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> If you use Google Calendar, I believe a Meet link is automatically added by default.

For a new event, yes. For an existing event, I'd have to replace the existing Zoom link.

> That doesn't make sense. Meet is done exclusively through the web browser.

You're assuming the person I want to meet with already has a Google account.

> What stops you from having both so you can try both? Those Zoom links aren't obsolete the moment you add a Meet link.

Because of the confusion I mentioned before. You'll end up with some people in the old meeting and some in the new.

I speak all of this from experience of being in a corporate environment that moved from WebEx to Hangouts. It took weeks to get everyone to switch over and was a ton of work updating all the recurring meetings.

But the overall point is that the switching cost is much higher than just the time boxed meeting.
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CopyleftConf 2020 videos now online
That has been the case for the past 5000 or so years -- it could be that this time is different, but highly unlikely.
The premise of this post is extremely flawed:

> Weeks and months later, facts on the ground show that the purported collapse of the healthcare system did not occur.

Yes, because we locked down population centers quickly. That's the whole point. ICUs have still been over capacity though. Without the lockdowns, it's obvious we'd have a lot more dead people the past month.

> Moreover, this was not due to success in seriously curtailing the spread in hard-hit areas like New York, but was rather due to the aforementioned discovery that COVID-19, while extremely deadly in certain subsets of the population, was not nearly as deadly overall as previously thought.

This is a lie followed by possible truth. New York and other cities were under pretty extreme lockdowns (all non-essential businesses closed, social distancing, but most people have been staying inside) for the past two months. If one asserts that had no or little effect, well... HN doesn't take kindly to what I'd like to say. Let's just say that you're delusional.

> An analysis of the flawed IMHE model is outside the scope of this article

Ah, how convenient - lying about the effect of the lockdowns and attributing it instead to (nothing? since ICUs have clearly been over capacity while we've cut down transmission rates) then ignoring analysis of them.

I didn't really dive into the rest of the article since I don't really like reading words written by intellectually dishonest people.
GP is talking about SoftBank. With that kind of debt it's likely that SoftBank will need to get bailed out by the Japan government, i.e. Japanese tax payers.
Remote test-proctoring is creeping students out
"In response to requests during the FOSDEM Legal and Policy DevRoom, which is coordinated by a team of four that includes Conservancy's own Bradley M. Kuhn and Karen M. Sandler, Conservancy will organize a separate conference on the day following FOSDEM, in Brussels, Belgium, called: The Annual International Copyleft Conference, or CopyleftConf for short.

Participants from throughout the copyleft world — developers, strategists, enforcement organizations, scholars and critics — will be welcomed for an in-depth, high bandwidth, and expert-level discussion about the day-to-day details of using copyleft licensing, obstacles facing copyleft and the future of copyleft as a strategy to advance and defend software freedom for users and developers around the world."
I.e. AR technology is already there, only AR technology is missing ;).

Rendering things is a solved problem. SLAM, arguably, too. But the whole idea of AR is to render synthetic images on top of the view of the real world, and sadly, that still feels very far away.

That said, maybe the AR-in-VR will be a good enough stopgap? Turns out, looking at the world through cameras isn't all that bad. I bought Oculus Quest the other day, which uses an array of cameras for SLAM (it's an untethered headset, meaning you can walk around the house with it), and can feed that camera data to you. Originally envisioned as a safety measure (if you leave your defined play area, the VR view transitions to camera pass-through), it's surprisingly good as a way to look at the world in general. Despite being monochrome and low resolution. If somebody can make a Quest-like headset with higher resolution screens and higher resolution, full-color cameras, this would be already halfway-usable AR.
I have two issues in Finnish with Android's (Gboard) autocorrect: inflection and language selection.

In Finnish, words can have over a thousand inflected forms. Granted most of them are not used usually but every day I bump into a word that the autocorrect knows but when I add the inflection, it no longer recognises it. It tells me that it doesn't actually parse or "know" Finnish text, it just has a huge word list.

The second issue is that it decides which language's suggestion to show based on the characters I've typed (since I have it set to both English and Finnish). Normally it shows suggestions from both languages but if I type a single ä, ö, or å, it never suggests an English word. This is unfortunate since I sometimes hit such a character by accident and I have to go back and retype the word from that point to get back the English suggestions.
> I have determined from your rules that you should never step in front of an electric vehicle under any condition.

That would be a poor deduction.

It seems like you have a bone to pick. I don't care to facilitate or engage in such behaviors.
It’s amazing how many people blindly repeat this as if it’s a good argument. It’s not a good counter argument at all.

