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Article has been updated with a statement from Zoom:

> Update: A Zoom spokesperson confirmed to Axios that the account had been closed "to comply with local law" and said it had now been re-activated.

> “Just like any global company, we must comply with applicable laws in the jurisdictions where we operate. When a meeting is held across different countries, the participants within those countries are required to comply with their respective local laws. We aim to limit the actions we take to those necessary to comply with local law and continuously review and improve our process on these matters. We have reactivated the US-based account.”

> — Zoom statement

> Between the lines: This suggests Zoom closed the account due to concerns in China, which forbids free discussion of the 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy movement.
> 1. Go find someone that has the authority to pay you money to build something.

How do I do that? Freelancers sites are cesspools and I'm unsure where to network outside of that.
I think at least one is likely to go to prison, like in the Christie's/sotheby's case, especially if someone flips and acts as an informant. Dont count on it being for very long though.
Amazon unveils small business credit line with Goldman
Ugh, try address fields. I mildly regret having moved to my current home last year, as inputting this address into forms is an impossible task. The "correct" address according to the formatting standards of my federal postal service, including street address plus unit number, is 47 characters long. I can put the UNIT number on the 2nd address line (when available), which makes the first line (just the street address) 37 characters long. I've come across more than a dozen services (Amazon, Apple, pizza places, etc.) that have length limits on address lines of between 25 and 35 characters.

The worst are the companies who (somewhat strictly, to varying degrees) verify the address of credit cards. I've barely managed to always verify by shortening into a grotesque form of the address that logistically makes no sense, but is apparently just close enough to match whatever fuzzy formula is used (eg. Levenshtein distance).
I've never successfully used self-checkout at a grocery store without triggering the anti-theft mechanisms. I used to have this problem at CVS but I'm pretty sure they've disabled the scales in recent years. Likewise for Target--scales disabled. I assume grocery store theft is more common, or perhaps their margins too slim, to disable the measures.
Thanks! Have spread the word.
It will be seen that way - people have gone to jail for antitrust stuff. Especially if one person flips on the others. Is it guaranteed to happen? No, but it might, and it has before.
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> I don't have to provide a "proposed solution" to MITM

No, my experience says you do.

The enterprise needs to prevent data breaches and data exfiltration. If you want them to move away from MITMing, then I believe you would fare better if you provided an alternative solution.

Further, unless you have some voodoo magic, preventing breaches and exfil, would still require inspecting something - whether it's at the OS, client, or data level. IOW: you are simply moving the inspection around from network to somewhere else - but it's still inspection - and invasion of the employee activities.
James Gunn, director of "Guardians of the Galaxy" is the first person to come to mind for me. He's not a stand-up comedian per say, but humor was undoubtedly part of his job and he got fired for some very poor jokes he made on twitter a decade prior.
Because you have to prove beyond reasonable doubt that one person broke a specific law. That's not always evident.
I had never heard of unbundling before. I wonder what value taking something like Craigslist and breaking it up into dozens of areas really adds. I guess Indeed, Airbnb, etc. have some proprietary systems for matching people with jobs/rentals, but aren’t a lot of these services location-based anyway? If I am looking for a job, is Indeed’s algorithm orders of magnitude more effective than just filtering by city and occupation in a simple Craiglist search? I can see these unbundled sites adding some value, but enough value to be cumulatively worth way, way more than Craigslist? It seems doubtful to me, even if they do offer some benefits. It just seems like it would be a lot easier if we all just used a simple classified ads site instead of dozens of closed platforms with hype/marketing behind what is not really a new service.
Big discussion a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23462568
Look, they corrected themselves (somehow)

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/depiction...
Some people who learn to speak foreign languages fast seem to do this. They copy a native speaker exaggeratedly, almost to the point of parody. And of course young children learn in the same way, by imitating everything rather than trying to filter for the "relevant" bits and imitating those. Most of us are too self-conscious to do this properly though.
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Thanks.

My school (Macalester College) recently started introducing some fp constructs/concepts in our intro class such as map, reduce like you mentioned.

It was long after I took it and now I am TA-ing. Oddly enough, I am more comfortable approaching this style in Kotlin.
I've certainly stuck my own neck out to defend Zoom against some of the FUD around it from a more technical, E2EE performance trade off angle: https://interconnected.blog/zoom-china-fud-performance-trade...

This development just made the company much less defensible...
I don't blame people for being suspicious of Zoom either. I just find it sad that so many readers of Hackernews are endorsing logic that is so unscientific.
The problem with this article is that they made all of these assumptions from those people who actually called in. But what if this vocal minority doesn't match the silent majority? You will get the wrong idea of the issues. I don't know if this is case here, but I think the author is incorrect about what most people are looking for in news.

