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Yes which is very useful in videoconferencing. We don't want to run Microsoft Teams or Skype elevated.

In macOS, applications do not have permission to capture the screen, control the mouse pointer, use the mic, use the camera, etc. But the user can choose to elevate the permission (similar to iOS).
Interestingly a good part of the western press is pro-China. Just look at the COVID-19 coverage. We now know China lied on numbers (not that I think anyone here doubted of that), but western press was happy to push the narrative that China handled it so well (nvm the fact that they let it out to other countries to begin with).

What do they gain from this? I don't know. It's definitely not the first time i see this.
It's interesting that there's so much focus on the toilet problem, and not the other $139 billion in unexpected maintenance costs
pass is great. sops by Mozilla is pretty sweet too.
The idea that Nortel was killed by anything other than incompetence and mismanagement is laughably ignorant.
My biggest problem is having to commit to test changes whilst I'm writing/debugging an action, can this help with that?
And if not, does anyone have a good solution for testing an action before committing?
If it helps im already using self hosted runners.
Of course one can and should assign blame where it is due to the CCP. But demanding vengeful reparations from the whole country is pretty much a precursor to war.
I can totally imagine a few leaders riling up public emotions this way and also conveniently directing all responsibilities outwards. I really hope the world doesn't repeat the history of the last century like that.
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Sir Isaac Newton, who 350 years ago was sent home by Trinity College, Cambridge, because of the Great Plague of London in 1665.
Does anyone still use a 4:3 monitor?
Hi, I'm an academic and write a lot. I'm still trying to use a 4:3 monitor (Dell 2007FP 20.1 Inch Ultrasharp 1600x1200) though don't find them that reliable.

I really struggle with wide-aspect monitors. Lots of redundant screen space on either side, which doesn't help focusing on writing text.

What do HN folks do/use?
Aren't certain Chinese people in China relatively open about this on a high level? I mean, to me it always sounded as non-believable but there have been some places (documentaries or texts) where a Chinese person would say that the goal of China is to get Chinese people in high places all over the world in a 200+ year time span and then rule it.

As I said, I never took it seriously. But maybe people should look into claims like that?

Unfortunately, I can't find a source for this because it didn't happen that often and I'm not that politically minded.
Previous (flagged) discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22681785
"was towards zoom" -- that's your interpretation of the question.

I think it was more "can I feel safe as an end user wrt the risk that the CPP intercepting and listening".
Your points are all missing my point
Right. And then you get sickness and death.

Which is why I wrote: Secondly, Trump would break that news if it were fact. Hiding 10’s of thousands of deaths and 100’s of thousands of very ill is extremely difficult in the modern world when relatives live overseas.
Also Italy was gone at some point and re-appeared. I guess it’s just a glitch.
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> The average reader of HN would rather have their data shared with the US, then with China.

Why is that? If anything I'm a bit at the opposite. Prism, cambridge analytica and the likes means that my western data is actively being used against me, by our own governments etc. It may be naive but it almost feels safer having my data in hands not cooperating with western intelligence...
So you get to decide that risking death for a 70 year old is worse than risking permanent lung damage for a 30 year old?
There is an alternative if interested:

https://secapps.com/market/recon - mostly free with subscription if you want to save the maps and work in teams

https://github.com/pownjs/pown-recon - the open source engine that powers the above

Full-disclosure, I am the author and I am planning to split this tool into a separate entity it greater focus on the tool itself.
I take note of these in my comment, but no where do I say I trust the Chinese.

Not trusting western media on Chinese coverage does not equal trusting the Chinese government.

I think you may have missed the subtlety here.

my comment relates specifically to articles on western media regarding china's handling of the outbreak and it's economic outlook.

there is a sublety here that is getting lost
You're aware that "(19xx)" also includes Episode I, right? :)
> US companies do not belong to their governments.

Did you see the news last week that GM is being forced to switch manufacturing to produce ventilators...

Not paid to do it... Forced to... When that kind of thing happens, it's clear there isn't a separation line between company management and their governments.
> In your hypothetical world where China takes action to prevent this, what would they have done?

Why did they ask for international travel to remain open while simultaneously limiting internal travel?

Why did they threaten to stop shipments of the medicines they manufacture?

Why did they silence the whistleblowers?

Why are they telling their people the virus originated from the US and Italy?

Why did they decline aid or let other health organizations put boots on the ground to measure things?

Why are they strong-arming the WHO? And why did it take so long for the WHO to declare this as a pandemic?

Why are there more cremated remains than their official death toll?

I'm not imagining anything. I'm looking at their actions.

> Are you saying that it's reasonable to expect them to have done more, sooner?

Yes.

They had a better understanding of the virus than the rest of the world and they owed us complete transparency.
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I’m not sure what to make of this. “Lots of distributions give you straight-ish lines on a log-log plot” (http://bactra.org/weblog/491.html) so it isn’t surprising that the slopes of the lines are somewhat constant over time.

Because taking the logarithm is such an equalizing operator, I also doubt whether it is surprising that lines seem to overlap for each country. Zooming in, there still is a difference of about 20% in new cases/total reported cases between countries, even in the range of 5k-10k total confirmed cases. Taken over the course of multiple days, that can make quite a difference.
I'd say the same things are afflicting all world leaders right now, especially trump
This was already known. They settled this already. So Huawei already paid up for their malfeasance to break into a new market.

However, does any of their new 5G technology come from Cisco or Nortel? Or any other American company?

Did they also steal this 5G technology from Cisco?
> I mean, how many connection types exist?

Two? https://developer.android.com/reference/java/net/URLConnecti...
The structure of JSON I've designed is a bit better than JSON Resume as it has options to customize headings for the sections, this allows for multilingual resumes with no development effort necessary.

But I will definitely look into the option in which uploading a Gist or something would generate the resume as well, it shouldn't be that difficult.
I'm not sure western media is eager to portray China's doom, but i do think they tend to blow stories out of proportion.

On this topic: when a city of 10 million people has been locked down for 2 months, even with no coronavirus at all they'd be backed up with 10000+ bodies, so it's not surprising to see a bunch of urns.

On a more general note, i think western media does tend to run with not particularly well-sourced China stories. That includes both stories like this one that could be interpreted negatively, but it also includes reprinting unvetted party propaganda.

The problem is that the CPC does not allow very many western journalists into China, and the ones it does allow it doesn't give the same kind of freedom of movement and freedom to report on things that we have come to expect in the west. So, as a result, the news that makes it out is often fairly flimsy and suggestive rather than heavily researched. This is deliberate - it's how the CPC can keep control of the narrative. As someone who lives here, it's extremely frustrating, because it's impossible to really know what's going on anywhere except right outside my front door.

No urns outside my front door, btw.
It uses the fusion of the IDE and the program you develop. You have vast possibilities of objects visualizations (inside a debugger or in separate windows), you can select some part of the code inside the debugger and let run it in separate debugger etc. See https://pharo.org/features
Things like apparmor can work well because the author or distributor of a package knows that it shouldn't ever do a particular thing, so if it attempts to, that is a bug and it should be refused. The user shouldn't even have to be aware that this is the case because the program shouldn't even attempt to do the thing the author/distributor asserted it will never do.

The AppArmor + vendor-provided profiles doesn't work, because it means that you have to give most applications access to the user's full home directory. If you e.g. have an office suite and don't permit full home directory access, users will bail out because they cannot open files in their random folder structure. If you permit full home access, it could be exploited to exfiltrate data, write malicious files, etc.

macOS solves this by using a privileged service for Open/Save dialog boxes. If you ask for an open dialog in a sandboxed application, it is handled by this privileged service, which makes the file available in the application's sandbox. It is quite elegant, because it does not require the user to follow any additional steps (it works as any other file dialog), but restricts an application to its own sandbox. Flatpak also follows this approach with its portal mechanism (which is unfortunately not supported by every application yet).
> I also second a curses-based terminal interface for password management, I think it'll be really useful!

Bitwarden also has a CLI, so it's probably do-able to create something like this.

I built envwarden[0] on top of the CLI, which lets us manage our server secrets with Bitwarden.

[0] https://github.com/envwarden/envwarden
I wonder if thats one of the reasons, in this case the acid, is so expensive. You have to add all of the logistical and bureaucracy costs.
Well, no. I agree that average HN reader comes from US, hence your statement is technically valid, but thats about it.

I am so fucking fed up with US abusing its power, being a world bully #1 and overall a force of evil in quite a few aspects that actually matter.

Yes, China has a bad track record. So does US these days. China didn't literally kill millions of civilians half around the world that didn't harm anybody, in their homes, for terrorist attack on US soil done by Saudis with good US political connections. China didn't help to create ISIS by creating massive power vacuum in middle east. In fact, China isn't fucking the whole world by continuously making whole middle east utterly unstable for another at least 100 years with their idiotic foreign policies. I could go on ranting like this for a long time.

Maybe average US person doesn't care. Rest of the world, ie 95% of mankind, does.

I say US needs some counter-balance, it grew too arrogant. You know, some proper competition to bring again the best of your once great country.

For now, whether China or US has my data is same to me. No in fact I am more OK with China now, less real impact (which might change obviously)
There is bigger difference than just security; in web/mobile app model the user data/state and the app are tightly coupled and in many cases inseparable. In contrast in traditional desktop model applications are mostly stateless and the data lives independently as files.

Personally I'm kinda saddened to see the file centric model to fade away, but maybe the interoperability by default model it drove was always a pipe dream. But it was a beautiful dream nonetheless
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Same model on Android.

And yes, while the Linux kernel has a bunch of issues, glibc has a bunch of issues, etc. the app model as you pointed out is the major problem. Even if you use snapd and others, the apps aren't made to be able to ask the user for things like storage access and what not, making things difficult.

Ex:
"Darktable, an image editor, needs to import pictures from you /home/blah/Pictures directory". Well then it needs full read access to /home/blah really, for things to work. On Android and other similar OSes at the minimum it has it's own storage space, and asks for additional access - or goes through the specific call to get pictures from the pictures app.
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> And Mussolini got the trains to run on time!

More then that. Some of Mussolini era laws benefit Italy to this day.
The original question that vos Savant responded to contains the phrase "...and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat..." - I don't know how they could be any more specific.

If the host opens the door with the car, the game would be over anyway. It is clearly implied that the host always opens a door with a goat.
Interesting, i can see how that can be quite useful to have. I know that pandoc can not do this out of the box, but a quick online search revealed that such tools exist.

I did try a Word to markdown converter once. The results were fine, but the output was pretty far away from what i would consider a properly written, idiomatic markdown file.
Aircraft toilets always sound pretty damn loud to me. And their main reason to exist on planes is the lack of available water. Pretty sure that is not an aircraft carrier’s constraint.
And what is an example of an expressive type system? I am asking just out of curiosity.
Would moving to torrents reduce the load? Kiwix seems to able to distribute offline wikipedia stackoverflow etc that way - https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages
What do you think about Ciscos security history? They have had literally hundreds of remote code execution vulnerabilities.

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-16/C... (sort by severity, right now there are 450 flaws with severity 9.0 or more in the list)

I can't imagine that it is only incompetence that makes them implement new remote backdoors on an almost monthly basis.
How about this?
Show HN: Posixcube, a shell script automation framework alternative to Ansible (github.com)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13378852
I am developing proper application firewall in form of linux kernel module, but have encountered issues with the linux "kernel protection. What linux is doing is making half baked solutions, which are preventing real solutions to be implemented. It is just crazy. Instead of simple way of defining what application can do (which affects 99.999% of users), they are implementing protections against highly advanced threats which are affecting other 0.001% of targets of APT and preventing to protect all others. It is just crazy.
nope he did not.
I agree that config is quite weak in Goyave. I planned to rework it in a later major version. But I don't want to release breaking changes one by one.
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GC theory starts with "dead objects should be collected", and then immediately retreats to "unreachable objects should be collected" since unreachable objects are dead.

But some objects are reachable, and also dead. My progress spinner advances on a timer, but nobody will ask me to draw. I'll invalidate my bitmap cache on screen resolution changes, but nobody cares about my bitmap.

Most GCs would rather leak than introduce memory unsafety. But their design biases towards leaks: weak references become this weird expensive path and that's why you don't use them routinely.
he did not get trains to run on time.
You are overgeneralizing: the US did this in a crisis. China has been doing this frequently. It's not valid to equate them.
Perhaps he is alluding to India’s involvement in the opium trade during the 19th century ?
And then we seriously overvalue these "core CS skills" for a lot of positions, many of which will not involve actually using any of it at all. I can't tell you how many people I've worked with that could tell you a bunch of Big O crap off the top of their heads but all they were working on was web apps and they couldnt seem to remember that running an ORM query in a loop is a bad idea. The way the U.S. uses college education as a prerequisite to employment but also seems to not be very good at teaching stuff that's actually relevant to the work you allegedly need the degree for is very disturbing to me.
I think you mean ‘country’.

I grew up in Italy. I started using them in 1998 or thereabouts. I was the first one amongst my social circle who adopted them, and a couple (literally two) of friends followed suit. Everybody else was stuck with CDs and CD-Rs. They seem to have appreciated the MiniDisc’s advantages but regarded it as something not quite of our time, some kind of science fiction thing that you saw in movies but couldn’t actually buy or own.

