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> The ideal world is Apple and Android does their normal security lockdowns for standard endusers for security's sake. Then they offer a separate hackable version where research and those crazy UI/UX hobbyists can do their thing.

I'm not sure that this works, because you can't draw the line so easily.

If there was an easily obtained unlocked device, more people would choose it than currently jailbreak. More people would make improvements and share them. The ecosystem would improve. There would be more things you can only do with an unlocked device. Which would attract more people, and polynomially more developers to the growing market. You get a feedback loop that ends with everybody buying the open devices.

The only way you get a walled garden is by successfully suppressing open alternatives, because otherwise the benefits of openness outweigh the costs and people start to move. AOL loses to the web. Proprietary Unix loses to GNU/Linux. Windows RT loses to actual Windows.

You can't get everybody to choose something where the only difference is that it prevents them from doing something they want to do. They only choose that if the choice is bound up in several other things they want and they're really choosing the other things.

But the underlying question here is not actually whether to have curation or not. Linux package managers are curated. If you create an environment in which all the good things are in the store and none of the bad things are, ordinary people have no reason to install anything from outside the store, and can then be trained to look with suspicion at anything that isn't, even if it's still technically possible.

The problem we have right now is that the assumption is false. The platform stores reject things the user actually wants, or would drive them out with high fees if there was some viable alternative installation method available. Which then drives users to uncurated installation methods, if they exist, which the platforms consequently then try to stamp out.

The better solution is to have first class competing stores. The competition solves the problem. Stores that charge excessive fees lose developers to ones that don't. Stores that reject good apps or allow bad apps lose users to ones that don't. You end up with a couple of stores that have low fees and high quality apps, giving people no incentive to leave the garden even if there is no lock on the gate.

But you have to leave the gate unlocked or the user's ability to leave doesn't cause the garden to improve to the point that the user has no desire to exercise that ability.
As someone pointed out above you can board them. I suppose an argument could be made for sinking them; it would prevent reclamation of the vessel for fishing later.
In general, Apple has mostly handed out DTKs to everyone who asks for one.
You can't prove a negative.

The point of my links is that there are not cases in court in Michigan or PA.
I, too, enjoyed our discussion. Thoughtful exchange with people who are not of the same opinion is so much more rewarding than the echo chambers we often find ourselves in.

It would be quite interesting to hear from those not voting why they didn't vote. My suspicion is that these people would almost never vote, or maybe only vote for so extremely perfect candidates that it's just not realistic. But yeah, maybe there is a large group of people who would vote if the candidate would just be a little bit more progressive. But honestly, in a situation like this, with the knowledge of the last four years, I just can't understand why you wouldn't vote, at least if you are left of center.

I also cannot understand why election day isn't on a Sunday, or a holiday. It should be the highest holiday the US has. Any democracy has, actually.

Biden is also somewhat too old for my taste, but no candidate is perfect. Age does bring experience though, and he has long-lasting relationships with people on both sides of the aisle. That will help. Personally, I really liked Buttigieg, and I'm happy to see that he'll like have a role in the Biden administration.
Sadly, the guy who wanted to “get tough on China” was an idiot, which may set back that policy agenda by 20 years. Wish we had an actual tough guy President like Putin to wage the inevitable total war against China.
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Correct. Which is also how git works. And there is a very good, very simple, reason for why both work this way: very few users sign their commits, even fewer want to/care about signing their commits, and even fewer verify those signatures.
Ask HN: Benford's Law and 2020 Presidential Election
I stumbled across the analysis below. Without wanting to be political, I'm sure that there is some valid explanation, but I'm curious. They Jupyter notebooks on github here: https://github.com/cjph8914/2020_benfords seem to show discrepancies in electoral data in Alleghany PA, Chicago IL, and Milwaukee WI. What is missing from their analysis? Is there a way to explain this (bad data, bad analysis, etc)? Should oddities be examined more closely?
Fair enough, I’m in Seattle, ie Pacific time zone. So it was around 2-3am.
I couldn't find any reason why they picked 53 bits. This design grew out of the NBS's SEAC and DYSEAC computers which had 45 bit words, so it's unclear where 53 came from. SEAC only had fixed-point operations so I think it's coincidental that 53 bits matches a double. The interesting thing about DYSEAC is that it was "portable", weighing 20 tons and housed in a truck for the Army.
How do you figure? I don't consider "making the product which users want" to be a bad thing.
I’m also a fellow Vive Pro owner. What amazes me the most beyond the price is the convenience of a Quest. I just turn it on and play vs 1. Turning on the PC 2. Turning on my HTC base stations 3. Setting up wire control ie on the ceiling 4. Turning on the VR set

