skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet they singled out one religious dietary requirements whilst ignoring a whole demographic with a large populus and history of the area - colour me perplexed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews_in_New_York_City

Still, thank you for replying instead of blind downvote because antisemitisim has many forms it seems, even here :(

[EDIT ADD] WOW this comment has gone up and down like crazy - was +4 few mins ago, now -2 (as I type) - I'm stepping away from this forum for a bit as I do not wish to draw sad conclusions that appear evident :((
I'm confused did he actually rip off the websites or did he think he was buying stock photos and they were stolen. I get photographers should actually take photos they claim too.

but it seems like a much bigger issue if people other than the true owner of the photos are posting photos on stock sites and they are selling them.

"I finished my day by reverse-searching as many images as I could find and traced many of Muldoon’s photos back to Adobe Stock, Alamy, Shutterstock, and Unsplash"
So those of us with severe, non-voluntary dietary restrictions are just SOL huh?
> parseInt('0123Test', 8)
83

you could do it like this, otherwise it uses the default value for the base parameter.
Is ECB any worse than any other deterministic encryption?

Deterministic encryption can be ok if the data that you’re encrypting is already really random (high min-entropy). Compressed audio and video streams have a decent amount of entropy. Probably not enough to satisfy a cryptographer, but it’s probably enough to make it very difficult to learn much from 128-bit AES ECB blocks.

Note that everyone’s favorite ECB example with the picture of Tux the Linux penguin is not very realistic, because the plaintext is not compressed. If you ECB a JPEG or a PNG, you won’t see the same patterns.

I teach the attacks on ECB in my network security class. It’s bad, but AES is not the Caesar cipher. I’m not sure “trivially broken” is quite right.

That said, I am really curious what Zoom is actually doing here. Going to have to take a look today. My guess is that the real fail from using ECB mode is more likely to come from using it on audio/video metadata, or on other more structured parts of the protocol.
What if there are some things where scientific objectivity and scientific method breaks down, and is incapable of exploring?

It's ok if you feel that what I said was irresponsible. I know that is the mainstream view of things, and I expected a lot of backlash for posting a comment on this.

I usually hang out with the crowd where the experience and reality of subtle energy is not in doubt. Among them are the people for whom ... let's just say, something in then turns on (or something), and they are experiencing a number of phenomenas which includes subtle energy. Some of it are triggered by psychedelics, and some of it is not. For them, they experience what you feel: cognitive dissonance, anxiety, fear, anger. They freak out.

Among them are both people who actively sought it out ... and people who are open-minded skeptics. At that point, they are lost. The responsible thing at that point is to provide a framework to help them make sense of it. The ones who are skeptical appreciate it. They have the opportunity to explore and test out the claims for themselves.
Doesn't sound very inclusive. Would like to see some Vegan and Gluten-free dishes - might pop down with my recycled tupperware!
> and only if you accept them

Does iMessage give the user any way to reject them? Show me. Apple's own "Apple Platform Security Spring 2020" document does not claim any such thing. It says the device requests keys from IDS at the start of a conversation and just uses them.

The article I linked to above said that Apple fixed several other bugs the researchers pointed out but not that one, which other researchers had also described to Apple years before.
My suspicion is there's a hardware method of detecting lid closed - probably detecting a physical magnet (which is used anyway so that lid closes nicely) and that drives a transistor which then does the gating.

I don't see why you assert that is has to be electro-magnetic based, as long as the gating is down by a 'dumb' fixed transistor rather than a programmable chip, then it's a hardware disconnect.
Now would be the perfect time to start testing food delivery using drones. Bonus points if the drones can be sprayed with disinfectant after each flight.
I've been using JetBrain's DataGrip. So it's not free, but if I weren't already grandfathered into a good JetBrains package, I'd probably be willing to subscribe to it à la carte and pay for it out of pocket. It's the only JB product I still use consistently after switching from WebStorm to vscode.
I wonder why this is done through the Department of Education and if they will continue such a program when schools are back in session. People normally don't like a bunch of random adults hanging around schools.
Hint: copy-pasters*

* from internet or from old codebases of one’s company
Well, shutting down a modern city can makes things "pretty bad". People have to eat. There are other 'social patterns' that will also manifest in short order. Certainly should not be a surprise to a thinking person.

