skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're a bit young to really remember the Soviet Union. I'll fill you in, a bit.

They used central solutions. Scientists and other experts directed the economy. Without the signalling mechanism of price, demand and supply got way out of whack. The economy collapsed.
Yeah, but you have to be a whole new level of stupid to search for a drug not sourced from a pharmacy or sold in the medical section of the grocery store and take an unregulated amount without any medical oversight.

People come up with crazy, brain dead ideas all the time. There are flat earthers for crying out loud.
I'm curious... between Whereby and Jitsi and I assume other browser-based video solutions relying on WebRTC...

...how big is the barrier these days to building a "videoconferencing platform" supporting millions of people... that runs on a single server?

Because if you need to do is build a pretty website that essentially just keeps track of meeting names and the names and IP addresses of participants...

...while each client is P2P-streaming their full-res videostream while speaking or other participants have them pinned... and every other client is P2P-streaming a low-res videostream to power the thumbnails (and similar decisions about which computer is the main audio source and when, or picking a single peer to serve as the audio mixer)...

What else is there to do, really?

(I mean obviously there's fancy stuff you can add like screensharing, chat, authentication, etc... and browser-specific bugfixes and quirks presumably...)

But are we at a point where anyone can write a functional videoconferencing platform in a week, and platforms are differentiating mainly on nicer UX and extra features?

Or is there something huge I'm missing here, where implementing WebRTC is somehow a lot harder than it seems, and/or still requires server farms to route the streams through in certain cases?
I've had several connecting via hotspotting their phone on a single CPU, 2G VPS
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. Even if you're right, this helps no one and degrades this place.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The main reasons for Zooms popularity (and in general the most important features of a videoconferencing software) are accessibility and reliability.

Same as with Slack/IRC - privacy is not the most important features in that space. If I have the choice of a working solution with some minor privacy issues and a solution which will never be adopted b/c half of the people will not be able to join or their experience is miserable, I will gladly take the former (except for the most delicate conversations maybe).

(And I am someone who takes privacy serious in most cases...)
It doesn't say they consumed aquarium cleaner. It says they consumed a chemical, which is used in aquarium cleaners. Like water.
I don't know how I missed this. To be fair the "New site from git" button looks bright and green, while the "drag and drop your site folder here" looks dull and grey.
I'm running my own instances
Thanks for referencing the cdc numbers. Google quickly confirmed that, and is what I was asking for. I hoped to have it per month, but don't see that immediately.

Any chance you know where to find this for other countries?
I normally complain about terrible open source branding but didn't have a negative reaction to this branding when I saw this post.

Goes to show how important it is to do user research on a broad swath of the population to make sure you have branding that isn't off-putting to a significant subset of people.
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Location: San Francisco, CA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Javascript, Ruby on Rails, React, Redux, APIs, JSON
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Full stack software engineer with a passion for building useful tools. With experience in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, andReact and a background in finance, I found software engineering when looking for a way to be more efficient and creative. I bring strong skills in team-coordination and client-focused work and a dedication to writing clear, useful code to help modern businesses deliver a smooth client experience.
We thought the Crisis that impelled the Fourth Turning would be 9/11, or the 2008 financial crisis, or the election of DJT. But those potatoes are too small, turns out. Let's hope that the Coronavirus is actually the catalyst that spurs us on to a more positive collectivism.
King of Tokyo by Richard Garfield is an easy to learn family game.
Coronavirus tests are hard to get, unless you have money, fame, the right doctor
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Location: Hokkaido, Japan
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Interests: APL/J/K, Haskell, metamath, reverse engineering
Side projects: 8-bit TTL CPU, Makefile linter (*a la* shellcheck), J port of co-dfns[1]
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Professionally, my experience is mostly in backend and systems engineering. Academically, my background is in math and model building. Personally, a significant amount of my time has been spent tinkering with linux userspace.

From my GitHub profile, you can see a few (old) projects and several PRs that I have authored. This should give a taste of my sensibilities regarding good communication and code practices. Most of my personal repositories I host personally at my website wilsonb.com. If interested, please let me know and I can provide read access.

