skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For every N users that say something works, you will always find M users that say it doesn't. For good products the ratio of N:M (works:doesn't) is high in the direction of N (works).

So people keep saying "it just works" because Zoom has a noticeably high ratio of works compared to almost any other video conferencing software. It does not mean it works 100% of the time flawlessly for every single user ever always and forever.

FWIW, of the hundreds of Zoom calls I've had, many with non-technical people, I have yet to encounter any issues. I cannot say the same for most other video conferencing products I have used. YMMV, take with grain of salt, caveat emptor, etc.
So they're a parasite. There are insects that can only reproduce by laying eggs inside of another insect. They don't physically carry their own. Does that mean they're not alive?
Not to get in this heavily politicized fray, but PTDLS sure sounds easiest to explain as permanent damage after the disease. I mean, we already know nerves heal poorly. Why don't I hear more about this hypothesis?
Generally if you're pleading for help, that means that there's insufficient support. I'm not sure what else you think is happening here, unless you're calling him an outright liar.
Note that Google SafetyNet is now (as of mid-March 2020) requiring hardware-based remote attestation in order to pass their "CTS" check. This check will fail if the bootloader is not in its default "locked" state, and cannot be feasibly bypassed by Magisk. https://github.com/topjohnwu/magisk_files/blob/master/notes....

Magisk (and even its 'hide' component) will still be useful for many purposes, but we should not be expecting it to pass all such "safety" checks.
Leap seconds didn't exist then.

Leap years (looking forward) run on a 400 year cycle, and 400 divides 2000
Great to hear. I've been manually deactivating almost all of the features of PyYaml for almost a decade now. Over and over. So quite happy someone is taking up the cause.
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The Venezuelan ship had a 76mm gun, maybe one like this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTO_Melara_76_mm

Why would you ram when you could shoot up the other ship with 85 to 120 fourteen pound shells per minute, with no risk to your own ship?

Maybe they didn't actually have the ammo. Or maybe they decided to play chicken with the cruise ship and lost.
I'm pretty sure it wasn't the captain who leaked the letter, but one of the 20-30 people not in his chain of command that he sent it to.

He didn't get fired for leaking, he got fired for attempting to go around the chain of command.
They're not usually infinite. My father waited one out for three years, then went back into the industry for a rival firm and put his old boss out of business.
"Guidelines" is the first link in the footer.
Who cares? It's my first amendment right to psychologically impact you by writing: "coca cola tastes like spiced oven sludge".

The fact that you can pay me to include your product in my media doesn't imply that it's illegal for me to mention your product otherwise.
Original article on the topic posted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22765355
I guess we'll both just do what we like then :) you have a fair argument.
Good stuff. One minor issue I had was that the GitHub links don't point to specific commits, so they've decayed: either they point at different code now, or the files they referred to are gone now :(
Oh, of course it is. Should've caught it!
Depending on how "hydration" is done it can still waste cpu cycles and hurt time to interactive on mobile devices.
Why not ditch passwords altogether and only do magic-link logins via email a la slack?
While in theory I agree with you, in practice anyone who cares about academic papers or books either gets them from their university or knows how to get them for free. I don't think I've heard anyone ever complain about wanting to read an academic paper but being unable to do for free.
Thanks, that "black hole story" is a really useful and compelling metaphor.
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Because pushing/ramming a bigger ship (especially if you do little damage) is more in the realm of the kind of bullying that gets tolerated by other countries than firing on a civilian ship with a heavy gun. It appears they misjudged the "little damage" part.
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That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And in strange eons even RNA may die!
The second doesn't follow the first. Crozier likely knew exactly how much trouble me was in for when he sent that email. Once he sent it, how could the Navy not respond with punitive action, even if they (as an organization?) we're "wrong".

Sometimes you don't get the hero you deserve, but the one that you need right now.
This is insane. I can't imagine what was going through the Venezuelan captain's head trying to do this.

It's one thing if the shooting is already started to defend yourself. But even if this stunt had worked, you're looking at many months of downtime while your ship is being repaired in drydock. Millions of dollars, and bigtime loss of capability for a small navy.

Unless you are an icebreaker, you just don't intentionally hit anything (tugboats nudge after gently making contact, they do not ram).

If this cruise liner was not following instructions (seems more like an act of piracy than legit, but that is another discussion), then you fire a shot or two off the bow of the offending ship. That usually gets people's attention.

