skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry if that wasn't clear: I meant that for every company making hardware ("hardware companies"), there are a series of deep challenges presented by shelter-in-place which the article ignores. Or, put another way: a series of challenges which would not be present if Apple was solely a software company :)
You can not only type whatever date, but also whatever non-date. The site just assumes good intentions and is working as designed.
> I also have no idea, in the context of modern web browsing, how large or small 300,000 DNS queries per month is.

FWIW, here at home, my DNS servers are reporting a combined total of ~138k (from 21 unique clients) over the last (rolling) 24 hour period.

(Of course, mine probably isn't indicative of a "typical" American household when it comes to browsing habits and such.)
No it hasn't. The only thing that makes you think so is the unrelenting churn of modern web development. Back in the day if you bought a particular toolchain you could keep developing with it for as long as you wanted and the only thing that could force you to upgrade is the need for more features. In the past you'd get nice-to-haves at every upgrade but if you didn't opt for it you would be perfectly able to continue developing your current condebase using your current, paid-for tools.
It actually sounds more like technical hiring and engineering culture was not good, rather than just PR.

I know we all make mistakes, bugs happen, etc. However, if you can't reason through why it's not safe to bind an HTTP server to localhost and consider clients trusted on a laptop that might also run a web browser ... This and other prominent bugs suggests that among other things, security was not a part of the culture or mindset of the rank and file. I don't think you can use "it's a startup, bro" as an excuse for that.
I think it's beyond reasonable dispute that freedom and democracy work better than authoritarianism on pretty much every dimension. If there's one thing that both right and left agree on, it's this.
That's true. I'm normally very anti-authoritarian but these days I applaud when police come by and shut down public gatherings due to COVID-19. I think everyone is more comfortable with authoritarianism during this crisis. To be fair, there is a place for decisive action during emergency, as long as those emergency powers don't last forever.

However, long term, authoritarian leadership makes things worse due to lack of transparency and accountability to the people. They can clean things up short term, but then they hold onto power and rot society.

I guess there could be a place for temporary authoritarian governments to swoop in, sweep up the mess, and then hand over things to liberal democracies, but they don't hand over power easily.

A book I read on Vietnam (A Bright Shining Lie) floated the idea that communism never delivered on its promise to make society more equitable, but communist revolutions have played a role in eliminating backwards feudal governments and clearing the way for liberal democracies to take over. Kind of like a shock treatment, but with a very high price in terms of human suffering.

Anyway, we should all be very suspicious and ready to oppose authoritarian creep, because we're all susceptible to it right now, and it could stick around even after this virus passes.
what about rotating a ring on its axis of symmetry? Blood is in a loop, though not perfectly smooth and unchanging flow, as valves and stuff are squeezing at different time.
I saw somewhere on Twitter, possibly as a reply to Scott Helme, that they possibly added these URLs to their CSP because they were getting errors in their CSP logs from machines that had adware/malware loaded. Can't find the tweet though, so maybe it wasn't him (but I'm reasonably sure it was a discussion of CSP, ReportURI, and the fact the CSP changes depending on logged in/out of zoom's site).

Pretty bad solution if that was indeed the case.
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I think you're looking at this as keeping porn from young adults who actively seek it but I don't think that's a major use-case. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool, teenagers will quickly be told to use a free VPN or something by their friends and get around your DNS filtering in minutes. Or hell, someone can just give them some on a USB stick or send them a ZIP file on whatever messaging app they use these days.

What's more important is protecting children (think <10) from coming across pornography accidentally while browsing the internet and looking at kid stuff. It's not only fairly well-accepted by society but in many jurisdictions, allowing children to see pornography is considered neglect.
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Web apps are not actually "applications" in the sense we're talking about here and are wholly irrelevant.
> Project management apps like GitHub, Jira, and Trello democratize critical knowledge.

This reads like marketing.

The problem with measuring remote work productivity is that you have to pick some set of metrics. We have always known that knowledge transfer is more difficult and just happens less with remote workers.

If you have a team of ten experts, each capable of independently focusing and being productive, you can easily see an uptick in “top-line” productivity metrics when you send them home and they are not constantly interrupted by meetings and office chatter.

The new member of your team is going to go through hell to ramp up, though.
How much does it matter? How much are you willing to spend to kill someone from cancer in July than kill someone from pneumonia in May?
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I do usually grow cucumbers, but I grow a thin-skinned variety that isn't available in the stores. Taste is great and you can leave the skins on.
It's actually using this deceptive phrasing to install (literally, copy) all its files directly into /Applications instead of going through the standard Mac OS install flow.
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Sorry, I think this product-worship is misplaced. Calling out security flaws does not mean you are "hating" on Zoom.

