skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Signal's source code is published so you can go look for yourself. If you believe that despite precautions the source code won't match what actually runs on your phone then realistically you've no real option to use any technological artefact and will be obliged to resort to maybe whispering coded messages to close confidants. As a large technocracy this is not a practical option for the EU.

Your phone number is sent to Signal's servers during sign-up and it uses the conventional SMS service to "close the loop" and prove this number is under your control. Having signed up you can use a PIN to lock the number to you so that anyone without that PIN can't do the "new phone" dance (this expires if you stop answering PIN questions correctly)

If you choose to do so a digest of your contact's phone numbers can be sent to Signal for them to match against the set of (also digested) numbers of Signal users so they can tell you who has Signal enabled.

Whether you choose to give your contacts to Google, to Facebook, to Apple or whoever is up to you and outside Signal's control.

Signal does let you create an encrypted profile, and then your device can tell other people's devices the keys to look at the profile if you want to allow that. You don't have to use a profile or trust anybody else if you don't want to. Signal doesn't learn the keys (unless I guess you deliberately sent them those keys) so they can't read the profile.

Unlike many of its competitors Signal's messages can't be read by Signal, in most cases this includes who sent them (Signal's "Sealed Sender" means in most cases if you correspond with someone the indication of who sent them a message will be encrypted such that they can tell you sent it but Signal only knows it was someone they authorised to send them messages). When you attach images Signal avoids learning how large the images are exactly, and if you use a service like GIPHY to add typical meme images like Stephen Colbert eating popcorn Signal double-proxies this so that they don't learn which GIF you used, and GIPHY doesn't learn who used it.

Edit: Fixed name of GIPHY. Huh.
And, in the case of things like chainsaws, they shouldn't be needlessly dangerous if a user is not as well trained as they should be or if they're simply inattentive/tired/etc. (And in the case of software, you should generally not be able to cause massive damage/loss of work because you picked the wrong menu item.)
This seems unrelated.

I hope u/dang sees your comment history; you are basically just spamming nerdydata.com
Agreed, I'm more of the "you are fined 1 credit for a violation of the verbal morality statute" kinda guy when it comes to the toilet. The way you get stuff clean is by scrubbing, not squiring it with water and calling it a day and I'm sure as heck not squirting my under carriage and then using my fingers to scrub it outside of a shower.
Full disclosure isn't a crime in the United States, at least.
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How do you measure website performance?
I get your point about how people end up doing engineering jobs sans PE certificate, but I would still stick to the position that people without certifications are in fact, not engineers. Maybe they are doing the work, but paralegals who failed the bar aren't lawyers, even if they went to law school, they're paralegals (or whatever lesser title applies). You don't get to be an engineer because you passed a degree program, or got someone to hire you with such a title. You have to demonstrate an objective mastery of a large body of knowledge, etc. This is what the PE actually tests for. This is different than in tech, where getting a degree or a job actually does make you a software engineer. There is no standard exam to pass or anything. Just get any random hiring manager to hire you and you're a software engineer.
> I would guess that, contrary to your implication, they are not an approved scanning vendor. If this is the case then it really does not speak to the characteristics of PCI-DSS and your comment just seems wrong.

Actually this makes a pretty good case for this regulation being a joke. They clearly aren’t up to the responsibility of being a payment processor and are leaning on the law to sustain their business rather than simply demonstrating aptitude directly.
Do you remember the uproar and all the anti-vaccine sentiment after WHO was seen to "cry wolf" during the last H1N1 outbreak in 2014 or so?

That's probably the reason they were more careful this time. It's hard to know early on exactly how a disease will spread, and how dangerous it will turn out to be.
"Glen Shee" - Scotland's version of the French Three Valleys! :-)

Not sure we get any kind of weather conditions (apart from wind and rain) with any predictability!
Yeah, I suspect it might be a memory throughput-per-core issue or one of the oldest ones in the books: they got a better deal for 48 cores as not all chiplet cores need to be operational...
I read a lot about this virus lately, and it looks like the mortality rate depends a lot on the availability of intensive care. If that's the case, slowing down the diffusion of the infection could be really important in keeping down the total number of deaths.
try {
// do stuff
} except( Exception e) {
// ignore
}

and yes, I've seen it often.