Ramming? WTF?
They weren't trying to sink the cruise ship, they were trying to turn their tiny destroyer into a tugboat and push the cruise ship into a port where it could be seized.
TFA claims the navy vessel was attempting to steer the larger ship. It at least answers your question, but raises more questions ...
Okay, question: Do you think navy ships are black boxes? That zero information gets in and out? Because despite what you may think, sailors do call family and friends.

You're not going to keep the virus a secret on any ship. The solution is to try and get over it as soon as possible. Not act like it doesn't exist.
> It's easy to take these miraculous little pills for granted even though we've had them for fewer than 100 years.

We've had effective antibiotics for thousands of years. When penicillin was first isolated in 1928, there was so little demand for it that it took over a decade before anyone even bothered working on a way to commercialize it. It wasn't particularly difficult to commercialize, but no one actually cared.

Modern antibiotics are mostly only necessary if you get shot or you're a burn victim or something, which is why no one cared until WWII. Also, some of the berberine plants that were used before that were starting to become less common around that time.

If we didn't have effective antibiotics before penicillin then human life expectancy would have gone way up after the discovery of penicillin. But looking at the data, it's pretty obvious that that didn't actually happen. Pretty much every scientific paper agrees with this, e.g.:

https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.66.12...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8007898
Those shells will do nothing to stop the ship but will just kill a lot of people for no gains. If they wanted to seize the ship, they should have brought a boarding party with them, I'm sure they have trained sailors for that.

Source: I'm a former naval officer and I served as an ordnance officer on a ship with that exact 76mm gun. I also acted as the officer of the deck for quite a few boardings.
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I don't think any amount of executive incompetence excuses making non-public military operational information public.

That's a very clear security violation.
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It's not taking into account UTF-8 though so maybe double or triple.
He did fall on his sword, sort of.

The problem is that letter shouldn't have been made public. He sent it to enough people to make sure it was made public, and that's why he got fired.
Apple can't stop you from using their products in a movie. Trademarks only protect brand confusion, nobody is going to watch Transformers 17: Age of Voltron and think that the whole movie is an apple product because a robot turns into a iPad.

It's just a case of "if you don't use our product this way, we won't do cross promotions or pay for product placement with you anymore"
I loved building my chess library and would encourage other developers to try it. It is large and complex enough to test your abilities. Building it in a idiomatic, testable, and performant way really encourages software engineering skills instead of just coding. I felt like I didn’t really write solid go code until I finished my chess library.

https://github.com/notnil/chess
It should be noted that captain of an aircraft carrier is one of the highest and most respected jobs in the navy. This guy was in charge of over 5000 sailors and $10b+ in hardware including two nuclear reactors and an air wing larger and more capable than the entire air force of almost all countries. The presence of this vessel in any given ocean affects the geopolitics of half of a continent. That is not a job given to the careless, unreliable, or politically naive. This guy knew what he was doing, in every sense of that phrase.
He may not have actually leaked the memo -- but he made sure it got leaked. SECNAV's call was the correct one.
They were trying to steer the cruise not destroy it , but didn't expect a reinforced hull.
They could also just generate 4 words and string them together as the password. Considerably more entropy than 10 digital and easier to communicate too.
You see the exact same thing with HIPAA.

"End-to-end" is often (incorrectly) used to simply describe SSL/TLS protection from web browser to server. Not technically wrong, but also not how most developers understand the term.
A security violation that would’ve been unnecessary had appropriate action been taken sooner. Sailors’ lives > a preventable “security violation” (scare quotes intended)

As if I needed yet another example to share with anyone even considering enlisting in the armed forces why you shouldn’t. As long as the optics make it worth it, you’re disposable, regardless of rank.
it depends on the bean, how old it is, the humidity, your machine etc. It'll be hard/impossible to get a great espresso shot from a lot of machines as they just don't have the power. Compound that with the quality of grinder.

Some beans are very forgiving and give a decent espresso with a wide range of parameters. Some beans are very picky on getting the settings right.

I've had a range of machines - and my current machine is the only one that I can get a decent cup from (BES920).

To your question, you need to adjust depending on the output from your machine.
> he made sure it got leaked

Is there evidence of that?
Well it seems like he sent it up the chain of command and then someone (maybe him) leaked it to the press.
If the US wanted to invade, apparently we could do it with a handful of cruise ships. Why send carriers when Carnival will do?
There can not be any thinking twice about pulling people from the water. Even Somali pirates were first pulled up from their junks, and only then the boats were used for target practice.