Stopping other people from catching something you might have is a fantastic reason to ask everyone to wear a mask during a pandemic. It’s actually probably the main reason you’d want to do so, from a public health perspective, because it helps you prevent asymptomatic thread. The idea that the surgeon general would beg everyone to not wear a mask is utter madness.
For a lot of people pushing on 3 buttons to create a facebook page is enormously satisfying and spending any more effort is ridiculous. The open web is disappearing because of the opportunity cost.
Mine autocorrent insists on capitalizing words from single letters. It also regularly changes correct word into incorrect.
Sounds great! After using RN for a while, that’s exactly how I think it should have been designed in the first place. Good luck!
I use swiping on a Samsung phone and regularly write in three languages (English, Swedish, and Dutch). While there are some annoyances, I find it still speeds it up a lot as long as I change keyboard language (done by swiping left or right on the space bar) to match the language I'm currently using.
That's a pretty loose definition of a web app, but I agree that those services are pretty poor.
There is no mention of the req/res flow (someone could POST to /req, expecting it to be a MPMC queue)

In the docs it seems MPMC queues should start with /queue, but it turns out that anything that's not /pubsub or /req,/res just works, so is it really needed ?

Also the doc doesn't specify that pb-method is available to get the requester's method in the request/respond protocol

Anyway those are just minor things, thanks for the service it really rocks
Low density compared to NYC or London or another huge city. Not a low density compared to US sprawling cities.
Here's one useful resource to understand crypto:
"This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly", paperback, 2011, authors: Reinhart & Rogoff.
Are you making the argument that someone in 3000BC, who couldn't even read or communicate further than voice could carry, didn't take enough action on the global warming problem that wouldn't exist for another ~4950 years? We're trying to solve a problem that has become apparent in the last ~50 years, it's a bit weird to mention a trend that long predated the existence of the problem and use that as argument for why we can't solve the problem without more pollution. I guess it's a bit like someone in 1800 saying that ever-more horses were involved in becoming more prosperous and therefore we can't have prosperity without at least two horses per person.

I am not saying we won't need more energy ever again, but long-term we can find solutions for that, and short-term (as a stopgap solution) we already know that nuclear power can deliver that power without the global warming. It has other problems, but not ones that threaten our lives as much as global warming does. Of course, in the long run we'll need other forms of energy to take over completely, but even in the short term we can (as in, physical ability, not political will) make this work without reducing our energy needs.

I don't believe there's a causal relation between more pollution and more prosperity.
I didn't follow the systemd vs. sysv war closely, and for a long time was content that I barely managed to remember the new syntax for starting and stopping services when the distributions I used switched to systemd.

In the last couple of days, I became a fan. Not for the many reasons which anyone can look up. But for systemd-nspawn, an awesome tool for spawning lightweight containers.

For instance, you can boot an ephemeral (tmpfs) copy of your system with systemd-nspawn -D / -xb. Several more examples are listed here: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-nsp...
I think one difference between American Football and Football is that American football tends to have specialized events happening. You have field goals, you have turnovers, you have punts, and so on. Each of them require specialized instructions, someone who is a wide receiver will not share the same skill as a QB. In Football, by and large the skillsets that everyone develops is the same, i.e. good ball control and fitness. There is specialization when it comes to specific positions, but it is not as drastic a change. This could allow you to get away with simpler player models in Football, everyone can basically be modeled by a simple "footballer", instead of different people for "kicker", "quarter back", "line back" and so on. Potentially, this can make sport simulation environments for RL like this easier for football.
Most UK cities have at least one stop sign, put there so that people doing their driving training or test can have access to one. They really are quite rare.
It's possible to keep security up to date without imposing the tasteless crap I've non-exhaustively listed. I would save time and pain if the only problem Microsoft gave me was that I had to manually run security updates.
> RuntimeError: pepc_def could not be resolved

> Select metric to plot

> RuntimeError: table_data_to_plot could not be resolved

> RuntimeError: table_data_to_plot could not be resolved

:-(
My point was that people literally do not think of the impact of their other actions because all they see around them is "buy an EV to save the climate and show you care".

The average new passenger ICE car puts out ~120g CO2 per Km (a smaller car/engine even less). [0] At EU's 12000Km/year driving average that's <1.5t CO2/year. A house (in the UK but likely representative) is estimated to generate 50-80t of CO2 to be built. [1][2] One can assume that since building a house is already very expensive very few will actively use the even more expensive "greener" materials and construction methods. The lifetime footprint will also be considerable between watering the lawn, heating the house, keeping the lights on, etc. And living in a suburb means you'll pretty much have to use a car because public transport can never efficiently cover spread out neighborhoods of individual houses.

