skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a vague recollection that my choice of name may have been inspired by a UUCP hostname in a Usenet post, so maybe it was this particular VMS machine.
It is enough for the title to say just: "Zoom closes account".

That is already a horrendous misfeature of a communications application. It should not have a central authority which controls accounts (or even knows about all valid accounts).
Maybe Cloud and heat, use servers as your central house heating system instead of oil, gas,...
All of that would be true if the compiler had it built-in too though, right?
Twitter already retrieves the content of pages that people link to in most cases, since they summarize the content in the form of a page preview (thumbnail, title, etc).

I'd imagine that the reduction in knee-jerk retweeting, and improved understanding of the news by users when they read articles -- and perhaps answer a machine-generated question or two about them -- could lead to significant improvements in discussion quality.

Hopefully Twitter would be able to develop metrics to measure that effect, and determine how it affects long-term user experience and value (bearing in mind that short-term engagement might drop a little).

Perhaps it'd be worthwhile always allowing users to skip dialogs like this, since it's arguable they somewhat inhibit free speech (assuming tweeting a URL is deemed free speech). Whether the user was informed or not about the content they posted could be used as a quality signal about the tweet.
I never said anything about self–defense. I am saying you are misunderstanding how the burden of proof and presumption of innocence works. Your original comment, referring to a police officer using force:

> If they are unjustified, then you should be able to prove that. Otherwise what you're talking about is the police having to prove their innocence.

If I allege that a police officer used force on me, they have the presumption of innocence. However, if they admit to using force, that presumption vanishes. We can assume they did it, because they just admitted to it!

The question then becomes whether or not that force was justified. In answering that question, the burden of proof shifts to them: I am presumed innocent of threatening them, and they must affirmatively prove that I did something to justify their use of force.

Edit: I never said anything about self–defense because your original comment was about the burden of proof for use of force by the police, not against them. You are moving the goalposts.
Lessons in Platform Building: How to Grow and Scale a Commerce Platform
Yea. "Youtube is a son of a b, but he's our son of a b"
Might want to put the edit at the top of your message for people skimming through...
The California non-compete law has a carve-out for exactly this case. I signed one of these after selling a company in California in 2014. It was pretty reasonable--restriction from doing something substantially similar to the business for 3 years or for one year after leaving employment at the buyer.
Having just read both Liar's Poker and Barbarians at the Gates, the concept of CLOs sounds awfully familiar.

Loaning money to high-risk companies? Bundling a whole bunch of said loans into securities? High returns despite the risk of a significant fraction of defaults? Sounds like the world has been here before.

If this was a B-flick, it might well be called the return (or revenge) of the junk bond monster.
I had a manager who could sense that nothing was really getting done on a Friday afternoon and would loudly say 'go home!'
If it helps you feel any better, I've never heard of it before either
My Python generator died and all I got was this stupid blog article
So would I. But my point was less about infrastructure software but the end user stuff: graphic editors, text processors, video editors, etc.
That's why Hack was created by FB
> The idea is to let yourself be beat up in order to win the media war and gain more sympathy/supporters.

It is not. The idea is not to provide political cover for violent escalation by the establishment. Now, if that escalation nevertheless occurs, one response is to make lemonade out of those lemons, but it's not the goal of nonviolent protest.
That creates an incentive for them to make ads more annoying, which punishes people who can't afford it.

I "actually support" the creators by donating directly to them instead.
My current Dell laptop uses a 240 watt charger
> But to where? And under which circumstances?

Can you give some guesses? I don't see any other place that would seem more attractive than the US. Every other place has its own problems whether it be lack of developed human capital, unstable government systems, etc. Maybe in the distant future if Mars transportation takes off that can be the next big thing?
It's a bit difficult to understand what exactly that means.

There's Jitsi Meet, Jitsi Desktop, there's a browser extension, a server-which-isn't-just-a-server etc. It's a bit confusing.
Zoom is owned by a Chinese expat with a development shop in China. Enough said.
The people using it, in my experience, have good humour about the numerous quirks and downsides of PHP.
What sponsorship has to do with any of this ? Do you know who's sponsoring this specific Chinese activist ? Any other banned channels and persons ?
Is having a parabolic reflector a violent action? The only way it could hurt someone is by reflecting the pain they were trying to put on you.