Just for fun and to get a flavor of my personality, here is a bit of what my daily driver looks like:

OS: Void Linux
Window manager: bspwm (modular and tiling)
Terminal emulator: st
Mail User Agent: mblaze[0]
Browser: lynx and qutebrowser

[0]:https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze

[1]:https://github.com/Co-dfns/Co-dfns
What is your definition of propaganda?
tl;dr: "Not because chemical weapons are immoral. Because they are ineffective" :'(
> The home page looks like it was designed by a 20 year old who lives in a world of Javascript package managers.

> Get someone over 50 in there to kick them and remind them that "Start a new meeting" with things like "LeopardBottomSniffer" appearing under it means nothing to anyone but developers.

I think this is a little overly ageist but yeah - if you're not familiar with the kind of URLs generated by services like Gfycat then it looks pretty strange, and it's not really clear what's going on (why is it typing these strange words in the box?)
I missed the "some of which are OTC". My mistake.

You are correct that there is a "gray market" for some compounds. The FDA won't come after you for selling lithium carbonate as long as you're not touting it as a medicine. I assume that if it became widespread enough and people got injured, those products would be pulled off the market pretty quickly.

My comments of the TI for acetaminophen was more that it was larger than that for chloroquine. No drug is "safe", but some are safer than others.
The 8-Bit guy did a great piece on CGA that goes into detail about how old developers abused the fuzzy smeary nature of composite signals to output somewhat decent graphics. The tricks however didn't work when people upgraded to proper monitors and as a result a lot of CGA games look much worse today than they did on the intended equipment of the day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niKblgZupOc
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've done it repeatedly, and we're trying for something different than that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I got the ThinkPad E585 also with an AMD SOC.
There were some difficulties with the new AMD hardware.

https://github.com/StellaArtuois/Installing_Linux_on_ThinkPa...
Sure, but can't you see how some people, especially panicked ones, could take a glib comment about safety far too literally?
He didn't give medical advice. He was talking about what the FDA and what hospitals could do. There wasn't oblique advice in the slightest.
Think major storms - especially hurricanes and big ice storms. You need people responsible for generation, transmission and distribution in place and sequestered to ensure power is still available to those areas whose distribution circuits haven't been impacted. For the big storms they start moving crews in place, just outside the places likely to suffer the most impacts, before the storm hits so they're ready to go as soon as possible. As far as we're concerned this is just a variation of our storm mode as we call it. We got this.
Verifiable and transparent are very much the key words there.

Currently the only way to share personal information is to basically just hand it someone you think should be trustworthy, who does god knows what with it. And that's if you even get that level of control, and whomever you handed your data previously isn't sharing it on your behalf.
Hey, thank you for the feedback! If I had known about that `rustup target add` command for musl on linux it would have saved me a ton of time.

I agree with what you said about docker. I mostly involved docker as an academic experiment. Since I usually write in Python, I've never really had the joys of a statically linked binary with no outside dependencies. Now that I've been playing with rust, I get to finally experience that, and to prove that, I wanted to throw it into a container where it was starved of all other dependencies and see my binary work by itself.

As for incorporating the other docker container that imported musl for me and added it to my binary during the build, that was all I could really find to get it done easily (lazily). Now I have your suggestion which is much easier.

Anyway, thank you very much! It's cool talking to a Rust core developer.
It doesn't scale well beyond a handful of people. You need *N bandwidth to send and receive, and without a thing called 'simulcast' (creating multiple, different quality stream simultaneously) which doesn't have good browser support the quality is defined by the lowest common denominator. A central server solves many, many issues that result in better quality.

Jitsi itself barely works on Firefox and not at all on mobile devices (without their app).
4g of acetaminophen is what you'd take if you followed the directions of an adult taking 2 regular strength tablets every 4 hours for 24 hours (3.9g to be exact).
You have a patient on Rikers who is older than ninety? Yes
The plan isn't happening.
The problem is that you can't take the data back when good organizations turn bad. Maybe you trusted the US government in 1940 when you took the census, but in 1942 they showed up at your door to take you away if you had listed yourself as Japanese.

If you lived in the Netherlands in the 1930s, you may have had a great deal of trust in your government. They collected extensive population data and did a lot of good with it. When the Nazis invaded, they got access to the same systems. It made their genocide much more effective than in neighbouring countries.
> neither do garlic and beetroot have anything to do with nitric oxide.