Sadly, the forced Facebook login sucks for a lot of people. I also don’t see any consumer benefit from it. A complaint I’m seeing is that everyone has to manually re-friend their Facebook friends for Oculus.
I believe Delta is an entirely new application ;)
I hardly consider typing text as "a heavy IO task". I max out at 40 WPM

I'm not running a production server (or anything else compute-intensive). I agree that Windows does the "toy" things better than Linux, such as web browsing, sleep handling, sound management, etc. These are "appliance" level tasks where Windows is definitely better.

That said, I wouldn't even consider doing a full system build (takes about 3 hours on my fastest machine) on WSL. All I'm trying to do is enter 2800 numbered lines of text. The Windows machine was more portable so I chose to move it to the problem rather than move the problem to my office.

Now I'm continuing on WSL and trying to understand the faulting behavior.
The hardware is great, but most of macOS and iOS is pretty great, too.

For the low hanging fruit: font rendering on macOS/iOS looks better than any type I’ve ever seen on any other OS or platform, right out of the box, and still looks better even when those other platforms are tweaked with additional fonts and rendering settings.

I’m dreading my impending switch to Android and/or a mobile Linux next summer for this reason.

As someone who works all day, every day with text on my screen, I care about this as much as I care about my bed, chair, or keyboard.
Here’s someone who did analysis of 2020 NYT time-series data, and is trying to make a case that the currently-contested states show odd patterns. Note that this would be circumstantial evidence at best, but still a little fishy when compared with the timeline:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1325592112428163072.html

I made a GitHub repo of this analysis ported to Python3, with a quickstart and a matplotlib script, if anyone wants to try it. If nothing else it’s kinda fun to tinker with the data:

https://github.com/guscost/nyt-election-2020-analysis
I still don't believe this the case until proven otherwise.

We cannot make an assumption that users don't care about X when they are not allowed to do X in the first place.
Being from Alaska I would argue that my vote for president has never counted. Some years there is a decision before my polls close.
I think arguably the electoral process makes fraud easier. If the goal was to tip the scales, in an electoral vote, the election is very close in the tipping point state, which is usually predictable ahead of the election. In 2016, you'd only have had to add 45K votes in PA. Conversely, if the vote were national, you'd have had to add 3M votes.
Well, for one thing, the foundational document that the states used to establish the union has different rules for electing president than for modifying the union.

You aren't arguing that part of it, the part where people (likely) wouldn't put up with the system you propose.
The video is about BLM ...

Lawful protest? When did lawful protests change anything?
MLK or Gandhi? Their protests were not lawful and were also very violent (the violence coming mostly from one side).
There were also riots and pundits on the streets with them ...

https://twitter.com/Trevornoah/status/1269291643842289666

Again, with the comparison to the Kristallnacht Eric makes a dangerous comparison as I explained it bellow in the thread already and he should know because he's Jewish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht

He insinuates (for me at least)
1. BLM (or those riots in case you want to not associate them with BLM ... which I think he does over the title) is just some kind of pretext for totalitarianism
2. authorities are standing back and let them riot.
(because that's what Kristallnacht was... it was organised with the OK from the authorities)

I don't think it's his intention, yet can you see how this is dangerous? He gives militias a reason to go out and "defend" themselves against the authorities who are in on it (like during the Kristallnacht as this was state sanctioned) like the group that wanted to kidnap Gov. Whitmer or the shooter who killed people in Kenosha. Again, I'm not saying that this is his intention or that he thought about it, yet I could see crazy people saying "I heard, the riots are just like Kristallnacht." and using it as a defence for more organised violence.

Yes there are crazy Antifa twitter accounts, so what?
I didn't see them try to kidnap a governor ...

If you tell me, as a German, that Kristallnacht is happening in your country, I would be ready to help you and up for a fight (definitely not non violent!!).
I know Eric is not making that claim, yet I feel for somebody appearing smart and trying to be a public intellectual, it's a dangerous comparison. I can see how it can be misused.

What do you mean with the NSDAP ideology was not formulated particularly clearly? The heads of the movement had a clear vision (I mean one of them wrote a book about it released 10 years before the Kristallnacht ...antisemitism was at the core ... the Kristallnacht was horrifically well organised by the way).
The "sozialistische" and "Arbeiter" had to be there as otherwise it would have been not possible to get a mass movement. Yet, the underlying ideology from the leaders was clear from the beginning (check the bios of the SA and NSDAP leaders you won't find any communists or socialists there).
Seeking:

> I am still dealing with dizziness from Achieving Kechari. I think the problem is energy being trapped in the head.

