skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This only holds water actually if you accept a program run on someone's computer is not 'theirs'.

I.e. it going into an encryption routine as part of the software package does not constitute me accepting the service provider's access to meta information about the transaction or to the contents of the original stream.

That's like saying putting something in a Post Office envelope/box is to accept that the post office can open and inspect it will. Which is patently ridiculous.

The legal system needs to come to terms with the fact that the usage of a program to transfer or transform information to the ends of achieving communication is in and of itself A) an act of speech, and B) qualifies as letters, papers, etc on light of the 4th Amendment. Further, the Court needs to do a better job at holding companies to account for informing when their tools are built in such a way that Third Party Doctrine applies. Furthermore, the implementation of that communication that Third Party Doctrine applies of should not be tolerated if it turns into some traditional template document that everyone tucks into something no one is going to read if we really care about civil rights at all.

It's worthy of ridicule the way we've let legal doublespeak undermine our fundamental civil rights.
That update was posted after I posted my comment, hence the link. Kind of hard to quote something that doesn't exist yet. Thanks for the incredibly helpful post though.
That's the last company I want to see involved here.
I think you're underestimating a CEO's ability to smell bullshit. In fact many will have written similar letters themselves. The difference is: a CEO usually wouldn't care about security nor privacy violations like this because it's unlikely to affect the bottom line of the business they're managing.

Thankfully most (in fact all) places I've worked, it's not the CEO who decides which video conferencing (et al) solution people use, he delegates that responsibility to his CTO or equivalent. Who has almost always then delegated that decision to me :)
>> we definitely knew how to prepare for traffic surges and keep our services "always on"

Okay, but as a heavy customer of AWS for 10 years and Azure & GCP for 6 years... there's some very valid criticism of the capacity planning and elasticity.

I hit capacity, provisioning and scaling issues all the time in Azure regions. And many times the cause is not obvious because most services seem to be unaware that the resources are exhausted, and fail with seemingly unrelated errors and partial failure.

edit: and to be fair, I'm not saying it's easy to build something like Azure or that I would do better. And I have a huge list of cases where Amazon's product engineering is terrible compared to Azure's. But... the problems I've seen all week in the UK aren't imaginary. I've had no such problems on Amazon.
But 95% of what?

Probably not calibrated on Coronavirus transmission.
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according to the OP paper, that's an unproven strategy. i can't find anything else supporting it in the literature linked by that paper either. so the real answer is that we don't know.

however, while it appears to be unproven, given what we know about how long the virus survives on different materials, i would say that it is probable that leaving a mask aside in a dry spot for a week or so is effective at ensuring there are no viable viral particles remaining on the mask.

as long as we're using unproven decontamination methods, i'd say to also leave the external surface of the mask in direct sunshine for a few hours too.

as the OP paper notes, sun bleaching / UVR does degrade the quality of the filtration by a small amount (around 1.5% if i recall) but it's also effective at destroying viral particles in a short period.
Beats me. Marketing? Price?
From the earlier incarnation of this on HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22758744 -

a link to a de-paywalled version: https://archive.is/ANdKO
Yeah, I get it. It was implicit in the point I was making: we’re explicitly trading time for lives.

Literally the fastest way to get this over with is to let it sweep through the population. More people might die if we did that, but it would get it over with quickly.
Elsewhere we call it corruption.
Generally, people using the NVC template that you recognize are "beginners". So your edit is probably very relevant. As I said in another comment: Actually observe those who communicate very well in stressful situations (very well = both parties not upset after the fact, with some resolution on the issue at hand), and you'll find their approach is fairly similar to NVC - they're just not using the templates your recognize.
The kids of today would probably much more interested in doing something fun with their smartphones than doing something on a fatass PC.

A smartphone is actually much more interesting than a computer, when you look at it (camera, microphone, gyroscope, GPS, Bluetooth...).
The introductory chapters of James Gleick's Chaos are about meteorology. When I read it I was blown away by the fact that these mathematical systems had sensitive dependence on initial conditions to such a degree that there was fractal complexity.

Very cool! I had this belief that if I get another decimal point in in the observations I would get closer to the truth, but if 1.25 and 1.2 could yield diametrically opposing results that doesn't work. Threw me for a loop, honestly.
I'm having the same issue. Previously created an account, and I'm completely puzzled how to now log in to it! Seem to have options to create a new account or import a backup..
This is just a personal opinion, but I think ~15% unemployment peak is far too optimistic.

I believe that 50-75% of restaurants will never reopen. 20-35% of small to mid-size hotels, venues, spas will declare bankruptcy within this year. Both employ a lot of people.

