skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a bit of a charitable explanation. How can any project manager say, with a straight face, "we need to make sure the application is still available, even if the user deletes it." How can you accidentally delete an application? It is not like you press a button by accident and it is suddenly gone. Deleting an application requires the user to express intent and go through a process (go to the Applications folder, find the app, delete it, remove from trash).

There is malware that is easier to get rid of than Zoom.
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It's usually forgiven if you mention that you know that specific language idiosyncrasy and they'll handwave it for the purposes of the interview. If they don't, then that's what knowing alternatives is for.
I honestly don't care about small businesses. You want my empathy? Create a co-op.
Argh! I am reluctant to install any software in my Windows machine, be it a Pdf reader or a camera driver, because all of them install "services" to auto update their software. I have an old notebook that could be perfectly usable but crawls to a halt due to all installed software. Now everything will have their associate always running service.
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"I’m currently looking for work in a staff or senior staff engineering or data scientist role. If you’ve got interesting technical analysis or optimization problems, please reach out to me and let’s talk."

That is probably the best CV I've ever read by accident.

You should broaden your job hunt criteria to technical content marketing - seriously!

Very rare to possess the skill to tell a story in an entertaining, approachable and detailed technical fashion.
yeah no. trains. lots of trains. past a certain point, only trains.
I wasn't aware that any non-OS service even had access to data and applications saved in Time Machine. This might be worthy of a bug bounty report to Apple.
They're literally giving away $10,000 in grants to small businesses right now. Grants. Not loans.

But sure.
Who doesnt want free money?
To be fair, it wasn't just the CDC, but also the WHO, Canadian, UK, European officials, all in the same vote.
> Why would nobody buy loans that missed a few monthly payments during a government-ordered pandemic shutdown?

Because it won't be a few monthly payments, it will be a lot of them, and where are the buyers going to borrow the money from? The banks that have no money because of the defaults?

> The lenders get interest on these loans. This interest is earned, because not all loans are expected to pay back in full.

Sure, but it is also not expected that so many will not be paid back either. You can make an argument that the system needs more buffers for black swan events (which have their own costs), and that is totally fair, but we don't have them and now we have to decide what to do.

I say all of this as someone that was "laid off" last week as part of a contingent workforce for a travel industry business that is likely to get a significant bailout from the federal government. Despite that, they will be unlikely to bring back contract labor for a year or more until their feet are under them again. The whole system is connected and is currently failing, the notion that we're going to come back to anything close to normal in the short term is absurd.
I 90% agree with your opinion. A video does add some useful information, but 90% of the benefit could come from a small window of the person(s) you are talking to- maybe 90px by 90px.
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Me. I'm looking for recruiters to leave me alone and let me draw unemployment in peace for a while. This may not be THE answer to burnout, but it's AN answer.
The toilet paper shortage is more complicated than you think
Oh actually I was being sleepy and hadn't understood what you'd said! I hadn't realised you could do that actually, neat, thanks!

So you could do `mov r1, #0x01000000` right? nice.
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> "NSO is trying to distract

This seems to be a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
This sounds like it might be a bug/misconfiguration in Launch Services, which deals things like application registration and URL scheme handling. Since I would expect your browser to do something like call to the system to open the URL (LSOpenURLsWithRole, et al.) I don't think this is a problem with Zoom.
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Who pays for the losses on the failed bank? The FDIC? How much were the losses in this case?
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Hello Peter, thanks for taking your time. I am also an immigration attorney and just started my own law firm in Texas three months ago. It has been doing great in the last month but I am thinking about how to keep it growing. 1. How do you find your clients' chain/your base? and how would you say your service is different from big law firms? I am bilingual, so I am confident in serving my people but I should not only target one group of minorities. 2. I assume most of your clients are YC and startups. Do you mind sharing how do you reach out to potential clients at YC and how to do the marketing? Thanks for doing this and I hope we can exchange some info. Be safe!
I appreciate both feed-style interfaces and seeing the people-list with unread message counts. Slack could be improved with time-based feeds and email would benefit from adding people centred view. One advantage of Slack is that it provides a model of the team and topics (channels), while mail is mostly unstructured.
yup, some other constants are also loadable in one instr, of the form 0xXX00XX00, 0x00XX00XX, 0xXXXXXXXX where XX is any byte
I don't understand. Can't we just turn the fuel supply of a rocket off mid-flight and then turn it on six months later and it would just continue on the same trajectory as before?
>I can't see the upside in doing this through the banks other than to make it a logistical nightmare for small businesses - if anyone has thoughts otherwise I would really like to understand.

