I have several friends who have had their accounts locked out from leaving reviews, so I highly doubt that Amazon is letting this happen. I think it’s more likely that Amazon saw his negative review as another supplier trying to take down a listing which is also a problem. The market of Amazon listings is incredibly complex, fascinating and likely beyond any hope without fundamental structural changes.
A lot of successful software is not sold via app stores.

It’s not even remotely ‘needed’ for success.

Here’s a recent darling of HN as an example: https://roamresearch.com/
The problem in America was RadioShack (before went out of business) as a brick and mortar store was also rebranding crappy wired products that would go out too.

I find it strange that a braided-cable charger from places like Target will go out before the Apple manufactured one

There are probably a few regional stores like Fry’s that have good electronics though, but their numbers are dwindling
Jokes on them, I never look at 5 or 1 star reviews. By convention I think rating systems are fundamentally flawed in that they are anything but a ubiquitous concept from person to person. Shit, I bet half of the hacker news crowd thinks anything less than an A is a failing grade. The people struggling to piece together how they feel about something in a binary construct generally have the most insightful comments. Kinda like the students who got a couple bad grades in college probably had more interesting lives. ;)
> This is why you should prioritize 4-star reviews if you want an honest positive opinion on the product.

I think you mean de-prioritize
I don't remember the exact details, but the study found that after X days of eating Impossible Burgers mice suffered serious health side effects. So what did they do? Ran another study for X/2 days and resubmitted to the FDA.
Oh, so just blanket cynicism with no evidence, got it.
Of course, you also need someone and somewhere to set it up in the first place after all, but it makes a big difference between "you need the entire team in one place" vs "you need a place that has a test engineer or one member of the team available/on-call". (To continue the parallel from /u/hinkleys comment, lights-out management is useful even though the server still can't swap a broken disk itself)

Seeing that now with Covid at customer sites: only 1-2 people from a larger group in the office, who if needed can go poke devices, while the majority works remotely (which often includes contractors that otherwise would be in hotels etc). Generally not optimal, since many don't have the amount of automation one would prefer, but workable and with room for improvement.
People who don't live in Chicago love to push that narrative. It's hilariously wrong.
I love blowing minds with using multiple major modes. IE, executable code snippets in Org, or Javascript inside HTML.

There many Emacs packages that can do this, for example:
https://polymode.github.io/screenshots/
Second Cable Fails at Arecibo, Causing Even More Damage to Famed SETI Dish
Qubes OS v4+ does not use typical software virtualization methods. VT-d hardware virtualization it uses was broken only once, and it was done by the Qubes founder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Pill_(software)

>There is pretty much no way to validate the qubes public keys, they're not signed by anything else.

Not sure what you mean here. All Qubes keys are signed by the master key which belongs to the main developers.
So did Iran's air gapped nuclear enrichment plant.

Nothing is ever 100% secure.

Ever.
Yeah, no. Amazon is selling me a product. I don't care through how many intermediaries they're trying to deflect responsibility.

My money goes to Amazon, in exchange for the working product in my household. Anything goes wrong, goes to Amazon. They could always pay somebody to read the reviews and talk to their resellers if they don't adhere to shipment standards.

If I hurt quality sellers, I'm terribly sorry - maybe they shouldn't sell on a disreputable platform.
Distributed Architecture with Event Streams, Stream Processing and Derived Data
One of the other telltale signs of a VM are "things VMs can do that physical devices can't" - such as weird screen resolutions (when running in windowed mode rather than full screen), weird CPU core counts, physical ram values that aren't cleanly divisible into DIMM slots, etc.
Hyundai in talks to acquire Boston Dynamics
Hyundai Motor is in talks to acquire Boston Dynamics from SoftBank Group. The deal could be worth as much as $1 billion.

Boston Dynamics was founded in 1992 as a spin-off out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was acquired by Google in 2013 and sold to Softbank in 2017. The company has mainly operated as an R&D organization since it was founded. But a new emphasis on commercialization was evident after it was acquired by Softbank.

