skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What is unclear to me is why a company cannot hire more people and each person gets fewer hours.

For technical roles, I can think of some downsides. It would presumably mean more employees, each with shallower institutional knowledge, and more general management+communication challenges (think Mythical Man Month).

I'm reminded of the question of whether it's a good idea to overwork junior doctors to the point they're undeniably sleep-deprived (which I understand is standard practice). I believe studies found that although sleep-deprived doctors do get patients killed, it's worse to increase the number of times patients are passed between different doctors.

If you're doing 'stateless' work, like retail, the game changes.
Google allows personal software to be installed in a corp laptop, subject to restrictions and limitations like this. It's not encouraged, though, and if something happens because you installed a third party software then it's your responsibility.
Google Meet is the only one of these that has always worked reliably for me. Doesn't require any strange clients, works in most browsers, never randomly fails to move just some person's audio and so on.

Disclaimer: I work for Alphabet, but already held this opinion before I did.
This reads like it is specifically targeting zoom.
Not nearly as good.
I'm not referring the general concept. I've asked for a source that supported the claim that covid19 patients that "don't get it really bad" have been found to not get immune.
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This account will be deleted on 4/10/2020
Don't think it's too uncommon to be able to install Spotify on a work computer.
We used Zoom during sales into Google. Therefore, our prospect had to install Zoom.
There was a running joke (out of frustration, really) back when I was at Google (2013) that Hangouts was happily adding hundreds of new emoji, yet did not consider "reliable message delivery" to be a key feature.

Some of this is consumer vs. enterprise tension, though. Emoji demo really well on an initial product tour; reliability is one of those key features that's really hard to get people excited about, but which people hate to find lacking.
Google figured out a magic formula:

1. develop a service (e.g., search)

2. provide the service for free to users

3. sell ads (unobtrusively placed within the service) to marketers

4. profit!

Most companies cannot seem to figure out (or afford to get to) step 3. Google's new services generally muck up the formula. E.g., with Stadia, they've broken the magic formula at both step 2 and step 3:

1. develop Stadia

2. provide Stadia to users for a monthly fee and/or per game fee (not free means no network effect)

3. ????

4. Profit!
Because then you don't impede people who might need a new widget installed because everyone and their mother in IT needs to try it and test it before you can use it.

Especially at Google scale, where the BeyondCorp system described in their papers could automatically see when an endpoint was doing something naughty, block the user from accessing corporate resources, and give the user information on how to fix it, instead of blocking them from installing anything (even if what they want is perfectly harmless).
> They almost never had to, so that's a pretty lousy bar to use.

That's a pretty naive thing to say IMO. Humans almost always had to work that much, especially after agriculture was invented.
From the article, only slightly misquoted:

> Employees who have been using Zoom [...] can continue to do so through a web browser or via mobile.
This model doesn't quite make sense to me. The layer of idiocy is extremely expensive-- not only do you have to pay their salaries and associated operations costs, but they also introduce enormous inefficiencies. Everything moves slower. It's hard to find important information because it's lost in a sea of bullshit. People make locally optimal decisions that are suboptimal for the company.

The costs of all this are enormous. Is maintaining this army really cheaper than just handing the reigns to ops people and paying them more in proportion to their increased leverage?
> AMA

Alright ;-). For someone who already owns a CPAP for sleep apnea, is it of any use should they get infected with corona?
Users can too, at least I can, but probably there is a karma threshold.
Staying at home and limiting spread is the most effective way to help professionals.

PPE helps limit spread. The trick is to buy stuff which doesn't take away from doctors. Cotton masks. Face shields. Etc.

In contrast to nonwoven fabric, a toy factory can produce a billion face shields if you want it to. You can but them online for a buck (in quantities of 10). It ain't taking away from anyone.
Tuition and healthcare seems to be USA specific. Most other rich countries have them solved.

Housing is more general of a problem, probably because it's also considered investment (with zoning as a way to add value), renting is a business...
Well there's two things. There is the 'minimum viable dose' which you can estimate for various diseases, that will most likely result in an infection. And then there is the dose size (above that minimum).

With an exponential curve, whether you start off with 10,000 or 100,000, given that it takes about 2 weeks for our adaptive immunity to kick in, the virus is going to be in the hundreds of millions in either case.

[I work in vaccines, but not as a scientist, so I'm just trying to absorb as much as possible here..]
Musicians already deal with that kind of issue when doing particular kinds of performance (e.g. famously at Wagner's festival opera house, where the orchestra is in a deep pit below the singers).
Is protocol-driven Covid-19 respiratory therapy doing more harm than good?
"Grooming" is frequently used to describe preparing someone for a promotion or otherwise high-profile position (e.g. "Groomed for leadership").

