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> In addition, NIST has engaged with third parties that own various patents directed to cryptography, and NIST acknowledges cooperation of ISARA, Philippe Gaborit, Carlos Aguilar Melchor, the laboratory XLIM, the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), the University of Limoges, and Dr. Jintai Ding. NIST and these third parties are finalizing agreements such that the patents owned by the third parties will not be asserted against implementers (or end-users) of a standard for the selected cryptographic algorithm

and

> NIST expects to execute the various agreements prior to publishing the standard. If the agreements are not executed by the end of 2022, NIST may consider selecting NTRU instead of KYBER. NTRU was proposed in 1996, and U.S. patents were dedicated to the public in 2007.
It obviously is about 'you', given that the children in question do not exist yet.
There is (was?) an effort to do this, called SVK. [1]
I've used it before Git. While it wasn't good as Git, it actually worked pretty decently for staging changes in local prior to push.

[1]: https://metacpan.org/dist/SVK/view/bin/svk
They aren't playing the same game. Facebook designed its own servers, they were chassis-less, didn't have a mains power input so no switch-mode power supplies, instead they had a 12V DC feed, they had no rack-wide large UPS instead each server had a small battery in it, they were not built for massive redundancy like a Dell server with dual PSUs and redunant networking, because they were disposable nodes in a larger software cluster, e.g. [1] [2]

Things that aren't Fedex's core competency.

Or, Microsoft's roofless datacenters[3], or locating datacenters in remote and colder climates, things the big players can do with economies of scale beyond buying things cheaply, they can customise the entire datacenter. Microsoft has experimented with underwater datacenters[4] and modular containerised datacenter extensions[5] which could be datacenters no human needs to be near to work on, or which could be dropped off somewhere with cheap land and power and internet, and picked up three years later and retired from use, or etc. Ideas which are not FedEx's core competency and need large scale and software clustering on top.

While FedEx would be hiring ordinary IT employees to work in a standard datacenter in cheap business park - not very enticing - Amazon could be hiring datacenter workers to work with Amazon's undersea cabling connecting their worldwide datacenters; more enticing work for skilled employees.

Google has been known/rumoured to migrate heavy batch processing workloads around the planet, following the day/night cycles to take advantage of regional cheaper night-rate electricity all the time. Something which reduces their energy costs but which FedEx may not be big enough to do.

[1] https://engineering.fb.com/2016/03/09/data-center-engineerin...

[2] https://engineering.fb.com/2019/03/14/data-center-engineerin...

[3] http://www.500eco.com/exhibits/microsoft-roofless-datacenter...

[4] https://news.microsoft.com/innovation-stories/project-natick...

[5] https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/microsoft-develop...
How does that compare to CDN, stripe Integration, a fancy certificate and a shop web page. That is the question. It is software distribution.
Show HN: An unreasonably efficient Game of Life, in pure Python
Unless you enable unprivileged eBPF, root is required to load a module. If a user has root there are plenty of ways to get passwords.
> benefit from the ability to rapidly scale on cloud platforms

Big companies need this too. Some team wants to spin up some new service to try out some idea? In cloud-land they push a button. In "rack & stack" land they have to wait for Ops to purchase the hardware and provision it.

Cloud makes it cheap and easy to try out new stuff.
Thanks, troyvit! Very reassuring to hear that a company with that many users has found success with Fastmail. I'll keep those quirks you mentioned in mind should we decide to move forward, but they are definitely not deal breakers.
They’re saying it’s a surprise to hear that Dropbox doesn’t know what QC and order acceptance means. And it is, I agree. That you spent the time investigating it, implying those servers were in production, is a shibboleth to those of us that know what we’re doing when designing hardware usage that Dropbox doesn’t. It is, however, your self sourced report and we don’t have an idea of scale, so maybe they do and you’re just unlucky.

And no, operators don’t disassemble to perform QC. And no, I could hire an entire division of people buying servers at Best Buy, and disassembling them, and stress testing them, and all of that overhead including the fuel to drive to the store would still clock in under cloud’s profit margin depending on what you’re doing.

You’re of course entitled to develop your cloud opinion from that experience. That’s like finding a stain in a new car and swearing off internal combustion as a useful technology, though, without any awareness of how often new cars are defective.
If you’re producing consumer devices you need scale. Huge scale. Niece companies catering to specific audiences sounds great but without scale, the prices would be an order of magnitude higher than you’re used to paying. Modularity itself is costly as integration is one of the main factors driving down consumer devise prices.
> And that's fine. But it is not at all required for self-hosting things.

It's not required, but, once you have a handle on it, you get to save a lot of time and hassle. For example, I just checked my old docs for installing and updating Nextcloud. It's 17 printed pages. My new docs are:

docker compose pull && docker compose up -d && docker logs -f nextcloud

Personally, I run that nightly because, like someone said in another comment, "so what if your homelab is down for a day." For me having a day of downtime wouldn't be the end of the world, so everything's homogenous and auto-updated. I only touch it when I need to update to new major versions.

