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> I honestly think Zoom's engineers, who have made a number of rudimentary serious technical blunders, thought "end-to-end encryption" meant "it's encrypted during every stage of transport". I've seen a number of companies make this mistake.

This means they're incompetent, full stop.

I don't think that at all. I think the marketing team is just full of shit.
I also found this one to be pretty good: https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto...

It was submitted to HN, but got less attention (ironically maybe because it's more technical?)
> There are tens of DBAs, hundreds of developers, hundreds of application users, those are the users in those groups.

Ah, so this is a special case with a shop that has developers and DBAs in their user base. Now that I can understand.

> I read the RFCs and the documentation, in most cases, it is actually quite good and detailed, both on their LDAP and on their Kerberos implementation details.

Then you know what a giant mess all of it is. I have done my share of LDAP/AD integration as well and found that LDAP is a very malleable tool that has been bent in many ways. There are many details to get right. MS use a certain subset of schemata and have added their special flavoured behaviour in the background. That means, what the AD admin sees is not exactly what an LDAP query might return. Similarly Kerberos or any other authentication scheme like e.g. SAML. Getting all of this right from the view of a third party application is not simple. That's why I'm never surprised why pretty much all of them are incomplete or incorrect in this manner.

Oracle offers a similar integration for AD. Do you happen to have any experience with it and if so, how does it compare to MS SQL?
Yeah, sorry I didn't feel like giving some guy who hasn't even read the article a full explanation. However I saw in a presentation on YouTube that these characters are replaced (e.g. ") to then apply SIMD instructions. This implies copies and allocations. But these are necessary, and it would not be possible to achieve this with indices.
Dammit, New York City is not all of New York! A "New Yorker" is anyone who lives in the state, despite the claims that NYC lays on it.

I'm a New Yorker as New York is the state a live and a 7 hour drive from NYC. Not that I was expecting the meals for myself, but the title would lead me to believe people in my community could be helped.
The people that own the food supply live far away from where it is produced.
Isn't this more reflective of Amazon running right on the wire operationally and needing to fire people to stay there? Why would they need an excuse to trim the fat from a purely fit point of view?
okay, I think I see your point now. it's less of a no-limit credit card paid by uncle sam and more of a contribution matching / loan combo. I do think the tax interaction is overly convoluted, but I see the core of something viable here. people can get extra purchasing power when they need it, but they still have at least a little skin in the game to discourage abuse.

I will say I'm not a big fan of using shame to gate off this benefit. my intuition is that shame alone is not enough to stop most people from seeing a way to stretch their grocery budget, if they can use it to buy anything they want. if it is effective, then that's only in proportion to how dehumanizing the experience of using it is, which is also kind of shitty.
I would not call Zoom secure. Example: https://www.androidauthority.com/zoom-feature-freeze-1101693...
There are a handful of TN occupations that don't require a degree but given your background, it sounds like you might qualify for an O-1 and this doesn't require a degree.
Thanks for doing this Peter. I have already completed the green card interview (EB1B) and it went well. I expect my priority date to become current sometime in the next couple of months. Can I start a company now or does the USCIS check that I continue to be employed by the same employer? It has been ~ 2 years since my I-140 was approved.
Looking at the menus, it seems like they're generally serving quite low-cost meals. I'm curious what the parameters of the cost-benefit would need to be for it to make economic sense. How many people would need to "cheat" for how many meals per day to make up for the operational cost of implementing a given safeguard? How much food could a person stockpile before it starts going bad more quickly than they can make some other use of it?
An accelerometer on a physical object is a force sensor. F=mA
If the goal is to save jobs, eliminating the private equity business entirely might be the most effective solution.
What's your wife's current status?
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Yes, Apple literally doesn't have access to the keys if they do nothing. If they do something, they have very easy access to the keys.
Well then we may need to restructure in order to create a more effective system. Society does not benefit from people who are completely reliant on the government to meet basic needs.
Cool idea! Positional audio is something IMHO underused in todays conference solutions. (Mumble supports it out of the box, but as far as I know its position sources are all game plugins)
They dropped the interest rate to 0% on all Federal student loans. So you won't accrue interest while in deferment right now.
The company I work at is trying to avoid laying off people by asking everyone across the board to take a pay cut. I had recently received a raise, so they paid me at my raised rate up until the end of the month, but they let me know they would need to revert me to my un-raised salary moving forward. All in all, a reduction of about $7,000 to my salary. Some of the other devs (the most expensive ones) took a 30% pay cut.

