skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's basically: buy a new phone. These two phones, specifically (the pinephone and the librem 5 -- both not even available to the general public at the time of writing).

I view this as a complete failure of the project: to bring back old phones to an usable state.

I've always objected that postmarketOS, while great, fails at being real-world usable.

AFAIK, there currently is not a single phone which is 100% supported, and not a single phone that can make calls, send/receive texts, and browse the internet.

You know, the things that you would use a phone for.

One of their flagship phones, the google nexus 5, only partially works and btw, last time I followed their installation instructions, it didn't boot.

I still admire their accomplishments, but they failed to deliver on the original core idea.

I really hope that they manage to deliver... In the meantime, if you want to make calls, you're stuck to regular phones.
Because Firefox in Jitsi is seriously not working unless you have small groups and resources to spare. But they are working on it:

https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4758

https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/5439
Even if 1:1 was untenable, at least team level discussions, not 400 at once. At live, not some robot-voiced dystopian nightmare meeting.
Netflix has literally never dropped support of a 4K/HDR set-top box or television. Ever.
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I thought it was nearer 90M years. Which matches up with the sample pretty good.
A key foundational fallacy of modern "dogmatic scientism" (for lack of a better phrase) is the fallacy fallacy - just because something doesn't have a scientific or otherwise formally-theoretic explanation, doesn't mean it's false. This is why empiricism was and remains so key in pushing technological progress, contributing to the Enlightenment and the efficacy of the scientific method. As opposed to "dogmatic scientism" where scientifically-oriented religious zealots denounce techniques for merely the reason that we don't properly understand how they work, in the false belief that they are promoting science or being scientific.

(A variant of this is where they denounce something for merely the reason that it seems to contradict another scientific theory, but in fact that theory only applies in a different context with different assumptions, and there is no actual contradiction.)

"The Science Delusion" is a very good pro-scientific book that covers various other examples of these topics.
I'm pretty sure Keeptruckin laid off 400 people during a zoom meeting too. Not sure if they called each individually before?
I generally give companies a week or two to reply. If they don’t ever reply, I never apply there again. Or I’ll apply and ghost them years later. Several times.
This is not correct. Russian did not achieve anything by ramming, they even damaged one of their ships instead. The Ukrainian ships effectively surrendered after overwhelming Russian forces opened live fire near and on them.
The Wikipedia has it right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerch_Strait_incident#The_inci...
I'm not a manager. But I've been in organisations where staff were being laid off. They've all started by telling _everyone_ that the layoffs were coming, then holding individual meetings with everyone who might possibly be affected to discuss what that means in practice.

You avoid the rumours by being transparent about what's going on. It's not like it's not going to be public in a few hours anyway.
> SQLite competes with fopen()

... and wins, which surprised me when I found out.
I'd rather have a manual switch for both the microphone and the camera.
It's because people are insisting on it's use.

e.g. College Lectures giving online lectures. Employers hosting meetings.

Normally you pick software to your preference but things like social media have strong network effects. This is the battle thats being fought.

If you're going to make me use something I'm going to push back if it's not up to scratch. Otherwise I wouldn't care.
The ability for someone to crash your Zoom meeting was extensively discussed here yesterday, and Zoom already has all the necessary tools to prevent it, but people aren't necessarily aware of them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22762173

But a fear-mongering article like this has no place on HN. A "dark side"? "FBI warning"? This is pure propaganda and sensationalism -- that if someone joins your unprotected Zoom meeting, they can stream whatever they want (obviously) which could include pornography.

You might as well issue an FBI warning about phones because someone can randomly dial you and say gross stuff.

I don't have a problem with HN articles about legitimate security concerns around a newly popular tool, but linking it to pornography is pure fearmongering at its worst.

This article doesn't deserve to be here.
What is the base of your theory? SpaceX has already gone through 4 prototypes in just 4 months, and the next one is being tested end of this month. By their roadmap, even with some more test failures, they could still accomplish this and more in 2 years time.
In my experience that is way too much water
There is a maintenance issue up: https://status.zoom.us/incidents/16ll08mmddk6
If I had to guess, a cryogenic test might be easier to conduct at night?
Good news is that the table access method API introduced in version 12 makes it possible to build b-tree based tables as extensions.
This has been a better study of media behavior than investigation of zoom.

Apparently there isn't enough going on in the world so every outlet feels the need to repeat previously disclosed information with less detail and more pearl clutching. At least npr was decent enough to link to some of the better sources.

