skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The government should embrace that so far people resorted to wandering aimlessly as the method of entertainment because normally entertainment requires money and the same government that wants people to stay home deprived them of ability to obtain money by working.
Devil's advocate, I guess: 8 times the users, 8 times (at least) the number of people to notice those problems.

Especially when work from home is now at the center of our conversation, and journalistic outlets shift their attention to newly-popular services like Zoom and Houseparty.

Regarding your last example, I'm also continually confused at the claim that Zoom has been lying about end-to-end encryption. I don't see any place where they ever claimed to encrypt anything end-to-end except for chats, and only after enabling the feature:

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/207599823-End-To-E...

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362723-Encrypti...

When I'm in a Zoom meeting, it says that my connection is encrypted (the green E lock thing). It does not say "end-to-end." So I always assumed that just meant that the transport layer is encrypted.
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I hate Hcaptcha. It keeps presenting the same challenge over and over again. Everytime I need to access a site it protects it wastes so much time.
> I fear that LinkedIn is going down a similar path, post-acquisition.

While I'm sure it could be made worse, I didn't exactly hear anything good about LinkedIn pre-aquisition, either.
Sure, it's a minor detail. And yes, you can say the audience for this post are people who work in cybersecurity. But it costs nothing to introduce the acronym, as is usually recommended. Without it you are alienating anyone who doesn't know the term.
That's a straw man. GP argues that Zoom's increased popularity implies increased public scrutiny. Not that the problems are OK.

There's lots and lots of insecure software that Bloomberg doesn't write about. People click on articles about software they use.
> rapidly catching up for a segment of the userbase, eg. photopea.com

How true is this? There's popularity, and there's significance in the face of Photoshop's market hold. I'd love to believe there's some significant dent being made in Adobe's market share here, but I doubt it.
If your bidet can't wash off some sticky feces, you simply have a weak bidet. That's one of the main instances where bidets are so nice instead of wiping and wiping.
An Amazon recruiter recently reached out to me, and I asked what they were doing to support their warehouse and retail staff during their crisis, before we continued. He did not have an acceptable answer, so I declined to proceed with an interview.

I suggest y'all do the same. This super-wealthy company is failing to provide for its less-fortunate employees, so we more-fortunate potential employees have to create an incentive for them to do so.
A free trial isn't the same as "free for low volume / hobby usage". Not sure if that's what the OP is after, but it's what I'm after.

And to head off a couple of popular distortions/digressions:

1. There's a difference between wanting a free hobby tier and believing that I'm owed a free hobby tier.

2. Just because a company should be paid for their work doesn't imply that I'm obligated to use their product.
Meh, Sanders was dead in the water before Covid shut things down. Sanders was done as soon as it was down to him and Biden. The populist wing of the Democratic Party was enough to make Sanders win against five other candidates, but not strong enough to make him win against one centrist.
I agree - there is a great book by Paul Nahin. I bought it since I wanted to understand how someone got the idea of using complex numbers in electrical engineering. But I have found the book to be very hard to skim. I really have to work along with it to understand the technicalities.
Jitsi simply forwards the video streams between users, whereas some proprietary services seem to re-encode everything into a single stream. So in a large conference each client might have to deal with decoding dozens of high-resolution streams. This is probably very difficult to solve without reducing video quality.
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I'm actually of the exact opposite opinion - for the majority of websites just shoving GA on it and calling it a day is quite sufficient... It's only if your website really lives and dies by making sure users are hitting the important components and converting into paying customers that a more feature-full analytics tool may be valuable.
With any website it's important to know how many visitors it is receiving. In the context of a blog knowing you're getting a lot of traffic can motivate you to publish more content and knowing more about your visitors can also feed into what sort of content you publish. You could look at your server logs, of course, but analytics is easier to set up and gives you higher quality data than something like AWStats. Since Google lets you opt out of sharing your data with them I don't see much argument against using it.
High intelligence and educational achievement has nothing to do with morality. Some of the worst human beings I have ever encountered were very successful and competent engineering professionals.
First, the code around the L4 kernel (Pistachio) is still available. I've cloned it to github here so as to not overload jkb's personal server (still in the origin):

https://github.com/wazoox/FreeVMS

What's missing:

- L4 Pistachio is unsupported...

- Memory management (VMS style) is to be implemented.

- Drivers.

The website is still online somewhere, I hope to know the URL soon :) I'll add it to the github README.
I had an application to open a new bank account rejected because my signature was not close enough to the one they had on file. I tried resolving things over the phone, but no luck. So I closed all my other accounts and switched to a different bank.
What are these mysterious objects filmed flying close to the moon? / Boing Boing
Thanks,
It does support multiple page, it will add a randomly chosen signature at the same place every page.

