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I have been disappointed that multicast isn't used by the mass video chat apps (e.g. Zoom), but after talking to some of the folks "in the know" it looks like you can't even count on it being supported in all the devices you need to reach your endpoint.

It seems like it would be good for that and great for "cord cutting" live apps like sport broadcast. Of course the majority of "last mile" carriers are also TV providers so would prefer to charge for that separately over their existing physical plant.
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The git advice works for either experts or small projects. If you’re an expert, choose your own workflow. I find in large projects with many users, branches help to recover quickly from mistakes and help define testing history. My primary concern is for novices to go at it without branches because they’re hard to deeply understand without experience and they see experts managing without.

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Same here. The Venn diagram of people I follow on Swarm and the people I've communicated with in the past five years doesn't overlap at all.
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Never underestimate an IT departments ability to not give a fuck. I once got a bug report from a colleague complaining about our website not working in Firefox. I couldn't reproduce it locally, so I got to her computer and realized that Firefox updates (?!) had been blocked. Everyone in that department was stuck on Firefox 12, when the current version was 60+. Turns out that not even evergreen browsers are safe from overzealous policies.

And this was on a pretty big media company with a large digital footprint.
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No, this can not be changed. It doesn't matter how many people use it or not. It very deliberately, by design and implementation, does not represent anything at all. This would not change even if an entire country used it (putting aside that it is not technically capable of doing so).
But this site would not be running a botnet. It would only be accepting data that others willfully send its way. If this is illegal, then I can shut down any site by sending my private data to it.

Of course actually doing anything with the received private data might be illegal, but that would be harder to track. How would the owner of a misconfigured network ever figure out how their data got "hacked"; whether the owner of corp.com did something or nothing with it?

Hence ancestor's use of "ethically" rather than "legally".
Using vanilla JS instead of jQuery doesn't require refactoring the site's layout and changing every page template. And even then, a decision like that wouldn't be made unless there were significant QoL improvements in terms of site speed or maintainability.

That is why BS5 can afford to drop jQuery as a dependency. Developers working on highly performant apps where ops/second matters would already be using vanilla JS, and that's what BS5 is trying to support with this; jQuery doesn't play well with React/Vue after all.

But devs that are working on CMS-style websites, which make up the majority of actual websites on the internet, can continue to use jQuery if they want to.
They are doing said study. From the second sentence:

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> First of all, you could never change the neural network without breaking the compression, so you can't ever "update" it. Like: what if you figure out a better network? Too bad!

Isn’t this just a special version of a problem any type of compression will always have? There’s all kinds of ways you can imagine improving on a format like JPEG, but the reason it’s useful is because it’s locked down and widely supported.
What does matrix add to jitsi? Jitsi is already easy to run over https. Does this make it so you can't randomly enter rooms if you know the name and there is no password set?
Years ago, one of my coworkers bought testcompany.com and got an amazing amount of internal emails from organizations.
> Except PRs, bug reports etc. can't affect the runtime behavior of your program, only code can

Are your repos free of docs, READMEs and tests, then?

> I just definitely don't want it cluttering up the history of my code

Separate branch?

> I often want to allow pretty much anyone to open a PR or an issue, but I don't necessarily want that now to be part of the repo every time someone clones it.

That is a good point; perhaps solvable by having the webapp frontend provide the GUI but make commits itself? That should give you the best of both worlds.
> I know more than a few elementary school teachers who are now hosting zoom classes with 15+ 5 year olds on a call.

Given the ease of setup of Zoom which defaulted to a machine-guessable URL which displayed email and other information about participants, this is one reason Zoom is rightly being scrutinized and criticized for poor security.
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I agree, and think both pose serious social problems (already realized with ECT) just by their availability as treatments.
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Or, maybe he actually did a lot of work during college instead of "enjoying the college experience". Compared to that, "real life work" is usually nicer
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I think it might have been more common to send children to boarding schools among the elite, but that does not mean that it was not a small minority overall.

Obviously boarding schools are always going to be much more expensive than day schools.
It's because the USian view has come to see rights as axiomatic primitives to be layered on top of rather than context-free qualitative assertions. This is regressive due to complexity-induced contradiction, but here we are. It's similar to how with Turing completeness you can implement a low level interpreter on top of a high level language, eschewing the high level language's fancy constructs.
I was skeptical about depression until I saw it in my son. This is a terrible condition with bad side-effects even in a mild form. And the only effective treatment is time.
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Hydroxychloroquine / chloroquine: Neither are golden elixirs. Hydroxychloroquine is less toxic than chloroquine, but it's pharmacology is very similar and have similar side effects and contraindications.