Meanwhile we still get another few potential RCEs in Windows every month and the same editors are like "whatcha gonna do, bill gates amirite."
> Phoenix view/layout things still confuse me.

When I worked through the Programming Phoenix book, for some reason the view/layout thing was what I struggled with most, and even in the years since its only been recently that I feel I have a proper 'grasp' of how it works.

I've been scratching my head as to why this, of all things Phoenix, has been tripping me up so much. Maybe it's right at the 'sweet' spot between Rails magic and (often) Phoenix explicitness, while also being the kind of thing that I find myself least interested in 'grokking'?
Just amazes me how much PhotoPea does and it is built by one person and work without intrusive ads. Great work and you are an inspiration.
I think having different sources for sound and mic causes echo.
A few issues: 1. A decision isn't automatically more principled because it is made by a committee/consensus. Often the opposite is the case. 2. The purpose of the firm is to make money/value for shareholders, not principled decisions. If making principled decisions gets in the way of the goal, principled decisions are what should slip. 3. At least in the US, companies are generally not organized as democracies, so even if executives sometimes choose to delegate their authority to committees, that arrangement is always subject to revocation in extraordinary times.
In my experience, SMART alerts you "that drive you can't access is probably failed"; rarely do you get an actual early warning.
Alaska is an outlier in a lot of ways; they pay you to be a resident. I know a few military/coast guard folks who went up there -- Alaska is one of the top requested posts in the Coast Guard, btw -- and retained their AK residency even after moving elsewhere because of the tax benefit.
> make a lot of 1:1 video calls

440 people. Take ten senior people, CEO included, and divide the list into groups of five. News is delivered to bunches of five at a time, calls capped at five minutes, with one-on-one follow-up calls to be scheduled for later in the week.

After forty-five minutes, you’d be done. Those forty-five minutes will be mayhem, and you probably want to disable company services at the start of that process, but it would be better than this. (Next up, do the same thing at the team level to reassure those staying.)

This is one of the costs of a flat hierarchy, by the way. You don’t have managers who can work in parallel.
CDC should include people that can’t smell recently to do a test right away as a precaution.
> is like sending information at several resolutions and each peer selecting the best one.

Well, no. This is not about sending all video layers to all receivers and let them choose which one to render. Not al all.

The purpose of video simulcast/SVC is the opposite: make the SFU decide (based on estimated per receiver bandwidth or whatever) which video layers to deliver to each receiver, so a HQ video of 8 mbps does not break your Internet downlink (you just receive the lowest video layer which is 1 mbps, for example).

And more important: no, the server can not send the same UDP datagram (the same RTP packet) to all receivers. The server needs a different RTP sequence number count and a different SRTP encryption keys with each receiver.

I'm afraid this is not so easy as you say, not at all.

BTW: Do you want to say something about mediasoup? or just about your stuff?
> it is cached, in the database’s memory, where the cache can be invalidated automatically. It is better to cache views than data anyway.

The cache may not be for the data in the data base, but for something else (task queue, calculation, user session, pre-rendering, etc). You effectively split your cache into several systems.

> it is portable to every platform postgres runs, which in practice means it will run everywhere. Portability between databases is overrated because it rarely happens in practice.

As I mentioned, for a project it doesn't matter. For a lib it does.

> the access control logic evolves together with the schema, guaranteeing they have an exact correspondence. This is a good thing.

Not always. Your access control logic could be evolving with your model abstraction layer, which frees you to make changes to the underlying implementation without having to change the control logic every time. It's also a good for your unit tests, as they are not linked to something with a side effect.

> integration tests should involve a live database

Integration tests are slow. You can run them as you develop.

> Have you looked at jetbrains datagrip?

It's fantastic. If you are willing to pay the price of it for and force it on your entire team. If you are on an open source project, will your expect that from all your contributors ?

High barrier of entry, with no modularity. Linters, formatters, debuggers, auto-importers, they all depend on that one graphical commercial product that is not integrated with your regular IDE and other tools.

Not to say it's not a good editor if you do write a lot of SQL, as JetBrains products are always worth their price.
Pressure to meet schedule? And now the Boss says "don't go to test unless you're sure!" That would be the usual mixed message that amateur management gives to their team.
So far, those open AA meetings had all their access tokens advertised on the web - as open AA meetings do. Yes, there's a "WarDialing" app that can find Zoom calls, but I've seen no reports of calls that had passwords set being accessed or bombed. I don't follow the big media that much, but looking at the other links on the page, NPR seems to be in major "Hair's On Fire" mode - is that typical? I guess that's how to get clicks.
Does that include Greenland? - which is part of the America continent.
They did absolutely slow down their older phones, but it comes down to whether you believe that their explanation of why was the whole truth. https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/02/apple-agrees-to-settlement...

