skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sealed sender only means Signal doesn't know who sent a particular message. They have to know who the recipient is so they can deliver it. Like forging the "From:" address on an email. Except in the Signal case the IP address/port of the sender is unique to the user and if the recipient responds then the link between the users is made.

The private contact discovery depends on an Intel SGX hardware enclave on their server. Which is good in this case as it implies more work to bypass it but where is the ultimate trust here? Intel? Did Signal ever get this working?

In general Signal can just see what IP address/port picks up a particular user's pre-keys if they want to know who is talking to who.
A missile shield that actually works will actually precipitate a nuclear conflict, because it means an end to MAD. If you know that your adversary will become invulnerable to your counter-strike in three months, the optimal game-theory solution is to strike him today.

Optimistically, military planners are aware of this, and are just doing pork barrel spending.

Pessimistically, military planners don't care about this, and are actively working on 'winning' a nuclear war.
"Some reason" being so that moving from a menu to the adjacent menu with the notch in between is the same short mouse movement as between other adjacent menus, instead of having a longer move through the dead space of the notch.

I tried one in the Apple Store but didn't think to check any software with a >50% full menubar to see if that feels weird or not.

If they hadn't done this, someone would be complaining these menus are supposed to be 10 pixels apart, but I have to move my mouse 100 pixels instead. If it bugs you, hit cmd-I on the application and put it in the no-notch mode.
Male and females constitute the largest difference you could have in a species. This preprint affirms what all previous work in this space has found; if you try to minimise the cultural/enviromental differences between men and women, you maximise their biological differences.

"These sex differences were larger in countries with a higher level of women's empowerment."

"We explain this counter-intuitive finding through the indirect effect of wealth. Women's empowerment is associated with relatively high levels of national wealth and this wealth allows more students to aspire to occupations they are intrinsically interested in"

Though I think the preprint's reasoning about the influence of wealth is just bad. Especially if you try to reason that wealth and better education is causing alot of women to become nurses instead of doctors.
I'm wearing an Akka shirt right now! Agreed. ;) Not my realm, but a friend who was way into SDN systems told me some about how Akka powers a vast vast amount of that work (OpenDaylight), extremely well; I could use a refresher on that, it was such a great story to hear! Another example, Microsoft has done fantastically with Orleans[1].

I'd like to propose an actually dead idea: calling ideas dead. That we fail with tech ideas & abstractions is 99.%%% of the time not really reflective of the idea itself. There's survivorship bias- well, I think we need a term for the opposite: didn't work bias. A lot of technologies are dogged by image problems from less than successful pasts. Too often we pop culturally & en-masse accept that specific failures imply general unsuitability, and become fixed, hostile, & negative towards ideas. We should label this phenomenon & understand it better. "Didn't Work Bias" doesn't quite feel like the best fit or reciprocal to Survivorship Bias but it's a start at capturing these prevalent anti-idea sentimentalities.

[1] https://dotnet.github.io/orleans/
If you are doing some user facing work and the notch is actually a problem, you can always use an external monitor and the notch will go away.
Though it does seem obvious, it's pretty dangerous to go looking for patterns in the data. More scientific to define the criteria before knowing the results so you can have a hypothesis to test, not just an observation to make.
A binary running in a VM is still executing native machine code, so compiler optimizations should have the same effect whether running on bare metal or a VM.
> what I've been saying for years: cloud is great for scaling down, but not that great for scaling up.

Yes and no. The cloud isn’t cheap at running any lift and shift type project. Where the cloud comes into its own is serverless and SaaS. If you have an application that’s a typical VM farm and you want to host it in the cloud, then you should at least first pause and identify how, if at all, your application can be re-architected to be more “cloudy”. Not doing this is usually the first mistake people make when deploying to the cloud.
It is currently cheap, but if it's all bled off into space through party balloons and we run low, it's not gonna be cheap any more.

With this news I guess it's not as precious as it was last month...
I'm choosing to read this in that particularly smug English Jony Ive accent.
>"You do have to do a lot of things manually, and even doing that, you won't get the high availability and elasticity you get from a cloud offer."

I run my things on bare metal. In case of hardware failure it takes less than 1 hour to restore servers from backup and there was exactly zero hardware failures for all its lifetime anyways. I also have configurations with standby servers but I am questioning it now as again there was not a single time (bar testing) when standby was needed.

As for performance - I use native C++ backends and modern multicore CPU with lots of RAM. Those babies can process thousands of requests per second sustainably without ever breaking a sweat. It is more than enough for any reasonable business. All while costing fractions of a cloudy stuff.
i'd have much rather that apple remove the camera entirely to support a nearly bezel-less, notchless screen.

then for folks who want a camera, apple could have added a smart connector and magnets near the top back of the lid to clip on a camera when needed. it would have been a real win for privacy[0], and they can do their little trick of excessively marking up accessories to boost revenue. it's even better than a physical on-off switch, since 'off' literally means off. the camera could then be thicker, which means no need to compromise on image quality due to the physical limitations of the bezel/lid.

