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Really sorry to see all the negativity. I use Matrix every day and don't get most of what people are complaining about.
For some reason lots of HN threads on it seem to hate it irrationally, despite Matrix by far and away being the most advanced protocol and implementation in its space.
Congratulations, you are pregnant with demon spawn.
Absolutely my experience.

However the small companies almost always have VC investors, which brings negative effects which are approximately as awful (just in totally different ways).

If you can find a small self-funded company that isn't gonna get squashed next time Masayoshi Son sneezes, it'll be the best job you've ever had.
> Why is a video of you giving a thumbs up and announcing your authorization for entity X to borrrow or purchase with Y dollars not the standard?

Video is not 100% safe, it can be faked.
Are you referring to bows or bubbles?
Exactly my thoughts. I thought this place had become more negative, but I'm still shocked at the results. Perhaps it's time to move on and find more positive technology communities. You don't happen to know any?
Yet another reason to not give people's health data to Google or Alphabet.

Allowing them to pull more dirty tricks is not the right direction.
Likewise there is a fear from some here that rational people can prefer different tools.
Again, how do YOU plan on overcoming the marketing/word of mouth barrier?
> Has anyone heard of such a meta-relational database?

Schema-as-data is a central part of the relational model, and is implemented (usually with some limitations) in most RDBMSs.

OTOH, DDL manipulation is usually more convenient than DML against catalog tables, even when you can in theory acheive the same result either way.
Biden-only means the ballot is marked _only_ for Biden, and not for any of the congress or local legislature candidates. That's unlikely as fuck, especially when such ballots come as a large batch or a series of large batches. That's what you do if you bought into the "Joe is ahead by 15%" polls and didn't have the time to make your scam believable at 4AM on November 4th.
Nowhere else to post this so here it goes.

I lost my job in January. From January - March I started looking for a job and then COVID hits at the height of my search, now suddenly no one is hiring and all the businesses are slowing down.

My girlfriend of 13 years left me the day after my birthday in June before I had a chance to propose to her, I had to return the ring, she had no idea and I never told her about it.

I have been hardly able to keep it together from the summer until now. I have no one to rely on for support.

Meanwhile all the politics and election stress has had an impact on everyone including me.

I managed to find a job but I'm pretty sure I'm suffering from depression. I spend most of my time mindlessly browsing HN or Reddit, eating whatever I find and sleeping late.

It has been an extremely stressful and emotionally exhausting time.
What would you have it learn from name, address and photo? Face recognition?
"Saying that 'Congress is Subservient to a Foreign Power' is completely different than saying 'A Foreign Power has influence in Congress'."

I'm well aware of that.
When I used it for a hobby project, it was pretty gnarly. All I wanted to do was sample an ADC channel at 8Khz. The software triggered ADC proved to be fundamentally broken (it felt like a race condition in their lower level coprocessor), and I had to switch to I2S so that the ADC would be accessed by DMA. The documentation was basically non-existent and the most relevant code examples were an incoherent mess. I eventually got it to work barely well enough, after probably spending 16 hours on it.

I'm still impressed with the wifi functionality. It's a cool chip, and I appreciate the company's willingness to support hobbiests. I wouldn't use their SDK as the reference for a particularly good vendor support package, though. On the other hand, maybe there are no good vendor support packages and ESP32 is one of the least worst?
As sad as it is, I feel this is more or less accurate. Unfortunately humans and society as a whole are wired such that we are compelled to form factions and destroy each other. But I guess that's what other animals do anyways
What does make roti healthy? Do you mean the kind which is made from wholewheat unleavened flour? Even that doesn't qualify as "healthy" for me, although it's better (and tastier!) than most others kinds of bread.
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I sold a home/closed through notarize.com and was very impressed by their solution. This should be mandatory to open any type of credit account, witnessed and videoed thumbs up as a service could totally be a thing
What Is Truly Tactical?
I have been on many different teams, overseas and stateside. What does truly tactical entail to you?
Speaking of Experian/Equifax... where is my $125?

https://www.equifaxbreachsettlement.com/
What’s the strategy?

Unfortunately time has been unkind to US governance and the tail wags the dog. The US is in a bizarre situation where Saudi Arabia and Israel are the key allies, and both states play out their own forms of internal political conflict within the US. Meanwhile the usual mess of sectarian and external stakeholders all vie for position.

The US can’t “pull out”. But we need to figure out what we want post-Trump.
At this point in 2020 there must have been over 1000 data breaches, often times containing (and reaffairming) the same data such as a person's address (and in data breaches, we can track that same persons data across time, which can be useful).

