skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a side hustle where I produce niche desk ornament sculptures and busts made from concrete. Etsy link: https://www.etsy.com/shop/jurgenstudio

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hackajob Launches Remote Pair Programming Tool
SoftBank terminates $3BN tender offer for WeWork shares
> Is it necessarily a problem?

Yes, you neglect the concept of precaution. I draw the parallels to

• wearing face masks,

• neither confirming nor denying when asked whether one did something naughty. (See the Plausible Deniability story arc in HPMOR.)

If one does not do it regularly and only in times of necessity, it stands out as weird, socially not acceptable, drawing attention.

We want encryption everywhere, every time, even when it's not strictly needed, so it is a socially normal thing to do, which in turn fuels wide-spread use, which benefits everyone through strong network effects.
Military Infographics (2014)
Does e2e work with a large group of people video conferencing?

I thought encryption might get pretty expensive if 1080p streaming directly between peers. For a team of 30 people it eats bandwidth quickly. If there's some kind of server (or supernode) transcoding, does transcoding work with e2e?
Yes. Nowadays, you'd use an Everdrive.

https://gamesconnection.co.uk/blogs/games-connection/what-is...

In the past, even when the console was still on sale, there were game backup devices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_backup_device
Their website headers also whitelist a lot of domains including quite a handful that are known malware distributors. See for yourself: curl -I https://zoom.us
Pretty sure I've been using this on various Ubunta for years...
edit: yup, it's there. It's so inobtrusive that I had to check explicitly.
How bad will SaaS churn get in the downturn?
Point taken, but none of the issues raised over the last few days had anything to do with scaling problems. The humblebrag of "we were just a little company and then we got hugged to death" doesn't sit right when a lot of the issues fall into the same category: prioritising ease of use and onboarding over security.

As for "Thousands of enterprises around the world have done exhaustive security reviews of our user, network, and data center layers and confidently selected Zoom for complete deployment."... well it can't have been that exhaustive if a couple of weeks in the sunlight have generated a shopping list full of concerns.

Kudos for half-playing by the 3F rule, though - probably their smartest move yet
Yup.

Clearly no one is going to be able to convince you otherwise, so is there much point in you continuing to read this thread?
When I see comments like this, I just wish HN had the exact opposite of "flag". Something like upvote, but carrying much more power, perhaps at the cost of a few Karma points.
Yes, but this is probably not the best time to do it. We don't know anything about their life - maybe their situation is caused by poor financial management, but maybe there are other factors at play, such as a lawsuit, high medical or student debt, helping family back home etc.

OP, I'm sorry to hear about your situation. I hope you can find a new position soon. Try to stay positive - this too shall pass.
> doesn’t support calls from the browser

This is a feature, not a bug.
The ideal spectrum allocation scheme would be a by-the-minute rental.

Whenever anyone wants to use spectrum, their device automatically bids and gets allocated whatever size slice of spectrum and transmit power they ask for. Then the device maker or the user pays the bill at the end of the year, perhaps with some minimum free amount each year per person, which could cover all except the biggest spectrum users.

If you didn't like the government allocation scheme, you could rent your own block and do your own sub-allocations, for example some kind of packetized system with microsecond long packets wouldn't want to have to contact a government server for every 1 microsecond allocation.

That gives a strong incentive to use efficient allocation schemes.
Yes, mergers were more common at earlier times.

But in fact, even with mergers, it's exceedingly difficult to get supermassive black holes to merge in the first place. Because they are tiny compared to the sizes of the galaxies they inhabit, they have to somehow be pushed close enough that they start orbiting each other and radiate away orbital energy in the form of gravitational waves. Only then can they hope to merge into a single black hole.

It's actually so difficult that one popular explanation for the existence of supermassive black holes is that they are the peaks of the primordial density perturbations that collapsed into supermassive black holes in the very early universe.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primordial_black_hole
Because we’re technical and can smell the BS miles away. But a lot of the people deciding whether to keep using zoom at their corporation aren’t technical and it might be reassuring enough for them to keep using it. Not saying that’s ok but here we are.
At least they didn't tell us that our privacy was important to them. Hard to believe that you still hear that ol warhorse
Science has completely different mindset and that wouldn't work well with governing job. Science is operating in almost anarchy to push boundaries and constantly revise previously accepted theories. Governing needs more cohesion and stronger guidance. Engineers, on the other hand...
Other than Zoom stockholders, I’m unsure why this comment is being downvoted. It seems entirely factual and provides references.
Empirical Evidence for Kahneman's System 1 and System 2 Thinking in Design
I love your /jobs page :)
Performing those 2^64 operations on the original SNES hardware as would be required to profile its unknown behavior, on the other hand...
Not a suggestion but researchers do plenty of reading and writing. They're constantly learning about new, bleeding edge stuff.

