skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's no way for software to know that it needs an update unless it runs a background service to constantly check.

That is required only if you need to update the app when you are not using it. Apps can check for updates when you run them and then let you decide when to install the update/or skip it/etc.

Package manager would be good, but not possible on Windows given the amount of commercial software. Companies are not going to seed control to the Microsoft when they can potentially up-sell you via their b/g update services or do other kinds of advertising. I doubt MS would want to play rough with their partners either.
Everybody must watch this video
It’s not popular among quantum computing groups. We largely use python. It’s popular in a group inside rigetti.
Both Chrome and Firefox behave correctly according to the relevant standard.
You know what's better than criticizing negatively? Helping.
So, to avoid being a hypocrite, how can I help you? LOL
It is not hard, carriers are lazy. These are massive companies with deep pockets and no motivation to tackle a problem that doesn't directly impact their bottom lines.

Just keep a registry of every organization that you've given permission to to fake phone numbers, and which phone numbers they're allowed to fake. Make them route those calls through a special system and give them a secret token that that system will verify. Centralize your client/token/virtual phone number registry across all carriers (it's no different from certificate-authorities). If one of the accounts starts sending spam calls, revoke their token. Done.
Alibris is basically the same thing and not owned by Amazon.
Bill Gates is funding new factories for 7 potential coronavirus vaccines
It's probably because HN is a particularly privacy-focused community and Zoom's privacy policy is a bit more questionable than other companies
And when you make it there is no reason fix anything
I'm sure it is possible, but YouTube has a built in one you can select which may explain why lots of online videos have it even if they aren't using pro software.
> And if you want to be really persnickety, no amount of money in Rome would buy antibiotics, televisions, etc, etc.

Apparently they had advanced plastic surgery using obsidian blades, and must have had some type of antibiotics for all that surgery.

https://bulletin.facs.org/2018/02/the-history-of-the-scalpel...
Question for people who contribute: how do you familiarize yourself with the project at the beginning? I'm talking about the actual source code. Do you have any strategy to start? Maybe debugging API calls, or study single files? Thanks.
I recently went through this exercise and it really is sad. I actually decided to use the Godot game engine because at the end of the day it's fairly lightweight, you're in complete control over the rendering, the built in components are great (the editor itself is written in the game engine), it supports C#/C++, it runs literally everywhere, and it's completely free/open source.

I'm keeping my eye on Flutter and Avalonia as well but so far Godot seems the most mature on the desktop.
>Watch the future unfold, there's an idiot in the president's seat :(

I fully expect the President to do whatever it takes to save American lives. Even if it means diverting masks that an American Company produces.

Germany is welcomed to make it's own masks....
New scam keeps fraudsters connected after victim hangs up https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/line-in-trapping-techn...

"Scammers using line-trapping technology to trick victims, police warn"
Colosseum sat about 50,000 people. 2000 races would be 100,000,000 customers served. Assuming it's alway full. Not a historian but consistently have heard that the games were heavily subsidized by the wealthy. Kinda like the big boss handing out season tickets to favored staff and business associates.

I think it's sometimes hard to imagine how important this stuff was. The Byzantine had a revolt that involved Chariot Race factions. Seriously.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_riots
Eisenhower. He steered us through the greatest catastrophe the world has ever seen, and was wary of his own power.
My understanding is that "In addition, ceasing all export of respirators produced in the United States would likely cause other countries to retaliate” is what would happen if they went with it and currently it’s not happening. Also the wording is about a US “request”, if they feel that it becomes an “order” they will probably comply.
Oh wow I see, thanks. That would explain a lot...
Bangladesh Govt. denies CORVID-19 spread, arresting those who disagree
short sellers
This is the best way, but some call centers aren’t set up to give it. (I have intimate knowledge of this topic.)

