skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That, and this is probably in large part a marketing/PR move.

Public perception of zoom/security is "beyond horrible", thus visibly spending lots of money on an acquisition of a very well respected name in security helps them polish that image at least a little.

And who knows, maybe they'll even work on actually improving security. Always the hopeless romantic/optimist, me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Interestingly enough the "scene" back then for them had elements that would have influenced and/or encouraged their direction. The Federal Republic of Germany actively tried to promote a musical identity that was a contrast to the GDR's populist music policy. The culmination of this was the electronic music studios known as WDR(Westdeutscher Rundfunk) and their radio broadcasts.

Hutter has acknowledged listening to those WDR broadcasts out of Cologne. Just to connect the dots Conny Plank, Kraftwerk's producer on Autobahn was an engineer at GDR. Karlheinz Stockhausen who was a Kraftwerek influence and hugely important figure in his own right ran the WDR. The WDR history and its importance to electronic music is pretty fascinating. You can read about it here:

http://120years.net/wdr-electronic-music-studio-germany-1951...

and

https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/08/stockhausen-ph...

Dusseldorf also had the Kunstacademie which was run by Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys who regularly held "art happening." These art happenings were also some of Kraftwerk's first gigs.

Beyond that the whole German prog rock scene that sprang up around Dusseldorf and Cologne at that time with bands like Can, Neu! and Faust was all about experimentation.
if it is in the cloud, it will be eventually hacked
Sounds like an arbitrary SDK to me.
To be clear, no one is asking to stay inside - everyone wants the economy reopened again. But, there's the sensible way and there's the stupid way. The latter method involves just going to back to the way things were and pretend the virus doesn't exist. That is untenable, and the smarter folk who think that a phased opening is a better approach are the ones being shouted down.
I see this a lot in my industry (health).

More often than not, my fellow devs are happy throwing extra servers at a problem instead of tackling the problem :(
> Engineer: Sir, it would be easier to just start over and build a video app for security from the ground up.

> CEO: But that would cost millions over the course of years!

> Engineer: Or we could just buy an already secure video app and put our features inside of that instead?

> CEO: Genius!

And that's how Keybase became Zoom.
If you use query params, the search and render can be done server side..
So... How many times can you fold it?
It is best of times, it is the worst of times.

There's so much educational content on YouTube, I envy my brother who has access to courses from CMU, MIT, and Stanford, and countless other presentations he can learn from. Kids, on the other hand...have it worse, ironically, when they should be the ones benefitting the most from all the accelerated learning on offer.
Is there a way around the nested mess in Flutter widgets? I took a stab at a small app but it was basically a new div hell. Besides that however, it was quite neat.
The product is simply not good in its current form. It's a strange mix of instant messaging, web of trust, and cryptocurrency scam. It doesn't strongly give any particular goal. The tools are shiny, pleasant enough to look at any use, but isn't going in any direction.

A lot of push recently has been into making it a "team chat" platform, which is great except that all of the participants are public, and tied to their name. It makes for hideously bad opsec if any company were to seriously use it.
Harbr emerges from stealth to help build online data marketplaces
Sometimes, acquihire is the business model. It makes money for the VCs and money for the founders. It's just the fools^wconsumers who bought in early (and the non-essential employees) who get the shaft.
They will have to be reusable to be economically competitive in the future.
So they're a group of people that say they want to build a browser, and that's it? What's the thesis behind what's broken in browser design and how they're going to reimagine that, and where's a version one MVP to play around with? A list of people with fancy qualifications looking to hire people does not seem to be the foundation required to build a competitive new browser. Why do they have business development people and a plan to have a team of 10 people and a hacker news posting before they have a browser? This is a bunch of marketing fluff. Very slick marketing fluff, but still just fluff.
What's our business model, how are we making money? Umm... don't ask me - I'm just the founder!

The sad thing is that you need to remind people of it. I would never start a business without an idea of a viable business model for it. What do they expect? Growing until they are too large to fail and then ... Godot arrives and everything is fine?
Liberty’s Virgin Media and Telefonica’s O2 to Merge in the UK in $39B Deal
An emotional trip to the 80s: Developing Games for the Speccy
The missing piece here isn’t a factor driven by technical logic, but a factor by human logic.

It was “cool” to use Slack until it became widely used, and then it was “cool” to use Keybase instead. Zoom is currently seen as “uncool” (E2EE screwup + widely used), so when they purchase “cool” Keybase, now Keybase automatically becomes “uncool” as well and people will look for something “cool” to migrate to next.

This isn’t a complete explanation of all possible reasons, but it’s absolutely a contributing factor.

