skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this the same service I'll have been using if my company has Google Suite and we've been using meet.google.com to run meetings? Asking because I've had the opposite experience - we've used Zoom for a few meetings recently and get massively better quality than we did on Meet, and I'm not sure what could be going wrong there. Or is this a new premium Meet service that's higher quality than both Meet and Zoom?

Zoom also displays a much much wider angle which feels like it explains the quality difference - the Meet one is a tiny portion of my webcam blown up and horribly artifacted.
*Small correction: free 40 minutes
The highly leveraged conglomerate has been forced into selling major assets to raise funds, but could receive a big boost from the Bank of Japan’s plan to expand corporate bond buying, which would support its predilection for borrowing.

The Japanese taxpayer (Yen-holder) having to support the losses of Adam Neumann's personal money tree seems pretty crazy to me.
It released a week or two ago, so if you've been using Zoom recently, you might not have noticed. It's under the overflow in the bottom right > change layout.

I'm on Firefox/Mac and has worked fine for me.
Unsolicited feedback:

Come up with a proposal on how to change something thats bothering you. Either put together a doc and ask for feedback on it, or make more than 1 proposal.

Bring it to your 1:1. Talk through it with your manager. Work out where you need support from them (Be it asking for time to focus on it, finding someone else in the org to help you out, etc.)

'The system is too slow', 'Person X has poor quality Y', 'Other business unit / eng team / etc. ideas is flawed we should not do it or do it differently'

This helps manage your manager, and make the meeting meaningful for you and most likely your manager.

Check out https://medium.com/@sbourke/getting-more-from-your-1-1s-8f71... , it has a few things from the playbook link as well. I have a more elaborate version I'd give to my direct reports. 1:1s are great if you do them well.
An even simpler solution that I have seen implemented on some open field crossings is to deliberately block the view line somewhere close. It doesn't have to be blocked on the entire approach, just enough to ruin the illusion of having sufficiently observed the entire crossing road. It could be a billboard with traffic safety propaganda (or ads), some greenery or a stack of photovoltaics. Not much bigger than a bus usually.
I kind of hate Cessnas. They feel dramatically underpowered to me. Sailplanes OTOH feel great because they have no engine at all. It--focuses the mind. I've probably learned a lot more about pure flying from sailplanes than from Cessnas. It just feels safer to me to have no engine and a good glide ratio than a small (potentially unreliable) engine and a poor glide ratio.

Of course nobody's going to be commuting in a sailplane, but they're awesome for pure fun and learning piloting skills.
> The web was supposed to be WYSIWYG, and that got broken.

The web was never supposed to be WYSIWYG; this rather is/was a marketing claim by vendors of visual tools for generating websites.

What is true is that it was supposed to be very easy to generate websites in HTML.
I'm on MacOS/Firefox and it started showing a grid view for me a couple of weeks ago. I just assumed they were just rolling it out to replicate Zoom, but maybe it could have been configured somewhere on the G Suite side too.
The screenshots are available look:
https://github.com/DirkJanJansen/Pandora/tree/master/Install...
> How did Zuckerberg maintain his majority voting power throughout every funding round?

If you're got majority voting power to start with then you can at every step use the majority voting power to vote to maintain your majority voting power in any deal you offer.
Can I use this to potentially view a pdf on a remote server locally (as an alternative to an X server)? Would it be more efficient?
A lot of this is common knowledge, and reads like that last decade of management books. It's also very development focussed. Nothing wrong with any of that, but not sure it warrants call to action.
It would put your password into your `~/.bash_history` and show up on the screen though; using a commandline argument to pass passwords is inherently unsafe.

Sure you could have a secure system that only you use, but the people behind ssh cannot make that assumption. Removing the risk entirely is better than trusting the users.