In my experience I spend less time fixing issues related to containers than I used to maintaining everything by hand.
It looks to be a 4-cylinder inline, and if it's a two-stroke engine, I wonder what its intended application was. Certainly not aviation, at that point. (I was going to say that there were no 4-cylinder inline two-stroke motorcycles, but I looked around and found that in 1911 there was at least one company, Pierce, manufacturing them.)

EDIT: now I see that the Pierce was not a two-stroke, despite what I had initially read.
It is — Reddit still doesn't require email verification — but I don't think the average user does.

To the average user it's inconvenient and either:

- has a chilling effect on what subreddits they participate in

- annoys users and dissuades them from participating in the banning subreddits

I suspect both are desired outcomes for Mass Tagger, regardless of 'collateral damage'.
Show HN: Made an AI Blog Writer to Replace My Ghostwriter
Feedback on landing page and positioning greatly appreciated.
Non paywalled article is here:

https://m.ca.investing.com/news/commodities-news/natural-gas...
Interesting, I have read the same about German farmers recently. Maybe I should become a farmer, I do like money and I am quite good at complaining...
Delta is one thing, but you're also fighting solar gain when trying to cool. Sure you can mitigate, but when heating, the sun is working in your favour. Winds are another variable.
> To be clear, I dont understand how conscientious UXer's function at a place like Facebook, unless the plot of Servance is a reality?

Fully ethical work that puts dinner on the table is a rare luxury, unfortunately. In the meantime, there are many rationalizations to choose from. I imagine a popular one at Facebook is something about the ends justifying the means.
Disagreeing with your disagreement. How "easy" a tech-related task is to accomplish is determined by the users skills and experience, as well as software/hardware usage patterns that they've learned over the years.
Official guides/tutorials for enabling/disabling various functions exist for Google Play/AppStore too. Does that mean that one of the easiest ways to acquire apps that have ever existed is...not easy? Because there really isn't much difference between following a "how to login into my Apple/Google account" tutorial and "how to enable an XBox feature".
git gets the "holy pass" because it was created by Saviour Linus Torvalds and thus to question it is Heresy. If you don't git it, it's because the problem is with you, never with git. Learn To Git, boy.
I see a lot of Apple Supporters are already calling for Apple to Pull out of the EU.

While this legislation applies to both Apple and Google. It was ultimately Tim Cook's Apple that leads to all these changes. Not only did they refuse to actively engage with the EU ( or any government ), they threaten them by either limiting features, services or even outright pulling out of the country. Their standard PR responses were how many jobs they created via their App ecosystem. I would not be surprised if their next page in their PR playbook were to bring Steve Jobs out one way or another.

There are quite a few things I dont like in this legislation. But I also think Apple deserves it. Governments around the world have been waiting, but not until the EU, which represent 25% of Apple's revenue made their move before they could follow. Now UK, Australia, Japan and South Korea could pick a subset of this legislation to use as their own.
- Web browsers with ad-blocking and plug-ins (Apple currently requires all web browsers to use system Webkit with very limited APIs).

- Game cloud streaming services (xCloud, Stadia, GeForce Now).

- Unofficial clients for websites such as YouTube that add features that official client doesn't have.

- Tools to disable advertisements in applications.

- Programs licensed under GPL as Apple App Store bans those.
Fastmail is great, but the only issue I have, in case some Fastmail engineer is in this thread, is that they should open up their JMAP push API already.

They have a cool protocol only they support, but the push API is restricted to Fastmail-only clients, so you can't create your own script that tells you when you have new mail.

It's been a year and still there's no movement: https://github.com/fastmail/JMAP-Samples/issues/7
> Apps will use near-field communication technology and other mechanisms to track us

So, then do not allow any apps the NFC permission... problem solved.

The point is, Apple should not be the one dictating what users can and can not use;

Example: on macOS you can disable SIP. 99% of the people i know do not even know what SIP is, nor that this possibility exists. However, if we/Developers/researchers/etc. want it, they can choose to do as they like. Which is really useful.

Researchers should not be limited in finding (security) flaws, neither should users be limited by Apple to use their hardware as they wish.
> take away dev time for Apple to improve iOS in other ways

The mobile phone platform has been "complete" for years now. There are little niggles to work out here and there, but the single most meaningful change that could come is the switch to an open platform. Consider the abundance of tools on desktop platforms like macOS that hook into the system to augment the UX for the better. Imagine having to use macOS without some window management tool like Rectangle, or without a key rebinder like Carabiner. Personally I would find my user experience greatly diminished. But that is the status quo on mobile. Opening iOS up to extensions and third-party integrations would allow for much faster development of the platform's UX, assuming that Apple Sherlocks whatever extensions end up popular. I have no confidence that Apple will be adding useful interaction paradigms on their own (see Stage Manager) so this seems like the inly path forward.
> Especially helpful on a laptop where the physical reset button is not available.