I live in Brooklyn and very close to a hospital. It may be a "war zone" per NYTimes inside the hospitals (I can not verify that) but outside, including ambulance traffic, it is very quiet. Too quiet.
We've been trying to hire since last year and have really struggled because rates devs have been looking for on the market are well above what we could see them returning value-wise for their experience level (that's just the nature of the market, I get it). When you have people getting £130k for doing React at a fintech company... well, I just hope people are prepared for the market changes that are underway.

Honestly, I'd rather this was all over and things went back to normal, but I do think that there's going to be a fairly hard reset of salaries for people that previously had a really sweet ride.
OK, this makes things clearer. Zoom does in fact encrypt their streams from client to client but they have easy access to the keys.

In their recent post about this question they apologize for what they admit to be an incorrect use of the phrase "end to end encryption". They base this on the existence of things like the gateways used to the regular telephone network.

It seems like an odd way to spin this. Why didn't they just state that the data is encrypted "end to end" and then leave it at that? Apple supposedly has access to the keys used to encrypt FaceTime calls but they happily involve the "end to end encryption" marketing phrase. I don't see why Zoom couldn't do the same. The way Zoom has handled this could of been a lot better.

I think the world needs a consumer standard for cryptography. Something like:

* Level 1 for the case where any eavesdropper can get the plain text.

* Level 2 for when just the provider can get the plain text.

* Level 3 for when just the users can get the plain text.

Most of what is being described as "end to end encrypted" these days is really just level 2 even in the case where the provider does not have the keys due to the fact that the provider can trivially MITM the traffic. The general public should be made aware of the distinction without having to dig into the technical details.
It's used by autotools, and about 15 years ago I used it to generate BIND (dns server) configs, and sendmail.conf files, too. But I'd rather not use if I don't have to :) m4 is still POSIX, though, and maybe someone can elaborate on m4 and tell us about it's strength in times of JSON and (ya|to)ml configs, which I also don't like, perhaps because they're misnamed IMO as "markup languages".
> Without universal basic income, we are totally f@cked

UBI isn't a savior. UBI still requires that people, you know, pay taxes. If 30-40% of people have no income and are completely dependent upon the government, then you have slavery 2.0 (3.0?) and you will end up creating a worse, classed society than you had before: the ones receiving vs. those who pay for what everyone else gets.

Or the government just prints money and money doesn't mean anything anymore because the government controls what it is worth.

Either way things are not good, but they are not good in a way that just means people starve, it means that the foundation of society is crumbling.
> You lose all of those spontaneous reactions that keep a conversation flowing.

I have a huge circle of friends, colleagues and family who are very used to push-to-talk, mostly due to the nature of competitive video games where you really must be able to hear all the possible audio cues like enemy footsteps. We find ourselves used to it to the point that when someone cracks a joke people press push-to-talk to laugh audibly and there's nothing weird in it. It has never been annoying to press the push-to-talk button just to laugh, it actually comes so naturally that we sometimes joke about how "stupid" it is to press a button just to laugh.

The push-to-talk approach comes with other benefits as well. E.g. when you throw your hands up in the air in frustration and mumble some words of annoyance (whether it's a frustrating meeting or an intensive video game) that you wouldn't like anyone to hear, you can be absolutely sure that no one will hear them. Or maybe you want to say something to the people present in the meeting room without the people online hearing it (job interviews, sales meetings etc). Or maybe you're working from home and your SO bursts into the room without knowing that you're in a meeting and exclaims something embarrassing. Maybe the expensive noise-cancelling mics would not transmit any of these embarrassing words or exclamations but there would always be the lingering "but what if they heard it".
Gaming and non-gaming: apps that benefit and suffer most from Covid-19
This video was posted on /r/Coronavirus/ and was pretty interesting:

Micro droplets suspending in air
https://vimeo.com/402577241
They help prevent spreading when asymptomatic too. One of the key components to Taiwan's success.
Most vegetarian meals should be kosher, right? And I believe there are exceptions for unusual circumstances in the rules.
If you scroll down, they go into more detail, with the classic Linux penguin example.
The logistics behind this must be formidable. They would need hundreds of food preparers, all of them tested daily for COVID-19 and of course practicing strict hygiene in prep and packaging.

Still it's probably easier to control than thousands of separate restaurants and food markets, which is undoubtedly their thinking: centralize food distribution to minimize risky contact.

