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Buying non-open source software is quite risky. Buying non-open source software or using third party services is only valuable in the case that if it fails you can replace it easily.

Once you start relying on it a bit too much, it can hurt really badly if you are not able to fix issues by yourself, or if they decide to change the price later on. The worse is when a company that you were paying a software for goes out of business. You just have to start again.
To make some of the ideas in this article a little more concrete, here are some research demos I’ve made:

* Legible Mathematics, an essay about the UI design of understandable arithmetic:
http://glench.com/LegibleMathematics/

* FuzzySet: interactive documentation of a JS library, which has helped fix real bugs:
http://glench.github.io/fuzzyset.js/ui/

* Flowsheets V2: a prototype programming environment where you see real data as you program instead of imagining it in your head:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Ca5czOY7Q

* REPLugger: a live REPL + debugger designed for getting immediate feedback when working in large programs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8p5bj01UWk

* Marilyn Maloney: an interactive explanation of a program designed so that even children could easily understand how it works:
http://glench.com/MarilynMaloney/
Yes, I think you may be right. I did find this, on the long-term effects of ARDS, and the effects are frankly a bit scary. Whether you survive or not, ARDS is clearly something to be avoided.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5757654/
Main argument is that it's also open source.
They don't have to do it. Just pay an established tech startup to do it via EU grants.
Perhaps they could establish a satellite office in the EU with developers that are officially [0] hired by the EU but work for Signal? That way there could be a purely EU owned fork of Signal.

[0] Signal conducts the hiring and interviews, EU pays the salary
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This is for external communications for any case people would most likely be using WhatsApp. It's not for official, internal or classified stuff.
So? Decisions and policies change. Just because someone decided something a few months ago doesn't mean they can't make a new decision now.
The point of signal is that you do not need to trust the middleman due to e2ee about your actual communication (but this does not include your metadata where you do need to trust their servers - and there is no way to prove that they run the code that they claim to run)

As for the actual client, see https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/

Right now signal is not fully reproducible so you can't trust that the binary that they distribute does not use a different code.
Here's a dashboard on the same site for Japan's prefectures:

https://jagjapan.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.htm...
It's not for official or internal communications, just to replace any use case currently covered by the likes of WhatsApp.
This NIH representative assessed the fatality rate at more like 1% in an interview to PBS a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6-De7IAS1I
That's what seperates them both, it's not about immediate formal checking from a compiler here, but rather if our proof is being justified adequately according with the rules of deduction and reasoning, it's a more intuitive approach in math, although you do end up knowing whether something is right or wrong, akin to programs.
Sometimes it requires a lot of thinking to come up with simple solutions.

Usually you need to consider a lot of alternative solutions in order to come up with the simplest solution and that takes time and a lot of thinking and a deep understanding of the requirements.

When I start a new complex project, in the early stages, there are entire days where I'm just thinking about stuff without writing any code. Then as the project moves forward, I spend less and less time thinking about things until I get to a point where it feels like the code pretty much writes itself because the design is aligned with my original goals.

You just have to be very clear about what your big goals are and where you're going to need flexibility from the beginning.
Due to the the lack of native strings in WebAssembly different Wasm compilers have different memory layouts and string encodings. For example assemblyscript uses ucs2 for the sake fo compatibility with JavaScript. This obliges to carefully work with memory bounds, string length estimation due to difference in host native and guest string encodings.

For the specific goal of working with Strings in rust and assemblyscript I've created this project: https://github.com/onsails/wasmer-as.
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My understanding is that US Senators already use it. At least there was a headline on HN ages back. The main issue with apps like Signal in my opinion comes from apps that snoop on your screen. I wouldnt be surprised if there are rogue custom keyboards that do this.

I would be more worried if only communist / socialist nations (you all know the ones I am talking about, not sure of a better name so calling them what they claim to be) were using it. If the NSA advises against Signal that might be another concern. It might mean a foreign intelligence has access somehow.
>it's always a choice which you can revoke at any time.

It looks like the replies to this comment misunderstand the point.

It's not about one person choosing to make their communication public, but that there should be a record of government communication period. Have we not seen enough examples of our elected officials corruption in media that isn't encrypted? Now we want them to be able to communicate in all manner with no accountability?
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I do not think that anyone suggest to use proprietary alternatives. Instead it seems that the posters in this thread would be more happy if the EU was more independent from the US by for example hosting their own signal servers and forking the client.
Under your threat model no internet connected smartphone is safe. Google can just push any arbitrary software to run on your phone and this includes spyware created by governments.
More facts here: https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/02/the-latest-coronavirus...
Very good information!

