skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So many problems on the web at least partially stem from the fact that we have still not come up with a fundamentally good way to move money around digitally. There is no equivalent to cash on the web.

- The amount of hoops we jump through to get around the problem that credit card numbers are fundamentally insecure is absurd. Transactions can be arbitrarily canceled up to a month after they happen, and platforms like Paypal will then happily charge you an extra fee for the privilege of reversing the payment.

- Bitcoin was also obviously a dumpster fire in this regard. It's not clear Bitcoin was ever going to be anything but a dumpster fire; the transaction fees were always going to make it terrible for micropayments, and they were baked into the design pretty early.

- GNU Tailor has been occasionally making the rounds for years, but I don't see any kind of timeline for getting real banks to adopt it.

It's a difficult problem.

But I suspect a truly decent micropayments system that didn't suffer from all of the privacy/gatekeeping/transaction-fee problems of credit cards and Paypal would fundamentally change the web.
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> I've anecdotally heard Meet had worse video/audio quality from friends.

The best part of Zoom taking off is suddenly Meet appears to be getting new features almost daily. It's like a product Google suddenly cares about again. Audio and video quality have also greatly improved. It's really like a completely different product from 6 months ago.
without google you'd likely never have even been aware of the creator in question. why is that a valueless service to you?
It's cool to see few shot learning work so well. I'm skeptical about using these models in production though. Would the smallest GPT-3 model outperform GPT-2? Is there a version of the GPT-3 model that I can use in production where the accuracy vs costs trade off makes sense?
>Wikipedia has 51.1 million articles in 291 languages, is something like the 5th most visited website in the US, 10th in the world, and they manage to do this without running any ads. Can't we be thankful for the incredible human library of knowledge they've built, and chip in a few dollars if we are able, instead of complaining and telling them they should not accept donations?

But the donations don't go to the people who wrote those articles!
Would you please stop posting fulminating rhetoric to HN? No doubt your strong feelings are justified but the discussion this leads to is tedious, predictable, and nasty.

The idea here is to have thoughtful comments and curious conversation. "FUCK ONE THING and FUCK OTHER THING" is...not that. Also, can you please not use allcaps for emphasis? maybe it would be a good moment to review the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I use that mapping all of the time, it is also helpful to use

inoremap <esc> <nop>
as this helps you train your fingers to stop using <esc>
If the police smash down your door, the news labels you a pedophile, and you have to spend $$$$$ on legal costs an eventual acquittal is still a huge loss.
There's no connection between Fauci and the WIV. He heads a massive organization, the NIAID. He doesn't personally manage every grant.

I don't even think the grants in question go directly to the WIV. They go to an American organization that works together with the WIV on certain projects.
The capitalist state you are celebrating is grafting on increasingly more socialist elements. Stop thinking about the cold war and start thinking about the past 200 years.
There didn't use to be public education, police, justice system, etc. This trend is going to continue.
I made a note above that Zoom getting popular apparently lit a fire under Meet. It's gone from terrible to pretty good in a very short amount of time.
Short of saying that a hyper inflation event in the US would probably break civilization and so allocating capital is irrelevant at that point, isn't the obvious answer Bitcoin or other crypto assets?
Either it is E2E encrypted, or it is unencrypted on zoom servers and the only claim that they can reasonably make is that they haven't provided their employees with the tools to observe a call invisibly.
Nice for discoverability. I've been positively surprised by
[1] https://hirschmilch.de/ progressive stream, which i'm now listening to by other means.

(Should i feel Jägermeistered now?)
Unfortunately that looks unlikely to happen for at least a couple more years because they would have to use a whole new chipset and PCB
Reading Ebert's Great Movies site was hugely formative for me. I also love that he's low-key one of the best writers about addiction and recovery.
Side note: A colleague who worked at the Sun-Times when Ebert also did recently told me about how whenever management threatened cuts, he'd come into the newsroom to throw his weight around against it. Even when he was getting to be in ill health. Much respect.
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I often have to specifically search for a Wikipedia article in Google to get the result for it. For example, if I search for a pharmaceutical molecule, I will get pages of "health line" type pages listing side effects and uses.

Five to ten years ago, the Wikipedia article for the molecule was always in the top three.
there is a libertarian in our midst
What's a thought and why should it matter for free will?

What's an intention, and how do you know roomba doesn't have intentions but people do?

When roomba tries to go forward but can't and changes direction - how is that different from when a human does it?

