skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem isn’t that Zoom is lacking E2E. The problem is they claim to have it and actually don’t.
We changed to that from https://twitter.com/danamodio/status/1245032929635586053. Thanks!
I see this opinion a lot. I guess the argument is that we are going from 4 cell providers to 3, but realistically Sprint and TMobile were so minor we are probably going from 2 providers to 3
This is great in that it shows that people who volunteer to work from home end up being more productive at home. However, knowing that you are part of a study that is measuring how effective people are at home and in the office and being someone who volunteered to work from home, there are clearly incentives for those assigned to work from home to work harder and for those assigned to work in the office to work less hard.
Sure, there is always a possibility of return, at least on a 2d plane (not 3d), but still mathematics will have to be revoked to favor low probability macrostates. Certainly an ambituous goal!
> 2) do companies want to pay you as much if you work from home?

Is there anyone out there with a good argument for why remote workers should be paid less?

Especially interested in hearing from anyone not incentivized by this practice (eg not the CEO or Chief People Officer of an org that practices this)

> will people abuse the system such that it ruins it for everybody else

An inevitable question and likely consequence.

A counter question: are the myriad ways in-office employees game/abuse the system working materially worse than how remote workers might?
I wonder if many even read the article. I wouldn't shit on the fact that there are vulnerabilities but if I score these . However, telling people "if you care about your security and privacy, perhaps stop using Zoom” is a wee bit hyperbolic. When I score these using CVSS 3 I come up with a Medium vulnerability. Here's the vector string for the first vuln that I scored 6.5- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
It seems like he was just done - he's been CEO for a long time.
So, the article talks about what not to do. Are there good examples of layout isolated components inside a complex UI?
Legere repackaged contracts slightly and sold it as snake oil. For the vast majority of customers, their contracts had the exact same impact. A two-year payment plan (which is, you guessed it, a "contract") on the phone which "immediately becomes due" if you cancel your plan is identical to the early termination fee that had previously been offered by everyone else, just in a slightly less bundled fashion.

If, like most people, you were buying a phone from your carrier, the cost at early termination was near identical. Verizon's ETF already reduced each month left on your phone's upgrade period, just like a phone payment plan would have.

Legere's a Jobsian marketing genius, but only because he managed to sell people the status quo as something new.
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This conversation is now days old, and people have moved on, but here's one quick belated thought. No reply needed, just fyi, fwiw. I was at an embassy party years ago, and apparently a friendly European embassy, in a US city, had a couple of people keeping track of local research, and doing heads-up for their national industry and academia. That's just one embassy, in one city. I suggest Zotero has very different threat profiles across different fields and research topics. And for some, the possibility of state actors should be included. Which suggests a need for users to easy notice and adjust their exposure profiles. And is a reminder that the user data Zotero servers are least likely to compromise, is data that's never seen at all. Fwiw. Thanks again for your work.
"incel" doesn't refer merely to anyone who is "involuntarily celibate", but to a specific social and political movement, as clearly indicated in the article.

I've become "involuntarily celibate" under those terms but I haven't spontaneously adopted the violent misogyny and hatred that incels embody as a result.
> and you can't probably use variant either, since using variant would introduce yet another possible state (e.g. if an exception gets thrown..).

Variants are excellent for a state machine. valueless_by_exception is pretty much irrelevant if your states' relevant constructors and assignments are nothrow.
Ah, right, of course, so that I can later access that page locally and install the extension whenever I need it. Then with that extension installed, I could even save that extension page!
Have you tried Streamlabs OBS?
I completely agree with your last paragraph, but you (or your management) lost me with the second: "This is one of the biggest dev complaints that we have even today, and one of the factors that led to management deciding to "junk it all" and start over from scratch."

Starting over from scratch doesn't seem like it's going to help find the right abstraction[0]. All the nasty edge cases and such that make the existing code ugly are what you need to consider in order to know the "right abstraction", and they're usually what get ignored in the early design stages of a new rewrite.

You're at the point where you've learned pretty well what aspects are both shared and stable between the systems. Seems like a perfect opportunity to start to modularize the existing codebases instead - start to split out the shared functionality so it only has to change in one central place, while allowing the two different top-level projects to have their specific quirks on top of that.

[0]for most business processes, I think "finding the right abstraction" is actually a dangerous red-herring. Sometimes you have complicated processes. Sometimes clean readable well-organized code is what you need, not an abstraction over it.
Sure. Except if reports are to be believed coronavirus carrying foods could survive the trip from farm to table and infect people nationwide rapidly.
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Or the source of life lies outside the physical plane. Modus tollens to the rescue!
A thread from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22736608
Convenience is now only a minor part of it. Being a remote company provides crucial insurance. Even part of the company being remote will allow some operations to continue uninterrupted at a time like this.
Literally like North Korea. Right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies#Red_herring_...

