skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, there are 2 different kinds of video calls: 1:1 and group calls. For 1:1 calls, e2e encryption doesn't cause any problem at all.

For group calls, it depends on how it's implemented, but many group calls are implemented using what's called a Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU) and the sending clients send multiple resolutions (either independent, called "Simulcast" or dependent, called "SVC"). In that case, the adaptation is done by the server in selecting which resolution to forward at any given time. This is fairly common practice in the industry. For example: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-videobridge and https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-aboba-avtcore-sfu-rtp-00 and https://www.w3.org/TR/webrtc-svc/.

For those types of group calls, the server only needs to know the sizes of the various streams and which packet is for what stream. It does not need to see the decrypted media, so one can implement e2e encryption for such types of group calls. This is less common in the industry, but is possible. For example: https://support.google.com/duo/answer/9280240?hl=en

(I used to work at Google on WebRTC, Duo, and Hangouts, but now work on video calling at Signal).
This attitude of going into the wilderness to test yourself against nature, conquer it, and stand where no human has ever stood, I can understand it, but I think it tragically misses out on the greater gift of wilderness.

The truth is, there is hardly a place on the earth that hasn't been seen my humans at one or another time. Nature itself is an unconquerable force of which we are a part, not apart. We are connected to the earth, the plants and animals, the mountains and seas.

It is humbling to go outside the walls of civilization, and face the world without all the defenses of technology. Like standing before the ocean or looking up at the stars, it is a reminder of the smallness of my place in it all. A reminder of the limits of power. The wilderness is a place of violent "otherness".

It is also a place of familiar "oneness". The stars, the ocean, mountains, deserts, forests, and plains are places of wonder. I like to stand in a place I have never been, see no works of man anywhere in my view and wonder, who has seen this vista before? Who will see it again after I am gone? Am I standing in a place where ancient men worshiped their gods and loved their children? We are made of the same stuff and we are actors in the same story.

I was counting tree rings on a log the other day. It was 140 years old when it was cut. Not too far away was a living tree of similar diameter. It sprouted before my great-grandfather was born. All around me were saplings that may well outlive my grandchildren. I was standing on a mountain that has stood for millennia and will continue for millennia more. We are part of the earth and it is part of us.

Humility and wonder: these are the gifts of the wilderness. We'd do well to carry those gifts back into civilization.
I think this might explain why they made Theia : https://dev.to/svenefftinge/theia-1-0-finally-a-good-browser...
True, our modern societies where most people meet strangers often are historically unusual. Before industrialization the vast majority of population lived their lives in small village communities where everybody knew each other. Traits that might be harmful today weren't necessarily so back then.
Last year I bought a motorcycle (Honda CB300R) and it was a revelation.

No touch screens. No stereo. No GPS. No Bluetooth. No automatic transmission. No cupholders. Basically no "modern car features". And it's a much, much better road experience than any car I've ever been able to afford to drive.

Get rid of all the distractions at a price point under $30k with an engine that doesn't feel sluggish and maybe I'll consider buying a car again.

(Necessary disclaimer: I live somewhere where it's sunny and warm the majority of the year and where car parking is nigh impossible. Maybe I'd feel differently if I lived in rural Canada.)
Now would be a good time, there are very few of us who use the engine disconnect pedal these days.
What is the engineering hiring bar?
I use four areas. BUY, MOVE, STORE and SUPPORT.

The first three relate to your areas - procurement, logistics, operations. The last is things like quality control and Master data.
He's talking about the past, don't take it too literally...

He never said you lived in the US, he meant it as an example...
What are the problems with VSCode? I'm all for making alternatives if they are closed or you need to pay, but I believe Microsoft is doing a good service with all the regular and frequent updates to VSCode.

Correct me if I missed something.
I find it sad that these monkeys are getting so many flash photos taken of them. I hate flash and I know that it’s coming and why it exists. For a monkey I can imagine it’s even more aggravating.
Surprised his Rubber Johnny video hasn't been mentioned yet. That's my nomination for ultimate anxiety inducing Aphex Twin work. It even includes an anxiety attack in the beginning.

