skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unmuting others sounds like a scary feature. You don't want someone to unmute you without your knowledge.
Zoom has a not very well published chrome app (intended for chromebook users). You can install it in normal chrome and it gives you a much better experience than the web version without all the issues of the desktop app.

I trust zoom a lot more when it is running inside a chrome sandbox than as a native app.
Sue John Doe, and ask the court to issue a subpoena to the forum for identifying information, and then to the ISP, and once you have that, add the account holder as a defendant to the suit.

It's not fast, and it's not easy, but such is life.
Seems perfectly sensible to ban all software that is not pre-approved by IT, InfoSec and Legal.

You can't safely assume all your employees are properly assessing the risks unless that is their actual job. If you only allow what you know then you can reason about your risk.
They also tend to claim ownership to IP created on their assets.
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Having partial type safety is like having a no peeing section in the pool.
Used to use it at my company. It didn't scale well with many people. We switched to zoom a while back and it's been much much better.
Your comment is low quality and doesn't add to the discussion.

novok, by contrast, makes all the same points, correctly, and without all the histrionics.

It can simultaneously be true that the technical 'dividend' is enjoyed by practically everyone in the developed world, and that the necessities of ordinary life have become more expensive, saving rates have plummeted, and precarity has been normalized.

Indeed, this appears to be the case. Expecting every comment on the Internet to cover everything salient about a given topic is unrealistic. Good thing we have the nested forum format, so that other people can fill things in!
> He could just have given a physics textbook level explanation of how magnets work.

But "how" was not a starting question of the interviewer. The questions were different, and I've marked them with numbers here:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/W9rJv26sxs4g2B9bL/transcript...

"Interviewer: If you get hold of two magnets, and you push them, you can feel this pushing between them. Turn them around the other way, and they slam together. <q1> Now, what is it, the feeling between those two magnets? </q1>

Feynman: What do you mean, "What's the feeling between the two magnets?"

Interviewer: <q2> There's something there, isn't there? </q2> The sensation is that there's something there when you push these two magnets together.

Feynman: Listen to my question. What is the meaning when you say that there's a feeling? Of course you feel it. Now what do you want to know?

Interviewer: What I want to know is <q3>what's going on between these two bits of metal </q3>?

Feynman: They repel each other.

Interviewer: <q4> What does that mean, or why are they doing that, or how are they doing that? </q4> I think that's a perfectly reasonable question.

Feynman: Of course, it's an excellent question. But the problem, you see, when you ask why something happens, how does a person answer why something happens? For example, Aunt Minnie is in the hospital. Why? Because she went out, slipped on the ice, and broke her hip. That satisfies people. It satisfies, but it wouldn't satisfy someone who came from another planet and who knew nothing about why when you break your hip do you go to the hospital. How do you get to the hospital when the hip is broken? Well, because her husband, seeing that her hip was broken, called the hospital up and sent somebody to get her. All that is understood by people. And when you explain a why, you have to be in some framework that you allow something to be true. Otherwise, you're perpetually asking why."

I think Feynman properly responded to the questions asked -- people do thing that they have to "find a meaning" and "why" and talk about "the feeling."

Feynman properly answers there "of course you feel it!"

Follow very carefully his whole response (I link the transcript) -- it's deeply thought through and applicable to much more than just "feeling -- meaning -- why -- magnets." It's about the "why questions" and "meaning" questions in general, from the view of physics.
And why do you think a free curriculum of abstract CS concepts from a self-interested megacorp is going to change that?

How does that improve critical thinking among people compared to say, education about a country's history, governance structure, civil rights and legal system?

Frankly, reading HN comments on stories that aren't purely tech-related reflects something completely opposite to critical thinking; often the conversation is just variations of "I could build a software that solves this over a weekend".
No idea what kind of unreliable networks people get to use, but WebEx has been quite good during the last 10 years.
Price is too high for most. Needs a third pricing tier. 8 dollars 50 video chats. Highlight as most popular.

Lower free tier to 5 chats.

Get more users.
> A single family household from a single high school educated worker could support a house, a car, children, a non working spouse, food and utilities.