Financial Institutions are set up already to do Know Your Customer (to prevent fraud).

And they have systems/processes in place to file loans through E-Tran (needed to file a loan with the SBA).

You arent hearing back instantly because FIs are completely overloaded with this and modifying existing loans/mortgages for small businesses and customers.
I'm for bailing out if the govt gives ownership of the business to the workers.

If you're not letting the workers most impacted by this to own the means of their work, then your bailout is useless.

This is an opportunity to, peacefully, transfer ownership of the means of production that are getting destroyed right now back to the workers.
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Exactly. We created some zip files we knew the password to and then checked that our code found the right one. Each stage would generate a bunch of files with different candidate ranges, so when testing the next stage, we'd choose the one file we knew had the correct key in it.
It's doubtful that this is Zoom doing anything in particular.

Rather it's likely the OS doing the best it can to handle the URL for you. The OS has a mapping between the URL and the bundle identifier of the app, and apparently looked for the bundle on a disk that happened to be attached, after it didn't find it on your main disk. Which is perfectly reasonable in itself.
IMO that's mostly the fault of Windows not having a real package manager for so long. There's no way for software to know that it needs an update unless it runs a background service to constantly check. So either your users constantly run outdated software (which is one of the reasons companies love offering their product as SaaS) or the users have to check manually (which users won't do). Some software checks when you run, but a lot of times I just need to open Excel and get to work, so I'm going to click "Skip this version" and keep going.

Honestly I don't see really any good way to handle it without some background service. It's just nicer when the OS has a way to handle it built in.
If the job is substantially similar, you may be able to use supplement J portability.
a few bits used here are not in the docs: https://github.com/STMicroelectronics/STM32CubeF4/blob/maste...
Philosophically? Strategically? Company employees are rejecting the alternatives.
For example, SpaceX had to ban Zoom because employees kept using their own subscriptions.

I agree that privacy and security are not negotiable, but unless you ban the tool, you cannot force your employees to not use it, there are no better alternatives from their perspective. We have all lived through Skype, Hangouts, Webex, GotoMeeting, etc. They all failed at delivering the experience Zoom delivers.
I think they are saying that some things are lower in the line of requiring publicly funded bailouts. Like, say, perhaps we should spend the money on longer unemployment checks for the poor and middle class before we consider giant checks to risky business ventures.
$ ls /Volumes/YourTimeMachineBackup/Backups.backupdb/YourComputerName
Sort of sidetracking, but: afaik applications open from a browser via a custom protocol in a link, and for that the application has to be already installed—unless MacOS offers to search the app store (if it does, not sure). So, this suggests to me that either MacOS leaves protocol associations in place after uninstalling an app, and has the machinery to resurrect such an app from the backups, or Zoom leaves around a protocol-handling app after an uninstall.
Yeah, and it's why I left that job for something else.
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They also list a few reasons for the assumption.

Anyway, the study itself is not the reason for the quoted statement on the CDC page. I was just trying to find some relevant basis for the statement, and this study has some reasons listed in the dicussion/conclusion.
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It'll do that with any application on the Mac, this is not peculiar to Zoom. The Time Machine backup is, as far as the Finder is concerned, just another volume. It'll prefer applications on the root volume, but it'll launch them from other volumes as well.
This was a major feature in IE9-11, that you could run basically a UI-less modifiable web application without noticing* that it's running on an embedded browser.

Electron is a similar ideal, but not on the OS level. They are just recreating the best aspects of IE for Chromium, and we will be better for it.

* noticeable for that era
In CL, if you catch an exception, you have the option of trying to fix the problem and then letting the code continue from where it left off. This is only moderately difficult to implement in machine code, but somewhere between problematic and impossible on a high level platform that has already implemented exceptions by stack unwinding.
It sounds like a (Mac OS|OSX) issue, because why is it looking for URL handlers in its backups?

You could test it with Slack, they also use the same way ("tell the browser to load a URL") to load their app from the browser.
It brings interesting trade-offs for program design. You can write the code one way which may be 10x faster but harder to reason about, or another way which is more straightforward but takes an extra 5 days go execute. How confident are you in your code or debugging ability? How many iterations will you need? I'm assuming this was written in CUDA based on the block/thread ID mix-up.
No worries. And yes, I remember how much people jumped to all kinds of conclusions after the event first happened.