Me and my wife have grown stuff on the balcony, but the main reason that we don't anymore is that we go away for four weeks during the summer where there is the most need to water. We can grow things in the spring and in the autumn, but we miss the warmest period in the middle.

We bought four large clear plastic containers from IKEA that are intended to store stuff under the bed, drilled holes in the bottom of two of them for drainage, and put them in the other containers. We filled them with LECA pebbles and dirt, and watered with large PET bottles. It was all very easy.

One summer we grew kale in one container, but were discouraged when we harvested it and only had enough for one pie. Your first sentence triggered this memory, which is the point of my comment. Growing kale on that small scale was terribly inefficient, and the amount of work to water it far surpassed the joy of eating the pie.

Another summer we had curled leaf lettuce that was much better than kale. It grew so quickly that we could continuously harvest it and still have more growing. Of course you can't eat it for the calories, so it's just for fun.

We've also had windowboxes on the inside of the balcony railing with flavorful sallads and herbs, like rocket sallad, basil, chives, and so on. As you say, those add a lot to a meal without taking up too much space, and are easy to start with.
> No TV license, no TV for you.

Specifically, fee-funded television programming. No one is stopping you using a TV for other purposes or alternative streaming options.
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Dumb question: is your comment meant to be sarcastic? I initially read it as such but now I'm not sure, given all the other replies.
This seems like an incredibly naive thing to say to someone. Not everyone has the privilege of choosing not to work. Welcome to global capitalism.
I agree with other comments in that it's not a usual novel. If you take a step back and look at it then it could be a novel with the main character being the human race and the story the growth arc of the human race from us to its final incarnation of 1000 year lifespan superbeings.
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Not so much selfish as realistic: now intelligence agencies like NSA can justify spending much more resources to exploit potential vulnerabilities in Signal, so—with Wikileaks in mind—it practically makes Signal less safe long-term.
I don't recall any such information.

There's people on this site of all different ages, who grew up in all sorts of different places. How do you know what their high-school history covered?

In my school, history was mandatory in the first year of high-school, and I think it might have been in the second year as well. Hardly anyone did it as a subject for the remainder of their high-school years.

Needless to say, the content taught in those first 1-2 years barely even scratched the surface of historical topics.
I compiled Signal for iOS and monitored the sent data through a proxy. Both behave identical. There could be a hidden switch in the distributed binaries that triggers other behavior, but I really doubt it. For Android, there are reproducible builds so you can actually check the code is the same. For iOS reproducible builds are harder but should still be possible.
Right, but stressing the importance of avoiding "hysteria and panic" is also extremely popular with authoritarian regimes justifying censorship and trying to cover up their own incompetence.

There was a window of opportunity during which this virus could have been contained. The Chinese dictatorship has squandered it in the name of "avoiding panic and hysteria".

Panic and hysteria should be avoided by being transparent, not by playing down the dangers or praising the efforts of an intransparent self-serving regime as the WHO has done from very early on.
Regarding an uncontrolled outbreak (we can't just quarantine everyone, everywhere without secondary effects from economic collapse getting more deadly than the disease itself), the number I find myself speculating about most is how many would be dead or permanently harmed in absence of intensive care? Because no health system in the world would have the capacity to put more than about one in thousand people in intensive care. Even Hubei is still below 0.2% total known infections, surely in large parts thanks to measures that would be impossible to scale globally.
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Sim-jacking is a thing that could damage security of future messages in the case of signal.
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> engineers have a tendency to think about Facebook scale before they have triple-digits of users.

I don't think number of users is what matters except for web services. If you make for instance a photo or audio editing software, there will never be enough performance.

It isn't acceptable to say to your users that your software works fine until, say, 8192*8192 images : if you want to compete against other software, you have to consistently be the fastest at every task that artists may throw at you (else you will get bad reviews on specialist & prosumer press / forums / blogs which can kill your business pretty efficiently... as it takes hundreds of people saying "it's fast" to offset the effect of a single press article saying "it's slow as shit" in art communities).
There's a cluster in Singapore that spread at a church.