Fallacy of relative privation (also known as "appeal
to worse problems" or "not as bad as") – dismissing an
argument or complaint due to what are perceived to be
more important problems. First World problems are a
subset of this fallacy.[95][96]

Only if you hate language and you purposely warp definition of commonly understood words and concepts to support your conclusion or ideology.

I'm fairly certain this is what you're attempting presently.

Raising children by imparting morals, and providing structure and constraints is NOT authoritarian policing. Those are two different things.

I (and they) said policing. You can call it authoritarian or you can choose to refrain from that. It's still policing.

And though children certainly are humans (who actually claims otherwise?), they are not endowed with the same societal rights and responsibilities that adults are.

Humans can dissent, and have certain natural rights. If you agree that children are humans, then coercing them into something without consent is policing. While you can say that you've got the right to partake in policing, there doesn't seem to be a case for the idea that it isn't policing.

Most people understand this distinction instinctively. You, on the other hand, have some trouble there.

Plenty of people understand things instinctively. This is why stoning women to death still happens in certain parts of the world, and was also the argument for owning slaves. Just because something is "instinctive" for certain people doesn't mean that it's correct.

Changelog on this comment: removed a bit of personal information because I figure making myself easier to identify isn't worth it for a message board argument.
So you're Shopify with more handholding? What's to stop them from moving to Shopify directly and remove you as the middleman after they've proven traction?
I think an all encompassing system like this as a sort of big government watching every move we make for "our benefit". It's probably wiser to install a _tiny_ software that blocks unwanted content that you can uninstall than to give power to a giant entity monitoring every site you visit online.

Sure you can change your country at an individual level but why create a problem in the first place.
I don’t buy this. Unlimited data, free international roaming (with data!), and you can bring your own phone to any plan.

T-Mobile was very different and I hope it stays that way.
See chapter 7 of the Unix haters handbook from 1994, which was linked here the other day: http://simson.net/ref/ugh.pdf

The amazing thing about Wayland is that it's taken over 25 years to happen. Over those 25 years, X has become less of a problem as CPU speed and RAM have grown exponentially, and we now have GPUs to help it too.
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C++ variants are horrible for state machines, since they are not affine types.
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Good point. I was picturing some gather/scatter over strings which are not in adjacent memory (maybe a generous interpretation for my use-case). Concatenating small strings into ndjson may still come out ahead performance-wise.
Interesting. I've been using Webex, Zoom, and Slack calls.

Webex has been having some issues but has done better the last few days.

Zoom has been OK, but with some audio cutouts yesterday.

The one Hangout I was on the video and audio quality was horrible.

Teams seemed to use tons of video bandwidth, looked good, sounded good, but seemed to use excessive network bandwidth. It's video quality actually seemed excessive for a lot of use cases.
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Computer: "Please enter the decontamination chamber and be sterilized".

Dr Leavitt: "I'd rather be decontaminated!"

(Dr Leavitt played by the late great Kate Reid.)

This scene doesn't appear in the DVD, so I suspect it's the "airline" version of the movie. In-air movies were a big hit and airlines didn't want anything remotely objectionable to hurt their image. They appeared on a big screen in the front of the cabin and so everyone aboard saw the movie, even if they weren't listening.
There are plenty of alternatives even if they don’t. I use Truphone, which works globally.
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If so that'll happen no matter what. Packaged food will be handled by multiple people before it gets into the consumer's hands.
Can you kindly wait a few months first? Pragmatism before virtue.
Or, perhaps, it is opt in for the people whose names are on the internet bill and who own the router.
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> I think The Grand Scheme is the opiate of the intellectuals, and some regimes are friendlier to such schemes than others. If you have a set of top down rules that require your will to be imposed on others, a flatter hierarchy is a bug. A decentralized system like free market capitalism...

IMHO, free market capitalism pretty clearly counts as a "Grand Scheme." It's basically a program of totally imposing the market idea on society, to usurp and replace as much of society's other ideas and institutions as possible. IIRC, the market also requires an initial program of coercion to get started, to force workers to participate in the market to avoid starvation and other deprivations.
It’s an expression which describes using your own product to test it, i.e eating your own dog food.
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Why can't people just enjoy a little bit of extra rest and not having to deal with stressful commutes? From this article, it seems like people are supposed to feel guilty if they didn't get a lot of extra work done.