I will agree that it's not possible to accidentally ignore an exception, since it will likely crash your application.
This is pretty cool: https://ballerina.io/v1-1/learn/by-example/docker-deployment...
Does anyone know what underlying technologies they are using? Anything opensource server or client side? What types of hardware do they use in the vehicles to send the GPS info?
After thirty years in this industry, I've learned that in a good environment, almost any process or team organization will work, but in a bad environment, nothing will help. :/
I keep thinking we need some sort of new license for open source that limits which entities can use the software based on their net worth or the networth of their shareholders. That way large companies like Google can automatically fund these long tail of projects without burdening casual hackers or startups with unnecessary costs.
> Some 152 cases (and at least three deaths) were confirmed in Italy on Sunday, up from three cases on Thursday. The number of infected people in South Korea jumped to 763 (and six deaths) in just days.

To add an important point: In both countries, they have detected covid-19 only well after it has spread inside the country. E.g. in Italy it started with one severely ill patient who went to the hospital and got tested positive for covid-19. Then they recursively traced people that person has been in contact with and found over a hundred cases. They still haven't found "patient zero" yet, the first person in that chain who entered Italy with the disease. Before, it has been all in the dark. There are likely many such pools of carriers all over the world. This aspect of covid-19 is its real danger: in many cases the disease is asymptomatic so you don't get a test and keep interacting with people normally, but it's still able to infect others.
> It absolutely is an inferior product.

I don't think they were disputing that? But it's not dollar-for-dollar equivalent -- VCs are paying more (a lot more, I think usually) liquid cash per preferred share than employees are paying liquid cash per option of common stock.
>You are discussing learning about the math

You keep repeating this but you're evading the question about abel-ruffini and the question about whether reading a history book is "learning about history" as opposed to learning history.

You're making a weird distinction. People learn in different ways. Some by doing exercises and some by just playing with the objects. I wonder how you think actual research mathematicians learn new math from papers that don't include exercises lol.

You edited your response.

>I've met many people who are math enthusiasts and who have watched hundreds of math videos

There's a difference between watching numberphile or whatever and essentially watching a lecture on a proof. Very few people are watching/consuming rigorous expositions. I think that's the difference not the lack of exercise.
Would you agree that working hard will generate more opportunities to be lucky?
It's still actually quite limited according to official data.

They have to consider the reactions of the public and also the potential effects of declaring pandemics too often if it is not necessary.

I don't have many comparison points but a quick Google shows that we are still very far from the 2009 flu pandemic, for example.

Of course that may change...
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Actually, on re-examination I thought I might've been a bit angrier than one should be when commenting on this site, but the poster confirmed they were serious.
Yeah, i believe it’s done via the Vodafone network.

Cell coverage is something like 95% of land and 99.something% of population.
I'm glad you posted this, because I use walks this way too. And because it reminds me of William Rowan Hamilton and the quaterions!
Actually, although Netherlands still often gets cited as the tallest country, it's recently been passed by Bosnia within the youngest cohorts.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_human_height_by_countr...
> Not working while ill is a fundamental human right, and as such is implemented in all European jurisdictions.

It's also implemented in all U.S. jurisdictions, for everyone except for prisoners: per the 13th Amendment, no-one not convicted of a crime can be forced to perform any work.
i think you might want to take a breath, rethink that position and not let your anger cause you to do something stupid. if you disclose a vulnerability, the company HAS EVERY RIGHT to sue you. every security researcher _thinks_ that they are protected by some unwritten good Samaritan law, when in fact, you are hacking and that carries financial and criminal penalties. this is why these bug bounties and established ways of notifying the company of the vulnerabilities exists. you stepping outside of these established channels can be VERY costly. imagine in a moment of unclear thinking and childish behavior, you do something that could cost you your livelihood and financial well-being and also, maybe, get you thrown in jail.
Sorry, but you don't understand what you are looking at.

All of HackerOne's information that you cite is about them being PCI-DSS-compliant or having undergone a SOC2 Type 2 audit. Nothing you link to identifies them as a PCI-DSS auditing company. They are not.

And the "scans" the PCI-DSS standards refers to are standard pen-test and external vulnerability scans, usually conducted by an accounting company who will certify the scan results. They are for known vulnerabilities, things like the version of Apache you are on, etc. None of the reports sent via HackerOne would qualify as a "scan" under PCI-DSS.
> the others are worse

I think we need more experimentation with solutions to the (open-source) public goods problem before we can say that the others are worse. Ditto with experimentation on variants of democracy. Significantly harder to experiment with that than with open source funding though.
Yes but the context here is liquid investment, which is what preferred stock are meant to be a defense for (at least according to what I've heard).

(The opportunity cost is also paid slowly over years; I think VCs get better terms in part for front-loading all the money.)
Took reading the comments to figure out what a gritter is. (Here in the States.)
> ... Holland ...

The Netherlands. "Holland" is the name of one Province in the Netherlands.

