skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair point on the FAQ. At least they didn't explicitly misuse the term "end-to-end"?

That being said, I'm not certain encryption is an entirely solved problem for the case of multiple devices, including web clients, or for large public groups. (WhatsApp only supports a single client -- their web interface attaches to the phone -- and their group chats are limited to 256 members.) I'm not sure it can be solved under the current model Telegram uses for authorizing devices, as the server can authorize a device to access an account, and any non-secret chats it was involved in, without the involvement of any previously signed-in devices.
EDIT: Notice I find OP's line of thinking "dangerous". My reaction is not to appeal to any authority and have anyone censor, ban, or de-platform them. I combat it with speech.

I see this line of thinking extremely dangerous and misguided.

> is very important... but it is also causing harm to the society

Let me stop you right there. You can literally make this case about every noun ever. History is littered with a long list of do-gooders that tried to ban books, alcohol, some sort of human sexuality, gambling, and on and on. I believe this is roughly where the saying "The path to hell is paved with good intentions" comes from.

In the United States, we believe in freedom. Freedom has the same properties that can lead to good or bad outcomes. People can choose good or bad. They can choose the right political candidate or the wrong candidate. They can believe what they want to believe. They can choose different paths that may lead to prosperity or to poverty.

Censorship or banning things mostly don't work and banning it just because it can cause harm is not defensible. Censorship, especially, creates a large amount of harm itself by reducing trust in the government. Reminds me when I was a teenager and I asked for a hacking book for Christmas. My relative refused to get it for me because of the harm it could do. My response was that knowledge was neither good nor bad. It's what you decide to do with it. My argument was that that same knowledge of computer hacking, while can be used for bad or evil, can also be used for good or defense against those wishing to do harmful things.

In the United States we have experience with alcohol and other drug prohibition, and it's been an absolute disaster. And the thinking about that is the same alarming attitude that is displayed here regarding free speech.

The reason the United States has a 1st Amendment that prevents the government from restricting speech is because it's incredibly dangerous to allow anyone or any group to decide what speech is allowed. It may start out with good intentions, but is far too dangerous to even allow the beginnings of it to exist.
I agree with a lot of your points here. For example, I’d love to have a nice constraint system like you can have making an iOS. or even windows app. The problem is we have to work with HTML and the DOM, which aren’t nearly as nice to use out of the box as OS APIs. HTML/CSS/JS wasn’t designed for applications, it was built for basic document manipulation. But the pure accessibility and compatibility of the web is a better trade off for most products because it’s easier for people to find and use something on the web than downloading an app. So we’re forced to use worse tools.

I also don’t get the JS hate here. :) you certainly should not use react for your static resume site or blog. But react is a brilliant and necessary tool for web applications. If you don’t use it, you’ll end up making your own, probably worse abstraction for managing state and reactive updates.
> so you still send metadata to defined servers for connection handeling

This is also true for typical p2p protocols though, isn't it? Normal torrent clients for example have hardcoded servers to start their dht search from.
They should report these unsafe working conditions to OSHA. Hospitals are required to have a plan for this, and certain actions are specifically called out as potentially riskier. Seems like if you've notified the administration of the risk, and notified OSHA you can stop work until the dangerous work environment is resolved. Findlaw and OHSA article on respiratory programs below.

Under federal and state laws, employers must provide a safe workplace. If unsafe working conditions are present, a worker may report the violation to the employer, to the federal and/or state Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and in some cases, the worker may refuse to work. The following is a summary of OSHA protection and guidelines for dealing with dangerous conditions in the workplace.
What to Do When a Safety Hazard Poses an Imminent Danger
When unsafe working conditions place the life of a worker in imminent danger, the worker should report the dangerous condition to OSHA. The worker also has the right to refuse to work if:
There is a reasonable and good faith belief that a condition in the workplace poses an immediate and substantial risk of serious physical injury or death;

https://employment.findlaw.com/workplace-safety/protecting-y...

https://www.osha.gov/Publications/OSHA3767.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0r...
I remember a Montreal morning show doing this via phone and tricking a few world leaders. Hopefully some funny things come out of this.
This does seem like a contributing factor, but the TP run started before the mass shift to work from home / self quarantine.
I want to add something for fair-minded users who may still be wondering, after all that, whether the interest in the OP really is organic or whether there might be shenanigans. It's natural to worry about this, especially because other users tend to make loud and grand claims about abuse, whether they have knowledge or not.

You can check a lot of this for yourself using publicly available information.