The ui is going to be a lot more complicated to code. Maybe I'll give it a try someday.
> "[GA]...doesn't have creepy features that let you spy on individual users"

google reserves that for itself so as not to lose it's dominance of online advertising and targeting. why would they share their bread and butter with the little guys?
Awesome! I've been wondering how to do this, since I normally take calls in a quiet room with headphones, so there's no need for noise canceling. It would be nice if you could enable this on a per-call basis, though.
Upvote for mynoise.net. This is a more accurate representation, in my opinion. They have a lot of high quality sounds, and we play the baby shush sounds for our infant almost everyday.
I'll add installation instructions to the Readme tomorrow, thanks for pointing that out.
Many students aren't old enough to create their own accounts and getting parents to create accounts and provide credentials is a bureaucratic mess for the schools I volunteer with.
This audio processing is trivially deactivable by the websites themselves. Instead of doing:

> navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia({audio: true}).then(...)

to get a stream of the input device, one can do:

> navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia({audio: { autoGainControl: false, noiseSuppression: false, echoCancellation: false }}).then(...)

similarly, an _existing_ input audio stream can have its settings changed while it's running like so:

> stream.applyConstraints({ autoGainControl: true, noiseSuppression: true, echoCancellation: true })

this for examples re-enables the processing that we put on voice by default.

This probably works everywhere, we've written a blog post about this that explain a few more things: https://blog.mozilla.org/webrtc/fiddle-of-the-week-audio-con....

If the website doesn't want to offer a control to switch this on/off, I'm confident this can be done by a browser extension in no time (which would have the benefit to work for all websites).
Even the Chinese HDMI-UVC adapters are out of stock, I ordered a decent looking one from Banggood ( https://www.banggood.com/1080P-HD-4K-60Hz-HDMI-to-USB3_1-Typ... ) that still showed a few in stock several weeks ago, it hasn't shipped and now shows they don't expect to have any for at least another week or two.
He's trying to get the point across that "X don't really know on a fundamental level why X" for any group of people X and observation Y, if by "on a fundamental level" you mean "is not based on something assumed to be true". He's not uncomfortable with it, anyone with a scientific or engineering background knows that (or at least should know that). That doesn't stop predictions obtained from well-tested models from being useful.
Isn't GA itself a third-party JavaScript library that you can just plug-in and get started with?

Why do you need framework specific libraries on top of that?
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RPM equivalent is gtk4-devel (here: version 3.98.2), provides /usr/bin/gtk4-demo and /usr/bin/gtk4-demo-application. I just tried them.

A pox on you, Gnome developers! You yet again broke the colour scheme. It comes as no surprise, you did so with (at least) versions 3.2, 3.4, 3.6, 3.16, 3.18… You have been doing that over such a long time (>9 years) and so often that even seasoned desktop environment developers working on infrastructure throw up their hands and walk away in disgust. See https://github.com/QtCurve/qtcurve-gtk3 and https://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/gnome-et-al-rotti...

Gnome developers truly deserve the moniker of shame "cascade of attention deficit teenagers" because you absolutely do not take responsibility for the outcome of your decisions and refuse to acknowledge that environments other than Gnome exist where end users might want to run Gtk applications (e.g. Firefox).
If it doesn't, please do not hesitate to open an issue and I'll look into it :)
Thanks! I fell out of the loop with this.
So Google Analytics is largely popular because it's a recognizable brand, and not really because it's actually a easy-to-use and useful product, and you're going to claim the same for Google Docs, and for Google Buzz and GChat and GPlus and Google Wave?
Why is AOC not eligible for presidency?
Plausible, Fathom [1] and Simple Analytics [2] are very similar in features. While self hosting is not supported, plausible is Open Source [3] running on Elixir and Postgre. It is also the most affordable out of three, starting at $6 only.

I am not sure why HN are so negative about this post, when two years ago everyone were cheering for GA alternatives.

Although I do agree it needs to add "Pricing" in the Navigation section.

[1] https://usefathom.com

[2] https://simpleanalytics.com

[3] https://github.com/plausible-insights/plausible
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What is you setup look like ? If you have largely 1:1 meetings you can enable p2p mode only , video will directly be shared between users. I have had no problems delivering 100-150 concurrent sessions at ~1 Gbps per bridge, beyond that we usually cluster the bridge ( Octo is out of the box solution jitsi uses for this)
I'm sorry, but that's really embarrassing on your behalf. This is a lowly tech recruiter that has absolutely nothing to do with the warehouse and retail staff, and you're asking them questions that are suited for Amazon executives. Do you ask McDonald's cashiers what they're doing about humane slaughter and plant-based alternatives before buying a McFlurry?
What are the false positives rate?