Edit: I stand corrected. Actually two provinces.
Please remove this nonsense ^^
Of course. That said, it’s common knowledge here that dates on dairy date are - in no small part - influenced by the dairy producers need to milk their cows on essentially a constant basis. If milk stays on the shelves, there will be a glut of milk that needs to be stored/disposed. To avoid this, shorter than necessary dates are put on dairy to keep it moving off the shelves.
Simmons - Precalculus Mathematics in a Nutshell [0] (128 page booklet)

[0] https://books.google.com/books?id=dN1KAwAAQBAJ
Codeigniter 4.0.0 final released today
Maps, thankfully isn't as necessary as it used to be. OSM is getting better, and Maps hasn't. It's less usable and keeps trying to shove businesses in my face.
On Voice Coding
Seems like a dumb policy unless you can see all previous reports.
Finally Codeigniter release the most anticipated 4.0.0 version of his php framework. This is a new step forward for this community, after several years of incertancy and hard work. This is huge milestone for the team involved, congratulations to them.
As someone in management, I will somewhat agree that management too often deflects from their ownership and responsibility, but what you are saying is also a form of deflection, unless you also espouse a kind of paternalistic oversight over architects/engineers that would absolve them of responsibility by simply being mindless executors of management's commands and lead. I suspect that is not something most here would support.

There needs to be a balance, each party needs to play their own role and work in unison. As much as managers need to manage things and largely clear the way for architects and engineers, architects and engineers need to perform their job and role, to which I would argue belongs adhering to industry standards for security as a core aspect.

If there was clear pressure or even overriding of architects/engineers insisting on adhering to standards by managers who were not performing their role of advocating on behalf of or negotiating with architects/engineers, and instead were even sabotaging them and their product, then sure, it's a management failure; but at that point, architects/and engineers should have also even out right refused and revolted against managers or at the very least clearly and expressly voiced their vehement opposition.

As a manager, I would have even stuck my neck out and sided with an architect and engineer rebellion if they were pressured or even asked to sacrifice core requirements. I also understand though that not all organizations have managers that would do that, especially in careerist organizations where managers see people as bodies to pile up to climb the ladder faster.
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That sounds very different than "doing nothing".
Yes, I think TS need to edit the title because it tends to give misunderstanding
That’s just a sad consequence of the paltry state of labor regulation in the US.
That's a funny business model for a news site.

Paywall everything except really important critical news which isn't an opinion piece and end up in a situation where 99% of your site is paywalled. So basically almost everything written isn't important enough to consider reading.
Given that there seems to be no consequence to getting hacked, I could see companies putting their bug bounties into a filibuster program. They can outsource their liability. I doubt the insurance companies who rate them care if the 3rd party bounty administrator is effective.
My first website was a Geopages Myst fan site. I spent weeks trying to "debug" why I couldn't get a picture of Atrus to be the tiled background on my page using the eponymous tag. 12 year old me realized -- eventually -- that there is a "g" in the word "bacGround" ...
60m² is very large for a studio appartment.

Based on your numbers, 1 gallon would be enough for a 10m² bedroom.
I'm not sure there even is an exam in the US you can take any longer for software engineering. [1]

[1] https://www.nspe.org/resources/pe-magazine/may-2018/ncees-en...

Added: So, basically the grandparent registered on HN so they could leave comments about how people without PEs shouldn't be allowed to call themselves engineers.
This is pretty much the same as Comic Sans, except Comic Sans is a bit more curvy and fun. Routed Gothic is what Comic Sans should have been.
A Survival Guide for Startups in the Era of Tech Giants
We were looking into Covid-19 at the office and after digging through the scariness we realized mortality rate for healthy 30-somethings is around 0.1%.

Then we said screw it and stopped worrying. We’re most likely gonna be fine. Even if it becomes widespread the odds are ever in our favor.

Plus there’s already a few confirmed cases in SFBA so ...

Edit: for the downvoters, I’m not say spread disease with wonton abandon, I’m saying don’t worry about dying. You should obviously be always careful of proper containment procedures even if you just hve the sniffles. At the very least wash your hands after blowing your nose.
4th submission just to pluck Image4io. Such content marketing has little value here.
Toronto has the same thing for its snowplows, without the great names, sadly. They're all parked in their lots right now. We've been having unusually warm weather lately...

https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/streets-parking-tra...
I find sexual selection an interesting albeit in popular science literature underrepresented subject. It seems to me that this is the phenomenon that links things like fashion, infatuation and other cultural expressions to our biological evolution, and would explain the relative rapid adaption to various climates that humans obviously have gone though over the last 50 000 years or so, which the traditional evolutionary model (survival of the fittest) will have trouble explaining.

