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> It is steps in the good directions, and as far as I know they are way more advanced than Android on this point.

I have the same impression. Which is saddening because I thought of going back part-time to Android and experiment with homelab builds and p2p architecture with a few spare Android devices. But I am not comfortable with how much and lower-level Google and the phone's vendor have and I am sure that no matter how I secure an app with access to photos/contacts/etc. then the kernel could likely still extract the info it needs... Don't know, but I am quite paranoid about smartphones lately.

> let's not blame them now that they do what's right.

Agreed. Better late than never. I simply feel that marketing trumps privacy concerns here. Apple wants to have what to brag about every year so features that should come once every 2-3 months are coming annually instead.
It really depends on your configuration (server-side configuration also plays an important role).
Jitsi has an excellent webrtc server-side SFU (Selective Forwarding Unit) which does a seamless job at redirecting multi-layer VP8/H264 streams to the most appropriate user.

Each jitsi browser instance tells webrtc to encode and send multiple spatial layers of the same video stream (at different qualities), allowing users (and the SFU) to automatically choose which one to receive, according to bandwidth and network congestion.

The result is a seamless experience that just works, even with 16+ people (we've been doing jitsi conferences nearly every working day since April at our dance school, it works like a charm and is easily customizable).

Other solutions also use custom additional WASM modules for echo cancelation and noise suppression in webrtc; and jitsi has an excellent dropdown UI with previews for choosing audio/video sources (and sinks!).
Analysis of rates of police-related fatalities finds race-related differences
Hmm, only paypal payments, no contact details, not sure I'd put my cash here..
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My routine includes what I call Facebookless Friday. That is, no FB from Thur pm to Sat am. It's liberating.

I'm in the process of adding a day on each end. Or perhaps going *less Mon, Wed and Fri.
You can definitely choose to go down a route of "these people get offended and it's completely irrational and unjustified, and they are wrong to do so, so to teach them a lesson i'm going to shut my mouth and complain to everyone about how they are bad people that are forcing me to self-restrict my freedom of speech and as a result they are actively helping the slave trade".

Or you might also consider the route of "these people get offended and i don't understand why so i'm going to work to listen to them and talk with them one by one until i do understand on a core level how they feel and where those feelings are derived from, and based on that i will do my best to share my thoughts in a way that is considerate of my deep connection and understanding of all the people around me, and because everyone has built a personal connection to me, they too will be able to accept my feelings and assume charity."

Just depends on which route you derive more self-satisfaction from. You can assume an air of superiority and righteousness in either direction, and that's something that all humans love to feel.
Yeh, there's a chicken and egg situation…

Having trees increases rainfall but need to grow the trees with little rainfall first!
Researchers reveal changes in water of Canadian arctic
It didn’t occur to me that Deno’s Typescript engine also brings with it JSX (as .tsx). That’s pretty neat.
The usual problem is when a message from such private channel gets spread publicly usually without context and author's consent. We see it often with leaked tapes from politicians' private meetings.
The Skype client of today is just a renamed Lync client, which actually used to be decent. They've done nothing but make it worse since Lync ceased to exist.
As a native I'm always annoyed by the stupidity of English spelling and grammar. Two words pronounced the same, but spelled different. In spoken conversation we have no problem figuring out what is meant, but somehow we think readers are not smart enough to figure it out?

English spelling is badly in need of reform.
No one forced all news organizations to dump their in house advertising for easily ad blocked versions.

They all had perfectly good reasons to not have to deal with the headache of losing money.

But that would require keeping the ad sales team they had on board and making a similiar product online.

But everyone got scared and lazy and saw a one quarter jump by dumping a bunch of staff.
Interesting that you "personally consider Apple full of shit until..." and then demand _they_ be more granular (It is either full access or no access.) Couldn't you consider Apple partially filled with shit?
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But take it easy, in Switzerland we want to trow 12 y/o into prisons for being (potentially) a dangerous person (terrorism), not for being a criminal but being potentially one in the future (not far away from a KGB mindset if you ask me)
Because it works. Because instead of discussing an issue they have found they can hurt anyone who does not wholly agree with their position. Then they celebrate that damage and are encouraged to continue to do so with impunity never once imagining they will be on the other side.

The recent news stories about it happening in newsrooms and businesses should be no surprise when those stories were occurring with colleges for years prior. They learned they can take their heckler's veto to beyond silencing to the point of causing real damage.