Look at a sample of users who've been expressing interest about Tailscale, in threads about that topic and/or Wireguard or other topics. Check out the histories of these users—you can do that by clicking on a username to go to their profile, and then clicking on 'comments' or 'submissions'. You'll see that most are longstanding, serious community members. If your random samples look anything like the ones I've examined, you'll find many excellent HN contributors among them, with a lot of technical expertise. This is evidence that the interest in this topic is both organic and serious. I'd supply links, but it wouldn't feel right to haul in specific usernames that way. It's easy enough to check.

To that public information, I can add some non-public facts. First, the profiles of users upvoting these threads look much the same as the commenters. Of course in many cases they are the same, since it's natural to both upvote and comment on something that you find interesting. In addition, the voting patterns on these threads look like what we see on popular topics of organic interest, and nothing like what we tend to see with voting rings and organized promotion.

Conclusion: although we can never say for sure, because we aren't inside users' heads while they upvote, the evidence points to organic interest. I'll go further: I'm the person who has spent by far the most time on this problem in the history of HN and I find it hard to imagine the evidence being any clearer. Also, no one at HN (and no one at YC that I know of) has any connection with any of the people involved in this project. I've spent so much time writing about this because (a) I don't like to see people smeared, (b) we take concerns about abuse of HN extremely seriously, and (c) I want a record to link back to in the future so I don't have to spend any more sad hours on this.
Your wifes boyfriend would be mad at you, though!
Raw data was originally from SF Chronicle, but they removed their timelapse view so I am now getting it direct from county websites. Stanford Open Data project also has a reasonable historical dataset that comes from the county websites.

I'll add a new cases graph for each county.
Credit being cheap only works if you have a good plan and expectations that the business is going to survive. Most small businesses are not in that position (and even large businesses like Macy's, Cheesecake Factory and Subway). Shops that are not getting foot traffic now have no idea when they'll be able to reopen, getting a loan to pay their lease would probably be unpayable afterwards. Business owners also need to make a living, so they are looking into getting jobs or starting alternative businesses. Their original businesses are most likely not coming back.

And there's no way the economy will fully reopen before at least a year. China is not a good comparison, because 1) the US did not follow the same approach as China in dealing with the virus, 2) China has been lying about their economy and number of cases and 3) even if China was fully open for business now, the biggest markets are not buying - Europe and the US are just beginning a huge recession, that in turn will hit China back and will affect the recovery of the world economy.

A V shaped recovery is, in my opinion, a made up dream to keep people from panicking.
We won't be able to save everyone, but we may be able to save everyone who can be saved with treatment.

Unfortunately, I think it's too late for the US
I kind of did. The author cannot be trusted with managing my money. And what he is saying is plain silly.

> Jim Grant Is ‘Bearish’ on Bridgewater, Saying Dalio Isn’t Focused on Investing

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-05/jim-grant...
The current headline at the source is "Google to begin lifting coronavirus ad ban".

Either The Verge changed their headline, or you are violating HN guidelines by editorializing your submitted title.
It is allowed. It's a fundamental principle of international law that states are not subject to the laws of other states, except by treaty. There's no applicable law that would prevent China from doing this.

Besides even in the consumer space you have things like airlines overbooking flights and then kicking people off the plane when too many passengers show up.
That woman in the 1904 ad could be in her 80s which would imply she was born in the 1820s -- during the presidency of either Monroe or JQ Adams!
QUIC nicely abstracts the crypto from the transport protocol so you could easily plug in different crypto implementations. For example, someone already did a QUIC with Noise implementation.
Safety factors are a thing, sure. Safety factors of 4.29e9x (which is what you get when you go from 32- to 64-bit ints) are possibly a bit excessive, and not at all worthy of an FAA airworthiness directive.
Exactly this! The WHO estimates that air pollution kills 7M people annually[0]. A really big range of estimates suggest 20-50% decrease in airborne pollutants since the start of the pandemic. Even a 10% decrease, sustained, could save 700k lives/year.

Yes, bad economies harm people. But they also reduce harm. Pointing simply at directionality due to a bad economy is disingenuous.

[0] https://www.who.int/health-topics/air-pollution#tab=tab_1
[1] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200326-covid-19-the-imp...
Different brewing methods taste different. French press tastes different than a pourover. An Aeropress tastes different than a moka pot. I couldn't help but groan at the idea that a tool 'brews the best cup of coffee in the world' . The coffee the various tools produce simply taste different and they have different usecases. Not better or worse, just different.
Based on the same limited exposure to DeLillo, I'd agree with you.

