skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a comment to your first paragraph, I've found pyenv combined with its virtualenv plugin to be a decently consistent experience.
I only learned about it long after
> this year

As opposed to the jokes being told all those other April 1st we're going to have this year? :P
MOSS launches Covid-19 Solutions Fund
> For a simple donation, we can prioritize the work you need...

I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure a non-profit can't do things like this. If the person giving the money expects a tangible benefit in return, it's not a donation.
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For those not in the know, how is vbr dumb?
Anectdotal. But I've only ever heard from people that zoom web did not work. Everyone I've asked told me the same: 'no it did not work, but then I installed it, and it did work'.

Apparently their network effect is so big now, that people use it, despite it not working on first encounter.
Just out of curiosity, do you have a design for a complex responsive form? For example, how would you go about designing a form that have, say, 40 feilds such as text boxes, dropdown lists, date and time picker, file upload fields, radio buttons, check boxes, tables etc that works on both desktop and mobile browsers?
FaceTime seems to do it well enough. It's limited to ~30 people per call though.
Google Meet handles our 100+ person persenations no sweat.
In my country, only people with "vital" jobs, which means health care, police, emergency services, everything related to food (production, delivery), logistics, garbage collection, etc. still go out to work, and for them, child care is still available. Home workers have to handle their own children.
> Python serves several huge ones: web, datascience, 3d graphics, sysadmin... all with different needs, different conventions, different “standard” tools to do this and that.

Them having different conventions and standard tools is the failure, not a constraint.

What are the different needs that these ecosystems have which mean they couldn't use a common package manager? I don't believe there are any.
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Funny, had to use Zoom recently because of some clients who insisted on using it, and I had to install software (OS X), it didn't work in the browser or I didn't find the switch.
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More fitting to the title would be this page:
https://infosec.mozilla.org/guidelines/openssh

It's a nice practical guideline with all the basics covered.
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Mazda did it first :) The new Mazda 3 2019 model (launched in october 2018) has no tuchscreen control.
I know webrtc works p2p when possible and does some form of encryption, but I didn't know it claims e2e encryption. Is this for real, like, any standard browser implementation can generate keys for e2ee and display them to the user for verification?
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update priavcy bullshit txt
But remember that last year there was a flu season and this year there wasn't - deaths over this winter were far lower. The comparison of March to March would look like that even if there was a virus exactly as dangerous as flu but that hit in the spring instead of winter, because so many fragile people survived the winter.
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Sure, the security of your communications to someone depends on how well they protect them, not just you. That’s always true.
You mean “claiming to help, failing to help, then taking credit for any minor wins you had nothing to do with”? Ah yes, the Elon Musk way...
Not to be confused with Amazon Ring maybe?
Apple can, of course, do whatever it likes, up to simply recording the screen and sending that to weird & wonderful government agencies. Like almost everything in mainstream security, it comes down to who you trust. It doesn't mean it isn't E2E though.
Friction isn't a binary, and nothing is truly frictionless. Zoom requires you to install an application, while conference calls only require you to have a phone. I would say the former is more friction, particularly since this particular application is one I'd not like to install on any of my personal devices.
Nice straw man you built and then deconstructed. Nothing about meritocracy prevents old white men from being recognized or successful.
I assembled a controller for my smoker from a cheap PID from aliexpress, a relay and a fan. It works like a charm and it's an order of magnitude cheaper than buying a complete solution.
New Nvidia laptop GPUs in 25 OEMs’ systems this month
>I'm surprised this is possible.

Yeah, I'm surprised that the terminal bell still exists in 2020.

>My understanding was that compilers don't consciously check for UB and then decide to make the dev's life hell if they find some.

That was the case during the 20th century. In the 20 years compilers have gotten far more aggressive. They do actively check for UB.

>It's more that compilers pretend that certain assumptions are true even though this cannot actually be verified.

What often happens is that UB gets detected and information that is clearly available in the source code gets erased in the compiler to follow the letter of the standard. There is a lot of UB code that can run without problems if the compiler didn't interfere.

>So if you can explicitly check for code that causes UB, why permit it at all? Why not abort compilation or at least emit a warning?

A lot of UB can only be detected at runtime. The most sensible interpretation of UB would be to simply skip these checks in production builds but keep them in debug builds so that developers can avoid UB in their code.

Example: Bitshifting can result in UB but if both operands are variables the UB can be detected at runtime.
Really? Did the ones you tried happen to be other ones than those I mentioned? Because they just showed all 12-16 at the same time, IIRC.
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TV infrastructure these days is mostly satellite and cable based, sticks-on-hills broadcasting isn't that expensive and could simply be run by the government directly as it winds down over time.

Public alerting? Government can (and should) just serve videos itself, it can already SMS the entire nation.

World Service - was historically funded directly by the government, not the license fee. Should it even still exist?

School revision programmes can easily be handled by the private sector.

COVID-19 has revealed nothing about the BBC, which is now untrusted by >50% of the British population for the first time. All broadcasters have access to government broadcast updates.

