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The app terminal-notifier[0] is pretty handy for bash scripts and cron jobs...

[0] https://github.com/julienXX/terminal-notifier
Save their top scientist from war crime prosecution, bring them to your own country and have them direct your space programs and other fields.

You do not know what holocaust is or you would not be doing this ridiculous comparison.
SS Baychimo: The Unsinkable Ghost Ship
Just press AZ-5 in emergencies.
It all new, Zoom actually is one of the pioneers.
Commenters without a substantial or interesting contribution to make tend to focus on things like names.
I don’t think we’re beyond repair yet but it feels much more like gaping fissures than surfacing cracks. Our infrastructure, education and healthcare is a disaster.
I think you're missing the point. K certainly isn't faster than C. If you have a C guru, they should always be able to write faster code than K.

The difference is it should be a lot easier for someone like me (not a C guru) to write a K program that does something useful. I'll also be able to see the whole program as it will likely be a few lines long. If I wrote some C code, it would take me forever and take forever to debug. I see this as similar to any scripting language (Ex: Python).
They list some in the README.md at

https://github.com/magiblot/tvision#applications
As someone who has been involved in stability testing before, I doubt this is really the case.

In order to justify your stability, you need data to submit to the FDA (they don't take your word for it). When doing your initial stability studies, you try and collect data for the most ideal conditions - no refrigeration needed, stable for X years from room temperature to 30C (to account for conditions during shipment).

No doubt Pfizer lined up a number of early stability studies testing -80C, -50C, -20C, 0C, etc. They recognize that needing a -70C cold chain is a logistics hurdle. If they could avoid it at all, they would have pushed for it and had data to back it up.
...inside a system that very intentionally put N people in competition to cheat, thereby ensuring that cheating would happen, and in a manner that could plausibly be blamed on the person who happened to do the cheating rather than the system that knowingly ensured that the cheating would happen.
Missed Tesla’s 12,551% Rise? Don’t Feel So Bad
« The prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Wuhan was therefore very low five to eight weeks after the end of lockdown. »

Strict lockdowns don’t work right?
Diagram Map: tracing UML/SysML elements across diagrams
"unlawful conspiracy to transfer a means of identification."

I don't think I've ever heard that phrase before. It's a federal crime? What does it mean?
The DOJ does not share the agenda of the administration.

Do you think the US should not have an administration that is highly motivated to root out CCP operatives?
The popularity of apps like Zoom and TikTok suggests that American national security is an afterthought for consumers.
It's worth noting that the fact that this is an international incident speaks to how safe flying is in general.

Two fatal crashes in the hundreds of thousands of flights for Boeing 737 Max alone is still a ridiculously small number for something as potentially dangerous as powered flight.
Interview OS (Part 1)
The issue isn't "user mindshare", it's technical quality, as you say. Nothing I have tried either matches zoom.
It's not, because infringing-but-non-commercial[1] stuff gets taken down all the time by overzealous IP owners. The Baby Yoda thing wasn't entirely a joke, really. Disney in particular is extraordinarily strict, and there are lots of places on the internet you can't post a joke with an image of Baby Yoda.

[1] Or at most minimally commercial, like monentized youtube videos.
I encourage everyone to never, ever fly a 737 MAX under any circumstances. Boeing has not been sufficiently punished (as in their future behavior will change). If people refuse to fly the 737 MAX, hopefully they go bankrupt and the existing management can be replaced.
The Shot: Race for the Vaccine – A Special Edition of 20/20
What was new?
Two key quotes from the article:

1. "Race had no statistically significant effect on any group. Both conservatives and liberals, however, changed their views based on how they would vote. Only conservatives were affected by whether the refugees were said to be high-skilled and therefore presumably beneficial to the economy, or low-skilled and likely to rely on government assistance. Figure 1 below shows how partisanship, but not necessarily race, matters. The gap between the groups “very liberal” and “very conservative” in support for immigration is cut by around two-thirds when refugees are said to support Republicans instead of Democrats!"

2. "Notice: Not only do very liberal respondents like white migrants more than the very conservative do; very liberal respondents like Republican migrants more than very conservative ones do! To my mind this is strong evidence that Republicans’ core prejudice is not racism but xenophobia. They’re even relatively hostile to immigrants on their own side of the aisle."
Computer Hack Blamed on Russia Tests Limits of U.S. Response
Forget the charge - we should strive to presume the innocence of anyone charged with anything.

Bringing charges is not evidence.
Honda recalls 1.4M U.S. vehicles for software, other problems
The sad part is that most developers will be using these faster machines and to them their software will seem super snappy. But the poor folks with non-state of the art machines will experience much slower experiences. It creates a dynamic where other users are forced to upgrade just to use basic software.

In the past, I developed on old hardware (or at least tested on old hardware). If the software was performant on my old machine, it was bound to be fine for most others.
I have the exact same problem. It’s impossible to find competent labor that is willing to do what they’re told.
I want my baby’s laundry hand washed.
I want the towels to be dried in low heat.
I want to use wooden spoons on my expensive enamel pans.

Instead housekeepers routinely disobey and then lie about it. And a home chef is unrepentant about scratching my pans with metal utensils. They just don’t care. If it were their own things they would put more thought and labor into it.

I have to get on my hands and knees to scrub the floor after some recalcitrant $70/hour pair of maids refuse to do anything more than wipe the grime back and forth with a swiferjet.
This sounds noble but it leads to the idea that one country can impose its vision of justice globally. The CCP could then argue that is just what it itself is doing.

A better argument is that this guy allegedly committed crimes that took place on US soil.
Where are some of these products found in house hold equipment that would use SMIC's chips? I'm not real familiar with it.
There are some "fun" horror stories of people hitting the Azure Resource Manager API quota limits. At least one of them was linked to some sort of shared service principal for the client org, so if anyone hit it, the whole organisation could get locked out.

It would first start to throw HTTP 429 codes occasionally, then you would get locked out for exponentially increasing times, up to two weeks or something absurd like that.

Even if you called support, there was not a lot they could do, because the rate limiter is a low-level thing built into an internal load balancer somewhere, and it is difficult to override it for a single account.

The worst part was that you could hit the limit while not actually taking any action! If you just had certain Azure Portal screens open, the JavaScript would refresh things in the background, constantly consuming the API rate limit quota. Some screens do so many calls that you'll hit the rate limit in a matter of minutes if you leave your browser on those. If you fail to close all browser sessions of all admins right away, you can lock yourself out for days.
There’s more to it than just specs. Consumer grade silicon will not survive in space, radiation will just kill them.
A no name company beat them because they provide video conferencing to support their other businesses (except M). Apple hands out free FaceTime to move Apple devices, they don’t care about the video conferencing market itself.

Also, the Microsoft competitor isn’t Skype, it’s Teams.
Thanks for doing this. I've been waiting for this type of solution for a long time.

Let's see how well it works!
Why would I refuse to fly in a perfectly safe airplane?

I'm not punishing Boeing, I'm punishing Southwest and American Airlines at that point - and probably myself too, as I live immensely close to DFW (I just heard an airplane land).
The aggressive sales team focused on a video calling product; all of the other major solutions are afterthoughts owned by companies focusing on other products.

Oh, and that "Brady Bunch" view that Google quickly copied, after refusing to update Google Meet for years before that.
If someone uses it or doesn't use it to justify anything doesn't change that it is true.
> Microsoft kept locking our accounts and doing other shenanigans.

And Zoom had a few headlines about incidents where they probably should have locked some accounts but didn't.

Security is a tradeoff with usability. Zoom slid the slider all the way to the right at first.
Glad to hear that we have a US DOT Judge here who can decide how much punishment is due. What do you deem as sufficient, your honour?
So given that they are infected with covid

That this is not some uncontrollable inevitability is the whole point. Places that were proactive have less economic harm and far less death and illness. I suppose people aren't going to change, so the ship has sailed for much of the world, but it wasn't inevitable for vast numbers of people to get infected.

As far as 1/200 being subjectively low, if something had a 1/200 chance in killing you, would you do it 5 times a day? We can answer probably not of course, because you probably wouldn't do it once a week (or you wouldn't be).
Having slower noisier computers didn’t stop the bloat.
Before I left tech the first time I used the wrong pronoun was "free". Second is fireable offense literally classified as hate speech. Most people didn't go to HR unless you are a dick.

I support whatever you want to do, truly. I have a habit of joining a zoom and saying "hey guys hows it going?". It's been really hard to break but I am working on it

Seriously, if I made that mistake the first 5 min of the meeting is attributed to this with some massive history on transsexuality but rarely a mention of Guy Fawkes.

Personally, I think the majority of these people are addicted to their struggle and probably should work on moving past that with a qualified professional.

One of my best friends and most capable mentors came out and I think it's fucking great. Good for her! She handles it healthy and always has a positive anecdote even when I fuck up.
Technically it should be either (.,R+) or even (.,R - {0}).
Google relies on your data to give you the best results. If you don't give it any data, it can't perform very well.
Forget tech stacks: Engineers should choose startups by thinking like investors
I wonder if anyone has implemented a document file format based on SQLite.

SQLite file format is documented and other implementations exist. I am sure given enough interest, it could get standardized.
Oh, and now it appears something questionable went on with the recertification of the max 8. The congressional committee "concluded Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Boeing officials “had established a pre-determined outcome to reaffirm a long-held human factor assumption related to pilot reaction time ... It appears, in this instance, FAA and Boeing were attempting to cover up important information that may have contributed to the 737 MAX tragedies.”

And this point:
"The committee also said “multiple independent whistleblowers contacted the committee to allege FAA senior management was complicit in determining the 737 MAX training certification level prior to any evaluation.”"

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-737-max/boeing-ina...

Hah and someone down voted my upper comment without saying why. The FAA has serious issues.
I haven’t a clue - what I do know is that you’ve argued “it’s American” to “help others” and by that you mean welding people in their homes and dragging family members forcibly from their homes.
Who doesn't want their own personal retinue to command around, though?
This case has Congress criticizing both Boeing and the FAA and of the two the FAA comes back with the crappiest response, trying to throw shade on the report. Congress is certainly not a collection of innocent choir boys, but here, given these responses, the FAA is the worst of the bad guys. Sorry if that fact frustrates, but that's how it is.
None of what you said is true...
> Boeing officials encouraged test pilots to “remember, get right on that pickle switch”

That just sounds like such a heartless, psychopathic thing to do. How could they not feel guilty, knowing that their actions could potentially lead to hundreds of people losing their lives?
There is a single XML variant of the open document format. although images and videos won't be embedded in the document that way.

I used this format when I was generating ODF documents using a script.
Facebook’s App Privacy Label on iOS
Xcode also runs well, wheee as A few weeks ago it was 10 seconds for inserting a new line.
They do too much business on the Defence side of things for this to bankrupt them.
Sorry. No that's a violation of HIPAA and basic human rights.
the windows socket API .

this wouldnt be complete with out recalling SLIP

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

if you are one of the ancients [on the net before 1990]

you will recall what a big deal this was.

then of course tim berners-lee came along and we had the WWW
They are not clearly a party organ. Ask a random person on the street if Zoom is a party organ of the CCP. They will tell you, "no, I'm pretty sure it's an American company, right?" I agree with you that this is a considerable problem. Zoom is practically a Chinese company in American clothing.
> stable for X years from room temperature to 30C

How do you get this data for a large value of X without having to wait X years?
Martha Mitchell
I really like the idea behind Facebook's 2G Tuesdays, but I'm not sure if it helped achieve anything apart from PR, or if it's still going.
Southwest and AA would be incentivized to pursue recourse if it turns out their faith was placed in a product as a result of deception or fraud... but this is even more true if consumers punish the airlines for falling victim to such deception in the first place.
Maybe that’s what caused the crash...
You make very good points except your first sentence of your last paragraph. GoT is clearly a work of fiction and while the author made claims about it being rooted in reality, I don’t find the idea that we shouldn’t hold fiction to the same standard as non-fiction when it comes to historical accuracy all that crazy. After all, Star Wars is supposed to be ancient history, yet we don’t criticize it for historical inaccuracies. I think a much better ruler to apply here is whether the fictional account is believable or indeed possible with constraints of physics and sociology. I argue that believable storytelling is better for fiction than historical accuracy.
We already knew Zoom was ethically-challenged from the auto-install shenanigans, though, right?

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/07/09/zoom-vulnerabilities/
This is why I was so angry to find out that the Trump administration passed on 100 million doses. Are you kidding me? And they didn't have to pay for them if it wasn't proven to be effective. There was literally no downside! This has just been a terrible Presidency from all angles.
I agree with this in most cases, but when it comes to Javascript and fingerprinting, I think systems should be as generic as possible. This isn't even a VM versus bare metal thing.
I don't think dang likes it when you fuck with "Show HN" like this(1).

I guess you should remove the Show Hn part from the title.

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24750736
It's RNA to make the spike protein, so your immune system becomes infuriated and produces a reaction to kill cells that turned into factories for that protein.

You don't want the virus RNA, that would be presumably all that plus more!

The answer to your question is, it's a subset of the virus.
I mean does anyone even care if it's under $100? Given what it has cost economies all over the world it is a drop in the ocean.
Ooh boy. Undocumented limitations caused major problems with us with AWS SQS. It is now in the documentation (maybe because I complained to our AWS rep), but SQS has pool of 20k messages that it will pull from when serving requests. If you are using a FIFO queue and you have 20k messages with the same message group ID in that buffer, then you are unable to process any other message regardless of how large the queue is. It caused multiple severe degradations until we rearchitected how messages are grouped. If only it had been in the documentation from day 1.

Gotta love it!
Right, and so browsers need to fix this! Not because of VMs but because a web page, unlike desktop software, has no business knowing my graphics card.
Tacit programming was sure brought to the foreground by J, but function trains apparently precede it by a couple of years, and have since been implemented in Dyalog APL and NARS 2000.

The idea of functions having rank, and modifying rank, was also made central to J, but has been included in Dyalog APL more recently - as much as they can without breaking backward compatibility, I think.

But it's the "notation" change I'm struck by - the linked article says "discuss the future prospects of “the notation” in its various forms." as if APL and J and K are the same notation, when they casually, visually, aren't, and in the sense that J differs from APL of 1990 with rank and tacit functions and linguistic naming and behaviours (gerunds, conjunctions, et al), they aren't the same notation semantically either.
The irony is that the level of safety we enjoy today is the result of processes and procedures written in the blood of thousands of accident victims from more cavalier times. Boeing's actions go against everything the aviation industry has learned about safety, which why their misconduct is so egregious.
What about Linux servers for their own datacenters?
WebEx (acquired by Cisco) had all of the core functionality before Zoom.
Long time ago a popular storage vendor automatically put their software into dev or test mode when it detected a vmware bios.

I had a really awesome storage array at home.
Study finds that by age 3 kids prefer nature's fractal patterns
> We don't learn from the past at all. Sadly.

History rhymes and we are doing our best.
Please don't blame others ala "Those who ignore the past are doomed to repeat the mistakes"...
We will have much more possibilities and views in the future though and are currently blind(er) compared to that.
You're kidding right? The whole operation "Warp Speed" was a bit over $10 billion, that is a pittance compared to the trillions spent to keep the economy from collapsing.
Ahhh... the joy of enterprise monitoring systems that do exactly nothing by default, and are very helpful in avoiding any further recurrences of one-time issues. At a nominal fee, of course.

The golden rule of both backups and monitoring is: There are no time machines.

It's not helpful to find out after the fact that a default-off alert or metric threshold alarm could have avoided the issue. It's not helpful to blame the user for not knowing every one of thousands of metrics they "should" be monitoring. How would they know until they get burnt at least once?

Even if they do get burnt, how would they know which of the metrics they weren't capturing could have been useful it was was captured?

That's not a rhetorical question!

Fundamentally the issue is this: Practically no enterprise monitoring system stores data efficiently enough to capture all metrics, so instead they simply... don't.

Instead, these "solutions" trade a moderately difficult storage compression problem at the service provider end for a physically impossible time travel problem on the consumer end.

Just blame the user for not knowing ahead what disasters they will face! Job done! No need to figure out columnar compression, that would take actual engineering work for a couple of guys. But why bother when it's soooo much easier to just dump some JSON into a storage account or S3 bucket and bill the customer for every metric. Mmm... dollars per metric per month. That's the ticket to a nice robust revenue stream!

Apologies if I sound salty, but I've traced the root cause of outage after outage back to lazy vendors writing MVP monitoring systems that do literally nothing useful out of the box. These vendors simply refuse to store data efficiently enough to capture all relevant metrics to that I can check what happened without needing a TARDIS. Why would they when monitoring is a revenue stream that they measure in gigabytes?

PS: An ordinary Windows desktop has on the order of 10,000 to 50,000 performance counter metrics that it tracks. However, with even light compression, that's barely a few gigabytes for a year of logging every metric every second. I've written code to do this personally. Name me a cloud vendor that can approach this within an order of magnitude without an eye-watering bill every month.
It killed a million because it's novel. The flu also has killed millions, but because it's been around a while there's a lot of herd immunity to the flu. As time goes on, Covid's severity naturally decreases. Same as it has always been. And kids being kept out of schools despite being 99.999% immune is ridiculous.
Front end devs, Watch out!
Translating visual designs into UI code is an effort intensive activity and we are now starting to see the emergence of AI powered tools like the Microsoft's sketc2code, sketch2react. These tools will translate the sketches into html/react code without human intervention.
I tried all the familiar offers at the beginning of the pandemic. Zoom was the only one at the time that offered a smooth connection regardless of the other person's internet speed for decently sized groups.
Also their creepy hacks that open their so or the installer were universally panned on HN (for good reason) but it was the only way I could talk to my more senior members of my family without being on a forty minute phone call walking them through every step of the other companies' offerings

I've seen product updates from LINE touting their improvements and I assume the Skype team got yelled at for blowing it so bad at the beginning but there's just no inertia for anyone to bother with something else until after the pandemics over. I've stopped looking. The company seems shady but I'll take a product that works to be able to actually talk to friends and family in the short term.
If you hold the option key whilst clicking the notifications icon on the far right of the menu, you enable Do Not Disturb. This generally does the same thing for meetings, screen sharing etc.