So I'm afraid the number is going to much higher, maybe even double.
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I keep my expenses at 20% of my post-tax income, in part to avoid any impact from deep or prolonged crises.
Is it because it runs on Windows 95?
Found it. It was a parent sibling. Thanks. I understand now.
Can you expand on what you mean by "it's 'opinionated' macro based module generation is a hindrance to building a more typical api based http service"?
Still waiting for web push notifications.... I rly hate apple.
Disappointed:
1. although I already have a (free) account, requires a new one
2. when I try to create a new account, rejects a completely valid email address
This is not the only way how political fight happens. There are indeed many whistleblowers with runied lives. But there are also many more people who devote a part of their life to educating others and encrypting what they can. I put GNU/Linux to every computer of my relatives I could reach. I participate in I2P and Tor networks regularly. I also have a day job and I am not going to risk it. But if a tiny part of the population did what I do, the world would be entirely different. People do care about anonymity and privacy. It's just that they have very limited resources and not everyone can devote a significant part of their time for that. Please help them and do not spread the mood of giving up.

tl;dr: Privacy is not binary. You can always increase the price of hacking you and others.
https://powauth.com is a great Phoenix auth framework for API and HTML based apps.

It ships with gettext by default for i18n.
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So much of this depends on how the administration handles this. I don't have great confidence based on how they've handled things so far.
> Imagine you were a member of Zoom's team, would you not be justified in feeling proud right now?

It has nothing to do with scaling. The problem is the numerous anti-privacy and anti-safety measures that they actively partook in. Those were no "features missed out" due to rapid development. Those were anti-user features purposefully developed in. This is what people are complaining about; and this is what the zoom manifesto is shamefully trying to brush off as if they were related to rapid development or to rapid scaling. If I was a member of the zoom team (who hadn't actively participated in these features), I would be extremely ashamed of my company for spoiling our success with these damaging practices.
it's a bit better - their regular trail is 10 days
Well, speaking solely for myself, I am more willing to forgive genuine bugs or even targeted attacks (supposing the company being attacked was doing the right things e.g. no weakly hashed passwords, keeping as little PIA as they can get away with, proper isolation) over misfeatures that hint at deep company culture problems ("Hmmm, how can we profit from our users' data, even though they're already paying us?")
A simple and explorable visualization of Covid-19 tests, positives, and deaths
7nm intel is EUV, 10nm intel is quad patterned DUV. Massive difference.
Except for like illicit drugs, they become dependent on it. If the supply dries up they are in serious trouble. Building your business on cheap debt seems like really short term thinking...
On the mac it opens a youtube video if you hit over 9000 undefined behaviors...
Fictional Inquisition
> Suppose product development has slowed down, reported bugs have increased 30% since last month, and sprint velocity is down by 40%. Your engineer is feeling desperately unhappy and is terrified of building new features because of the risk to the system as a whole.

> They want to stop building new features and refactor some of the system architecture. But what do you think their unmet universal need is here?

No. There is no unmet universal need here; the engineer is informing you that you have widespread technical debt and that debt needs to be addressed.

I'm all for finding ways to communicate in ways that aren't off-putting or confrontational, but what this post is suggesting is to obscure actual problems by focusing exclusively on people's reactions to those problems.

> What possible solutions are safe and fun for engineering, and give the sales director more independence and support?

When you launch a production system 3 months from now and it has a bug that leaks customer data, none of your customers are going to care whether or not your engineering environment was safe and fun.

Again, finding ways to communicate effectively is good. But when someone tells you that your house is burning down, it is not helpful to focus on how that makes you feel instead of the actual tangible problem. That's not healthy communication, that's avoidance. If you make the engineer feel safe and engaged but don't actually address the bug count, you have not solved the real problem.

If your house is burning down, the only thing that is going to fix that problem is water. If you are bleeding, the only thing that is going to fix that problem is a bandage. If your bug-reporting is increasing at a rate of 30% every month, the only thing that is going to fix that problem is to fix bugs, test more, and to refactor code so that it's less error prone.

Understand: when your engineers tell you that there are systemic problems in your software, they are doing you a favor as a business owner -- not asking for one themselves. They are letting you know that the quality of the software your company puts out is going to start suffering soon if technical mitigations aren't taken. You can't navigate yourself around that problem with communication. You can't rephrase that problem to make it go away. But you can use communication to make it easier to confront.
Good thing we improved with Windows 10 and have to reboot only every 52 days. Progress!