Are there any where holding the power button for 10-15 seconds doesn't work? This has always been a reliable technique for me, when using linux on numerous different laptops from different manufacturers.
I find all these mandates silly, but in a way this makes more sense than the places here in the US which have a vaccination requirement but still accept proof of shots from early/mid 2021, which are known to have worn off long ago at this point.
> prime is fucking expensive

Prime is similar to or cheaper than Netflix (depending on your Netflix plan), and yet also includes "free shipping", a selection of free movies, a selection of free books, all the "Prime Gaming" goodies, and a bunch of other stuff.

Netflix, meanwhile, charges you extra for 4k (and by some perspectives, HD).

I dunno, Prime doesn't feel that expensive, even if it is more than Disney+ or HBO.
That could be specific to the state. As I said, federal and state rail commissions can exercise authority in that space, and have varying agreements state by state. The point of what I was saying is that getting a signal in place is one thing, actually having it connected up to BNSF's CTC network and integrating that into passenger trains is the more effective thing to do, and $400k sounds very short for that.

You're looking to assign blame, I'm looking to say, "How does this problem get resolved". Very different questions.
There's no need for frustration. Any commodity price changes are transitory. They simply signal supply/demand mismatch, and a big part of demand is artificial (Europe mandated that storage is at least 90% full by November which is a lot more than average - to make sure no supply manipulations from Russia could present a problem later). Supply will inevitably adjust and level things out.
Swamp/evaporative coolers might be a big part of that difference.
On the other hand, the TV series are spectacularly good. Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Luke Cage...
I'm facing a similar situation with a local ISP/fiber company, but on a much smaller scale. Their TV service is buggy to the extent that it barely works, with massive quantities of glitching and freezing. Their support has admitted that the problem is their side, their TV department is understaffed and it probably won't get better any time soon.

Unfortunately, I am currently in the first part of a yearly contract fully pre-paid. This is because I didn't really anticipate that a real, legitimate company that maintains significant infrastructure might simply shrug and say, well, our shit doesn't work so suck on it. I filed for cancellation and requested a rebate after trying to get them to fix things for several months but they flatly denied it and claimed that in fact, their TV service is "free" and not actually included in the (internet) contract at all. They've also written the TV T&Cs in such a way that they literally say the entire service might not work at all for indefinite periods or forever, and you have no recourse.

This strikes me as complete horsecrap and after checking my local laws, I'm pretty sure they're in violation of several aspects of warranty and agreement law. Next step is to get legal advice. The laws in question boil down to:

1. You may not disclaim all liability/warrantee rights, regardless of what you put in your contract.

2. Consumer agreements that are totally one sided aren't valid.

I don't know if there are any equivalents for B2B contracts, but this sort of rule is pretty common around the world. You can't actually be completely negligent when selling things, even if you get people to theoretically sign away their rights.

After encountering this nightmarish customer support I googled around a bit and wasn't hugely surprised to discover their staff flaming customers on Twitter and claiming they (the customer) were guilty of "hate speech". Not really amazed to find a correlation between those sorts of beliefs and crap, unprofessional service. Wish I'd known about it before.
> While I love the idea of being able to finally install SNES emulators and the like, many malicious actors will now pray on unsuspecting iOS users to install spyware, malware, and other crap via third-party app stores. Not everyone is as sophisticated as the typical Hacker News reader; younger and more naive users will be taken in as victims of various types of fraud.

Think of the naive users argument has never made sense to me, just allow someone to flip a switch in settings that says “do not flip or your phone could be taken over by hostile viruses” or something to that effect. If someone is going to flip that switch and then install what someone tells them over the phone, why wouldn’t the attacker just ask for them to log into a fake bank site at that point? How much is the App Store saving them?
Isn't fdroid a successful android app store?
The way you do that is via a state prosecutor. It is absurd to hand standing to every citizen without any limitation.
Well.. Apparently I'm violently average, got a score of 7.5 somehow.

Oh, also I'm 60% better looking than spice girls (will certainly share this with news with my fiancee when she comes back).

It also somehow guessed my BMI correctly (very close), I got 21.5 score and my BMI is 22.

Impressive work!
> First there is way more money to be made on iOS users and secondly sometimes you wait to strike until you can knock down all the pins, not just half.

iOS users do spend more money on App Store purchases than Android. But if Meta's whole intention to build a 3rd party App Store is to mine them for data, why didn't they try that on Android- shouldn't the data of Android users be just as good, especially when they have a significantly larger user pool to do that with? Why would iOS users' data be more lucrative? Spending money on the App Store is orthogonal to having more desirable data to sell.

