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Now that my phone supports it, I just installed Wire. I wish their desktop version had more options regarding appearance, for one. Honestly, it would not take much to implement giving us, users the choice to change a couple of things.

I hate it how I cannot make the left bar less wide, for example, and there are a couple of more complains, all of which have been reported a long time ago. They are easy to add/fix!

I also wish the desktop version supported sending audio messages just like the Android version does, similarly to WhatsApp. No need for these fancy audio filters, just let me record and send an audio message from the desktop version!
> has refused to turn over user data even after legal challenges from the federal government

Apple turned over the user data of over 30,000 customers without a warrant to the US government in 2019, per their own transparency report (see under FISA).

Apple also does not end to end encrypt device backups specifically to aid the FBI.

You have subscribed to a false narrative.
If your using Android, check out Android GO

Or just disable Internet data on mobile phone togther, limit to wifi
Reading this made me realized how cheap Internal data is in Viet Nam.

- 4G: 2GB per day for less than 4 USD each month (89k VND/month)
- Home Fiber optics network with guaranteed 35Mbps/35Mbps: unlimited for less than 10 USD each month (220k VND/month).
You can do it in one byte in HQ9+ already. No need to invent a language that's just a feature-constrained subset of an existing one ;-)
A lot of you seemed interested in Pixar's renderfarm [1] so I wanted to share my high level overview of what it takes to create a movie from my experience at Disney Animation and stream a movie from experience at Disney+

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25615888
Ever tried putting an umlaut in a URL?
I suspect those 4 cities are doing more than just wearing masks. I’m having a hard time tracking down the interviews (I think it was Dr. Jim Yong Kim who said this), but there are two types of transmission between households and within households. Mask wearing, social distancing, quarantining, contact tracing, and some other measures can help to reduce between house transmission. However, you need to stop the within house transmission, too. To stop within house transmission, people are removed from their home and isolated in medical facilities in some parts of Asia.

Stopping between house and within house transmission is what I suspect those 4 cities you mentioned are doing. North America is more focused on stopping between house transmission.

Anecdotally, I know some cities in South Korea have quarantined people by placing them in an isolation room (4 people per room spread 6 feet out each wearing a mask 24/7) until they test as being COVID free. This was around 20-30 days from what I understand.

In Canada, if you quarantine, it’s 14 days in your own home. Mostly this is on the honor system. If you live in a condo / townhouse / strata or your neighbors know you’re quarantining, they can report you for violations. When quarantining, you’re restricted to a single room if you live with others, but there is still risk of passing it on to others. Anecdotally, I know of a case in Canada where an individual quarantining in their room has managed to pass COVID to 3 others who live in the house. These people were wearing masks around the house when not in their own room. If this original person was isolated in a hospital, the spread would stop at one. Since they weren’t, it ended up infecting the entire house.
It is not the mainstream liberal position that obesity is not a health issue.

Michele Obama is still one of the most popular figures in American politics; and her signature issue was fighting childhood obesity.
IIRC he created a special font for half-toning images.
Maybe insurance covers the call then. Here if it is DOA medical insurance won't pay.
This text mainly shows that author either misunderstands chess, probability and science, likely at the same time, or just wants to critique for critique’s sake.

Of course while it’s good to search for alternative models/theories/explanations, unless you can provide something with better with more predictive power than the existing/widely accepted ones, it’s a good idea to hold the critique.

EDIT: To clarify: by less predictive power I mean that it neither explains new effects or predicts new unknown ones, nor explains known phenomena or generates existing theories as special examples. I didn’t mean theories such as for example string theory, that has little predictive power at the moment, but has current theories as special cases and holds the promise of explaining things that current theories cannot. /EDIT

Physicists are “stuck” with existing theories not because they like them, but because they work so well it’s hard to invent something that even works equally well (not to mention something that works better). There a lot of smart that are brave in thinking and propose wild explanations. Yet, in most cases they don’t stand up the test of time.

Einstein couldn’t deal with randomness of Quantum Mechanics, put forward a hidden variable theory and it was (and still is) seriously considered, but he (and many others) weren’t able to put forward better-working theory. We stick to QM despite its weirdness/randomness because it works extremely well, not because we like it or think things must be this way and require no further study/“it is the most efficient and parsimonious possible model“.
> The statement is factually false, the reason we have judges is to consider individual circumstances and to make the tradeoffs between conflicting rights and laws.

Not really, we have judges at the level of the magistrates to apply laws based on the precedents set in higher courts, not based on their own feelings of what the law should be.

There are legal tests that need to be applied - in your example about murder and surgery the definition of murder requires intent. As we know from cases like Shipman, a surgery can be murder, but it’s not for the judge to decide that arbitrarily, it’s for a judge to apply case law.

A district judge is not a one person jury!
I believe privacy advocates needs to be more involved in the financial sector for there to be any meaningful change and provide counter proposals to balance.

The problem now is that a lot of cryptocurrencies are prime targets for money laundering, financing organized crime and terrorism networks. I often get shat on when mentioning that, especially by loud proponents of cryptocurrencies, but it is a real issue that must be resolved.

Our old-fashioned bank system is far from perfect but it is harder to do illegal things unnoticed, banks report thousands of cases to authorities every year.

Cryptocurrencies is the future, and we should not let our guard down allowing criminal elements to exploit it.
Turkey has been treating people with HCQ from May onwards, despite outcomes of the now-retracted(!) study once published in The Lancet, and they have a very low death rate. 256/1M Population. (See: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hydroxychloroquine-corona...) Their death rate has been on a steady 1% throughout the pandemic where for example Germany is on about 3%. Of course this needs to be corrected for age etc etc.
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I would really prefer any location sharing feature to be something that ran on top of the communication platform rather than be a feature baked into the app. Create a generic information syncing mechanism for groups and let clients build features like location sharing on top of that. Location sharing seems so niche that bundling it into the client encourages poor opsec/privacy behavior.

As I have heard, Telegram is unencrypted by default. Both WhatsApp and Telegram are poor at making this 100% clear 100% of the time despite privacy being a major purpose of the apps. I'll admit I really haven't used telegram much but WhatsApp encourages backing up chats to cloud storage. WhatsApp also only provides a single alert that a contact's security code has changed. It also doesn't encourage verifying the security code on the initial contact. i.e if someone out of the blue contacts you on WhatsApp the only security is the phone number.
Have they had individuals play the game enough times so that they can see this first mover advantage with a good p value?

Maybe they only know that the win chance for white is between 0.4 and 0.6.
We are happily open to suggestions on ways to stop crime that don't involve collecting any additional data, but I think you'll find it very difficult to come up with systems that satisfy both stakeholders here, as the way I see it they are at a constant impasse.
The picture still helps to disambiguate which of the three John Smiths that went to University of Foobar was the one that you met at the mixer yesterday.
Pinterest is one of the worst sites on the internet and I will cherish the day it vanishes from Google image search results which will hopefully kill it off, leaving space for a superior competitor (one that doesn't hijack 50% of search results that are hidden behind a forced login). The same applies to Quora.
> Reading this made me realized how cheap Internal data is in Viet Nam.

same here in Chennai, India. I'm currently paying 15USD including tax for a 200MBPS connection with 3.3TB FUP. I have never reached my FUP limit. provider is ACT fibernet and they are good in the business.
Robbers in HK stolen 15 Bitcoins from a guy who has been kicked out of car
This 2020 year even my google traffic reduced by 80%. On my blog SQLwithManoj.com I used to get decent 3k-4k hits every day for last 4-5 years. But since Jan 2020 hits got reduced below 1k. And when I checked google webmaster I couldn't see my blog meta entry. Don't know how it got removed from there. Now since I've added it back the hits are still at around 1k, and this has cased good revenue loss for me too.
...oh. OK.
Another cancerous behaviour of Pinterest. There’s a surprise. This is the one of the nastiest pieces of software there is when combined with search engines. They should block it from being indexed.
It's not _players_ here that matter, just the color. If I play a grand master (or indeed just any moderately competent player) 10 times, I will lose all 10. But assuming we share who starts, white will win 5 times and black will win 5 times.

Further, for some random chess tournament, I'm guessing the win ratio for black/white is close to 50/50 (perhaps white is a bit ahead for having first mover advantage - which is stipulated as ignored in the article)

It turns out the result of the game has lots to do with the player, and Little to do with the color, which makes the alien first model simple, accurate, and completely wrong.
3 minutes to generate 64 by 64 pixels blue noise? I think one should be able to instead draw white noise in frequency domain, multiply with a noise amplitude profile and then a 2D FFT...should only take some milliseconds..
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I recommend putting in a pihole on your network and dns blackhole everything going to pinterest. A pihole will verify if pinterest is a valid problem or not. Otherwise, maybe you can run network analysis tools on your router?
I can relate to your optimistic view. I was there once. By all means do the PhD if it is in an area that you are passionate about. You should remember that getting tenure is extremely difficult, so a career in academia is a very long shot. Like many others, I have found that having a PhD has had a negative impact upon my career.

So if you do decide to go ahead. Agree with your partner under what circumstances you will unconditionally abandon the programme. Without that you run the risk of falling into the sunk cost fallacy. A part-time PhD will easily take 10 years of your life. Your kids might be graduating from high school and daddy is still in school!

You might want to take a look at: http://phdcomics.com - it is truer to life than it might appear.
Not really. It's just marketing push that 'Telegram is the most secure messenger' that somehow does the job, and the unwitting public is happy to accept it as a fact.

As of source code... do you really need a source code if you can login with just your username/password and instantly see all your chats? For anyone who has some remote understanding of the matter it clearly tells that chat history is stored on servers without meaningful encryption and that server owner can access all chat history at will.
FYI that's from Animal Farm.
I thought of Nix when I read "it is not possible to install both OpenSSL and LibreSSL on the same system" - a call out in the article at this point would have been.

Being able to switch much of your infrastructure to an infrastructure implementation even if it is not possible to switch everything to it is quite a valuable piece of flexibility.
Wow. That’s a fast connection (Also are you sure it’s a 200MBPS and not 200Mbps?). Something like that would cost around 100USD and only available for businesses.
That's the question the article is addressing. I think you're putting too much weight on the rough and sketchily defined example and missing the actual topic.
Sure. And how does a TLS connection for the ISO download solve this problem? You would need to make sure that the TLS connection is to the correct server. How do you check it is the right server? Probably by checking the hostname against some webpage and the TLS certificate against some CA roots in your browser. How you get the right hostname? How do you know the CA roots in your browser are correct? How do you know your browser executable and config are correct?
I think the criticism of occam's razor is valid. Occam's razor comes at a cost, and denying it would be wrong. It brings many advantages though, which outweigh the disadvantages.
I tried using Pinterest, I lasted 1 day
Why would things have suddenly reverted?
Yea I think you got the sides mixed up there. The only time I’ve heard a liberal defend obesity was in response to body shaming - which is a problem and doesn’t help the person get in shape.
The conventional wisdom in software security is that the answer to your question is "extensively"; that is, OpenSSL is in substantially better repair than it was in the Heartbleed era, and, of course, benefits from far more usage and thus attention than alternative libraries. By way of example: the OpenSSL team won the Levchin Prize at RWC 2 years ago, for the turnaround effort that went into it.

I wouldn't go out of my way to use LibreSSL.
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That is not really a problem, but acceptance is. Making your child obese should be treated as a child abuse. Obese people should be treaded the same way as smokers, not to get disability benefits.
The medical system is stretched to breaking. Vaccine distribution is completely disorganized, despite months of possible preparation time. A ridiculous patchwork of federal, state, county authorities can't get it together to enforce rules and can only ask for voluntary cooperation in a true crisis.