I've read estimates that an ICE generates ~24t CO2 over its lifecycle while an EV generates ~18t. A hefty 25% reduction but still considerable. Yet all you hear is "buy an EV" because manufacturers push for it and people like their status symbol and virtue signaling. Their other actions contradict their purported intention of trying to clean up. The charitable interpretation is that people don't understand how things contribute to pollution and the media coverage of EVs does little to dispel that.

If you want to tackle CO2 emissions one of the best ways is to include the tax in every product and service according to its share of emissions.

*Full disclosure, I drive a small ICE car to the tune of ~0.5t CO2/year. And while this will change soon I am fully aware I am not saving anything but my public image even if my overall carbon footprint is likely way below average.

[0] https://www.eea.europa.eu/highlights/average-co2-emissions-f...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/20...

[2] https://citu.co.uk/citu-live/what-is-the-carbon-footprint-of...
Meet isn't a type of product that takes effort to migrate from. It's per meeting.

Also, it's part of G Suite that they sell to companies, so it shouldn't be discontinued anytime soon. For free for consumer however, nothing guaranteed.
And which metric do you propose we replace it with?
Well they thought they would make a lot of money and they were right.
If there is nothing to discuss, reduce the cadence. It is the employees meeting, not the managers.

If the manager is powerless to address the issues or clarify them, then that is a failing of the manager.

It's 30mins once a week or an hour every two. For an IC, this may be one of your only meetings.
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I'm not really sure what you're arguing. An anti-malware system letting through malware is definitely not working as intended and should be fixed.
It’s not obvious that the public sector does a better job in healthcare, infrastructure or education. Rather we as a society feel that those things which should be available to all regardless of ones circumstances.
Flu has specific mechanisms that allow for very fast mutation and that's why it's coming back. Coronaviruses don't have those mechanisms. What's more they have some mechanisms that prevent mutations. And yet they come back as well. It's probably because immunity to them don't last long.

Here's cool explanation of how flu mutates and how it compares with coronaviruses: https://www.city-journal.org/coronavirus-vaccine
Sure, it's just that until now growth has been coupled with more intensive energy use. There were some talks by Vaclav Smil on this that I found very informative.
> Plus, why not have people choose themselves whether they're healthy enough to take chances and go out to work?

Because people who chose to take that risk will still go back to their homes and infect people who'd rather not, or can't afford to.
It's not even correlational. They didn't even have a group of non-COVID patients to compare to, which would have been really easy. They could have looked at non-COVID ICU patients as well and did not. That would have at least been correlational.
Traffic in Vokieciu, Traku, etc streets is a shit show. I've been advocating for ages the old town needs to be shut completely. It has such an amazing potential if not for stupid cars there.

That said, Vilnius needs to improve traffic hotspots a lot. Rush hours exist everywhere, but Vilnius is noticeably bad. Bus lanes needs better isolation too (some form of Rapid Bus implementation).
It’s free though. Not sure what you’re shielding yourself from.
The only problem is see if this is “tested” in production is having features that aren’t yet fully ready either form a technical or business perspective and relying on “security through obscurity” to prevent them from being used.

Say you are adding new features those might be exposed in a API prior to have the UI components that facilitate the user interaction directly this isn’t enough to prevent the user from accessing them if there are no additional controls on the backend.

Even worse I would bet good money that for web applications many teams would add UI components and use the “hidden” attribute as a keystone and even if they don’t add any direct UI elements they quite likely to add the JavaScript functions that facilitate those before exposing their trigger in the UI.

Let’s say a user notices that submit order POST requests now have another field “rush_order=false” what happens when it’s set to true?

Sure you can say well the businesses logic would handle this but then you need to make your business logic “aware” of this type of a development which means the keystone isn’t the UI anymore.

This type of development can expose you to various business, legal and security risks if there aren’t excellent controls behind it.
If anyone from the New Yorker sees this, here is what your user interface looks like to the average reader of your online newspaper: https://imgur.com/a/kCoxLHR

Notice the % that is content.
!gsc is even shorter!
The screenshots are recently, only the registrationmark is 2017, when the first ideas of the project started.
The thirst publication on Github was 2019
Yes - so maybe a noticeable part of the current 8% dip will "stick".

But if it does, do you suppose the next pandemic will cause an equivalent additional dip? No, because whatever lasting changes have already been made are changes that aren't available to make when the next virus sweeps through.