[0]: unlike the theater of their 'privacy report' (in beta), which doesn't let you block any of the trackers they surface.
Similar idea to the doomsday device described in Dr. Strangelove!
I wonder how far they could go in compelling Signal to push a change that let more info leak for a specific user. I know there have been somewhat similar cases where companies were compelled to add new functionality, logs, etc, to capture info for a specific user.
What makes an occupation people-oriented vs things-oriented?...
Is being a doctor one or the other?

I speant most of the last 18 months in and out of the hospital, and I noticed that doctors are more things oriented, and nurse practitioners are more people oriented. Even though they do the same job.

I want the nurse practitioner when I'm feeling awful, I want the doctor to explain their thought process in technical detail. Even if it's over my head.

And to be clear, I didn't read the article, but I had doctors and nurse practitioners of different sexes.
> top area can be split into two regions, one for menus and one for status widgets as we have long been doing anyways

Some people use lower resolutions or apps with more menus than you apparently.
The bar is "executing justice doesn't regularly cause more harm than the harm it claims to prevent." It's basically on the floor.

Well, the other bar is "the justice system follows its own rules." That's reasonable enough to ask, isn't it?
why do you think China is involved here? didn't see anything in the post.

I thought this was maybe due to massive royalties that must have been part of the deal.
They have a method of cooking fish from Peru, called ceviche, just using lemon juice to lower the ph that does all of the work. Incidentally, I believe sauerkraut needs a bit of lemon juice to maintain a ph that discourages botulinum from inhabiting the cabbage during fermentation. The ceviche method isn't a fermentation process - it can cook fish in the fridge in half a day.
My brother and I are also biologically different. It says nothing about expected outcomes that we are distinct. When you say that an expectation of equal outcome is misguided, you're sneaking in a conclusion about the nature of those biological differences.

If the biological difference were a large facial birthmark that caused people to treat us differently (although we're otherwise identical twins), would you accept a statistically equal outcome between groups of people with and without facial birthmarks as a sign of a lack of discrimination against people with facial birthmarks?
That’s true, but the XPS 13 camera and angle is terrible and that’s certainly not preferable for me in the age of Zoom.
The net benefit to society when government is granted and/or authority is granted broad powers of surveillance is the abuse of that power to serve the desires of those in power rather than society in general.

Your statement is carefully crafted to sidestep this with the wording, "...there exists criminal behavior that most reasonable people would agree is bad and should be stopped that may reach a dead end with services like Signal...", ignoring that the crime of abuse of power is far greater than any crime that could be prevented when it'd granted.

There will always be "some people" that think this way. But more certainly such powers will be abused by those entrusted with them.
That's kind of the opposite of the conclusion of the article. Now, the conclusions of the article (cultural, social and political differences have a huge impact on what what men and women do) may be incorrect, and you may be more correct, but it's a little incongruent to say (I'm paraphrasing here) "Biological differences explain the differences in career outcomes between men and women."

Outside of some very specific situations (aka muscle mass dependent jobs like carrying heavy loads on your back) I'm not aware of any scientific evidence that supports a biological cause of career outcome divergence in women vs men, but if you have some literature or other information I'm always willing to admit that I'm wrong in light of new information.

On the other hand, there is an ocean of scientific data that cultural, social and political conditions have a huge impact on what jobs men and women do.

EDIT: there is actually one argument for biological differences explaining divergent outcomes that I find convincing: for the vast majority of human history, the state's monopoly on the use of violence has been either nonexistent or far weaker as compared to today. Men have had an advantage on the use of violence due to average muscle mass and bone density being higher than women. Technology (firearms, surveillance, etc) has made this disparity of power in capacity for violence less and less relevant.
Ask HN: Economics of Bitcoin Mining?
My brother, a semiretired hydropower engineer, has a client with 750 kW of generating capacity that because of regulatory snags he can't connect to the grid. He's interested in whether it makes economic sense to use the power to mine bitcoins and what the total lifecycle costs would be. Are there good resources for exploring options--which I imagine run from to full DIY to turnkey solutions to mining as a service--and costs?
The rooms seem a little bit smaller than usual singles, but I'd gladly take the size downgrade if it meant I didn't need to share a room with 1-3 other people.
Their market advantage is in manufacturing. They make quality products. Honda makes better, more reliable engines. But Toyota is great at manufacturing.
Isn't that basically a "no true Scotsman" fallacy, though?

I can completely believe both sides of this: the original Fishkin article, and this rebuttal which claims that "actually, marketers are competent and knowledgeable".

