skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not go the other way as well, do one with how many police officers have been killed by protesters.
But since Google knows that companies believe that they won't spy on them for the reasons you've outlined, then so long as they're real cautious about it...
> https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4468236/diagnostics...

Thanks for sharing the link. However, it doesn’t change my point of view about Windows telemetry.

As I read that page, I see a lot of BS justifying why the only way to improve the product is to have telemetry.

The reason why I call it BS is because they use phrases like “we hear your feedback to improve the product”... that’s lie. I work in UX, and I’ve been involved in user research many times. The data that you get from event logs is related to measuring adoption and engagement. You get better UX feedback from traditional research methods. Telemetry is good for fast market analysis, rather than UX... but that doesn’t sound good when you try to justify it to end users.

Take for example the design of the Office ribbon (there is an excellent video explaining the process). After analyzing the data from usage logs (this was in the pre-telemetry era), and doing interviews they concluded that the main issue was that many features were hard to find (is interesting to note that the conclusion came from user testing, not event logs). The solution: a UI showing all the operations (the ribbon). And because they found that paste was the most used action, they put a big paste button first (this came from event analysis).

After the success of the ribbon, MS adopted it in many Windows UIs (even if they don’t have the same issues as Office). So as you can see the main product design decisions had nothing to do with usage data analysis. The same applies to other big product design decisions (the back and forward with the Metro UI, Cortana... etc). The use of telemetry is marginal to many product design decisions, so there is no reason to force it to every user... other than doing market research.
I can’t speak for others, but zoom is super oriented for corporate meetings and they certainly aren’t “in touch” with my culture (esp compared to facetime or facebook video chat), its current popularity is just an artifact of being the most popular corporate group video software at the time the pandemic hit the US.
My point is just that the guy is also an idiot for doing what he did and that weakens the argument against the police and cutting those scenes out of the videos is disingenious.
Also wouldn't they logic imply you have something to hide?

- Special Agent Smith here, FBI - here judge sign this order?

- What is it?

- Its someone who we suspect of doing bad stuff, AND they are using paid version of Zoom.

- Oh that's the encrypted one, right?

- Yes, your Honor, the free one is non encrypted, you have to pay to hide your convo.

- Here is the paper, good luck.
Start looking around 4 minutes from the start
Apologies, I misread [1] and didn't apply the sniff test. It's the sixth leading cause of death, not the first. And it's 2.5x the rate of whites.

Regarding your second claim, I can't find those numbers. The closest thing I can find is this newsweek piece [2] with data from 2013 and 2014. That suggests most people who kill police are white. But it also includes prison guards as police.

[1]: https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2019-08-15/police-shoo...

[2]: https://www.newsweek.com/who-kills-police-officers-315701
stolen credit cards are a thing or proxy purchases
>"Graphene is a one-atom thick material with high electrical conductivity, but as a zero bandgap semiconductor, it acts like a metal. This means that transistors made of the material cannot be easily turned on and off.

Black phosphorus also can be separated into one-atom thick layers known as phosphorene. Unlike graphene, phosphorene acts as a semiconductor that can easily be switched on and off."

Disclaimer: I don't know if Graphene does or doesn't make a good semiconductor, but I think it's interesting to have alternatives to Silicon other than GaAs or Graphene, and Phosphorene, if the claims turn out to be true, could very well be one such alternative...
Seems like E2E will be unavailable for meetings where there is a dial in participant. There's several other features which would need to be disabled as well to opt into E2E.

https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1268061790954385408
> Clinton, as the first black president, should have been better able to express himself.

Clinton? Or you intended to write Obama?
Magic Numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)

Hexspeak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak
Similar thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23400285
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To add on to Mastodon, Pleroma is another federated, decentralised platform with slightly different features as far as I'm aware.

There's a whole ecosystem of decentralised alternatives out there, which you can check out at https://fediverse.party/

It's definitely not easy to get people to jump ship, but I've seen an influx of new users to the Mastodon instance I'm part of.
> It's fine, not great

Exactly what we've found with our GSuite and Google Meet. Works fine with 8-12 people on a call. Useable by technically adept people, but we've had to talk clients through the interface sometimes. (From today- client: "How do I share my screen" me: "click the [share screen] text in the bottom right" client: "Oh, yeah. Of course.")

(If you want background replacement enough, OBS and VirtualCam lets you do it... I did it for a gag the other week to put myself inside a Russian nuclear powerplant control room for standup. It's not something I'd recommend telling anybody who's then gonna ask you to help them set it up though...)
Maybe it is not about affordability, but about digital footprint (credit card, bank account etc.) which these kind of agencies would be wary of, after all Zoom does not accept cash transactions.
I'm sorry - I don't understand what you mean, can you expand?
That's certainly true in my experience. I've seen some great, readable, codebases written by solo developers that had lots of previous experience writing code in larger teams.