If the deal comes to fruition, it would be another in a string of non-core asset sales by Tokyo-based Softbank Group. The Japanese conglomerate has been hit hard by a series of soured bets, including WeWork and Uber Technologies. In September 2020, Softbank sold Arm to NVIDIA for $40 billion.
It means they aren't curious about progress. Not someone you want to hire, unless those who run projects don't care about anything either. And sure, you can explain to them what better tools can offer. That was the point of the linked post. And if they don't want to hear the answer, then again someone probably hired wrong people there.
Are we leaping to conclusions by assuming this is referring to an impossible burger/beyond burger sort of product? A "plant-based" burger could also just be the sort of plain old veggie burger that e.g. Burger King has been offering for decades. Is there more detailed information somewhere?
Took me a year to print something for my mom the last time she needed it because I simply KNEW that inkjet was going to be impossible when I needed it. And, lo and behold it was.. It was a Canon Pixma G3200, one of the ones with the built-in inkwells. When I finally decided to face the frustration I knew the thing would present me with, it threw an error.

It took a fair amount of time to track down the error (a particular pattern of blinking lights) that meant "the ink cartridge is inserted incorrectly." Ok.... I thought to myself, this thing doesn't even have cartridges.

At which point I bought the Brother laser printer I currently have that has not failed me even once.
No, I de-prioritize reading 5-star reviews. I rarely more than glance at them. I prioritize reading 4-star reviews, figuring they're much less likely to be paid/fake.

I've also heard speculation that for cheap products, competitors will buy it & trash it in the review, not sure if it's true or not though.
The technical progress will be unpredictable as usual, but at the level of the problem definition, I think it's safe to say compiling Rust is easier than compiling C++.
It takes two neurons to ride a bicycle – Matthew Cook [pdf]
I think bringing up ADE is fear mongering at this point. In vaccines where we’ve seen ADE we usually see it in monkey trials and if not there, we see it in phase 3. SARS vaccines never made it to phase 3 because we kept seeing ADE early on and then it died out. To keep bringing it up at this point, when none of the hundred or so vaccines have seen it, seems a little ridiculous.
Those who want power over others have always manipulated public perception of the truth, but an Open Society (by Karl Popper's definition) was supposed to be resistant to this in much the same way as the scientific process is resistant to it, through things like free speech, democratic debate, and freedom of the press. Today the ideal of the Open Society is in tatters largely because of systematic and relentless attacks on the truth.

I think the seeds of many of our problems today are found in the birth of modern marketing and and the manufacture of "needs" to create a consumer society. And also, I think that the very idea of "intellectual property" is at odds with a commitment to truth and a truly open society. This combined with the fact that the primary beneficiaries of these two concepts also hold most of the economic power in our world create the fundamental distortion that has led to where we are today.
> If I could get a pure Google experience on Samsung-quality hardware, I'd go for that every time.

"I'm always here when you need me", moped the lonely Sony Xperia in a distant corner of the room.
Need to clean things up before I could properly open source.

But feel free to ask any questions
The comparison would be;

REST: Any time there is a new "view"; you need to go to your server and write a new endpoint.

GraphQL: You can stitch data together however you want; as long as that data is defined.

So for example if I need name of someone and the url of their children; querying it alone is enough with GraphQL whereas with REST either I need to fetch multiple times or write a new endpoint that serves both together.
> I have the same feelings when I read "McRib"

Me too! That name invariably forces a cringe as I imagine biting down on a rib bone secreted away between two buns.
There's a solution around this. Read only the negative reviews, especially the 3-star ones. I've been doing it for years, long before 5-star reviews became a business, and it never let me down.
Intel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine
Even just removing the current subsidy on meat & dairy would do a lot.
Yup, Starlink will be crappy in suburban and urban areas, too many people to share a satellite with.

Starlink isn't for people who hate their Big3 ISP. It's for people who wish they had a Big3 ISP to hate.
Is there a resource / someone’s Medium who will break down all of the legit manufacturers? I’m aware of some for RPi like Jeff Geerling has great microSD card reviews

Btw I went with Anker because it had the least reported issues from Amazon (after extensive filtering on my part)
I wonder what happens if you retort with "give me $200, and I don't leave a 1-star review explaining where the 5-star reviews came from".
Well, if Amazon were to crack down on this sort of thing, it would incentivize unscrupulous sellers to solicit fake 5-star reviews (through a 3rd party) for their competitors so that they would be punished. The only reason we have to doubt this is happening now is that there's no incentive to do it, since Amazon seems to be turning a blind eye.

