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Unfortunately, I have to post this comment again, from just 3 days ago [1]. Also remember that Eric Yuan is an American citizen, not a Chinese citizen. He switched. Original comment:

When will this meme die?

Zoom is NOT a Chinese company. It is incorporated in and headquartered in the US. Like any American company ever, it follows US laws in the US, and local laws in other companies where it operates. End of story.

Yes their culture certainly has stronger cultural internal ties to China, due to the number of Chinese employees, but what has that got to do with anything? At the end of the day, they're a public, profit-driven corporation trying to make lots of money across the entire world.

It's not like they're secretly and nefariously doing the CCP's bidding, which seems to be the veiled suggestion people keep making.

Seriously, every time someone brings up that Zoom is "really" a Chinese company, it comes across as borderline racism or conspiracy-mongering or both. And while I'd usually never comment on someone using a throwaway account, in this case when you're pushing these kinds of shady "stronger than the more-commonly-discussed" insituations, I think using a throwaway here is representative of exactly the kind of astroturfing that spreads malicious rumors without evidence.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23510886
It would, and apparently they do, don't want to spread rumors though, so take this with a grain of salt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23553453
I would likely only have an integer type. Perhaps even limited to 32 bits. That is because you can't rely on more than that anyway, but if the standard specified it then at least you'd have predictable behaviour.

If I can't rely on being able to store a number of certain magnitude, what good is it that some platforms are able to do it?
I commend Zoom for listening to the outcry over E2EE being limited to paid users. Between this move and their quick acknowledgement of mishandling the shutdown of accounts when asked by China, they're doing a better job than most of responding to criticism.
Yes, if the keys are held in servers that they have access to then they would be able to decrypt the traffic and see what is happening.
The whole point of e2e encryption is that only the 2 parties have the keys, Zoom are abusing this term and making people believe they are doing e2e
Well I must admit I haven't had as much practice at them as you have.
Thanks - I went with Netlify though. I just set up http://www.programminglanguagenews.com (no content yet though!)
And that's despite some states (Georgia and Florida for example) appearing to lie about their covid deaths, instead misattribting them as pneumonia deaths

It's really the other way around - unusually for this type of virus governments have mandated drastic over-reporting of COVID. All kinds of deaths that have nothing to do with the virus have been reported as "died of COVID" for dubious reasons, which is how the New York Times managed to fill its front page with the names of 1000 COVID "victims", the 5th of which turned out to have been murdered.

Some states describing a death as pneumonia is probably just normal medical practice re-asserting itself. Unless you're arguing that no death should ever be recorded as pneumonia (as that's an outcome of a problem, not the underlying root cause itself).
I've seen people making great code and great product on a 1280*800 monitor.

And sometimes working with limitations is the fun itself.
Zoom is primarily an enterprise product. They have chosen to have some form off verification to lower the amount of abuse on their platform.

If you want privacy you simply have to choose another product or service.

You aren't entitled to use their service without paying for it.
Liability shift for gas pumps has been pushed back (October 2020 I think) but not eliminated.

Liability shift works like this: Historically the merchant is protected if they had good faith belief that the payment card was authorised via things like a mag stripe. After liability shift that goes away unless you use EMV. You checked the card was "real" with just a mag stripe? Not interested, the chargeback comes out of your money.

Your local gas station can keep using mag stripe readers for another decade if they like. But liability shift means places that see significant fraud will have an obvious economic incentive to go EMV, and that shifts the fraud onto nearby stations that didn't have fraud problems, so they go EMV and so on.

If you're a merchant with very low fraud rates it can make sense to do no Authorization step whatsoever. Any merchant, anywhere in the world, can do Settlement, which is the step that moves money from your account to theirs, based just on the card number. Only if it becomes a question as to whether this payment was authorized does it matter whether they did the Authorization step, a mag stripe read, the old fashioned impression machines, or a chip-and-PIN terminal.