> So as far as I am concerned what I am doing is enough for now. Anyone else experience this? Advice greatly welcomed. I can’t wait to have this stop happening not practicing Kriya for 2 days did not help.
I think this is a better argument for proportional allocation of electoral votes per state instead of winner-take-all (a la Nebraska), rather than arguing against the electoral college itself. If you feel Trump voters' voices are muffled in NY or Biden voters' voices are muffled in Texas, I agree wholeheartedly and would be strongly in favor of proportional allotment of electors at the state level.

The electoral college, however, serves the explicit purpose of making Wyoming votes count more exactly because they are extremely disadvantaged when attempting to impact federal policy. The same argument against the electoral college could be made against the Senate (why should every state get the same number of Senators?), but I don't hear too many disagreements (yet, at least) that the Senate as an institution has value.

The top four states have roughly a third of the national population; if federal policy were enacted purely by population, why shouldn't they allocate all federal funds to themselves and deprive other states entirely? The Senate and the electoral college give enough of an advantage to small states that, even though no one or two small states are liable to flip an election by themselves, they are still able to have a voice in federal policy by coalition-building.
It is nice and useful if you just want to do a "hit and run", like grep a file.

I'm just suggesting that it is not a tool for larger tasks. Install VirtualBox, which works well.
Only ~5% of the world's population live in the USA... so a vehicle doesn't have to be successful in the USA to be an enormous success - financially and environmentally
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Urban centres are always going to have an inherent political advantage because of the physically proximity to power. Shorter travel distance to lobby or protest government, closer polls, easier time canvasing, organizing political meetings etc. Have mechanisms to offset this so that rural and non-urban people who form the backbone of the economy are not disadvantaged is a good idea, although its hard to tell if the electoral college does too much to level the playing field or too little.
The choice of ML modeling library does not matter
Does it make sense from a manufacturing process and cost perspective?
Mbedtls is small code size configurable build library. I am not surprised they’re using it, it embeds with applications or firmwares easily and has a decent API. Which cannot be said for openssl.
manual for -u option says "output only the first of an equal run" which is effectively same as what -s option does
Yes. 'dang is a Y Combinator employee working on Hacker News.
> I am not asserting that something improper has occurred here, but when journalists are asserting unequivocally and in unison that nothing improper has happened, because the US election system is non-exploitable (while providing zero evidence of this),

Yeah, this in particular has been very weird.
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Your vote counts just as much as the other people in your state. You are voting for who your state thinks the president should be. You have never voted for the president directly.
> We're OK with the phrase because the alternative was people's phones being infested with malware and viruses.

Exactly! Next, I hope Apple will apply the same curation and registration requirements to websites if they want to be browse-able on Safari. Internet is a dark place full of scams, fake news, and privacy pitfalls. It's time to replace the open web with a curated premium web. /s
One of many bills introduced to address those concerns:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/154...
No reason at all. That's basically how most existing air purifiers work, they're a big fan attached to a HEPA filter.
I can just drive and pick it up but them will need an adapter at home!
> Let's give them a good fight.

Possibly the wrong goal.

How about "Let's win." instead? :)
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Hmm, have any of you heard of Benford's Law?

https://imgur.com/a/gxuVAxc

Some people may be in for a rude awakening as audits happen. But I worry this information may not make it into various echo chambers.
> Two entirely separate things, unless you can show otherwise.

Read the error message! It's clearly related to the real feature, which means the bug can't be "entirely separate".
Primarily because the original states were sovereign before creating the union, and they formed a republic that maintains some level of autonomy for states, as the people in those states wouldn't want to loose their sovereignty completely. California and Texas joined because the benefits of the larger union outweighed staying independent (no doubt Texas second guesses that at moments). Fast forward a hundred odd years, and the system while somewhat unfair on a per count vote still at the federal level still allows for greater overall autonomy for citizens of different states. California can and does use its clout and local autonomy to make laws that its population wants (e.g. car emissions standards) without forcing the same on the rest without more effort. It's also why the increase in federal power and presidentialism in both major parties leads to less overall individual autonomy and control, IMHO. Even with a direct 1-1 vote count, a single vote for a president out of a 100+ million votes has much less effect than the same vote for a governor in a state with a population of even tens of millions of people. Generally, the federal government should only make laws that need to or can only be made nationally. The rest should be state level. Its less efficient but generally considered more robust. Also, to a degree the idea of a republic of states implies that the 4 million people of LA cant readily "group-think" the rest of the people in the union into whatever laws enable or inhibit whatever lifestyle/beliefs/etc they want via the federal government. In that sense it maximizes the fairness of "tribes of people" slightly over that of single individuals, which seems consistent for a republic rather than a more direct democracy.
Neat idea. I’ve been wanting to build something akin for 360 performance reviews.

