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Any distro with s6 as default init manager?
Are you saying there were no white lies involved? I recollect a series of events that involved people happily spewing Nobel lies especially at the start of the pandemic.
NYC just released data that shows 50% of those hospitalized and Covid positive, were not admitted for Covid, but another condition.

Makes you wonder about deaths counts too?
One of the examples inside Google was similar, I think it was the ordering of the keys in a Python map (that has no documented behavior). Some upgrade changed it from stable to random and a bunch of tests started failing.
The issue is that it's too easy to forgo all of that and scroll through tiktok for 12+ hours a day, per day (school days included). I'm not exaggerating with that number, either. When you literally have nothing else to do, you'll find something enriching to do. But when there's an easy, lazy outlet, kids will go to that. We literally cannot say the same about kids a few decades ago, either. No one spent every waking moment watching Sunday cartoons or reading the paper, and reading that retort of "well we've ALWAYS done things like that" is so off-putting because it's NEVER been this extreme.
Lots of engineering models. Some spare parts for parts of assemblies.

Not a lot of complete, flight-capable assemblies.

I'm actually teaching a bunch of high school students to make a cubesat right now, and we are going through costing of:

* Prototypes -> protoflight -> flight, no engineering model

* "Flatsat" electronic engineering model, prototypes -> protoflight -> flight

* Prototypes -> qualification article -> flight article, + "flatsat"

* Prototypes -> qualification article -> flight article + ground engineering model

There's a whole lot of derisk that happens as you go down that list, but the cost and labor increase (the latter is "free" for us but also limited) is substantial.
Also:

Drones fly under the clouds.

And:

If you've subverted the drone imaging you can use it to hide stuff.

If you've subverted drone control you could use it as an active agent in conflict.
Characterizing informed discussion about the implications of technology as "fearmongering" or "hysteria" is essentially ignorant.

The specific functionality of remote attestation is so that a remote party can demand you prove what software you are running, and make it so that you cannot lie. Right now you're free to answer whatever you'd like, while running whatever actual software you choose, as long as you stick to the protocol. Protocols (especially well-defined open ones) are our traditional way of mediating between parties with mutually diverging interests. Remote attestation throws away such neutral mediation, making it so that the more powerful party can dictate what software the less powerful party is running.

One implication of a usable implementation of remote attestation is that a website could insist that you are running a certain OS, web browser, etc, and become unavailable to you otherwise. For example, banking websites have a clear path to doing this in the quest for their elusive "security". They already do similarly invasive things that alienate a small portion of users (eg complain about a device being "rooted", blocking VPN/datacenter IP ranges), and so it's a reasonable assumption that they'll adopt such technology for the same regressive goals.

And once it starts being a de facto requirement for users to have such functionality and it becomes easy for developers to use, it will trickle down to lower stakes websites - think anything that currently sees fit to harass you with a CAPTCHA. It's not simply Big Bad Microsoft that will push this onto us, but rather the entire market will gradually shift for "security" (ie corporate whims).

Will Free Software and the Open Internet still exist? Of course! Remote attestation does not prevent you from running whatever software you like on your local computer. But it will further bifurcate the Free user-representing world and proprietary WebTV land - imagine not being able to do online banking or shopping from your ergonomic desktop system, and having to do it from your phone that you also have to upgrade every two years. And the idea that some day ISPs will mandate this type of technology to connect to their network is far fetched, but still within the realm of possibility.

One caveat here is that if the remote attestation is only over the contents of the Pluton chip itself, then it cannot be used to dictate what software is running on the main system. I have no idea if this is the case here or not, but either way the integration of the chip onto the same die as the processor does not bode well for future development.

Furthermore, I do not believe the claim elsewhere in this thread that you could proxy such requests, as a secure remote attestation design involves the attestation result being used to generate a decryption key (eg a TLS session key) that does not leave the trusted software environment. So the system performing the attestation is unable to simply relay back what it has learned. There might be design shortcomings that or implementation bugs that allow for doing so, but the straightforward goal is to close those over time as for any vulnerability.
Related : I converted some friends to Element+Matrix. Then some unbearable bug showed up in Element UI and we had to move away immediately (I reported the bug to the Element project, and a year after the correction is still in progress) so I moved us to the next best solution : Signal. It works really fine. (although a pain not offering conveniences like : easy chat backups, and difficulty to move your conversations to a new phone and stuffs like that...)