Source: I've been working as researcher for a researching team for the past three years.
At my company we use a self-hosted Nextcloud instance with the Talk plug-in. It has chat, video, audio and screen-sharing. It may not be E2E encrypted, but the data never leaves our servers. It also makes a better impression when you share a <own_company>.eu link instead of a .webex.com or .zoom.us link.
But it was most convenient for the user. Maybe it's equally fair to lecture developers on reasonable ways to collect feedback.
The inventor of email Shiva Ayyadurai disagrees, with good reason. Fauci is a dangerous lunatic.

Look up Shiva on youtube etc.
Thanks - Teams is surprisingly easy (for a Microsoft product) to set up a glitch free video conference call.
I was curious how secure it is?
Its free with an Office 365 subscription and they are quite cheap, office is pretty much essential for most businesses, I think schools get it very cheap or even for free.
This is news to me as someone taking a break from a greenfield CLJS app to procrastinate on HN...
Although possible, I wish installing operative systems in phones was as simple as it is for computers.
I'm already hearing experts saying it is the simple but it's not :(
I share your interest in cooperatives, but not all cooperatives are equal. If we expect cooperatives to provide public interest services that might otherwise be P2P or nonprofit, I think we need a special kind of cooperative.

I belong to cooperatives that are politically partisan, that engage in sharp practice, and that aren't as democratic as I'd like. I'd prefer cooperatives to concentrate on treating stakeholders fairly, representing members equally and effectively, and prudent stewardship of their assets.

Cooperatives might lose their focus on their main purposes and discourage some non-progressives from becoming members/customers by pursuing too wide a range of progressive causes.
This is actually a bad example, in that "cloud, bed, floor" aren't really productive environments for most people.

That said, I also disagree with the parent poster. Yes, there are things we take for granted , but with a little thought we can replicate the surroundings at home too.

Of course, if you are productive only when surrounded when people who are always talking, that's a different story. In my office, everyone around me in open cubicles is always on a call with someone. Some personal, some team mates in a different geo. The only time I do real work is when I take WFH
Well deserved! AlphaGo was simply a revolution.
Even Tor is not secure

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18911010
> Engines allow anyone to make AAA level experiences with AAA levels of graphical fidelity now.

They allow it, but those indie devs don't seem to compete with AAA games. What's the catch then? I think that it's performance, game design, experience, etc. It's pointless to compete with big game studios on the same types of games.

> AAA level experiences

Sorry but what exactly is this? That's not what makes indie games interesting. And I don't think indie game devs will really achieve those "AAA" things.
I don't know if I'd accept this. Zoom deliberately bypassed macOS security measures and ignored other basic principles for security. Additionally, they ignored privacy regulations like the GDPR by sharing data with facebook without user consent.

That's a lot of stuff to forgive, within just a few weeks. I could forgive their servers buckling under the load or the trolls bombing in meetings. But everything else is less of a mistake rather than a concious decision in the basic software architecture.
I would very much like to use Duo, but that's not available in China. Whereas Facetime works very well in and out of China.
Happened for the TV I bought in 2017. Lived in a flat for 5 years, buy a TV and then the threatening letters started to arrive the same month.
Does the average person care? Probably not.
Not the GP but a couple examples:

An informative blog post which solves or helps with a problem I am experience, and plugs your service at the end.

A more direct approach of an offer of something of value in exchange for my time (e.g. pay $$ to beta test this for a week).

In general, the more the method of getting my attention requires a non-fakeable demonstration of value, the more likely I am to pay attention to it and the less likely it is to bother me.
Simple Bug Tracking Software for Slack
Haha, this is actually a remarkably funny read with some grizzled, hard-won bits of wisdom sprinkled in.

"It’s surprising how many of those derelicts hanging out at the waterfront bars pick an almost random time constant. “The boys ‘n me, we jest figger sumpin like 5 msec”. Shortchanging a real analysis starts even a clean-cut engineer down the slippery slope to the wastrel vagabond’s life."
And because those are all very confusing, there's Pipenv, which can interact with both, either or neither.
I’m not sure that ghz and version number were ever intended to be interchangeable, were they? I think if it happened it would be a happy coincidence.
Would that allow SDR?

If yes, that would be a game changer...
I would be happy already if the swift>3.x would run on my osx sierra machine
I understand how PR works (literally my first words said it was PR) but that wasn't the point the OP was making to which I was responding. They said this was a message in the right direction and I'm saying this message doesn't mean nor commit them to anything.
The statement admits that they fell short of the privacy and security goals but go on explaining how it's not their fault. It makes it look like either the issues are non-issues, or they're someone else's issues, or "we'll do these generic things that don't address in any way how those issues came to be". Which is a big thing to mention if you care about transparency and earning back the trust.

