skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With some exceptions, most appear to be developers selling developer stuff to other developers. It's like a microeconomy based around people trying to make a living by taking in each others' laundry. If I'd hazard a guess, it's because they have the technical chops to build things, but lack the experience/connections to build things people outside of tech actually need.
Thermal label printers (printing directly onto adhesive labels) are a good replacement for this use-case, with none of the downsides of ink or cartridges.

Furthermore their usage in businesses means there's an endless supply of labels in various sizes so you don't depend on the manufacturer for anything.
To be fair, all social networks are echo chambers anyway, since you choose your chamber by who you follow.
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It constantly pings the servers with my IP address, timestamp, and user agent if nothing else. They can see where people are over time. I was busy so haven't looked into what it's sending (just exempted the domain from interception for the duration of the audit), but in the EU and IP address with timestamp is personally identifiable information.
That’s exactly what a large group of people want. Rather engage in discourse, one side cancels and the other tolerates just outright fabrications as reasonable and meriting discussion.
> A tiny Germany company...

Did you read the same article as me? The company started 2020 with slightly less than $5B capitalization. The owners are already top-100 wealthiest in Germany due to an earlier startup working a similar space.

As another poster mentioned [0], they also have US offices and advanced manufacturing capabilities.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25045177
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According to tha article, they won't be fined at all:

>"Today, the Federal Trade Commission has voted to propose a settlement with Zoom that follows an unfortunate FTC formula," FTC Democratic Commissioner Rohit Chopra said. "The settlement provides no help for affected users. It does nothing for small businesses that relied on Zoom's data protection claims. And it does not require Zoom to pay a dime. The Commission must change course."

Under the settlement, "Zoom is not required to offer redress, refunds, or even notice to its customers that material claims regarding the security of its services were false," Democratic Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter said. "This failure of the proposed settlement does a disservice to Zoom's customers, and substantially limits the deterrence value of the case."
Their competitors were using the same standard of security.

FaceTime is the big E2E service. Most anything else allows dial in, and is not E2E. Zoom’s sin is bad marketing copy.
Hmm, if you had to resilver the disks a dozen times, I would assume that is indication of a hardware failure somewhere in the device (perhaps RAM?).
> I find trying to explain in a comment why the code I've written is correct is pretty good in wheedling out all the ways in which it's not actually correct.

I found that well written, expressive tests accomplish that really well.

I use Spock[1] to write complex tests and I just can't recommend it enough if you're working with the JVM (Java, Kotlin, Groovy, Scala, Clojure).

We have several thousands of Spock tests and it's amazing how they have scaled with us... they've grown to support extremely complex workflows that have nearly zero accidental complexity and are easily readable even if you have no experience with it.

[1] http://spockframework.org
At least those can be blocked by extensions.
As an aside, BTW, I would not recommend setting up any business ventures in Russia at the moment. Rumors have been swirling that Putin has Parkinsons, and will announce his departure in January. Kremlin denies, of course, but Duma (Russian parliament) is currently working on legislation granting former presidents _very_ broad immunity even after the presidency ends. The fact that they're working on something like that with like 4 years to go in Putin's presidential term is unlikely to be a coincidence.
These are like interactive programming languages / environments that you will use to interact with your computer and with text files. It is convenient, once you have learnt them.

I will wonder how a programmer would interact with the text on computer regularly without convenience of these tools.
No, the text is ambiguous, but the main point about forbidden peasant autonomy and the "easily defeated" peasantry still stands. Look at the translation from the Latin in the other comment.
> I really think there is an unsustainable distortion happening.

Yes, soon any website can have their own videoconferencing using web technology like WebRTC. And implementation will be as simple as running "npm install".

> But Zoom, alone, already has a marketcap of $117.534B

Yes. Zoom having a market cap that's more than half of Intel? Come on now ...
There is common name for that, "unix as an ide"

I often point people to this blog when asked why I don't use an ide

https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/unix-as-ide-introduction/
It's possible my information is out of date, but I am under the impression that guile-emacs development stalled five years ago.
Me neither, not since I got bitten by the 'Resolve Conflicts' button on the PR page also merging the PR into the target branch.

Maybe it's PEBCAC, and to be fair it is documented[0], but the big red warning in the docs is missing from the page where you actually do the action. To make it more confusing there's also a disabled 'Merge pull request' button that implies that resolving the conflicts and merging the PR are separate actions

0: https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/colla...
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> I don't know how one would recreate that model in todays realities

Seems like a good opportunity for innovation.
I signed up, I see its already full of spam regardless of what hashtag you try.
Thanks! It's so hard to find out what the world looks like from other people's digital/social bubbles...