Certain types of companies can find it makes sense to do no Authorization for groups of customers. One Click may be an example of that. You did a bunch of transactions, with a physical delivery address, what are the chances that a new transaction with the same delivery address and card details is fraud while the previous ones were not?
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Maybe, but the phrasing is "I plan to use this as a teaching tool" and not "I did this as a learning experience".
You mean initial SDF-1 liftoff and the gravity generators rip from the fuselage?
Ah hah hah haha!

And our (USA) law enforcement agencies promise us that any encryption master keys required by their grandiose plans will only be used in cases with proper legal court warrants (ignore the FISA court warrant abuse based on lies and deceit) and will be super secure and never stolen.

Just like those secret hacking tools stolen from the CIA.

Or these private master keys.
Not a reaction to something? Really?
The kind of stuff like union jobs/workers protection, which used to be the platform of Democrats is what Trump ran on.

Interesting to see what happens in the upcoming election since he failed to deliver worker protection (but found plenty of time to let pro-corporate judges get more power).
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That's good to know, thank ou. Maybe it's my starter culture. I had been using yogurt from Dannon or a Skyrr.
Most customers rightly don't care.

I do though. I tried to place an order on an online service providers website to get some work done that I couldn't do on my own with my work laptop. They used shopify to process all payments and my order got denied. Not by the provider, not by my bank. But by shopify. I got a hold of one of the companies cs staff who looked into it and told me I was sol. Shopify had flagged my transaction as fraudulent and there's nothing he could do. Calling my bank didn't help, they didn't see the transaction as suspicious and would have authorized the transfer. Ultimately I gave up and will have a vile taste in the back of my mouth whenever I hear of shopify. The company I tried to patronize lost a customer, and shopify gets free bad press from me.

So, while shopify doesn't need discovery or awareness among customers, shopify can't afford to get bad press without decent consumer ad spend else their actual customers may jump ship to avoid being tainted by their brand.

If shopify fubars this deal with walmart that could start a snowball.
Your analogy is wrong.

This is a corrected version.

I like pepsi (Visa Credit card), others like other drinks, such as coca-cola (Amex Credit card), or Sprite (Mastercard Debit card), or Fanta (Prepaid card), etc.

I want to walk into a shop which allows me to drink any of the above legitimate drinks, but nothing dodgy, such as that toxic brew which someone has prepared in their dirty garage which makes people throw up (e.g. Bitcoin). So instead of having to verify each drink myself I want to go to a shop where this has been done for me by a gatekeeper. If that gatekeeper forces all payment options through their own gate (Apple Pay) in order to make sure that there is no funny business going on, then I am 100% supportive of it. You can still have you coca cola if you want and I my pepsi. Just don't ask me to drink something which looks like pepsi but could be some other dog shit (allow other payment gateways which are not apple pay and all sorts of dodge shit can happen then).
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> if Chrome attached a header to all outgoing requests that said incognito=1 or something

The "DNT" header already exists for this purpose, it's just that Chrome does not actually set in when incognito.
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Because of its inevitable ties and implicit subservience to the CCP.
Any E2E implementation is worthless if the service provider controls the keys and doesn't allow the user to verify it (or alerts the user in the event of a key changing). Otherwise the service provider can simply swap the keys when they want to eavesdrop on someone and the users would be none the wiser. I don't believe that zoom has such measures, so any audit into whether E2E was implemented properly is pointless.
It sounds like a variation on a six-hour shift system. Any seagoing vessel with a crew complement of 2 or more sailors is going to try to have one portion of the crew at work at all times. Skimming [1] I didn't see a 6-on/6-off system, but I believe, the skipper has the last word even when asleep.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchkeeping#Six_Hour_Shift
As far as I'm concerned, if I am going to buy a 4K monitor, I would probably go for a >40 inch one to be able to fit a lot of text on it rather than say a 32-inch Hi-DPI monitor. With subpixel rendering, fonts look good enough for me even on Lo-DPI displays. I'm just afraid that with Hi-DPI becoming more and more common, subpixel rendering will eventually disappear...
> Yes their culture certainly has stronger cultural internal ties to China, due to the number of Chinese employees, but what has that got to do with anything?