I can't wait for the Matrix ecosystem to be mature enough !
>They had about two weeks to go from fully in-classroom to fully-remote

Yeah, and then they had 2 years to rethink it
The earth's shadow never reaches L2 anyhow - it's only penumbra at that distance since the angular size of the earth is smaller then the angular size of the Sun
If it makes you feel any better, if I had Gates' money I'd be funding a fleet of probes. Most of the same design :-)

Perhaps the cost of NASA probes is so high because politically they cannot tolerate failure. This drives the cost up 10x, which means it's a self-fulfilling prophecy that failure is career-ending.

Contrast this with Musk's approach to blow them up until they work, and then he has cheap launch vehicles.
The hedgerows of France! The allied forces greatly underestimated how difficult it will be to travel through them during WWII.
OK, but the urban centers were the places where playgrounds were taped off, malls were closed, coffeeshops were takeout-only and there's no other good place for kids to aggregate.

Suburban areas with yards and neighborhood playgrounds not owned by the city are were kids actually could and did socialize during the pandemic.

> #2 kept their infection waves in check with early quick nuanced NPI instead of waiting until only the big hammer could help

No place succeeded at this, other than small island nations. This is a fake narrative.
It would be truly fascinating to compare this increase in suicide to any changes in suicide for children in China or other countries which weathered the pandemic much better than the US. If it really is the case that harsh lockdowns create more suicides then surely China and its much more swift and drastic entire lockdowns of million person cities would generate more of them per capita, no?

I suspect though that we'd see there's not much increase or change at all for suicides in countries that handled the pandemic better than the US. People want to blame lockdowns, remote schooling or specific actions in the US when in reality the incredibly horrific response and deaths of nearly a million Americans is horrifying enough on its own.
OK until you wanna get rid of the banana plants.

We had a young couple of tenants in a condo who planted a "love tree" banana plant behind their unit. It grew and grew and grew, producing bananas each year but their love dried out and died. Finally one evening, after she tried breaking the front condo window (he knew she was drunk and wouldn't let her in and wouldn't talk to her) with a very large potted plant, the police were called in and both were toted off and evicted.

The banana tree florished even when we tried to kill it. It always grew back. We compromised by chopping it down each year after it has produced bananas (very tasty).
> x86 systems didn't become any more locked down.

But ARM systems sure did. Remember the whole "OEMs are required to make their ARM Windows devices only trust Microsoft's signing key, and not let the end-user turn off Secure Boot or trust any other keys" scandal?
Kudos to the author for calling out Haskell's String—but the problems run deeper than defaults. For example: if you're not aware of strictness, you can easily wring poor performance out of the "good" types like Text and ByteString. And even in cases where you want laziness—streaming IO, parsing, and so on—you still can't use those, and need a stream processing library like conduit to handle resources and errors reasonably.

In comparison: does lack of monads, operator overloading, and so on make go simpler than Haskell? Sure—but, having written quite a bit of both: it really helps that go knocked this shit outta the park with their string type and related designs ([]byte, io.Reader/Writer…).

(Though, in Haskell's defense: go's designers include the inventors of the now-ubiquitous utf8, and Haskell…predates utf8's existence by 2 years.)
Similar experience. Grew up in the suburbs. Was outside every with friends.
Who gets the blame for the inevitable data breach?
>> nowhere near a risk to children.

I get your point, but do the children also teach the classes, clean the schools, drive the buses, etc? To frame it as a "hysterical reaction to Covid" is either ignorant or intentionally misrepresentation. I also don't know how you can blame society in one sentence, then condemn specific individuals to historical infamy in the next.
not much detail, but slide 12 claims: https://www.platformsecuritysummit.com/2019/speaker/seay/PSE...

> Pluton validates and boots Security Monitor

> Security Monitor validates and boots the Linux Kernel

> Application Signatures are verified by SM and Pluton before Linux Kernel loads an application
If you want the Unix philosophy, why not use an actual Unix? The BSDs not only all have traditional init systems, but are also more in line with how old-school Unix worked in general (e.g. base system segregation).
Anything evil will likely be brokered through the OS. While this is good in that it's not a persistent backdoor like Intel ME, there's still Microsoft skulduggery to worry about.
This makes sense, and I think you've taken the correct route. I look forward to trying this in one of my projects and comparing to my current postgres-only backed search strategy. For my use case losing the index between restarts isn't a deal breaker, so hopefully I'll have some useful feedback.
This has worked for me too, especially when combined with some leisure activity.

"I won't do X now, but I will stop browsing and walk around the block while thinking of X."