They are hoping they can qualify for some of the $2 trillion stimulus and can recoup some of the losses (and if the economy recovers, they might be able to give us some of our reduced salaries back as bonuses at the end of the year), but we will just have to see.

Ultimately, I'm grateful that we aren't all getting laid off right now. I think more companies should offer salary cuts as an option instead of just blindly laying off people.
the word they're looking for is fatigued

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatigue_(material)
UK - we're only permitted to go out if it's essential[0], such as buying food or collecting medicine. You're also permitted to travel to work, only if you have a job you can't do from home, and you work at one of the designated "essential" businesses/organisations. You're also allowed out for excercise.

The police here have in some cases been acting with ludicrous heavy-handedness, such as posting drone footage of 1-2 people walking over an empty moor, claiming they shouldn't because it's "NOT ESSENTIAL!". The actual laws actually seem quite reasonable, and leave room for common sense - hopefully the police will stop this nonsense, or their behaviour may cause people to lose respect and start flaunting the rules.

I believe it's the same situation across most/all of Europe now.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus
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Its a great overall look, but I'd like to add some details to the Qt parts.

* he reviewed the QtWidget parts, and the designer for such. This is by now 15 years old tech that has not seen any new development for years. He didn't look at the QtQuick and QtComponents parts which people use now.

* He writes: «You can always buy a commercial license that gives you the rights to statically link your application but it comes with a hefty price.».

This seems an emotional conclusion. First, most people don't actually require to statically link their apps. So this is only required for a small subset of users. Shipping your app on mobile, for instance, can be done with the open source version just fine. I think it helps to actually ask the sales team a price instead of concluding it has a heafty price. Compared to visual studio it actually is cheaper, last I checked...

* «Chart components are missing.»

Actually, there are several. Including 3rd party ones.

* he first states that QML allows one to use Javascript as a con, and then continues in his next line saying it is not nice to have to use C++. I think thats unfair. You can write your entire app in Javascript or C++. You can mix them. Your choice.
This are add-ons. Like NPM can be seen as a bunch of add-ons to Node. Complaining about the ecosystem being diverse doesn't really sound like a negative to me...
Ditto for this. I have the 916+ (I think) with the 8Gb ram upgrade, and it’s a very nice Docker container runner indeed.
OK, so what's the mechanism?

I have tense muscles in my back from WFH. A Reikist touches my back. What happens to relieve the tension? Does mana from their hands exert a force to directly extend the tense muscles? Does the mana stimulate the release of some chemical which relaxes the muscle? How does it work?
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I disagree, they’re designed to incentivize people not to sell such secrets on the black market. If this wasn’t true, these programs wouldn’t exist.

They’ve just gotten used to banking on people taking much less than black market value in order to avoid legal complications.
Though sad that she's now taking marching orders from Pelosi now https://www.nationalreview.com/news/aoc-drifts-away-from-act...
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I would not call OP stated that "calls Zoom secure":
"moderately secure, though flawed"
You are the one thinking in racist terms not the OP.
It's more like "fatigue" in the materials science context.

Subterranean nuclear testing produced rock fatigue from the unusual stresses and strains.

It's one of the few geologically detectable effects of the anthropocene era, like increased atmospheric CO2, and the discontinuity in the baseline C-14/C-12 ratio. If human civilization were to be erased from Earth, a future researcher would still be able to determine that at some point, something dug up carbon fuels and burned them for power, and at a somewhat later point, something detonated nuclear weapons in the open atmosphere, and in underground tests.
> I wish the employees had a seat at the negotiating table for any of this

If the tech industry didn't seem to despise unionizing so much this could've been possible. Maybe that will change once the current disaster is behind us.
I have a boss who often uses the subject to send a usually short and concise message and leave the email blank.
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This x 100.
The food pickup program existed for public school students ever since the schools were closed. Now it's being extended to all NYC residents.
I would include myself in that "liberal/lefty" group. I saw that several of the comments made prior to mine were blaming calculated conservative manipulation, and I wanted to point out that the misconceptions are also arising naturally on "our side" out of desire to promote compliance and optimism.