A lot.
Why is everyone so attached to scaling? What is this shit software that 1) everyone relies on and 2) whose UI and font size can't be adjusted like any normal software (or web page) since the 90s? Is this yet another brainfart from Apple?
Well to be fair if it was enabled by default it would break dial in (with traditional telephone) support as E2E doesn’t allow for that. This is a reason why even some large paying organisations haven’t enabled E2E
I found that saving a starter really depends on what you start with.
In our case we were using store bought yogurt (the yeo valley brand) and after saving the starter 2 to 3 times, it wasn't much active anymore.
One day we bought a yogurt from a local farm and have been able to save a starter and re-use it for months, we are still using it. We make yogurt every week.
They could set the do not track flag in incognito mode and honor the do not track flag on their web properties.
> 27 inch IPS display, 5120 x 2880 @ 60Hz with standard glass at $1999

That's $200 more than it costs with the computer built in. Would rather see it more aggressively priced, or at least bring back target mode.
This reminds me of an interview with Donald Trump in which he said that his net worth fluctuates wildly from day to day, because it depends so much on who is willing to lend him money.

I suppose there's a reason he was chosen as a representative of America, and why so many Americans were uncomfortable with the implications.
Incognito isn't a setting, per se, it's a policy. It scopes the cache, cookies, etc. to a sandbox that's deleted once all incognito windows are closed. Google Analytics doesn't even know this policy is in place. The only websites that "honor" incognito are media outlets with paywalls using tricks (tricks Google's always trying to fix) to detect that you're in incognito mode.
Can someone offer up how this is different than InfluxDB? Also a bunch of machine log folks are jumping on the observability 'marketing' bandwagon - i.e. Elastic Search, Splunk, Devo, SumoLogic etc. Interestingly don't see them here..
Any feed reader can be set up like this. Publish the notifications to an rss feed on a unique url, with each entry containing a link back to the pwa, have the feed reader app subscribe to it and use the notifications of the feed reader app.

It is somewhat cumbersome though.
Yeah what the fuck, that was some weird casual racism you don't expect to see on HN.
I've been using two LG 5k monitors for years and they are excellent. They got a bad reputation when they were released for build quality issues, but I haven't had a single issue.
I've had to deal with reconciling a divergent tree; I've seen code that does not appear in `git show x` for any x in `show show --full-history`, and discovered that `git show XXXX` is different from `git diff XXXX^..XXXX`. I'm sure a fanboy will be along to tell me that a commit is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors and I just need to run `git-vent-branch --relieve-mimic-subtree --stub-indict-file`, but I'd rather not.
Free markets don't exist outside of textbooks and can't due to the complexities of social relations we have to deal with in the real world. It seems like you're suggesting a solution that can't ever work by merit of it being unable to exist.
They dont need to invent their own header. They just need to obey existing ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track

I would expect that no script would be loaded from google analytics/tag manager domains once I turn it on. But this is obviously not the case.

The article is too vague to actually understand more about what this lawsuit is but regarding:

Google tracks and collects consumer browsing history and other web activity data no matter what safeguards consumers undertake to protect their data privacy," reads the complaint. The search giant surreptitiously collects data through Google Analytics, Google Ad Manager, website plug-ins and other applications, including mobile apps, according to the complaint.

They are right. Google is doing that.

I think that incognito mode was mentioned due to this statement: safeguards consumers undertake to protect their data privacy.

They will probably build the case that they tried to protect themselfs but google was still tracking them.

And if chrome is sending to google servers flag that user has turned on incognito mode (which I bet they are/did), then they are having a serious problem.