You can't have a globally connected society, data storage in the billions of records, and a 'right to privacy' at the same time. It's not possible, these breaches just reaffirm that.

How long before the next data leak pops up on HN again?

Privacy died after 2001, and there's nothing to prove otherwise.

Am I wrong?
How about doing a thought experiment for a minute?

Trump told what are generally considered incorrect opinions on corona virus prevention. Eg: Hydroxy Chloroquine works, masks don't and so on...

His followers then parroted and posted these comments on social media and were promptly defunded, suspended and even banned for breaking Eula terms. Because Covid is serious and far too important to risk endangering others lives with misinformation like that...fair enough.

The campaign rolls on only now a significant portion of Trump's most vocal supporters are no longer able to voice their support and encourage people to vote for him due to being punished for spreading false info that Trump told them regarding Covid, or is that the real reason? Maybe the plan was to silence the right's voice all along but Covid presented itself at an oppertune time, the left leaning social media companies took full advantage and Trump and his followers walked right into the trap!

Could that be why right wing supporters might want to find a new forum to express themselves? Somewhere that they wont have their voices taken away right before an election that they feel passionate about?

Just a different thought from an outside observer with no skin in the game.
Thanks for the tips. I'm looking for real-life examples of products that competing with the tech giants though.
One of the key takeaways from the social sciences is that people are really bad at estimating what will make them happy. Even those who have a plan for what they want are often drastically wrong about how it'll make them feel in the long run.
I'm doing so now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25094374
The racist and antisemitic part of this comment is assuming jewish control over US affairs. The reality is Israel is a neo-colonial state that acts as a nuclear armed forward operating base in the middle east for the US. Without US arms and funds, Israel's militaristic stance would not be possible. As a Jew, I look forward to the day we can end the wars, end funding of an apartheid regime, stop the mistreatment of Palestinians who live in a blockaded prison city, and the attainment of real democracy in the region for every group without imposing a fake version at the point of a US gun.

I look forward to the liberation of Afghanistan and Iraq from neocolonial rule. I look forward to a new era when control of oil fields is no longer a matter of geostrategic importance and drilling will incur sanctions by an international body.
They hide behind lawyers and don't use complex passwords for admin accounts. Nor do they do security updates in a timely fashion. If one admin runs an attachment in email that exploits the system, they got a trojan back door into the server and can do whatever Admin does.
permanently eradicated.
This reminds me of an observation about the British Empire that the bureaucracy was at its most vast the day it was abolished.
The largest issue with the trashcan MacPro6,1 was complete lack of GPU performance. They weren’t even VR capable.
What's the problem with RestSharp?

Used it a while ago and it was pretty easy to use.
This is a deal breaker for me. Little Snitch is absolutely 100% essential for privacy. I’m staying on MacOS Catalina until they pry it off my cold dead hands.
I started with this thought half-jokingly, but now I think I'm serious:

Every single SS# needs to be made public, along with the assigned name. Not just known-breached, but somewhere where it's obvious that anyone could look it up as easily as looking up a phone number or mailing address. Somewhere so public that everyone else knows that they're no longer "secret."

Using Social Security numbers as some sort of proof you're who you say you are is batshit crazy these days. But we all pretend that it's still secure somehow. If there was an embarrassingly public list of all SS#s, then banks would be forced to improve their vetting of applicants.

At the same time, the onus needs to be on a financial institution to prove that I opened an account. If I discover a line of credit in my name, all I should need to do is disavow it, and make the lender prove that I was the one who authorized it.

Yes, this will increase the cost of doing business. But that increased cost is already here, just born randomly and disproportionately by the victims of "identity theft."

Want to issue a credit card with a $15,000 limit? Have the applicant walk into a branch, provide a thumbprint take their picture. Or get them on a video call standing in front of their house, attesting that they're the person they say they are. Or if you think that's too inconvenient you can take on all the risk if the borrow later disavows the debt.

A piece of paper or online form with the magic numbers is just not enough.
These polls are self selecting. People round here aren’t into polls generally (evidenced by that the feature is largely unknown) and probably rarely respond to them. An exception to that is when the poll positives speak directly to something you care deeply about and identify strongly with. On top of that people who are going through this may be inclined to share not least because it’s always comforting to those going through an issue to know that they aren’t alone.