> It will start innocent enough, they will add 1-2 features only available in "Facebook Pro/Full/Unleashed/etc" via their own app store/sideloading but over time they will sneak more and more sinister things into their app.

Easy to conceive, difficult to execute. This scenario might have been feasible a decade ago, when Facebook was younger, their brand was fresher, and customers less jaded. If they were to do that today, they would immediately face friction from users who do not care for more fragmentation of services, and aren't even as engaged with the product as they used to. Maybe they could try to segment off a more popular product, say Instagram, but that would also cause blowback.

> Google will use the full weight of their ecosystem to try to get you to download Chrome or their other apps anytime you touch one of their sites in Safari (it's bad enough now even with them using webkit for their "browser").

And why wouldn't EU/US courts apply antitrust laws against them? Why is antitrust law assumed to be only used against Apple, when legislators/regulators are miffed at all the large tech companies?

I find the whole hypothetical of third party iOS app stores fascinating, because any examination into the landscape of app ecosystems show that they are bloody difficult to build. Ask Microsoft with the Windows Phone Store, or RIM with the BlackBerry Marketplace. Or just Amazon and Samsung with their third party Android app stores, which seem to exist mostly to service users on their own OEM Fire or Galaxy devices.

The idea that Facebook or Google can just make third party app stores and everyone will flock to them is just a questionable, reductionist scenario that flies in the face of creeping consumer burnout in the present day, those companies' continued difficulties in creating new compelling products to woo consumers, and all of the failed app stores of the past. (As Ballmer said, it's all about the developers.) They would have to be cleverer about it. So far, I've yet to see any comprehensive hypotheticals that really deal with past and present realities about the difficulties in setting up such rival ecosystems.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31989720
Amazon, Microsoft, Google Strengthen Grip on Cloud
The majority of Seattle's land use is single family houses, not unlike cities in the Southwest.

Besides, apartment buildings exist in desert cities too. The question wasn't about density, it was about building in deserts or not. Building in deserts is better for the environment.
> If you want diversity and black people on screen, why not create stories about the amazing empires that ruled the african continent in the past

That'd be a hell of a story. Compare the extent of an actual African empire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_Empire
Some are starting to question the almighty Cloud™: https://www.economist.com/business/2021/07/03/do-the-costs-o...

One of the things that bother me about AWS is that I still need to manage their risk of a data center going down by using multiple availability zones and managing the complexity of extra resilience. There is a conflict of interest: AWS has a perverse incentive in keeping a single AZ robust and unless there is a natural calamity, it should not go down.

I thought one of the major reasons of going to cloud is that you need not manage risk and offloading it from on-prem.
Ammonia from farms behind 60% of UK particulate air pollution (2021)
There’s a really fun movie out there called Special. It’s about an everyday Joe who participates in a clinical drug trial and starts to think he has super powers. He crafts a super hero outfit but he puts the drug company’s logo on his back and so the big drug company sends hitmen out to assassinate the poor guy because he’s bringing them all sorts of bad publicity. I guess I’d characterize it as Limitless meets Kickass. I love movies like that where the whole genre is turned completely upside down.
The what to optimize then also becomes an optimization problem.

Devs struggle to plan for read/write workloads. Making more indexes can then make the same inbound volume from the previous day require n more writes per row.

You can still get surprised by query optimizations on relatively simple joins just changing query strategy when hitting tuning parameters.

Making analyzers more visual and giving lots of suggestions (that could then be ignored) would b a good intermediate step.
FedEx had very few on site people managing the hardware, it seemed like most work on hardware was done by the suppliers. There were also very few servers there and actually running, I think the software powering the enterprise took up a lot less than they expected.

Either way, I think you're spot on with the "training" part. FedEx was one of the first companies to raise significant capital and pursue a business dependent on technology. It also treated its people very well so relatively few left since the 70's. I think they just didn't train the next generation enough and they realized that those skills are disappearing rapidly because no college grads want to learn old & boring stuff and everyone who does know it costs a lot to keep (FedEx still heavily relied on COBOL when I left ~5yrs ago).
> I think a majority of people in NL would sacrifice the local nature (to some degree) to solve this crisis.

The only crisis is that farmers have known for years they're absolutely major polluters and something would have to give, and as far as their concerned what has to give is the country.

> Point being, it's European rules rather than concern for nature, that is the trigger.

Bullshit.

The EU set aside money for financing nature reserves in member countries. The netherlands were happy to apply for 150 of them or so, and take the money.
>Can we stop pretending that Apple has the users best interest in mind?

Well they did, at least during Steve Jobs's era.
I thought you meant per capita, but I looked it up and it really is the second largest in absolute terms - 80B$ versus 120B$ for the US. It's insane that the netherlands exports over half as much as a country 20x it's size.