If I had armor that ricocheted bullets back at the shooter, I wouldn't consider myself culpable if someone who tried to shoot me shot themselves.
They can do whatever they want as a private company. I can do whatever I want as well. Including leaving zoom. They should have the right to enforce whatever standards they want, and we have the right to disagree and leave.
Apple to discontinue iTunes U after 2021
After Alzheimer’s Diagnosis, Man Regains His Memory – and His Driver’s License
governments monitor all major companies... including the US government (PRISM is pretty old now, so we can assume that they monitor others by now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program) ). So if the traffic is not end-to-end encrypted, assume that they can view your traffic. Sometime they play on words and say that end-to-end means from customer to cloud... but the cloud should not have the key.
Is anyone here boycotting use of Zoom? I have a few clients that ask me to use it and I'm trying to think up a good response as to why I don't have it installed. For those of you that have rejected it on principle, what are you all saying?
for many years now I haven't understood how the financial instruments of USA work

That's deliberate. If they're too complex for most people to understand then they're very hard to scrutinize.
New RustCrypto releases: `aead`, `block-cipher`, `crypto-Mac` and more
Dumb Money Is Looking a Lot Smarter
I was definitely much more communist/socialist leaning when I was younger. The more I experienced how corrupt government systems can get, the more libertarian I became... been registered LP for a long while now.

I now believe that the best way to reduce government corruption is to reduce government. I also feel that government support for corporations should also be limited, and corporations should be carved out as a "non-living entity" class separate from personhood.

I'm more pragmatic that the more an-cap side of things, I feel that the government should at least orchestrate essential infrastructure, and that should include internet, telecom and roads/highways. Most of that PoV is rooted in domestic security.
I was getting this confused with a different tech then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF9G9M0cR0E&t=170
> I am not making the claim that this is due to global climate change

That's by definition change in a pattern.

One could argue if that's humans fault or not.

But saying its natural so we should do nothing, is like doing nothing because a totally natural meteorite is going to hit the earth.
Not all governments are equal. Cut out this whaddaboutism.

Edit: When I replied, OP was simply “governments monitor all major companies... including the US government”
As a head's up a huge fraction of HN's readers read on mobile where code formatting like you used here makes posts unreadable.
It's absurdly slow on hot paths, yet entirely unnoticeable to the vast majority of software out there.
Purism Librem 5 ships in July
No, their claim isn't that they didn't throw tear gas at the police, but that they were justified in doing so.
I've never had to setup swap for a composer install on any machine with >1gb of memory..
I preemptively removed the FB app for now. I don’t know if this is a fruitful strategy in the long run but I sleep better right now.
Complete overhaul is necessary. For example, mental health facilities can only be addressed on a federal level, same as healthcare. Otherwise the governments that do address them will get swamped with benefit received from across the country without the ability to collect taxes from the whole country.

The big ideas seem like wishes, but I think it’s completely doable. But a sizeable portion of the population opposes even the baby steps I listed, and I can’t deduce any reason other than they like to imagine themselves in the owner class and want to keep down labor.
> Zoom is a company I have loved so far

Do you love the company, its leadership, its product, or its pricing?
Are you sure these are friends, or just aquaintances?
If you do consider them friends, why do you feel you must lose them due to their personal beliefs?
Might be required for enforcement against illegal activity, either by law or by desire to avoid ending up as one of those platforms that endorses pure freedom of speech and ends up being labeled by society as a haven of crime and extremism. Would be hard to keep control of that without centralized control.
Please don't turn this website into reddit.
The nuance is in where the ethical line gets crossed for "go bother senators". Having a meeting with a senator? Entirely reasonable. How much does it cost get that meeting though? Senators are very busy, y'know, so maybe they'll agree to meet after a donation to their campaign fund.

Senators are people though and they have to eat, so maybe having a lunch meeting with the senator would be okay? Paying for a reasonably priced lunch for the senator? Say $50? Each? How about a $300 lunch? At the country club? with a round of golf after? Dinner? After dinner entertainment? And what if that entertainment "happens" to be strippers and cocaine?

The senator needs to get re-elected though. So in addition to political donations to their campaign directly, donations could be made to "totally definitely not coordinated" SuperPACs supporting them.

That's before getting into the fact that lobbyists have no obligation to present a fair and balanced picture of the situation. It's easy to sell a narrative that doesn't reflect reality if there's no one to challenge you; you can just leave out any and all inconvenient facts. Additionally, huge corporations are able to threaten layoffs of the senator's constituents.

To be clear, some of this stuff is highly regulated. Eg we couldn't bring doughnuts to a morning meeting with NASA because they're government officials and that could amount to bribery. Lobbying just has a very complex set of laws to skirt - and if you're a professional lobbyist, figuring out how to skirt those laws in order to buy influence is literally your job.
> Is having a parabolic reflector a violent action? The only way it could hurt someone is by reflecting the pain they were trying to put on you.

Yes, violent retaliation is still violence.