Link: https://youtu.be/l6_0UIknW-A
Dell Ultrasharp gives you shortcut keys that you can assign to any function. I have one for Displayport and a second for HDMI.
How VCs Really Evaluate Potential Seed Investments
I have been using it for a new project and it really is awesome. I can't imagine going back to an ORM or another query builder now.
Hacking attempts are treated as a normal part of life and systems are designed to resist hacking. Fortunately, we also have to law acting as an additional form of deterrent.
Those are all organizational decisions, and not out of the box defaults. Microsoft is trying very hard to persuade organizations not to make those decisions.

Completely free teams creation does come at a cost. It makes data governance much more complicated. People creating duplicate places for things they didnt know already existed. A lack of naming convention, to be able to analyze what exists. Microsoft is pushing for people to just be able to get things done, at the expense of organization.
Airbnb: We will pay hosts 25% of covid19 related cancellations
We have professional MEP consultants on board with us, that review and sign each and every drawing.
Yep, Mazda were the most vocal about rejecting the touch screen trend, and Honda and Toyota are losing a lot of customers to Mazda who have been producing the best cars in their class in the last several years so it makes sense that they are jumping on the bandwagon.
> I'm not sure what's the current state, but there are features on SSH I wasn't able to use due to the version provided being old.

> I know that `Include` on `config` is/was one.

That's both terribly out of date info and hardly ever true as far as I can tell.

The Include directive was a new feature of OpenSSH 7.3, released on 2016-08-01.[1] Apple shipped OpenSSH 7.3 in macOS 10.12.2[2][3], released on 2016-12-13. That's a very reasonable four months gap.

I only use the system ssh because stock OpenSSH didn't integrate well with system keychain many years ago (not sure about the current state). But I've been using the Include directive for a long time.

[1] https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-7.3

[2] https://opensource.apple.com/release/macos-10122.html

[3] https://opensource.apple.com/source/OpenSSH/OpenSSH-209.30.4...
Is this not basically what Amazon did? Massive capital expenditures with cascading depreciation that wiped out profits while increasing cash flow until they got to a certain size and decreased CAPEX and recognized profits?
> What if there are legitimate arguments for both

What if you made one?
It's not not-vscode so someone had to make not-vscode vscode.
Exactly - touchscreen offer no unique tactile feedback you can associate with an individual action. Also when the screen is multi use depending upon options then you really handicap the muscle memory and with that, cause distractions.

However, I do feel HUD display tech is one area in which could do with some love as would compliment and be less distracting over a screen located away from the drivers view of vision.
Yeah, it's called investing in your employees. It is growth, just not for shareholders. Shareholders do not have a divine right to all the benefits a company can produce.

Stocks/dividends/buybacks are a system designed to capture all profits. No surprise and nothing really wrong there, but what annoys me is that shareholders like to pretend that __unless all profit goes into dividends/buybacks, it's a waste and a sign that the company is making poor decisions__, which is not the case. It does not take into account the lives of employees beyond the cost to company. That is also a perfectly reasonable investment for a company to make and, in fact, is one that it has a duty to invest in.

Stock value is reduced because petty shareholders refuse to acknowledge that workers deserve growth from company profit just the same as they do.
You need multiple SAML IDP signing keys
As someone whose extremely interested in this domain. I am excited to see these models productized.

Are the pretrained extractive models able to create extractive summaries at the word level? Or are they (like most other extractive models) only selecting and ranking sentences?
Let me give you another perspective - I own a Suzuki SX4 S-Cross that comes with a fluid, super responsive and intuitive touchscreen with voice commands in it, which can also be controlled from the steering. You can do stuff like ask to call someone's phone, or read a text message or ask you to give directions.