EDIT: and they, being pirates, were subject to being killed on the spot.

But still, the whole situation is hilarious.
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I use those, on ESPHome and connected to homeassistant.
They seem to provide reasonable readings
You could probably do this with minimal overhead by organizing the words by language assuming a codepage for each set.
Why this level of concern about probably the most healthy population that will ever be exposed to the illness? Mostly young, in superb physical condition. The safest thing for them and the community is to keep them on the ship until the disease has worked its way through the shipboard population until they're no longer a risk to their families or the wider community.
"Just don't use untrustworthy hardware and software" isn't really viable when Windows, MacOS, iOS, and Android (incl. Play Services) are all proprietary closed source operating systems, covering over 90% of all consumer computing devices. Before you include all of the IoT space, which also tend to be proprietary.

So creating a system where I, as a consumer, have no way to inspect the communication my devices undertake removes my rights and safety in deference to companies that really just want to make it harder to block ads.

I take issue with this entire model. The fact that PKI has had piles of issues with bad actors who are supposedly supposed to be bastions of trust doesn't give any example this is a system we should trust, much less have browsers force people to utilize and scare people off avoiding.
You're describing an organism. What about its cells?
Magic: Customizable, future-proof, passwordless login with a few lines of code
Effectively zero latency from the data being written to the socket until it appears on the wire, by eliminating the latency of the TCP 3 way handshake.

They've basically discovered TCP Performance Enhancing Proxies, used for decades for space communications.
I’m using it now. It blocks ads, but shows you their ads as notification pop ups, which is very annoying. However, there is an option to switch them off, too.
In the case of the github phishing it does have a valid certificate and the host name is something that looks legit enough it will probably fool a lot of people
ah yes, the flavor of the month drug. What makes you think it'd work on Lyme.
tl;dr If we had a time machine we could travel back and forth in time.
Is a plastic payment card convenient? Definitely Safe? Not
Navy vet here.

YOU DO NOT expose the readiness of the unit, medical or otherwise.

This was akin to putting private keys in the git repository.
Sometimes I hear someone utter a sentence which I guess has never before been uttered by anybody. I really wish I had a way to verify that, just for fun.
https://github.com/PDFTron/webviewer-ui/search?q=agpl&unscop... ?
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Yes. He sent it to at least 20 people outside his chain of command. That's what you do if you want to make sure something gets leaked.

There are formal and proper reporting channels for things like this. He went outside them, on purpose, to ensure the letter got leaked.
Would you mind sharing a link to the course? Thanks in advance!
Piracy then.
This was done way before Google existed, way before they offered a GMail server or an SMTP interface to their servers. It is done to combat spam, if I get an email that was relayed through their servers I can see which IP connected to their servers to send it. Then every time the email is sent between servers the source IP is again added. It allows to track the real source of an email, remember that email inherently has no authentication, there's no way to really say the From address is authentic. But having a record of all the IP addresses used when transferring the email I can determine that pretty easily.
I wondered if the Captain let himself sink with the ship.
Zoom meeting ids have to be enterable in the phone bridge
The amish don't make any particular effort or have any particular desire to live a 19th century lifestyle. They simply avoid technology that they consider to have more downsides than upsides.
Where is the AGPL license?
The artist has a bit of a fixation on nipples.
Well, ramming used to be BIG:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lissa_(1866)

One can't possibly blame the captain wanting to be as cool as admiral Tegetthoff back then:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Anton_Romako_001.jpg
Can the clients not advise the server what bandwidth and packet loss rate they are seeing, so the server can adjust their traffic rate? There is no reason not to allow a signalling channel separate to the E2E encrypted data channels.
In this project, simple: we don't have to. Despite being a decade old application, it was entirely AJAX-driven and front-end focused even back in 2010, and IE support was dropped entirely a few years ago by the business. Works in Edge just fine, as to be expected
I think you mean inverted method? I would not recommend it though. The risk of spills is too high (it will fall over at some point), and there are simpler ways to brew with more consistent (and IMO better) results.

Here is a technique I have developed after many years of almost daily brewing. I call it the "30-30-30" (anyone get the reference?), but each step has a lot of room for variance, no timer necessary.