I didn't expect this issue to become political until I observed it happening. The political aspects of the issue have to be addressed, including the assumption that made-up facts can be benign if they're spoken by the right people with the right intentions.
Hi Peter, are there any drawbacks to switching from an O1 visa to an H1B visa in order to avoid having to renew the O1 every year (after the first three years)?
In particular, would an EB1 petition have more chances to succeed if the applicant has O1 status at the time of filing compared to H1B status?
It seems like a Job Guarantee program would be something that both Democrats and Republicans could support. I'm surprised it hasn't been done already (other than in the Great Depression).

Questions...

1. How would that program handle people who were unwilling to work? Possible answer off the top of my head: maybe they get sent home or terminated from the program for a period of time, and the pay for the "Job Guarantee" job would need to be somewhat more desirable than the benefits received for not working at all (assuming the person is capable of work).

2. How would the program prevent managers with personal bias against particular people on the Job Guarantee program dismissing them so they are sent home to receive the lower paying "able bodied but unwilling to work" pay? Possible solution: Any dismissal is time limited (or exponential, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, then in yearly increments), and also the first 3-4 steps would simply involve a transfer to a different manager. To reduce the likelihood of bias, managers should be representative of the general population in any potentially important characteristics such as gender, race, and also political orientation (Democrat, Republican, or other).

3. What would prevent minimum wage employees from moving to the government jobs program instead? (I'm anticipating a potential Republican question.) Possible answer: the pay would be lower.

4. Does this create any kind of perverse incentives for the government or corporations? "Well, we don't need to care about access to college, or jobs in the US, because everyone has a guaranteed (below minimum wage) job".
I think of it as a warning to future companies who take these kind of liberties...
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shame, I'm that weirdo that actually loves reading and writing docs.

If moz were paying, I'd happily sit and just rummage through the codebase adding docs to everything.

That said I think Django had the best policy on this. Rather than get someone to write docs, make docs a first class citizen. i.e No matter how good your code is, if you don't update/create the relevant docs your PR doesn't pass muster.

As a result Django has some of the best documentation out there with only Symfony's docs coming anywhere close.
And all government bailouts should be in the form of stock purchases by the government. A company that gets bailed out too much should be effectively nationalized IMO.
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Yup. It stinks.
They made a decision to leave the backbone/infrastructure market.
I don't blame them.
The main thing about MacOSX Server, is that I don't trust it to be around too much longer. A Linux box will be around, in one form or another, forever.

However, it's easier for me to buy some canned solution; either pure software, an SaaS, or a hardware solution.
Shorting the mic signal is not a straightforward solution. For one thing, you can just amplify your signal right back up to intelligibility, since 40-60dB attenuation doesn't go under the noise floor of a well-designed system.

Just send the mic signal through an op-amp with an enable input.
>> In fact, is there something we can do to PREVENT these colossal leverage figures? Banks don't care, regulators can't do much about it, PE companies don't care, the companies being bought out don't have a say, and neither consumers.

Yes there is -- let them fail if they cannot service debt. If you bail them out, it only fosters the behavior further.
Among other great additions, I like the addition of compilesettings [1], which will give programs more visibility into how they were compiled.

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Pretty sure being dead isn't something you just "get over".
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge disaster has been covered a million ways to date.

If you are looking for analysis (and grim humor) about engineering disasters big and small, I strongly recommend checking out Well There's Your Problem, whose videos are here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPxHg4192hLDpTI2w7F9rPg/vid...

I'm not at all affiliated with it, but it's something that I found super interesting. (Along with the authors other series where he uses Cities Skylines to demonstrate city planning politics, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwkSQD3vqK1S1NiHIxxF2... and where he recreates Philadelphia in Cities Skylines starting back in pre-colonial times and discussing the history, social environment, and engineering along to the modern day, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vln5Ri4Zpgo&list=PLwkSQD3vqK... )
Hn is very it specific. I wouldn't thought that you find many bartenders here for the soul reason that those two interests or occupations are just different independent to intelligence.
You got me curious. Apparently it's "weak power-law" and means a power-law relationship only applies over part of the range. As opposed to strong power law which applies over the full curve, or false power law where only a truncated part of the data fits a power law.