Violence only in retaliation and/or self-defense may be a valid approach to protest in some circumstances, but it's not non-violent protest.
Yeah, it's the age old "nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded".
> a fair number of my friends have publicly supported interests that seem directly opposed to my safety

I can't understand what you are hinting at here, or why it's related to FB. Maybe I'm out of the loop.

But in my experience, the majority of people don't religiously post on social media and have moderate views on most things. So extreme people on all sides are not representative of most people.
Widespread mask-wearing could prevent Covid-19 second waves
There was someone in hacker news diagnosed with Alzheimer. I read this article and think of him. Anyway, I think is quite relevant, I have read about different cases in different studies, all with the same conclusions. Hope it can help more people
You can easily commit a traffic violation either out not paying attention or just thinking what’s the harm.

No one mindlessly hacks a utility control system.
There are still non-disclosure agreements and trade secrets laws. Non-competes are not needed for that. Non-competes only exist to discourage employees from being able to leave a company.
At least you recognize your slippery slope fallacy when you make it!
The main reason I liked Zoom was because it was so easy to install. I've had zooms with non-technical people over 70, and not one of them needed help installing it.

The same cannot be said of Google. Heck, as a technical person I have trouble getting Google Meet to work consistently. That was Zoom's main advantage -- their ease of setup and use, and "it just works". We now know that part of the reason that is the case is because they do some very unorthodox things that are security nightmares.

Security and ease of use are always a tradeoff. Zoom has always been on the very far end towards ease of use and away from security.
Mansa Musa | Homeschool History [audio]
I didn't like the underscores for private variables at first, but it kinda grows on you. Visually they really stand out when reading code, which is a good thing.
I used this service a couple of years ago to listen to the local radio station from my home city.

It's indescribable how homesick it made me, but at the same time I felt so much more connected to my home after hearing the local news, and my regional accent which is somewhat rare.

for context; I'm British, from a city called Coventry (which does not have an accent similar its neighbours) and I live in Sweden, where everyone who speaks English sounds either American or very Swedish.
That is also useful because that is further apart than I would have expected. :-)

Is there a continental European Germanic language that was closer to English at that time? An ancestor of modern Frisian or something?
Great software developers deserve to make their fortune too and should be free to do so in a manner that suits both them and their (consenting adult) clients without name-calling from developers with different philosophy/orientation.
That works until some consultant sees that one employee seems to be pretty quick getting their tasks done so management is told to have even more work assigned to them. Why give someone 30 hours of work if they are being paid to do 40 hours? The demand of work is going to inevitably fill the supply of time. As an employee, the proper way to deal with this is just find the proper amount of work you feel comfortable doing in 40 hours and make that your permanent pace. Work too fast and you'll be expected to perform like that forever. Work too slow and you'll be closer to the chopping block whenever the time comes. I'm not suggesting to be lazy and goof off as much as possible to fill the 40 hours but I am saying to expect typical management to be more concerned with how much more you could be doing rather than how much you already do.
This, exactly; it's the actual reason UDP exists. It's a design smell for anything to ask for a new IP protocol number.
So once again, the ownerless open model beats the closed one. Boo hoo.
I don't think that's true.

When I started working, Amazon stock was at ~$750 a share. When I started working, Google stock was at about the same. Google would have granted 100-120K in stock, Amazon closer to 50K. Google gives annual refreshes of ~50K, while Amazon would not until the initial grant is mostly vested. So at the end of this year, when both vests would be coming to a close, a Googler who kept all their stock would have 160 shares from their initial grant, as well as 25-40 additional shares from their refresh grants.

So that's ~180K in AMZN at today's prices vs. 230K in GOOG, plus another 40-60K in refresh grants. And the Google employee has a better salary and bonus structure. Facebook is equivalent or superior to Google in pretty much every aspect of this comparison (base pay, bonus, equity grant, equity growth, equity refresh).
No idea. We're on Meet at my company, and I'm very happy with it. Works well in the browser, connects to Google calendar without any fuss, and I haven't had any issues with dropped calls or low quality.
US native here.

If I printed some $100USD bills, took them to the bank and tried to deposit them, they would have no value. The consensus is that you aren't allowed to print money.

The United States Government prints money all the time. This money has value because there is a world-wide consensus that it has value.

The simple fact is that there is and has been (for many decades) no safer place to park vast sums of money than with the United States Government.

There are limits, though it's not clear what they are. If the US Government printed 330 billion trillion dollars, and gave a trillion to each US citizen, then the consensus would be instantly broken.