In sum, this poll is more an opportunity to share and participate in discussion about this issue than it is about determining the proportion of hn readers who are dealing with this issue
Thank you for serving. It is unfortunate that avoidable wars are fought when there very well could be wars in the near to distant future that are not avoidable. With an ever expanding population there will eventually be land disputes which may not have solutions. That’s one of the reasons I really hope we can stop getting caught up in political problems and wasting valuable time on worrying about creating automated income sources and focus our attention on figuring out how to actually live in space
That’s another “touchpoint”. Just wait for the next power outage
Because one is a slave and the other is a man/woman.
I wonder how many of the “successful stalemate” alluded to in this article comes down to the “he’s just crazy enough to do it” factor?

Obama’s Syria strategy mostly failed because when it came down to it Assad read him correctly: the “bright line” was crossed and Obama didn’t really want to intervene beyond air power.

With Trump, I think Iran genuinely thought he was looking for an excuse to nuke them (especially when he had Bolton as an adviser). I think that moderated their responses and led to the stalemate we saw.
Javascript is single-threaded so those sort of bugs can't ever happen.
People have been predicting that for a decade now. I doubt it will happen any time soon.
Clicked to see if they added the one missing feature that's prevented me from using it: clickable links. It's there now, so I'm looking forward to seriously evaluating this as a replacement for KiTTY (which replaced PuTTY).
They said they don’t tolerate beans and pulses well. Chickpeas, soy, and lentils all fall into that category.
Yes and no.

Getting laid off a couple weeks ago from my frontend/ux job of 6 years, and the job hunt since has been a bummer. But the positive is, I no longer have to work for a boss who underpaid, overworked, and did their best to make me feel worthless nearly every day these last 6 years :)
disable sideloading and enforce a Mac App Store only policy on macOS

People have been repeating that for years, since the Mac App Store was announced. It’s not in Apple’s interest to do it. There is a ton of software, open source in particular, that Apple benefits tremendously by. It costs Apple nothing to maintain the status quo.

Going Mac App Store only would drive tons of developers off the platform and do absolutely nothing to increase sales on the Store anyway. It would be widely panned as a ham-fisted move.
Evidently it does work if you simply suppress the response.
Stapling makes sense for the Web but not here.

With OCSP Stapling the remote web server whose identity you want to assure yourself of periodically gets an up-to-date OCSP answer about its own certificate. When you connect to that server, it gives you the certificate, and the OCSP answer, which assures you that the certificate is still good, and is signed by the Issuer of the certificate.

So, you visit Porn Hub, Porn Hub knows you visited and can reasonably guess it's because you like porn (duh). Porn Hub talks to their CA. The CA knows Porn Hub are Porn Hub and could reasonably guess it's a porn site (duh) but this way the CA doesn't learn that you visited Porn Hub. That's Privacy preserving. Nobody learns anything you'd reasonably expect they shouldn't know.

But how can we apply that to an application on your Mac? If every app reaches out from your Mac to Apple to get OCSP responses, they learn what you have installed, albeit I guess you can avoid telling them when exactly you ran it. This is enormously more costly and not very privacy preserving.

CRL-based ideas are much better for your privacy, although they might cost you some network traffic when the CRL is updated.

Of course one reason for Apple not to want to do CRLs is that they're transparent and Apple is not a very transparent type of company. With OCSP you've got no way to know if and when Apple revoked the certificate for "Obvious Malware II the sequel" or equally for "Very Popular App that Apple says violated an obscure sub-clause of a developer agreement".

But with CRLs it'd be easier for any researcher to monitor periodically for revocations, giving insights that Apple might not like. Do revocations happen only 9-5 Mon-Fri Cupertino time? Are there dozens per hour? Per day? Per Year?
Congrats on the job! Hope things work out for you on the personal front too. Tip: I finally managed to overcome my multi year Reddit addiction using Cold Turkey on my PC and Adguard + Applock on my phone. Adguard blocks the URL and Applock restricts access to Adguard itself.
I don't know if it counts as "extra", but someone once said "as neglected as the nine button on the microwave", which struck me as odd since whenever something needs to be heated for a minute and a half, I always enter "90" instead of "1:30" since it's two buttons to press instead of three.
Got a built in Bosch one that happens to also be ... a regular oven. Handy to have two ovens sometimes
No catalog mode, shit loading while scrolling.

... terrible.
I can say "not at all", but mostly because I had a depressive bout that absolutely haunted me for multiple years when I was in High School.

Every day, my daydreams would be about whether or not today was the day I'd decide to kill myself to end my misery. The hardest part was finding a way to kill myself without hurting those I did care about: my family. Any way I gamed a suicide: it would result in somebody in my family blaming them-self, or someone else, over it. And I didn't want to die like that.

I don't really remember when it started. I know my first serious suicidal thought freaked me out (to the point where I cried myself to sleep that night). But I also know that it didn't take very long until I accepted the constant haunting of suicide as my everyday normal. The period lasted for years.