I'm sure there's a shell trick you could use to pass a password on the prompt anyway. For all other use cases, copy SSH keys securely.
You didn't take another very important unit into account: time and risk. Let's say you want to sell your used iPhone. You might get $150, if you wait around for the right buyer, but this might take a while and even after waiting it is not guaranteed you find a buyer for that price. The price could even go down to $80. Alternatively you could go to a pawnshop and get $100 dollars instantly. And if you are happy with that price you can go on with your life and focus on other things.
Well, it's your comment, you submitted it yourself, and you agreed to "release, indemnify and hold Y Combinator and its affiliates and their officers, employees, directors and agents harmless from any from any and all losses, damages, expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, rights, claims, actions of any kind and injury (including death) arising out of or relating to your use of the Site or any related information, any User Content (...)".

You did read the ToS[0], didn't you?

(Though seriously, did anyone? I didn't, and only opened that page to CTRL+F for a counterpoint right now :).)

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[0] - https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/#tou
This is fair.

I was just speaking as another data scientist/techie person, like the OP.

I do agree that it is 100% not easy for most people.
Every noun has a grammatical gender in German. It just does. There does not need to be a (contemporary) reason.

Why does declination of nouns exist in German, is almost non-existant in English, more pronounced in Latin, and even more of it in Ancient Greek?

Is one of these languages defective? Should they shed their cases?
Direction is up :) and "you belong to google" is local minimum, it's even a little difficult to make it worse.
> And really with video conferencing product, I don't get the whole trope of "but they might discontinue it." - the utility is immediate in terms of the calls that you make with it, and time boxed till by when a call ends.

Not true at all. I have a bunch of recurring meetings in my calendar, and each one has a Zoom link in it.

If I wanted to switch to Meet, I'd have to redo each of those invites with a new link, and then hope everyone noticed the update.

They won't, so I'll spend the first few weeks individually pinging people reminding them of the new conference software, and then waiting 10 minutes for them to download, install, and configure it before joining us.

And then if I decide to switch back, I get to do it all over again.
they're testing some sort of exotic propulsion system for ion thrusters
I have wondered if they're combining them on the server-side and just pushing a single stream to the client. Would that be detectable?
What should make you uneasy is your first sentence. (I.e. the fact that the most reliable indicator of "our economy doing well" is how fast we're moving to an unlivable climate.)
I developed in Dutch
Later on i decided to document in English
It's much work to translate the whole project in English
Sorry!
Also worth noting that the ways to realistically address climate change require a massive, historic investment. I don’t know what the limit is on world governments’ ability to write a giant blank check, but I can’t imagine the trillions we need to spend on the current crisis makes turning around and dropping trillions on the next one any easier.
you're obviously not worried about traffic routed through China might cause IP theft? And you also say Zoom for a lot of cases is fine. Would you say if my company does work for clients in critical technologies (energy plants, telecoms) where research is an expensive upfront investment that it's OK to use Zoom? Or is it more for companies who are only running a web-dev SaaS product where nobody cares about stealing it?

I'm asking as somebody who has found his code stolen by a Chinese colleague working from our Hangzhou office and then published on github after he switched to Huawei (under his real name because that's the amount of f*s they give).

Seriously please don't assume your threat models are portable.
Your confusion is fair, considering that, up until two weeks ago, Google Meet was actually called Google Hangouts Meet. And yes, it is a completely and entirely different service.

Hangouts is still the legacy chat program that featured some video and voice call capabilities. Meet is their Zoom competitor, built for GSuite users, and is under active development and is a very solid product with very strong video/voice performance, up to 250 attendees, dial-in numbers, live transcriptions, recordings, screen sharing, etc.

They rebranded it as Google Meet literally two weeks ago. They are killing Hangouts Classic. They have... also spun up Google Chat (formerly Hangouts Chat) which is... a pseudo-competitor to Slack, and an evolution of Hangouts, but only for GSuite users, with the intent of killing Hangouts Classic (the evolution of GTalk) early next year.