I totally agree - it's really, really important that conservatives don't feel attacked (let alone hunted) and that concerns about election integrity are taken seriously and investigated thoroughly.

Here's hoping...
All good ideas. I doubt this dates from 2014. 2004 perhaps. I can see that the Excel team ignored those suggestions like pretty much any other suggestion to improve the product. Focusing instead on more fundamental problems like changing the color of the user interface or the location of the buttons between versions.
I use inkjet printers and I am very satisfied.
I am using an Epson printer with what they call EcoTank. Just tanks with different color inks that you can refill yourself.
> $10k MRR for Seed, $100k MRR for Series A, $500K - $1M MRR for Series B.

If u are at $10K/month, you are probably at break-even or ramen profitable or whatever.

A $500K seed, $3M valuation, in a central tech hub - that seems kind of low to me ?

> they are likely much higher now

Surely the bar has gone DOWN ? With many more options?
Maybe your growth rate can really change the valuation?
Most German companies work like this, they even have their own moniker: "hidden champions". It appears to work just fine, if you're not selling to the public, what's the point of wasting money making the public aware of you? Also, not every company needs to be a Silicon-Valley-style startup which spouts endless PR nonsense about how their stupid internet-connected coffee machine is going to "change the world".
You can get that syntax right now using ExitStack.
That's not git flow, that's just release/maintenance branches.

The main feature of git flow is having multiple redundant branches for no reason. Namely a separate develop and master. There is no point of that at all. Look at the diagram, move all tags from master to develop, delete master and rename develop to master. There, you now have the workflow you've described without redundant branches.
Nikola has $900M in the bank, lost $117M last quarter
Unless it is a printer+scanner combo, which requires some proprietary part that is downloaded by hplip package from HP web, and causes random breakage during upgrades.
c2.com looks old.
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Interesting maths. I'm enjoying the graphics, they are beautiful to watch unfold, but bear little relation to the full range that is heard in the audio examples. Not in volume, or varying pitch. This technique seems to be a way of showing an aspect of sound via graphics that mean the two are unrelated in immediately meaningful ways. The word 'Periodic' is mentioned, but that isn't seen.

Still, great experiment, and interesting results!
the Dorito effect (https://www.amazon.com/Dorito-Effect-Surprising-Truth-Flavor...) explains it really well if you want to understand the fine details. It was an eye opening read.
Harmful relative to excessive use.

The problem is alcohol abuse. It is problem for person health and public order.
Those with knowledge of what the master key is sign the master key, those with knowledge of those people and their keys sign those keys, and so on and so on until you have signed one of the keys in the set. Aka, "the web of trust".
https://projects.propublica.org/represent/lobbying/300928017
I'm not sure that approach would be sustainable. Printer manufacturers are in the business of loss leading as far as I can see. They probably don't make any significant profit on the printer itself, judging by what I've paid for printers in the last few years. The price of the printer is subsidised by the projected profits from the ink/toner. And they are not insignificant, I agree. But in the current market, selling printers at an unsubsidised price probably won't work commercially. We've gotten used to cheap printers and expensive ink/toner I guess and it's difficult to come off them. There'[s no such thing as a free lunch etc..
Which is the entire point. Lots of other systems rely on this data but may handle it in an insecure manner. This is a fairly safe way to expose all those vulnerabilities.
Zoom lied. People spied.
Or maybe your long term memory is corrupted?
There was http://www.ocamljava.org/ around 2015 but there wasn't enough interest to keep the project going.

A fascinating project currently in development is Caramel, a BEAM VM (Erlang) back-end to the OCaml compiler: https://github.com/AbstractMachinesLab/caramel
It is more specific to say "pathname of the working directory", you are right about that.

What I meant was: It is redundant in the sense that the pathname is the identifier of the working directory, and if I ask someone to identify something I will receive in answer an identifier.

I.e. If I were to ask a user at their computer "what is the current working directory?" and "what is the pathname of the current working directory?" I will get the same answer.
And several years before that at Cisco.

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/the-zoom-ipo-with-santi-sub...
https://metro.co.uk/2020/11/03/fake-robocalls-give-us-voters...

> Officials in Michigan reported on Tuesday that citizens of Flint, a predominantly black city, were receiving calls telling them to vote Wednesday, and not on election day. The calls are now being investigated by the FBI.

That is misinformation, no ifs, no buts.
This is a workaround, but I use Discord on my phone to avoid having to go afk in games. It works almost as well as the desktop client, for the most part.
Any new information in the paper since the first version came out in Mars? Otherwise a 6 month old meta-study seems kind of dated given rate of progress in NLP atm.
Here that's one of the few things I still use mine for, printing QR labels for my outgoing parcels :P

UPS, DHL and others still require us to print our own labels here. And QR codes are hard to write by hand ;)
Code should have a hierarchical structure, so one could read it on the high level of abstraction and also zoom in gradually, as necessary — this is what they usually mean by “code is the documentation”, plan the reading process as you plan the functionality.