But what does it mean? In Berlin or Paris it could suddenly spread on the trains, or at a spectator sport event. Being secular isn't going to stop you from breathing in air that other people are breathing out.

Everyone's susceptible to this.
I don't believe people would choose voluntarily JEE-way of web development over rubyonrails and the like (django, flask +zillions others) after 2004.
I like the smbc-comics “translation” (or explanation): https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3777
I would say that this is in some ways by design. Nim offers some OOP features, but in general does its best to discourage the use of OOP. In that sense I would say you should skip OOP and implement everything in a procedural style (it will be more efficient too).
If someone posts a comment saying something is historically unprecedented, isn't the onus on them to be able to back that assertion up?
> When was the last time you heard of a programming language discussed in terms of discoverability, succinctness, relevance, let alone beauty?

I mean, fairly often throughout the years. Particularly in communities for lisps, ruby, perl, python, C. More common 5-10 years back perhaps.

Relevance is a fairly common topic across the board. Discoverability is maybe the least common topic here, and one that's a pretty interesting one for PL design imo.

I haven't seen too many blog posts about these things lately, but they're frequent enough discussions in personal circles and in mailing lists/chats that this question seemed odd to me.
Sure they can. And I hope they will.

But I think you confuse the Commission and the Parliament.

The whole point of my comment is that two European bodies that work together closely have diverged in their IT policies.
I had 5 screening pulls this year because of all the things involving an interstate move and changing jobs with different layers of background checks. In the process of getting financing for a house and I had to provide explanation and documentation that i wasn't hiding debt for each of them. It may not affect your various 'scores' but its still a pain in the ass.
Internally, the BBC have a private streaming platform, [that used to be] called 'Redux' where 90%+ of their entire back catalogue is available for staff and journos to watch and search, as it's all fully indexed with thumbnails, and complete scripts. The UI is something out of the 90s but it works and is used all the time.
> My wife is, after 3 weeks, still really ill. Probably because she's working full time

In my opinion it’s high time to call in sick. She is neither helping herself nor her coworkers by going to work.
Such projects are expensive since it's not only development but also rollout including training of users.

The development is also more expensive than in other areas since there is need for documentation.

And then there is a flaw in the process: Producing the software has to be done via some bidding process. For writing the requirements documents they already rely on companies, which can add clauses making it hard for competitors, after that the lowest bidder wins. In case there is a competitor and not some big player like T-Systems as the only one the offers typically are "optimistic" meaning that at some point in time the budget will run out and extra budget has to be granted (or the project would fail, which doesn't look good and they'd have to restart the whole process, thus wait another two years) and there a "smart" company can find quite a few extra costs. ("Oh wait, you updated from windows XP to 10, we have to redo a lot and then re-twst and re-certify")

It's a game some companies can play quite well.

That all said: Software is expensive. Gathering requirements is hard. Bureaucracy, which among other things tries to prevent corruption, causes extra work.
Not only that, but you can also use many other C compilers, like Intel's own which AFAIK has some pretty big optimizations for Intel CPUs specifically.
Yes indeed. The onus is on all commenters to back up their assertions.
I guess many just aren't paying attention to iOS land:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210918
A month ago i canceled my broadband internet at home.

I survive now with 7GB LTE data and public WiFi.

That was the only solution for me to get out of the habit of mindlessly browsing the web, watching YouTube etc...

So i have 230MB Data per Day, that's enough for me to get work done and some casual browsing.

If i wanna watch a YouTube video i have to get out out of the house, walk to the next WiFi, download it, go home and watch it.
Gradschool stipend for all? ;P
The knock on effects of this type of policy are basically impossible to predict when instituted in something giant and diverse like CA imo. I don't think the experiment would cost much though or endanger much. It's too bad laws can't be introduced on an experimental basis with measurement policies.
> "communist / socialist nations (you all know the ones I am talking about, not sure of a better name so calling them what they claim to be)"

"Totalitarian" would be a better word, I think. This isn't specific to economic systems, it's about governments wanting to control the communication of their citizens (or subjects, I guess).

> "If the NSA advises against Signal that might be another concern. It might mean a foreign intelligence has access somehow."

Or it could mean the NSA does not have access. They do have a history of wanting access to encryption systems.
I tried to grow round carrots in a plastic container on the balcony, with the idea that round carrots wouldn't need as much soil depth as pointy ones. But one day the green parts above ground was completely covered in some white web, so I gave up on them.