But the real highlight is the UI + UX. It's super intuitive in that the volume controls, although touch, are always in a fixed location and you just drag over towards the edge of the screen up or down. In addition, you also have steering mounted controls to control the volume. The whole screen is divided into 4 quadrants and clicking anywhere in those quadrants will take you to either of the main screen (Eg. Navigation or FM Radio). It doesn't take long to get used to remembering which quadrant is for which. Also, for safety, you can't use some core features of navigation while driving the car. It will ask you to stop first if you want to say, type for a certain address.

I have never seen such fantastic UX in such mid-tier cars. To me, it seem's Honda's move is backward - perhaps it could be solved by simple UX..which Suzuki and Bosch (the supplier of their infotainment units) have already solved?

I find it super convenient because I don't even need to take my eyes off the road...while enjoying the convenience of a touch screen.

A picture (or video is worth a thousand words):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvERUKfjufg
wait for 2025 invention of the physical extra-surfacic actuator, not a button, a xiaomi exclusive
Air Force's Troubled Boeing KC-46 Tankers Leak Fuel Excessively
Microcode on x86? Don't forget to also greet our friends such as RDTSCP, CPUID, RDMSR, POPCNT (on some models) etc. Also remember to check ENTER, BOUND, etc. out in the museum vitrine.

But yeah, microcoded instructions are relatively rarely executed.
Excellent move. I totally support this. Touchscreens removes all the accurate tactile feedback of what you are doing to a control and that forces the user to fallback to taking a look, hence deviating the center of the sight from the ideal zone for a really unjustifiable reason.
rimworld
To be fair to touch screen controls, Honda had exceptionally poor ones. There’s always at least a second delay on brightness/volume/etc. adjustments in our 2018 Honda. I think the unit is just incredibly underpowered, because CarPlay (phone driven) doesn’t suffer from the same issues.
Moreover, Amazon has a long history of unethical and often illegal repression against its workers, so there's that.
I don't ignore anything on both sides.

I compare both and China is the greater evil. Even when the US has an idiot on top of command now.
Who cares what one person out of 500,000 did one time in 2018?
> Use Java, use JS, use python, go, rust... whatever suits for the task.

A primary factor that determines whether a particular language is suitable for a task is its runtime performance.

> constantly trying to compare everything to C.

C has little runtime overhead and incredibly mature compilers, so it is an excellent target to use when measuring another language's runtime performance. "Close to C" is simply a synonym for "the language adds little runtime overhead".
A lot of mention of Mazda, but my 2018 Ford Escape has buttons/knobs for all the standard car features. I also have Apple CarPlay which is great for maps/media. Very happy with it.
Google requires you to have a Google account. Kids in middle school (ages 12-14) and younger typically don't have an email address. Zoom, on the other hand, lets you join a call without logging in. You can even join straight from the browser if needed without installing anything.
Thank you so much for filling in the ending.
I was running into issues where just having Steam open, not doing anything at all, caused a R5 3600 to go from 2 watts, to 13 watts power usage. Start closing background processes. There might be one doing weird stuff keeping cores awake
Here, I've been using not-eclipse all this time.
I get an "Access Denied" message.. is the news provider unwilling to take their visitor's privacy seriously and therefore blocking all EU visitors?
I hesitate to point this out, but quite a lot of fax machines come with a microphone.

(And, noting the prevalence of articles from a few years ago talking about "update your fax machine firmware", I suspect you could fuzz their telco line-parser for very interesting results!)
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Watchmen quote ftw
"Man vs Nature is an old dichotomy; I'm not sure many people still hold it in their world view."

It remains alive and well in the view that anything Man does is unNatural and simply by virtue of being unNatural automatically inferior to Nature.
I just sold a home days before the pandemic hit, and consider myself very lucky.

But now I have cash and I'm nervous inflation might start becoming a real problem.

I'm also worried that dense American cities are going to have a huge drop in property values, desirability, and an increase in crime. I am seeing this right now, and a lot of sentiment from people with money is to never come back.

It's a tough call. Is this a good time to buy property if there's a crash in six months?