Also, childcare requires a lot of time and attention. That is just the reality. And it seems like people should expect that the kids could easily fill up the extra time that they are getting back from not having to commute. Maybe this will help people appreciate teachers more.
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> Dish Network has been earmarked as the future 4th carrier

If Sprint and T-Mobile are having such a hard time creating competitive networks, what are the chances that Dish will be able to do it from scratch?

Everything about this looks terrible for consumers. There's even less competition.
Not yet, but there is legal precedent.
> If you're running a modern Linux desktop you're probably running Wayland

I believe the big exception to this is Nvidia. It looks like things might be changing, but until quite recently, the Nvidia proprietary driver was X11 only, so anyone running Nvidia graphics would automatically fall back to X11.
The edge cases get a lot more attention when the sample size is increased.
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Can SMB links be clicked on from a standard browser? If browsers prohibit it, I guess it would indeed be responsible on Zoom's part to also prohibit it.
And yet, here we are. Again.

Fact is that the 3rd party apple ecosystem just moves more slowly, breaking less, but fixing less too.

Tradeoffs, not superiority, are the choices offered to consumers currently.
While it's true that lackey is condescending, it's also accurate. We have euphemized "lackey" with less condescending terms like "gopher" or even phrases like "you'll do what it takes". He clearly signaled in his follow up email that he was willing to do "what it takes" to "get in" with the company: "Does the team need an office manager, receptionist, coffee runner, etc."

His telegraphed servility is exactly in line with the very definition you posted.
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Anecdote is not data, but I am realizing that I can be more productive at home than I guessed. Also I think my bosses are going to be more comfortable with me working from home after this.

However, there is still so much knowledge / creative work that is best done face to face. What I can see happening in my work place is more people might take work at home days. There is no way we will want to keep taking important meetings on Zoom.
This. Neither T-Mobile or Sprint ever rank as legitimate carriers for most cases. Find me a enterprise business that equips their employees with either. Pretty much all corporate and government wireless is AT&T or Verizon.

T-Mobile + Sprint provides the best opportunity to create a legitimate third carrier.
Except when it's a pandemic.

I've worked from home for 8 years running a software company, and so do all of my employees. All of our clients are discovering "work from home" which basically translates into "free vacation" for them, so we're not getting a lot of feedback.

This is a particular rare instance, obviously, but I think it is different than regular work-from-home because there is more existential dread interferring with productivity. I've given most of my employees time off because they were taking sick days or personal days to cope with getting food and dealing with spouses and children at home who aren't used to it. Heck, even I find myself sort of spinning on news and anxiety and my mind drifting from work (I've googled more about preppers/prepping than I ever have, and not just to laugh at them.) And we've talked about this during All-hands staff meetings, but I don't let on the extent to which it stresses me out personally. (Yay anonymous accounts!)

TL; DR: Normally I think WFH leads to better results for companies like mine, but under the current circumstances this isn't the case.
Ask HN: Is there a national database for number of Covid-19 test done?
Is there a database that holds information regarding how many Covid-19 tests each state in the US has tested and how many of those tests were positive/negative?
Maybe also Night of the Comet, less the occasional zombie.
Interesting history and background:

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

It appears that traditional marxism has been largely coopted by identity politics, as an intentional strategy by the corporate powers that be. This is why you see companies that are absolutely brutal towards labor virtue signal about trendy left-wing social issues.

Despite being deeply conservative, I see a lot of truth in Marx's analysis of the problems with modern financial capitalism. Paraphrasing Chesterton: right about what is wrong, wrong about what is right.
This is not universally true, and, furthermore - there's a serious issue here.

Working from home requires a level of personal discipline that a lot of people aren't used to. It took me years to be as effective, or more, at working from home than I am from the office - and that was (almost) always with the option to also be working from the office.

I'm hoping there are more resources and programs available to those working from home, especially for the first time, soon.
the problem is the impossible expectation for an entire society to change its fundamental assumptions about how to route value through itself,in a radical way, and within the space of a few years.

This virtually guarantees a dictatorship (and usually a personality cult, whether forced or organically developedl) and all the negatives that accompany one.
they would lose the ownership of their companies in this case.
it will be up to new owners - to wait things out - or to sell-off the equipment and licenses to somebody else
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The anti-solution isn't even attempting to be a solution. It's not that it isn't perfect. It's that it's not even resembling anything close to a solution: it's actively harmful to the goals that are apparently trying to be achieved.
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