EDIT: I predict Riot/Matrix will be the replacement “cool” for Keybase.
Weird... My father did too. He was one of the engineers who drove around fixing Wordplex word processors at customer sites. There were always a couple of spare machines sitting in his car or in the garage; he showed me how to play games on them.
I even wrote some school projects on them; they had these huge daisy-wheel printers that sounded like machine guns!
“...will not proactively monitor...”

“...will not build a mechanism to decrypt live meetings...”

So, this means that they can record meetings, then retroactively decrypt and monitor meeting contents :)
It runs just fine for my site, across browsers and OSes.
Or that "people with special needs" are not so different from the rest of us.
Yes, that's pretty much how you do it. Since there's no frame to mechanically support the comb during centrifuging, you pretty much have to crush the comb and strain the honey from it.

Because of the lack of mechanical support, it can also make working top bar hives difficult in hot summers -- the heat is just enough to soften the wax if it's out too long, and it can really compromise its structure. Makes for a good extra challenge :)
UK’s NHS Covid-19 app lacks robust legal safeguards against data misuse
NOOOOOOO!!! I am going to miss Keybase
It's easy to game. Source: was a sales engineer for ISPs and Data Centers.

So assume you're doing a 3-year or 5-year TCO -- you build in credits, discounts, and bundled options. Execs are looking for a 3-year apples-to-apples spend, and you make your TCO look fucking amazing. They see the low price and decent technical options and they bite.

3 years later those credits vanish and they're paying full OpEx costs. And after 3 years they're now invested -- stuck -- in their space/circuit/whatever. You can start raising the price or negotiating new contracts.

Same thing with the cloud, for that matter. Cut a glorious bulk deal with Microsoft for Azure space, and then after you've moved everything to MS they can start nickle and diming you -- cuz the cost of moving that load to AWS or GCP isn't cheap, and you're not going out and buying more hardware and going back to CoLo are you?
UBI can't solve this problem. UBI does absolutely nothing if there's nothing to buy because nobody is working. You can't UBI your way around meat plants closing, restaurants not being staffed, stores closing, and so on.

If anything, UBI encouraging more people to not work can only make it worse.

The whole premise of UBI is that there's such a surplus that the only sane thing to do with it is to distribute it. There is now no surplus, and indeed credible threats of shortages. Therefore, it is only logical that the rest of the argument is now invalid. Hopefully, only temporarily.
Not sure if anyone knows but if you use AWS, you can actually create your own repository there for your organization. it doesn’t have the GitHub UI or features like issues, but should going in the right direction where your organization owns your private repos.
Perhaps it's my inexperience with the english language showing, but I thought "has" in this context was past tense.
For USD it kind of is. What would it take to screw up the dollar?

Every other country on the planet wants to hold it.
Just out of curiosity, what was it about Zoom that never worked well for you? I work with oodles of academics, and that was the singular reason they flocked to Zoom - out of box ease of setup / ease of use that trumped WebEx and GoTo Meeting.

Privacy considerations were secondary and only came to light (from their perspective) during the increased scrutiny brought during COVID-19.
Having looked it up at some point, as far as I can remember the list of permitted Webview providers is hardcoded to the official webview package and the various branches of Chrome (Release/Dev/Canary and whatnot).
So you can only use an independent Webview if you're also building your own ROM at the same time, and then you still need to reimplement the whole exisiting Webview API, which could be rather fun if parts of it turn out to depend on Blink-peculiarities that cannot be easily replicated in Gecko.

And finally (and this applies to a standalone GeckoView package without direct API compatibility as well), end users being able to update the Webview independently from the apps using that Webview package means that you're suddenly operating under much more severe backwards compatibility constraints.
Germany puts Russian “Dmitry Badin” on wanted list on suspicion of cyberattack
Me and a friend were having coffee and were discussing secrets something like 10 years ago. The conclusion of our conversation was "Everything always comes out" (translated from Swedish [context was some gossip that eventually leaked about our common friend]) which boils down to that the only way you can really ensure something stays secret forever, is by only having it in your mind and not sharing it. As soon as you share it _anywhere_, there is a risk of it leaking somewhere.

The lesson I carry is that the more secret it something is, the closer to my brain it is. Top-secret = only in my head, little bit secret = encrypted on my harddrive, little less secret = encrypted in the cloud, not secret at all = just dumped in a Google Drive account
I disagree. I think the protests would still exist if we had UBI like Spain - the reason Spain hasn't seen any protests is that their lockdown policies were so strict nobody could protest, and as they loosen up over the next few weeks I (falsifiably) expect to see some. If we had replicated Taiwan's results, sure, there'd be less to protest about.

The rich cynically exploiting the masses is definitely a known thing. But the right response to that can't be ignoring the masses.
Sure, the reputation might be tarnished, but to it seems like they have hired recently to ensure people that they are taking measures to change that.

