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Security/safety trade-off. You read a lot here about rights, intrusion etc but this site doesn't cater for people who are representative of most people. Most people aren't the least bit concerned about the authorities checking their id, scanning their bags etc at the airport.
Sure if you are willing to invest that much into preserving the cultural landscape and identity. The trees planted there are chosen to be as economically viable as possible. Without that aspect the program might not get implemented.
The sad thing is that Zoom will probably get away with not fixing this, or fixing it much later than they should.

If you look on Twitter, anyone that has complained about this (huge) vulnerability is being redirected back to their blog post.

To make things worse, most non-technical users that have caught onto these posts are replying to say "thanks for sorting it out!"

This wouldn't be the first time a company sweeps a data leak or vulnerability under the rug. I remember when the Panera Bread stuff kicked off, and all they had to do was bury their head in the sand and wait for the storm to pass. There's currently a lawsuit in progress, but will that happen for a vulnerability like this?
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One assumes that this activates the green camera light? It's not perfect but I can't imagine not noticing that it had come on.

Not that it helps if you're, ahem, in the middle of something when the nefarious 3rd party opens the line.
> Alexa Internet: Acquired by Amazon in 1999, this Amazon subsidiary, based in California, provides companies with commercial web traffic data and analytics.

Interesting (and entirely unsurprising, really) that the “personal assistant” was (probably) named after a data gathering/analytics company.
Developer investing his/her time into learning a more limited programming language is like a founder investing his/her time into a limited upside opportunity.

The initial time investment is roughly the same, the expected upside is very different.

Off-course there are lots of people who are using GoLang (similarly to JS) without learning it properly first, but in the long time it will bite them. In order to truly master any programming language ecosystem one need to invest at least half a year anyways, be it GoLang or Rust.

Similarly some people rushing to start startups without learning entrepreneurship first and/or bothering to research the problem domain and their competition.
I'm using homeseer. It offers a lot of integrations, there are plugings for functionality, but you can also write your own or add scripts. It enabled me to smart small. The experimenting and small steps ensured the WAF (wife acceptance factor) to be high.

I tried several open source solutions but they just needed to much work or upgrading broke stuff. Nog good for the WAF.
The problem is that this looks suspiciously like a subsidized logging activity.

If nature is tolerated only as raw materials maker, they are doing it wrong. Ireland is a developped country; they have scientists, they should use them. They have natural resources, the government should use them. They have firemen, the government should ask their firemen and police if to put a wall of big highly flammable conifers close to houses is a good or a very stupid idea. It opens the doors to blackmail and make them weaker against terrorism also.

Some delicate balanced ecosystems where created when Ireland forests disapeared. They host unique species that will be extinct in no time if you put a frontier of spika spruces sucking all water and light around. More trees is good, but only conifers from an non-native species just does not feel right to me. Feels like a wasted opportunity, and in some aspect also like a deliberate boycott to nature.
> And if you don't find ANY counter example you can't definitely disprove.

This is... not even close to being true.
Those little tricks to make things easier is why it's popular and why they're currently valued at $25,000,000,000 (though that should go down quite a bit tomorrow, still just an insane number for a company with $8m in annual profits).
Love the FAQ about lunar cycles.
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These plantations in Ireland are not "old spruce forests", they are tree farms. Big difference.
No it doesn't: for example Easter was 5th of April in 2015 and it will be again in 2037, but 2009 has Easter on 12th of April (while having the same day of the week structure). If you take into account Orthodox Easter too it's even more complicated as 2009, 2015 and 2037 have different dates for that.
You can look at healthcare as a cost or as a benefit.

If you look at it as a cost, you will attempt to minimize it.

If you look at it as a benefit, you will attempt to maximize it.

The State looks at healthcare as a cost to be minimized. The State does not get sick or need healthcare.

Likewise, employers also look at healthcare as a cost to be minimized, but they do have some motivation to provide better quality insurance if they wish to attract employees.

Only you, the potential patient, really care about the benefits side of healthcare, and the quality of healthcare.