I still like the idea of round carrots, so I may have to try again some day. I don't think I've seen them in the supermarket.

https://www.ufseeds.com/product/parisian-carrot-seeds/

What type of fertilizer do you use for carrots? The regular indoor flower variety or something special?
It's Swine Flu. We have it in our country too.
Flu is ok. Swine Flu is bad. Corona is bad. Coinfection of Swine Flu + Corona is super bad because it causes HIV like symptoms, so it's better to be vaccinated against A H1N1 Flu, to worry about 1 virus only.
I was replying to someone who was complaining about what to do on "my LAN," no mention was made of clients. HTTPS isn't "security" with sarcasm quotes, it's actual security, it really does what it's supposed to do.
>MS continues to do wrong, forced telemetry and upgrades, ads in the OS

These things might be unpreferable to you, but none of them are "wrong".
Sometimes it is helpful to have two implementations - one being a “reference” implementation that may sacrifice performance in favor of the guaranteed correctness, and the other being a high-performance production-quality implementation which may have little in common with its reference counterpart except for the same business logic they both implement.
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It seems odd that there are no cases reported in Laos, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Indonesia. https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...

Possibly these countries have no way of monitoring and reporting COVID-19? In which case we are likely to have new, large clusters added in the coming weeks.
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Hi all - new here so please forgive if I'm a bit naive on HN etiquette.

Looking for feedback and thoughts on this project I've been working on - But also want to discuss other peoples experiences and techniques in the psychology getting users to engage where they normally wouldn't.

The goal in my case is getting people started with sustainability so my demographic is newcomers - not those that already care about the environment. I've chosen the ability to unlock badges/achievements to add motivation.

Thinking of also adding competitiveness but unsure what would be the most effective, self or group (i.e. level up your own profile or compete against others).

Thoughts and experiences from others would be great to hear.
>calmer and more informative

Full of self reported made up numbers.
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I didn't make the original comment.
DIN standards are local derivatives of ISO standards.

There are few widely used "Technical lettering"[0] standards: «ISO 3098»(EU/International), «ASME Y14.5»(US) and «GOST 2.304»(ex-USSR).

There are few FLOSS fonts which cover «ISO 3098»[1,2,3], «ASME Y14.5»[3,4,5] and «GOST 2.304»[6,7,8] technical lettering standards.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_lettering

[1] https://github.com/hikikomori82/osifont

[2] http://peter-wiegel.de/TGL.html

[3] http://peter-wiegel.de/TGL_0-16.html

[4] https://www.fontspace.com/micronus

[5] https://cstools.asme.org/csconnect/CommitteePages.cfm?Commit...

[6] https://bitbucket.org/fat_angel/opengostfont/

[7] https://github.com/Metrolog/Font.GOST2.304-81

[8] https://github.com/MishkinIN/Font_GOST_2.304
Some problems with that:

- You can only offset a certain amount of warming with it. If you put too much aerosol into the stratosphere it will merge, become larger and precipitate quite fast. The exact possible offset can only be estimated, but is below what we're already committed to.

- You have to keep doing it. As soon as you stop you run into trouble very fast.

- In the models we see drastic circulation changes. For example the jet stream collapses. Do you want to test it in real life?

- The issue of ocean acidification still remains. The additional sulphuric acid in the environment won't help either.

- Ah and of course it's not cheap. We do not have the tech to do it yet in the amount necessary.

The currently easiest, cheapest and safest way to fight climate change remains to stop burning fossil fuels.

(edit: And of course I get you're not being serious.)
For what it's worth, you can easily hide those icons and access everything through the menu or command bar.
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So, is this rationality prevailing (play stupid games, win stupid prizes), or a canary in the coal mine for the US/world economy as a whole?
at least the Dutch sites work. try a post communist country gov site and you'll start appreciating it right away.
I believe signal had been on the radar of NSA since it has been the main topic of secure communications for few years already.
In previous discussion here on HN, Wire was claimed to be more secure than Signal (something related to initial key sharing?)

I don't understand why there's so much publicity behind Signal, and Wire is never mentioned. I've been using Wire for years, and it doesn't require a phone number to setup.
The only way I found of making Gnome bearable these days:

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1160/dash-to-panel/