I'm not sure things are much different today vs back then. Two working parents were always the norm, even in the mythical 50/60s.
But still...As a prod manager,you aren't coming up with new projects every week, your entire job is to ensure the roadmap is decent and not taking the product into the graveyard. The company has so many people and yet can't produce a single product with a decent UX.
Mind sharing the link to your Hobby project for me to check it out? :)
Internships are more about fostering talent than making money off of intern labor. It makes sense to have something at the start of the talent pipe as well as towards the end of it.
> at least one reference to Cutler and Unix in the book purports to be a direct quote from one of the team

It could still be taken out of context, which was a common tactic of Zachary's when he wanted to misrepresent something. Or the team member the quote purports to be from could have been misunderstanding or misrepresenting or exaggerating Cutler's actual views, and Zachary could have picked that particular team member to quote from because it fit the narrative he was trying to construct, and ignored other team members who were saying different things.
If it's a monitor lizard, then monitoring is a big part of SRE.
If my livelihood depends on interacting with people, I need a super compelling reason to switch. Not to mention considering whether the hassle of using/maintaining Jitsi myself is worth billable rate doing work I’m actually interested in
I'm the founder of https://kontxt.io which is an integrative micro blogging platform that clones websites and converts PDFs (and most other documents since they can be converted to PDFs) to websites that's enhanced with real-time collaboration including highlights, comments, polls, @mentons, speedy navigation, etc. It lets you save, share, and respond to articles in context.

The collaborative technology can also easily be added to any website or blog, too!

I'll soon be adding search, a public feed like Twitter for discovery, and a way to extract and use highlights across articles. Check it out and let me know what you think.
Is Germany treating its coronavirus patients differently?
You’re putting words into my mouth I never mentioned microservices and think that largely they’re a mistake (except SSO). I also never mentioned node. At a glance I assume C# or Java would be the best fit but I’m not a system architect so my POV is probably mute.

Policy should define how a system works so go read that. It’s not like you build an entire system, delete the old one, drop in the new turn it on and really really hope that it just works as intended.

But you’re right, lets just pay IBM, SAP, Oracle billions every yeah because rebuilding is too hard.

But you keep projecting on me with opinions I don’t even agree with lol. I’d hate to ever work with you.

Edit: but like k8s or not, code defined infra is a good idea - even if k8s suffers a terrible death enough detail should be documented that migration into the next big thing won’t be terribly hard. but you shouldn’t worry about that, your legacy java fat client app has so many undocumented legacy dependencies that containerisation will never be an option lol.
Most of the things you have listed have existed long before the Resort ever came into existence. The people required to run the resort and the jobs they would be doing were already calculated with consideration of the existence of these tools.

So, it is a stretch to say that these are the productivity-boosters that have brought us into a post-scarcity+UBI phase of humanity. The real problem in our modern economy is very clearly our lack of productivity booster innovations. Most recent advancements in standard of livings have been in mobile apps and games. Wowzers.

True job productivity innovations are near nil in recent times, specifically for very physical businesses like a Resorts. Globalization does make certain things much cheaper, however. But, that doesn't really help the Resort and that is entirely different conversation all together.
> There are already different fees charged based on card types, which is why you see some merchants accept Ames/Discover and some not.

But those merchants are not allowed to accept both but pass through their fees.

Rather than seeing a prohibition on rewards, I'd rather see a prohibition on the anti-competitive terms that prevent merchants from passing through credit card processing fees. Then a card that charges less to the merchant would be just as good as a rewards card.
Evidence says otherwise. Hard data shows that conversions happen the most through these advertising networks. Can't deny the obvious. Unless you want us all to go back to the pre-Internet era where we cold called clients and vendors with a hope of getting leads. We have technology for a reason. Not all tech is bad. Not all advertising is bad either. It is the intent that matters.
In practice there's usually nothing wrong with it, but when something goes wrong it usually ends up being a big deal.
I'm seeing strong tensions between values considered to be fundamental; privacy, safety, freedom, etc. To me, it looks like COVID-19 has introduced a kind of CAP theorem for civil rights and we don't really have a good answer here.

Let's assume an ideal case of a perfect government with a good will. If a centralized authority have the perfect information and perfectly execute a quarantine measure, it will be so accurate that minimizes fatality and restrictions on freedom, but at the cost of extreme privacy invasion. If the government have less than perfect information or execution, you gotta choose either accuracy or recall for infected. The former will give you more freedom of action at a higher cost of life. The latter will restrict more freedom of action which also potentially leads to larger economical disasters, but will save more lives.

Even worse, this is not even a ternary choice but more of continuous, multi-dimensional one. Also, the good-will assumption made above distorts the reality in a very incorrect way. The solution space is likely much more complex (e.g. those values are not really mutually exclusive and interact each other in a subtle way) and we don't really understand what shape it is. Neither I know the right answer. But I can say that even values/rights that we assumed fundamental may conflict in the extreme situation like COVID-19 and we don't really understand what trade-offs we're forced to make and its consequences.
From the abstract of [1], Codd's stated motivation for applying relation theory to data storage:

"Activities of users at terminals and most application programs should remain unaffected when the internal representation of data is changed and even when some aspects of the external representation are changed."

