skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bette Midler sued ford back in the day (1988) for hiring an impersonator to sing on an ad and won. (Of course it helped that Ford asked her to sing first)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

"The appellate court ruled that the voice of someone famous as a singer is distinctive to their person and image and therefore, as a part of their identity, it is unlawful to imitate their voice without express consent and approval. The appellate court reversed the district courts decision and ruled in favor of Midler, indicating her voice was protected against unauthorized use.[4][5]"

I was actually a little surprised. And this is different, but I think that they're imitating a famous voice (as opposed to my voice...) means they become a target.

The fact you can fake anyone saying anything is little amazing. though there are people who can do it quite well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Robert_Thompson

Thompson's Arnold Schwarzenegger impression first gained national attention during the California gubernatorial recall election of 2003. Posing as Schwarzenegger, Thompson phoned in to Fox News Channel's morning program, Fox & Friends, fooling the hosts into believing (at least for a short while) that he was, in fact, Schwarzenegger.[4]
> 200 years ago we didn't need timezones because...

We still do not. China and India are examples of large geographies spanning across a vast amount of longitude and yet each are a single time zone. Time zones are a political entity only, an unnecessary complexity. The absence of time zones will not halt business or communication over long distances.

> For most people talking about time in their day to day lives it's far more useful to communicate a relative time of day

People have done this for thousands of years without modern chronometers. Examples: dusk, dawn, morning, midday, afternoon, evening, twilight.
We can definitely agree that as a company grows, it needs more employees. I think the point at issue is that there is such thing as having too many employees. There are multiple opposing forces in tension here, and the tricky part is striking the right balance. I think that GP was trying to say that they hired too many people, and introduced complexity.
I guess this is targeted at corporate users.

If a watermarked audio is leaked, the owner of the account will be liable. If he shared he's zoom credentials, is just as bad as sharing the recording.
Scala has a strong type system and when working with it on a daily basis I was not programming, I was thinking about types and fighting with the compiler. And that is the language which has a pretty decent IDE plugin. When I moved to D, it felt like a breathe of fresh air to me. Therefore, the whole talk above about auto and types looks like subjective nitpicking.

In practice though, D codes fast and runs fast, as promised on the official site.
It still surprises me that modern agriculture doesn't seem to track each individual plant.

Surely in todays world, it's very cheap to simply have a bunch of cameras looking down at the plants, and track from each seed, to each plant, to each leaf on the plants, to how many cents that plant earned you.

When you have that kind of tracking, you can do things like "If a plant is within 30mm of a neighbour, we will earn more if we kill one plant and let the other grow. Kill whichever is currently smaller".

Or "if a plant is growing within 2 inches of a rock, give it these extra nutrients".

Treating each plant separately should give much higher yields.

Our current system is equivalent to a human medical system which doesn't inspect each patient individually, but instead just prescribes medications to entire towns!
Then in your system of math 0.999... is also less than 1.

However, basic arithmetic taught to children requires that adding trailing zeros does not change the value of a number. You'll have a hard time doing arithmetic once you change that assumption.
One way a sincere ex-neo Nazi could return to normality is by ceasing to socialize with active neo Nazis. That was not the case here. From the above quote regarding his seeking out and spending time with the same white supremacists: "I ended up meeting with them..."

How does one "end up" meeting with neo Nazis? He fails to take responsibility for his behavior after his hate crimes conviction!
When did the quarter end March?
Jewish Law in the Polar Regions
Probably due to the Apple tax.
If a company's investing 100m in a company where directors likely need security clearances etc (I mean, I don't know if they do, but given the industry I would assume so), then, er, yeah, I'd expect a pretty thorough background check.
People tend to subconsciously assume the operations of an organization are linearly associated with the public-facing products and services they provide. People quantify based off of what they know and understand. Nobody can quantify the effort associated with an effort they didn't know existed.
Ruth did mention that the APAC impact has been more "muted" and they were earlier in the timeline than Europe and Americas.
Uhh that doesn't really apply here.

I'm sure executives could make a lot of money if they could get the same output with 20% of the workforce.

I'm not the one convincing people my services are needed. I'm the one being poached because they are.
I wonder how zoom determines if a screenshot is taken.

On Linux/Wayland at least, there's no API for an app to determine that this is happening. So they'd have to show the watermark all the time.
I seen plenty of people who think their orgs are bloated. I know I've felt some teams could lose half the workforce at no real cost.
I talked to a friend of a friend working there. It sounds like they previously hired engineers before having projects they needed them for. It's fairly clear some of these companies just set targets for growth and hire people to match, rather than to meet some fundamental business demand.
I come from the same culture.