I'm not an Apple hater or a fanboy. I've owned a number of Apple devices in the past. However, they have their issues just like any other tech company, but their devoted following does seem to be more cultish than that of, say, Microsoft or Google.
Have you tried using the timescaledb compression instead of zfs? And how does this compare to uncompressed and to native Postgres tables?

I think that if timescaledb can support time-based or mru-based compression and even row-store partitions then it would take things to the next level.
I can second the nanopresso, I also recommend the barista kit for the bigger coffee basket:

https://www.wacaco.com/products/barista-kit
> What is the base of your theory?

The fact that SpaceX has missed every deadline Musk has ever set?

They get some absolutely impressive and ground-breaking stuff done, but they don't do it on-time.

I think they'll get to the Moon. I don't think they'll do it on the original schedule.
Isn't the whole point of software to control hardware, at some level? How is hardware-controlled-by-software different from plain old software-controlled? If a switch can be closed by software, I'm having trouble putting my finger on exactly what security benefit that might offer.
Is there a reason for the restriction of one connection per port? I would have thought you would be able to use the same port for each peer source ip/port tuple?

Not doubting you - but I never experienced this limitation with other client/server applications. I have an http server serving over 200k concurrent websockets on port 443, for example.

I'm happy to help out with this if I can.
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You have the causality reversed. The US spends money on marginal improvements in healthcare that other countries judge not worthwhile. The US is so rich that they focus on quality and convenience when other countries are trying to cut costs.

The US system really is very inefficient. All that excess capacity makes it relatively robust to surges in demand, like for ICU beds now due to COVID. IIRC the US has 70% average occupancy compared to the UK NHS’s 85%. Waiting times to see a doctor are also much shorter in the US than in Canada.

The US is richer so it can afford to value other things over efficiency.
Schools seem to be moving away from it in droves, warranted or not. My 5 year has a whole-class zoom today and if someone nefarious dropped by it would be seriously bad news. The teacher said this is the last one though before they move to MS Teams. Yes, they could just lock it down, but that is onerous for a big group (I am guessing, haven't tried it), and also the teacher wouldn't feel confident about it without experience. Which they won't get because DC public schools has already sent out a memo recommending to discontinue usage.
>> If enough people who suddenly found themselves without a sense of smell self-reported their condition, you might well create an early warning signal that told you where the virus was heading, and how fast.

I am skeptical. A test based on the sense of smell would have a very high amount of noise. There is no good, concrete measure of a person's sense of smell. One has to ask the person to get a "measurment" and it's very hard to know what different people would mean by "I can smell fine" or "I can't smell as well as I used to".

Maybe some people would convince themselves they have no sense of smell (like some people convince themselves they are gluten or lactose "intolerant"). Maybe some people who have a weak sense of smell anyway (because they smoke or live in places with a high level of air pollution) would tend to ignore having completely lost their smell.

In any case, it would be very hard to track real infections with such an unreliable measure.
Is there a good web page somewhere that keeps track of all starship prototypes currently being built?
I'm not sure it was paranoia, he became disillusioned with humanity.

It is important to be careful to not define activities that deviate from normal human behavior as mental illness. We should not expect average human behavior to represent a ceiling on virtue, wisdom, or rationality.
UK road travel falls to 1955 levels as Covid-19 lockdown takes hold
> Unlike BSD, which often disappointed me once I learned how much easier and mature Linux was to use.

With the exception of package management (at least with debian) I've found the opposite to be true. It's configuration has always been a bit of a mess, especially with regards to networking. Lately systemd has made things only more confusing. And that's before dealing with the myriad of ways different distributions do things (which thankfully now is really only 2 different bases, debian or red hat).

While linux "won" in the end and I use it professionally now, I'm glad I rarely have to interact with it directly anymore thanks to ansible or other orchestration tools.
They are, but mostly in supporting wide colour gamut than actually delivering more nits of brightness.

They'll naively play back HDR content (with tone mapping as they don't get that bright), but it won't be as flashy as a TV that has so much extra power to play with. From an actual picture quality perspective you still have more graduation in dynamic range to play with though.
op deserves the $75k! Good work!
This thread is a great generic example of why job posts don't enable comments.
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It does not seem justified. Even now the bar is pretty low for protecting customer information in online services.