"Zero-K" was so boring, I dropped it maybe 75% way through. In general I enjoy both genre and "literary" novels, but Zero-K felt deliberately anodyne: meandering minimalist pseudo-scifi optimized for the sensibilities of the "New Yorker" readership.
https://github.com/DigitalMars/Empire-for-PDP-10

It's the same algorithm. Mainly a bunch of ad-hoc heuristics.
No, it's not a load of bologna.

Rolling your own auth system is very likely not going to produce an auth system as battle hardened/tested as <popular framework>.

Rewriting an entire site from scratch is rarely the correct choice and is one of the most common engineering fallacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect

Caching is a problem you need to solve regardless of whether you're using a framework or not.

These problems don't magically go away when you decide to rewrite these components yourself. You probably aren't going to write code as well as a community of coders that have contributed to a years-old codebase. Especially not on your first pass.

These are all pretty legitimate "what-if" questions to ask.
The thin line between fighting fake news and censorship
>Nothing forces them, besides their own economic situation.

Right - starving to death is always an option, nothing is forcing them. Free market at work!

>By and large, farmers don't get rich. They're under price pressure from the store chains that buy their produce. Those store chains don't get rich either, they're under price pressure from consumers. Margins are razor-thin.

It's not 1980, that's a fallacy and has been for a long time. By and large, "farmers" are large corporations printing money.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2017/march/large-family...

>The shift has come at the expense of small farms. Small family and nonfamily farms accounted for 46 percent of production in 1991, but by 2015, that share had fallen under 25 percent.
World War II alone killed 70MM - 85MM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties

Also, 50MM for the Spanish flu is the top end of reasonable estimates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Around_the_globe
When I did consulting, almost every meeting had at least one dial-in. If you didn't include a dial-in, you'd be guaranteed to either get a request to add one, or you'd get people who didn't show.

There was always:

1. someone who was on the road - a traveling consultant or someone in sales

2. a client or potential who called in because of the same, or because they don't sit at a computer all day and/or don't have a headset for their computer.

3. People in a conference room

4. a client who sucks at computers and dials in because they can't figure out how to install the latest version of CiscoGoToZoomMeetingWebEx.exe in IE8 on their macbook.
This works fine if the ? operator is right-associative, but in PHP it's left-associative and you have a subtle bug.

I find a better indendation style for this is more like

condition
? truthy
: falsy
Or even better. Briefs!
Redis on NVMe with ScyllaDB
This sounds pretty horrible. Given the large and distributed workforce, how could it have been done better?
GetTickCount is a monotonic timestamps still supported in Windows 10, available for any application to use. These days, you should use GetTickCount64, but any application that doesn't handle the rollover of GetTickCount is buggy.
I have seen the same. One of our clients stood up 25,000 Azure VMs (Win 10) in a single day. No problems so far.
Show HN: Make your custom charts on our Covid-19 data
Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't it a fairly simple answer that most founders just prefer mindlessly chasing rounds of investment and "growth for the sake of growth" and cashing out on an exit, rather than just growing organically with minimal outside investment/influence?

Anyone can choose to build a quality app/service/startup based on the merit of the actual product with company growth fueled by actual need of technical talent and profits from a monetization model, rather than just taking venture capital and hiring six-figure salaried engineers just to fill another open office chair and implement selfie filters.
What makes it better than slack?
I never said it was a technical problem. It is the problem of asymmetry in information and resources. When more people know that you can confortably use devices without spying and violations of privacy, more people will oppose stupid laws removing our basic rights and spyware.

However, not everyone has time/energy to think about those issues. You need to help people by showing them better options, especially if they do not impose any restrictions. And a lot of free software is like this in 2020.
> Like, wasn't their job to be like 'HOLY COW GUYS R0 of 3!" back in...February.

With the Chinese regime and WHO strigently denying that the virus was ever transmissible between humans and reassuring that all known cases were just flukes, it's hard to pull the "science has failed us" when all data and observations that science depends on to make judgements has been extensively falsified, covered up, and misreported.
Given this appears to be used in the communications layer of the system I expect that the width is a defined segment of some part of the wire protocol.
With topics like this it's worth waiting for ca. 12h (depending on your timezone) and then reading the whole page of comments at once. I'm here 4h after you, and I saw 2 most upvoted comments as pretty sympathetic if not outright supportive to the company. There's a lot of discussion below them, with both sides being represented near-equally. There are some bad comments - one or several words of generic dismissal or insults, and one lengthy incoherent rant - but they are mostly flagged, dead, or downvoted to the bottom of the page.