I think the biggest problem with the legacy media today is that they are so incredibly biased, it's hard to get any good news out of them. A lot of major outlets flat out refuse to cover stories because of bias (the Tara Reid case), or they focus exclusively on certain kinds of stories (like Obama is bad or Trump is bad based on the outlet's bias). Many times I've read an article and realized the journalist is intentionally manipulating the facts, or using language that implies something happened that didn't happen because they want to convince you of something, rather than trying to report what actually happened.

I don't mind a journalist with a bias, I mind when the article reads like some propaganda piece I would find in a North Korean newspaper.
Sure, so I can explain why my definition is better, using an example that you gave.

You said that a reasonable definition of socialism was the following: "means you can't own those goods while renting labor"

This situation, is so far removed, so far out there, so far significantly different than the current state of the world, that it makes no sense at all to call the current state of the world "socialist".

The situation you gave, is far, far outside the norm of how the world currently works, and is borderline unimaginable as to how such a society would even look like.

But my situation, of "Capitalism countries put more money into existing social safety net programs" is easily immaginable. It require no restructuring of society. It merely requires a bit more money, being put into existing programs.

Or in other words, not much would change.

Wheras making it so "you can't own those goods while renting labor" would mean that basically every major company in the world would have to be shutdown or restructured. It is such a massive change, that I cannot even begin to guess as to what such a world would look like.

If you want to make up a new word, or something, that describes giving a bit more money to existing social safety net programs, go ahead.

But whatever you decide to call it, please do not pretend that it is any way similar to if people "can't own those goods while renting labor". The situations are so extremely different, that it makes no sense to describe them using the same word.
Yes, it seems like this was ultimately a bit of a nothingburger.

As much as we may not like it (and I certainly personally don't), China has the authority to censor the internet within its borders. Zoom literally has no choice but to follow China's law within China's borders, if it is to provide its product there at all.

Zoom accidentally deactivated a US-based account, and fixed it when they found out.

At worst, in this instance, they seem to simply be guilty of an administrative mistake and slow customer support.
This website assumes you've studied CMOS circuit design for analog circuitry (amplifiers, analog-digital converters), and have the corresponding course book. It's a good list of when the linear model breaks down and you actually have to do the analysis.

I really like #3, placing a capacitor on a high-impedance node.
I have a ice cream scooper from the 1960's that was used in my grandfather's restaurant. It's built like brick. I also have his hammer that is at least 50 years old. Beautiful wood. His 1970's Robot Coup food processor is still used to this day by my mother. I also still have his Mac SE complete with it's M0116 keyboard and mouse. It's a shame I'm too afraid to resolder the CRT back onto the main board. But that M0116 does still work with an adapter. It's just incredible to me how all these things have kept working after all this time.
I haven't looked at PHP in ages. Now that I hear that the latest version are much better, does anyone have links to good quality PHP code that I can take a look at?
Thanks for the link, I'll go through the presentation.

We need to upgrade the way we compute indicators and the backend for our analytics and I was considering solutions like Druid and ElasticSearch and Pinot seems like another good option.
Getting better latency is really interesting and I'm curious on how much we need to compromise on space usage etc.

Another big subject is how it handles time-based data, similar to time series.
I agree. I wish the ACLU would re-run the results at 99%. But Amazon's example post about law enforcement has it set to 85%.

I don't think this 99% thing is communicated properly at Amazon if it's getting through blog posts like this.

So I think a valid criticism is that we need to make sure that it's higher.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/using-amazon-r...
Remember when the American government got all the payment processors to blockade WikiLeaks because of political speech? Don't pretend that the American government doesn't suppress speech.
Welcome to the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ)
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Amazingly, my IBM 5170 still works. I'm shocked the power supply still hasn't given up yet. The CMOS battery went bad years ago and has been replaced with some AAA's, luckily no leaks.

https://files.home.mos6581.com/Pics/5170/2018.jpg
You do not give a clear indication of your country. How you feel about the handling of suspects and trials and the imprisonment of those who are guilty will be a large input. If you're in a country where the act of arrest is itself brutal, that alone may be enough to put you off. Again if you think that people won't get a fair trial or if they do and yet face horrors in jail then maybe it will put you off.

However the counter side is to explore could this be a source for good overall. Clearly you shouldn't be naively over optimistic but is it plausible this system may improve matters over the current situation? If a number of innocent people are currently arrested by biased store detectives then a system that highlights a higher portion of genuinely guilty people would be a positive.
My group (6 of us) did the oposite. We used to use Skype till we had continual problems of people getting infinite "loading" screens, we switched to Zoom the last 3 or 4 games because of it.

