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I see your account is new. Let me explain, after many years being here, it's completely typical for HN that the posts get downvoted from those who don't share the same point of view, especially if the arguments appear to be weak (e.g. that that action reflects "a strong disagreement"). And there's some logic behind it: the intention is that the "assumed and practiced rules" somehow keep the quality of the discussion high enough. In your case, your post was a typical "low quality" post, having that "Been watching the studies closely though!" line as a (still completely trivial) contribution. On HN such posts aren't rated good, especially not when sandwiched between the claims that those who downvote see as worthless repetition of the common non-arguments.

You wroute "it is heavily disputed". Then you wrote "Been watching the studies closely though!" then questioned the source, then used again often heard argument "mild, only divers." That's I personally had the impression you haven't brought any substance to the discussion this time. And it looks to me, you are also not "Op" as it is used here (i.e. you haven posted the link "Lung damage..")
Here's an example of using it with 2 millions users: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6JcVwbOGXc
Well, that's just a bunch of bullshit. Your everyday IT user (including me who has worked in the business for a LONG time) doesn't see that difference. No one cares if it's semantically correct when most people think it means something completely different.

My take: As long as they're not crystal clear with what they mean by that, I don't trust them. And to be honest, even then I probably wouldn't trust them with some confidential data. The very first step would be to open up about each point OP mentioned in his post, and we can go from there.
Dumb question first: Why was the mail app not 100% in user space like the others? Do Apple make system apps system apps just to make fun of 3rd party developers or does it actually make sense?
Isn't the right way to look at this problem called Mechanism Design?

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

The objective is designed as part of the game, but it's very difficult to get the incentives right.
Assuming effective pharmacological treatment (as opposed to a vaccine) isn't found first, though.
I would chalk that up to people acting a little more conservatively because of COVID-19, even if there isn't a lockdown.
Which isn't weird at all - if you trust that people avoiding crowds also lead to fewer having the accidents which would otherwise have gotten them dead.
I live in a small Midwestern state. A friend's mother is going through oncology, and is having complications due to the treatment regimen. Yesterday she had to be put in ICU for a day because every other bed in the facility was being used for COVID-19.

This isn't in the local news, nor regional news. It's almost like it's a dirty secret.

You may not consider this "overrun" but I do. I sure hope I don't have appendicitis or a stroke because it'll be an issue...
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Not sure if Swift has the mechanisms to do it, but for example, you could wrap your syscalls in something that requires an error to be checked. In C++ it can only be a runtime check (outside of extensions?). I _think_ Rust might allow a compile time check but I don't remember which mechanism you'd do it from. Don't know about Swift.

Edit: of course you're always allowed to check and discard the error. No language can stop people from purposefully shoot themselves in the foot, but at least safeties can be installed.
Not really. You can have internal per-packet keys which you throw away after your cryptographic setup and then only convey that key in separately in some encrypted form to each member along with a common payload which is amenable to multicast.

I think that's a piece of signal's group chat protocol.
Isn't is something water heaters are doing for ages? They optimise for price, not for sun but that's what matter for most people.
I know there's more to this but I really hate the way that journalists report on things like this. Based on the article, it makes it sound like someone just needs to send you a blank email and then they have full access to any iPhone since 2012. The reality is that the attacker would have to send an attachment or email with a specific payload and then somehow run that payload which would have to include another exploit specifically for the kernel.

In any case, I'm glad to see that this has been patched and will be out soon. I wonder how many cases have actually been compromised and exploited out in the wild.
Not true, it would work with hourly pricing. Still requires smart meters but those are something like 60-70% of homes in the US now. Even without real time or time of use based pricing, load shifting can still be valued and paid for as a service. Look up Demand Response: >$1Bn market in the US.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_response
Is the iOS Mail app still not sandboxed?
With the iVerify app, I'm suspicious of any claim that it can detect threats. How would such a thing work on iOS? My understanding of the security model is that it makes that sort of thing very difficult.
I don’t think the up front deaths are in any way intentional. It’s very hard to compare strategies since there’s many other factors that control the outcome. Like Sweden had school holidays ending with a lot of people coming home from skiing in Italy just when the situation there exploded. And as you mentioned, the virus got into a lot of the nursing homes.
I was in a TF2 game last night and several people were talking about catbots and I had no idea what they were talking about. In the PCGamesN article[0] it mentions "cathook"; maybe they are related. Either way, I guess I can't play TF2 anymore. At least until Valve figures out what to do about this.

[0] https://www.pcgamesn.com/team-fortress-2/source-code-leak-cs...
Yeah, I was actually thinking when the coronavirus started that ridesharing and carsharing would be unaffected as much. Public transportation seems to have 1000x the amount of people touching the same surfaces (e.g. turnstiles, doors, handlebars, etc...)
There are 478 upvotes to this post and yet after 1 day, there are only 535 users of this extension after 1 day (16:40EST on Apr-22).
That's the theory, but it has proved pretty ineffective in practice. Nurses don't live onsite, so there is no actual way to seal the residents off from the outside world. Once it gets in you're no better off than had there not been a lockdown in place.
Ah! Thank you both, I’ll try this later.
Valve could shut down the servers they run but there are thousands of community servers they have no control over.