Caveat: it's never something that's too large or complex, of course.
I witnessed this in Portland over the last 5 days.

The Portland police bureau came out to the game locked and loaded, full riot gear, trucks modified to hold ten cops hanging on the outside, tear gas, flash bangs, pepper balls, rubber bullets, riot batons, helicopters, spotlights. And, they decide to starts gassing protesters half an hour before curfew begins...

Protests started loud but moderately peaceful; no thrown objects, no fires, no damaged buildings. Cops tear gas and shoot them for "obstructing traffic". After a few hours of this, the crowd starts throwing water bottles, breaking windows, hurling the tear gas grenades back. This back and forth goes on through Sunday night.

Portland mayor Ted Wheeler gets a LOT of flack from important people who spent their weekend coughing on tear gas and waking up to sirens, painful screaming, and flashbangs, instead of drinking fine wine at nice restaurants and walking the Pearl District. He tells the cops no more violent riot control measures.

Monday night hits, something like 10,000 protesters take the streets and bridges, organized, geared up with cones, leaf blowers, shields, gas masks, body armor. The cops stay put. They don't even come out of their staging area. Protesters spend the evening chanting, talking to passersby, and policing bald headed agent provacateurs wearing German camo to hide their swastika tats. It was beautiful, the air was breathable, and there were no reports of looting or damage.
>I had been heartened by the right's recent upswing in fierce support for the first amendment, but unfortunately I've seen little of that support during the protests

You do see a difference in the protests, right? The protests against lockdowns didn't include looting, arson, rape, murder, and multiple murdered police.

Here, have a small sample,

Black pawn shop employee murdered by looters for TVs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhG0v9pDycM

"You said black lives matter.. look what you did to my store"

https://mobile.twitter.com/Mus1yMustafa/status/1267874483840...

Destroying store and beating unarmed woman and her husband

https://streamable.com/rvrwil

Restaurant manager beaten and stomped for trying to defend his workplace

https://streamable.com/ila4dh

Stopping, beating and stomping a truck driver while protesters yell to kill him

https://streamable.com/8zk9dq

Protesters attack a media member and then pummel him

https://streamable.com/p4i3jb

Police officer beaten on the streets

https://streamable.com/je4ki5

Car runs over a cop

https://streamable.com/q4nat7

Protesters set homeless man’s belongings on fire

https://streamable.com/sdjvfa

Throwing fireworks at the cops

https://streamable.com/7sv4a9

Chasing and beating guy with red had

https://streamable.com/rcsmi0

I can keep going. It is utterly dispicable. There's a long long list of videos with these "peaceful protestors" in action. Everyone has a camera, and all of this is available for you to see, if you only choose to see it.
I'm gonna repeat what has been said but yes it really depends on your vertical. For example if we look at the companies that you quoted, they probably have had (and still have) completely different growth strategy. Moreover, it doesn't take as much time to build the MVP of Digital Ocean from scratch than it would take to build the Mailchimp's one.
If you have customers you can talk to and if they are happy with your actual product, they might give you advices on what they're expecting in the future and you can turn that in features that a lot more people may want right now.

In my very personal opinion, having 8 customers shouldn't give you the sensation that your product is finished and that you can scale (although I really don't know what you do so I may b wrong), so you must figure out what is missing to acquire more customers before thinking in terms of "Growth"
FBI are slightly above police concerning abuse of authority. Once I reported a serious crime police in my area weren’t willing to investigate and I filed it with the fbi but never was contacted again and when I was told they would. Seeing how cops behave with the protests makes me skeptical if any law enforcement in USA is legitimate unless you’re loaded with money or social influence.
Show HN: Outside Plato's Cave
Please give me feedback, I would love it.
> against something with known, definite badness (the lockdowns).

You've now left the realm of science and entered the realm of politics.

The "badness of the lockdowns", however, is not a given and varies depending upon the competence of your government and the idiocy of the people.

Yes, everybody locked WAY down at the beginning. However, governments that had universal healthcare and actually paid unemployment benefits to their people had far less "lockdown badness". People in those conditions weren't forced back to work in order to get food or healthcare.

In addition, those who actually locked down (R0 < 0.8) had cases that dropped substantially and can now reopen with contact tracing and efforts that aren't quite so invasive.

This is opposed to those who really just "sorta" locked down , whine about wearing a mask, etc. (R0 about 1.0)--see: Santa Cruz county being able to trace more than half of their cases to two Mother's Day gatherings.

"Lockdown badness" is something that is the result of poor government policy and actually has solutions--it is not immutable scientific fact.

Whether political leaders will implement those solutions is a different question.
The social contract was to isolate to keep us all safe.

The other entry in the social contract is that our leadership should work to keep the country safe, and it failed at the very top.

Does that help clear things up for you?
> The US desperately needs preferential voting and mandatory voting.