I have to say the video quality is much better and the DM being able to screen share while we can still see each other is great. Also the "Brady Bunch" view is great, being able to see everyone at once is awesome.

I'm not very happy with all of the news trickling out about Zoom but I really do like their product.
na dont think its that expensive at all, and most of those items are pretty silent/cool hes not running big dell r713s
Most tech companies or larger IT departments have a space dedicated to testing, evaluating, or developing gear. The industry term for this is a "lab." People who collect gear and do IT at home as a hobby refer to their lab has a "home lab".
Grubhub Spurns Uber and Will Merge with Europe’s Just Eat Takeaway
I read an article with some details from the Uber side on why that deal fell through. I never thought I'd read an article where Uber seemed to be on the ethical right side of things...

"Uber also believed it would would need to stop several undesirable business practices from Grubhub, including phone charges and cybersquatting, or buying domain names with the intent to profit from them. Grubhub has denied cybersquatting in the past. "

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/10/uber-exasperated-with-grubhu...
Some inherited model trains from the 1930s. Those things are going to last far longer than I will.
I never said PHP was inspired by C++. There are some similarities to any language of course but to me it's closer to looking like C with classes which is where the C++ comparison came from. Not really interested in that subject anymore.

> What projects do you look at that use TLFs?

Drupal defines a lot of TLF's and I've seen user-defined ones in it sometimes. Smaller/hobby projects use them a lot.
That’s one part, the other part is the government has to have a preponderance of evidence of wrongdoing.

Courts and lawyers don’t just take the word of the government as ironclad word of god and pronounce judgement.

Is it seedy, do people do things to hide evidence, do they go to the edge of the law? Yes of course, but the state still has to prove it’s case.
This is quite the thread and I'm having trouble following it, so maybe there's a reason why you're referencing such an old version, but you know PHP's currently on 7.4 right? Tons of progress over the last few years. If someone picks up a book that's 10 year's old or reads a blog post from 2010 and expects it to be 'current' then they have bigger issues. There are plenty of resources that cover modern PHP.
I meant that without belief in God, there is no real objective rational reason to be altruistic.
The adjective case might be debatable, since it's usually learned implicitly but could be taught.

Intuitive physics may be a stronger example: the point is that it's not "real" physics where you numerically evaluate the statics and centers of mass. It's a set of heuristics that let you rapidly (and not always successfully) determine if a pile of books is stable, using some internal model of the world.

Ditto for sensory input. You have all these built-in principles (or priors or biases) that have evolved over millions of years to help you make sense of ambiguous or impoverished sensory input. These are also mostly implicit.

We can certainly name these effects talk /about/ them, and even probe them with careful experiments....but we can do that to bike-riding too.
>It turns out that most consumers don't really want a zero-dead-pixel guarantee though.

Alternatively they just buy their displays from brick and mortar companies that allow you to return for any reason at all and just return for replacement any device that has any number of dead pixels.

I've never bought a display that had any number of defective pixels in almost 3 decades of using computers I'm betting lots of people are in the same boat. Logically the price is built into whatever such places are selling them for based on some percentage of users returning anything with any number of dead pixels.
Have you tried Bouncer? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samruston....
Is it often that China unblocks a communication platform without them fully complying with the CCP’s desire to monitor and censor everything?

I can’t think of any major platforms that got banned and reinstated with zero changes. I’m treating that as evidence that they are colluding.
This method won’t get you exceptional on its own. That’s for sure.

I’m not saying to pick one person and blindly follow them forever. It’s just a really fast way to get competent. I used the same technique to learn programming, scuba diving and sales. After you get the super basics down, find more teachers to copy and start even thinking for yourself a bit more.

It will take you surprisingly far, though. One thing I didn’t mention is it’s good for getting the most out of people who are master practitioners but not great teachers. Rather than ask them to take their skills and package them up for you, you just look over and make a copy for yourself.
> ISPs operate on a similar business model to gyms. They couldn't afford to provide the service if everyone maxed out what they are paying for.

My ISP is a "small" provider that focuses on multi-unit urban residential buildings in the midwest. Their business model is to make an agreement with the building management and provide a baseline service to every unit, while offering upgrades and extra services to individual units that want them. They have an incentive to provide far more capacity than the baseline so they have room to offer upgrades.

I pay $25 per month for 250mb symmetrical and am definitely getting those speeds 24/7. I have the option to upgrade to 1G symmetrical for something like $500 per year, but haven't seen the need.