Anything else?
I see a weird, surprising, unhelpful design, and a lot of critical comments being deleted.
OPPO holds app development contest for its watch with 700k yuan in prize money
Opine all you like, it won't stop us from raising a stink about inaccessible websites.
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You probably mean VHF, eg the marine VHF band.
Feel free to resubmit with a real title (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
So in short, the answer is "no".

I don't see why anybody would ever use your unsecure service or even pay for it.
Right, like this it reads weird. It does not mean that we consider funded academic research "commercial", but that in addition to what is commonly understood as "commercial use of vvvv" we're also asking teams that have funding to support our research by buying licenses. We wanted to make a distinction to education, where vvvv is completely free to use.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers...

Actually refutes your claim that an AES key can itself be covered by copyright.

The given reason to attempt to have it removed was not that copying the key itself violates copyright, but that it was used to circumvent copyright-protection mechanisms.
For example eavesdroppers know who is speaking at the moment among other nasty issues.
It's not that simple. When a measurement is done on a pure state (where the knowledge of the state is already as good as it gets) the observers are not just updating their beliefs, they are changing the system. On the other extreme, in some cases one may have measurements that improve our (imperfect) knowledge of the physical state without disturbing it.

"Quantum measurement is nothing more, and nothing less, than a refinement and a readjustment of one’s initial state of belief. [...] Let us look at two limiting cases of efficient measurements. In the first, we imagine an observer whose initial belief structure ρ = |ψ⟩⟨ψ| is a maximally sharp state of belief. By this account, no measurement whatsoever can refine it. [...] The only state change that can come about from a measurement must be purely of the mental-readjustment sort: We learn nothing new; we just change what we can predict as a consequence of the side effects of our experimental intervention. That is to say, there is a sense in which the measurement is solely disturbance."

https://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/personal/cfuchs/Oviedo.pdf
I use MS Teams in my company, seems to work very well, great quality video, I’m don’t fully understand the security issues with Zoom, so I’m curious, does anyone know how MS Teams compares to Zoom??
The school my kids go to (in Portugal) also use Teams, for online learning, seems to be working well for them now. (Europe had issues a few weeks ago with Teams, when most of the schools first closed)
This is a supremely callous comment given the comment you’re replying to. The world, and particularly this poster, doesn’t need you to point this out to them.
I'm no biologist, if you want high quality answers you'll have to go find one to ask. But I'm pretty sure you have some wrong ideas about how evolutionary biology works as a field. They observe reality and form theories that fit what they've perceived thusfar. They make predictions based on those theories. Subsequent discoveries can confirm their predictions, or confirmation may remain elusive. It works basically the same way as astrophysics.

Biology is traditionally considered a "hard science" by people who subscribe to a 'hard/soft science' worldview.
Unions exist primarily to engage with employers, not government. Governments are very weary to permit any union to become politically important for historic reasons. And any wise union thinks twice before getting involved in politics.

So you'd need workers to unionize (which they have NOT done to deal with their employers). AND for that union to pick the federal government as it's first opponent (and not it's members' employers!?). AND to get that all done before this bill becomes law (and in a time of epidemic). AND then for them to win an uphill battle with the most powerful political entity on earth despite the fact that ~80% of voters don't know what you're campaigning about and if they did wouldn't care.

I think the real question here is why tech companies (or rather their CEOs, founders etc) are not making a fuss. I was disappointed by the revelations from Snowden about how Google, FB, Apple, ISPs and everyone else turned over everything without asking any questions before it was even legal after sept. 11th. But I gave them the benefit of the doubt: they were afraid, they wanted to be patriotic, it's hard to say no when someone asks nicely etc. Then they were all "outraged" by the revelations. If they were really outraged, they'd be buying senators, hiring PR firms and making public statements decrying this.

The cynical answer to that is that these companies have made a calculated decision not to pick a fight most users don't (yet) care about.

I'd also be careful calling us petulant. Politicians ignore us because 90% of people are not informed and choose not to think about history when these issues come up. But the audience here are mostly members of the other 10%. Since we're overwhelmingly outnumbers, out voted and ignored, what can we do but be outraged, share some articles about self-service-encryption and then move on?

Sorry, I've been quite confrontational in this comment. I also think there will be a lot more "outrage" than action on this. But when the possible action is very limited... Unionization would likely be positive too, I just think it would be a small part of a large and complex solution.
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Ah, so Python is for small and slow, doesn't seem to be the best in everything after all.

Which brings us back to "nice scripting and introduction to programming language".
Good luck, bad luck...
I've installed my own instance of Jitsi and it's particularly useful for video chats with older people or those less technically able.

My use case is elderly in-laws who can use a laptop, but are incapable of installing anything other than malware. Installing Zoom would be too complicated for them and would probably discourage them from participating in a family video chat.

With Jitsi, I send them a link by email and text them to check their email. They click on the link, browser opens and voila! - they're able to chat with their family, with zero fuss.