Will there really be asset inflation of properties if there's a commercial default explosion about to happen (hurting banks), if a lot of people are unemployed, and if cities become a little less popular? Crime is spiking in NYC right now and it's not really a priority to report it.
You (or maybe the market) are misinterpreting Steve Jobs. In a phone context, he is correct.
Yes but they're uselessly complex. I've owned a top-of-the-line Ridgeline with voice control for over a year and I still don't remember any of the sequences of specific commands it recognizes.

Any car needs to be connected to a central server where the processing occurs. Useful levels of voice recognition just aren't going to happen inside the car.
All models are wrong but some are completely wrong
> [reading memory} always will behave precisely and consistently

What is the point of not making it UB? You can't AFAICS possibly rely on any useful way on it behaving 'precisely and consistently' so just make it UB anyway?
How do you feel about the MMI scroll wheel? I don’t feel safe using that either; it still requires eyes on the screen to see what you’re selecting. Even my passengers, who can give it their full attention, are routinely stymied by the process of pairing their phones for Bluetooth audio playback.

At least I can get the volume and temperature knobs by feel.
External monitor support on macOS is terrible.
When it does work, you can't turn on HiDPI resulting in a tiny UI.
And the latest 16" macbooks simply kernel panic: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250876794
Exactly, thats the reality. Amazon is not charity.
It's great if you don't have to use the touch screen in the Tesla while it's driving, but it shouldn't even be possible to use it with the car in motion.
Bill and Melinda Gates: A reflection of spirirt
The predecessor, Skype Broadcast allowed completely anonymous viewing, basically a twitch or youtube stream. In the name of growth hacking, the Teams team decided to force people to the app, you couldnt watch the video stream from a mobile device without the teams app. Which is a huge amount of friction for a mobile workforce that isnt using teams.

Maybe this has changed since I last talked to Microsoft, but even their own team was unhappy with it. But if you still have access to broadcast.skype.com, it still works, until they decide it shouldnt.
Been using it as well on a side project together with nexus and nexus-prisma and it's really a joy to work with.
Never had any problems with my 4K screen in Manjaro KDE, and only needed to change Xft.dpi in .Xresources in Manjaro i3
Phone manufacturers need to bring back keyboards
The more I think about this too, its like this could be months or years away, but with the way things get communicated today, the market could pump just based on the appearance that a vaccine is "close". We could get endless barrages of close vaccines and that would be enough to keep the market moving upwards.
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I've moved to Linux for 99% of my computing but still use macOS for some audio production work. Catalina is unusable for me personally (most of the software I need just silently crashes) so I disabled the upgrade prompt:

sudo softwareupdate --ignore "macOS Catalina"
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences AttentionPrefBundleIDs 0
killall Dock

Apple should really slow down on major releases of macOS or stop altogether in my opinion. macOS Mojave is a great OS and it's basically feature complete. Just stick with that, introduce bug fixes and security patches as needed and I think people will be happy.
NASA: Calling Researchers: Propose Your Space Tech for Testing on Commercial
The Flexible Layout is almost enough to get me to switch since this is a feature in vscode I would really like to have.
Tell that to my 2019 HRV. Doesn’t even have CarPlay so I can’t use Siri to do anything for me. All AC controls are touch screen so I have to look away from the road just to change the fan speed.
The backlit display on the Tesla 3 is wayyyyy too bright for night driving, even at its lowest backlight intensity and in night mode. It is like they intentionally ignored all available human factors research. Tesla is not alone here. Many automakers these days have too-bright interiors for night driving.
Investing in BigTech amidst Covid-19
It seems like the most critical time to shelter in place is one or two weeks before the date predicted, considering the lag time between peak number of infections and peak medical resources used.
From the actual HIPAA regulations, one must "Implement technical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to electronic protected health information that is being transmitted over an electronic communications network."