I think we will look back on this as one of the great weaknesses of decentralized, democratic, random-walk governance, fueled by misinformation and lack of leadership.
Yes, you just have to spoof locations near the boundaries of the quanta. If they are less than 1km then test locations until they are in the 1km-3km group but you will know they are actually 1km away. Repeat between 3 and a dozen times at different angles and you can still determine a location.
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I would assume a coroner or funeral home would handle the body.
Wow. All the hate about email OTP. It’s an amazing feature that I use all the time. I believe slack popularized it.

Security and comfort are sometimes at opposing ends.

1) it’s unreasonable to expect people to remember so many passwords. I forget passwords all the time. Password manager isn’t that great since it doesn’t work cross device.
2) even with OTP, email is slow. Also email can distract and adds friction
3) federated auth such as google/GitHub auth is great. I usually get in in a single click.

I’d say if you want to prioritize you prolly get the best bang for buck in following order

1) federated auth - no need to store passwords, no forgot password flows. It assumes your audience is okay with google/GitHub/Twitter etc auth and has an account in one of the services.

2) email/pwd. More complications but benefit is it depends on no 3rd party.

3) one time link in email. The benefit is user doesn’t need to remember password. It does depend on email which adds some friction.

Note: you can have all 3 options and let user choose for maximum conversation. The tradeoff is more work on your side.

Life is all about tradeoffs. No one right or wrong solution.
Adding a fixed error based on user's hashed data (so it is constant but different for every user) seems like a good enough solution, no?
Since you’re a screen reader user I’d appreciate feedback on the aforementioned PDF website:

https://www.lab6.com/0

I did very brief testing using an iOS screen reader and it worked OK but didn’t really expose any of the semantic tags.
This kind of intolerance is disgusting to me.
Don't they need to be brought to the hospital for organ donation though ?
Liberal? Why throw politics into this? I am going to bet that conservatives are fatter on average than liberals.
"Building proprietary, impossible-to-understand Rube Goldberg mechanisms based on associations between accidental aspects of my life (location:phone number pairs, for instance) is not a security system."

It is a system for building better profiles of potential targets for advertising. Gathering data is a means to improve online advertising services to Google's customers.
The more data you volunteer, the more their online advertising services can potentially improve. That is one way to look at it.

From another perspective, all the "security" measures are
a red flag for me that Gmail accounts are high risk if using for important, personal matters. (And that people are increasingly using it for such things.) The available solutions to that problem from the user's perspective should include the option to stop using Gmail, not simply to support Google's rollout of the next set of Kafkaesque "security" processes that incidentally always require more privacy sacrafices.

Giving me a notice that a User-Agent header changed (by suggesting they have detected a "new device") is not my idea of "security", but it reminds me that this data point is among the ones they are collecting for their online advertising services. It makes me wonder what assumptions and proclamations someone might be making based on such "evidence". I did an experiment where I saved a session cookie for an account I registered and used it outside the browser weeks later, without any User-Agent header. It worked flawlessly and I got no warnings of a "new device". Makes one wonder what is in that cookie and how long it will last. Is it restricted to IP address/location. If it never expires, then if an attacker ever gets a session cookie and the user never logs out of that session, the attacker will be able to "silently" use the account, forever. Yikes.
> Do you have a citation?

Visit my HN profile, then my submissions... The one from 8 months ago (April 2020 or so) was a study about how aggressive oxygenation to get patients' oxygen sats above an arbitrary threshold was not helpful.

Physiological stress makes it hard for the body to use oxygen efficiently, and just pumping more oxygen into people doesn't fix the fundamental problem. I'm glad you survived -- suffice it to say that I think everyone who hasn't yet reached their expiration date has tremendously more potential to recover.
Look up their work against human trafficking, covid, terrorism. Their good works are as secretive as its "bad" works controversial.
I know you’re being downvoted by the open everything up crowd but I agree. People have proven they can’t follow the guidelines multiple times, there’s been plenty of chances. Quite frankly it’s an embarrassment. I can only imagine how bad it would be if they acted like Florida and allowed the theme parks to open.

But yeah, once hospitals are full the national guard really needs to step in and take over.