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It's a ~2k person company with a market cap of $34B. So the valuation is $17M per employee.

I don't feel sorry for them.

Also: this crisis is giving them vast amounts of marketing for free.

I'm based in Sweden. I was just vaguely aware of Zoom until a few days ago - now I suddenly hear of them all of the time from Late Night hosts on Youtube.
That's some bloated S:startup-sequence you had.

I like to keep it under 5 seconds, power to Workbench, which my A1200 setup does currently achieve.

Do note I do not autostart the TCP/IP stack, which helps considerably with that.
Doesn't Twilio charge both incoming and outgoing minutes for call forwarding?
I understand this perspective, but I think it fails to take into account the bigger issues here. While programmers and other knowledge economy workers can work remotely and keep getting paid in relative comfort and safety, millions of people have jobs that cannot be remote and have no savings or stocks to fall back on. My point is that the article is out of touch with the meaning of the crisis for 90% of the population, and the issue with the wealthy being the only ones able to come out ahead in times of crisis is troubling.
Seriously? Right out from the docs? A clickbait article. Bummer
Rename it Oakland.
> If something breaks in Vanilla JS, you know with 100% certainty that it's your code that's failing.

Or the browsers' code which is a bigger problem.

I've been burned in the distant past by a blackbox framework that didn't work well with my use case (JSF) so I can sympathize with your position. These days I'd rather hit the occasional framework and polyfill bug than deal with a wide range of interopt issues.
The developers are still people. Doesn't matter the size of the company, it's still a bunch of individuals who are likely suddenly dealing with a lot of stress and pressure that could never have been predicted, or have opportunity to scale up their engineering to meet.
So which of the two is it? A shared secret key among all clients, or individual keys per client. If its the latter, which would be smart, this line is a lie:

"...and do not decrypt it at any point before it reaches the receiving clients"
One of the consequences of TCP being implemented in the Linux kernel is that companies were implicitly motivated to open source any performance or efficiency improvements to their TCP stack. Are any companies collaborating to improve QUIC efficiency issues in open source? The issues are well understood among at least the big cloud providers.
"A checks", the smallest and most frequent, are every 1000 flight hours. That's a longer interval than 51 days.
I worked at Google way way back when. We had an emergency code red situation where dozens of engineers from all over the company had to sit in a room and figure out what was making out network overload. After a bit of debugging it became clear that Gmail services where talking to Calendar services with an exceeding amount of traffic that nobody would have expected.A little debugging later and it became clear that restarting the gmail server fixed the issue. One global rolling restart later and all was well.

But then the debugging started. Turns out the service discovery component would health check backend destinations once a second. This was fine as it made sure we would never try to call against a server that was long gone. The bug was that it never stopped health checking a backend. Even if the service discovery had removed a host from the pool long ago. Gmail had stopped deploying while it got ready for Christmas, and Calendar was doing a ton of small stability improvement deploys. We created the perfect storm for this specific bug.

The most alarming part? This bug existed in the shared code that did RPC calls/health checking for all services across Google and had existed for quite a long time. In the end though, Gmail almost took Google offline by not deploying. =)
Isn't Zoom on AWS? So are Slack and Chime (the little known AWS competitor to Teams). As are parts of Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, and of course Prime Video.

I don't know the exact numbers but I'm pretty sure the rise in popularity of Zoom is just as high, if not possibly higher, than Teams. Entire universities of 50k+ students started using Zoom for online classes, not to mention all of the companies that have started using it. Then you have all of the people staying at home using the streaming services, etc... my guess is that AWS has seen a huge spike in traffic just as big, if not bigger than Azure saw.
The espro ends up being more bitter, though. I can't say why, maybe it shouldn't be, but it is.
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Istio would not only do TLS, but would also do QUIC for you in the scenario you describe.
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>Until one day I read in a magazine how I could create a ramdisk ("RAM:") and use my startup-sequence file to load Workbench in there.

RAM: is a fs like Linux's ramfs, and is implicitly mounted on early boot, you don't need to create it. It is also gone on reboot.

What you're referring to is ramdrive.device, typically mounted as "RAD:", which is implemented as a standard reboot-persistent module that offers a standard trackdisk block device, and can be configured as bootable. You'd format the drive with FastFileSystem or OFS after creating it.
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That's a fine compromise for internal teams.