Different types of power laws: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.03408.pdf

Power-law rheology of cells: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-matsci...
Unfortunately there's no data checksumming with APFS. Last time I checked, ages ago, CCC wasn't using a version of rsync that supports checksums. Newish versions (for a few years) of DNG compute separate checksums for DNG metadata and raw/image data, but to what degree applications use this to verify the integrity of the image file may vary.

Image silent data corruption via bitrot can be frustrating. Without a regime to prevent it, it spreads into all backups. And typical workflows depend on backups for eventual migration to new storage which allows any corruption to be replicated via the backup strategy. You end up backing up the corruption, unwittingly.
The world needs to quickly reduce infection rates to a low enough level so that infected cases can be quarantined and traced individually again. Then slowly re-open things for the non-infected.
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You should be able to tell the difference between a New Yorker living in NYC and a New Yorker living in NY state using the context. How do you expect 3 meals to be given to anyone living in NY state? Will they ship the meals using the postal service? Or is there a network of people giving out free food in every little town in the state? Neither one is realistic.

Also, the website is literally "nyc.gov".
For anyone who has been following Apple closely, we should know [0] and [1] are simply false. ( Most if not all of those mainstream media are wrong every time with Apple I dont know where to start ) Not to mention they are not "entry level low cost phone". It is the same narrative every year. Apart from the trade war in 1 quarter every iPhone release has been within Apple's guidance, and more.

The truth is Apple may know better than most of us. Out of the small group of user who bought iPhone SE, most of them bought it for its price and not its size. If there was indeed a market for smaller smartphone, you could bet Android would have at least a few selection. But there are none. Zero. Even the king of SKUs Samsung doesn't ship a single small Android phone just proves the market is simply not there. Or at least for the Android targeted market.

Truth to be told, As much as I love to have an updated iPhone SE, if it was priced the same as the iPhone 4.7" where everything else being equal, I would likely have pick the the 4.7" just to be safe. Basically it comes down to market want cheap AND small, not cheap OR small.

Another point worth mentioning, Once Apple perfected the All Screen narrow bezel OLED manufacturing to the point it becomes a commodity, the 4.7" Screen Size ( With 19.5 : 9 Ratio ) will be exactly the same as the iPhone SE 4" Size.
Apple isn’t close to having a monopoly in anything. So there isn’t any action that regulators could block which would prevent a monopoly.

Also all the markets that Apple are involved in are highly competitive. Computers, mobile phones, tablets, video/music streaming, credit cards, online payments, and headphones are all highly competitive with healthy competition.

Additionally when Apple enters a new market they are normally increasing the level of competition not reducing it, and that competition has often changed the face of those industries. If anything Apple increases the health of industries they enter.

Anti-trust regulations aren’t there to harm big companies, they are there to promote the health of markets by increasing competitive pressure.

I’ll go out on a limb now and speculate that the existence of Apple has made the use of anti-trust regulations less likely or necessary in the markets where it is active in.

If Apple had a monopoly in mobile phones and they used that monopoly to try and create a monopoly in headphones then I could understand the call for bringing in the regulators. But the current situation is nowhere near that. You can even buy Bose headphones in Apple stores.
They're designed to disincentivize moral people from selling such secrets on the black market, and show that companies care about fixing bugs. Authoritarian governments will always be more than willing to offer large sums of money for such exploits.
The Apple brand is one of the strongest brands in the world. Blackberry was always a bigger brand than RIM itself. Doesn't make sense to ditch an abandon a big brand.

Another interesting case is when HP decided to spin off their PC business: they gave the HP brand to that new company.
My partner's friend had a large number of people let go during a zoom meeting. It was horribly planned, several people showed up 3-5 minutes late each time they had to say "you're laid off" yet again, etc.
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This is not a "hey, maybe we should require some stockpiles" like they do in Switzerland (didn't stockpile enough masks, sadly enough).

The OP was literally advocating for a centrally ("democratically") planned economy. Having production dictated by the political process as the default is the extreme position.

Developed countries all find some balance between central planning and laissez faire, but they do so by assuming the free market as the default. Intervention and central planning is only applied to specific cases where there is a concrete public interest in doing so.