The problem is not that people don't want to vote, it is that people can't vote: voter suppression (e.g. voter roll manipulation, ID requirements abused to specifically target PoC) or people working two/more jobs combined with the fact the US unlike almost all other countries do not vote on a Sunday or have it a national holiday are quite powerful.

To add to that mix, mail-in voting is not accessible by default for everyone, and extreme gerrymandering (local/state elections) and the "electoral college" system (presidential elections) make it effectively moot to vote in states that are either hard blue or hard red.
> there was some friction.

The friction is still there. Have you read the article?

> When SmartScreen was launched, nearly 7% of all downloads were later detected as malware by AV.

What about the other 93%? The vast majority gets unnecessarily blocked!
as the colloquialism goes: Talk is cheap...
Canadian here. I don't especially care about having a 5G plan, but I support this decision.
> The only justifiable things to censor are either direct threat/harm to life

It's not a stretch to point out that the post made by POTUS falls within that description. He was literally threatening protestors/looters with summary execution by the military.
If the cell signal is intercepted by a cell-site simulator, what sort of metadata will the MitM see as messages are sent and received?
Well if you look at their actions, they were anti-worker, they had to recapture the factories from the soviets (worker councils) and reinstate managerial control. This meant fighting the most dedicated revolutionaries and socialists, a real tragedy IMO.

in 1917 the country was 90% illiterate. It was also mostly foreign-owned, kind of like a 3rd world country.
It surely is easy to procrastinate by inventing more and more complicated systems, but I don’t think the (base) Zettelkasten is an example of such procrastination.

> active note taking, e.g. while watching a lecture, is a crucial part of learning

I agree! The word “active” is crucial here — categorising, structuring and interlinking knowledge fosters understanding. The Zettelkasten builds on this principle, because — when it works in classroom, maybe it would be good to interlink and structure your ideas outside of it as well.

> Organizing them into some (in case of roam, PAID!) system that you will probably not even come back to?

I sense a straw man here. Of course, if you don’t plan to look at your notes ever again, why bother writing them down in any kind of system?

The whole point of Zettelkasten is to write down notes that you intend to use in the future. You can still have some ephemeral notes, but you don’t rewrite those to the Zettelkasten.
I have so many questions about this stuff! In particular though - im running a single GPU passthrough setup on my machine. It works smoothly, but I need to shutdown the display manager (gdm/lightdm etc. depending on distro) before unbinding the graphics card from the host and assigning it to the guest.

This means when I get back to my host, i have to relogin and all my windows/apps are gone. There seems to be no way to save/restore the state of X11 (i know apps themselves wouldn't save state). Is there something fundamental about how display managers tie into the GPU that makes it impossible? Is it possible to configure X11 and display managers to use software rendering only?
>Riots happen when the social contact is broken.

This strikes me as too simplistic solution. I tried to find papers on how demonstrations become riots, but my google.scholar-fu has failed. Anyone got good review papers on this? (If none exist, there is a goldmine there for social scientists.)
Well we just don't know because it wasn't even considered, it's just not something you learn about in history usually.
This comment x 1000. (Some) Engineers think they have it all figured out. And they do...because someone figured it out all for them, and they get to work with the benefit of that knowledge.

This is a polemical statement, I'm closer to an engineer than a scientists and I really like having a solid model to work from. It took me a long time to understand how useful approximations are to solving hard problems. Because I didn't want to know the approximations, I wanted a perfect model.

(Oddly, I came to understand the power of approximations in terms of electronics. Electronics are filled with rules of thumb that help you figure out how your circuit works and help to elucidate the behaviors that are important to you.
But it took me awhile to get over myself and use them. It was honestly a huge road block to progress in learning.)

My own take-aways: getting knowledge (de novo, ex nihilo) and applying knowledge are two very important things, but are separate skills. Ideally you'd like to have both.

Secondly science is difficult because you are trying to figure out true things in the face of glaring uncertainties.
Zoom is closed source, you could never trust their encryption to begin with.
And looking at the images of complete destruction, who do you think is the big winner here? Isn't it Mr. "Make America Great again"? I think that's playing beautifully in his hands and many of the people who had turned against him are now back under his wing.

> Sympathy for the officers is fine, but remember they can quit whenever they want.

That's not always the case. As I said, often those people have to provide for someone and put food on the table each night. I know exactly what it is to be a kid and seeing an empty table in the evening.
Neither do end to end encryption of group video calls.
Here's Bush Jr's take on eyebeams:
https://www.bushcenter.org/about-the-center/newsroom/press-r...

(I haven't visited the States since his presidency, but although I found much to dislike about the man, this is an argument I could get behind)
Jitsi are doing some nice work on this...

https://jitsi.org/blog/e2ee/

"If Emil was a rogue service provider running the bridge for the meeting, he would no longer be able to eavesdrop on it and an attempt to do so would only yield, well we already said that: an endless stream of rubbish.