For those working with current or potential customers remotely, you have to use a solution that is convenient or you don't make money.
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The system in question runs VxWorks.

"for reasons the directive did not go into, the 787's common core system (CCS) – a Wind River VxWorks realtime OS product..."
That would surely be a giveaway, but I haven't seen any evidence that tagged headers like this were actually used in official Nintendo releases.
I'm in complete agreement here. Their response is appropriate given the challenges that they face. No team ever thinks they are going to get that kind of migration to their platform the way zoom has received. Good for them.
A really disgusting but predictable thing to fall out of this whole fiasco is to watch Obama-era staffers aggressively side with management against labour:

https://twitter.com/JayCarney/status/1245474780746330119
I wanted to evaluate it but was very put off when trying to connect to my google calendar they asked for full access to my Youtube profile. I get there is some youtube integration they have but binding those things together without any mention of why was enough for me to click cancel. Sucks because I really want to ditch Zoom.
You and parent are in agreement.
Yeah the reviews look gamed as hell. I applied there and got an automated rejection so quickly I highly doubt they're actually looking at resumes, probably just padding the talent pool

Good riddance.
There seems to be a lot of off-topic Amazon-hate in this thread.
I know that that's the title of the article but I read the article and came away mostly thinking nothing was all that bad. Is it because the notes said the organizer isn't eloquent or smart that there is reason to be upset?
Their ability to do so is no different than anyone else's. They are literally running a client that is set up in their cloud.

This is the intrinsic contradiction of meeting software. Once you're in the meeting, the whole point is that you have access to the content. If you don't want zoom to have access to your content, don't invite them to your meeting.
I know many good people work on tech at Amazon and that treating low-wage workers, organizing to defend their health and safety this way, is not something you all would embrace.

Now is your chance to organize and prove this is true. Google employees did it and so can you.
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Well, what I mean is that perhaps such critical software should be carefully rewritten with rigorous architectural and QA standards so they don't have to use an ugly hack in the first place.
I know that's frustrating, but comments like this break the rules at the top of the thread, so please don't post them here.
a) that doesn't do the same thing (button != input)

b) in React, it's extremely bad practice to mutate raw DOM elements programmatically (the idiomatic version is to use some state management mechanism and bind the value via `<input value={value} />`, which incidentally would be broken by this code)

c) setState may be asynchronous, so you can run into nasty surprises (e.g. you can't focus a hidden element). Whereas in vanilla code, unhiding logic could be added in a predictable procedural and explicit manner, in React a naive call to .focus() in the event handler may noop because of React-rendering-pipeline-specific reasons and then we need to get into its more obscure APIs to fix it)
You mean a current SVP at Amazon?

Is it possible that his current role is defining his response more than one he held at least 3 years ago?
It doesn't invalidate the grandparents point.

You can easily find dozens of countries with at will employment, and high unemployment.

And I think, Spain has actually less stringent worker protection laws than Germany.
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I just had a terrible interview experience with Google. To be clear the people interviewing me were professional but the recruiter wasted by time by giving me a lot of incorrect information on what to expect that consumed a lot of my time but also left me very poorly prepared for the actual interview

I am wondering if I should give this feedback when surveyed. I am concerned about pissing off a recruiter and getting blackballed for subsequent interviews both at Google and other jobs where this recruiter might eventually work

Any one know how the feedback flows and the possibility of being identified by the recruiter
Aren't there ways of turning self-selection populations into random sample populations for statistical purposes? (It has just been a while since I have had to think of these things).

But really we want more than just accurate statistics, we want to minimize damage. Any increase in testing is good testing, and triaging testing to highest risk individuals makes sense when your capacity is limited.

The consequences though are that reported statistics are often just wrong. Skewed towards higher negative outcomes and comparisons between dates are flawed without much additional information.
They are as of the update to my client this morning.
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Indeed, working with a Boeing subcontractor, I've seen a few cases where something is "fixed by process control", where rules for people are designed to circumvent the deficiency in the software.

Basically, adding more code to make software "smarter" for those edge-cases was judged (rightly or wrongly) as having an even higher risk of introducing new bugs and creating new test procedures or invalidating previous testing.
People will steal good toilet paper, that’s why commercial mounts and rolls are so different compared to ones for residences.
This Vice story is just part of the smear campaign.