Whether or not to take a substance due it's side effects is a common decision for many people, both doctors and patients, and for many conditions, both acute and chronic.
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'security conscious' and 'forced to use ie11' do not go together
It makes sense when we assume that StackOverflow's audience are those who know enough not to use IE11.
It is usually the difficult and problematic enterprise customers using IE11 that also pay the most money. The choice between ditching customers and ditching a framework is not usually difficult.
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I'd suggest looking at backtrace.io It may be overkill for what you want to do, but one thing it does really well is to log stack traces.
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Readup co-founder and sole developer here. Happy to answer any and all questions (especially technical ones!).

We recently completely overhauled the browser extension to use active tab instead of broad host permissions in order to be more privacy friendly. During the rewrite we also made the extension compatible with Firefox which was a big request from users.
Most people certainly do not meet all of the criteria you list, especially #2 ("Markedly diminished interest or pleasure in all, or almost all, activities most of the day, nearly every day."). I can understand some confusion over #4 ("A slowing down of thought and a reduction of physical movement (observable by others, not merely subjective feelings of restlessness or being slowed down)."), which can be read as describing ordinary fatigue but is actually about a different pattern called "psychomotor retardation" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychomotor_retardation
You are making two claims

1. If there is extra profit one year, these companies will willingly reduce premiums instead of giving bonuses, stock buy backs, or dividends to investors. I don’t know if you have observed the stock market recently

2. “Compliance cost” - these things are not done via paper and fax machines. Regulation simply asks one to keep track of, say in the case of medical companies, administration cost vs servicing cost etc - things you would have had to do anyways in your public-good-seeking scenario above
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I write technical analyses of cryptocurrencies based on their flaws and vulnerabilities rather than on potential. My hope is that I can provide a realistically optimistic take on the crypto space.
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IMO I have found that not working on your project is one of two things, or both:

1. The project isn't working, and you subconsciously know it but don't want to admit it.

2. You need to, but don't want to, do the next most important task for your startup. So you do other things to procrastinate.

According to the article Sam Altman calls the latter 'fake work', which sounds like a good description to me.

https://tech.co/news/sam-altman-y-combinator-5-signs-youre-f...

>> TLDR "Fake work does not count and will still get you a failed startup no matter how intensely you do it"

So the sooner you can figure out which point it is the sooner you know how to, or how not to, move forward. Probably the most useful thing is just to imagine how much more interesting things will be once you're at the next stage.
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Why would you just list overpriced SaaS garbage and no FOSS that is just as good?

Also, what’s the usecase for this? Quick googling can shove products in your face if you are lost on tools.
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A few interesting posts:
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Manifesto of Peopolism:
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Indeed very fascinating.

Reminds me of doing something similar, albeit a thousand times dumber in ~2004 when I had to find a way to "compress" interior automotive audio data, indicator sounds, things like that. At some point instead of using traditional copression, I synthesized a wave function and and only stored its parameters and the delta from the actual wave which achieved great compression ratios. It was expensive to compress but virtually free to decompress.
And as a side effect my student mind was forever blown by the beauty of it.
Unfortunately, the enterprise world is still making extensive use of IE11. Here is the browser breakdown on an enterprise application I work on: https://i.postimg.cc/cCbk34SR/Screenshot-20200407-083321.png

As of now, Bootstrap 5 cannot be considered for use in any website with heavy use from enterprise users.

Edit: though it is nice to see that Chromium Edge is already catching up to Spartan Edge!
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I write about all the stuff I encounter and where I would need more characters than would fit in a tweet.

Main topics are technical stuff, obscure things, and witty comments on design.

In a sense I'm scratching my own itch. Take this article as an example, where I blog about something I had real trouble to find any information on at all:

https://lucasbecker.de/posts/de-aspect-your-digital-negative...
Unless they're running an unsupported version of Windows, they almost certainly have Edge preinstalled; they don't have to go download Chrome.
I run this at the house with 10mbits upload connection. have had 6 users, it was fine.
It's very rare that both parties engaged in any transaction are equally informed. But often the government is even less informed so they are utterly useless in terms of intervention.

The best the government can do and should do is reduce power imbalances and market monopolies which give rise to information asymetry. Reducing wealth inequality should be the government's priority.

Money can buy trust. People are too focused on presentation instead of substance. People these days are incapable of seeing substance where it exists and they are easy to fool into seeing it where there is none.
This is the relevant part:

"O’Connor said Microsoft actually offered to buy the domain several years back for $20,000. He turned them down, saying that at the time he thought it was too low and didn’t reflect the market value of the domain."
Damn, end of the year already? huh, time flies...
Ask HN: Doesn't logging into 3rd-party HN apps post a sercuirty risk?
There is no OAuth for HN Login. There is no mention of HN Login in the official doc. https://github.com/HackerNews/API

In this case the only way to do HN Login is for 3rd-party to manually handle the login credential and do a POST to https://news.ycombinator.com/login to obtain an omnipotent token that expires in 18 years.

Doesn't this post a sercuirty risk? Shouldn't third-party service providers inform users about this? Or is it a common practice to not mention things like this to the end users? (All the HN apps I have come across with amazing ratings have 0 mention about this risk on their app page and inside the app.)