Examples: https://www.google.com/search?q=wsj+%22groomed+for%22&rlz=1C...
I had a similar problem once at my bank while submitting some inconsequential form but for bureaucratic reason the signature in the form had to match with what they had in the file.

As I had opened account with them years back, I couldn’t recollect what I had signed then. The clerk at the desk helpfully turned her display for me to take a quick glance at the signature in the file which I copied in the form. Thanked her well.
"Starting a war to deflect from problems at home", what the heck would you call the invasion of Tibet then?

And while not literally a war, what purpose do you think the bellicose suppression of the fact of Taiwanese independence both domestically and abroad serves?

Some people seem so obsessed with the country they live in, they can't see the rest of the world properly. An over focus on domestic politics distorts everything with parochialism.
I will add that to my todo list. In the meantime feel free to use the dummy account I posted in another reply to play around with the app.
> I'm not sure if there is a credible reason for the end-user to switch from iOS or Android to this.

It's hard for people to decide whether to switch from iOS or Android to something else when we don't really have something else to switch to. I don't think the Gnome Shell UI would offer a better experience then iOS and Android on a phone but it would work well on tablets and ultra portable touch screen devices. iOS and Android's UI on tablets just feels like your using a big clunky phone.
This looks quite good but it’s not clear to me (browsing from a phone) what the IAP enables?
So has Google Meet and Hangouts. So was Skype, when I used it about 5 years ago.

Perhaps I'm just used to them as a remote worker, but they were never all that janky to begin with. Or, rather, more janky than the other tools available at the time.
The Code execution vulns for both OSX and Win10 probably. In windows clicking a UNC path link would pass hashs. I believe for OSX there was an installer trick that allowed any code to run if triggered.
Before laptop makers started adding them en masse, there very much was an appreciable market for camera-less machines.
Microsoft Futex Patent
It's pretty bad. I tried it alongside Zoom and Zoom was waaay better quality. Plus if you need anything more than very basic features Hangouts isn't an option. Hell it doesn't even have a gallery view. Forget recording, auto-muting participants, etc.
I was recently learning to play go using gnugo[1].

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/
Have been our work official one for nearly 7 years. Works, and has h.323, sip, phone, webrtc. That said, it's very simple, wit just about minimal features.
Context matters:

The fines must be effective, proportionate and dissuasive for each individual case. For the decision of whether and what level of penalty can be assessed, the authorities have a statutory catalogue of criteria which it must consider for their decision. Among other things, intentional infringement, a failure to take measures to mitigate the damage which occurred, or lack of collaboration with authorities can increase the penalties. For especially severe violations, listed in Art. 83(5) GDPR, the fine framework can be up to 20 million euros, or in the case of an undertaking, up to 4 % of their total global turnover of the preceding fiscal year, whichever is higher. But even the catalogue of less severe violations in Art. 83(4) GDPR sets forth fines of up to 10 million euros, or, in the case of an undertaking, up to 2% of its entire global turnover of the preceding fiscal year, whichever is higher.

https://gdpr-info.eu/issues/fines-penalties/
They were even more poor because Communism destroyed the free market and the will of anyone to create business or meaningful economic activity.
The irony is that a lot of things you list are causing huge challenges for the environment and are not sustainable, so maybe a golden age for your generation not so much after.
Some of the features from Wave also made it into Google Docs, albeit somewhat evolved. (Specifically here, I'm talking about the algorithm for handling collaborative edits)
Is there a way to suggest additions to the page? Wireshark supports WireGuard dissection and decryption[1], and the pcapng[2] file format has a block type defined for WireGuard secrets.

[1]https://wiki.wireshark.org/WireGuard

[2]https://github.com/pcapng/pcapng
Uber wants to redefine employment, labor groups are fighting back
Nearly half of global coal plants will be unprofitable this year
It's fascinating to see people's experiences.

I've been using WebEx in enterprise/corporate environment for couple of years intensively, and it "just works". I can download desktop client, but I can also just run it on browser.

Zoom always wants to install weird clients that violate policies and cause my corporate laptops to refuse or bork.