"Potent activation of nitric oxide synthase by garlic: a basis for its therapeutic applications."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7555034

...
tl;dr: Because they're tactically and strategically ineffective. They can make serviceable assassination weapons, as can almost anything given the right arrangement of circumstances, but as a tool of warfare, they suck.

What I'd really like to see is an analysis from a military historian's perspective of why biological weapons are even more useless, with specific reference to current events. The tl;dr there is that they're tactically nonexistent, and strategically worse than merely ineffective because you can't control either their spread or your borders well enough to avoid them blowing back on you.

Of course, I'm not so naïve as to imagine such a thing would convince anyone who needs convincing. It'd be a fun read if Mr. Devereaux did it, but I suspect it would serve neither tactical nor strategic goals in the battle against misinformation.
8x8 is a huge VoIP company. McDonald’s uses them, so when you call McDonald’s, you are calling an 8x8 number.

My firm used to use them. Their tech was rock solid but clunky for our stack so we switched to RingCentral. Quality isn’t as good, and I wonder often if we made a mistake.
They could open source their container scheduler Tupperware and become the GKE in that space. FTE Facebook Tupperware Engine
What It's Like Being an Adjunct Instructor
Both the App Store and Play have restrictions on taking payment in-app if you don't use their payment API
During the press conference it was also repeated multiple times that it wasn’t yet ready and they were only taking about getting it into the research phase, specially getting the FDA to fast track it as a possible treatment for COVID-19 so it can be studied in the US.

Dr Fauci spoke right after Trump first brought up the drug and confirmed it’s something not yet proven as a treatment, except some early studies in France, but something that should be looked into. Trump brought it up a few minutes later, again in the context of the FDA approving it for study.

Regardless, I’m sure it made a lot of doctors and pharmacists cringe hearing any drug brought up. I saw a lot of people afterwards saying Trump was recommending it as a treatment without any context, so in a politically charged sound-bite era there will always be the risk of it being misinterpreted... or people willfully ignoring the context and Guinea-pigging themselves.

One good thing is that it already requires a doctors prescription to buy (same with Canada).
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These are likely insufficient for video-based schoolwork or materials. That would max out any quota set for these hotspots
That's terrible. PR is supposed to be "more or less a citizen, now stay for long enough and you can become a citizen".

Not "we'll call it permanent but it doesn't mean anything".

Rules means justice and enforcement too.

You're not supposed to have a different justice system for people on PR than for citizens. They should have jailed the person, if that's what they do to citizens, or done whatever else they do to citizens who break the rules.
A few days ago my mother mentioned that she had gone buy groceries, stopped before a florist, and tried to smell some lavender, but for some reason could not feel absolutely anything, which she found interesting, as it has a relatively strong smell and she didn't have a cold. Looking back, none of us felt particularly great around that week, so I wouldn't be surprised if that had been covid-19. I guess looking back it makes more sense. It seems a lot of people go through it barely having any symptoms.
My guesss has to do with the "processing" part. 4K decoding/encoding takes much processing power.*

*Depends on which codec is being used.
That was just a slogan. They weren't going to accept taxation that came with representation in Parliament.

They were happy to tax themselves -- they just didn't want to get taxed by England.
That's an excellent point. However, it seems that people treating their fish with it are also looking for >95% pure chloroquine.[0]

But still, fish aren't people. So using anything except pharmaceutical grade is dangerous.

0) https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/chloroquine-phosphate.1923...
That's exactly what happened. Nobody bothered rewriting ifconfig to use the new APIs, because `ip` was the new hotness (and much more flexible and if not saner, at least differently insane).
We do, but generally access is scarce and so many are homeless
> Hangouts (now Meet)

Ah-ha! Google Hangouts Meet is indeed the GSuite video conferencing solution, complemented by Google Hangouts Chat, the GSuite Slack competitor. Google Hangouts is "deprecated" but still alive, and with a plain-old gmail account I don't see an option to use Hangouts Chat nor Hangouts Meet, only Hangouts. As a user in a GSuite org, Chat and Meet exist, and plain-old Hangouts text messages are mirrored in Chat, but the video conferencing is still weirdly separate from Meet.
I don't work for Amazon, but from friends have said after 6 months you should be able to re-apply and your previous performance is not judged.
Definitely. There is also universal agreement in good branding vs bad branding. I’ve been browsing the top branding blog for over 12 years now: https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/

Still subjective but let’s compare Jitsi brand with something from https://www.cghnyc.com/

There is certainly a huge difference even though it’s not a quantitative measure.