I know several homeschool families, thanks to my kids being involved in an activity that's also popular with the homeschool folks -- classical music lessons. What I've noticed is that highly focused and self disciplined parents raise highly focused and self disciplined children, whether homeschooled or school-schooled. I admire them. Meanwhile, there's the rest of us.
My entire childhood of homeschooling disagrees. No my parents are not academic.
Thanks for removing the part of your comment that came off as "I haven't encountered this in my personal experience thus it must not be true." I agree with your assessment on "what kids really need."

Still relevant: the money-time connection is very real and doesn't have to be as extreme as "works 3 jobs to put food on the table" to have detrimental effects to kids. It's pretty hard to influence your kids' lives the more stressed and busy you are. Life circumstances can come from all kinds of places, from having to support more folks e.g grandparents in poor health, or from having kids with special needs, or from having mental health issues personally or a spouse with such issues, etc -- the list goes on. Also if you can't home school or private school and your local school districts are total garbage, your kids might pick up values you can't control very well.

In general the idea <that a parent's ability to instill values on their kids is fairly correlated with wealth/privilege> doesn't feel like a stretch.
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/16.355/ is such a list
What's dystopic about it?

Movie studios have done watermarking in the past with DVD screeners. Color laser printers output almost-invible patterns of yellow dots to match a document to a printer. When you download an academic paper as PDF, the PDF generally imprints the IP address and time of the downloader. Watermarking is nothing new.

For a company or government worried about employees leaking sensitive information to the press, this is an intriguing feature.

And if you're a determined whistleblower, this isn't going to stop you anyways.
>The last flu to cause such a severe spike in mortality statistics was the devastating 1918 Spanish flu

The second wave of the 1918 flu killed between 17 to 50 million people, perhaps as high as 100 million people, during the fall of 1918, with a higher than expected mortality rate for the young and healthy. It killed between 1 and 6 percent of the world's population.

So far 200,000 people have died from the coronavirus.

The current coronavirus is 1/100 as deadly as the flu of 1918.
You excluded a dozen or more nations that are part of the Western world and have not been "hit hard" by your metric. The "hard hit" nations list is an exclusive club, even when you add in the rest of Europe.
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> Two, three months without schooling will significantly hamper their development

Are you sure about that? Having gone through lots of school, I'm fairly certain that missing three months of it would have no negative effect on anyone's development.
They're a global company that operates in 900 cities. I don't understand why so many people on this site seem to think it should be a few programmers and some suits to sign the checks.
Will be factored in by the market's estimates.
>Maybe it’s time for severe political unrest.

Yikes, you might not like Trump, but can you not call for "severe political unrest."
Can you name a single “modern psychological finding” that is well supported by reproducible studies with statistically relevant results?
The point is to indicate that humans knew how to wake up, eat food, communicate, and conduct business (even over long distances) before they had clocks much less the relatively recently invented time zones.
We need to fix competition. Winner take all is horrible for markets.
It's very hard to make such a distinction in practice, because it comes off as Apple saying that some of their customers' lives are worth more than others.
In the Army, it seems racists were sniffed out early as possible.

I was a trainee leader (Asst Platoon Guide whatever that means). One of the "perks" of my leadership role was bunking with two racist assholes (one black one white) who naturally hated each other.

As soon as the drill instructors noticed the behavior of those two, all three of us were moved into a room. To keep an eye on them? Punish me? Who knows what the Army logic was.

Anyway, they both were chaptered out before completing training (AIT).

I am sure there a few racists but they must keep it on the downlow. The biggest problem I saw later was between Cuban Americans and Black Americans.
Mannheim is running a "pilot project" called "Mannheimer Weg". It is video surveillance + behavior analysis. The german state of Baden-Würtenberg, where Mannheim is located, has already announced to expand "intelligent video surveillance" to other large cities, starting with Heidelberg this year and focusing on central train and tram stations.

There are many sources in german about this topic, some praising it, some are more critical. Another such "pilot project" is run at Hamburg Hauptbahnhof and that one got a lot more bad feedback, because they also "try" facial recognition and tracking smart phone signals.

It should be noted that the european union invested into this technology starting with the 7th Framework Programm in 2007 under the codenames INDECT, ADABTS and SAMURAI. Expect to be flagged for "abnormal, possibly criminal behaviour" in the future if you run or loiter at a large train station.
Rides is bordering on profitability as of Nov last year: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/11/uber-lost-1-1-billion-l...

Were the virus not to occur, the company was planning to be legitimately profitable by end 2020: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-results/uber-sees-pr...
Shooting up a symbolic religious building is an indiscriminate hate crime. He intended to hurt more than just the specific individuals that were in the building at the time, he meant to make an entire community of people with a similar background afraid.
https://dolthub.com is the cool kid right now. There is pacaderm, git lfs, IPFS.