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Levandowski says Uber must pay his $179M judgment to Google
That sucks. I hope you will find a new job soon!
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Easy to Google, a basic skill nowadays:

https://www.ft.com/content/2a70a02a-644a-11ea-a6cd-df28cc3c6...
I don’t disagree. Coronavirus is a factor in most if not all of those deaths. But the average age of those who have died in Italy is about 78. Thats the average! Clearly there’s much more going on with these cases, even if Coronavirus is technically shortening their lives.
Okay, so if I can't guess your point of view, then it would really help if you would answer the question I asked about desktop apps.
Why?

Bear in mind what we want here is not some absolute, objective truth which cannot exist anyway - as pointed out in other comments, where do you draw the line with this stuff? If someone is 90 and dies after having tested positive, did they die of a new preventable disease or was it just their time? The distinction can end up being arbitrary.

What people care about is numbers comparable with other diseases so the strength of response can be correctly calibrated. And clearly these numbers are useless for that, especially as flu isn't tracked or reported in the same way.
Leaks information about the voice stream. It's not inconceivable that a well trained algorithm could recover sentences from the transmission pattern, although I don't know for sure if it could do quite that well.
It's quite strange, the problem is more visible when I click directly on the image (https://github.com/oskardolch/SteamCAD/blob/master/Images/26...). Then my browser freeze 2/3 seconds after the image is rendered. So it's probably not the image itself that cause the problem but the GitHub file visualizer.
Django 1.11 has reached the end of extended support
Sure, that's the regulation. And sure, no test is perfect. But if I, a female, have sex with a bisexual male who has had sex with other men recently, I can give blood. I, being female, can have 'risky' sexual behavior, including things like anal sex on one-night stands, and give blood - yet a gay male in a stable relationship with one person cannot.

Not to mention that the reason for this stems from AIDS in the 80's - and the outlook for catching HIV is lower than it has ever been. And I'll point out that being gay does not prevent one from donating in other countries.

This restriction is nothing but ill-informed policy and discrimination.
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If it is designed to run arbitrary software, clearly it's a general-purpose computing device, no? And maybe the ergonomics of phones makes their potential as general-purpose computers limited, but that argument doesn't fly for tablets (even on HN people use their tablet as a main work device, eg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22731192), and iirc Apple's draconic policies also extend to iPads.

It certainly looks like a slippery slope from where I'm standing. People have gotten used to not having full ownership of their phones, and tablets are kinda just big phones, so people have gotten used to not having full ownership of their tablets. But a tablet is also kind of like a small, highly portable laptop, and in fact many people use them as such. The boundary between the two is also blurring, with tablets becoming more laptop-like and laptops becoming more tablet-like.

I don't think it's a huge leap from here to fear that we are witnessing a trend, and that our ownership of our true general-purpose computing devices, such as our laptops, is not something we should take for granted.
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Just to note: this kind of difference is part of why it's so difficult to improve packaging. There are lots of different tools, and they all work well for some people in some situations. There's no realistic prospect of persuading them all to use a single tool - but the fragmentation is a big part of what makes packaging so daunting.
You should be assigned one of these by default if you want a .crypto, and only migrated once you have positive proof you aren't a scam (if such a thing were possible).
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> Signal doesn't do video calls afaik

False. https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007060492-Vo...

> and requires a phone number

Like every other service, but they have plans for alternative methods.

> and still wants me to unfirewall Google Services on Android

False. https://signal.org/android/apk/
Not just Bands, but also Modes:

Early military radios had a switch labeled "CW" and "Phone".

In radio parlance, "CW" was Telegraphy and "Phone" was Telephony,
so in this context the term "Phone" derived from the term "Radio Telephony".
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Ya, so I am also an Architect, practiced in India and Middle east.
I know that their is lots of complexity, human fallibility, many problems during process that's why our software comes in place to minimize these efforts,human errors involved in workflows, so that one can concentrate on solving and designing the project.

So, right now we are using the software in-house thus producing projects and getting feedbacks from various customers and accordingly developing the tool, the main vision is to make it SaaS, then relationships would not be a big issue.
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I've used a few video conferencing packages and Zoom just works, and works well. No quality issues or dropouts, Linux isn't treated as a second-class citizen.
HN commenters see someone having a life crisis and start debugging...
> I think the real question here is why tech companies (or rather their CEOs, founders etc) are not making a fuss.

A heavy compliance burden is a moat for incumbents. This is true in most industries - businesses only squeal about regulations if it's going to severely hurt their bottom line, if it's just an annoyance than they'll publicly claim they don't like it but also point out that it stops cowboys and amateurs (i.e. new competitors) from potentially hurting consumers.
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They did not address the OSX issue for ages. They claimed it was intentional and a valuable feature for customers. In the end Apple had to release a security update to remove the web server.
I believe...

MS Teams is better but you have to pay for it (and maybe it's complex to implement too).

Zoom is free (and supports large numbers of participants which other free alternatives don't). Also meetings can be setup with about 4 mouse clicks by the user himself with no other kit than a browser in Zoom. Getting your art department home workers to correctly

It has been weird watching people insist we use zoom because it supports so many users, when there are only three of us actually in a meeting. So the cynic in my suspects it's being used by (say) schools and universities (as the Skype limit was 32 people, now 50). And other people have assumed it's better since Harvard\Cambridge use it, so now they use it for 4 people...