Meet is far more advanced and better supported that the legacy Hangout for a conferencing tool. It is far better, and we really prefer it. (Though, because it also bears mentioning, Google is ALSO working on Duo, which is their CONSUMER video chat program, which has some neat features, like AI audio gap-filling and super-low-bandwidth AV1 codec benefits, which I hope make the jump over to Meet soon...)
On the contrary, you have the British Prime Minister using it because it is too easy to use. I doubt it would have been the preference of British Intelligence that the PM use Zoom.
I've tried that for a while but our servers / VMs are so slow (I/O is a bottleneck I suspect) that that was unworkable.

At the moment I use intellij which has a "sync with remote" function; I can run the things local and push them to the remote testing environment whenever I feel like it.

(my predecessor would use git a lot, ugh)
Strongly seconded! (Tossing some further dots to connect into the mix: Mosh and tmux and iTerm2's tmux integration fit very well in too. I think Visual Studio's Live Share should also work faster over ZeroTier - it should serve as a direct connection. I'm also really keen to try Emacs multiuser editing on a remote terminal over mosh and tmux.)

And: I don't know if it's the placebo effect, but it seems to me that connections over ZeroTier are noticeably more responsive. Like slightly but noticeably.
This is all the apps could do.

The malware removes information off the device like the device’s name, country, and unique identifiers.

This part is complete conjecture.

According to Palo Alto Networks, it may also have the ability to push dialogue boxes to your iPhone or iPad’s screen. Theoretically, a bad guy could use one of these dialogues to steal your username and password or other personal information.
The malware may also be able to open websites in your mobile browser, which could be used for a variety of malicious purposes again including phishing and installing other potentially malicious software.
So far 100% of HN articles re: E Ink contain a comment like this. Sadly it is highly unlikely that you will get something like this at an acceptable price point.

We (https://www.visionect.com/) have been making non-ebook based E Ink solutions for a decade now. Except for Joan, our room booking solution (https://getjoan.com), we have not found a customer application that could survive the low-volume incurred high price of an E Ink solution (beyond E book readers and Note taking to some extent).

LCDs are simply too cheap and when customers get the option of going for a 75" color LCD display for a price of a 32" E Ink, it's a really tough sell to the consumer. The application really needs to make sense.

If you consider yourself as an outlier from the general feedback we got from the market, then do let me know - the 13" devices we offer come with a years worth of battery, have WiFi built in and our software allows you to display any web-based content or upload images. They even mount to the wall using a magnet. You can buy one on our online store.
Over the years I've hit issues where the daemon using traditional init will inherit the environment it gets launched from. So on boot it works as expected, but if a user restarts the daemon it can get subtle behaviors because of that user's environment. For this reason I've been itching to adopt an event-based init for many years (Upstart, being event-based, also addressed this).

I've had frustrations with systemd, but the few times I've wanted to write an init script I was glad it was trivial instead of cobbling something together for traditional init.
Looking at the Github, it really feels like you should organize your code better. There are many files with the same prefix that should go into their own src/{prefix} subdirectories. The README is really lackluster and should contain installation information and screenshots at least.

https://github.com/DirkJanJansen/Pandora/blob/master/invoerI...
What the heck is this supposed to be? Are you really creating a database table and then a connection, and executing that in the middle of some random code? You really need to separate this out. And this is not a cherrypicked complaint, this is the first file I randomly clicked in the repo.

https://github.com/DirkJanJansen/Pandora/search?q=create_eng...
This looks like you're creating a new engine anywhere you need database access. This is NOT how you use SQLAlchemy. Create a database.py file that contains a SINGLE create_engine function, and define all your tables in one place. This code looks like a real mess.

Don't take this as a personal attack. We all had to start somewhere. But this is not something I'd call top quality or really even quality.
After getting an emoji accepted I submitted a proposal for the external link symbol in 2018, trying to address the committee's concerns from the several earlier proposals. https://doubly.so/pub/External-Link-2018.pdf

It was summarily rejected with the nonsense statement (in full):

> Thank you for your submission. This was discussed during last week's UTC meeting. I was directed to let you know UTC feels that, as submitted, the proposal does not sufficiently demonstrate a plain text need for such a symbol. The context for usage is mark-up with links by default.
My point was that TFA also says masks must be worn in public spaces.
Sure! Look at any StackOverflow post where 'how do I run X as a service on Linux' is now 'make a .service file' rather than a combination of bash, pm2, forever, etc.