At the same time Zoom clearly has some work to do. Having a strong Infosec team with proper release controls would solve many of the problems published to date.
It would require Microsoft to standardise the interface and specifications for manual wifi switches, and certify and police compliance, to make sure the hardware and software worked properly together. For Apple this sort of coordination across teams is routine and simply the way everything works, but for Microsoft and its hardware OEMs it's a serious time consuming and expensive pain.
Clearly anyone sensible would have a single switch for all of them.

Would turning on a single microphone of the array have any meaning?
The problem is you can't be 100% if it was because of the lockdown or how the virus plays out.

We in HN and other science based forums always want double-blinded trials of just about anything, but for this lockdown, we just assume it is 100% right and nothing else. I believe a lockdown/travel restrictions would have been effective on case number 1. When you do it on case 1000 it is just ... well... useless I guess?
Bill Gates on optimistically building factories for Covid-19 vaccine in parallel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship
My understanding is that the chip is a proxy for when they started including it in the design. Similar to how some older macOS/OS X releases had requirements like, "faster than 867MHz", or "newer than 2012" instead of, "GPU must support Quartz Extreme" or "CPU must support XYZ instructions".
How about calling an "all hands" meeting and telling the employees who are staying to sneak out to lunch? Been there.

Work everyone hard until that last day. Do it on the last day of the month so they have no health insurance the next day.

Been there.
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If there are no cross-platform apps which support e2e-encrypted multi-party videoconferences, then there simply is currently no solution at all for 'just works' secure videoconferencing, because part of just working is not requiring users to switch to a platform they otherwise would not.
True for SSDs; if you're using COTS SD cards (think RPi), it might be still a concern.

I managed to get plenty of useful life from an old, failing SD card by only loading (R/O) the bootloader, kernel and initramfs, and never touching it beyond initramfs (mount a USB drive as /). Similarly for an ancient PATA (!) SSD in a netbook: grub+kernel+initramfs, and nothing else; saves me from a USB stick out the side.
From the issues' comments some people are using the pinephone as a daily driver and phone calls are working.

Regarding the original vision there are not yet there, sure, but they are relentlessly pushing the platforms where Linux can run.

Once the 2 Linux native smartphones are 100% working, it will be easier to add more and more devices.

On the other hand, I've successfully flashed an old Nexus7 tablet which now can be used as a server rather than as a dead brick.
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No salary in the offer is a red flag in my book
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Start with an all hands video call (raises no early suspicions) to explain the company's situation and the need for layoffs. As soon as the need for layoffs is explained send an email to every employee notifying them of whether they are being laid off or not.
Sears Canada (retail store) did something like that.

Employees either instructed to go to the Convention Centre (to get fired), or a fancy hotel (for a planning meeting):

https://www.thestar.com/business/2017/07/12/laid-off-sears-c...
I put an inline switch on the supply line of my thinkpad camera. The hardest part is mechanically placing the switch so it's not in the way and can be used easily.
They rely on people with "zero knowledge" of encryption to select them as vendors
That is absolutely the worst possible way to do that. Your workers will become paranoid and anxious. They will "go to ground" as is the natural instinct of any prey animal. All of this makes the lay-off process much, much worse for those affected, it also hurts the morale and productivity of those who remain.
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Then you should consider Purism Librem laptops and phone.
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Minor player. Gets viral. You expect all competitors to stand still?
Problem with it is that it autorecalibrates itself every 24hrs as far as I remember. It is a problem in room monitoring where you have constant high CO2- you'd have to take the sensor outside to fix it's reference level.
I would too, on every device, but I don't know how the industry is going to get past two barriers to achieving this:

1. It costs a little bit of money, and hardware designers love to minimize costs and eliminate parts.

2. It's not idiot-proof enough for a lot of people. You're going to have people who can't find the switch. And who complain and generate support costs. And annoy their coworkers by being muted during video conferences.

Maybe you could fix the second one by having a flashing light on the switch that says, "Please switch this switch! The microphone is needed!" This could also increase awareness of when things are trying to use the microphone. although it would go against the first point because it's yet another part.
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You’d also be more likely to lose your top performers.
> Do they just put whatever sells best in the documents and implement something else?

Yes.

I've always expected businesses to stretch the truth with their marketing e.g. "Leading Brand of Donut in America", "Award Winning Bread", "Cheapest Gas for 50 miles"

However Zoom are just engaging in straight up false advertising regarding security features. It's not cheeky -- it's wrong.