I recognize my experience may be a minority one, but I'm surprised, genuinely, at this perception that it's "the one video conferencing software" that works.
> Something I'd like to see massive companies do too is offer lower skilled internships.

or how about train? companies are part of the problem they complain about. companies do not value onboarding or training their own workforce. training smart people on the job is the best way to ensure success for both the company and the individual.

if these companies are so advanced and full of smart people and apparently think they know something about education, you think hiring would be much easier if they adjusted their hiring instead of looking for people that are carbon copies of themselves.
For an example of Zachary's methods from the viewpoint of someone he interviewed and then misrepresented, see here:

https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/chapter2_99.html
> worked reliably for me

Every second time I’m using it, I either don’t hear the other people, or people do not hear me. YMMV.
i've never used prolog seriously despite having a few problems very well suited for declarative solutions - variants of job shop scheduling, rule based workflows, etc. most reasons for why prolog didn't take off in my job are non-technical - it looks weird, it's hard to debug, integration with python isn't obvious and one worry i had (never tested) was that while the idea is to tell the computer about the problem, the real art was placing cuts.
I'm surprised to hear that google meet doesn't work well for others. We've used it exclusively with all our clients for the past 5 years simply because its integrated into google calendar, but we've never had any reliability problems with it. Most problems we have are based around people trying to figure out how to unmute their conference room mic.
This is all false. Try to find a scientific citation. I dare you.

N95 masks, incorrectly fitted, are at least as effective as surgical (in studies, they came out ahead, but not by a statistically-significant amount).

In conjunction with handwashing, surgical and N95 masks make a huge difference.
Non-profit data scientists attack Covid (Dallas)
> 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.

Google's threat model surely differs in some way from a school, but the specific threats you named seem like threats equally applicable to the surfaces identifiable in the threat model of a school.
Coding Is Not Everything: A Systems View of Startup Development
> Than turns your computer into a toaster

That kinda applies to any modern client. H.323 and SIP are ok, but webrtc is brutal.
If you have these issues, especially so frequently, I'd wager it's a problem on your end.
This is especially vague combined with the Facebook ad: ‘Start reacting today. Connect to the world’.

Listening to the music of: women. Sounds like I’m starting at the very basics.
I thought it was interesting when Twitch partners started talking about a Twitch policy that seems to hold the partner responsible for moderating their own chat. That is, if you are a partner and you have community members posting prohibited content into your Twitch chat then you stand to pay the penalty through a ban or losing your partnership. You are forced to moderate your own chat thereby relieving Twitch of having to do so (and presumably giving them some plausible argument that they are enforcing some level of site wide moderation).

It was interesting to see the reactions of these streamers since they aren't typical business people or legal experts. There was quite some debate amongst them about the fairness of the streamer being held responsible for random trolls that entered their chats. When I considered the viewpoint of individuals instead of corporations it did expand my view of responsibility/accountability.
There is the thing that all Zoom keys are kept and maintained in China. I wonder if this is not the main concern.
Lists like this are the reason Google superseded Yahoo.

It was never hard to find these entries. What’s hard is getting an informed opinion on why to choose one option and not another.
I presume a shortage is far more destabilizing for the most essential things than a higher price.

Plus the government can act as a central buyer to back those who have the greatest needs. That and companies should be responsible for providing protection for employees
GraphQL Mesh – Query anything, run anywhere
If you are the one that creates life-changing automation, in most cases you've probably signed over your invention to the corporation that you work for, they give you a one-time bonus and get all of the rights. The owners then use the government to get a monopoly to use that invention, denying it to others. Automation takes capital to deploy effectively, and most of the rewards go to the owners of that capital, with relatively little going to the inventor.
I agree.

We have this or skype for b as approved. 10% of all meetings in skype bugs out and at least one person can not hear the rest or gets kicked out or can not see the others in the meeting. Or someone is presenting and a mandatory update is being rolled out and computer restarts but this is more related to the OS.

Zoom just works and you hear each others so much better. Stable and working. Lets hope all these new features makes it more secure.
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/07/22/modern-american-me...

There were a couple periods where the norm for many was horribly long factory hours. But in the long view it was definitely not normal to work 16 hour days, year round, with modern minimal break lengths.
It's always nice to see how other teams do it. Nothing too groundbreaking here but that's a good thing.

I did notice the screenshot of "Checkpoint", their deployment tracking UI. Are there solid open source or SaaS tools doing something similar? I've seen various companies build similar tools but most deployment processes are consistent enough to have a 3rd-party tool that was useful for most teams.
This is very similar to the process fb had for years. With some caveats (prod deploys once a week, handled by a central team)

I think this kind of process can last a company well into the thousands of engineers.

Great work
Google’s reputation as an employer stems in large part from rejecting that belief, and more generally the enterprise bureaucratic culture it lives in.

Engineers aren’t clamoring to get into the kinds of companies where IT needs to pre-approve software for their workstations.
It's missing too many features to be usable. No remote control. The speaker detection is terrible. Audio quality is bad. We only use it because we are cheap and it comes free.
Heya! We have given some thought to implementing CI, reviews, and a sandbox environment.