The US Government printing 'a trillion here, a trillion there', at this moment in history, is not materially damaging the global consensus. This confidence is relatively easy to measure: when the US creates more debt, are there buyers? The answer is and has been for many decades 'absolutely yes'.

I'm not trivializing this borrowing, and I'm not vilifying it. It is a unique tool that should be used wisely.
ThinkPad P73 has 230 Watt charger.
Let’s see where “but it’s a private company and they have the right to ban any user the want”, “it’s not censorship if it’s not the government doing it”

Well I hope this illustrates why that argument isn’t a good argument to make.
Still working for me here.
A similar mistake is to include your reports in speculation about potential termination of yourself. Especially if they are "The Talent", and you are not so much. I had a non-technical manager (sales background, and probably not bad at it, actually) who somehow ended up in charge of a crack engineering team as part of a re-org. When things were going badly with upper-management, she'd go with "Our heads are all on the chopping block together! You'd better perform or else!" This happened several times. Meanwhile, we were all thinking "Nope. It's just your head on the chopping block, friend." She was gone in a year.

Edit: I should say that the "we" above was the senior engineers. There were some more junior team members who were quite terrified by this speech, until we explained to them how talent (usually) works.
I think @hanniabu is referring to Jitsi Meet in this case...
This, and the competitive US aircraft of the day, were basically a chair with a jet engine attached. A couple of small wings for lift, and off you go.

The courage of an airman climbing into such a machine is remarkable.
Perhaps the greatest difference is that the US government and large corporations don't even need to employ a lot of violent repression to get the media to jump through hoops and do parlor tricks; their ideological control is deeper and more effective than that of the Chinese state.
This is a bit of a rabbit hole but my misunderstanding in the early days of the internet was HOW people might choose to relate to one another via the internet, and I dramatically underestimated the amount of negative interactions there would be...

Tech itself was always a yin and yang to me.
True. But you can still use old.reddit.com. The content is still there, it's just not accessible. So my process has been to search for 'keyword + reddit', click the best search result, then manually type in 'old' in place of 'www' in the url.
If you think that's bad, you should see what those folks do to "email address" parsers.
Twitter.

I used to write long pendantic paragraphs without going to the point. Trying to address all possible combinations in the same sentence. Abusing passive voice and nesting sentences.

The character limitation in Twitter, forces you to think in the substance you want to convey.

It's like programming a microcontroller, it has less resources, so you need to address the limitations to have the same results.
Keep mouth closed, ears open. Repeat serenity prayer:

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.

Regarding the wisdom, I generally start with a null hypothesis that anything I can physically do with my body (which includes words produced by my mouth or my fingertips) is in the latter category, and everything else is in the former until I have overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

But anyways, I can relate a little. My sister has never been an activist type, never said anything about racial justice, until a week ago when she started posting BLM content on Facebook with a demand that anyone who disagrees should go ahead and unfriend her now. It was a shockingly abrupt change.
Amazon can't be that toxic. The innovation in areas like data services (S3, Dyanamo, RDS, Redshift, Aurora, etc.) has been astounding. It's clearly a productive environment for getting big ideas done.
Senior developer at Google does not make $300K. That's salary+stock. Salary alone is almost certainly below $200K in this case.
So your friends fractured into anti maskers and pro maskers?

Or anti protesters / protesters?

I’m Confused so many decisive issues to deal with
For a while I used pm2 to deploy stuff. It's honestly a nifty little tool but I'm moving away into a docker based solution.

Initially I was thinking into having a CI build the images and push it to the server and so one but for my personal projects, it's too much. So I might just do a bash script to build the image, push it to the hub and then connect to ssh to pull the image and restart.

Regarding your script, could you share a template?
Not really, I havent had any friends for years, but I've witnessed family go from relatively mild to full blown conspiracy-theorists within the past year, which is pretty alarming.
You just give the legitimacy to all the hostile behaviors of CCP towards foreign companies. Not the most effective argument IMHO.
> They're not cycling that money back into the economy, they're holding onto it.

I definitely agree with you here, but my point was slightly different—they can't even use that money to improve their products. They're successful beyond compare but that doesn't even do them much good, let alone anyone else.
Much better video quality in Zoom than Google Meet from my experience with both products.
The thing is, it's much simpler for you and the person your talking to to switch from Zoom to SomeOtherApp. But with Youtube - you can take your own videos off of it, but you can't take the ones you want to watch off.
China stealing IP was a concerning issue in the past 2 decades and it's still an ongoing issue. Yet now we have companies willingly handing over data to a CCP-controlled entity. I'm not sure whether to cry or to laugh.
>Is there any Windows-based tablet that you can reliably and easily install Linux on?

Samsung Series 7 Slate XE700T1A