I think what you mean is the "organizational safety assessment" (OSA) which will occur later this year.[1] Germane to my previous comment, this will focus more on the organizational culture that may have contributed to the failure (e.g., decision making in the presence of heavy schedule pressure).

https://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/category/boeing/
This is an interesting thought exercise, I am going to ask a few questions. Think about them and then decide if this is a good idea:

1. How big will the project be? I.E. what staff you need to develop AND deploy honeypot phones.

2. Who would decide targets?

3. What do you do with the data collected? Who enforces those rules?

4. How do you keep the project secret?

5. How do you prevent various 3 letter agencies from ordering you to deploy this technology for national security?

6. How do you protect Apple's reputation once it leaks out that there are secret phones that eavesdrop on you?

A better long term strategy is to offer large bug/exploit bounties. This foils malware and builds trust in Apple platform.
But, the parent's point is that it is acceptable. Zoom has become a $300mm company all the while flatly lying (or being very generous in statements). What is the consequence for them? They made rapid market growth because they didn't waste constrained resources on security/privacy concerns.

No consequences means their behavior is acceptable. Which means this will repeat until there is a reason that makes this behaviour not acceptable.
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I don't really have a use for it, but I really like it's simplicity and flexibility. Good job
It might be possible that the uninstaller does something strange to "uninstall" the app and leaves macOS confused.
Then I guess we shouldn't be in the business of bailing them out.

The only way a bailout is acceptable is if we transfer the ownership of the businesses to the workers who actually produce the value.
Open a bug with Apple about this. They fixed an issue I reported a few years back about being able to launch applications in the Trash. They will likely want to add the same restriction to Time Machine Backups as well.
excellent story. can you share the number of bitcoins that were retrieved and how the customer lost the password in the first place?
> How will that kill off this malware though?

I wouldn’t be surprised if everything that NSO does depends on just one or two extremely good exploits. Once Apple rolls out an update to patch the one or two critical bugs, it’ll stop NSO for a nice long time until they spend hundreds of man years or millions of dollars to find another exploit that’s just as good.
Maybe also when you click on the menu of an item and it gives you the 'exclusive' switch, you could explain what that means
>> I am arguing for worker protection.

Why not simply fund unemployment checks, direct cash, food stamps, student loan deferrals, or more direct means of worker protection than handing the money to PE Firms (which by the way operate by design to squeeze workers) and hoping they protect workers?

We've seen this in 2009-2010 -- giving the money to banks doesn't magically make the money trickle down to workers. Perhaps some of it does, but why not make all of it trickle down by skipping the middlemen? What are the odds the middlemen will conveniently issue a giant dividend to themselves or do a stock buy-back or any other number of tricks that will achieve nothing for the workers.
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> Audio chats: 1) Mummble ; 2) Asterisk/SIP

3) Walkie Talkie radio[0]-like apps?[1,2,3]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkie-talkie

[1] https://github.com/murtaza98/Walkie-Talkie

[2] https://github.com/js-labs/WalkieTalkie

[3] https://github.com/dhammikamare/android-walkie-talkie
You keep repeating talking points from TV.

> I'll repeat it: Nobody working in food production and distribution is forbidden from going to work.

That is not the message that is being repeated on TV and on the news. The message is "stay home. if you are close to people you are going to be infected and die. stay home". The message is not "Stay home unless you work in list in blah blah blah. Also, unless you have comorbidity such as diabetes, heart disease, compromised lunges you are going to be fine". If you keep repeating that people are going to die, people are going to believe you even though the number of people who are going to die that do not have comorbidity factors have a very low risk. That's how you destroy logistic.

Right now Amazon, objectively a logistics company, has an equivalent of the ground hold on all non-essentials. I cannot get a frying pan delivered until April 24th.

> I'll repeat it: Nobody working in food production and distribution is forbidden from going to work.

We are at 10% of seasonal flu death numbers heading head first into a wall.
There's at least one app for figuring out why every hourly backup takes half a gigabyte. It might require root privileges, but I doubt that.
Wow, I am now extremely curious about what the inside of that cave looked like! But I suppose taking pictures of it wouldn't have really served enough practical purpose to deal with hauling something back out of the hole, not the mention the lingering radiation from the previous test would probably instantly expose any film sent down there.