In the end all the differences are in your model of reality and none of them are in the actual reality. You categorize roomba decision process as "lacking free will" and your own as "having free will". But there's nothing in the actual data justifying that distinction, it's just artifact of our simplified model of the world. Sociall interactions were so important for us that we got huge coprocessors in our brains dedicated to recognizing and simulating decisions processes going on in other humans.

We lack such coprocessors for other decision processes like ai or corporations, so we intuitively feel they are qualitatively different. But there's no data to back that intuition.

> Ask yourself to what extent a person who lost the ability to form new memories should be responsible for breaking a law that changed after their injury.

I could ask why a memory that you form by changing weights on neurons count for a purpose of having free will and memories formed by switching transistors don't. But that's again irrelevant. You can have free will without being able to form memories at all.

Besides in all law systems I know you can be punished for a crime you weren't aware even is a crime.
> where the heck did my mouse go?

Windows' mouse properties control panel has "Display pointer trails" and "Show location of pointer when I press the Ctrl key" options to make the pomouse pointer more findable.
> The rules about comedy don't apply to professional comedians, because you know if they break them they're still trying to funny.

This was the original notion that I was disagreeing with. If you can't think of a single comedian fired for social media posts or previous material then you really aren't educated on the topic that you are arguing about.
Also, complete exaggerations like:

> dreadful modern scourge

> not some important social ill

are not conducive to conversation. I never once claimed that changes in societal norms are negative so please don't put words in my mouth. What I'm saying is that there is a complete lack of nuance or context with many of the modern forms of evaluation and nuance and context are kinda important for appreciating any artform. Some of that evaluation takes place on social media and ends up having outsized real-life effects.
If the alternatives were that better why will a chinese activist not use them?

Zoom is simply easy to use. I have tried all... Use Teams and SFB at work
So that statement is correct, you just confirmed it yourself.
Debt only matters if there is a Democrat in the White House.
Yes that's what I said, the data you need for a unifying theory is unavailable because we don't have colliders that can reach the right energies. Giant Neural Networks don't fix that.
I assumed that the author was thinking about screens 10 years ago, which didn't have oleophobic coatings yet. So fingerprints and smudges built up in layers really fast and made it hard to read the screen.
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Beyond that, we're just fans. We're amazed by how quickly the field is moving and we did some benchmarks that we thought other people might find as exciting as we did. I don't want to take a side in the naming controversy. Our core focus is helping developers get data into any model, regardless of its name!
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Encrypted = private to most people. There’s no reason to muddy the waters with the fact that Zoom encrypts some data temporarily at some time with keys that they control, because that isn’t what anyone cares about.
That's it, dumping Zoom, not going to be surveilled by Chinese authoroties - - not going to support a company that practices censorship.
I have a digital alarm clock from about 20 years ago. i think it's JVC. it still works, even though I stepped on it about 5 years ago, once.

Amazingly, it's still on the original battery!!!!
> This is incorrect. They don't offer end-to-end encryption

It's all about end-to-end encryption, so it's correct. If they decrypt it anywhere on the way then three letter agencies can always listen to what you say with a proper letter.

> and they have promised

Are you serious?
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A promise is a promise. The "no way to spy" is likely just compliance. A lot of companies have compliance guarantees in place, like SOC2, which is about processes and documentation/audit trail. So the thing blocking you from reading customer data is another person in the organization having to confirm it's a legitimate action.

Government level surveillance is not the same as an employee listening in on a whim. It's an organized endeavor, which comes with a process, so it may as well be ok from compliance point of view.
It’s a strange feeling “being fired” even if it doesn’t affect your income.

The company I worked for in 2011 was acquired for its customers. We all knew that we were going to be let go as soon as the acquisition happened. Most of us had other jobs lined up and we were sticking around for the severance.

In my case, not only did I have a contract lined up with one of our customers, I knew I was going to start working the following Monday and getting paid more, and my termination letter had a special provision that gave me access to all of my former company’s intellectual property and software that I needed to work with the customer. I still felt bad for getting let go.

After we all “got fired” we ate lunch, had a few drinks, and came back to the office and just hung out.
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This is REAL!
Here are more details shared by Humanitarian China with links to the video recordings and the photos of Zoom blockage.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12DM3ccTe70yzqCDPu9uXlCD7...

If Zoom cannot comment on this incident.
a) Either issue an apology and revert the stance.
OR
b) Or Explain why it was done

Its usage needs to be met with serious skepticism.
>but it was certainly widely understood by people who cared.

Rasmus Lerdorf and the early-to-mid PHP community simply didn't care. As you can see by the quotes I posted in another comment, Rasmus Lerdorf actually brags about how much he doesn't care. It's a textbook example of anti-intellectualism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism

What the early-to-mid PHP community cared about, and was extremely successful at, was evangelism, and recruiting as many new inexperienced developers as possible.