Minor technical feedback: the page jumps up and down in portrait mode because of line wrapping on the carousel text.
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See the following below for a quick visual summary:

https://imgur.com/a/gxuVAxc

Some people may be in for a rude awakening should audits occur.
umunhum:

> I later figured out that his kechari had not advanced far enough and so he couldn’t seal the back of his throat. This is extremely important. When a baby is first born, the doctor turns the baby over and pats it on the back. This pushes the embryonic fluid out of the lungs and stimulates the nerves at the roof of the mouth that signal the body to breathe. If your kechari does not block these nerves from the air coming out of your diaphragm, you will not be able to go breathless.
Just to play devil's advocate, why shouldn't we in fact allow algorithms to determine how to allocate capital?

Legendary investors like Warren Buffet use "value" investing as a methodology to drive returns. Isn't that an algorithm?
There's lots of right wing media that said other shit. in unison is just not true.

I think you are overstating other stuff also, but meh.
Whilst I don't agree with you calling this a vacuous argument I think you do make some useful points.

> It can never be right to assign the majority of power to a minority of voters.

Agreed in principle. Although how this works in a presidential system where there is only one President, it's unclear why someone with 70 million and 1 votes should get 100% of the power and the person with 70 million gets zero.

> There is an argument for the minority to have some powers.

Agreed, and I think the veto and supermajority powers are good examples.

> And your arguments about the the higher value of rural populations is equally ridiculous. "One person one vote" is a fundamental principle, and for every oh-so-important-farmer in Montana

I don't think they are as ridiculous as you make out. I'll let the arguments made in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority stand for themselves.

I'd note that many democratic countries put in place specific representation for under-represented minorities, and that isn't generally seen as awarding the presidency to the minority.

> Tying political power to land isn't democracy, it's feudalism.

This sounds right, but it's important to note this isn't the same thing.

This isn't about allowing only landowners to vote. I'd argue very very strongly against that!
Consider if they knew which facts would change their mind, their mind would already be changed.

You have to get to know their values before you can figure out what would work.
Yet despite this, more Apple users have been infected with malware (Xcodeghost) than users of Amazon and Google Android devices combined, despite there being far more Amazon and Google Android users than Apple users.
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I share similar situasion with you, only they did respond after few weeks with we're too busy to verify your request, please submit again later. Nice facebook.
Right. All the problems of a large seaplane, and you never get enough altitude to get clear of high seas.
Hmm... The second demonstration video at the bottom of the page seems misleading, because to show how it works with music they didn't show the actual recording with music playing in the car, they're just putting music on top of the recorded noise in post-editing.
I also want to generate webassembly. I compared the option of generating wasm directly with using llvm. The wasm spec is hard to read without enough examples.

My current approach is writing my runtime in c or c++, and put most logic there. And I will try to generate c code first, and compile the c code using clang and learn from the generated IR.

I kinda want to write the runtime also in rust, but I don't know if linking will be a problem.
Check out this awesome talk on how he reversed the Sound Blaster including never having one in person and how he got inside the 'DSP' chip to read out the ROM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyged8Vk8uk
This is extremely poor analysis. All the "anomalies" are explained by the fact that the ballots came from Dem heavy areas...
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It would dissuade big states from trying to get all of their policy goals done at the federal level, which would be a good thing.
> The Australian Senate has significantly less influence on politics than the US President

This is true, but the non-representitive effects on the Australian senate are much higher than in the electoral college.

> Senate seats aren't distributed per-state on a "winner takes all basis" - rather in rough proportion to the number of votes each party gets.

No argument with this at all - I think most kinds of voting that aren't first-past-the-post (ranked choice etc) are better.
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Nobody bought an iPhone because of this retriction. Most people buy iPhones for fashion. There are very few people who have been duped into buying iPhones because of the security and privacy marketing that doesn't hold up to the barest scrutiny — most iPhone users simply don't care about that aspect of Apple's marketing.
Because federal law is only supposed to be a very small part of the law that applies to people.