Still! What does the container for a nuclear explosion look like on the inside? Is it smooth and glassy? Does molten material drip down and form stalactites and stalagmites? Does the surface crack as it cools? What color is everything?
If you view this through a lens of reducing legal liability for the tire fire of safety preparation that was hospital supplies, it makes more sense. But that's all the more reason to not trust the CDC - the only way this wasn't a bone-headed maneuver was if they cared more about corporate liability than personal safety.
In which case the following may help:

Dump LS database:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -dump > ~/lsdump.txt

Purge LS database:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
another plug for the zoom redirect plugin https://github.com/arkadiyt/zoom-redirector
Is there a better way to sleep/delay other than what basically seems like 100% CPU usage in a subtraction loop?
Unfortunately, not going to work with how Jitsi does their Web API through an iframe. Ol' OpenTok, before they got bought out by Vonage, could have been used because they inftected new DOM elements into the current page. But with the Jisti Meet interface timing in an iframe, I just don't have enough access to composite things like that.
What would it take to get the executable signed? Windows 10 is giving me hell for trying to run the installer. I reported it as safe, but I guess every release would be subject to the same limitations.
Do you not need the usual LSL, or does the assembler take care of that?
In this case we aren't talking about the remedy, but rather the diagnosis.

If the doctor doesn't even acknowledge the syndrome is "real" or even further implies it is psychosomatic, it may drive people away from the more rational establishment to the fringe. On the other hand, empathizing with the patient, catching up on the latest research, taking the time to explain it to the patient and their options, is time consuming and hard to do with billing constraints and electronic medical records TPS reports and such. Much easier (for this class of doctor) to dismiss it all as patient self-diagnosis of quackery and move on to the next patient.

My mother has lupus and when she first started showing systems her (prior) GP dismissed them out of hand and point symptoms and then started to treat her as somewhat of a malingerer. Ironically, it was her acupuncturist that drove her to see a rheumatologist - who took the time to go through a variety of diagnostics (and recommendation to a new GP and other specialists) to identify the problem and a treatment that let her return to life with things in a more managed state.
You should care because Zoom is a company run by and within China. What's troubling for the west is having so much IP and information flowing through a bad state actor without knowing about it.
> Do we have a DNA simulator where I can write ACTG code and it tells me what kind of proteins will be made, how those proteins will interact to build complex structures?

Determining the physical structure of a protein from the amino acid sequence is NP-Hard : https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6965037

Without a very significant breakthrough either in computation or some biological discovery that gives a shortcut I don't think a "DNA compiler" will be available anytime soon.
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The only way I benefited from Angular was when all the companies who let the front-end dev come lately's talk them into using it; realized they had been sold a bill off goods and needed someone to get them out of their Angular mess. I made a good living off of getting people out of Angular 1's mess. The reality is Angular 1 was poor, it was so poor that the developers decided that they has missed the mark so much that they needed a complete rewrite to make a good product. Why people stuck with them after that is beyond me. I can still vividly remember taking over my first angular project and realizing that the devs that built it where so green that they had misused common concepts and terminology like what scope means and what state means and had conflated the two into a mess.

Angular was bad and it's ashamed that it's hype pretty much relegated better toolkits like Dojo and MooTools to the dustbin of history.
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Hi dang,

Thanks in advance for all your moderation efforts that make HN the site we all love to use on a regular basis.

I'm curious if you've ever considered writing a blog post about some of the things you've learned from your years of moderation? You spend so much time on HN, you must have seen lots of patterns and have lots of insights on...well, everything that gets posted on HN to everybody that posts on HN. I'd genuinely be interested in reading it if you ever did.

Cheers,
a semi-anonymous HN user
I think "the hottest" would be "totally uncool" by definition.

Here are a few projects, many unmaintained, which qualify:

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/cpuburn/
https://core-electronics.com.au/tutorials/stress-testing-you...
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/cpuburn
https://github.com/patrickmn/cpuburn
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/cpuburn.1.ht...
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It is specifically mentioned as permitted because it is not made by the bees, but is rather collected by them (from flowers).

This is in contrast to Royal Jelly which is not kosher.
My industry (Defense contracting) is fairly immune to at least the immediate fallout from all this. If this turns into a longer general economic downturn, however... who knows?

But my company is hiring right now (though, most of the jobs require a clearance). The jobs aren't remote, well.. right now many of them sort of are, but they'll surely revert to on-site again eventually.
Back in 2002 I wrote a documentation templating system in m4. It provided a lot of the same tags as markdown, and generated HTML. In retrospect I have no idea why I wrote it in m4 - I think it was a "because I can" kind of thing. I also had a system for ripping CDs written in GNU make, so let's say I had an odd taste in scripting tools.
Wait, is that not normal?