Seriously, Windows 10 does tend to get dodgy if you don't reboot for a few weeks. I'm not the only one who's noticed. Granted, it's less likely to outright crash, but it acts increasingly drunk.
I had a recruiter from them reach out to me and ask if I was interested in moving back to Germany for a 'hot' work position.
I guess that's why.
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I think it just works. Really simple to use.
I think the fundamental problem is that, when you say "my blood-letting barber", you're exaggerating. Others could say the exact same thing, and be deadly serious. My argument is exactly this variance. When scientific method starts being replaced by web of trust, people get hurt. And it's not because they're being stupid, like your original assertion. It's because they trusted the wrong person with the wrong information. This happens now, as my last comment made pretty clear. But at least in the FDA we have a relatively good source of information which was gathered using scientific methods to educate ourselves with.

Just to be clear: Other than this point surrounding education, I generally agree that prescription law is too restrictive in the US. I wish we had a layout closer to doctors diagnose and pharmacists prescribe, instead of doctors doing both. Pharmacists are supposed to be the expert in the drugs, but other than drug interaction screening and equivalent / generic replacement, that job has been stripped from them.
Even the House is slowly becoming less representative. The number of seats was capped at 435 back in the Taft era and states have rarely lost seats since[1].

With the 2020 Census likely in disarray due to both the Coronavirus and this administration's clear, documented intent to bias it "to Republicans and non-Hispanic whites,"[2] the crisis of representation will only worsen.

1. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/31/u-s-populat...

2. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/us/census-citizenship-que...
In Canada we have really cold weather and heat pumps are used but only down to between -5C to -10C depending on the efficiency of your pump. If I tried to run my heat pump in really cold weather it would just never reach the desired temperature.
It doesn't really cover CS; you're better with Coursera for that.

Their .Net content, Angular content and Android content is of a very high quality. I wasn't so impressed with the Java content - but that might be more down to the subject matter. I'd probably have hated anything covering Webforms or WCF or other such monsters ;)
Just for good measure:
(2^32)/(1000 * 3600 * 24) = 49.71 days
> Obviously as we stopped using Zoom we have to manually upload all our personal data to Facebook now.

I feel like there is a joke that's going over my head or I simply don't understand. Why you have to manually signup/login/auth/whatever with Facebook because you're using Jitsi now, especially on your own host?
I'm not sure how much relaying skype supernodes did, but as skype wasnt webrtc-based they would have more control over stream encryption - allowing routing of encrtpyed streams for true e2e encryption.

For small webrtc conferences, treating certain peers as an SFU can certainly work. However, bandwidth requirements would be substantially higher than full-mesh for the supernodes, and equivalent to SFU peers for non supernodes - so supernodes would need to be chosen wisely (and you would still be very limited on number of participants - then you are entering the realms of peering supernodes and intelligent routing of streams). Additionally, this still wouldn't be e2e encrypted. Its just a (current) limitation of webrtc.
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Or Hetzners dedicated hosts that have zero cost for bandwidth and unlimited traffic as well, haven't been able to find anything cheaper than that.
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To be accurate, the government(s) have shut down the economy.

We had several options for how to respond to this, and chose the most invasive, drastic and potentially economically catastrophic one.
Until the Amiga has versions of Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Teams, and the proprietary VPN the IT department decided on, it's unsuitable as a telecommuting machine.
For many businesses, reinvestment would have been a waste because they didn't have any expansion opportunities with strong profit potential. In those circumstances the shareholders would rather get the cash back directly.
Here are a list of soft skills that should be practiced to strengthen your ability to resolve conflict:
Empathy, Non-judgement, Active Listening, Calm presence, Interrupting gently, Reframing, Asking effective questions.
> The Jistsi team says the server needs roughly 5.5Mbps per Chrome user.

That sounds like a lot! I wonder why an almost still image can use that much bandwidth, I guess it has to do with the low-latency requirement but I would love more details on that.
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* Cruise missiles with memory leaks that do not matter because they'll reach the target before they allocate all memory: https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=comp.lang.ad...
1M Cases of Covid-19
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Just to make sure I understand your example, for users who require regular access you re-issue certificates daily? I could see that being useful for a "one off" type thing (i.e. you want to temporarily grant access for one day) but how does that help regular users?

I'm also not sure it's easier to "lock down access to your bastions" and wait out the certificate expiration instead of having a certificate revocation database. Although OpenSSH does not provide a mechanism to distribute the revocation list it seems trivial to add a certificate to the revocation list and distribute it in an automated fashion.