That didn't mix well with all the foot-guns and design flaws they carelessly built into the language, and left in for far too many long years.

Along the axis of care, PHP is the opposite of Java. Compare PHP's complete lack of design with how carefully and conscientiously Java was designed (I may not agree with all of Java's design decisions, but at least they're all carefully researched, thought out, and debated to death first):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22210073

>"In the Java universe, pretty much everybody is really disciplined. It's kind of like mountain climbing. You don't dare get sloppy with your gear when you're mountain climbing, because it has a clear price." -James Gosling
The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/3/21279355/zoom-end-encrypti...
There are advantages to the efficiency of authoritarian power, but how do they handle peaceful transition of power? How do they handle abuse?

A lot of democratic stability comes from it being hard to change things quickly, separation of power, and the existence of a lot free speech so it's hard to cover things up. Ultimately, with a dependence on the people.

I could be persuaded that there are better ways to structure things within that, if a lot of thought was put into how to handle a tyrant's rise and how to handle a transition of power. I probably could not be persuaded that limits on speech and government censorship are good long-term for the health of a society that I'd want to actually live in. I think it's a good thing for governments to ultimately be accountable to their people.

I generally agree with the sentiment that elected leaders fear getting voted out, while dictators fear getting dragged out. The ability to vote seems important for long term stability.

In China's case, it seems they've done away with terms entirely for Xi. Speech and dissent is tightly (and violently) controlled, and even when there's just potential for future dissent, entire groups are put into camps to destroy their culture to supposedly reduce that risk.

The west has problems too, but there's a reason people emmigrate out to countries that are more free when they're allowed to.

Enormous economic growth and strategic planning have allowed their people to accept this abuse for now, though the party should be worried if that ever changes.
Why is this being downvoted?

It’s a pretty accurate summary of Marxist beliefs.
> They don't offer end-to-end encryption, but it is encrypted between each client and the Zoom servers,

I think it's absurd that when talking about private messages the bar for privacy would be so low as to say that client-server encryption would be a "feature"-

> they have promised there's no way for a Zoom employee to spy on a conversation without visibly joining the meeting

That's false unless no one at zoom has logins to any of the servers that route the calls or deploy code to them. Let's be clear and specific about the terms. "no way for" and "not allowed under guidelines" have very different technical meanings.
The reason is to get a job at Amazon where you will earn $. It is part of their offer and lots of employees take it because the salary is worth the risk of impact down the road.
It's also important to remember that most lobbying is not taking a Senator to lunch, it's emailing/calling their staffs with information about a particular piece of legislation. Staffs of these politicians deal much more with lobbyists day to day than their bosses.
Right, I'm saying afaik in Canada the police don't have a right to smash down your door only based on an IP address. This is different from the US where an IP address is enough probable cause to get a search warrant.

See USA:

- https://www.mjpetro.com/search-and-seizure/search-warrant-at...

vs Canada:

> Receiving a notice does not necessarily mean that you have in fact infringed copyright or that you will be sued for copyright infringement.

> The Notice and Notice regime does not impose any obligations on a subscriber who receives a notice and it does not require the subscriber to contact the copyright owner or the intermediary.

- https://ic.gc.ca/eic/site/oca-bc.nsf/eng/ca02920.html

- https://www.mccarthy.ca/en/insights/blogs/snipits/you-can-st...

- https://apanewslaw.wordpress.com/2014/06/17/the-supreme-cour...

But IANAL, please correct me if I'm wrong here.
What is your evidence for that?

Such perceptions are notoriously unreliable. I know this from having spent countless hours looking at data on this kind of thing in an HN context.
Yep to both. For years I've been a practicing engineer who manages.

Surprising similar strategies: pick an ideal target state; get buy-in from stake holders (fellow engineers or business people); come up with a multi-step plan with milestones; get started. If the milestones aren't getting completed and the target isn't measurably closer, you have a problem.

Rewriting the code over the weekend doesn't work. Using positional power to decree changes doesn't work either. Well, if either of those work then it wasn't that serious of a change anyway.
What you are describing sounds like DANE.

And it's not just decentralizing trust, but also further centralizing it: Instead of a list of CAs you can trust/not trust, you tie everything back to the DNSSEC root keys and your TLDs master keys.
A laptop is terrible ergonomically.
I’m surprised anyone could read her essay and still think she cares if a handful of idiots persist in calling her a “TERF”, or any other misogynist slur.
I've been using Whereby.com. It's clean, simple and 'just works'. No permissions popups or anything like that.
And this is better: https://bloggeek.me/when-will-zoom-use-webrtc/
I'd be wary of that. He needs to make some predictions that can be tested or it's just another string theory/brane theory/many worlds/etc. theory that makes a lot of claims but hasn't advanced the science at all. We need testable predictions, preferably new particles in energy regimes we can actually reach with current or near future tech.