Compare the upvotes on the .service answers to the alternatives.

Also earlier today I wanted to find out about systemd timers and the first post was this, which thinks they're way better to debug than cron: https://mjanja.ch/2015/06/replacing-cron-jobs-with-systemd-t... - mainly because they have an options to 'run this job right now, in exactly the same environment' - that's an excellent feature, and something cron should have had ages ago.

Getting an impression of systemd from HN is like getting an impression of politics from Twitter. You'll be exposed to a lot of views, but not a wide variety of them.
Uk exess mortality is already at 35 000, quite close to the "successfull suppression" plan that put the death toll at 40 000.

"First, note that ~60k is how many people died and tested positive AND were coded as COVID-19. It's not necessairly how many people died because of a COVID-19 infection. We will not know the real #'s until all-cause death is examined. There appears to be a significant drop in "normal" pneumonia deaths for example. It also ignores the error bars on the testing false/positive/negative rates."

Do you have a website like euromomo for excess mortality in the US? Covid19 causes arrhythmia in 7% of cases, even very mild ones [0] and arrhythmia is the main cause of sudden death for people over 40 years old (i have ectopic heartbeat so i'm a bit concerned with this)

[0] https://www.uptodate.com/contents/coronavirus-disease-2019-c...
Fundamentally, the issue is that in real time you may not be able to make the trade that your algorithm chose.
You could get close if you had the actual book prices at any given time, but even then, you might lose to someone who is 1 millisecond faster.
So no, backtesting can simulate reality.
Interactive Brokers offers a simulated account where you can practice "live" trading, although it's still not the same, since there's no money involved. But if I see a paper tested on an IB simulated account I'll be very interested, and it'll be too late already.
Tangent: it is somehow so pleasing to me in this context that I can recognize your username as a Lithuanian surname. Gives the internet anonymity some flavor, I guess :)

(for everyone else: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_name )
Ah, the sprint is being rediscovered once again for it's ability to squeeze maximum effect into minimum working time.

If you get a chance, try to find a copy of "A System of Multi-year Training in Weightlifting" by A.S. Medvedyev (a translation of the 1980s Soviet Olympic Weightlifting program for coaches).

It's the culmination of decades of studies across the entire Soviet athletics program about what works and what doesn't.

The summer programming shifts almost exclusively to sprinting, and only a few hundred meters per day, because that's what they found is enough work for anyone who isn't a specialized running athlete.

I follow it as soon as I can ever summer and it's immediately obvious that my metabolism increases.

IMO the secret about sprinting vs distance running is that your body can't optimize for efficiency. You can marginally increase ATP capacity, but the only thing getting better at maximum effort sprints does is make you able to produce more power while doing maximum effort sprints. It stays hard, without needing to increase volume much over time.
If we want to stay below 2° we need to completely stop selling ICE cars in the next few years. I don't see that happening.
All three of those platforms have released some numbers recently, and both the usage and the growth rate of the usage seems pretty comparable. All of the following quotes are from during April:

One of them says:

> Since January, we’ve seen $SOFTWARE’s peak daily usage grow by 30x. As of this month, $SOFTWARE is hosting 3 billion minutes of video meetings and adding roughly 3 million new users every day. And as of last week, $SOFTWARE’s daily meeting participants surpassed 100 million.

Another:

> We’ve seen a new daily record of 2.7 billion meeting minutes in one day, a 200 percent increase from 900 million on March 16. [...] We’ve also seen total video calls in $SOFTWARE grow by over 1,000 percent in the month of March

And the final one:

> The maximum number of daily meeting participants, both free and paid, conducted on $SOFTWARE was approximately 10 million. In March this year, we reached more than 200 million daily meeting participants, both free and paid.