The only way for Emil to actually participate in the meeting would be if he was made privy to the e2ee key. In this case he was and once he enters it, everything goes back to normal"

(Sadly, Chrome only for now - so if Google and state actors are your adversary, "you're still gonna get mossad'd upon"...)
And any time the police "punish" the entire crowd, rather than the individuals who do the acts, that's called collective punishment. It's a favorite tactic of sociopaths and bullys.
So is this how we've decided it's going to be? We have all protesters on one side, and if any protesters do anything bad, all get punished? (I also find some moderate irony in you claiming something doesn't make the news, then linking a news website.)
That was a good thread, thanks.

The relevant bits I got from it were that there are a bunch of bad actors who create new Zoom identities and host meetings a few times before moving on, and Zoom needs a means by which they “can, if they have a strong belief that the meeting is abusive, enter the meeting visibly and report it if necessary.” Their E2EE design will make it impossible for Zoom employees to enter E2EE meetings without permission, so giving E2EE to the free tier will enable people to use Zoom meetings to facilitate abuse.
Is github and people willing to document everytime a
black person rioting
or a white commie (antifa)
kills a person (citizen or cop) and steals/destorys/burns down places ?
Here's an interview with one of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGiL2PgC17A

It seems like a lot of elderly men in the late 1800s/early 1900s married younger women to essentially be caregivers.
> A mass protest is by all means a form of collectivism.

No, it's not. Participation in a mass protest may be motivated by collectivist ideals, or it can be motivated by the individualist ideal that it is better to discourage a government course of action that could in the future be of grave danger to you individually, and that the immediate risk of participation in the protest is less than the long-term risk of the policy being protested against.

People of ideologized strictly and emphatically opposed to collectivism engage in mass protests.

> Collective punishment may be a violation of human right [...]

> what is your solution when [...] your task is to make sure that the city is still there the next morning?

The legitimate task of the police is to protect the rights of all (innocent, suspect, and even, except to the extent specifically and legitimately deprived due to their guilt, the guilty). There is no circumstances when participation in a gross abuse of human rights is within the scope of their legitimate task.
> Basically, when people are scared, they want the government to protect them

That works only until the people you're scared of are those the government sends "to serve and protect"...
Woah, what a rabbit hole that wiki article got me into. Btw, what could be the possible explanation for that "axis of evil" if we assume it's not just a series of faulty observations?
While it's true that abortion changed the republican party, the OP is referring to an earlier realignment in the 1960s:

https://www.history.com/news/how-the-party-of-lincoln-won-ov...

Or if you prefer, here is a 1971 book saying how after the Goldwater campaign the Republican party concentrated on wooing the traditionally conservative white southern voters: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2748017?seq=1
It sounds like nearly all of the people using Zoom to facilitate abuse are doing so on the free tier (with untraceable throwaway identities).
There are many people alive today who grew up under legal segregation

Legal segregation never went away, it's just not necessarily Plessy v. Ferguson obvious anymore.

There was a great episode of Why is this Happening about two years ago with Nikole Hannah-Jones, who you might know as the NYT's Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist behind the 1619 Project, that covered this topic: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/investigating-school-s...

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Sidebar: if you haven't seen Nikole Hannah-Jones's 1619 Project, now is the perfect time to familiarize yourself with it.

Here's the main site: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619...

And here is the incredible podcast: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/podcasts/1619-podcast.htm... — if you only have time to listen to one episode, try the third one, "The Birth of American Music".
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Cool project but it's not remotely a clone of AirDrop. AirDrop is one of those things that can only be done by Apple, at least on iOS. I have many apps that have "documents" on iOS. I can select them in the app, pick "Share" and then pick "AirDrop" and send them to my Mac. AFAIK I can't do that through this. I go into those apps, select some files and pick send to Safari and I get an error, Safari doesn't support the files. I go into Safari and pick some file but Safari or iOS doesn't let me browse the files of other apps.

Maybe it's possible to make a native iOS app you could send the files to that would use same WebRTC protocol but going the other way, Mac to iOS device seems impossible. Where as I just tried it via real AirDrop. I choose a file on my Mac in Finder. Picked Share->Airdrop. Selected my iPhone. I was given the option to open the file which then gave me a list of all apps that I could send it to. I picked an app and the app's folders appeared. I chose a folder to save it to and then ran the app to check it worked. It did.

I supposed Mac to iOS you could make your native iOS app the target and then from there select the files and "share" them with other apps on the phone.
> I think this is mostly wishful thinking

That's called projection, on your part.

I don't think anybody supporting the protesters is horrified that some of the "legitimate" protesters are looting. They're more horrified by the systematic abuse and lack of accountability that has sparked these protests.

Your insistence on focusing on the violence is a cheap distraction.