It's a hard problem. The solutions most likely to work are also expensive. Amazon could create internal product review teams staffed by employees instead of letting users do it all for free, but it's hard to make that scale. It's also less transparent; one of the big appeals of Amazon early on was the novelty that you could go to a retailer and if you don't like one of their products you can say so for the world to see. Now most other retailers do the same thing and we sort of take it for granted now.
Of course "the same HDL" is a reductive statement, since components like high-speed IO, or even clock gates are not easily portable between FPGA vendors or foundries. But the user-land Verilog/VHDL code that describes how your custom thing "works" is generally portable.
I came here to say this. The whole thing reminds me of shouldComponentUpdate, and I wonder if immutable data structures could be another solution style, or if they turn out to just work like this at a lower level.
I was aware of the implications, hence the disclaimer "(Bad if ...)"

However, I'd assume that doing either during a test would be against the honor code.
I imagine you would feel differently, if you were right at the threshold where doing a good job requires all your efforts, where people rely on your work, but where you can't pay your bills that way.

A lot of good projects are getting stuck in that rut, and it behooves us to find ways to get them through it.
For credibility, I am the founder & CEO of Zentail (YC12), we have supported billions of dollars of Amazon GMV and our software helps sellers create winning listings. TLDR: Review programs aren't downright evil, but this one is egregious.

Most people here are enraged by fake reviews, I think that's more than fair, but I also encourage everyone to think broader about the issues here.

In general, review programs are necessary to prime the pump and Amazon has even rolled out their own version. Reviews are a critical piece of a winning listing on Amazon and without a path to get your product in front of consumers, you have no path to get reviews and only the incumbent products win. That's pretty bad for everyone, especially the consumer, it's not how a free market should operate.

What's egregious here (outside of violating Amazon terms) is getting a refund only for a 5 star review. I strongly believe you should be able to give out a free product for a review, but that review should be honest. I understand that the incentives might make someone want to leave a positive review, but with proper guidance and even selection of quality reviewers you can mitigate that.

Here's the big truth: at some point an Amazon listing has to live on it's own. At some point, your product will start to sell organically and there will be so many organic reviews, it will sink a listing really fast.

The market opportunity to incentivize reviews (or even pay for fake reviews) with a bad product is actually pretty poor, good luck making enough profit to support all those free products you just shipped.
Two examples given were Survivor and Big Brother, shows where contestants are eliminated: is the casting requirement only for the initial cast, or does this necessarily change the rules such that two people (one white, one non-White) must be eliminated each round to maintain the ratio?
We arrived at Vitamin D as Covid-19 “cure”
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74 cents on every dollar made by a dairy farmer are from government subsidy. I think I can confidently state that that's a benefit.
I think GP had it stated correctly: if you want honest opinions, look at four star reviews. Five/one star extremes tend to read overly emphatic and aren't as likely to include both positives and negatives, so as a consumer (and perhaps as a platform hoping to show "good" reviews), these more moderate reviews will likely give a more accurate picture of the product, and thus could get priority for display. That said... as soon as you do that, obviously you're going to see four stars getting gamed as well.
I really like the Rust implemented tools like ripgrep, bat, exa, fd, lsd etc.

I just tried `cargo build --release --verbose --target x86_64-unknown-linux-musl` with Dog but it uses the `native-tls` Crate that wraps OpenSSL.

It would be great for tools like this to leverage Rustls [0] so one could compile without requiring OpenSSL and be able to compile statically with musl

0. https://github.com/ctz/rustls
It's not the highest-order bit for knocking it out of the park, but is already material for daily operations and for one of the biggest factors: team. Scoffing at $50K on $1M means the investor doesn't truly get early stage basics like payroll & compounding. Demanding lazy lawyer fees is explicitly asking to be a "partner" that eats the seed corn, and starts doing it even before anything is signed.

The investor ultimately doesn't care because they win when 9 portfolio co's fail and only the 10th nails it. In contrast, founders only have one company, and it can only burn $10-50K on stupid contracts so many times before payroll breaks, and each time is at the expense of compounding effects.
This really reminded me of SCIgen, made to generate non-sensical CS papers with the same intention https://news.mit.edu/2015/how-three-mit-students-fooled-scie...
The article is worth reading, as it mentions how work on anti-cancer drugs in Germany crossed over quickly into anti-corona virus drugs starting in Jan., though it still took 500 staff to get this far.