I'm sure this is no secret among professional evolution scientists, but this side of evolution has AFAICS not filtered into the general consciousness, for some reason that I have yet to figure out.

Maybe because it would give women a more important role than we so far have been willing to accept? Maybe because it would give animals an intuition and intelligence that we traditionally have denied them?
Yes, at that point several large clusters will appear within days because of how fast it spreads.
Healthcare is not socialized in China, the best facilities are private, and the public ones are still paying (usually requiring proof that they will be able to pay before admitting patients). Quite often, they provide different levels of healthcare depending on how much the patient pays.

It's easy to think that China is run as a socialist country because there's "communist" in the name of the ruling party, but the truth is very far from that; in many aspects China is a ruthless capitalistic free-for-all society with less socialist policies than even the US.
It provides a distributed actor runtime a la Erlang, but for Rust.

The Getting Started example gives some useful insights:

https://github.com/bastion-rs/bastion/blob/master/bastion/ex...
Don't we all.
Title is a bit bs

Their is a difference between ownership of a project and leadership. When they asked senior developers with experience to lead they had the vision granted by experience to do so. When they asked the juniors to lead they lead the project into trouble as they don't have the experience to see problems and judge risk well.

The success came from giving every one ownership, a stake in the project and work. But when making every one the lead they ran into the too many cooks spoil the broth problem, the solution was to give the juniors the same responsibility (ownership) but more leadership in how to achieve.
I agree, I meant 50-100 yrs with a bit of wink as no-one can reason about that period of time in software obviously.
What is their certificate number?
Forking Signal isn't practical for the same reason Forking the UN wouldn't be practical. Network effect.

But the code is right there for you to read it and re-use it, you just won't get far building your own network with one user and demanding everybody else switch over.
It actually does work well with the bar disabled. Everything is emacs accessible , the menu is just a wrapper around text commands, like they are in xemacs.
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> I keep thinking we need some sort of new license for open source that limits which entities can use the software based on their net worth or the networth of their shareholders.

That might be a new license, but it is by definition not open source. And, no, companies like Google won't “automatically” buy commercial software with that style of license; from their perspective it's worse than regular commercial software since it has all the downsides of traditional commercial software plus gives a competitive advantage to upstart competitors.

EDIT: How about instead a “new” license that, if you feel the software isn't maintained adequately for the needs of your organization, allows you to hire whoever you want to maintain it to your requirements, instead of impotently raging that other people aren't supporting it?
I think that a misunderstanding of the official definitions that the WHO uses is maybe what has "failed us". The WHO has been pretty alarmist and helpful in getting people to prepare. They also were instrumental in getting China to start reporting clinical diagnoses as well.

The world is going to keep trusting them in the future, and of course we're going to keep thinking for ourselves as well.
If you would, please repost your original comment a a reply to this one. Someone has flagged it, but I would like to read it.
It may not seem like it, but when you say things like, "The officials at WHO failed us because they are more worried about the politics than the truth" you are peddling conspiracy theories.
They almost certainly have more than 61 cases, if 12 are already dead. I'd say hundreds, if the only people who were on track to die did die already.
I'm sure that'll be a great comfort to the victims of whoever those flaws are sold to.
Hospitals are not free in China
This piece is excellent. I really love how it challenges the "optimize last" philosophy by pointing out that performance is integral to how a tool will be used and designing it in as part of the architecture from the very start can produce a fundamentally different product, even if it appears to have the same features.
A Close Look at 103 Patched Vulnerabilities
> This article tackles the 'simple' case of comparing Holland to the United States.

The dataset focuses on the north-east of the Netherlands (specifically the three provinces of Drenthe, Fryslân, and Groningen). So no, not Holland.
Maybe play realMyst to get through it. But Riven is the real masterpiece, because the brothers took all of the lessons they learned and made something really amazing
Python Became the Popular Choice
Let me give an example of the billing issues American's face.

Last employer I paid around $9,100 annual ($350 every 2 weeks). This plan had a $6k deductible with no coverage until that was met, then a $6500 OOP (out-of-pocket) max. So the insurance company was guaranteed to get $15,600 before they paid anything outside of "preventative care".

Now, unfortunately, the insurance company had me under a totally different plan, with a 7300 OOP max. Since I don't pay them, I pay my employer, I have to deal with my incompetent HR dept to get this fixed. They not only don't fix it, they somehow split my family so the member with the majority of expenditures is now on the correct plan, but everyone else is on a different plan. This causes the insurance company to claw back payments to doctors and bill me for old services, around $400.
Two (Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland).