skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the statement:

The encryption that Zoom uses to protect meetings is TLS, the same
technology that web servers use to secure HTTPS websites. This means
that the connection between the Zoom app running on a user’s computer
or phone and Zoom’s server is encrypted in the same way the connection
between your web browser and this article (on https://theintercept.com)
is encrypted. This is known as transport encryption, which is
different from end-to-end encryption because the Zoom service itself
can access the unencrypted video and audio content of Zoom meetings.

jumbles TLS with end to end. zoom could e.g. proxy or support rendevous of peer to peer connections and still use TLS to negotiate end-to-end encryption between the clients (though this would be MITMable). anyway.
So many good lessons for newer developers and good reminders for more experienced ones. It was due to the Bike Shedding Effect that I came to not appreciate code reviews. Every review seemed to break down into discussions of variable and method names. I tried several times to create "off topic" rules like no discussion of variable names, etc. It didn't work...ever.

Now that I've been away from mandated code reviews for quite a while I can understand why reviewers go to the trivial. Firstly, "code reviews" are really "system reviews". It's difficult reviewing a project whose requirements you don't know with a design that came about through iterative design and possibly in a language you don't use.

My current team is small and split into an integration group (mine) of two people and a UX group of two people. My group partner and I look over each other's projects and stay up on the requirements as the project progresses. But it's completely informal. Yet it seems to work better than having a group of 2, 3, X number of randomly chosen developers from my department.
Apple Logic Pro X free trial is available
Cost to get things into orbit is expensive - I don't have the numbers but the amount of extra fuel for every pound is, though roughly 90% of the weight of any launch vehicle is fuel. So if you can have something lighter do the same job, then costs etc really start to factor in hard.
Amazon was one of the original “disrupters”, taking out regular retail by not charging sales tax for the first decade of its existence. One might argue this gave them an unfair advantage over conventional retail, allowing them to gain a foothold faster than they might have otherwise.

Anecdotally, I absolutely and conscientiously used Amazon as a way to avoid paying sales tax when I was younger and less financially stable.
I'm afraid of other services catching on to this "semantic loophole". Would changing the terminology to perhaps client-to-client encryption solve this?
Scientists develop AI that can turn brain activity into text
Physicists weigh in on the origin of heavy elements
So reagent skips this by only re rendering a parent of only the parent changed and only re rendering the child of the child’s j out changed? (Presumably using its atoms for props then too and not just state?) This somehow sounds error prone.
Fuck these guys. This isn't the first time they've been caught being dishonest and deceptive:

https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/daily-news-roundup-mac-exploit...
Additionally, just because you have o-o-b verification, that still doesn't mean that it is e2ee. Until you can view the source and build it yourself, who knows what back doors could exist. But this is the challenge, how do you balance security and convenience? People, by and large, aren't building source and side loading. They are going to have to take a leap and trust someone. It is a very hard problem to solve. Generally, no one cares until the one bad thing happens, then they care immensely. I've said that it is hard to get people to care about privacy when they live stream and share pictures of their life every 30 minutes already.
Personally my money is on Favipiravir if I had to bet on which of the drugs in trial is mostly likely to turn out to be the best treatment but there are lots of drugs in trial and we still need to know much more about all of them. In the meantime we're advancing our understanding of how to treat Covid-19 in other ways as well, such as finding out that proning patients can help in some circumstances.
Given that Signal doesn't have reproducible builds and may therefore have absolutely anything inside of it's distributed binaries, I'm not sure if this is meant to be a good or a bad example.
There is a hospital in France using the Hydroxychloroquine + Azithromycin treatment on patients and publishing the ongoing numbers:

https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/covid-19/

They don't publish demographics that I could find, but certainly the fact that 1,283 people have been given that treatment and only 1 person that received it for at least three days has died, that strongly suggests it's better than "nothing".
It's called solidarity. You acknowledge that more vulnerable people can benefit from your support, such as the fulfillment centre workers being supported by the SREs in this case. But if you only care about yourself and never worry that you might need support from others some day, then yes, I suppose it's not really for you.
Please don't hide stuff behind links.

It's the spinoff to The Goal:

Eliyahu M. Goldratt and 2 more

Isn’t It Obvious?: A Business Novel on Retailing Using the Theory of Constraints
You can just bury money in your backyard and not tell your creditors if you're willing to break the law.
We live in a society poindexter.
Do not boil or steam respirator masks. It destroys the material and renders it less effective, sometimes drastically so.

Instead disinfect them with dry heat in an oven or rice cooker. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22680799
prices are incorrect for me, says eth price is 101eur when its actually 120eur
Other president wouldn't have tweeted. Would have the appropriate agency issue recommendations. Not be a glory-hog and blowhard.

It's natural to doubt, when random things come out that channel everyday.

In any case, this is a political act. Or a hail mary, one or the other. Not credible medical advice, not at this point.
There's the technical definition of "end-to-end" that we all know here—encrypted at one endpoint and decrypted at the other—but I'm wondering how well-understood that term is in broader context. I could see someone saying "end-to-end" encrypted meaning that each segment in the path is encrypted, but with the intermediate nodes decrypting and re-encrypting the payload. Perhaps we should try to come up with a more specific term? Or we should at least be aware of the potential for confusion.

Not excusing Zoom here—they should know better.
If coronavirus sinks the eurozone, the 'frugal four' will be to blame
Up to 200k U.S. coronavirus deaths 'if we do things almost perfectly'
Well, then go buy some pasta immediately!
I think you underappreciate one point here: We can still have long term alternatives to Zoom (and we can have them now).

Google and Uber are already difficult to replace or to otherwise challange.
Coronavirus: 'I don't want a flight voucher, where's my refund?'
WTF NY
This is a fairly small/simple example but a significant (yet hidden) portion of compliance is figuring out how best to "comply" with conflicting regulations. Everyone always complains about the operational cost of compliance but the expense that goes into making these decisions (risk assessment, lawyers, senior executive time, board meetings, etc.) is where compliance quickly gets very costly IMO.
Came here to mention the same coursera course. It’s a good start.
I see you used xautolock at one time. I was using that too. I'm currently using xidlehook + i3lock and it's been working reliably.
Your point stands, but NIH is an American agency. The British equivalent is NIHR.
>Still can't use Webex across Linux, Windows and Mac in 2020.

Have you tried just running webex in a browser? Works fine for me on Chrome in windows or linux
> First link when searching for DARPA inventions:

The article only mentiones in passing - ARPA, as it was called back then - that DARPA was once ARPA, and doesn't explore how DARPA's rate of invention tanked after the passage of the Mansfield Amendment.

This is a longer story that's relevant to the war is great for research! claim.
I wouldn't say unfair, they're sharing data with Facebook [1], and claim End-to-End Encryption while it's not [2]. IMO they deserve to be looked at.

[1]: https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/27/video-calling-app-zoom-sharin...

[2]: https://theintercept.com/2020/03/31/zoom-meeting-encryption/
Show HN: Sansa – Super Awesome News Summarization App
The Muse headband looks like it covers a pretty small area of the head right? Other products in a similar price range cover more or less the whole scalp.
Yep. I'm not saying one could support oneself through nothing but fishing (depending on a lot of details, of course). But I see no reason not to make that one component of a strategy for procuring food. And even if it only serves for a limited period of time (until your local fishing hole is all fished out), that may be enough time to bridge to the point where other options become available.

I think that ideally, one would use a combination of fishing, trapping, hunting, foraging for wild edibles, gardening, plus buying whatever food remains available for sale, to handle a shortage situation. Perhaps no one of those mechanisms is sufficient by itself, but the combination may be.
That’s why pair programming works better than code reviews. Unless you have crazy amounts of time there is almost no chance a code reviewer can really understand the design of the change. So you end up with people picking on very local stuff like variable names. With pair programming you have two people who understand the history of the code and why decisions have been made.
Harnessing the hackers: The emergence and exploitation of Outlaw Innovation [pdf]
Thanks, your comment makes a lot of sense.

I do understand this is experimental, but I just assumed the end goal was to do a licensing deal of some sort with a partner than would sell a commercialised variant.

My assumption (yes, another one ;) was that electrification would require baby-steps towards commercialisation in order to continue to fund the kind of progress you speak of - in the same kind of way we saw with cars, where initially they were expensive, had a very short range, there was very limited infrastructure etc, but they were still an option for a small market segment.
If they did that, everyone would have the model (meaning you would see closed captions in a lot more places, because it would absolutely be stolen).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3373043/

Perhaps my advice is specific to repurposed T-shirt masks then. But this study boiled the masks before testing and use.

The study was designed for poorer countries without as much infrastructure. Which is why the materials are so simple and the methods crude. But those attributes are very useful for the DIY community.
For complex reasons, ducted fans are generally quieter, but less efficient if you arent going quite fast.
> cars have to navigate what is basically a set a of 1 dimensional corridors on a 2 dimensional plane. Airplanes don't have these limitations and can fly point to point at their choice of altitude.

That's not entirely correct. Planes also have corridors in the sky. Just like roads, there are the highways (with different altitudes for different directions) and slower lanes for smaller aircraft. And airports are basically a confluence of many lanes, which requires a coordination (air traffic controllers).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airway_(aviation)
From that first article:

>national authorities including French government decided to deploy chloroquine as the medicine to treat COVID19. All based on Trump’s tweets which in turn was based on Fox News promotion of this study by Raoult.

This is absurd, and is insulting to every health official in any of the countries using this treatment. The idea that the French government is taking medical advice from Trumps twitter, or from Fox News is ridiculous. Moreso when the doctor and researcher they are talking about is a French citizen and infectious disease expert.
HN and any other place software developer types gather. If we didn't exist Rand would have had to invent us. We're practically perfect consumers of her work. We do a very cushy job for which a small amount of labor can produce a vast amount of value. It's easy to believe that it's a level playing field, so we're being rewarded purely for our own skill and hard work. We've changed the world on scales not seen since the age of the railroad tycoon.

We read Atlas Shrugged and see ourselves. Let us run the world and everybody will do great. We don't read The Jungle or Nickel and Dimed, and if we do we don't see ourselves. We enjoy the benefits of the labor movement as natural rights -- or even dismiss things like weekends and sick leave as unnecessary.

That's not everybody on HN; in fact HN seems to be better than many. Slashdotters, last I saw, seemed quite convinced Rand had written scripture.
Scientist uses 'mini brains' to prevent development of abnormally small heads
I think the comment is referring to something more in the range of a new-ish Bell 206
How to be Happy during a Pandemic
Numberphile: Mathematics and Cornona Virus
Businesses in the EU could be forced not to use Zoom services, cutting their possibilities to expand further, and I guess some countries could decide to block their services at the ISP level.
Really remarkable that somebody could completely miss the fact that most people consider the opinion "I'm skeptical these people have any value whatsoever" execrable.
You can find some curated resources on supply chain here: https://learnawesome.org/topics/e0ca877f-7dd4-467a-83b2-efa1...
App installation should always just be a file copy. Deinstallation should always just be a move to Trash (or ~/Disabled equiv).

IMHO.

I'm even uncomfortable with config scattered everywhere. The continued need for those 3rd party uninstallers is an admission of failure.

Source: released products ported to misc Windows, classic Mac, modern Mac. Our dev, QA, Test, tech supp was always so much easier on Mac. Not least because we could have multiple current versions installed. Which allows troubleshooting, rollbacks, etc.

Caveat: I personally use package managers and am curious to see if Nix becomes the norm. So I may change my mind in the future.
I have had this start happening on Windows 10, except instead of a split second, it could be several seconds, during which I could even launch and start using applications, before it finally locks. To get around this risk, I always lock using Win+L now, before closing the lid.
Why is your money on that drug?
Most of the articles over here in Germany don't even mention the last fuck up and the news about the company are now beyond the tech media.

You may not be convinced even after you attributed to my argument but it won't change anything about the facts.

Edit: since I can't post in god knows how long due to the wonderful stfu tech here on hn here are sources for german media:

https://www.google.ch/search?q=zoom&complete=0&source=lnms&t...

It's all over and I find it very curious that you've not been able to find anything in Danish media even though it looks the same for the english speaking outlets.
COVID-19 causes Moderna to pause a clutch of clinical trials
Theres nothing wrong with seeking comfort in this weird time. Even if you're rich and have a house on an island.
How to Profit from Coronavirus
IMO the impact of the drugs should be, more than preventing deaths, in reducing hospitalization or even prevent going into the ICU, which can mean removing load off the healthcare system and make infections manageable (far more than waiting out for a vaccine).

In fact, some the remdesivir trials which will end next month (end of April) measure also the time spent in the hospital.
End to end encryption means that a group of people agree to establish encrypted communication with each other using a method that does not allow the servers negotiating that communication to decrypt the contents of the communication. There is sometimes a mechanism to allow the people to identify each other out of band to verify trust. In some cases asymmetric encryption is used. In simpler implementations, symmetric encryption is used with a preshared key.

An example of asymmetric encryption would be OTR (off the record), which has been used in the past to encrypt message payloads in popular chat programs. In those cases, the chat programs are entirely unaware of OTR, or may just see it as a plugin. OTR will encrypt messages with the keys of the party members for whom the messages were intended. Implemented correctly, the servers handling the transport of the communication will never see any private keys nor would "backdoors" be feasible. A chat party member would have to be compromised to glean any discernible data. This gives the party members privacy and the server operators plausible deniability about any communications.

End to end encryption of course also assumes the chat servers have no control over the applications and can not push an update the a specific person or group of people and could not mitigate or simply back-door the implementation of E2E. So for example, if I connect to an IRC server and use OTR, the most the server could do is block me for sending words that do not look like unencrypted text of a known language. It can't hijack my application. On the other hand, cell phone applications can be updated by the carrier or authorized maintainers of the application.
Just ran into this nice collection of open source Meetup alternatives: https://github.com/coderbyheart/open-source-meetup-alternati...
The article seems to suggest that they’re using the components of urine that are left over once you evaporate most of the water for recycling.
That describes 99.99999% of locations.
The correlation between habits and mood
But why are there 2*pi radians in a circle, instead of defining it as pi?

EDIT: I meant redefining pi instead of the radian.
Why would people in the past not be reacting to announcements in the future? It must be some conspiracy!
If you have Homebrew installed, you can run `brew cask zap zoomus` to get rid of all the things (as far as we know) Zoom has installed.

If you prefer to remove it manually, here’s the list of files and folders Homebrew will delete on `brew cask zap zoomus`:

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/a6026e0a36c22...
sorry to hijack this, but I have no idea how else to contact you. Can you update us on what's happening with blockbattle.net? I'm a fan and it's been down for a while now =(
Do you know the CDC has been "silent", or have you just not seen anything about this before? Two weeks is pretty rapid to push through a decision like this, even in an emergency.
> Everything should just be drag to install, drag to trash to remove.

I wish it were that easy, most apps leave files in other places on your computer like ~/Library that will never get cleaned up if you just move the app to trash.
> (like "The Goal"...These last two books are classics dealing with physical production.

The Phoenix Project is a 2013 IT/DevOps version of The Goal [0]. It's an easy read that would be a complementary follow up to The Goal. It would help in understanding principles from The Goal outside of physical production.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17255186-the-phoenix-pro...
Device that takes Covid-19 testing down to 45 min is being shipped this week
Last I checked, due to how Electron’s structured, you basically have to decouple “logic” from the UI anyway, which makes it relatively easy/natural to make the “logic” side just a thin translation layer talking to some other language.
I'm not saying they shouldn't do it.

We don't know if it works, so if they're going to try it they can at least run it as an RCT.

We do know that chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine can have significant side effects, especially if combined with azithromycin. This combination requires careful monitoring. That monitoring is harder to achieve during the current very highly pressured treatment environment, where we have a bunch of people with less experience in very busy wards and field hospitals using unfamiliar equipment.
Signal for Android has had reproducible builds since 2016: https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/
They also don't want you to keep using a single mask for weeks on end, which is likely worse than not wearing anything since they're a breeding ground for bacteria. They aren't designed to washed, they're supposed to be disposable.
They may have been doing that forever but that doesn't change anything about my argument.

They just were not as popular as they are these days which makes them much more newsworthy and which is why we're seeing constant new articles about them now about issues that have been there for a long time but which were not newsworthy a few months ago.

Edit: no, I'm not defending them. I just explain why they are all over the news these days.
It's not really... They make a very nice and clear summary of the current state of RL, then introduce an incremental improvement by combining existing approaches and throwing a lot of compute at the problem.

Keep in mind DeepMind has a lot of money for PR - but nice prose and diagrams shouldn't affect your judgement of whether something is important or not!
I installed the WebEx client for macOS today and it seemed similar, installing almost instantly without going through the normal EULA, volume selection, etc. flow.

It seems like they've stuck their installation flow into an Installer.app _plugin_ which is unusual. I haven't encountered that before, and I'm somewhat surprised the feature exists considering Apple waged war on loading code into first-party software. (The user is prompted before the plugin loads.)
Note this only applies to the USA, other countries might not have loosened their regulations quite yet.
Advance Usage of Array.prototype.reduce() in JavaScript
> DLSS kinda works because we "know" what is what thing in a photo.

I thought the reason DLSS works is because the same rendering algorithm is used to generate the low resolution image and the high resolution image and the neural network merely learns a filter between the two.

Take a patient with ECoG implant(s), put EEG sensors on the patient, and hit record. You now have the same rendering mechanism (the brain) generating a low resolution signal (EEG) and a high resolution signal (ECoG).

However, back to DLSS, if the low resolution signal is a single pixel, then generating a 4k image from just that single pixel may not be very fruitful.

Still, it would be interesting to see an attempt at using a generative adversarial network (GAN) to generate an ECoG from an EEG. And if it doesn't work, then make a determination of how much more EEG sensitivity is needed before it will work.
> laugh at OpenBSD finding SMTPD vulnerabilities even now

OpenSMTPD is a relative newcomer -

Sendmail: 1983

Exim: 1995

Postfix: 1998

OpenSMTPD: 2008 (2013 as active MTA in OpenBSD)
This might win the award for most out of touch comment today on HN.

No, many people do not have enough in savings to survive a year without cash flow. I do not believe this is unique to the US.

Yes, health care is largely tied to your job in America. Yes, it’s crazy talk.
And yet hospitals and morgues in major cities are overwhelmed. Which they aren’t the rest of the time as a result of commonly circulating coronaviruses. So something is different.
To echo this, wearing a surgical mask consistently will maybe decrease your odds of getting Covid-19 by a factor of 3. That isn't the same as being immune so don't take unnecessary risks.
which bit is arbitrary?

the double blind study, or the number of participants?
Ableton now also offers 90 days of Live free trial
Show HN: Hack-a-Mask, create a mask in 1 minute using household materials
because then the formula for area would be (pi/2)r^2?