Health insurance has been screwed up by having the State and/or employers provide it for decades. What is required is for people to be able to purchase health insurance themselves just like they do any other kind of insurance. That would be a start anyway.
Does India not have any anti-dumping / pro-competition laws?
You can't un-ring a bell but you can avoid using the bell to cause a planetary catastrophe.
HIPAA provides an effective strategy for holding Zoom’s feet to the fire in cases like this. Since the company markets compliant video conferencing for healthcare professionals, they are classified as a Business Associate. It is quite likely that a well-written complaint on the HHS Office of Civil Rights site would result in further investigation and regulatory action.
"all non cash transactions. Which you kind of have to do to with any sizeable quantity of money (say over 100k)"

Sort of related, in the Netherlands, we will soon (2 years or so) have a ban on cash transaction of more than 3000 euros. Not to one-up, just saying that it's happening. To be fair, I contribute to this by doing pretty much all payments electronically. Just like I contribute to local bookstores disappearing by buying from Amazon, although I claim to like local bookstores.
It's not a trade-off because there isn't a shred of proof that it makes things safer. We have a term called "security theater" for a reason, and that reason is this.
They're not forests. They are monocultural tree farms. Better than nothing, assuming the harvested carbon is used sustainably, but they're nothing like a natural forest, spruce or not.
No. This is the latest in a series of good moves that Microsoft has been making lately in order to regain some integrity.

Microsoft's toxic and manipulative partner program has been used to extract excessive license fees from customers for years. Engineers and consultancies have been encouraged to "level-up" in the system, while customers and casual users are shut out. A whole proprietary ecosystem has been allowed to develop which requires a large financial buy-in just to provide simple services like databases and email.

Its clear that this has to change, and Microsoft is right to reduce partner dependency and vendor lock-in, painful as it may be for those who have heavily invested in these ecosystems.
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I think there is a different argument being made. The Russian nuclear program has suffered a lot of potential and actual nuclear catastrophes due to questionable safety standards and protocol.

I think that nuclear weapons is a different topic. But the safety of ongoing nuclear use worldwide, including by the US, is perhaps the topic here.
Do these techniques make it easier or harder to implement hardware floating point units?

Storage and transmission speed have progressed exponentially while execution units have become the bottleneck. A floating point format that is 20% denser or more accurate but that requires a 2x number of gate delays to implement is major step backwards, except maybe in highly specialized applications.
Sumatra - it's fast, super lightweight, and renders perfectly.
appear.in has worked well for me in the past.
It's unlikely that it can stay at those depths for long periods of time.
Ask HN: Help me find an article that I read on here about a year ago?
About a year or so ago, I read an article that I really enjoyed and want to pass on to people (and read again myself!). I can't find it and was wondering if anyone on here knows the article I'm talking about. The gist of it was:

- It was an article about change in your life and how you'll never know what you like until you take a risk of changing your life.

- It mentioned something along the lines of "what are the chances that you were born in the town/city that you will enjoy the most, work in the job that you will enjoy the most etc"

- It also talked about how even if you don't like the new thing you've tried, you'll never know that unless you try it and by doing so, you may realise what you currently have is exactly what you want.

Any ideas? I really can't find it :(
I wonder if bunq is available in the UK then... if not i might be looking into some similar setups for me
>changed the perception of application from sluggish to snappy

.. so, you measured the performence (sluggish), saw the need for improvement and improved it (snappy). It is not premature optimization. It would be premature optimization if it happend without mesaurement and without need.

I agree with your examples above. If you choose the right data strcuture/algorithms/patterns without sacrafising readability or development speed. By all means. But don't spend hours to improve something which dosn't need improvement.
How is it untrue?
Cool so there are 14 classes of year.
Who cares how accidental it was? If you don't vet what happens in your application and why, you have no right to put it on someone else's computer.
The fun thing is users mistakenly recognise the tradeoff as a sign of the security. If it was annoying it must be secure. Why would somebody waste my time for no purpose? See also placebo effect - of course I feel better, you gave me pills and I took them, duh, it's medicine.
I believe the name is from a cartoon character, who is made out of balls:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F_hX-QjDQw
> kids who have been taught outside of the standard educational system are always behind kids who were not

This is awfully overgeneralized.

Was this guy “behind” the “standard system kids”? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Demaine
You may be thinking of this experiment on ferrets: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/1527604/
I expected this http://photonkit.com/ , which is also a GUI project
they can migrate to america and help vote in ubi, I suppose.
But the link back to the earlier post is also nice to have, thanks.
parse_str also does not work the same as the parser generating $_GET because it doesn't replace control characters: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76255
I like to argue that Libra has the potential to become a widespread "mainstream"-like Cryptocurrency. Mainstream is the important factor here.