Really what we need is version control for data, it's not just an ML data problem. It's a little different though, because you would like to move computation to data, rather than the other way around
Pandemic risk to worsen if we keep exploiting Earth and animals, scientists warn
Nvidia has a similar system: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/self-driving-cars/drive-constel...
To my knowledge there is no zoom competitor that has end to end encryption and allows people to join a call from landlines.
This is from the Military Times this year:

"More than one-third of all active-duty troops and more than half of minority service members say they have personally witnessed examples of white nationalism or ideological-driven racism within the ranks in recent months, according to the latest survey of active-duty Military Times readers."

From the article, "Signs of white supremacy, extremism up again in poll of active-duty troops"

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/02...
I wonder if the CTO really "resigned" or was kicked out.
Uber's engineering culture is well known for not thinking about costs early in development. Moreover, ignoring infra costs, the revenue per engineer is really low, it is at around 1 million dollars per engineer; 11BN revenue / 10k engineers.

I work for a team in which the revenue per engineers is 2 times higher than that and we aren't any sort of unicorn.
Nobody deserves one.

Yet something remarkable happens to all of us when people who don't deserve them, are given one.

Some people won't ever change....

The ones who will, will stun you. And we are all made better by the effort.
What is an "infinitely small" number?

Is 9999..... the same as infinity?

What is 1.0 - 0.99999.... = ?

What does it mean to say X is a number, if you can't subtract it from another number and get a number as an answer?
Military training is a great equalizer and transplants people of all backgrounds into a new community that quickly adapts the values of their organization. Exposing a klansman to POC for long periods in such an environment certainly changes a lot in them, and some may be able to reflect upon their former wrongdoings. Certainly your hate for Jews may connect you to your klan. But wading through knee-high mud while being yelled at by your superiors with a small group is even more connecting.
There is an older Hacker News comment by an Uber employee about how they built and maintained their own chat app. I suspect they realized that not everything need be custom.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20931644
This is a good starting point outlining some of the major incidents

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/us/military-white-nationa...

I don't expect the commanders still preach a racist creed like they did for the first ~150 years, but they still tend to just ignore soldier's ties to white supremacy. For example, the USMC finally outlawed the public display of the Confederate flag this month. And white supremacy groups have long viewed the armed forces as a useful training ground.
I question your line of reasoning. I don't know if critical thinking correlates to emotional intelligence. Someone can be a genius in some regards and an idiot in others.
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This is what keeps me going to physical stores for certain goods: they’re liable for counterfeits.
Original paper:

Park SY, Kim YM, Yi S, Lee S, Na BJ, Kim CB, et al.

Coronavirus disease outbreak in call center, South Korea.

Emerg Infect Dis. 2020 Aug. doi:10.3201/eid2608.201274

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/8/20-1274_article
Well it was obvious after WeWork.
I'm not sure. I don't think 100% distance learning "is the future" but it can certainly be improved. With many things becoming remote, there are obstacles AND opportunities.
He didn’t actually suggest that. Why are you being dishonest?
There is certainly some of that. Being a teacher is certainly very difficult. However, theoretically at least, they are trained to be teachers, and it is their full time job, while for most parents it is not.

Additionally, being onsite at school there are fewer distractions, and just the environment of physically being on a school campus conveys that the primary focus of the day is education.
There was also a bus route from Tel Aviv to Cairo, opened in 1977 as a result of another peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.

It didn't last very long (a few years), though you can still technically go the whole way by multiple busses.

https://www.egged.co.il/Days-Article-10228-A-tale-of-two-cit...
This person had these views before they entered, and that isn't uncommon.
Alas!

> The product is sold in 11 countries but is not available in the United States due to its rules on the import of uncooked meat.

But, there is still hope that they might make it available again:

> In the past Volkswagen has sent a team of chefs to the United States to replicate the product with locally sourced ingredients.
I am not sure we need "unrest". We have democratic elections in November. Make sure you're registered to vote, then go vote!
Do you have a source, or just rumors?
One option if you really want to sleep in a separate room from your phone is to get a dedicated audio player for your bedroom. Depending on the features you need (Bluetooth, streaming support from Spotify, etc.) you can get one for around $70 to $300. You could also get a Raspberry Pi and automate playing your monotonous audio at your bedtime each night. That would be cheap and a neat quarantine project.
Reminds me of this article from ten years ago >> https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolasmedinamora/did-t...
I prefer the scheme version, though the addition of 'distributed and parallel computing' chapter is really important and I welcome such new additions.