Furthermore, if you want Zoom to keep being beneficial, it's important that there is a focus on finding and fixing security flaws. How many lives is it going to save if attackers can use it as a springboard for malware, or if they can bomb into government or NGO meetings?
Is this company hiring interns? I have a friend based in the Twin Cities metro area looking for summer internships
"by the lack of basics are more likely to make a mistake in choosing strong leadership."

Citation? Examples? Where is the evidence of this?

I think Trump is an excellent example of 'Completely lacking in competency 'fake' strong man' - but there are plenty of counterexamples.
I doubt many lesbian or straight male victims would assume they'd be helped by a book called "why does he do that" when they were abused by shes.
WFH has usually been great for me...

However, this time everyone is at home including a toddler, so productivity is definitely impacted, luckily many are in the same situation.
Although, I really enjoy remote work. I agree that it's health to have in-office / in-person interactions. Maybe one day a week.

(Maybe just not right now due to the virus)
Your example is a standard Finite State Machine. Multiple possible transitions is the norm for an FSM, and each possible transition is guarded by some predicate which decides if it should be followed.

# transition notation: FromState -predicate-> ToState

Running -stop_button-> Stopped
Stopped -start_button-> Running
Running -start_button-> Running # stay running
Stopped -stop_button-> Stopped # stay stopped

The stop/start_button button here can either be events that come in from the outside (from dedicated click handlers in a GUI), or be functions or properties that are polled when evaluating next().

Since booting a VM can take quite some time, one might want to introduce a Starting state between Stopped and Running.

The example in the original article is just a special case, where there is only one possible transition from each state, and where the predicate always returns true. Although arguably for a real traffic light, there should be a predicate on the transition that checks that enough time has passed! At least I would model that as part of the FSM, instead of on the outside.

EDIT: fix formatting
Arguably the end state planned for Wayland in this regard (having access to specific applications provided) is conceptually closer to streams than the current situation with X (one big shared ball of global state).
Agree the post over-complicates this.

Also, the message and approach should be very different depending on who you're reaching out to and for what reason (example: getting a job versus getting a client).

Providing value is important, but the goal of the first email is simply to get someone to reply, not overload them with info upfront (like what was suggested as one of the examples, a 13-page PowerPoint deck with data analysis).

I find providing 1-2 specific concrete ideas related to your product, service or ask and tailored for your prospect's business is enough to get an interested reply. Some good templates for this here: https://artofemails.com/new-clients
And 3) if a leader promises they can help if you just give up your freedoms, you’re more likely to do so.
Thiss os how i typw somtimws.
I have similar problems with the XPS15 and Windows 10.
> So it breaks the entire linux philosophy of using input and output streams to pipe data between different modular applications?

Not really. To use your analogy, the way that X works - every application being able to read the framebuffer of any other - is the equivalent of every application running as root and being able to read and modify any file on the system. When you consider that applications running under Wayland may include e.g. banking details, any app being able to read that is like anything being able to read /etc/shadow.

If your computer is perfectly secure, with no untrusted code running, that's great - and also far more secure than 90% desktop computers out there.
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The leader of WHO blindly praises everything that China does.
Likely an April Fools joke by the Twitter user.
you could post this to reddit.com/r/covidprojects
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Seeing in a few postings that you offer a 4 day work week. Is that still the case? Do you actually stick to that in practice, or do you find work slides into Wednesday anyways?
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It’s totally fine to go find bugs, but we have CVEs and responsible disclosure for a reason. This is irresponsible.
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Nondeterminism not needed (or desired I think :D) for an FSM that can turn a VM on or off based on start/stop buttons. Its just multiple possible transitions, guarded by different conditions (the buttons).

But yeah, Nondeterministic FSMs are possible. Ie based on a transition probability.
And heavy stimulant use.
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I highly doubt Zoom’s video conferencing solution was solidly working while MS Teams crumbled under load two weeks ago is due to magic in Zoom’s macOS installer.
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I don't think psychology is trustworthy in this area after the "authoritarian parenting" fiasco.
> Because everyone else is only 20 days or so behind Italy.

No. Over here we have flat growth. Amount of new cases is not growing at all. In fact last 5 days day-to-day amount was lower than record day. Meanwhile amount of tests done is growing.