Some of the biggest issues came to be due to deception and this message does not address that point. They were intentional decisions with effort put into obscuring them. One of the most egregious being the creative use of the "end to end encrypted" moniker. That was deliberately deceptive and I don't see this cookie cutter response addressing any of that.

More engineering resources and engineering fixes don't fix deception, that starts at the top. And this puts the whole message into question.
So I haven't been exposed to capability systems before so this might be a dumb question.

In an OS like KeyKOS, how does the OS protect against privilege escalation using side-channel attacks similar to how encryption keys are extracted via hardware side-channels?
There's no video in the Android client, though (not sure about iOS). Zoom and Meet can both do that.
Anything with Easy or Simple in its name, isn’t.

SNMP
You needed to know the dialling hack to force it via cable rather than satellite.

I think it was adding an extra digit to the dialled number - I have forgotten the details as it was a long time ago
How Europe sleepwalked into the coronavirus crisis
They admitted problems and deployed fixes. All while massively scaling during pandemic.

I'm honestly curious, what could CEO say differently?
This - and on top of that, the question of copyright duration. It's not only "pay a toll", but "pay a toll for the next 75, 90 years" - the arbitrary period is another element that hasn't evolved for the 21st century.

We could at least consider a compromise where slightly older works, let's say 10+ years, or even 25+ years (same duration as patents) would be the ones included in the noncommercial infringement proposal.
Is Epidemiology Useful?
April fool.
Lately there has also been an effort by a hobbyist to use an MPEG1 decoder (PL_MPEG)[1] on the N64[2].

Disclaimer: I wrote PL_MPEG, but not the N64 port.

[1] https://github.com/phoboslab/pl_mpeg

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/n64/comments/dr15py/i_just_started_...
> Do you mind explaining "We can print tens of trillions and still not see inflation, if we control the costs of healthcare and education."?

At a high level, there are only a few productive economies in the world: USA, Germany, and to a lesser extent Japan and S. Korea.

The rest of the world consists of countries that are either small, subsistence farmers or welfare states.

So the USA can basically do whatever it wants monetarily. It also helps that it's the only global currency. You can go to the farthest ends of the earth, and people hoard US dollars there.
None of the actual issues are related to scaling at all.
oh no!!!! not ignoring the GDPR!?!? oh nooo!!!!!!!!
Why Performance Management should be your #1 priority?
It's a matter of trade-offs. You deliver fast to have a product that sells or do the things right and hope people value that.

Most venture startups are focusing only on the first part. Slow-Growth focus ones on the second.

Once you get used to one model, is hard to switch to another.
What makes it viable for me in a professional setting isn't popularity, but rather any of the following:

- Is it a first class citizen for the given platform? (What C# is to Windows, or Objective-C/Swift to macOS, or C to UNIX, or JS to the browser) Really can't go wrong with this one

- Does it have a commercial vendor? (VFX Forth, SwiftForth, LispWorks, Allegro CL, MATLAB...)

- Does it have a standard? (Probably less relevant these days but still a big plus to me)

Things like libraries and all that I can do without. They're mostly terrible / too generic anyway.

Note that some languages I use such as Go, Rust and OCaml don't really check any of the above, unless you nitpick. But it's not like I'm writing software with those for the long run (I'm old enough in the industry to think in terms of decades, and I've been burned by hype trains before).
Yes the python environment space has exploded and now feels like JavaScript with multiple competing solutions and no obvious go-to one.
In my experience, the last hired are the first laid off, regardless of performance. This applied in a large corporate context, involving human resources and myriad decision makers far removed from immediate work.

If your network primarily consists of coworkers, they probably won't be able to help you find new work that you'll be interested in. Don't hold it against people if you don't get referrals.

People are generally good, don't forget that. Situations compel action from the top down (to say it nicely).

This debacle isn't like the Financial Crisis. I worked in finance for almost ten years and was directly impacted by industry changes. Head count wasn't restored to pre-crisis levels. There were permanent, structural changes. The situation now is different. Government and shareholders aren't compelling structural changes. This is cause for hope, but sometimes getting what we wish for isn't what is best for us.

I turned hardship into opportunities for advancement. It came at great personal cost. Yet, I believe that the best days are ahead of me because of what I did in response to career instability.
My story is far from finished. So, I am hesitant to give advice. However, I am comfortable with advising anyone considering business school for job change or advancement to reconsider, assuming you are paying. Tuition is higher than ever. Student loans and other debt will constrain your decisions and opportunities. Academic accomplishments can be achieved without taking on $175,000 in loans. Business school is rewarded by students more than students rewarded by business school. An MBA is highly regarded by those who have them. The reality is that these people were going to succeed regardless of the degree. While they are complicit in perpetuating a myth, it is largely a consequence of bias.

If you are laid off and would like perspective from someone outside of your network and can relate, you can contact me.
What a load of crap...