People used to throw up the bogeyman of the religious right silencing the masses but instead we have the tyranny of the left to whom ideas are weapons and justification comes by laying claim that physical threat exists in mere thoughts and that justifies real punishment.

Be honest, I can guarantee many here are enjoying it to the point of glee but that is because you have been market researched manipulated by politicians into a certain pattern of thinking and reaction. Now that reaction is turning violent and it will eat both sides.
I really don't like the Mute/Unmute button in Zoom. It shows a button showing a crossed out mic with "Unmute" below it. And the other state for this button is a mic with "Mute" below it. The button's icon and text are always opposite of each other. It is so confusing. I always have to think twice before clicking it.
My guess is that the signaling servers are centralized. You need those for connection establishment between two peers. Once they 'know' each other, they may aswell talk to each other directly. Routing all calls through central servers would yield an enormous bill every month. On the other hand, it is sometimes necessary as direct communication between peers may not be possible (NAT, firewalling). IIRC, a central server is also required for multi-party calls.
How are implicit guardrails better than specified guardrails?

Surely explicit guardrails act as therapeutic discourse, in that it seeks to clarify systematic self-deception. By self-deception, I refer first-and-foremost to the myth of objectivity that often surrounds contemporary debate.
As long as you can't use it to get distracted, it wouldn't matter at all, though the setup and battery draw of such a connection might impact the user experience negatively.

Maybe BTLE and an app on your phone for sync/backup would be an option? If I were using such a gadget, I'd really appreciate unobtrusive and just-works-ish features to make sure I don't lose what I've written.
I agree with this, which is why I found it a good moment to ask a bit more about the discipline itself with regards to this thread. I'm suspecting that more people disagree than they are commenting here as I'm seeing some downvotes. Unfortunately, they're not participating in the discussion as it would be quite interesting to tease out more why this is or isn't a useful skill. Apparently, opinions on the topic are a bit polarized.

Personally, another thing I find it useful for is for salary negotiations when you're talking face to face. Simply being able to guestimate a company's revenue, amount of clients, cost and their mindset gives you an idea if a low ball or high ball offer is due to mindset or due to finances.

I find in general that estimations of these types are amazingly good for when you really only have a few seconds, or to warrant further inspection. Like you said, if something is orders of magnitude away, then you already know the answer.
The Ising model: a cartoon picture of magnets that became ubiquitous in science
> I wouldn't even think about inviting people from inside a video conference software.

I think the intent in the skype model is "make the other end ring like a phone call" - sometimes that's what you want, other times it isn't.
I'm inclined to agree, the primary focus is on numbers and engagement rather than strictly bound truthful reporting. How about websites just serve .txt files with a couple links to donate and publish facts/information.

I don't need a 5GB JS-infested "website" to access what amounts to a few KB of the actual information I was looking for. This is something hackernews gets right as far as community engagement goes.

Truthfully, you could probably get by just reading wikipedia and utilize the sources. Most news doesn't have have a baring on my life and if it does it'll work its way to me.

I suspect those who are happier in life forget all of this and focus on themselves, no news, no machines picking out what content you'll see or read.
Rethinking the Back End Engineering Interview Take-Home Challenge
Brazilian here, he can't and for a good reason: The entire process for PIX, from initial engineering to final implementation is documented and made public.

The government is making this for the exact reason someone else mentioned: We're at the mercy for a handful of big players, and that's enough. One open standard for all is good. (Edit: It's also an "economy" controlling standard. Not aimed at end users. It's something for the Central Bank to keep notes on what's happening with the money going around.)

The documentation sadly is in portuguese and in PDF: https://www.bcb.gov.br/content/estabilidadefinanceira/forump...

You can find more by looking on Google for: Banco Central PIX PDF

Personal note: A lot of people sadly still believe everything the government makes equals bad or equals to something that was idealized/created by the current president in office. It's not the case here by any means (the Brazilian Central Bank runs "independently") but unfortunately a lot of people see it that way.
The other day I watched "White Sun of the Desert", and found it excellent: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066565/ - very much reminded me of the Dollars trilogy.

(recommendation from Chris Hadfield, of all people; apparently this film is traditional to watch the night before Soyuz launches)
If I remember correctly. A lot of books actually print in India. Then are sent to other countries.
How about giving people a choice?