"I won't do X now, but I'll sketch some ideas about X on paper while I have a coffee or snack."
If this logic applies here then the increase in “extreme events” almost seems like a non statement. The distribution has shifted (as everyone agrees, though some debate cause) and consequently we will get more extreme events.
They could be causal, but the effect the parent described is real that messes up the data. Mental health has become a thing that’s allowed to be talked about and taken seriously in literally the last few years. It’s a massive and extremely positive societal shift that shines a light on how absolutely awful school is even in non-pandemic times. I had severe depression in my teens and it wasn’t until I tried to take my own life that the adults in my life at the time even acknowledged it. I had friends at school who were cutting themselves, emotionally dependent on weed, drinking themselves to blackout every weekend, starving themselves to death, throwing up in the bathroom, and studying/working themselves to physical illness because of lack of sleep. Nobody cared.

There is no doubt that that the pandemic is making things so so much worse but there’s also a danger in scapegoating it and then being collectively “shocked” when it doesn’t get better when things go back to normal.
the first mobile phone I ever owned (nokia 3310) supported it!

from the manual:

> Delivery reports

> You can request the network to send delivery reports on your text messages (network service).
This makes no sense. C is almost 50 years old, English is a bit over 1000 years old, and Euclidean geometry is something like 2500 years old. It's not embarrassing to use any of them. If Python 2 users are failing to successfully organize among themselves well enough to maintain their interpreter, which is licensed in a way that guarantees that they can do that, I guess that's sort of embarrassing, but trying to shame them for using it isn't going to help them organize better.
Could you please elaborate on what’s unfair about property taxes in California?

From what I understand California has some of the lowest property taxes in the country and Prop 13 let owners lock in their tax basis for life.
Agreed. FWIW fractional scaling on gnome works great for me for developing with VSCode. I’m also at 150%.
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Which SQL RDBMS isn't, though? Postgres is a breeze compared to someting like DB2. High-performance relational databases just seem to be an inherently arcane target.
You're only focusing on the children, while the post to which you're responding explicitly calls out that they are only a part of the entire system. The fact that they don't get really sick or are asymptomatic is actually really bad when you're trying to reduce transmission.
It's very true that things like depression, poverty, closing businesses, hunger, children's development being negatively affected, etc. are also externalities of COVID measures. Very true. Probably also true that we're not putting enough thought into them. Hence why I tries to be very careful to not say "everything we did is right". They're probably not. Hindsight is 20/20.

> it's not a stretch to say that the damage done by the policies is often worse than the disease.

I wouldn't be willing to quantify it as "often", but I would definitely agree that "sometimes" it can be worse.
NASA has often added video or image capability with low scientific value to increase public engagement, despite the associated risk and cost. They made a call not to do it this time. My only point is that it would have been a nice PR opportunity if they could have found a way to make it work within their mission parameters. I apologize if making such a simple and obvious point has offended you in some way.
Thanks, this is really helpful in understanding the issues!
> T-types are defined as those that increase a team's agility.

…according to some model of the work which may be entirely inaccurate, I think is the point the parent is making.
Very interesting read. 6 year old me (optimistically) followed for about the first half and 40 year old me made it to about 85% through with full understanding.
We want there to be less ways of doing that. The fact that one way already exists doesn't mean that we should be okay with more. The desired end goal is that eventually there's zero ways to do this, and we'll never get there if we keep moving in the wrong direction and justify it by not already being there.
Lock down for a short time with a reopening vs prolonged ok and off lock downs might be different.

Also, China data probably isn’t trustworthy on a topic like this, right?
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If you drive your car off the road in a mountainous region of the US, there is a very good chance that you will hurt yourself and/or damage your car. Scientists can predict this statistically. What scientists want to be able to do is predict exactly which rock will kill you or break your axle. They can’t really do that yet except to make statistical guesses about how much more likely the crash was on the road vs. off it. But we’re heading into increasingly rough country, so please let’s all try to stay on the road.
Are you sure animal reservoirs aren't causing trouble in China? The leading hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 origin is zoonotic transmission from bats. Assuming that's correct, the bats are still out there somewhere...
The web UI is handy, but what led me to this was messing around with the "dict" command line tool. I discovered that when I was randomly doing apt-cache search queries just to see if there was some sort of command line word lookup tool (it seems like a pretty obvious thing, in hindsight I'm not sure why I'd never looked before) and found "dict". That led me to wondering if there was a way to use wiktionary.org data with the CLI, which led to a reference to using the DICT remote protocol to connect to a DICT <-> Wiktionary Gateway (which wasn't actually working when I tried it. Bummer) and finding out that "dictionary servers" are a "thing" in the general sense.

Not sure how many servers are "out there" that support this, but dict.dict.org at least seems to work, which is pretty cool.
There are obvious cultural differences that needs to be taken into account.