Jitsi brand just sucks so bad. :(
> But in a few years some enterprising grad student or post doc will earn accolades

As they should! These sort of things are properties of the knowledge building processes themselves, and that is precisely one of the goals of research work - to uncover insights in places where people before you thought there were none.
Isn't the point of this product to _not_ have ads anymore?
I'm not seeing them make a distinction between finding just SARS-CoV-2 RNA fragments and finding active, infectious SARS-CoV-2 in stools. Does anybody know?
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We're looking for engineers to build this out! If you have experience with different languages (Python, Go, Java, Node, etc...), different platforms (Linux, iOS/Android, MacOS, Web Apps), different workflow tools (JIRA, Circle CI, Pivotal Tracker, etc...), different organizations (startups, enterprises, governments, universities), I'd like to hear from you.

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Granny won’t set up a room, but you can send her a link on email or Whatsapp which can open the chat in a browser or redirect to an app download depending on platform, and also offer dial in options. That seems as intuitive as the process can be. The app also seems extremely straightforward. Granny usability is actually exactly what I’m looking for, and on first glance I’m impressed.
There's a saying, I forget where it originates but I want to say with either Bismarck or von Schlieffen, to the effect that the closest thing to a moral philosophy of warfare is that it should be pursued as brutally and ferociously as necessary to make wars as short as they possibly can be.

Granted, it's as much of its time as were the men I named. But it nonetheless does a good job, albeit implicitly, of pointing up that the best you can do in warfare is to minimize its essential immorality.
Same boat as you. I have a 9 month old and a 2.5 year old. Wake up at 6am-7:30ish am to do some work. Then help with the first one until 8am and continue until 12:30pm (6hrs) Then I resume at 8pm-10pm for 8 hrs. Wife does 12:30pm-5:30pm and then does 8:30pm to 11:30pm. It's rough,.but when we are tired we will take a PTO or two. We are extremely lucky we can at least do this. It's rough but, I am learning much more about my kids and I am enjoying them as much as I can while this lasts. It's also a good time to potty train! To beat fatigue, make sure you sleep at least 7hrs and eat well. Go out to walks with your kids (just to get some air) or play in the yard. Good luck, we will all get through this and will be much better because of it.
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This is interesting. I wonder when we'll have desktops and laptops with ARM chips though? Will the tipping point be when Apple launches an ARM based Mac Mini or MacBook?
That's against the developer TOS for both major app stores, although enforcement is lax in the Google store.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22668609
Polymer has generally been as fast or faster than Angular and React. We've seen that pretty consistently in Todo MVC, Hacker News, etc., shootouts.

But Polymer isn't our current generation library anymore. LitElement, which is based on the lit-html template library, is. LitElement measures clearly faster than Angular and React on shootouts.

There's nothing inherently inefficient about web components, and we do batching of DOM updates much like frameworks. LitElement is even able to yield between different component renders naturally, like React concurrent mode, to not jank the page.
Yes, if you're using UDP. Check out STUN and TURN.
The Coronavirus Revives Facebook as a News Powerhouse
It doesn't seem to be part of windows. A clean install doesn't have the file. It's probably only an issue if you have adobe flash/reader installed.
My mother went to school this way in Fiji. They'd be assigned school work (the teacher would talk to each student individually over the radio). Parents would mail in their work and the teacher would mark it and announce the results over the radio, walking each child through their mistakes. The entire country could listen in as you had your maths corrected lol.

By the time I was in primary school, there were 1hr afternoon broadcasts for our age group once a week, but it was no longer about individual learning... there were just too many kids by then. It was still great fun as everyone in our class would gather around the teachers battered old radio and listen to great stories from history, and other such things.
What kind of work would it take to build video conferencing using jitsi meet into a mobile app?
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