If you run into one of them, the quickest resolution is calling their preferred services line and saying “I just got a call from the Fraud Department but was disconnected; can you transfer me?”
You're naively assuming that Apple's decision making and internal coms have not already been compromised by these same malicious actors. In terms of risk reward, comprising the hardware makers internal coms is priority 0.
It seems that Blender can do this 2D motion tracking well [1]. FFmpeg has a filter for this as well [2].

I haven't tried either approach.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU8zqn091rM

[2]: http://blog.gregzaal.com/2014/05/30/camera-stabilisation-wit...
Wouldn’t it have been easier to present an option to the presenter once X number of people joined? So 3-5, no, but more then a dialog pops up asking the presenter if they’d like to have a waiting room.
> the saving grace is that 3DES is still considered secure.

Nobody who wants to do AES-256 rather than AES-128 thinks 3DES is "still secure". 3DES is perhaps 112 bits of useful keyspace but it has 64-bit blocks which was already bad news when DES was invented.

TLS 1.3 doesn't have a 3DES option at all. You can do AES 128 or AES 256 (or ChaCha20).
Wow looks cool because faasd is a self contained OpenFaas equivalent without Kubernetes.

OpenFaas is awesome if you want to run Lambda-like serverless containerized functions on your own cluster, or run functions longer than the AWS limit of 15 minutes, or use more resources than AWS Lambda, with nicer CI/CD support.
> I am not aware of any shift in the perception of bounty submission quality,

Sure, we agree on that, but that doesn't mean these companies aren't growing - let me be more explicit here - financially.

It'll be newsworthy if the perception "in the field" of required bounty submission quality doesn't match what clients will actually happily accept and pay out, won't it?
No, they did not!

Read your own source, lol.

> We’re not categorically against exports but want to understand what happens, because previously it was so that masks went not where they were most needed but where most was paid.

I expect more on HN
I was quoting the industry term. RCA is generally something different
This was a test of a metal tank that they have welded together over the last 4 weeks. The financial implication are basically zero.

Even in the best case scenario SN3 was planned to after this test make a static fire and then a hope to about 150m.

SN4 is already being assembled and will go threw the same tests.
That’s essentially what progressive web apps are once they’re installed. They use all the resources of the browser so they only take up as much disk space as their HTML/CSS/JS.
My friend built a house. I wanted a house. It was easier to take the lumber from his house than cut down trees and mine iron for nails. Eating another is no different. Different life evolves to take a niche item (like grass or minerals) and turn it into something useful to them (muscle and fat) that is also useful to others.
Coronavirus pandemic leading to drop in air pollution
The real question is why doesn't everyone go after other companies with this much rigor too?
So now we want the government to define what can be defined as a browser? So what is this government agency that has the technical wherewithal to “regulate browsers”?

What’s going to happen when someone decides that browsers must have content restrictions?

It amazes me how willing some people on HN just willingly give up their freedom to the government.
There are a couple of good youtube channels. They basically give weekly updates about what is going on.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBNHHEoiSF8pcLgqLKVugOw/vid...
If you think bounties are mostly a bad idea for startups to medium companies, what do you typically recommend instead?
Those are some really great suggestions, thank you for those! I will pitch them to the owner ASAP!
It's both. Go look at your memory usage per tab and it's not uncommon to see hundreds of megabytes for a simple static 2d UI. The way web renders is extremely inefficient then you couple that with a language that has no regards for how a computer actually works and you get to the sad state we're in today.
This could have been true except probably half of HN have an Android phone in their pocket. So this, like with Android and Google Play Services, is a case study in perception management. Suddenly the perception of Zoom seems to be forced in a particular direction.

My paranoid 4 glasses of wine self can believe nothing other than money being involved.
This is racism.
I don't know that this would be the case.

Pulp production is not a nameless commodity, it needs to be up to a certain spec for surgical masks, for example. Canada is the supplier for a great many US companies. Sure, the US could try to produce that speficic spec, but it would not be easy and would take precious weeks that the US cannot spare. If it could, production would just increase for respirators, but this has to be done instead because it takes too much time. And in that time, Canada will likely be able to set up production for the masks, actually. If I remember correctly 3M Canada does make filter media, so the expertise is there. It isn't rocket science either, it just takes time.

In a full scale economic war between the US and Canda, at least all Canadians will still have water and electricity.
Definitely still for sale today
Thank you kindly for that long list of well thought out suggestions!

I will read and really think about each one more thoroughly in the morning.

Have a great night!
Maybe it's a generation/cultural gap but me and my friends exclusively communicate in text chat apps. If we need to hash something out in voice real quick (finding each other in a park or something), it will have been prefaced by text and the voice call is done in the chat app, not through the phone network.
WAN links drop packets all the time and that is not a rare event.
I made a prototype a week ago with a face recognition engine on the frontend, connecting into the Jitsi JavaScript API, running my own Jitsi server on DigitalOcean.

The result: the video conferencing only showed faces! Imagine the possibilities of moving those faces around a stage, or using virtual cutouts where the faces would appear, etc.

It was very very fun, I have screenshots of 10 people connecting at once -- hit me up if you want to pursue something :-)
Besides that you are associal to save only "American lives".

You didn't read the article did you...

Countries are going to block the US and they are right to do so after this behaviour.

Short term benefit can have long term consequences.

You shouldn't listen to a president that handles the country as his business.

While his own businesses almost all failed and the other one was on the edge of collapsing.

Ps. Germany is making masks and is now handling it on a case-by-case. Fyi, they created the machines that China is using for mask production.

Ps 2. The masks of China are mostly deemed unsafe in other countries ( work masks, not medical ones). So the president just blocked alliances for probably a batch of bad masks, lol.

Additionally, the President is not smart enough to grasp the importance of his decisions, eg: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/03/trump-scrapped...

I repeat: There's an idiot in the president's seat
I've done that to credit card companies that I even called. They'd say something like "okay I need your full social security number" and I would just say no. There would be a pause, then they would say "okay I can verify you by your recent transactions."

Like why didn't you start with that! Some companies just don't teach their reps to care about security.
+1 for working with Peter and his team. I worked with them, and secured an EB3 Greencard last year.
To summarize the article - Bangladesh government initially denied the outbreak, now denying the seriousness of the spread; silencing (mostly arrests) those who express concern over the government’s handling of the epidemic.

Meanwhile, a leaked interagency United Nations memo on Bangladesh’s Country Preparedness and Response Plan for COVID-19 estimates that up to two million people could die from the disease in Bangladesh if immediate steps are not taken to contain the spread of the virus.
Keyboard are a source of pain for many users? Where is this even coming from?

Large tablets have been around for nearly a decade now, and people that write novels and word files all day still use a real keyboard. If what you are saying was true, everyone who types for a living would use iPad pro or equivalent.

Secondly, patches and reboots are a problem, not a solution. Users do not need to replace switches themselves. My father is not an IT nerd, he uses his laptop for work. After the keyboard broke, he took it to a nearby repair store and they replaced it for $20. If in a few years it breaks again, he can do it again (ofc laptop might be worth replacing for performance reasons, but that's different).

To him software crashes are far more disruptive, he cant call Acer or Apple and give them $20, $2000 or even $w0,0000 and get them to fix a sound driver or whatever.

He just has to sit there and hope that some day one of the updates, without proper patch notes, will fix the problem. Leaving feedback on the forums is about as reliable as praying for rain or doing blood sacrifice to cure the plague.
It’s quite simple: Zoom are lying. They’ve doubled down on their lies.

End to end encryption means something. Zoom isn’t that. Zoom is claiming to be that.

There’s not much to it.

They set the stage for it previously, too: they’ve done all sorts of shady things with computers onto which their client is installed. Zoom singled themselves out of the pack by being some of the only name-and-address provided software to use these techniques; everything else that does so is criminal malware.

Apple even pushed an OS malware detection update to remove Zoom’s backdoor.

They stand alone because of their own choices.
it's also a completely hostile and unnavigable app store. the search is bad, the charts are bad, the recommendations are bad, it's obscured on purpose.
"United States doesn't have friends, it has interests" - nothing new in here. True for any other country as well. Still it goes like I do something for you and you do something for me. So I hope next time it'll be a middle finger.
The combination of melted ice and thermal expansion would mean that a lot of it would be flooded.
Could you elaborate why Racket? Not an implementation I've used.
Feel free to list the top 10 teleconferencing services by traffic, then put a tick next to each that sport verifiably end to end encryption, excluding cases where they control unattended updates to the binary implementing that encryption.

I'll spare you a week. The list appears below:
Two reasons and probably more:

1. The risk is different when there are human lives on the line.

2. NASA is publicly funded and if they want to keep receiving funding, they can’t be blowing up the public’s money.
Your comment above mentions chat encryption- not video..
That file extensions are not the best way to handle metadata is neither here nor there at this point. They don't seem to be going away, so better get used to them.

I think they're pretty great at it, actually. I'm fully used to them, and I like them.

The problem is you when you need to specify a filename and the displayed value is different that the true value, causing any number of errors, for unexplained reasons. That's the worst kind of simplification in my opinion.

Not a problem for the casual user, which is the majority of people using Windows.

Reminds me of other bad decisions from older Windows versions. Instead of a proper filesystem permissions, Explorer would tell you "Don't look in here, you could break something." I like to call it the "Band-aid over a gaping wound" model.

Why not? It doesn't cost Microsoft anything, and it doesn't harm anyone using Windows.
Same reason US does not manufacture a basillion things they import from China. But yes Canada should learn to be more strategic.
What is the capital of Assyria?
According to csrankings.org's FAQ, they only include professors who can advise a CS-only student. The conflict is that the website includes areas (like "Embedded & real-time systems", "Robotics", and "Computer Architecture") that are traditionally done in EE and ECE departments. One significant example is UT Austin's prolific ECE department.
The issue is not that Zoom is lacking end to end encryption. The issue is that Zoom is claiming to be end to end encrypted while lacking end to end encryption.

It’s not the missing encryption. It’s the lying.
haha, sorry. I meant for companies.
a) not all criticism is "hate"

b) Zoom is a major phenomenon right now, massive user boost, at first positive articles all over the media about how everyone is now using it for all kinds of things etc. That means people are paying attention to it, and if they find something (and apparently there was a bunch of things to find) the same media is going to pick it up, because it's already talked about everywhere, boosting what normally would be a blogpost somewhere only few read, or a private bug report, to something hitting mainstream channels. Which means more people have opinions about it, which means more space to argue about if those opinions are justified or not, ... (Whereas I haven't heard of whatever "Houseparty" is, neither in positive nor in negative)

c) There's no discussion of Google Hangouts being end-to-end encrypted because Google doesn't claim it is, doesn't claim their servers don't decrypt it, ...

d) If someone finds security issues in hangouts, I'd hope they report it, but given the above it likely wouldn't be as widely reflected in the media. If they'd gotten all the positive attention, more people would be digging there now/rolling out the usual anti-Google talking points/...
Thanks for highlighting this, i totally missed that there is waiting room security issue pending disclosure.
Ecuador hides their dead, at least 10 fold the official numbers (Spanish)
That's the same advice I've heard from multiple established authors. They commit to writing 500 words or 2 pages or whatever every day, no matter what. It doesn't matter if you are inspired or hate the result or throw it all away. The important thing is to write something. So, I dont't see why the same thing wouldn't work for code.
I see, so it turns out you didn't care about the encryption, but do care about lying about something you don't care about. An interesting hill to die on!
On the other hand we have the Surgeon General pleading with us to stop buying masks because they have no benefit. I’m really tired of people in positions of power giving contradictory advice. If masks have no benefit, then why do medical professionals wear them?
Apple Supplier Targets Production of 30k Ventilators a Month
> hundreds of megabytes for a simple static 2d UI

Without a specific example that's hard to argue against, but I would wager it has more to do with images, unnecessarily complex DOM, and possibly just poor engineering, as opposed to JavaScript itself.

> that has no regards for how a computer actually works

You mean like Python? And Lisp? If you're taking issue with the very concept of high-level languages then state it as such, and good luck making a case for that.
As always, ffmpeg is terrific, but unfortunately the solution given here is not frame-exact editing, so to me it is just another quick-and-dirty solution when a re-encode is not desired, sort of like avidemux in that regard.
World 2.0 There are decades where nothing happens and weeks where decades happen
This is a lot to take in, especially not coming from any related discipline background.

Since I dont have the prerequisite background, I can only ask questions. I also believe that there are not right answers. Every decision benefits someone at the expense of someone else.

1. This article does not cover the positive sides of an "exchange value" economy. Isn't this type of economy responsible for bringing once 3rd world countries out of poverty?

2. Side note: I think the choice being made here is environment vs present suffering. For every person in a 3rd country on its way to 1st world, they need a fridge, fresh water, oven, more space (thus transportation beyond walking/biking), safety codes (more materials), etc. The environmental impact on providing these modern facilities must be huge, no?

3. If a national-level economy values "exchanging value", wouldn't that culture prioritize making their lives better? Better is subjective, and alludes to the rat race, but at least in the USA, if you're okay not living in the coastal areas, you can live very comfortably for cheap.

4. The international balance of power. If one country focuses on "exchanging value" thus enriching themselves, wouldn't that give that country a lot of international leverage? I personally believe we've had (generally) global peace for so long because there's been only one super power in the world for that time period (the USA). If we shrunk our economy (based on your 4 possible options), how would that impact the military budget? I personally think if there are multiple competing super powers, then war is more likely to happen
You are right, then my case is weaker since they do not define video end-to-end encryption explicitly. But still this shows that they do know what end-to-end encryption means as opposed to what was claimed previously.
I'm really surprised to hear that. ST has always been one of my favorite manufacturers. I find their datasheets to be clear and well laid out, though I will note that I'm usually more interested in the hardware side than the software side. Their chips and boards are also high quality and convenient, e.g. GPIOs are often five-volt tolerant, Nucleo boards come with well-made breakout headers and several peripherals (at seemingly impossibly low cost), chips have wide supply voltages, etc. I can't say I know anything about their errata (I've never run into any), but even if the situation is as bad as you say, that's quite a harsh condemnation, especially considering how widely-used and successful they are in industry. Do you have other complaints?
Circus Maximus would easily draw a larger crowd than the Colosseum, too.
They got really risk adverse and their vehicles aren't that reliable and safe at the end anyway.
You have no clue what you are talking about.

The reality is ISRO and RocketLab play in a totally different market. Neither can compete against dedicated small sat launches from SpaceX. That is a fact that the CEO of RocketLab and many other small launcher CEO have admitted.

And comparing those tiny rockets to Falcon 9 is a joke.

ULA cheapest Atlas with no other extra service might be 100M$ but that gives a 60M$ Falcon 9. And just btw, ULA has no commercial flights anyway, and their military flights are much more expensive. That is not close by any definition.

For the most part the only reason ULA has any flights at all, is because both NASA and DoD pick them to keep multiple providers in the market.

Arianespace is not as cheap as ULA per rocket, maybe with Ariane 6 that will change. Ariane 5 costs 200M$ and launching one only makes sense if you can stack two big Geosats.

10x was wrong, but nobody is close in any practical sense.
Encephalitis lethargica: 5M infected after 1918 Spanish flu pandemic