One way to look at this, mindful of [Sturgeon's Law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law) stating that ninety percent of everything is crap, is that good marketing agencies will rise above, but if I own a store selling scented candles and Google "online advertising" and hire one of the random agencies listed, maybe, just maybe, I'll get one of the 90% of bad ones that will try to hoodwink me into believing unsupported incremental conversion numbers.
It's really interesting that the notch was basically only an option on a Mac laptop. It doesn't work at all with Windows or KDE. It almost works on Gnome.

But with macOS, the menu bar has been there since the very beginning, and the center of the bar has been increasingly empty as resolutions increased. A fortunate coincidence.

The notch is here to stay, until good cameras get a lot smaller. It just makes a ton of sense as a solution.
Do you offer an API? I’m about to build this myself for my company and would rather not have to.
Why is houseplant advice so bad?
I still don't understand the distinction you are making. At first I thought that you meant that literally a generation would not procreate. But now I think you are trying to say that young adults would not be doing child rearing. Are you suggesting that mothers would return to physical labor right after birth to defer child rearing to elders, or after breast-feeding? That mothers would somehow not be present as much as elders?
There's definitely going to be edge cases, although if I were still a macOS software developer, I would update my app immediately to nest my menus more when operating with a notch. I think there's more that Apple - and also third-party developers - can do to make this a well-crafted experience. This is definitely a V1 but I see paths to it getting better! Never could say the same for the Touch Bar haha.

I'm certainly not going to say you're holding it wrong. I sympathize with the frustration of this breaking your use case. Apple's never been one to avoid scrambling a few eggs.
My app is a React Native app with a webview, quite simple to create/manage/modify and I have notifications, native logins, etc. with communication between the webview and the native app
EU citizen might register in which case they could be forced to comply or suffer fines
In addition to making browsing slower you’d also consume more of your data, if you’re on a capped plan.

These days I have a 70 GB plan with data rollover, which leaves me with plenty of data to spare. But for the longest time I used to be on a plan with only a couple of GB of data per month, and it was a real pain in general. In that situation, downloading all resources instead of only the ones I need would have made a noticeable impact I am sure.

Even though I now have data to spare, the additional slowness that you mentioned would be annoying enough that I would not want my device to do that. Additionally, transferring more data would also consume more battery.
I've had phones with pop-out, hole punch, notch, and full bar cameras, even one without any front facing camera at all. Hole punch struck the best balance IMO as it allows simple design, a decent camera, and takes up a small enough amount of space that it's not really jarring to just fullscreen content like it isn't there at all.

For the new MacBooks I'm happy they at least did something other than full bar but I don't think the solution is the be all end all.

For wishful thinking quality behind screen cameras would be the ultimate win in my book if anyone can pull it off properly without limiting other things too much.
Parties are more fun with hydrogen, in any case.

... or a stoichiometric mixture of hydrogen+oxygen: https://youtu.be/l9CI6KSV560?t=1625
> Here's an model explaining the "Gender Equality Paradox" that doesn't rely on the crutch of assuming different preferences. Women pay some fixed cost for being in the labor market, in general. Perhaps due to discrimination, perhaps to something else. As such less likely to pursue a costly STEM education in college. However, they become more likely to pursue a STEM education as the returns increase. Women respond to incentives. The bigger the non-service sector of the economy, the more income there is to gain from a STEM education. As it gets higher (which tends to be the case in less developed countries) more women enter STEM programs. In developed countries the STEM premium is lower (Someone in a service job like a lawyer or accountant will do just fine).

This fits the data we have available, doesn't require that we assume our conclusion (we just assume women respond to incentives), and is able to help explain other phemonena. It's got a lot of features we want in a good model!

- Matt Darling

Edit: It seems like he assumes some "fixed cost" in order to counter the finding that women are less likely to pursue STEM education.

Is there something I am missing?
Thanks. My price wasn't that high compared to other's. The real issue is more complex than simple bullying though. It is much about self-doubt, about the elephant in the room sometimes that nobody wants to mention, and about the isolation when positive discrimination actually causes more issues than it solves.
Probably people like me: willing to put their money where their mouths are when it comes to security and actual hardware ownership. Obviously that is a vanishingly small market - as demonstrated by the fact that a third of the comments here are from me. There is a very interesting benefit from truly open hardware ownership that I hadn't anticipated, and is kind of hard to explain to anyone who hasn't experienced it themselves: reverse engineering is no longer a time-sink. I'd grown so accustomed to having to fight through the manufacturer's hostile anti-owner practices, while doing work that they benefit from for free... it kinda blew my mind when I hit a speedbump on my Blackbird - and was able to address it by referring to an actual schematic included with the board. Usually that step would have taken hours of scouring translations of archived Russian TV repair sites and Chinese DHT search engines - and rarely yielded anything beyond mislabeled zips containing boobytrapped boardviewer trojans. So for anyone who has ever tried to fix something, and found themselves fighting hardware that they supposedly own - figure that massive benefit into the price. But that too is a small market.
Yeah, well, tell that to the App Store reviewers who rejected my games.