I must emphasize how _NORMAL_ depression feels when you have it. You wake up with it, you got to sleep with it, and then tomorrow morning you wake up with it again. You learn to live with it. You forget what life was like before you had depression.

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I don't have any advice for people in depression. All I can say is that I somehow climbed out of it and absolutely don't have it anymore. If I knew how it happened, then I'd tell you. But as far as I can tell, it was just dumb luck.

I do have advice for people who are worried about someone with depression however. You cannot convince them that their feelings of depression are "non-normal". Depression is just with you, its something you carry in that period, just how you live your life. The concept that you could even possibly shed the feelings is boggling.

If you want to talk about depression, with someone who has depression, then you cannot treat it as if it were "special" or "exotic". Depression is just every-day life for someone with depression. Telling someone that they can "get rid of depression" would be like saying... you don't have to poop anymore. It just doesn't "make sense" on any level when you have depression. I mean, yeah, life would be better if I didn't have to poop all the time, but I expect that I'll have to poop tomorrow.
That fab will never open.

Just like Foxconn's plant in Wisconsin.

It'll just keep getting pushed back, and pushed back. Its job is to keep the politicians happy (or at least not angry), and it doesn't need to be built in order to serve that purpose.

That fab will never, ever, ever run a single wafer.
The author doesn’t consider Stripe prestigious? I work at one of the companies he lists as prestigious, and I think most of my co-workers consider Stripe to be a top company to work at and very competitive to get into. A lot have in fact left to go work for them, because they have a reputation for having good career growth and great engineers. If I decided to go somewhere else, that’s actually where I would send my resume first.
Medical data already has severe breach penalties under HIPPA. Fines can be $10k per record.
You just gave me something to think about. I've been with the same small CU for 20 years. They're really small. Twice now I've needed to wire money, and when I called, I was told something like, "Maggie is on her lunch break right now, but she'll be back at her desk in 20 minutes. She'll call you to verify the details."

It's a running joke whenever I have to wire money: "Make sure Madge is working today!"

I liked that quaint feel, but I suppose Steally McThief would also appreciate it...
The maximum small claims penalty in Texas is $20,000 and while that amount may be aspirational, Roper Technologies has just purchased Vertafore for 5.35 billion USD[0] so it would only take a per capita penalty of $191 to match the purchase price and make the acquisition a truly expensive and foolhardy decision. Roper Technologies booked 3.2 billion USD revenue in 2020[1].
[0]https://www.barrons.com/articles/roper-technologies-is-buyin...
[1]https://www.ropertech.com/
UNIX was a proprietary OS but literally everyone used it in the 80’s - without a license. Campuses to labs around the US.

We need to nuke the Apple bullshit from MacOS Catalina and convert it into people’s operating system. Ethics be damned.
All of those have second sources.

5nm silicon is, literally, the only thing that only one company can make.
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Now there is even more precarious position to already sane of YouTube artists. This is precisely kind of fear that will kill the platform.
To ensure pressurization, often compounds are used to help seal the aircraft. PRC is one that I've used previously for this. Perhaps something similar had been used to seal the cockpit (thus helping hold the bolts in place), but there hadn't been time to re-apply (as it takes ~24 hours to completely set).
I prefer non-practicing vegan
Sure, but the difficulty of making a passable fake video versus entering some magic numbers is vastly different.
When WA legalized weed, prices went down. I don't think you can make broad claims based on one particular implementation that may well be flawed in details.
> delivery places don't just compete with other delivery places on price; they also have to compete with takeout prices.

Sure, but right now all of those takeout prices are from restaurants with retail locations. A ghost kitchen that offers delivery could be undercut by a ghost kitchen offering pickup, but in general they'll have a price advantage versus a retail restaurant with a more expensive location and more square footage.

The calculus is especially favorable toward ghost kitchens during pandemic-induced lockdowns, when people aren't otherwise out and about. If I'm driving home from work and can easily stop by a restaurant for takeout, that doesn't cost me much time. But if I'm at home 24/7, then I factor in the time spent going to get food. That makes ghost kitchens with delivery somewhat more attractive.
The math doesn't say that - the 120 per 100 figure is misleading: obviously everyone doesn't own a gun. About 22% of people report owning a gun. So yes, a high figure, but the chance of someone owning a gun AND currently carrying it brings that number down a bit. I do agree that it's still quite a dangerous situation regardless.
Will do? Sure. But can do? Sanctions, war, ...
Dude, I was never cheering Facebook.

The most positive opinion I have ever had of it could be described as indifference.
You could always anonymously alert interested parties.
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