If you like defense in depth: App Store.

If you like freedom of choice: Open Market Store and side-loading.
Ironically, this example is evidence against your point, not for it. All of these uses of the word "port" share a root semantic etymology, which is the point where two entities interface to exchange goods or information. Exactly the same way that all of the uses of the word "master" to describe a hierarchical relationship share a root semantic etymology, which is someone who owns or controls other human beings.
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That's a tragedy.

Colon cancer is most often avoidable. All one needs to do is go for a colonoscopy by age 45. Heck, why not just start when you are 25? (I had a great friend die at age 32 from colon cancer).

So you get a colonoscopy every 5 years.

Every year you get the colon cancer marker poop test. It looks for bits of RNA I believe. Or maybe it's PCR. Maybe those are the same. I dunno.

Colon cancer typically grows slowly and the precursors are easily seen in the colonoscopy & the colon cancer poop test does a good job too.
The Social Media Cult That Convinces Young People to Give Up Everything
> It's a question I've been struggling with lately. Downvotes reinforce groupthink, that much is subjectively clear. I've considered solutions, and I believe forcing people to reply before they are allowed to downvote would help.

I actually don't see any value in downvotes. It's usually used when people disagree, which obviously leads to silos of thought and suppressing ideas. If somebody is being particularly disruptive and unproductive, then they should be flagged, but otherwise I wish downvotes would be removed from HN. It has no place here.

Especially on HN, where I thought the idea was for people to have reasonable discussions about things, downvotes are frustratingly counter to that. If you disagree with something, it's too easy to just downvote and move on. And people pile on without saying anything. And in the end, nobody learns anything because nobody's actually talking about what's wrong with the comment.

Then again, I get the feeling nobody here actually wants to learn anything from fellow users if they happen to represent different ideas. I guess that's by design?
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This one made my mum cry so if you're a crier get the tissues ready!
This is something that also works well in the nicer parts of javascript. Now nobody is ever going to accuse javascript of being a good functional language (disparage away), but at its core, you've pretty have arrays, maps, numbers, strings, booleans and functions. An Object is really just a map of key-value pairs where some values are functions. You can .map() an array of objects to an array of strings by feeding it a function that turns an object into a string. It's really nice to build those little blocks and cobble them together into something that accomplishes something more complex.
@Fnoord (can't respond to your comment directly weirdly) How can anyone seriously rank Australia and the UK so far high up?
You do realise that that is your prerogative, right? To hold the dissemination of your work against slavery hostage because of a concern that "black market" might be offensive? I don't understand these priorities.
> safer and faster python.

ohh, f# or Haskell
Berkshire Hathaway Is Looking Like Just Another Conglomerate
well don't forget that petrol vehicles tend to run rich until they get to a good operating temperature and you can see these spikes. in some cases it can be worse in winter than summer.

as others will point out, moving is not an option but improving energy sources and how its expended are the "well duh" means to manage it. the issue there of course is the scale is beyond what most can conceive and even some who think they understand the scale undershoot by a lot; akin to why some people wonder that it is so difficult to deliver high speed internet to everyone.
Thanks for the info mbo, I'll look into Dexamethasone. I currently use Modafinil to help manage my excessive sleepiness and it's been really helpful. Doesn't 'fix' it, but definitely helps.
>First, how could something this horrible happen at such a high level at such a prominent company? I mean, eBay is not some rinky-dinky business run by fly-by-night operators in a shady part of town.

How could something like this happen? Very easily. Also very often.

And this is one of the lightest cases. Huge multinationals have people defamed, killed, politicians bribed and exhorted, and everything in between...

Usually it happens with several layers, where the CEO or some exec gives a message like "Do what you have to do", and several layers of increasingly thuggish associates get the message.

Remember the movie Insider, how the whistleblower got death threats? In real life many people get worse, including actual beatings and deaths.

Especially in huge companies with subsidies, and factories in the developing world, this is par for the course... from Coca Cola to United Fruit Company to the Nike's of this world...

And god forbid someone stands to hurt some multi-billion deal...
But probably you don't have any actual metric or system for deciding "badness".

PC goodthink is that Breitbart is terrible in every way and the worst possible source of news. When I've compared its European edition to outlets like the Guardian, it's pretty similar in tone, style and content (obviously with political polarity reversed). If anything it's actually less extreme, for instance, it's very clear about the separation between illegal immigrants (i.e. a class defined by choice) from race (a class defined by immutable characteristic), whereas the Guardian does publish pieces talking about 'white people' or 'white men' quite frequently.