This is a sobering reminder of how dependent city dwellers are on a just-in-time food distribution network; most Manhattan apartments don't have a lot of storage space for an extended hunker down, nor room for a garden and chickens.
Singapore shuts schools and most workplaces to stem the spread of coronavirus
Missing from the list: java swing. Of course, it is missing latest eye candy features like shadows, but otherwise it's rock solid.
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As in, don't speak for the non-americans or you think this problem isn't going to affect people with savings, because I think that a huge proportion of the population being broke will have consenquences for the rest.
> packages with essentials

These are literally boxed meals. Packages...with essentials.
Thanks, I hadn’t thought of that.
For analog, electret microphones a mute switch is very simple. Simply put an R-C pair (R a few MΩ, C 10-20 µF) in parallel to the microphone capsule. To mute it, short the R out. This is pop-free because the R charges the capacitor to the DC operating point of the capsule. When the R is shorted out, the microphone's output is shunted by the capacitor, which attenuates the signal level by >40-60 dB.

For digital microphones it can also be very simple. Consider a PDM microphone, if you disconnect the data line and have it stick to either high or low through a pull-up, the signal becomes DC. This wouldn't be pop-free by itself, but it should be rather easy to make it so through DSP.

(FWIW, you can also easily mute pro-audio microphones by shorting (+) and (-) together. The attenuation is determined by the output impedance of the microphone, usually a few hundred Ohms, divided by the resistance of your switch. Typically you'll get like 60 dB from this, which is perfectly fine for muting in a normal setup, but if you crank the preamp all the way up you can still get a usable, albeit very noisy, signal out of it.)
The exact same explanation + visual are already in The Intercept's article (and CitizenLab's). The rest of it is flaunting Crypteron's searchable encryption.
I don't know what you mean by "now significant mutations" but there are quite a number (hundreds) of known cov-19 mutant circulating.

https://nextstrain.org/ncov?c=country&l=unrooted
And just like that, the number of people needing food plummets. Big yikes.
Xperia XZ2 compact is small enough and powerful enough to be considered as iPhone SE replacement
Zoom also has over 700 employees in China.
If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week?
Author here- A few years ago I began writing an intro to security curriculum for my college Capture the Flag team. Since then it has grown into 4 courses, designed to be accessible to anyone. The courses assume no knowledge and build off fundamental principles so that students have the best starting point possible for a career in the field. Let me know if you have any questions!
3M faces pressure from Trump order to stop exporting N95 masks to Canada
> Again the poor are scrutinized more in this area than the rich. The rich move their money offshore and use expensive lawyers and social connections to make this happen

Source? For a long time the irs didn't investigate taxes for discrepancies under a few hundred thousand which seems to favor the poor.

The 'tax evasion' you cite is (moving money) is legal. It is not tax evasion. No one, rich or poor, should be punished for doing something legal at the time they did it. Congress should change their laws
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Can you provide the exact model?
A homeless friend of mine is stuck in NYC and his family’s daily meals were (are) provided by this service - despite neither him nor his children being NYC residents. I am sure enough other adults (parents or otherwise) were receiving this food that making such disbursements allowed was mainly about legitimizing the good that was already occurring than accidentally admitting that significant amounts of people were presently being turned without food.

TL;DR: I’m sure NY residents not in the city can get the food if so desired, especially as the system operates on the honor code.
The sense is that they're telling the general public not to use them, and the general public (and apparently, government figures) got that whiff.

It's a folly that will be remembered and looked back negatively in history. One of many poor decisions by people in power.
> This shows a lack of empathy.

Well, now you are attacking my humanity. It's very difficult to have constructive dialog about these issues when individuals attack the speaker, and not what's being said. We are talking about public health policy, which necessarily glosses over individual patients who are suffering and aggregates them into cold, sterile statistics in order to make decisions that are best for society. It's not particularly compassionate, but it's unavoidable if you want resource allocation to be proportional to need.

> like you, deny the severity of the problem

This is a straw man argument, where you take a crummy version of my argument and knock it down. "Severity" is not the word I used. I said "level of need", which is different because it takes severity (magnitude) and frequency into account. Progeria is a devastating (severe) disease, but it's also exceptionally uncommon. From a public health standpoint, both are an important part of determining the level of need, and therefore the level of support that these problems receive.

> how would they hear about this trial

from the internet, where the conventional doctors you are assailing created clinicaltrials.gov in order to make such information accessible to everybody.

> But the main reason is that patients don't need the trial, Lyme communities are full of people taking disulfiram on their own and finally recovering.

Nothing makes us happier than when our patients are connected with effective treatments. Nevertheless, the publications you site appear to lack random assignment, placebo control, or a double blind. Therefore I find the data uncompelling, even as I am happy to see that there is a trial for it; I hope it includes these three elements which make the results most meaningful.