This seems like an extension of that. If anyone has thought a lot about multi-party encrypted communication it is the keybase folks.
Bonkers how? Zoom gave them money, they took the money.
> If they can do it to Microsoft, they can do it to anyone else who has a GitHub account.

I don't think this is necessarily true. Microsoft's org, like any large org, has a large number of users with access. Its security is dependent on each one of those many accounts being secure.

A smaller org, or an individual, can secure their repositories much more easily as there's fewer entrypoints.

They haven't mentioned whether this hack was achieved by compromising individual account credentials, or by compromising the Github platform itself. If it's the latter, you may be right, but I suspect it's more likely the former.
Cloud will continue to dominate, even if it's more expensive. Why? Because the best companies are able to focus on what makes them special, and outsource the rest.

Cost and security are important, but they may not be most important. In a business, the scarcest commodity is FOCUS. By outsourcing anything that isn't core to your product, you can excel at what differentiates you.
>This is because they, like most people, are smart and are able to understand the risk and make decisions for themselves and their families.

Come on, nobody has done these calculations. Not even the experts. I bet less than 1% of the population could give you even a reasoned estimate of the risks to themselves or their families.
And yet as we speak they have 2 article's on HN's front page, totaling 1100+ votes. So they probably have the "perfect" amount of awfulness: people know about it and complain, yet they still click.
In most cases, it's not really up to the app developers.
And yet the Fed is able to buy back treasuries and corporate debt with funds conjured out of thin air. There's a person at the Fed who types in the amount of money they need that day. I think they're using a Node.js app feeding Kafka and a Cassandra database.
As an illustration I'll show you how it works:

Funds Available for Bond Repurchases: $1,000,000,000,000

And just like that a trillion dollars!
> Does Firefox have any XUL left?

Yes, recently there's been a big rewrite of lots of things as web components, but some XUL leftovers are still there.
This is why I'm so sick of all the "we're in this together" stuff coming from celebrities/rich people/brands. We are very clearly NOT in this together, socioeconomic factors are huge in your potential survival of this and executive teams are giving themselves bonuses while laying off workers or asking for permanent pay cuts. This faux positivity helps nobody.
Any chance I can get the name of that mailing list via PM?
> They are making a lot of money which is what the business was made for.

I miss the days when businesses existed not just to serve investors but also their employees and the common good. It's like a 1%-er meta profit model where the actual business is in buying and selling the business and the core business is really just a temporary front that is designed to never make a profit, just create fancy looking charts and eventually bait and switch consumers when it is sold to the highest bidder and the employees all eventually lose their jobs.

One day, VC funding will either be illegal or required. considering the flow of money in this exchange, I'm betting on the second.
I have, in fact that's really why I'm here commenting about this. I find I learn best when good science communicators explain a topic at or just beyond my level, with the help to raise my understand, rather than when poor communicators point to a bunch of papers targeted at theoretical physicists and say "go read the background". I suspect I'm not alone on this.

Again, as I've said in other comments, just pointing at him and saying he's a fraud isn't useful in explaining why. I think the scientific discourse deserves better than that.
Zoom may be also managing the perceptions. Some users will jump to conclusions that the aquisition means integration, like an plug-in, bam! the bad part swapped with a good one.

Hiring consultants may be perceived like starting an investigation, not getting the fix now.

The question remains how soon and how true this will translate to the stated goal of true end to end encryption.
There are a million approaches to this. Minority of the solutions are CV. Most are already solved engineering problems.

Elevators manage to not drag you, but multimillion dollar train cars can't?

Your thought process is one of over-engineering. Don't overengineer.
Which should be done because it helps the user very much.

Sharing filtered links or storing filtered links in your favorites becomes impossible when the query parameters don't change.
Awfully boring things to breach. Not very exciting except for the fact that some employee probably installed nudez.exe.
One of the arguments against it was that it had never really been tested before[1], making it hard to understand what the actual effects might be, vs. the theoretical benefits ... or worries.

For example, one of the arguments against basic income is that people would stop working.

This experiment observes "The employment rate for basic income recipients improved slightly more during this period than for the control group."

Thus, at least for Finland, basic income does not appear to get a large number of people to stop working.

It's hard to know how to prioritize things if you don't know the effect. Perhaps if people are "satisfied with their lives" then there's less need for mental health care? In which case there's a possible re-prioritization there.

BTW, the summary doesn't appear to address if the experiment helped people with money problems. It describes the weaker "more positive perception of their economic welfare".

[1] "Really" here being "nationwide, statutory and randomised".
Asian “Murder Hornet” Reports Greatly Exaggerated
Yes to all this.