Sending money internationally takes several days currently and comes with high fees.

If Facebook implements Libra into their platforms such as Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, Instagram etc. this brings less familiar people in contact with Cryptocurrency.

People might start to use it because of way faster international money transfers and (most likely) less fees. I know I will because of that reason.
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Feel free to find out when the existing nuclear powers intend to disarm under their commitments in the NNTP.
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my guess is this is of 0 importance to the stock market and large customers.

almost all video communications software works similarly to zoom, so that's that.
>Go after bullying too aggressively and risk alienating users with stricter rules and moderation that feels intrusive at a time when the company is a bright spot of growth for Facebook. Don’t do enough, especially after promising to set new standards for the industry, and risk accusations of placing profits over the protection of kids

Seems these days the second option is always the preferred one. It's easier to ask forgiveness (and make money while you do) than it is to get permission.
X-raying belongings and scanning for guns/knives and swabbing luggage for explosives is absolutely not security theatre and provides a non-zero chance of detecting bad actors.
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A nuclear reactor is not a weapon, it's a power source. An incredibly useful one at that.
should public parks be on the hook for bullying on their grounds?

should we have AI-enabled camera drones patrolling at all hours?
Reforestation is clearly great, but it feels like we are still figuring out better alternatives to monoculture tree farming and clear cutting
Here's a video on the NP vs MD from a doctor who has been working to reform healthcare in the US. He's worth checking out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B70fidKO7cU
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Socialize the development (github), privatize the profits (corporate).
This topic is relevant in South Africa as well. More than 100 years ago, many of the indigenous forest were deforested to make way for pine and eucalyptus plantations. The former is less than ideal, but the latter is even worse.

The water use issue of eucalyptus far outweighs its carbon sequestration and the other problem is that after its cycle of 7 to 25 years (depending on use) a lot of that carbon ends up in the atmosphere anyway, for instance through burning for silicon mining.

The other important factor is the plant matter that composes the top soil and how this decomposes or otherwise interacts with the soil. A major part of CO2 release is through decomposition of plant matter. In fact, the recent article [1] that I read (on HN?) made me realise that a plant can be carbon neutral (rather than carbon negative). In the article, there is actually no difference between having a plant in that bottle or just having charcoal in the bottle—it's a completely closed system. This invites a question about afforestation and how important carbon capture via plantation is vs. re-establishing indigenous forest and on the other hand simply subterranean C02 sequestration.

[1]
>Is determined. Has 20 years of experience.

An average programmer is a few years out of college and is lazy.
This isn't a response to what I said, but if you do have something to contribute to that I would love to hear it. It would be very interesting.
The bill "is dead". Well chosen words, but they mean nothing legally. She was playing with words. Only "withdrawal" has legal effect, therefore she refused to say it. She even said this definition is no difference to what she has been saying when she told the public the bill was postponed. So the whole statement was just paraphrasing the previous ones, nothing more.

While I believe the bill will not be reincarnated in a few years at least, other serious problems already arose during the recent movement. For example police brutally. She said there will be a watchdog committee that investigates the incidents in the past month, but she omitted the most important fact that the committee is formed by police let alone the fact that the decision to prosecute the police will be made by the Secretary for Justice, who herself has a record of supporting whatever political decision made by Beijing and the HK government. The committee will do nothing of use.
Time spent listening to hard books is for most children also more marginally useful than time spent trying to learn to read very simple books independently, especially at the earliest ages.

Kids who grow up in supportive and highly literate households are going to learn to read sooner or later, without needing any excessive focus on drills. There’s nothing inherently wrong with spending some amount of time on phonics, but as a minor addition to lots of conversation and reading aloud, not as the main focus.

If primary schools (some of the most extremely progressive ones partly excepted) replaced most of the time currently spent on regimented reading, spelling, and grammar instruction with the teacher just reading a variety of long, difficult (just within reach of the audience) books aloud, it would do wonders for student language skills.
One of the most common native trees in Ireland the Ash tree is shortly due to be hit hard by the Ash dieback fungal pathogen.

The Horse Chestnut (non native but in place for several hundred years at lease and beautiful) is under threat too I believe.