Unfortunately 'distributed and parallel computing' is no where to be seen in R*RS. I hope we can change that soon.
What do people think of this?
Or simply voting in November. Seems easier.
This is devastating. 20% unemployment rate as of last week, only getting worse as earnings come up. I don't know what the economy will look like when we emerge from this.
Would You Have Fallen for This Phone Scam?
Tmux runs in a terminal; use `[` and `]` for my tmux buffer; and the terminals OS Copy/Paste integration when i need to get things in/out. Reading these threads I didn't realize the heartburn they felt with tmux.
The clang disassembly given in the article sure makes it look like WASM is a nested expression tree, which leaves the choice of stack versus register to the implementation.

(f32.add
(f32.add
(f32.mul
(f32.load
(local.get 0))
(f32.load
(local.get 1)))
(f32.mul
(f32.load offset=4
(local.get 0))
(f32.load offset=4
(local.get 1))))
(f32.mul
(f32.load offset=8
(local.get 0))
(f32.load offset=8
(local.get 1))))

The outer f32.add could translate into a byte code instruction that finds its two operands on a stack, or to one which gets them from registers.

The code only says that there is a f32.add call which has two operands that are the result of a f32.add and f32.mul and so on.

The implementations will agree in their treatment of locals: that there are two locals 0 and 1, which support loading at offsets and such.

Both stack and register machines can support locals.
Zoom's intended for corporate customers. Many of us have compliance requirements that demand not having individual privacy for employees.

If you want to elicit a change, the biggest value for your time will be lobbying against FedRAMP and its corollaries.
It doesn't seem to be working. ...much like the Reddit guidelines.
This is why I'm looking forward to Shopify Fulfillment Network [1] helping to level the distribution playing field.

[1] https://www.shopify.com/fulfillment
He is flying across that field
http://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHFICT/mfview.php?callnumbe...

http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-secret-number/

Bleem
go to Indian cornershop and buy roasted curry powder, mix with ketchup, that gets you the sauce. experiment a bit.
I didn't learn a single one of those skills from attending public school. Every public school I attended (and I attended several, since my parents were chasing the accelerated learning program every time it moved) was not only a huge waste of time, but actively psychologically harmful.

Based on the data I've seen, what I describe is a typical or even better-than-average public school experience.

Private school was infinitely better once I started going, and my homeschooled friends (who I met at university) are, on the whole, vastly better adjusted than the people I attended public school with.

Let's be honest - public schools' primary functions are to act as a daycare center and subsidized food distribution site. If you child is at all intelligent, you're probably better off leaving them at home with some books than sending them off to PS17851. I know I would have been better off that way!
Additionally - I don't know if Zoom's backend is Java, but if it is - Oracle has a sweet deal on getting the Enterprise version of Graal for free if you run on Oracle Cloud.

I think this could be a smart move for a company to be the "big fish in a small pond" - even if that pond is owned by a shark with freaking laser beams....
Is this solvable? Does something like a VR school make it work?
Worked my way through college in Ag during 70's and early 80's, before self driving anything. I can tell you from experience it's easy to be lulled into a sense of complacency by the boredom. I'm sure the human is still there because things can go wrong in a hurry, and when they do go wrong with a piece of equipment that powerful they go wrong in a big way.
Also egregious are companies flush with cash who are laying off workers, putting them on unemployment and costing the public hundreds of millions of dollars. Disney is one such company.

They do pay unemployment insurance, so I guess they can argue they're collecting on their insurance.

MayTheForth be with you, because your Disney paycheck won't be.
that was incredible...i know that video games like GTA look similar, but this whole system with hardware-in-loop is amazing
I really find it difficult to put into words just how little I care to pay for a web ui so I can "manage" my data.

Data pipelines are a real problem though, and I'm very interested in what startups do with this space.
Government bailouts should be in the form of stock purchases. Want a bailout? Government owns part of the company. Want to issue dividends after the bailout? Government gets some. Too many bailouts, and the company is now state-owned.
This feels like an odd question to ask, but are they losing money faster or slower now? They were previously spending billions in marketing costs, and it sounded like at least some rides were a net loss.
They are powered by Google,so travel routes, traffic info and all other difficult things come from them.Not saying it's easy, but main challenges are definitely somewhere else.
I'm currently in this situation. Home schooling would be easy if we were a single income household where one parent remains working and the other dedicates their whole time to home schooling and preparing meals. But we're not. So are a lot of other parents.
By trap I mean a surprising exception to the common rules. Most high school graduates learn algebra, yet they rarely learn how to avoid accidental division by zero. It's a surprising exception.

"null != null" is also a surprising exception to the common rules. I honestly wouldn't expect most developers to know it until their code breaks because of it. That doesn't mean the surprising rule is wrong, it just means people have to learn it. Once they learn it, they may try to find the deeper model where the rule is no longer a surprise but rather an important feature.