Lastly, since you have to both lock down hosts and wait out the expiration, does that not constitute a fail-open system? I really don't think an expiration date mechanism makes this a fail closed system. Either method requires manual intervention upon compromise.
Yes, I know it’s a ratio. That’s why I used the term “numerator” and “denominator”.

It’s not at all implausible that Italy has missed the vast majority of it’s cases, because they’re barely testing, and they’re not testing minor cases. It’s essentially guaranteed that they’re missing a huge number of cases.

A reasonable estimate is that they’re missing 10 cases for every one they actually detect. The error in the denominator is much larger than the error in the numerator.
I still wonder how well venting it for days is (say 10 days in a relatively dry room).
To me it's just as creepy to let any big tech company into healthcare such as Google or Facebook. To play the devils advocate, maybe people here have this reaction to Palantir because they disagree with Peter Theils political viewpoints whereas others would have the same issues with Google/FB.
Systems that automatically prepare, package and retail personalized meals direct from fresh ingredients in a 2m² footprint, and can self-clean.

Actually, a network of those plus: a factory to build them; operations centers to supply them; and a logistics network to resupply, maintain, and repair them.

Now 4 years in, we have a factory, we're currently finalizing for mass production, we own our own production equipment, we are way below budget per unit and we're funded.
> Thank you HN for proving me right

You've been proven nothing of the sort. I buried your post and the submission itself while investigating this claim, even though you've been trolling HN threads with these rants for weeks now, using multiple accounts to do it, ignoring our requests to stop breaking the site guidelines, and barraging us with ranty emails to boot.

I've looked closely at the data and found no evidence for any of this. Every sentence in your comment is either demonstrably false or completely unsupported.

I know that sometimes a bee gets into one's bonnet, but as I've explained to you a dozen times or so, all we can do is look at the data, and if reality conflicts with what you're saying, we have to go with reality. Actually, I appreciate your underlying concern for the integrity of this site. (Not so much the smears and accusations of corruption.)

Your real sin, though, is wasting our time. That sucks precious resources away from doing what we ought to be doing to make HN better. I haven't had a chance to attend to the front page for the last several hours because I've been busy looking into this, writing about it, and dealing with your posts and emails. Meanwhile other emails pointing out quality concerns in other threads have been piling up in the inbox.

Even though it's tedious, I've assembled a sample of what you've been posting so that readers can evaluate your claims for themselves, and also see how much damage a single disgruntled user can do to this place. In the future, we can refer concerns back here and hopefully not lose so much time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22465402

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22645796

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22587268

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22646808

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22223423

This was a pleasant one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22652042

In the past, you've had similar campaigns against other sites and topics, including Go, Kubernetes, IndieHackers, Keybase, DuckDuckGo, Mailchimp, and (yes) the Qataris:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22361860

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22329624

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22190633

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22211243

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22109987

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22048852

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22112625
I didn't bring up the issue, but sure. I'll focus on HCQ.
I will if you shut up
The signaling server is only useful for the connection initialization though, and it never has access to the video stream, only to metadata (like your IP address, the supported encodings of each party, etc.). And it doesn't even really need to access them: it just needs to forward them from one peer to another, so it could be end to end encrypted.

It also needs one or several STUN servers as part of the hole punching scheme, but this one doesn't even exchange anything with anyone, so there aren't many issues here (and you don't need to roll your own: you can use Google's one)
They do stuff like this not because they want to kill the web, but because Apple will always do what it thinks is in the best interests of the company and its customers.

(Who comes first seems to depend on what the technology in question is.)

In the case of WebKit, it's clear they see these "privacy-enhancing" features as a benefit to both, and so they go all-in.

Like removing the floppy drives. Lots of people had good use cases for them but they believed it was the best move for everyone in the long term.
I have to explain to "senior" developers why a deployment process involving keeping the source code on the prod server and building it with Visual Studio on the prod server is not a great idea.
I think they have the experience, but the success has not always been great. I used to have a hotmail account -> not impressed with how microsoft managed that vs things like gmail (downtime etc).

Same thing during the early Office 365 days. These systems were rough.

Zoom and AWS seem to be handling scaling pretty well - I'm a bit confused though as to how much extra capacity it would make sense for AWS to be carrying or maybe they aren't being asked to scale the way microsoft is which is my guess.
JetBrains calls it a perpetual fallback license.
Sindresorhus/p-queue: Promise queue with concurrency control
Probably most small(and medium, and big) businesses can hold on for a month or two at this rate but failure rate is going to approach 100% as time goes on.
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Someone feeling a certain way is a fact. In fact, if a conflict is that someone is upset, it is the critical fact
before we can conclude a decision requires making!