This would affect death rate calculations
How is this unbiased? Your LRANK product looks at geographies. How can you avoid discriminating against marginalized populations in bad neighbourhoods? How are people supposed to come up in the world if you rank them based on where they're from. You got some serious white privilege with this sh*t.
French guy living in the US now. I miss "Eau de Cologne" deeply.
We've used it with fevers, headaches, indigestion... and my 95 y/o grandpa still uses it daily.

My understanding is the custom is probably more widespread than it being endemic to Turkey.
And probably as relevant. I think it will have a great effect on the tech scene as well.
Their website seems to indicate that so long as you are a student, faculty or staff a a participating university and you don't invest more than $850 then the federal government won't come after you.

> Provider has received a no-action-letter from the Division of Market Oversight of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Without explicitly asserting jurisdiction over Provider or any of its submarkets, this letter, dated October 29, 2014, extended no-action relief to Provider's Political and Economic Indicator Markets (the latter limited to students, faculty and staff of participating universities). The letters are available at the CFTC website as part of their Freedom of Information Act documents. Pursuant to this letter, there is “a limit of 5000 total traders in any particular contract”, and “a limit on investment by any single participant in any particular contract [of] $850”.

https://www.predictit.org/terms-and-conditions
> people with the clout to make this happen

You said you are in Australia? The Australian government has the clout to make this happen.
This is a really good point. It's very disingenuous of the parent article to not mention that. Google being a Processor of data removes their ability to use this data for targeting and profiling.
I wish jitsi supported mobile browsers. People get really turned off at having to install yet another video conferencing app (YAVCA).
I think the only effect this is gonna have is make you feel good about yourself lol

(not saying you should feel good about yourself for this either though)
The less fortunate employees still have to pay rent. With your approach, now there's just less people in the company who could have fought for them from within.
You're confusing general and specific cases. Computer people should introspect more often, because we approach problems trying to solve them in general when an solving it for specific cases on a per case basis is called for. I can't evaluate any given claim as true or not, but I am perfectly comfortable evaluating the truth of the four cases I mentioned as well as millions of others. Further, I'm perfectly happy saying "I don't know". I'd probably be perfectly capable giving a 1-10 score on the truth of most things. Further, it would be perfectly approachable to use a variant of graph spectral theory (using pagerank as an example) to score people as sources of information.

This isn't as hard as the generalized solution. I don't have to deal with Godel or Turing limits on the possibility of computability and provable truth to know QAnon is a bunch of lunatics and that I should ban them from a forum if I don't want them to ruin it. There are a bunch of things that are more borderline and what to include and not include is an editorial decision for community owners / moderators. Further, the "<bad actor> will abuse this and you'll be one the other end of it some day": guess what, bad actors will act badly. They will abuse the system anyway, there is no way to prevent that.
The German usage of "handy" as a noun does not exist in English. "My handy camera" doesn't mean "my mobile camera", it means "my camera that is conveniently at hand".

("Mobile phone" isn't very common in the US either. Common usage used to be "cell phone" or "smart phone", but is now simply "phone".)
Yeah, I removed GA from my websites years ago, when I realized that I didn't look at GA output pretty much at all for many years prior. I also started being more careful about whom I give control over my domain/websites.

0 value for my personal websites. All the value for Google.
You can approach your problem from the other end. How can you best choose side projects, so that the ones you start are the ones with more chances to get to a satisfying conclusion.

I wrote about it this week on my blog:
https://filipesilva.me/blog/how-to-choose-your-next-side-pro...
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Is this what is called Grapher in macOS Catalina?
Hard drives are pretty cheap, particularly for a government. Store it all now, target your analysis narrowly later at your leisure.
If you're so concerned about GDPR, probably hotjar is a good choice. It's free for personal use and it's all EU based.
Zoom/slack/skype do have iOS clients. I've just been using a plugged in iPhone instead of a webcam.
How about this? https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-gun-sales-asian-califor.... Asians don't exactly fit the traditional stereotypes for firearms purchasers but the attacks described and similar bad behavior directed at international students from Asia on college campuses certainly show that there are people out there willing to attack them based on imagined threats and therefore some level of concern by Asians for their personal safety is merited.
Hate to break it to you, but the cow's lives were written off when they were born.
Why is that? Is each of the participants audio/video going over the server so that you need p^2 bandwidth? Are there cool P2P tricks they are/could be using?

I've been wondering about videoconferencing scale, since Zoom seems to have handled a huge explosion in usage very well. Are they just very good at autoscaling AWS instances, or do they use cool tricks to reduce bandwidth?
Over and over it seems like we've reached peak STEM career grooming and then there's more
I actually think his explanation is right on. Physicists are practical. They make model to quantitatively describe their experiments. Understanding fundamental truth is kind of a by-product.

They generally follows a reductionist approach, so a simpler model that can explain a wider set of experiments is a better model. But there's no guarantee that a simpler explanation is the "truth". All we can say is this approach "makes sense".
Today Ext.NET announced support of ASP.NET Core with a completely rearchitectured engine optimized for high load and better performance.
Much of the hold up is Firefox's lack of simulcast support.