To make real progress, we need to do far more than stay home, because staying home wins us 8% but we need 75%.
One interesting search engine is https://millionshort.com/, you can choose to exclude the most popular sites from search results. It would be good if Google etc did this with a subset of returned results, e.g. show 2 out of 10 lesser ranked sites at random in the serps.
The current policy post immediate emergency was criticized by a top scientist in Italy just today (obligatory disclaimer: he is the head of the institute I work in, but the views and opinions I express here are my own), and in fact he said that the government is not thinking forward with regards to preparing the health system to better handle this pandemic.

As an addition, not all the measures were correct to "fight" the pandemic in Northern Italy, where I am located. Glaring errors were made in putting patients within nursing homes, with "guarantees" of separation. Well, these guarantees did not hold, and death counts flared up there. To be fair, this also happened in all nursing homes in the country.

Also some regions were more efficient than others, some even started implementing contact tracing in absence of a position from the government (still not clear as of today).

I believe that a more directed lockdown (or avoiding errors like in Alzano Lombardo, near Bergamo, where basically a hospital turned into an "infection center") would've worked miles better than the current situation, where regions with almost no new infections are locked up as much as those with significant counts.
Honestly I'm convinced the only real difference is the people on the teams within Google

Left hand doesn't know what the right is doing and that, will probably lead to splitting the audience and everything being killed off
The sandbox isn't the problem.

The missing authority the user has over it is.

E.g. you can have no wallet gardens but still sandbox every single application (which btw. I would prefer).
"Encourage" is different from "enforce", but very similar to "doesn't work". Once isolation becomes voluntary, the job market will make sure that people won't isolate even if they wanted to. A common thread of the current pandemic measures is that people get to protect themselves in ways that would destroy their careers if they weren't mandated top-down by the government.
>What could possibly go wrong if society as a whole can now identify who is sick? Regardless of your political position, or where you stand on the COVID19 issue, think we can all agree that this level of invasion of privacy should never be tolerated.

We actually cannot agree on this! I have a strong preference that my loved ones and I do not die in an unprecedented global pandemic. You can't just state libertarian principles like this as a fact and expect everyone to automatically agree with you.
Hey, I switched to working from home seamlessly. Many other people did too. There's plenty of at-home work.

If I bought the assumption that getting COVID19 was relatively safe for me, I'd gladly swap jobs to keep someone else safe, especially if it meant moving up in the world. An at-risk individual could do my job, and I'd take their in-person job.

While I think there are better mechanisms, free markets could take care of swapping people around. If you're self-quarantining, and you have a better job than I do, I'll take your job. My job is now vacant for you. That's far from ideal -- you've just taken a pay cut -- but it's far better than mass unemployment.

What we'd need from there would be much cheaper than the successive stimuli (e.g. support for at-risk low-income individuals: like a stimulus check, bigger, but only to people who need it).

Now, to be willing to do this, I'd need to believe COVID19 is relatively safe for me (e.g. <1% odds of death _or significant long-term complications_). That's an assumption I don't buy. By looking at IFR/CFR numbers, we've ignored the much bigger question: how many people end up with permanent lung damage or other organ damage. Until we have a clear answer, I'm in lock-down mode unless I'm forced out.
I think you’re right that having some sort of moat is very important to a business, but I don’t think that moat has to necessarily be the software. It could be operational expertise or fame or capital or connections or anything else that’s hard to replicate.
We use Meet at work. As far as I can tell, it's just Hangouts, but with a lot of stuff removed like the good chat integration that Hangouts previously had. I think they rebranded it B2B to try to kill it off to not compete with their new Duo and whatever else consumer offerings no one likes.

Bet they are kicking themselves now that Zoom ate their lunch in the pandemic. If they hadn't killed their consumer offering, they would have been well placed like Zoom was for a massive traffic boost. Bet whoever wrote Duo to replace Hangouts got a promo, though!
Tried sshfs?

It mounts sftp.
Waiting-Time Paradox in 1922
I believe companies sometimes convert their bonds into stock - and as bond holders don’t have voting rights it makes sense (from some perspectives) for that stock to have reduced rights.
Unless I am misunderstanding your tactic, this is almost exactly how Pep's City plays. They frequently rely on a pacy winger beating the defender out wide and cutting the ball into a forward who has beaten the defenders in the center.

You wouldn't be able to play the player onside by just having a winger, they would need to have the ball with them for it to count.
Not really, yes we mjight lose some of animal feed crops but in France i know for a fact that even with closed borders we will be able to feed everyone and then some. At most we will reduce our exports. Not counting that we should cut animal protein intake by at least 50%.

The only issue was with vegetable are we are employing cheap workers from poorest countries to pick them, but the government notice to allow people to work in the field if they want while still getting unemployment benefits will probably be enough.