I believe using HN (for whatever reason) is a skill in its own right. If you want to use it as a tool for escaping your own echo-chamber, it takes some more thought to get right. Once you do, it works a significant percentage of the time, which is kind of impressive for a simple marketing platform of the Y Combinator (which is just a bunch of people with money and a bunch of people wanting that money to build or expand their business).
You said the coronavirus could enter the body by any means. Is this true? Do you have some resources I could read?

I was under the impression that, effectively speaking, it only infects via the lungs.
The point is simply that if I wanted to create a website and use Circular [0] (a nice geometric font made popular by Spotify) I would need to pay based on total pageviews which is an unknown, so the price is unknown, which is prohibitive in the sense that I'm now tied to a font license that penalizes me based on the success of my website.

Or, I could use Inter which is similar, free, better (more weights, filetype options) and I don't have to worry. This goes beyond price, I really don't want another thing to worry about and a cool font isn't worth the monkey on my back.

> we have more free typefaces than ever...

That's kinda the point I'm making I guess; I believe the recent rise of all these free/open alternatives to popular established ones was precisely because of the webfont-pay-per-pageviews model.

[0] https://lineto.com/typefaces/circular
Bird Layoffs: An Audio Recording
Paul Graham taught me to not think of new products that remind me of old products as mere copycats. By that token, I am sure that the fact that Youtube could leverage its existing library of music will trump any network effects that Tiktok might have.
You have two very simple options:

>option #1: a not for profit, so "the next Google" isn't owned by anyone.

>option #2: give every user a non transferable share of in a for profit entity so users are owners of "the next Google" and have "skin in the game" and incentive to use the product in lieu of Google.
The biggest problem with GCP outages is that they've had multiple network issues that affected multiple north American regions at the same time.

So maybe there are less of them on a per service basis compared the AWS, but when they do happen they are far more serious.

The only AWS has had that came close was the us-east-1 s3 outage. But even that didn't break networking to running instances.
As an example, consider a product manager that decides to remove a previously planned feature that one or more people have spent considerable effort working towards. If they can discuss the benefit of keeping the feature (or the cost associated with dropping it) then they stand a better chance of a favorable outcome than if they discuss in terms of how the product manager made them feel.

While I think people are right to have feelings I think they are more likely to achieve the outcome they want if they can understand and express why they feel that way. This is assuming that they are conscientious workers which is the more common case. If they are bonkers then they probably won't be able to pin down a sensible root cause.
Ethiopia says it is developing cure for the coronavirus pandemic
I wrote you an email
Apple's white walled garden
Thanks for clarifying, it does sound like a bit of a mess to be honest. Hopefully things change for the better given in light of the current crisis.
Byte doesn't have the user numbers, and the acquisition transition to Youtube would be a nightmare compared to just building in house.
They should follow the Linux kernel and set all counters to rollover a few minutes after boot.
Don't forget soft phones.
> No problems so far.

Wait until they get the bill :) I will say, it's amazing how quickly they find budget for that back-burnered VDI project after the first month of billing.
Oops - spoke too soon:

> “Zoom takes its users’ privacy, security, and trust extremely seriously,” the spokesman said

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/02/zoom-tech...
> I haven't decided if I agree with the position that collapsing the economy is worse than letting those deaths happen

Have you considered the position that a collapsed economy is inevitable due to deaths? Or that it would lead to less pollution, saving lives (although who knows what the net-net would be)?

7M people die annually from air pollution, according to the WHO. Early estimates of pollution reduction are in the 20-50% range; even a sustained 5% reduction is 350k lives saved/year.
Yeah, anecdotal reports here are that stores sell out of TP within hours of opening after a restock in spite of quantity limits.
PVA glue is water soluble, so if you wash it you'll need to rebuild it. For something like this you don't need a sewing machine, just need a needle and thread is enough.
Cruise ship passenger demographics might not be representative of the general population.
Nokia doesn't allow bootloader unlocking afaik, so until they do support it, chances of LineageOS on it are slim.
https://handshake.org talks about issues with the current system they want to replace.
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If you think the Chinese government is letting an opportunity like TikTok pass them by, then you are absurdly naive. I'm positive its creative shadow profiles just like google and facebook and twitter.
Thanks for the Docker suggestion. Watching them now, they're very pleasant compared to the videos on youtube.
You can do exactly the same in the UK if they've worked for you fewer than two years. You just have to pay their notice period (which is probably just two weeks of salary so hardly much protection).