Valve could possibly kill the server browser service for TF2 to stop people searching for servers but then people could just connect directly to the community server of their choice either from their favourites or by IP directly.

They could push an update via steam which bricks the game completely but that would piss off a metric fuckton of the userbase when the game is still playable with some precautions in place (playing on password protected servers with people you know)

A shutdown as you are suggesting would only work with a game with published provided multiplayer servers and no community servers.

I know I for one don't want to live in a world with only publisher provided servers, those games regularly have the servers shut down because they are no longer profitable for the publisher/devs leaving any remaing community out in the wind.
You appear to just be making stuff up.

Submarine cable is buried when it's at depths of 2000 Meters or less. It is done so using jet-plow technology. Beyond depths of 2000 meters the cable simply sinks to floor and rests there. It most certainly does not hang across a valley the way high tension power lines do above ground. Also cable routes are carefully planned to avoid trenches wherever possible. Where that's not possible it's simply sunk by its' own weight down to the ocean floor.
Is it just me or his answers are super vague and uncertain?

I've expected some irrefutable arguments and unshakable confidence, but it's mostly "I think", "I [don't] believe" and "hard to know". Zero proofs or data, mostly his opinions.
We don't have precise information about the payload for the ZecOps bugs, so we can't say.

The attacks profiled by Volexity earlier this week, the MobileSafari exploits that China was using to spy on Uyghurs, are now detected by iVerify. They released enough information that we pushed an update to all iVerify users to alert their phones if they were compromised.

The Volexity report is here: https://www.volexity.com/blog/2020/04/21/evil-eye-threat-act...
What matters is that the server or software provided and anyone not in the group can't obtain plaintext even if they can intercept and modify all traffic on the Internet.

Obviously you need to rotate the session keys when someone leaves, since they must no longer be able to obtain plaintext.
I do downvote people I disagree with on HN, that seems like simply a low-effort way of registering one's opinion. Flagging I think of as being intended more for abusive, as opposed to just unintelligent, statements. Certainly, if someone abused the tool to flag everyone who expressed a certain opinion, that would be suppressing free speech. Whether the government would be obligated to intervene would likely depend on whether the owners of HN would like the suppression to stop.
please go further in depth on particular issues!
It is on the standards track, though, even if N2472 was not completely accepted it seems like there is a process for this (or something very much like it) to become a standard.
What's to say that the new CEO of one of these companies wouldn't pull a Google Reader and axe the service, for the sake of consolidating product lines?

Or that the companies themselves wouldn't be merged?
Airbnb

If infection does not confer immunity could we be looking at the end of:

Hotels, Shopping Malls, Eat in restaurants, Bars, Amusement Parks, Move Theaters, Clubs, Theaters, Public swimming pools, State and National parks, Beaches, Air travel, Train Travel, Bus Travel, Recirculating HVAC systems, Office buildings, Pro sports, college sports, high school sports, sports in general, gyms, parties, funerals,

Just to name a few.
Okay. The GNU page says the quoting is only done when the output is a terminal, so it shouldn't generally affect scripts. Although considering that the world of unix shells is fairly complex, I wouldn't be surprised if there was some kind of a weird but explainable situation where some kind of a script would still break, so I suppose it could be a problem somewhere.
That's interesting. In Europe nobody with a full time job missed out on income. Most pople were at home and kept getting paid.
It's a bit ironic, because in Sweden that is more of a leftist position while the right wing is advocating tougher measures and saying the government isn't doing enough.
Ive always thought an under appreciated point in this story is the word “machine”. A function doesn’t mean anything to a kid, but a machine is so easy to visualize and understand. I’d imagine that with calling it a function “machine” it would be much harder to understand, since you can’t imagine a factory doing work to an input to get an output with the word machine.
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So if you never used mail on your iPad, can you ignore this?
The fallacy with this article about a "fallacy": That mental models for a physical activity (MMA) are comparable to mental models about ideas.

Of course that doesn't mean you can learn everything from a mental model. By nature, they abstract away plenty of important details needed for expertise. But they are not deficient in terms of ability to convey some level of understanding.

If you think about it, this has to be the case. In many ways, knowledge is simply a series of mental models built on each other. Yes, much of it comes from empirical observation, but that ends up encoded into mental models.
To be fair the way the average person wears a mask it won't protect them.
The hardware can do this, it's just that you can't get any funding for anything interesting. You're basically stuck with hobby apps and marketing demos developed via consultoware. The hobbiests can't afford the tech or the lack of reach and the consultoware shops have exactly zero imagination (I know, I worked at one).

I personally define VR vs AR as "who provides the context in which we are working? The app (VR), or the user (AR)". A lot of extant "AR" apps don't do anything particularly interesting with your surrounding environment.

If your AR app needs me to clear out a space in my livingroom to give you room to drop some 3D models that maybe bounce off my walls, you've not actually made an AR app, you've just made a crappy VR app instead. Facebook could release an update to the Quest any day now that auto-scans your room to set the boundary and then you'd have exactly the same experience in an occluded headset, but with twice the FOV and better input.
It works well if you can aggregate the distributed resources so they're large enough to bid at the wholesale level.