It is a very important aspect of the readability, otherwise you will just sink in details when reading. But it is not easy to formally validate with tools, so naturally it is better to have both code and a picture and have discipline to keep them in sync.
Is there a male breadwinner norm? Don't look at spouses' income to find out
Aesthetics over Usability – Google's New App Icons
Probably easier to recruit people to conspiracies, white nationalist organizations, anti vaccine propaganda groups, cults or whatever, if there isn't anyone fact checking.
PRET – Printer Exploitation Toolkit
Zoom's revenue is in corporate accounts, just like Slack - my 10k ppl company uses branded enterprise accounts on both systems, we even have VOIP via them with DIDs. Companies of size do not pivot quickly on telecom and messaging system changes, it takes a lot more than a single issue or two for our money to not be in their pockets.
JetBrains products work (mostly, I will concede) the same across all their products.

Literally whether I open RubyMine, PyCharm or CLion I feel at home.
It sounds like they want to emulate the exoskeleton design of tesla's cybertruck.

But don't know enough to realize weight savings and other advantages probably wouldn't be worth it. Due to the majority of weight in a battery pack being lithium and metals, rather than the battery pack shell holding it together.
Yeah, there's never any issues keeping games working on Windows...
What would they get from that? Even more market capitalization? Unlikely, they are getting plenty as is. The second tier visibility might even help their stock price a little as some particularly uninformed speculants might still fall victim to the illusion that they know more than their peers when buying shares of "the secret behind the Pfizer vaccine".
I fear what will happen to DirectX-on-Linux if Oracle vs. Google goes in favor of Oracle.
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The client is open source (and you can go to about:telemetry to see for yourself what it’s sending), the server side is open source, and much of that data is publicly accessible at https://telemetry.mozilla.org
I feel like this is an important clarification from the end of the intro:

"This article provides some insight into the security challenges of SMS-based multifactor authentication: mainly cellular security deficiencies, exploits in the SS7 (Signaling System No. 7) protocol, and the dangerously simple yet highly efficient fraud method known as SIM (subscriber identity module) swapping. Based on these insights, readers can gauge whether SMS tokens should be used for their online accounts. This article is not an actual analysis of multifactor authentication methods and what can be considered a second (or third, fourth, etc.) factor of authentication; for such a discussion, the author recommends reading security expert Troy Hunt's report on the topic."
- I was looking for "desktop-solutions" comparable to Zoom, so WhatsApp and Telegram are out of the question (Telegram doesn't do group calls AFAICS).

Some notes:

- Wire has published a detailed whitepaper on e2ee.
https://wire-docs.wire.com/download/Wire+Security+Whitepaper...

- Jami (formerly GNU Ring) has an interesting post about having e2e here:
https://security.stackexchange.com/a/162603/243716

- Jitsi e2e is testable, but they note that it's not completely finished. Key exchange has to be done manually.

- https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/issues/9893 suggests BigBlueButton don't have e2e yet

- Wikipedia claims "no encryption protocol" for OpenMeetings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenMeetings

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So that leaves Wire and Jami. Thanks for the info!
You know what it's called when you purposefully lie about your products or services to gain an advantage? Fraud.

If this was happenening in any other industry (except fonance?), the perpetrators would be in jail.
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As for fines, companies already do sophisticated risk analysis so that the average outcome would be far more than the average potential cost. I know oil companies do highly sophisticated risk and reward calculations with violations.

As for 3reputational damage, that’s a long term effect. A few events won’t have a lasting impact. If it turns out that Apple Key Chain is not e2e, or worse iOS exfiltrates key material from apps, that would be major news, but soon people will forget (if they ever cared in the first place) and keep buying iPhones unless the misbehavior is a recurrent problem. A company like Apple will make it extremely difficult to discover such misconduct.
> Europe is not Iraq or Afganistan, as a whole, it is stronger than the US.

Militarily there is no doubt that Europe is not. The only country in Europe that can really project force is France. (I’m assuming the UK is not getting into a war with the United States).

> BTW most of the intelligent and educated(engineers, scientists) people in the US comes from outside the US. Not reasonable to believe they will contribute against fighting their own countries.

A lot to unpack behind this weird assertion.

First-> many (most?) of these smart people are working at companies like Facebook to hook kids into endlessly scrolling.

Second -> your claim is unfounded.