There are a few tracking tickets in Bugzilla for that effort.
They really should follow up with the patients 14 days later and badger them to donate.
I would not touch a Wyze camera with a 10 foot pole. Given the recent enormous security breaches, the likely connections to the Chinese government, and the incredibly low price point, there are red flags waving everywhere.

Read this blog series about Wyze, and then make up you mind if you are comfortable having that piece of hardware in your home. I think it is pretty clear the risks are not trivial.

https://blog.12security.com/tag/wyze/
> G. Pascal Zachary

I don't consider him a reliable source; he had a reputation for scandal mongering and misrepresentation.
Are you certain they don’t?
No idea if that's true or not regarding Google Analytics, but you can opt out of all data sharing and I imagine Google would be in a lot of trouble if they didn't honour that.
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I'm sorry, I was wrong. It requires a license from the State Encryption Management Commission: http://www.cryptolaw.org/cls2.htm#prc

I am not a lawyer nor a cryptography expert who can advise whether licenses are granted easily or whether they are revoked if you fall out of favour.
This depends entirely on the quality of the video sent.
Signal went under a microscope during a critical time (Snowden leaks) and not only succeeded but changed how everyone else was doing it or at least set a new bar. Which then proceeded to help hundreds of millions of people as apps like WhatsApp adopted their crypto.
Yahoo was the default from around 2014-2017 in the United States.
Hah, speak for yourself. These aren't as uncommon as you think.
just tried this out between my two laptops. pretty neat. you can chat too and the message will show up over the video.

it would be great if this worked for spotify as well so you could listen to a new album release or whatever
you have to be 35.
Here is how to enable this Zoom feature ("Preserve Original Sound"):

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115003279466-Prese...
This reminded me of a mythbusters from years ago where they defeat a door lock fingerprint scanner. Found this (more relevant) video of touchid being defeated by fake fingerprints (2014) while trying to find it-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u4ZLGsw1zo
Yeah, this article was submitted by a SaaS marketing expert: https://markosaric.com/

There are some misleading parts of the article, which makes it even worse (e.g. by default Google uses the data from GA to profile users).
Dr. Fauci said the only thing you can count on are positive test results, so I would assume false positives are much more rare, but I'm not qualified to say. I do think it's safe to discount a negative test result, especially if you also test negative for flu A/B but still have flu like symptoms and difficulty breathing. Hopefully soon, antibody testing will be available and much more accurate.
I don't think he would pick Elizabeth Warren. She's a powerful ally in the Senate.
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You can run z/VM under the LPAR and host multiple Linux images under it, or host Linux directly on the LPAR and use KVM to split it into smaller VMs. The penalty for CPU oversubscription seems relatively small with the almost a gigabyte of L4 cache in every processor drawer.

I'm not buying one (sadly it's a bit over my impulse buy threshold), but I'd love to play with one.
Non fiber upload speed is a farce. I assume it’s just something like 20mbps shared in a neighborhood of 50 or 100 homes, and the ISP lets it burst to 10mbps or something for a couple minutes and then throttles you down again.

There’s a reason it’s never advertised by cable ISPs.
But we don’t have the cases. I am not the Australian government, but if you happen to have the direct line to our PM I will be most happy for you to make a call and set up a meeting.
Predictions are hard, especially about the coronavirus
There seems to be a lot of tag abuse in their catalog for exposure, although I'm not sure if artists are assigning their own tags or if it's done by an algorithm. I'm trying to find "classical" music and I'm getting a lot of electronic/jazzy stuff. Try to search for "flute" instruments and I couldn't find one track on the first page of results that had a flute in it.
I don't think there was an implication to the contrary. I read that comment as an explanation for why any lawsuit would come from the shareholders rather than the users.
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Bitrate is a useful indicator. It's the amount of information that is directly linked to maximum quality, there are bounds on what can be compressed by how much.

Fact is, x265 can do 25-33% smaller size than x264 for equivalent visual quality. The higher gain at higher resolutions (2k, 4k) that were not well supported by older codecs anyway. You can refer to Netflix own papers on that.

Services doing half the bandwidth have reduced quality. The improvement in codec can only explain half the reduction, the other half is grossly lowering quality (to reduce costs and work with mediocre home connections). That's not necessarily bad for customers, better have a pseudo HD stream than no stream.
I set up Zoom for our company and nothing like this happened. It seems much more likely (than your wild conspiracy theory) that your company added a "basic", rather than "licensed" account for you and you got an email as a result.
I used to follow him on Twitter but got a conspiracy vibes from him. Got the same in this post. After other noted here that he has some kind of Grand theory of physics, that sadly experts dont agree with, I mentally classify him as a crackpot from now on