I've been juggling a lot of meetings between Zoom and my kid's school on different platforms, and the difference between Zoom and Google Meet is night and day. Schools are mostly switching to the latter because of the security concerns, but damn is it terrible. It's like Skype from 15 years ago.
Second Life has languished into satisfying kinky online fantasies.
Apologies, I may have meant neutrinos.
Factors associated with Covid-19-related hospital death
If at first you don't suck seed, FAANGovt will make you.
Yes, that’s correct. And also missing the point.
The theoretical max ISP for Hydrogen rockets is only 530, so they are talking about using atmospheric oxygen.
Flutter Spring 2020 Update
One of us is getting media bubbled here. I've seen a lot of people argue that they do not want the economy reopened and everyone should stay inside because it's not safe yet. Attempts to engage in a phased opening have produced headlines like "Georgia's Experiment in Human Sacrifice"[1], and major figures are still talking on Twitter about how "No life is worth losing to add one more point to the Dow."[2]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/why-georg...

[2] https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1258184774486642688
Free Font Covid Infected
It's not only filesize it's also what the browser must parse. Parsing huge files is not a great experience on mobile.
Yes, basically everything is azure devops internally, spread across numerous tenants for different orgs.
Many teams have used the public github.com version. You can see all the .NET platform development happening in the open.
Thats fair. And it‘s a much more interesting discussion IMO. Why is Keybase only really used for chat? I mean you can `keybase pull` all your friends’ pgp keys into your local keyring. It’s way way better than reading off fingerprints at a key-signing party. And yet that still didn't lower the barrier enough for people to actually use crypto for shit. Maybe the key is email. Maybe Keybase missed an opportunity to bring email into the equation so everybody could do “web stuff” backed by social pgp without a second thought.
Fascinating rhyme scheme in this one. The vowels in each stanza rhyme ABAB, the consonants ABBA. Never seen anything like it.
> Zoom has not and will not build a mechanism to decrypt live meetings for lawful intercept purposes.

That seems to include past tense.
The full title (which is far too long for the HN field) is "Factors associated with COVID-19-related hospital death in the linked electronic health records of 17 million adult NHS patients".
Maximising a code editor allows you to have two editor panes side-by-side. Especially useful for Git diffs.
Prove it. Take a $500 billion out of the military budget.
Money is limitless, it's restraint in printing too much at once that ascribes value to the existing money supply.
So... The solution to the issue today is - eliminate their job by automation(aka progress), but that is something they staunchly oppose.

Sounds like a catch 22
Can I piggy back off this request as well?
I said that there wouldn’t be protests like these with UBI or a response like Taiwan’s, not that it solves the problem. Only a working vaccine or wildly effective therapeutic solves this problem.

Giving people a social floor so they’re not going to be out on the street or dead while we work on those is a necessary and proven effective mitigation tactic, however.
In what year, 2004? A single ad can take up that much space.
I don't think that's a very important distinction, the goal is of course factoring the 2048bit number without using exponentially more hardware.

To go from the 17bit to the 2018 bit they need to use a million qbits instead of 1600-something. That's a tiny scale up of under 1000x.

To factor a 1024 bit number you need a huge set of resources, and instead of needing "a million CPUs" for the 2048 bit numbers, what you need is a million times more resources for the 2048bit number, than you needed for the 1024bit number.

It's not like academic results are unimportant until they are actually faster than classical results.
Training a neural network entirely on an iOS device
So they can charge directly to the user. They're still going to advertise to acquire that user though.
Your second paragraph neatly sums up the state of things. It's gotten downright cartoonish.

I remember when Rails first hit the ground. It was touted as a revolution in Web simplicity (and was relative to then, when what we expected of our apps was relatively simple).

But, someone got it in their heads that web apps should be near-indistinguishable from desktop apps. But, let's not address the impedance mismatch there. Instead, let's create a bunch of layers out of new tools and concepts to obscure the fact that these things don't fit together.

So our projects/apps now demand more and have just grown extremely complex. Turns out that making the Web act just like a native app (while battling all its Web semantics) is hard. We want it to be X, when all it wants to be is the Web.

Add to this all of the other disparate pieces that we want to work together: countless technologies, languages, libraries, 3rd party services, etc. And if you're talking full stack (and who's really not fullstack these days?), the number of universes that you must make coexist is insane. And, much of this is to layer over existing technologies (like Rails) that weren't intended to be used in this way. Enter entire concepts like transpiling, webpacking, etc.

Then to deploy, You're probably dealing with no less than 6-10 cloud provider services, each with its own set of concepts and requirements to be satisfied. Even if you're not the one deploying, you have to understand their implications on your code.

Web development is now less about writing logic and much more about wiring a bunch of existing stuff together, with discrete chunks of logic serving as the business/domain layer glue. I mean the app still has to serve some business purpose, so the code that supports that must be written. But that's barely the start these days.
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