I used mine until about 2003 or thereabouts when I got a 3rd generation iPod.
We've had a couple of engineers as PMs in my Southern EU country (one of them is now the Secretary General of the UN - he started his career as an assistant professor teaching systems theory and telecommunications signals), and I can assure you it's no panacea. Pouring concrete is easy and not by itself synonymous with good governance.

And since you said "any other public policy", I have to say I'd easily trade 50 tunnels and airports for access to Wikipedia.
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> Of course one can and should assign blame where it is due to the CCP. But demanding vengeful reparations from the whole country is pretty much a precursor to war.

No, it's the basis of any civil suit.

For some reason, you're trying desperately to spin holding an entity responsible for their actions as being akin to an act of war.

You're talking about the regime that simultaneously refuses to include positive and asymptomatic cases in their contagion statistics, and at the same time publish press releases announcing that the only new cases of coronsvirus infections within China come from infected foreigners.

States and governments are held accountable to their actions and inactions quite frequently, even I'm courts of law. Somehow you see China's regime immune and exempt from any responsibility of their actions. Why?
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I’m not sure how crows are related to this but it made me laugh ;)

The click-and-collect as well as delivery shops are all like this around here. Terrible experience, even without COVID.
Actually ships are very water constrained. Especially Nuclear as they can't risk sea water contamination to the reactor cooling.
All the wireless companies spend their money on shareholder dividends and purchasing restricted access to the airwaves. And now the US government doesn't like the new gatekeeper (i.e. China) controlling these companies.

Due to government selling the rights to our airwaves to the highest bidder, the modern portable computer + radios are locked down and obscured under layers of corporate control and constraint. I'd much rather have the software and network be required to be more open and radio waves more unrestricted for the public to use (e.g. sell me a better CB). Give me that over 5G, telecom companies and "unlimited" data.

I'm following meshtastic and disaster.radio projects. I like these little low bandwidth programmable long range transceivers running on the unlicensed bands. I bought a pair for $60 to play with. One could imagine P2P networks sprouting up on houses, cars, trees, etc with free low bandwidth services like weather info, email, chat, etc...
I wonder if this also has some bearing on Alzheimer's. My father who has a notoriously bad sense of small developed Alzheimer's a few years ago.
“system must regularly be cleaned with ... acid solution that costs $400,000 per use.”

I realise the government/military procurement process can result in higher costs than the private sector would pay, but that is beyond ridiculous.
Skim, do not read... if the work seems relevant to your interests and the best practices are followed, have a look at the conclusions. If still interested, have a look at the paper credentials, if it is peer-reviewed, from reliable publisher, etc. Pretty any good researcher out there has been peer-reviewed at least once in his career, be it a conference or a journal, so you can safely ignore vanity press, complete outliers and fully independent proponents.
Western nations divide themselves. Must be nice to shift blame to other though. Wish I could do that.
If the application is stateless (all state lives in the DB) you can run as many copies of the monolith as required behind a load balancer.
I find this is is equally a pain in the arse though. In normal times, I add stuff to my cart throughout the week then at the weekend top it off and book a delivery.

Ocado in the UK has the best model in my experience - allowing you to reserve a delivery slot before shopping if you want, but not enforcing this. Unfortunately they have also been the worst-affected from a surge in customers from a technical standpoint and were bordering on unusable for a week.
Tips: the first session cookie is probably returned if you do a GET on the homepage of the website, so you can simplify your script by

Declaring the requests session, doing get on the homepage and then doing get on the endpoint

It will also prevent issue with session expiration
Packages have signatures on Linux. They're validated during install rather than execution, but validating them on execution wouldn't cause meaningful problems as long as the device owner can install additional signing keys.

How does an average computer user know how to verify a public key (does it belong to who it claims to belong to)? They won't. I know many long-time Linux users, and they will just copy and paste all installation commands, including apt-key add commands. If a server is compromised, they will just copy and paste an attacker's PGP key. There are many criticism I can make of a centralized certificate authority, such as Apple, but by default Apple's code signing provides far more security for third-party applications. It is far less likely that Apple's key is compromised than the key of some random 3rd party APT repository maintainer. Furthermore, if a Developer's key is compromised, Apple can easily revoke it.

A centralized authority has its problems (the authority becomes the gatekeeper). But for most users, it much more secure.

So, how do you suggest how to verify a public key for a third-party repository at scale? Most users will not be part of the PGP web of trust and we cannot all meet the author in real life to compare PGP key fingerprints.