Or is there another way to do HN Login that is safe and I'm simply not aware of?
I follow a couple people who seem to check-in compulsively despite never doing anything very interesting. Like busstops and gas stations. Some of them even check into their own houses on the reg. I think some of them may be using automated check-in tools.
Unfortunately this is wishful thinking. See my reply to @brundolf in this chain.
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You make a good point about providing context to people added to the thread later, but it would still only provide partial context because people don't always reply to the most recent email in a thread.

Also it's quite common for multiple people in a thread to respond to the same email near simultaneously, or for people to reply to a message earlier in the timeline. This then creates branches in the message history. The conversation is then likely to settle again at some point on one of the branches and any recent additions to the CC list are still going to miss context.

Also at some time you have to consider that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one. Is it really useful to have a 5 word email nested 15 quotes and 1000 lines deep when 80% of the quoted lines are just signatures and disclaimers? The signal to noise ratio is just too low for it to be useful. I've just pulled up an email from a customer today and their signature has 33 lines, 133 words, and 1100 characters AFTER the name and company name. It even includes the email address which is the same as the address they used to send the message.

I know that when I'm added to such a thread that I'll generally just make a phone call to a colleague to get up to date rather than try to make sense of everything. I personally don't have the patience for it.

The irony of the whole thing is that this is what passes for professional communication today. The groups of misfits, slackers, and stoners I hung out with on the BBS's of the 90's had better online communication skills than today's corporate world.

Anyway sorry for ranting, it's not directed at you, it's directed at the eternal september that most of us live in now. Your point about preserving context is a good one I hadn't considered but I think some pruning would go a long way towards making that context more accessible and useful.
That's different. A web browser is an interface to the outside world which executes arbitrary foreign code as a regular course of operation. Any IT department that forcibly limits people to use the world's least-secure browser in an effort to keep things secure is utterly failing in its job.
I had a similar experience when I read Harry Frankfurt's On Bullshit. It's one of those concepts that is obvious in retrospect, but really helps clarify understanding. His conceptual framework of bullshit as communication that is intended to persuade with no regard either way for truth has certainly helped me read this article.
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Not almost everyone can be depressed or then the definition of depressed is incorrect.
It's a model. There are plenty of other models for the symptoms classified under clinical depression, human suffering is not a new thing that people just started trying to solve in the last century. Depression has some stigma attached to it, and big pharma profits a lot from it. The model and its treatments do help a lot of people, but there are an equal or greater number that they don't help. As a model it's pretty meh in my opinion but it's the best thing that modern science has come up with.
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Because you start with a small inexpensive trial first in order to determine whether the larger, more expensive trial is a) safe, and b) worth investing in.

What's unfortunate is that the research gets published at this stage beyond the scientific community that understands how inconclusive it is. Because in the long run that just contributes to the erosion of public trust in the scientific method.
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I've commented in the past about Zoom's close ties with China (beyond its engineering staff) but I didn't have sources, so I conceded and redacted some specifics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22738420

WSJ just wrote an article interviewing the CEO and other security experts on this topic. Some interesting excerpts:

> In the U.S., 27 attorney general’s offices have raised questions about privacy issues, Zoom said, adding it is cooperating with authorities.

> Security researchers also have scrutinized Zoom’s links to China. Researchers at the Citizen Lab, a security research group affiliated with the University of Toronto, on Friday said Zoom used an encryption technology that is considered substandard, and that in certain circumstances the company stored encryption keys—long strings of numbers and characters that can be used to access encoded communications—on servers based in China.

> Brendan Ittelson, head of technical support at Zoom, said because of the distributed nature of the company’s infrastructure, meeting data can be routed through different data centers around the world. Zoom’s system first tries to send this data locally, but if the connections fail, the backup route might send it elsewhere.

> Zoom had created a system to prevent this data from being sent through China when calls originate in the U.S. But when traffic surged starting in February, some data was mistakenly routed that way, the company said, adding that it has remedied the problem. Critics also have questioned whether Zoom’s heavy reliance on China-based engineering could pose a security risk.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/zoom-ceo-i-really-messed-up-on-...

Personal opinion: I think we should all boycott Zoom until there is a guarantee of where the data is stored with independent audits. In this pandemic, we've given our privacy (facial features, email, screen sharing, video data and application usage patterns) to Zoom in a whim. The entire world has done so. I have no trust in the Chinese Communist Party and their potential to exploit this data if they get it. Perhaps not in the immediate future, but may be in year 2027 - suppressing voices, threats and border control, detentions of people who spoke against the CCP during the pandemic or after caught using the facial AI technologies from the data collected today. This is real and we should all be concerned.
>My parents and aunt had this wisdom and, while I was a child, told me "enjoy yourself now, because it will be all downhill from here".

Being told that as a child really fucked me up, actually. It's a really bad, pernicious idea.