If all you know is being told what to do for generations it won't feel the same.

I'm pretty sure that once we sum this up, the interventions will be proven to have caused WAY more damage than any virus ever could.
RCS has been around a long time, but it has been deployed by major carriers in just the last year and certainly is not universal. Google also just did a bypass the carriers thing mid last year. It is not a this feature has been missing for years question.

Adding a full feature set is something to approach with caution since Apple does not go the Google approach of burn it down and start over every few messaging apps. Most of the zero days seem iMessage related.
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This is green bubble blue bubble stuff is so stupid.
There is a standard that is significantly better than SMS and Apple has so far chosen to stay with SMS as the only fallback.

Blame Apple that talking to anyone not on iMessage sucks.

Also, the features you mention are all extremely new to iOS, I'm not sure what you mean by "still".

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Or they weren't using Linux 10 years ago?
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Try gaming then. Linux for gaming sucks. It’s been improving but it’s still dogshit. Especially with how games are always updating now and are constantly adding new content/changes. Drivers are often terrible too.
Then, thank god it was pushed or else it would've been a pull and push war to cause fragmentation.
This take is not extreme at all. Everyone with an ounce of intuition knows it. The only people who could be happy in this society are narcissists or autists (nothing against the latter). Even if you are lucky enough to find what you love you’d have to be even luckier to have it be able to make enough to keep up with all the rentiness of it all. I guess you might also find who you love and have someone to suffer with.
Looking at China for numerical statistics of any sort is a fool’s errand. Nothing they report is accurate, especially with regards to COVID or the mental health of their populace.
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The point is it isn't just an increase -- it is an exponential increase. I myself have seen people claim that an author of an article citing an exponential increase in weather disasters is just hyperbolic, when (if the math of the distribution is to be believed) is literally true.
IR is how satellites see clouds at night. Seems to work pretty well.
Ask HN: What defunct websites would you love to see revived?
There is this great literature site I used to love, which closed down some years ago. My only consolation was
to visit the Wayback Machine and read all the pages there. I was wondering how many other great sites I am missing
because they are no longer accessible. Do you have any suggestions?

In an ironic twist, I have just discovered that the site has been taken down from the Wayback Machine. It is redirecting
now to a new site the authors are creating. It pains me to say it looks inferior in every single
way, and most of the original content is gone. Their prerogative, I suppose.
> But do you really believe that with one little ole' telescope pointed at the freakin' universe you're going to reach a significant point of diminishing returns?

I believe that James Webb has some unique capabilities, and a whole lot of overlap with other instruments, too. For things that you can only do in infrared, we have Herschel's history of observations, and VISTA. Sure, JWST is bigger and up at L2, and will be better overall, but VISTA's instruments have some advantages.

Not to mention all the other telescopes and ways we have of studying the universe.

There's all kinds of other things the government has spent $3B on in the intervening development time that I'd trade for another JWST. But it's a bit moot, here: NASA didn't have another $3B to spend. If you made JWST $3B more expensive, you'd not get 2 telescopes instead of 1: you'd get 0, because JWST almost died because of cost overruns.

(And even if NASA had $3B more--- there's a lot of other things that might have been better to do with it than JWSTx2).
Frankly this reads like a take by someone who is never around kids.

Kids need social interaction. I know multiple kids who have basically been checked out of society and told they’ll kill their family if they socialize.

Lockdowns and covid hysteria have certainly contributed to this.
That’s why they say Bayesians can’t be atheists by definition. At least that’s how all atheists in my stats 101 class starting calling themselves agnostic. Another way to put it I learnt in a finance class : financial models behave alright, the problem comes from our lack of imagination, i.e. assigning a null probability to a future event :/
Super interesting read. I ended up getting curious as to who he worked for, checked out his LinkedIn and it turns out he works for Citadel.. I swear I've heard of that company somewhere? ;)
How long computers can last isn't really relevant here. What's relevant is how fast new systems get developed, and whether a given system can be blamed for some action a few decades down the road. For instance, let's look at HTTPS. It was implemented to secure web traffic, but also plausibly can be used to lock down who can publish websites (eg. by refusing to issue certificates). However, in its current form it's not really problematic because there are many easy workarounds (eg. using http, adding an exception, etc.). Suppose 5 years from now all the browser/OS vendors go rogue and lock everything down. All web traffic must be conducted via HTTPS with a valid certificate, and all of the workarounds are removed/patched. Can you point to the introduction of HTTPS and say "see I told you! 1994 was the beginning of the end for the open web. We really should have opposed it when we had the chance!"?