* Mount the AeroPress on a 3dl mug and add ~17g of medium-coarse freshly ground coffee.

* Add 20-30g of hot water to let it "bloom", which releases CO2 and other gases trapped in the beans from the roasting process. Leave it for 15-30 seconds until most bubbles have popped (if any). Very fresh beans should bloom longer.

* Pour water up to just above the 4 mark. I like to spin the AeroPress while pouring to stir it, but you can also pour in circles like a pour-over. Try to make it foamy by having the water break just before it hits.

* Let it drip for ~30s (or until the water level is just above the 3 mark).

* Slowly plunge for another 20-30s.

That's it! The water temperature should be between 85 and 95 °C; any hotter will burn the grounds and lower temperatures won't be able to extract as much flavour.
The only key to understand the situation is the famous quote from Warren Buffett: "Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked."

2008: A "few broke homeowners" in the USA brought down over leveraged Wall Street. The financial system "contaminated" almost the whole planet.

2020: A few weeks ago, a lot of investors had to face margin calls. Petrol is worth nothing. Now the whole European and US economy are down. Almost everybody is over leveraged (private investor in reale estate, stocks, pension funds, etc). All the companies are loaded with "free" debts.
With falling stock and maybe real estate values and the increase risk on company debts, when will the banks knock on the doors and start the margin calls on "smaller fishes"?
If too many are naked, it may also "contaminate" the financial system...

People with a lot of cash (who have been punished for 2 decades) will finally have lots of opportunities (and a financial security pillow to survive).
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Your refutation of my claim is an article that claims Telegram's use of TLS encryption makes it more secure than its competitors, and links to another article going into even more detail about that ridiculous claim. I feel comfortable with where it leaves my argument standing.
Ask HN: Personal liability releasing an app as a solo dev
Hi,

I've been working on an app to help studying math (sort of like a flashcard app), and I'm close to done a v1. I wanted to release it on the various app stores, with free and paid versions. The goal isn't to make a ton of money, just to make _some_ money from software I wrote.

The app itself is nothing controversial, but I wanted to know what I should do to protect myself before launching it, if someone sues me for failing their class or if an NPE claims to have a patent on "calculus on a mobile device."

I'm probably being overly paranoid here (USA based), but as solo a app developer what should I be thinking about before releasing?
> That is not a job given to the careless, unreliable, or politically naive. This guy knew what he was doing, in every sense of that phrase.

As an American the thought that he knew exactly what he was doing and felt he had no better option is quite disheartening.
>.. penalizes me based on the success of my website.

Just how I feel about taxes. “Progressive” taxation penalizes success.
The linked study's lead author is Middelveen. Isn't she the one who tried to say Lyme is an STD a few years back? I know nothing about the linked study, haven't read it, but her sloppiness with scientific rigor makes me nervous about taking the abstract at face value...
To play devil's advocate, it's not just Activision using the HUMVEE name in the games, but also the likeness of the vehicle. This could be construed as a tacit approval by AM General of the CoD product line, which they may not wish to be associated with.

Personally, I think this should fall into the same sort of fair use as if a HUMVEE was used in a movie without AM General's approval.

Also, I think both sides are being a little childish amd ahould have come to terma outside of court.
I'm writing a framework atop Fastify at the moment. My intention is to address a number of deep-seated technical problems I see with NestJS and present a holistic view of an application, rather than a web app, that can be used to more clearly structure and maintain my projects. I don't intend to monetize it, so I don't feel compelled to work outside of the normal NodeJS ecosystem and if there's any interest I intend to build a binding steering committee rather than run the risk of having a non-communicative "B"DFL.
There are various styles of communication (such as Direct and Indirect) and in various contexts (from highly technical, objective, to highly emotional, subjective) and with various focuses (mission oriented vs. exploratory brainstorming vs. goal-less sharing, etc.)

This idea that one group "seems" to be better than another seems rather vague and unsubstantiated, as does the basis for being paid more.

Being paid is a consequence of skills, value, productivity, sales & marketing, profitability efficiency, alongside supply and demand. If you're not marketing your skills (or don't have skills to market), that's no one's fault but yours-- no one owes you anything, regardless of 'communication abilities'.
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And fiction is never libel. Libel requires a falsehood about someone to be presented as truth, causing demonstrable damage, with actual malice.