> As WHO experts say from their experience with Ebola and others, it's better to act early.

Yes. And we did act early. Our situation 3 weeks ago weren't as bad as Italy or Spain, thus we didn't as harsh measures. It looks like it worked.

> I see a lot of disbelief on this site too, it appears that exponential growth can fool even us.

It's not exponential everywhere.

> What country are you from btw?

Lithuania

Best statistics we got bellow. Top-right is cases (overall vs daily), bottom-right is testing (overall vs daily).

https://vu-lt.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/...

> Are you sure the population is properly tested? Given the lack of tests or expertise on the market I kind of doubt it.

What is "properly tested"? Testing everybody? No. Testing suspects? Yes. We're also testing everybody coming from abroad (EU or not) for over a week. Before that, it was self-isolation + testing on symptoms since late february. Big chunk of new cases comes from that.

> This virus is dangerous because 75% or more of the infected population is close to asymptomatic, yet highly contagious. You might be having a lot more cases among you than you realize.

We definitely have much more asymptomatic cases. But amount of new symptomatic cases is not growing. Either it's only spreading asymptomatic (which is unlikely), or spreading is slowing down.

We're now in our 3rd week of quarantine (social distancing + restaurants and non-essential shops closed). Had it not worked, we should already see a spike of symptomatic cases.
> I say what roles, not who, because that’s how you should be thinking about this. It’s not a person by person decision, it’s a role by role decision.

Careful: If you've ever worked on a team where one person clearly needed to go, that person needs to go in the layoff. Otherwise, keeping the poor performer when you lay off other people who did their jobs well will severely hurt morale.

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I'm not sure if it's true but I love the notion that Canadians are inherently better developers than the rest of the world.
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I agree with the duality that you describe. Nevertheless, wouldn't the software part of an SDR reduce the need for expensive physical electronic components, while increasing ability? An amplifier seems to be the only additional expense (as you pointed out). It seems like the amplifier negates any cost benefit, yet utility remains superior if one doens't consider multiple components and building blocks a liability. It seems like there are expensive SDR transceivers (e.g. Flexradio) which utilize SDR technology to beat out the competition in specs and performance. To get on the air with a budget SDR, I haven't seen lots of demand for the idea. is the utility of a budget SDR just not better than your basic radio? It seems like it to me but where's the demand?
I find it curious that in our current political climate / party system, liberals seem to be more okay with mandatory lockdown procedures, whereas conservatives are pushing back. The latter may be partially due to prior ideological commitments [0], but it's also somewhat counter-intuitive considering the known correlation between authoritarianism and germaphobia.

It may be that our two-party dynamic, being focused primarily around left vs. right, largely ignores the authoritarian/libertarian axis of the political compass [1], meaning both parties have authoritarian wings internally. In times of stress/shock, real and/or perceived, it seems that each political tribe is willing to cede power to its authoritarians, based on its values: currently, the left does so for health and the environment, and the right for border security and violence from the "other". And of course, these values can shift based on political winds and alliances of convenience; I'm watching HBO's "The Plot Against America", and from a modern perspective, it's strange to see the FDR economic progressives be the hawks, while the (original) America First-ers are the doves.

(While I lean libertarian on the political compass, I'm not a-priori judging all authoritarianism to be evil; there are arguably times such as a pandemic or a world war where some amount may be necessary.)

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> I thought police were about enforcement, not bilateral conversation with intellectual respect.

If you want to get into semantics, consider that Congress or Parliament (or whatever) are supposed to be that bilateral conversation that formulates policies for police to enforce. So in that respect, you could say they too are "policing" like OP is here.

There is no "enforcement" component to what cloudflare is doing. You can either use it or don't.

Now, you might say children are oppressed when their parents enforce these restrictions on them, but I'd say back that my children live under an oppressive government (me). They don't have the requisite life experience to participate in a high-stakes decision making democracy yet.
You're lower on the hierarchy of needs. If you're afraid you're going to get killed or starve you don't care about abstract things like freedom of artistic expression.
This comment was in response to a comment that asked how this was forcing people into things.

Regardless of how you see it, it's literally doing that.

Sure, it may not be the most grievous occurence of it, but that doesn't change the fact that it is, in fact, policing.
Covid Voice Detector
I like a good April Fool's joke as much as the next guy, but it seems like a git commit is more difficult to roll back. You'd have to make another commit on April 2nd reversing the April 1 commit, right?
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Sadly this is more plausible than the official numbers reported!