The quotes are not from the same time during April, and are not directly comparable in that sense. But if we're talking about the three options being a month apart on an exponential growth curve, it seems premature to call winners.
Valid word won't autocorrect

In my experience, my Android phone replaces valid words all the time to my great annoyance.
What is your point? Cherry picking is fine because everything is terrible? My cherry is so important it must be picked?
All conferencing platforms have had issues.
Zoom does seem to be fairly responsive when it comes to vulnerabilities and security patching.

As for 'state actor' interference, that is generally called 'lawful interception' when you drop the hype and FUD. I'm sure Zoom does/will comply with those regulations just like all the others.
regular folks don't care because those who are supposed to be experts and the only ones who are skilled to peel back the layers of BS instead make hand-wavy assessments like this.
Of course if the multiplex stalls or goes down so do all of the connections you have running through it. It's like screwing up Gnome Terminal or similar that uses a main server and multiple clients. Screw one pooch and you're whole session of things is similarly screwed.
I am missing certificates on this list, you never have to distribute individual public keys. And you can sign certificates with an API. It is also nice to give someone temporary access, because they are valid in a time interval.
You're right, but technically tu quogue is a type of ad hominem attack. So OP used an ad hominem tu quoque fallacy to discredit the author.

Even though this might not be the strongest argument from a purely logic point of view, it can still be a valid critique on the author.
He thinks in a very expository way, it seems. There's aother guy, Gromov, who is the opposite. He is famously mysterious (people sometimes joke about "speaking Gromovian").
Not a bad tip, but using gzip compression over the wire seems pretty stone-age. The proper solution is surely to use a modern lossy video-compression algorithm. Is that possible with X?

It's not something I know a lot about. Is this where VNC steps in?
I've not heard of that, is it like VNC?
I've listened to multiple major podcasts lately that suspiciously mention Zoom during the show in obvious "organic" ads.

Most recently was Conan O'Brien's "Connan Makes a Friend" podcast where they have what are obvious potted mentions of Zoom on the show.

In one instance, Conan pretends that he accidentally minimized the video conference app they're using. And finally his co-host is like "just click the Zoom icon to bring it back!" Like, that would obviously be cut if it was real.

In another instance, Conan says he's really bad with tech but has been getting better now that he has to figure out his laptop without employees around to help him. And then he adds that once the quarantine is over, he'll probably forget everything... except how to use Zoom, of course.

Just thought it was somewhat relevant here since it seems Zoom is doing some massive marketing campaigns. Not to mention how it seems in ubiquitous use and everyone online is constantly mentioning it. Pretty damn impressive.
Ask HN: Where do we stand with Self-replicating nano machines?
The key element of any SciFi and mega scale space project.

Are there any advances in the field?
Startups trying to do it?
Recommended places to learn more?
> or maybe I'm just older and don't pay attention anymore.

It's that.

People make fun of me when tell them I like to talk to teens about technology. Why, they ask. Why? Because I learn about all these new upcoming platforms. I ask them "how do you get music now", "how do you share photos", "what do you use instead of Facebook".

And I learn about Snap, TikTok, Instagram, etc. long before they are popular.

These platforms all thrive on word of mouth. Teens still hang out mostly in person in school, so they have rapid word of mouth.

Talk to teens about technology. It will be enlightening.
The Design of Everyday Things: Design Principles and Considerations
It's as if a world of people have chosen to ignore how Google makes billions of dollars a year.
Choosing Google rather than Zoom for privacy's sake doesn't address these concerns.

Nothing is free, especially when Google is providing the service. You are the product.

How are you the product with Google Meet? I can speculate, based on how it monetizes information in its other products. Google is processing all of the conversations through its deep learning systems, harvesting insights about everything discussed.

This heightens privacy concerns 100x from whatever Zoom was attempting.

Where are the activist blog posts about this? They don't exist because Google surveillance has been normalized. It's ok if Google does it.