This coming not so long after the catastrophe that the Elm tree population suffered with Dutch Elm disease

The sitka spruce forests are an abomination, nothing grows in them except sitka spruce, not even grass.
They are also planted in rectangles that look jarring to the eye on hillsides, nothing natural looking about them at all.
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Do you know who motivated the US to take on the Manhattan Project? Albert Einstein. Life-long pacifist and, I've heard, reasonably intelligent human who knew something about quantum physics and relativity. Are you certain that you would have made a different decision?
Any nonconstructive proof would fail to meet your criterion (which pretty much defines constructive mathematics). Consider the standard proof that the square root of 2 is irrational -- it takes the logical form

1. IF sqrt(2) is rational...

2. THEN it has a representation a/b where a and b are coprime integers.

3. THEN (after some algebra) a is a multiple of 2.

4. THEN (after some more algebra) b is a multiple of 2.

5. Points (3) and (4) contradict point (2), which says that a and b are coprime.

6. THEREFORE, we have disproven the idea that sqrt(2) is rational.

This is a correct proof, but not a constructive proof. It's difficult to have a constructive disproof of the claim that a particular number is rational. What would you construct?

But you can easily have a nonconstructive disproof of any given claim. Sticking to proof by contradiction, imagine the sequence "if this conjecture were true, there would be a unique largest prime number -> there is no largest prime number -> this conjecture is false".
Not all proofs are constructive. For example, Euclid’s classic proof that any finite set of primes is incomplete doesn’t actually tell you what the next one is.
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Title is misleading; this is taking about border control at airports. Electronic searches way up.
I did this: 1. killed by process name, and zoom app will 2. fail to start its opener and 3. fail to reinstall it:

killall ZoomOpener
chmod -x .zoomus/ZoomOpener.app/Contents/MacOS/ZoomOpener
sudo chown -R nobody:nobody .zoomus/ZoomOpener.app
Nowadays, it's pretty hard to get bored as mentioned due to the stimulus economy. Though making my phone's screen turn gray-scale really helps with destimulation.
It interesting to think what this could do for farming. Imagine one of these to a field continuously driving around. First weeding, killing pests, targeted watering, then when you get to harvesting you can be so much more targeted. If you have an order for 100 lettuce of x weight, the robot can remember the 100 that most closely match that weight, and go an harvest that 100 only, replanting a seed in the space. Or you could plant at double density and harvest every other one young.

It could measure nutrients and moisture in every square metre of soil, recording what grows best where in each patch of a field.

The amount of precision it could bring is amazing, potentially organic, and at least much improved efficiencies and carbon emissions.
I thought running for a very long time without needing to surface was the entire point of nuclear subs?
Space economics is… counterintuitive. A while ago I read a blog ranting about how pointless it was to mine He3 from the moon for fusion. A brief summary:

* We don’t have fusion reactors

* If we did, we could mine fuel from the gas giants’ atmospheres

* He3 is so poorly concentrated in the Lunar regolith that the easy way to extract it also produces high purity silicon and oxygen

* Turning that silicon into ingots and firing them at the Earth, you can generate more power from electromagnetically decelerating them then you would get from the fusion of the helium, and this is a perfectly sensible way to generate power because of the relative depth of the Earth and Moon gravity wells

* You can then burn the silicon instead of coal, and this is absolutely fine because the ash is sand instead of a greenhouse gas. You can also bring oxygen from the Moon to burn it with so you won’t run out of oxygen on Earth to breathe.

Unfortunately I can’t find the post whenever I’ve tried searching for it.
Yes that is correct but that's not what I was talking about in earlier comments, which were exclusively about example-based proof/disproof.
If Universal Links was supported on macOS we could get the best of both worlds.

The web server basically presents meta-data in a JSON-file (in the .well-known directory) which Safari/iOS uses to launch the app if it is installed, and otherwise just renders the webpage [0].

The app contains information about which domains it allows itself to be opened from which would fix this issue.

[0]:https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ge...
I'm aware that nonconstrutive disproof/proof exists but my comments were about constructive/example-driven proofs/disproofs, so I don't see the point really.
200,000 - 250,000 kg, of 6 month lettuce futures.
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Sounds similar to Irish forests. The trees are in artificially straight rows, really dark underneath as no natural copse can form. No wildlife to be heard.
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