Unless an ISP is serving a very low density customer base, the cost of building out full capacity just isn't prohibitive anymore. My ISP only has around 20,000 customers and they have direct peering with Netflix, Amazon, Apple and others - clearly an ISP doesn't even have to get very large before those cost benefits arrive.
In addition I would assume not 100% uptime, and not enough uptime to run websites for businesses etc. Unless there is a reason to think otherwise. So whatever it is it has to survive downtime. Torrents for example would be OK, but http servers for business not so much (but http servers for hobby sites maybe).
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There’s a difference between a private company doing that on their own accord, and bowing to the CCP.
Time for a reminder...?

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

As a maker (and permanent remote worker, even before COVID-19), I am constantly struggling to convince people to have fewer meetings, and having a second screen for the meetings I do have, isn't the answer: the answer is fewer meetings!

I know this whole "remote-work" thing is somehow new to people, but, in a word: evolve!

I am so not into a second screen that I have embarked on using a cellular-capable tablet as my sole device, so that I can do work anywhere, anytime. The "home office" with multiple monitors is not the answer to remote-work, doing your job with simple tools, is. But, of course, this is just my opinion.
I'll be damn, you're right! https://repl.it/repls/NegativeLightpinkScreencast That is indeed super weird.

> You can point out the most insane behavior and someone always comes by and says "Nothing to see here. Just don't do that." Or "I just know not to do that, therefore PHP is fine."

I'm pretty sure what you're describing there is every programming language—or any object of fancy really. People tend to defend the things they like.

However, PHP wasn't even my reason for not wanting to use filenames as array keys. You're reading WAY too much into my response. And maybe you're right, maybe it's fine to use filenames as keys, but my initial thought was that maybe some programming languages weren't too happy about using e.g. emojis as keys so I'd prefer to be a bit more in control of what ended up in my keys, but I guess a string is a string (except when it's not ... apparently).

> Would you really believe this if you were working in another language?

I'm not even primarily working with PHP. I just don't have any huge issues with it and its quirks. You're not gonna hear me deny that it has its inconsistencies but I don't feel like I'm spending more time fighting the language than I save by developing in it, so for me it comes out as a net positive still.

> And I think it speaks to my point that you tried and failed to solve the issue.

I disagree. First of all, I gave you the very first idea that popped into my head without even knowing at what point the bad type-casting occurred. It was even phrased as a question specifically because I wasn't sure if it would fix it. Second, I would argue that this is an edge-case. I've done PHP on and off for a long time ("off" for at least the last 6 months though) and I've never run into this before. Or maybe I have, but then it hasn't been a problem because I usually don't mix associative and numerically indexed arrays, so `$arr['123']` would still find `$arr[123]` and I'd likely never notice what was actually happening underneath.
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I think, the uBlock Origin context menu does that?
Previously posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23483063
IPv6 DNS certainly works, as long as you're not using ISP provided home equipment that's too stupid to let you allow incoming connections on IPv6; but only if you always have IPv6 access where you want to access the things from.

IPv6 on public WiFi or corporate networks isn't a given, and where I live, neither is cell coverage, so I wouldn't want IPv6 only for important services.
> ...and how financially secure they are in general, whether that be via grunt work, inheritance, safety net, whatever.

True. Privilege, and assumptions of “But of course you can find another job” probably play a huge part too. I've never had a manager belonging to an underrepresented community in tech, but I imagine they would be far less likely to say something like that.
Till you want to run some electron apps
If the peak is predictable, there's no need for networking. The appliance equivalent of a light-timer (or a little robot that presses "start") is all that is requisite.
The crux is here: "In fact, it was last year that The Wall Street Journal did the math and found that we had collected no more than $6,790 on hundreds of millions in fines. Why? Well, one reason is that the FCC looks to the Department of Justice to collect on the agency's fines against robocallers. We need them to help. So when they don't get involved—as here—that's not a good sign."
How is updating Edge through windows update a 'strike to chrome' or a 'stunning move'?

That is the dumbest title I have ever seen.
Armin Trosser coffee grinder my grandfather's brother brought back from the war. Still makes my coffee every morning. Looks like this: https://www.etsy.com/listing/194699008/german-armin-trosser-...

I wish everything I owned was like this; simple, sturdy, purposeful and around for 80+ years. There's some german word for it; I think one of their green party muckey mucks has a chain of stores along these lines (it doesn't really work, but nice try anyway). I've got a couple of antique radios which are considerably older (1920s era) and still function also, but firing them up is a special occasion.

On the semi-modern front; my X220 thinkpad feels like it could last me the rest of my career, but the new AMD chips finally have me looking sideways at new hardware.
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