The significance of a corona vaccine and understanding of corona viruses is that the CCP has 40 virus labs. They have spent 20 years experimenting with making bioweapons, yet spent no effort on vaccines. (SARS-1 was in 2002/2003.) That should tell you something.

I don't know if the CDC could have created a vaccine after 2003 with the technology available, but it is known they refused to provide grants for researchers interested in doing so. Shame on the CDC.
In your dinner example, giving each family one vote wouldn't make things any better. Instead of the majority of people deciding what to eat every night, the majority of families would decide every night. If 25% of the families liked Thai food, but 75% liked Italian food, they would all eat Italian food every night. The only thing that would solve your example would be to let either one person or one family choose what to eat each night, on a rotating basis.

Of course, you could just let each family choose its own meal, while using a majority vote (either of people or families) to decide things that affect all the families. This is federalism.

But I submit that families choosing what to eat is different from government making laws. Many things have to be decided by a central authority, and there has to be a way of apportioning representation in that central authority. Giving certain citizens 3x as much power because they live on one side of a line vs. another violates the principle of "one person, one vote".
The parent is at least tempering their statements with uncertainty. How is it that you are certain that they use beef tallow? Seems like a rather strong claim given that McDonalds doesn't appear to list their ingredients.
The person who does the work gets paid. Each feature request could have a optional bounty against it.

If they're doing work for their own enjoyment, why should they complain?
Open discourse is an important part of voting.
> Basically, resistant starch is extremely important to the health of your colon, and fairly important to your health in general.

So if you eat exclusively processed grains, you don't have the resistant starch. Meanwhile, red meat is linked with actually causing colon cancer, not just failure to prevent it.
The 5x's had some serious issues leading to bootlooping for lots of users. You could get it repaired by LG (often free, even after warranty), but you'd still be out a phone for about 10 days and it came back wiped (IIRC), and then you're still going to worry about it.

I'd consider another Google phone, but I just don't trust them to have designed and implemented a phone that's going to last as long as a phone of that price should last. From the latest round of phones though, motorola seems good enough, except the vibration is very hard to miss unless it's on a table; nokia has bluetooth problems with one of my cars and isn't pushing a fix worldwide, even though some countries have had the fix for months; ugh.
Is there any good source to read more about how closed it is?
Its going to go to the House of Representatives, and they will elect him.

4D, I'm telling you.
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Plant based food are cheap because the overwhelming majority of government subsidies go to farmers and not ranchers. (there are some misleading charts on the internet that try to bundle school lunch programs providing milk as a meat subsidy)
In your example saying that the ear doesn’t work as an FFT, I think you’re confusing physical processes (the ear) with perceptual processes (psychoacoustics and interaction between the brain and ear). The cochlea itself is a physical FT, based on resonances in the thickness at various points. That gets passed to the brain as basically sine-frequency data. The autocorrelation part comes in when the brain processes this and actually reinforces it by feeding back signals it thinks are peaking back into the inner ear.

(Edit) also this is a really fascinating and enlightening way of viewing it - didn’t mean to imply otherwise with this quibble :)
Your 1 star review will get auto deleted.
I haven't used Alacritty as much, but Kitty is faster, easier to configure and very convenient in its splits. I believe there's also some problem that Alacritty has with fonts that Kitty doesn't, but I don't remember exactly what.
>It's obviously possible to read what she wrote as a plan to compile a list of enemies for future consequences

Yes, yes it is.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/first-...
Ask HN: Is banning end-to-end encryption feasible?
More and more countries are planning to ban end-to end encryption, or at least forcing companies to backdoor it.

But is this even feasible? Does a E2E-encryption method/technology, which can have a backdoor exist? And if not, with which technology are governments planning to do it?
I doubt there's anyone that doesn't think this
hamsterworks VHDL implementation might be also useful:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190520020308/http://hamsterwor...

https://web.archive.org/web/20190520020602/http://hamsterwor...
Not long - Intel at least has its factories very standardised so they can recreate them anywhere they get sufficient subsidies.
The Music Industry vs. Twitch: Licensing Tensions Heat Up as Clips Come Down
Firefox only uses Freetype on Linux (the system-installed version) and on Android, and the vulnerable code path was only reachable in Firefox with a non-default pref set (gfx.downloadable_fonts.keep_color_bitmaps).
That web site looks sketchy