Third -> even if it were true, the skills and knowledge to win wars do not have a 1-1 correspondence with the skills of these so called experts. Even then, who is to say given the right opportunity there are plenty of other smart people around.

Fourth -> those same smart people have families in the US. You think they’re just going to go transfer some Amex points and hop on a Delta flight home? There wouldn’t even be a way to leave the US.

Finally -> the idea that “all the smart foreigners will betray the US” gives ammo to arguing points by suspicious white supremacists. So you probably shouldn’t do that.
Would you have accepted his answer though? It was the same answer given in the first place.
There have been some great improvements in Scala tooling in recent years. Li Haoyi talks about all these new tools in the Hands-On Scala programming book. Some specific responses:

* tooling for writing VSCode: the metals project is great: https://github.com/scalameta/metals

* NullPointerExceptions: those should be handled with Option/ Some / None

* the inability to enforce a coding style properly - scalafmt is great for this and provides a "Go-like" automatic formatting experience
https://scalameta.org/scalafmt/

* SBT - there are now alternatives like Mill: https://github.com/lihaoyi/mill

Glad you're happier with Rust, but know that Scala is a lot better now if you ever come back ;)
That's completely understandable. I have noticed a considerable rise in micro-SaaS analytical products like ilo.so for Twitter. What are your thoughts on these?
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And FWIW it’s not just a “telemetry service.”
This is a LaserJet printer he's talking about FWIW.
Everyone is excited about "90% efficacy", but nobody mentions the rate of side effects. Hmm. If this is injected into several billion people, twice into each person, wouldn't you want to know at least an estimate of the ratio before you do that? Especially with mandatory vaccination looming on the horizon.
It should be "well-written communication."
That is funny we heard the same thing from a high up at HP
This is a common misunderstanding encouraged by certain politicians but it’s misattributing the cause: the pandemic is causing the economic damage. Most of the businesses worst affected are ones like restaurants and bars, which were going to collapse as soon as their customers realized that patronizing them is inherently risky. For example, Sweden famously didn’t have lockdowns but still saw a major economic decline - perhaps a little better than some other countries in Europe but still ruinous without government bailouts. Even if it’s legal most people will change their buying habits.

The other mistake is assuming that this is endless. Countries which have strict safety measures are able to reopen after having controlled spread - Australia had a hard lockdown and has now gone without any cases for a while. In contrast, the United States’ leaders chose to squander the sacrifice of the spring lockdown by not making it effective and then relaxing restrictions before the viral spread was controlled, ensuring the maximal cost for minimal benefit.
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If the company is upfront about that, then I'm fine with it. When I get a shipping number and then no activity and no communication for a week I assume I got defrauded.

I recently did two orders where this type of thing happens. One (an ebay order) the company sent me a notice a few hours latter that my product was damaged and no more stock would arrive for a month could they cancel the order. The other (new egg third party) there was no communication for a week despite a shipping label, so I contacted newegg and demanded a refund. I might order from the first company again, the second put a bad taste in my mouth and I probably won't use newegg at all anymore just because they are not policing their sellers.
What's the resource limit of the plans? Couldn't find it in the pricing page.
People don’t necessarily follow official guidelines. I wouldn’t call the American diet low fat https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-caloric-supply-deri... . Also this doesn’t even take into account the type of carbs. The average American consumes 15 grams of fiber a day, which means they don’t eat enough fruits, vegetables, legumes, seeds and nuts. Also a lot happened during those 40 years, to pin it all on the food guidelines is a bit too simplistic IMO.
the first preliminary stage 3 results are actually from the sinovac vaccine: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-sinova.... however they didn't disclose the efficacy, but only the side effects.

general efficacy is not everything anyway. according to https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3... the best vaccine is one that prevents serious disease and death, which can't be shown in stage 3.
Geography has something to do with it. New York and Washington are liberal leaning, and that's where the origins of many of the big media companies lie.

The other piece is likely the motivation to be a journalist, as well as the college experience. Journalism programs tend to have lots of students and staff that want
to be seen as "fighting for the little guy", which tends
to line up more directly in a liberal context. You can see this pretty clearly by looking at the news stories that have won Pulitzers in the past.
It's trivial (if you know what you are doing) to load kernel drivers from userspace by abusing windows bugs.
If you trust a program to run in userspace, then it already has all the keys to the kingdom.

Welcome to windows security.
Do you have sources for people being banned for those reasons? I have not heard of these cases
Is Hopin this year’s breakout tech startup? Investors seem to think so
It’s as relevant as a black US president. Or a female Vice President.
For exploratory work you're in a notebook so your auto-complete usually has access to the exact object instances in question. There's also some good machine learning based autocomplete systems out there nowadays.