"Poor user, this little girl with cute blue eyes, tried to protect itself from invasion of her privacy, they knew that but were still tracking her"

If this is the case they will have to pay or bribe the judge.

The law firm that is behind it is specialized into class action lawsuits with crew of around 300 lawyers so I expect a good show. I hope google wont settle outside the court.
How is it racist to suggest that Zoom has Chinese influences (seemingly not farfetched based on the equity ownership mentioned above and not at all disputed based on the technicality of Zoom being a US company)?
Thanks for this. You don't comment on the 60 vs 120 hz that is highlighted in OP opinion piece. Any thoughts on XDRs apparent lack of support for 120?
>I feel like HN as a whole want blogs to come back

Blogs never left— they may have withered to near-nothingness after the same exact people who claim to want them abandoned them, but they’re still here.

I may be wrong but I believe the people who claim to want blogs abandoned them for sites like Hacker News.
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I'm not sure I understand. Google, Circonus, etc. all store distributions as scalar values. A histogram is merely a collection of scalar values, where the collection is a set of bounded buckets, where the boundaries are typically adjacent to one another (e.g., 0.1 <= x < 0.2, 0.2 <= x < 0.3, etc.). You can do this with any timeseries DB.

The aggregation functionality is best done in a separate layer so that you have the flexibility to change how you create your distributions without having to change your storage backend.
Just to provide some additional context, I did a quick analysis of the active bounties on BountySource and it seems that there is approximately 230k USD total unclaimed with ~150k USD being pre-2018.
I have an 8K monitor, but unfortunately it’s unusable with AMD graphics cards (amdgpu) under Linux. The NVIDIA proprietary drivers have worked like a champ.
Having tried doing a polyphasic sleep cycle around four years ago, the one thing that I really missed was the clear delineation between days. On a normal sleep schedule, you wrap up your day with an evening routine and begin the next day with another routine. Each day is a single discrete unit you can look back on and remember easily. On a polyphasic schedule each day blends into the next. It’s like one long neverending day. You can’t really do most normal social activities because you need to adhere to a strict napping schedule. At first it’s cool to be awake at 3am when the rest of your world is asleep. But eventually it’s just a pain to not be able to go to stores or the gym or whatever until after your next nap. Looking back, it’s harder to remember any specific details about the experience. I know I did it to get a ton of work done on a project I was deep into at the time, but outside of the late nights and extreme tiredness from the beginning of it, I can’t remember much. The value of a long night’s rest for solidifying memories, at least anecdotally for me, can’t be understated. Other things like scheduling meals, managing sunlight and your obligations to others when you need to sleep, require a bit of forethought. Life’s just much easier on a “normal” sleep schedule. Polyphasic will drive you nuts.
I'm not talking about incredibly rare events like shootings, which are at any rate a very US centric problem. I'm talking about social dynamics around the world, the sort of more mundane 'attacks' that happen every day and in many societies.

How many conservatives have threatened firms by mobbing their advertisers?

How many people have conservatives got fired for expressing mild left wing views?

How many statues have they torn down?

How many forums have they de-platformed?

How many of them have refused to take part in a debate because another participant disagreed with them?

This sort of thing happens all the time and it's very conspicuously always the same sort of people doing it.
This is really cool, and I have another idea; there could be a widget or snippet of code or something, which would make recommendations for other blogs at the end of blog posts.

This would solve the discoverability problem for indie blogs, which Medium has an advantage.
It works for me, both in Chrome and Firefox on a laptop that is neither high end nor low end. Maybe, try again as I see you posted this about an hour ago??
>But political advertising doesn't equal hate speech.

It often does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#Evolution_(1...