Strategy:
“We should spend the first part of our response strongly laying out the case for why the organizer’s conduct was immoral, unacceptable, and arguably illegal, in detail, and only then follow with our usual talking points about worker safety,” Zapolsky wrote. “Make him the most interesting part of the story, and if possible make him the face of the entire union/organizing movement.”

As applied:
“I was frustrated and upset that an Amazon employee would endanger the health and safety of other Amazonians by repeatedly returning to the premises after having been warned to quarantine himself after exposure to virus Covid-19,” he said. “I let my emotions draft my words and get the better of me.”
At the risk of making a generalization, it's interesting that political PR firms and/or workers from them tend to get companies in trouble. Recall that Facebook retained a republican PR firm that pushed anti-Soros conspiracies, for example.

Maybe the lesson here is that people who worked in politics/lobbying are not trustworthy and can be a liability to the integrity of your company if you hire them.
Should it though?

Quite probably!

I see two main ways to look at this question: will QUIC replace TCP as a go to protocol for developing atop of? The other interpretation is, will QUIC replace all TCP ever written? No, indeed, likely not.
Thinner TP clogs the pipes less often. At least that's the explanation I heard.
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> Hundreds of thousands of people are gonna be dead in the next few months.

How many people will die as a result of economic and supply chain disruption? How many will kill themselves after losing their life’s work? How much human suffering will all this economic disruption cause? Getting the economy back online is obviously a very serious concern.

> Global capitalism is the reason why we are so vulnerable to outbreaks like this.

Capitalism has nothing to do with it. There is no economic model that responds well to being temporarily turned off.
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Aren't those banking apps usually simply check whether root is available on the device and bail if they found it? You might be able to circumvent it using magisk to hide root, or simply don't install root support when installing lineageos (that's what I do as I don't need root anymore these days, and I haven't found any app that complains about insecure rom yet, Safetynet status is also passed).
I never understood "presenter will let you in" security. It's based on someone letting me in if they recognize my recorded name and that I work there? Surely that wont backfire in a world where everyone post every detail about every day of their life online. I mean who even uses LinkedIn anyway?
I took away that they picked an in-eloquent person to poster up as the leader and that the push to unionize has a broader base.
I just meant copying and pasting long function and variable names out of my own code elsewhere, should autocomplete somehow not apply.
In a country with a functioning government and economy, the entire nation would mobilize and respond to the health crisis intelligently and with the advice of health experts. The U.S. government delayed doing so for fear of making the stock market go down, and in fact several U.S. senators used their briefings to reallocate their investments in remote work companies, much like the advice in the article, rather than preparing a response to help their constituents.

Would people not panic buy toilet paper in a functioning economy? They probably still would, but the response wouldn’t be “how can we get the Dow Jones average up” it would be “how can we save people’s lives.” This is the moral and necessary thing a functioning society would try to do.
Almost still image is a weird way of saying “numerous still images regardless of amount of motion, that have to be stitched together in precise time sorted batches to provide a smooth experience for the viewer.”

Thinking about the use case it’s obvious this isn’t a simple calendar app amount of data.

I bet if you create some images in various resolutions these services support and what looks good to your eye, then fill folders with sequences of them, you’ll see why it’s a lot of bandwidth.

Better to over communicate and let the client deal with the organization as it’s designed to and not let some network admin nickle and dime over bits.

Financial economy doesn’t really say much about the literal economy of building all these toxic gadgets.

Given the big picture, not sure why such a trivial concern as bandwidths ephemeral money cost would foster such strong curiosity.

Even then, code is in a repo. Go learn.
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The quote from Zapolsky is especially funny, because it exactly follows the PR strategy outlined in the leak notes the paragraph prior. What an incredibly fake, dishonest person. Not really the best candidate to be calling a union organizer "not smart, not articulate".
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When all you have is a hammer…
He's an SVP at Amazon... what does being an "Obama-era staffer" have to do with him supporting the company currently paying his paycheck? Not to mention he was Press Secretary for Obama, played literally no role in policy.
I don’t think this tracks. If anything, it exposed that all of Amazon’s statements around this are not in anyway to be trusted.
The conspicuous lack of realistic infection data from India, coupled with the extreme challenges to containment and control there (just due to the sheer crowding) is frightening, regardless of whether the poor data is intentional or just because India is hard place to coordinate.