Absent that study it remains possible that disulfuram will be the miracle cure you claim that it is, but I'm not expecting that to happen, and I suspect that chronic lyme will be a topic on HN in another 9 months exactly because the needle hasn't moved far enough. Please prove me wrong! That's how big breakthroughs are made! (witness h pylori infection and gastric ulcers). But please excuse me if I don't hold my breath for the announcement, and advocate more more conventional research during that time.
Curious, does that spreadsheet include everything applicable from https://elonmusk.today ?

Because I am not sure how you average out against an infinite time frame (E.g. where are the country-wide summon, snake-charger, car carrier, etc?).
Invonto announces $5M program for businesses affected by Covid-19
If we can assume determinism, there’s a much better compression algorithm.
> because antisemitisim has many forms it seems, even here :(

The Talmud describes plenty of instances when breaking the laws are the correct thing to do in cases of life and death. Starvation being one of them.
Drones are probably reasonable enough in a residential neighborhood of single family homes and duplexes, less practical for a large apartment building (unless they can fly right in the window).
Consumer debt will make this harder.
I firmly believe that a government intelligence operation would be willing to pay far more than 75k for this.
Trump did the same thing with France, even to the extend that France will ship their masks by boat. Which will cause huge delays in delivery time.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/02/global-battle-...

This is utterly shamefull and i'm ashamed in their place.

Keep in mind that the mask producer of Germany will see case-by-case who needs it the most and will deliver to who needs it the most.

Now that is how it should be (y)
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/02/global-battle-...

It is true and not the only case :)
Why not put a soft limit on the amount of signups-through-mail a day?

After xyz signups through it, make the rest of the day's accounts require manual approval for the first few posts.

You can also mitigate the disposable mail problem pretty easily by requiring whitelisting for any domain that's got more than a few accounts tied to it.

That comes out way cheaper for you, and might improve the quality of conversation (because there are valid reasons for anonymity and pseudonymity).

EDIT:

Also, bug report: the category row at the top doesn't overflow very well; on smaller window-sizes, there are many categories out of view. Maybe make the hamburger menu come up on more than just mobile screen factors?
Vietnam's AAG undersea internet cable broken again
I know the intricacies of what they did. To summarise: some phones with older batteries would suffer brownouts because the internal resistance of the battery was too high. They updated the OS to detect the brownout and throttle the CPU to prevent it happening again.

So they didn’t slow down all old phones, only ones that had the problem. They actually attempted to fix older models. To me this is the opposite of planned obsolescence and appeals to my environmental view that all manufacturers should be supporting their hardware as least as long as Apple currently does.

Now they didn’t communicate, and were fined. I think that is fair enough, but I feel the size of the fine was quite excessive given they were trying to extend the life of their customers hardware.

Note that the other phone manufacturers that have exactly the same problems did nothing and are actually better off because of it.
Couldn't the truth be somewhere in the middle?

Clearly both are different ways of looking at the same phenomenon. Emphasizing different parts of the whole truth.
I would like to show you my SaaS for automatically reminding reviewers of a project. It sends reminders on Slack or Mattermost for open pull requests on GitHub, GitLab or Azure Repos. It started as a CLI tool at my former employer and was enhanced as a SaaS. It's similar to Pull Panda but not limited to GitHub and Slack.

I'm using Go for the backend as well as for the templating of the frontend (frontend is not my strength). The data is stored in a Postgres database and everything is hosted on Heroku.

For now it's just a hobby project and it will probably remain a free service as long as I don't have to scale the servers.
Thank you so much for the reply!!
"Yes, of course it has an effect. Why do you think health care workers wear them?"

Because they will be closer than 6ft to infected people.
Where do you get millions of drones in short order?
There are consequences for everyone, but some people may come out ahead on this one. I’ve locked in a crazy low refinancing rate on my mortgage, I’m going to refinance student debt, and my child staying home saves me A LOT since I don’t have to pay for daycare. There are consequences, but I may literally be better off financially (assuming the virus doesn’t get me).

Edit: Example of consequences being my high-interest savings account has dropped about 1.5%, but everything else is going well so far.
It is a US company and the founder is american too.

https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/ZM:US
Simple email would be better and more clear than this disorganized mess.
I do, from time to time. It's nice to have a preprocessor for normal text files. Yet, most often I find it more practical to use sed or awk for my needs.