We've built out some testing functionality that allows users to test their workflows and steps, and we're going to continue down this road to eventually provide our users version control and sandbox environments. It's currently seen as a "nice-to-have" for even our production users, so the timing of when it's implemented is still unclear.
To be a fair comparison you either need to compare java to clojure or spring boot to whatever the comparable libraries would be in clojure.
So no one can turn free human labour into enough money to pay hosting fees?

And given spammers a lot of the time are messing with Google, it's also in Google's interest to do this for free!

What are they thinking? Is this one department make $100 internally while killing $1000 in another internal department?
To Tune Up Your Quantum Computer, Better Call an AI Mechanic – NIST
Major did well, he only had 5 years of experience when he became Chancellor. Rishi had 2, both more junior than any of majors. I wonder if Rishi will do better than Major (recession, expulsion from the ERM, Mad cow, confidence votes)...
I couldn't get it to work in Firefox ESR on Debian 10, and audio was consistently choppy for me in Chromium 80 after I went through their forced account creation process. Zoom wouldn't use my camera either in Chromium :c

Jitsi and Google Meet worked by following a link and clicking one popup. Much easier UX
This little bit is a gem.

"Twitter may share this information with these partners before you’ve signed up for Twitter (e.g. when you first open the app before creating an account) as disclosed prior to download in the Twitter app description in the App Store and Google Play, but does not offer you control over this data sharing until after you’ve created a Twitter account.*"

If I don't have an account, how could I have possibly have agreed to anything? Do the permissions on the phone give the app everything about me as soon as I download it?

What about situations where the phone comes preinstalled with this crap? Does the act of buying such a phone automatically mean Twitter now knows where I live and my taste in pornography?
I, too, have read the linked article.
> In December, I spent most of two days studying “Las Meninas” during a visit to Madrid, when I believed that my end was near. I had set myself the task of ignoring all received theories about this voluminously analyzed masterpiece and, on the spot, figuring out its maddening ambiguities...Presuming to grasp the whole is like hazarding a unified theory of relativity and quantum physics.

At the risk of coming off as reductionist, I've never understood how the work of a single human being can be elevated and studied on this level.

One could study the masterful techniques of craftsmanship, one could study the artist as a person, one could study the cultural context surrounding the work. One could even meditate on it and create one's own experiences that go above and beyond the artist's intentions. This last, at least, could be called "boundless" in some sense.

But there is not an entire universe to be discovered in a painting (or a book, or a symphony). There is no hidden truth underlying it all, just waiting to be found through analysis, whose scope escapes the bounds of the human context in which it was made.

I sometimes wonder what a classical novelist would think of being told that entire academic careers have been made out of nothing but studying his or her works. I like to think most of them would be appalled that people are doing that instead of creating works of their own.
Predicting in-flight air density for more accurate landing
Use it. It's "OK." It's integrated with room systems. Use primetime for bigger broadcast-style meetings. However, I've switched to Google Meet for when I set up meetings, in part because it's better integrated with Google Calendar so it's just easier (fewer steps).

I'm not sure one is necessarily better than the other once you're in the call but I prefer Meet for the Calendar integration.
You can add Firefox VPN to the list too.
> I wish I had time to learn it. I always wonder why it doesn't get more attention.

pre-answered your own question really. Prolog 'died' in the AI winter, so no one knows it and no one knows anyone who knows it. Every time you think "huh I bet this is like 100 lines in Prolog" it doesn't matter because writing 2000 lines of Java (or whatever you know) is still going to be faster than learning Prolog.

This is also the problem with literally any comment about "using the right tool for the job" with regards to programming languages.
Airlines to Cut Summer Flights Up to 90%
A weak bidet... Or too many Quarter Pounders in your diet.
Do they use Kubernetes at Slack?
The DO NOT slurp your contacts.

They invented a way to do contact discovery in a secure way: https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/. From the article:

"Using this service, Signal clients will be able to efficiently and scalably determine whether the contacts in their address book are Signal users without revealing the contacts in their address book to the Signal service."

This is why Signal gets so much benefit of the doubt from the cryptography/security/privacy community. Their default approach to these problems is conservative in favor of the user until they can invent the technology needed to support a feature with security/privacy.
It was, of course, never intended to be used as an authenticator, nor a secret in any way.
> You hope bureaucrats do not act ... nothing is effectively stopping them from not being nice other than some platitudes

One argument goes something like this:

The state always reserves the right to extinguish you, either by execution or permanent non-judicial incarceration, regardless of laws.

We all can only always hope state-level actors don't abuse their powers.

Whether they are or aren't at any particular time is somewhat subjective.
It would not work for us, but I appreciate the spirit of trying to save trees from pointless markings. Love it.