>another person's deeply felt, legitimate political viewpoint

I don't think "people with dark skin are subhuman" should be treated as a legitimate political viewpoint.
Wow, that's really an impressive idea (VCaaS?). Thanks for your response.
tl;dr; Since a lot of websites allow google-analytics.com, 3rd party javascript code can use the fact there is no verification on the UA-ID to exfiltrate information.
My personal way of organizing 3 monitors:

1. Main screen. For the code editor, intense web browsing, etc.

2. Secondary screen. For debugging visuals (since I work on web stuff, it usually hosts a Chromium window; for a mobile dev, I imagine it would be an emulator/simulator), documentation referencing (with the code editor open on the main screen), etc.

3. Third screen. For all comms-related things: MS Teams/Outlook/Discord/etc.

I didn't mention terminal, because I prefer a quake-style sliding terminal. For a lot of devs, I imagine that having a terminal on their secondary screen permanently would work great as well.

P.S. Not that long ago, I realized that the physical positioning of monitors matters a lot (to me, at least) as well. I used to have 2 of them in landscape orientation side-by-side and one in portrait orientation to the side. It was fine, but didn't feel cohesive, and I definitely felt some unease. Finally got a tall mounting pole, and now I have the landscape oriented monitors one on top of each other instead of side-by-side (with the rest of the setup being the same). That was a noticeable improvement to me, as it felt like things finally clicked perfectly in my head.
In France we have at least one not-for-profit dedicated to operating Tor exit nodes:

https://nos-oignons.net/ (french)
https://nos-oignons.net/%C3%80_propos/index.en.html

They host their nodes on not-for-profit ISP and friendly commercial ISP:

https://nos-oignons.net/Services/index.en.html

(0.57% exit probability)

They open or close (never happened yet) nodes based on donations:

https://nos-oignons.net/Donnez/index.en.html

Disclaimer: I'm a volunteer in one of the not-for-profit ISP hosting a nos-oignons node.
Apple always says, "Bashing our app review process in the press doesn't work."

It always works.
> Facebook is very much a platform that restricts free speech.

I made my case for why this is not the case.

1. We agree that pornography restriction is a violation of free expression. Because there are other alternatives, I feel less bad about their restriction of it. Because there are no other alternatives to an open public square of ideas (such as Facebook), I feel stronger about it. It would obviously be ideal if Facebook took an "anything goes" approach and allowed others to build client-side tooling for individually controlled moderation.

2. To the extent that Facebook restricts speech outside of pornography, it is either speech that is a) already restricted by the legal system (false advertising, intellectual property violations, defamation) or b) an overzealous regulation of speech. Again, I reiterate: WE CAN FIND COMMON GROUND and agree that (b) is bad. Continue to call that out. Complaining about FB's political ad policies is IMO an ineffective way to change (b).

Unless you're able to address those points, you can take it or leave it.

> They even restrict political speech. Unless it comes from a political campaign. So, no, as an individual, you don't even have the option to present your own arguments.

They absolutely do not do this. Please provide evidence of this. God knows my entire feed is filled with political speech by friends and family, so if you're right about this, I may have the cudgel I need!
I think you misread that pdf. The highest % of same sex couple is in San Francisco at 3%.
It helps having one debit card system to support. The US has like 7 and I couldn't begin to name most of them (Interlink is one of them, I think Maestro is another)
While I understand that on the surface seems "bad", you have to understand the CCP taps into people worldwide, and while I don't know his position per se, or finances -- or connection with China today.

It doesn't paint a great picture, especially with espionage and CCP tactics. Look at previous German and USA interference w/ GE, Bosch, -- it's the same story.

Except now it's highlight as "bad" to point out that connection.
A lot of Chinese values are at odds with American values. Someone who is genuinely pro-Chinese values threatens things we often take for granted here in America
I was impressed at first, but then I saw the David Letterman bit. An olympic medal is far more believable than a talk show host interested in a computer scientist.
> Well, the split does not exist anymore. Since not that long ago (yes, I’m too lazy to check) you can have both! You can have a 4k monitor that runs on 120 Hz. In fact, that discovery was the main motivation for this article.

With... good color gamut? Without ghosting? If so I want to buy that monitor today.