That the published infection and mortality rates are so low strains credulity in the extreme, especially when much smaller-population countries at similar proximity to the equator but greater distance from China have higher case rates (i.e Brazil, Ecuador, the UAE).
Wow, nice move. I suggest anyone who considers themselves to be serious about distributed systems or operating systems take advantage of this opportunity. Leslie was hugely impactful on my early career at Sun where I ended up being the "ONC/RPC architect." One of the people who whose work I admired was Andy Birrell (who many will agree "invented" of RPC). It felt that every time I reached out to Andy on a problem that seemed complex and untenable, he would point me at one of Leslie's papers.
In 1994, I believed Java and Java Applets would replace Flash, desktop apps and even operating systems.
I knew we'd all have fiber to the home by 2005, at the latest.
I was sure that we'd all be using 360 panorama cameras and stereo cameras. All pictures would be VR experiences.
My worst prediction: I fervently believed that all cars, electric or otherwise would be obsolete by 1995, replaced by on-demand pods on rails.

On the other hand, I knew CGI would revolutionize movies, 10 years before Pixar. I showed my traditional animator friend early graphics and he laughed at the idea. I adopted digital photography years before film cameras were dead. I also bet my career on graphic user interfaces when text-mode MS-DOS was the only serious operating system and later turned down a higher paying client-server job to work on this crazy WWW thing.
If you can intend and fail to be cunning, then the word's meaning must not be defined by the subject's intent.
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Let me remind you that revolutions happened throughout history.

After thousand of years of cynics saying "nothing changed", one day, a tipping point is reached.
You don’t have to go that far back. The Communist Party of China seemed equally motivated to conceal this outbreak.
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const doThing = event => {}

function doThing( event ){}

Why does everyone seem to be using the first format? Isn't the second version a lot more readable/pretty? Even worse is when doThing is immediately exported and not refferenced anywhere else, but still there is this need to assign it to a const.
>recently instituting a feature freeze to focus on fixing them

Or they're having productivity problems like every other company right now and are spinning it to seem like they are on top of things. These security issues have been around for years.
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You bring up really good points that I agree with. However, what do you see as a realistic alternative right now? What are our options?
@andfrob, just saw your comment about SF Chronicle removing their timelapse view.

We made one here from the NYT dataset on MintData [1]:

https://nyt-map.covid42.com/

(note: I think we need to update the cumulative counter, we'll be fixing that shortly)

@andfrob happy to get you free/unlimited access to MintData if you're interested in making similar visualizations, please DM me if this would be helpful.

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Reminder: github star history is in no way a measure of quality.
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Hopefully we have the chance to undermine the horrific norm of employer-based private healthcare in the US
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The pilots apparently start getting misinformed 51 days in software runtime. What if the certification process only tests for 42 days?
Please don't.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22755974.
They’re explaining how seriously they take security using Wordpress.
“We are struggling to compete for what little relief there may be.”
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Obviously people have specific concerns about specific companies all the time, but a Who Is Hiring thread is no place to adjudicate those.

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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22752508.
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The "just works" nature is why Zoom is popular. No one wants to have every meeting start with "Is Larry here? Oh, I think he's trying to dial in. I'm going to cancel this meeting and send out a new ID so he can dial in. Everyone watch for that so you can reconnect"
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>Is there a public key associated with Apple account

with each device

https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1902/en_US/app...
I probably don't know what I'm talking about, but it seems to me that many companies pursue legal action that is against their own interest. Surely, Humvees in CoD could only help the brand, no? Moreover, the fact that they don't even sell any consumer products in the first place makes the entire suit even more dubious. The use of Humvees in CoD is going to sow confusion among the military purchasing officers and they're no longer going to buy them? It just doesn't make any sense.

I'm beginning to think that a lot of these types of lawsuits stems from the lawyers themselves recommending them and somehow convincing the management to go along with it. After all, they're really the only party that wins regardless of the outcome of the case.
Do you know anywhere that is reporting stats on how many people are maimed by this?
The definition of smear: "to damage the reputation of (someone) by false accusations; slander." Where is the 'smear ' here? Amazon has not made, or planned to make, false accusations against this worker.
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If you are in a situation where you can have a shared key, TLS, with it's asymmetric handshake is probably overkill.
> And as such they rely on authorities and experts to provide accurate and safe information.

Sorry but I don't agree here. The authorities also got it wrong. Just look at the initial public responses in the US, UK, Italy, Germany, etc.. They stuck their heads in the sand while 'Coronavirus alarmism' was written off as misinformation.