From Section 1.4, "Normal Form":

"A relation whose domains are all simple can be represented in storage by a two-dimensional column-homogeneous array of the kind discussed above. Some more complicated data structure is necessary for a relation with one or more nonsimple domains. For this reason (and others to be cited below) the possibility of eliminating nonsimple domains appears worth investigating. There is, in fact, a very simple elimination procedure, which we shall call normalization."

As I read this, normalization was originally "about" making storage simpler than it was with contemporaneous models. Section 2.3 ("Consistency") discusses how "data bank state" can become inconsistent, and how such inconsistencies might be addressed, up to and including "the user or someone responsible for the security and integrity of the data is notified".

I think it's reasonable to infer that guaranteed transactional consistency (what I think kpmah means above by "correctness") and the space-saving properties of eliminating redundant data both happened later, and both fell out of the initial motivation of simplification.

[1] https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/03f/cis550/codd.pdf -- E. F. Codd, "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks"
What is BPF (in the context of iptables/nftables replacement) exactly? I tried searching for it, but only found some articles about early stage kernel support. Nothing about userspace or how to use it at all. It looks like there's still no BPF firewall at this time.
i have advanced degrees in mathematics and have interviewed for plenty of "STEM" jobs, so my take (pathetically wrong in your words) is from my direct experience. people do not value mathematics, whether they say they do or not. they want software engineers and data scientists already trained for what they're specifically working for. my mathematics experience has been completely marginalized because people do not value it and/or understand it. that's simply been reality.

> Maybe you might remember from your CS education (if you took one) how about 1/3rd of your coursework had to be outside of your major and you most likely had to take within your major some "Scientific Writing" or "Scientific Communication" classes.

this doesn't address anything that's at discussion here.

> The lack of profitability and job opportunities for humanities majors do a great job of that without some form of conspiracy against them...

so profitability is now the measure of whether a field is worthwhile or not? and i wasn't just talking about humanities fields. STEM marketing absolutely does affect the status quo, whether you think it does or not. we need people in those fields.
I mean, Google bans MS Office from employees' computers as well (with special-case exceptions), so they use Docs instead. Since Google has Meet (Hangouts), this isn't really surprising.

It mainly sucks for when an employee (especially in sales) has a call with a client that uses Zoom and can't use Meet, because then you're forced to dial in, which just puts you at a disadvantage when everyone can see everyone's face except yours.

Edit: per comments, people can still use the browser version of Zoom, so doesn't seem that bad.
Yes, that's the point of 230. It doesn't make anything legal that wasn't before, or illegal that was legal before. It simply assigns the responsibility of illegal content to the party that created it. Which is just a reasonable application of common sense.

I simply do not understand the motives behind people who want to abolish 230 - they would turn the internet into a stark split between heavily moderated websites, looking out only for their own liability because should they lay a finger on anything, they are culpable for everything - and unmoderated hellholes. Maybe they enjoy the hellholes and want more sites like that? Misery loves company.

I suspect most of the posters arguing against 230 are:

* Uninformed about what the law actually does

* Purposefully antagonistic and contrarian, or part of a coordinated troll campaign to sow discord

* Folks who have a bone to pick with big tech and will support any law, no matter how ridiculous, thinking it would cause big companies grief

* Spiteful that their post got moderated off a popular platform, and want websites to be forced to broadcast their content (despite this being a clear 1A violation of the company's rights)

* Really, truly, think that sites on the Internet should be either a wasteland or approval-only-posting, and you have to pick one

In any case, this kind of discussion around 230 is kind of burying the lede of the EARN IT act, which is a desperate attempt at not only further eroding 230 protections after the monstrosities of FOSTA/SESTA, but to allow the government to take away these common sense protections from a site unless they capitulate to government spying.

Which really should be the focus here, but somehow we're all distracted in the comments dismantling the faulty "platform or publisher, pick one!" argument again.
Perhaps some internal Hangouts deployment that uses the last known stable version.
I was planning to try it out. Can you explain what hasn't worked well for you?
Allo didn't have video, that was Duo's job. Hangouts Chat is their Slack/Discord competitor, and Hangouts Classic is the version that everyone has in Gmail. Hangouts Meet is their Zoom competitor. Both Hangouts Classic and Meet can video call, I believe. Chat piggybacks off of Meet. Hangouts Chat and Classic are named the same but are two different products.
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That's the general guidance in countries getting overrun by COVID-19. In countries which have stopped it, everyone wears facemasks. Chinese scientists have good data that surgical masks help in both directions.

Face shields reduce flow of air around you. Think of the six foot rule, but add a few more feet. They also reduce projectile sneezes (and "say-it-don't-spray-it" talking, coughs, and even breathing) by quite a bit. Think about sneezing in your elbow, only much better.
You're absolutely right. I have heard that argument first had used as a means to shut down an initiative as well. These philosophies require massive judgement calls from engineering leadership with payback periods tracked in years, not quarterly OKRs.
This only works if you are Soviet Russia vs the USA and your plan is to ruin the other by draining their money and you have equal pools of cash.