Edit: There's a big danger in accepting theories because they have simplicity or beauty. That's how we ended up with String Theory and Fundamental Theoretical Physics has basically stalled since the '50s because of it.
>Our system is 100% entirely dependent upon ARTIFICIALLY low interest rates

There is no such thing as "artificial" or "natural" rates of interest.

>Central banks are doing everything in their power to keep interest rates low because if they were to tick up even a little bit, the whole house of cards will come toppling down.

Why would, or should, they "tick up"? Capital is abundant. If rates were higher, things would be different, yes. But that is not the world we live in.

>It's the only still keeping this zombie of an economy moving, and it's the entire world

I love the idea that the entire global economy is fake, artificial and zombie-like, because it doesn't operate the way you think it should. A reasonable person would take a step back and question their premises and understanding.
I think probably the most ironic thing about all the hate PHP gets, is that those who hate it the most seem to assume that the people who chose to use it did so without exploring other options.

So {your favorite language here} was turned down by a potential developer because they saw PHP as the better option. People aren't stupid but from all the rhetoric it seems the "geniuses" in the group think they are.

I wish I could request a POLL here. I'd ask, from all the people who hate PHP and write extremely long posts about their hate for the language: How many of you used some of that energy you expend hating PHP to write a patch or feature for your favorite language to make it more desirable for other developers?
Montgomery Ward shortwave radio from the 30s, a Philco AM radio from the 40s, and a handful of other tube radios from the 50s and 60s.

I've got a Kenwood TS-520 ham radio from the 70s which I use occasionally.

Also a first-gen IBM Selectric typewriter, which would place it somewhere between 1961 and 1971.

The AT&T desk phone sitting next to me has a "Warranty expires 12/87" sticker on the bottom.

All this old stuff is seriously built to last, and most of the radios either came with schematics or have a schematic glued to the inside of the case.
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How about "You're lucky I'm a nice guy, someone else might consider that a firing offense." Does that cross the line?
> Productivity? I can only focus on one thing at a time. Managing windows and which screens they are on is an overhead I don’t need to deal with.

I have two 28" 4K external monitors, and both are completel covered in multiple windows for the one thing I am working on right now (well, would be if I wasn't posting this).

It really depends on what your workflow is like and what constitutes a "thing".
yeah, the definition of prevalence is clear to me.

but it's the other way around. Men and women are affected with the same severity but women are more likely to develop it. ( or at least that's what I understood from bradjohnson's comment).
<sarcasm>

Step 1: Don't be poor.
Step 2: Repeat.

</sarcasm>
I'm sure there are auditors who would sign off on it, but you can't really claim that shitboxes prevent PHI exfil. This is like putting up a ten-foot-long fence a mile from the barn with the open door. You lost the battle the moment that data was viewed on any device that wasn't currently operated by a health professional with a reason to see it.
What about cryptos? Can I get rich with those?
Here are more details shared by Humanitarian China with links to the video recordings and the photos of Zoom blockage.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12DM3ccTe70yzqCDPu9uXlCD7....
Chips aren't designed from scratch. They're assembled out of previously designed components and in this case Core cores and Atom cores were never designed to work together.
There is an interesting distinction used by some economists between "labor-saving"/"captial-augmenting" technology and "labor-augmenting" technology: the former encourages you to decrease headcount, while the latter nets you more units of work completed per unit of labor.

See here for a discussion: https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/18079/labour-s...
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I have a Logitech usb optical mouse from 1999 or so..

One of these:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c1/c6/d6/c1c6d6c43a9bfd3dd452...

Works ok. Was still using it a few months ago, but the wheel has started to stick a little in one direction, so I replaced it and now use it as a floater.
A couple of weeks ago my family binge-watched "The Office". That show demonstrates the truth of that saying very well.
Gotta throw this out there; if you hate ads but actually like YouTube and want to support YouTube creators, I’d highly recommend YouTube Red. Totally worth it IMO.
> Nor do they have the slightest fear of putting mission critical and sensitive data in the cloud.

To be fair, it makes more sense for many companies to leverage AWS and other cloud providers, other than trying to do a job they do not understand and may not understand enough even to hire for it.
dang! i forgot about this. thank you. it's like scanning the radio on grand theft auto