Then you can follow along the official HHS guide[0] to see if you're abiding by these rules. If the intended recipient of your protected health information is another client, then SSL/TLS would not be HIPAA compliant. If the intended recipient is the server, then SSL/TLS is totally fine.

As a sibling comment mentions, your company shouldn't be using random articles found through a search engine for HIPAA advice.

[0] https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/ocr/privacy/hipaa/ad...
Palo Alto Networks Acquires CloudGenix for $420M
After this is all over, Amazon needs to be subjected to the full range of antitrust laws and regulations. And broken up.
The Dell U3419W (with Thunderbolt 3) works exactly as promised for me.

https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/accessories/apd/210-arc...
Plot twist: Actually, the word "Japan" is thought to come originally from an earlier Wu dialect of Chinese pronounciation of "日本".

In modern Shanghainese, it's roughly "Zeppen".
I'm sorry, but either I'm much worse at communication than I thought, or you're deliberately misinterpreting what I write -- and I'm not sure why.

Obviously I don't object to fences being big, I object to them being impermeable. That's not just a problem for me and other humans; migtatory animals get seriously impacted by these long one-dimensional structures parcelling up the landscape as well. There have been proposals for landscaped bridges to link sides of highways to allow moose and other animals to cross, but the cost of doing that extensively is quite prohibitive.

By the way, I agree with your characterization of humans as being just like other animals. But if beavers were constructing hundred-kilometre-long barriers that blocked off our migratory routes (ie, roads and highways), and routinely shot or overran humans that attempted to cross them, then I think we'd consider beavers to be a serious problem too.
I wouldn't mind a tactile touch screen [1] with optional voice prompting, and a jog dial.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiM0u79fals
There should be UX research about an ideal combination of tactile physical interfaces (knobs, dials, push buttons, whatever) and voice-activated and voice-feedbacked control while driving.

I we're missing out on not only voice-activated commands, but AI responding and updating about the situation through speakers, not just through the screen updates.
Signal was experiencing technical difficulties
I don't think wikipedia is broken, so plz don't fix. The definition of microcode matches my understanding. I've never heard it used as a patching system per se, ever.
There are 2 different kinds of video calls: 1:1 and group calls. For 1:1 calls, e2e encryption incurs negligible processing and bandwidth. Do you worry about the processing and bandwidth increase when using HTTPS/SSL? Probably not. Same goes for 1:1 calls.

For group calls, it depends on how it's implemented, but many group calls are implemented using what's called a Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU). One benefit of SFUs is that they take much less processing for the server than the other kinds (where the video is re-encoded by the server). For those types of group calls, e2e encryption can be implemented with negligible increases to processing and bandwidth.

However, you are correct that it is harder to implement correctly. And it does prevent certain features to be added to the product, such as recording and server-based processing of information (for example, meeting transcriptions).

(I used to work at Google on WebRTC, Duo, and Hangouts, but now work on video calling at Signal).
> That's not the case, even without axioms if you start at A and deduce B then this proves that "A => B".

As I already pointed out in this thread, you're not right here. It is true that if you start at A and deduce B you've proven A ⟹ B. But if you're deducing something true, it's not necessary to start with A. If B is true, then A ⟹ B for all A, so you've proven nothing you didn't already have. It is quite literally correct to say that "if you deduce something true from an assumption, it means nothing".

You can see a nice visual illustration of the meaninglessness of the premise by completing the proof of "A→B" from "B" at http://incredible.pm (session 2)
"Give away" implies permanence (as does the reference to BitTorrent, though I realise that strictly speaking it doesn't necessarily entail illegality), but according to the post they're still limited to 2 weeks before they have to be checked out again, and they can't be distributed further. They've just removed the concurrency limitation so digital lending isn't backed 1-to-1 by a physical copy of the book. So yes, they're lending more than they physically have, but it's not permanent. To be clear, I'm not claiming it's legal, just pointing out it's not permanent. (I'm also not claiming you're saying it's permanent -- you do say "lend out" later on -- just clarifying in case anyone jumps to conclusions.)