First, some background: our platform was built primarily for enterprise customers – large institutions with full IT support

These new, mostly consumer use cases have helped us uncover unforeseen issues with our platform

Never ever gonna use zoom.. I got rid of it a long time ago when I found out about the malware...
I agree that there are potential problems w using system Python - the way I've had it work is to only support a recent Ubuntu distro and its Python version (latest LTS) and use the Python 3-included venv module for making a virtualenv. But yeah Docker is easier and more widely compatible, and works on Mac/Windows too.
Using the cloudflare 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver? Did you know APNIC gets access
Interesting. I am slowly building a computer science dictionary with a similar concept: three levels of difficulty https://cs.quickref.dev/
The BBC is still serving niches,for example fleabag, the night manager, inside no 9, Sherlock, Peaky Blinders, people just do nothing, Dr who, silent witness, death in paradise, and the detectorists.
Why ppl are so obsessed with e2e as a de-facto synonym for security?

Another question, why ppl who so care about security keep relying marketing stuff rather than using open-source solution?
I did. Let's see what they do.
>That's a lot of stuff to forgive

Isn't this where fines balance things out? I mean, it's 2020 ... GDPR isn't a new thing. It's good they have a plan to fix things, but isn't that enough for tech startups "We're sorry :(" narrative?

They are well funded, and have plenty of resources when compared to SMEs...

People still can choose to not use the service anymore, but that choice alone isn't enough. They should pay for it, and then users can make that decision.
left-pad comes to mind when you mention Node.
If you have 200k and add 20k for 30 years plus compounded interest at 2% you’ll have
1,189,861.13 at the end.
How many consumers of these services would find themselves targets of state-level actors, though?
Jitsi Meet sounds interesting.
It's not the hiring, it's the firing which is difficult - which makes the hiring difficult. Similar to a marriage, the harder/more expensive you make the divorce, the more people will want to be super sure that it's "for ever".
Do you even need an initramfs image at all?
Is Jitsi the OSS Zoom killer?

I saw many tweets about it today...

Edit: Seems like Jitsi Meet is the current contender.
I've long considered the copyright duration question to be a red herring. If we legalize noncommercial infringement, who cares how long copyright terms are? They could be infinite for all I care and I don't see any harm to society so long as noncommercial sharing is legal.
Seems chrome is the only supported browser[1]?

Doesn't this make jitsi meet _effectively_ chrome only until they better support firefox/safari/etc[2].

[1]: I get "It looks like you're using a browser we don't fully support....We recommend to try with the latest version of Chrome or Chromium" when trying to use it.

[2]: Sounds like webrtc isn't well supported and fairly buggy for some browsers, apparently?
I hear that and agree. I'm all for remote-working but had to make some adjustments also in the current situation.

Being able to close the door when you need to focus really, really helps.

A lot like having an office in the old days. Having a defined working space and being able to shut it off when needed.
Factors we don't know include how behavior would change even without top down pressures (i.e. doing nothing will still damage economic output), and how long lockdowns can last before protests, riots, and full on civil war, how effective a lockdown would be, what pressure there will be on healthcare providers in each scenario (including say healthcare workers refusing to treat patients)

There's also the subjective view - we aren't robots, people aren't objective automatons, many of us play the lottery for example, despite on average ending up behind, because we value the idea that we could get rich more than the value of the money we'd save not playing it.

There's then the relative weighting -- who suffers from that 25% fall in GDP? We may be willing to accept a 0.1% chance that someone in our close family will die in a car this year for $50k of personal gain, but we won't accept a 50% chance for "the economy" gaining $100m, of which $99m will go to "the 1%".

A crashing GDP affects "the 1%" more in financial terms than the majority. On the other hand with no cash to pay

There's then the value of a life. To me, my life and my family's life is far more important than yours. That's human nature. In the trolley problem where the choice is between killing their child and diverting it to kill 2 anonymous KKK members, almost everyone will divert it. Will a typical 25 year old with no family, a minimum wage job, and no health insurance, be willing to lose their home and live on the streets for the next 10 years in the unlikely save an 80 year old billionaire who doesn't care about them?
I agree with the sentiment of your comment

But to be fair, most of these systemd-[something] (sub)projects are part of "systemd", but not the systemd init system, which are different, apparently.
Kohl and Merkel didn't rule by decree. They were still subject to the Bundestag, they just got reelected a lot (or more accurately: they lead the largest party in a coalition government). They were influential, but didn't remotely have any kind of dictatorial power.

Putin, Xi and now apparently Orban really do have dictatorial powers. I hope Orban's will be removed once the crisis is over, otherwise I don't see how Hungary can stay in the EU.
Only recommend free software, this way you minimize reputation drama
Congrats, you're priviledged. Most of the world population doesn't have a pool.