Their argument basically went like this: Your app is clearly a web clipping. It's just your web site wrapped up as an app. We can see your web site, it works fine, and this app adds no additional value to the web site. You need to add features to your app--iOS-specific features--to make it worthy of being in the App Store.

I think it's fair to say that you can interpret rule 4.2 (and especially 4.2.2, which doesn't define a "web clipping" in the guidelines) in a few different ways, and that the "strict" App Store reviewers I faced were being perfectly reasonable in their interpretation of rule 4.2.

(To be clear, I think rule 4.2 is not a good rule, but I think the individual reviewers I spoke with were making a reasonable attempt to interpret rule 4.2.)

The "strict" interpretation is reasonable, but your interpretation (which I would call a "lax" interpretation) is also reasonable. You could say "well, if the web site is app-like--if the app has good, useful features--then it has more than minimal functionality and is worthy of being in the store." Both interpretations make sense.

The problem occurs when you stake your deployment strategy on the hope that you don't get a hardline App Store reviewer, and now, all of a sudden, you can't push bug fixes or compatibility updates to your iOS app, and your users are pissed.
> p could be exponentially small, if OoL requires some extremely unlikely step.

"exponentially" is not a measure of size, nor is it a measure of relative size. If you think this anything base on "exponentially small" is a valid argument, go look in a mirror and slap yourself.
> The simpler and less dehumanizing alternative

Occam's razor is great, but it's probably not a reasonable assumption to make on a system as fundamentally complicated as human behavior.

How would we control for the possibility that as wealth increases, the dominant effect in a person's life isn't social status (which could be enhanced by gender-norm conformity)?
The Motorola you are familiar with is a shadow of its former self.

It was an absolute titan in it's heyday, they basically created the modern electronics manufacturing ecosystem (especially in China). Developed a huge number of products across a whole number of industries. They were dominant in radio but were also damn good at all sorts of things, designed their own CPUs (some of the most loved CPUs of all time actually), the Apple Lisa and Macintosh both ran on Motorola CPUs, hell even the Next Cube used a Motorola chip.

A modern equivalent would be Apple, except only if Apple was about 10-20 years ahead of everyone else.

The collapse of Motorola was very much on the scale of present day Apple going bankrupt.
I suspect a 2nd factor is competitive vs well-defined. CEO for example is people-oriented but 70% male. Maybe because it's also competitive.
For a spacefaring civilization reliant upon chemical rockets, less gravity is better. Point being Mars is a better place for such a civilization, not earth.
This is nerdy and probably superfluous but I actually love it! The .cook extension is such a cute touch. I actually do already store all of my recipes in .txt files, so maybe I'll convert them to this and create some shortcut scripts for quickly search my recipes while I'm at it :)
> What is "the question" in the intransitive sense, that makes it not the object of the verb?

The phrase “begs the question” is an idiomatic phrase that operates as a verb phrase. It can be either intransitive (“X begs the question” or transitive “X begs the question Y”). In the intransitive use it refers to applying the petitio principii fallacy; in the intransitive form it refers to creating a demand for the answer to a specific question (the former can be viewed as a special case of the latter where the specific question is the justification for the same claim the argument was intended to justify.)

> I've given up complaining about the common usage, except that it's a nonsense phrase that apes the technical usage; there's no "begging" involved so the only reason not to say "raise the question" is because it sounds more scholarly to use the Latin, even incorrectly.

“begging the question” isn't Latin, its an (arguably quite bad even when it was coined and definitely dated) translation of Latin into English.

The Latin is “petitio principii”.
Was that day 9/10/2001? I remember those days, too. I miss some parts of them.
There already had been a court case. Epic vs Apple. Epic lost on every point showing Apple to be a “monopoly”.

But it wasn’t about court. It’s about you selectively choosing who to have moral outrage against. So Apple makes too much money as the most valuable company in the world. But Microsoft and Google are the good guys even though they are also making obscene profits and are worth a trillion+ dollars?
That's not the only way to hide the notch: https://twitter.com/jsngr/status/1453341112635166720
Objectively they do - they rolled back years of minimalist design on the new MBP: thicker body, more ports, HDMI, card reader, etc.
No, looking at the data is observation or analysis by definition...whether or not you make a prediction about it. Experimentation is when you make a hypothesis first (after observation) and then test it. Looking at data is not a test--it's either observation or analysis.
Gnome Phosh has gained an option to cope with screen notches by shifting the top bar clock away from the cutout area, so that it remains visible. Presumably, Gnome-Shell will be doing the same on these devices.