Spammers don't want to hurt the company they attack if they can help it, they need them!

I don't understand why ReCAPTCHA cost so much though. A human solving them is cheaper than a computer/human hybrid creating them?
This is lifechanging, the zoom native app is a security nightmare and the web experience is deliberately crap.
If you control both ends of an API, there's no reason not to use Thrift or equivalent (gRPC) rather than untyped JS. Even if you don't believe in typing in general, an API boundary is exactly where it's most important to make sure both sides agree on what the interface is.
My "anecdotes" are pretty easy to verify for yourself. Ask someone who has been around a while. The tourism industry has been recently in the news as place after place is groaning under the weight of tourists loving them to death.

housing - a couple factors at work here. Increasing population means housing is going to cost more. There's no getting around that.

education - you can get an MIT education for free on youtube. I've been filling in gaps in my education that way. For FREE!!! How awesome is that? The cost of attending college has indeed gone way up - due to government policy.

healthcare - this cost increase is driven by government policy.
Agreed. I think we overlook what really happens when power gets concentrated in a place where it's easy to seize. You make the state own everything? Well, who owns the state? All the people can't do that collectively, so you get some central authority. Once there's an authority, it attracts the least altruistic, most corrupt. It's really not even a problem with humans in general; it's a problem of statistics: There's going to always be some tiny fraction of really awful reasonably competent individuals. And the more power you concentrate, the more it's attractive to the very worst of us.
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Why do YouTube views freeze at 301? (2012)
My experience: On one computer it froze Firefox. On another computer it crashed Firefox. On my phone (Jitsi Meet via F-Droid): I once had a big meeting where it seemed like only call-in users could hear me, another time during a rather large meeting the application crashed, and recently I had a successful conference with 4 people.

The phone application had a few updates between the failures and the success, so perhaps everything's sorted out. I also need to give the desktop native application a try.

I'm rooting for them, I really hope we get a viable free software option. But we should be honest about the state of things right now.
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Some thoughts:

1. Google's threat model may not be your threat model, and it definitely isn't the threat model of my daughter's school. A corporation like Google may be concerned using native applications, written in unsafe languages, written by developers from other corporations in China. That said, Zoom isn't wrong for everyone.

2. Google is motivated to push their own solution for obvious reasons.

3. Tavis, or others, at Project Zero might know some things, maybe we'll find out.
Don't disagree but you can get pretty far before you need to drop into js. Shiny [0] is one of the nicest UI frameworks I've come across. Period. I'm not a front end developer and it's always a mental struggle to get started with something that just looks nice. Shiny does - straight out the box. For interactive apps (e.g. dashboards) it's really quite compelling.

For non-interactive content, R Markdown is also pretty good. At the risk of being cast out as a heretic, I prefer Rmd to jupyter for report style docs (the kind of data science thing jupyter is meant for). Rmd isn't limited to R; it has multiple back ends including Python (which is also supported in the RStudio IDE).

So again: not disagreeing. If you need to get the polish that e.g. D3 can give, you'll need to get dirty with JS. But you can get a pretty long way before that.

BTW: I have no affiliation with RStudio the company, just a very happy user of their offerings (paid and open source).

[0] https://shiny.rstudio.com/

[1] https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/
> because then you're forced to dial in, which just puts you at a disadvantage when everyone can see everyone's face except yours.

Can't they just participate in a call from the browser? I thought Google only banned the application/app, not usage of the service altogether.
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Can someone explain how this model works?

I see 1000-ish deaths in the US on the 5th. On the 7th, there are 1900-ish. What is the grounds for believing that the curve is headed down shortly after this?

Or, what is the calculation behind the estimate of deaths for day[n + 1]?
When I run for public office, my platform will be a 5 day week. 3 days work, 2 days off. Nobody likes Monday's and I'm willing to sacrifice Wednesday.
This is the worst kind of lazy, I-got-mine, rose-colored-glasses thinking. One step away from the preposterous claims we saw a few years ago about how nobody is really 'poor' anymore because cell phones and huge TVs.

I missed the note about the grinding cost-increases of college that people don't apparently need to work to pay for (and everyone apparently goes to!).

And the entry for the increasing deaths-of-despair rate that is turned the US life expectancy rate negative.

And the one for young folks' increasing need to delay what used to be normal young adult things, like home purchase and marriage. And...

I think what you mean is that, if you have money and are over 40, the world will cater to you. (And to be clear, I'm in that category, as are many here.)