Also, Breitbart uses links to primary sources much more heavily than most news sources do. A lot of papers only link to other stories they published, to keep you in-site.
Nothing is free. Society at large, and possibly you, are paying in ways that are not well understood by most - with your concentration, mental well being[0]; as well as sucking the air out of innovation and lots of funding -- a lot of FB income is VC money channeled through startups' advertising budget.

If I understand your position correctly, you are fine with it. I'm not. We can agree to disagree.

[0] Facebook had an experiment where they showed only sad news to some people, only happy news to others, and tracked the resulting mood which was affected.
You might want to be wary of your bias. From your statements, it seems as though you're somewhat dismissive of this study and are searching for studies/sources that support your point of view. If you find yourself dismissing the person you're replying to and other comments in this thread, even though they raise interesting points about instruments, you might want to think about whether you're being open-minded.
Too big to fail

You realize that they probably have literally zero money?
If that's the catchphrase I think,"flipping fascist melonfarmers" is the tamest translation of Serbian profanity ever.
I disagree and think that we need more nuance in our speech and understanding, not less. There are a lot of moral issues you just listed, from violent vs peaceful protesting, the limit of authority with police, black lives matter, free speech, and race. And you summed it all up with if someone disagrees with any of those that they are racist or regressive.

But there are a lot of complexities and nuances to each one of those moral issues. Each one really needs a discussion.

Even just separating out BLM, there is the core moral anti-racist belief behind the statement (which I think most people would agree with), but there is also the political association affiliated with the Democratic party that in their belief statement supports abortion, transgenderism, and many other issues that are still at contention in our country. Talking with many of my conservative friends, they have no issue with the race movement of BLM but will not align themselves with a political organization that supports abortion, particularly as they see it as a genocide targeted primarily at inner-city blacks.

Again, we need more nuance, not less. We're already polarized enough. One issue is that peoples' views are not being scrutinized, they're being thrown into a bucket of "racist" and cancelled. Any time a straw man is used to silence a group of people based on mass categorization, it's contributing to division and not unity. These issues, and politics in particular, are and should be complex.
Where did you see it stopped working on Linux? What kind of misinformation is that?

More relevant is that it went from a p2p network structure to full centralized under Microsoft.
The real innovation Zoom brought to the table (IMHO) was not requiring you to make an account to join a call.

Inconsequential within a company where everyone already has a <whatever> account - but critical if it's a one-off or rare call - such as a vendor talking to a customer, a hiring manager inviting someone to interview, or a doctor calling a patient.
May be a silly question.

Does that mean JAMF is dead? I dont see how there would be a large enough market left once Apple enter the field to sustain their business.
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That rival was Windows Phone 7.5 through 8.5

They had a People hub that collated all your contacts and had reasonable sharing mechanisms for the data. HERE was essentially that places concept. I'm sure if Windows Phone had kept traction, it would be integrating your smart device health data into live tiles and a hub interface for all the metrics.
Here's something unusual:

https://www.netflix.com/pl-en/title/81232964?preventIntent=t...

It's a story about a man obsessed with fishing.

Notable is the fact that this is a movie adaptation of an internet copypasta.
I do pretty much the same, but I have my phone sitting next to me with an external bluetooth keyboard. I'd use an iPad, but there's no Whatsapp for those currently.
Zoom has great video and audio. I think good echo cancellation, video that copes well with the network, lower latencies - we don't experience that directly but the after effect is you feel subjectively better about the experience.

I think picking each part of the UX apart is secondary to making the key feature work well.
When state is also licensing the competitors, as in broadcast tv at least in my country, you don't get much else than an oliglopoly tbh...

You're still only seeing the angles the govt permits and sanctions.
The Dangers of Designating Antifa as a Terrorist Organization Now
"Reflections on Trusting Trust" [1] a famous 1984 paper by UNIX co-creator Ken Thompson in which he described a way to hide a virtually undetectable backdoor in the UNIX login code via a second backdoor in the C compiler.

[1] http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html
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I'm not so sure about this. Apple have waited a long time to make this transition. I wouldn't be surprised if they've been waiting for pro-level chips to finish development. I doubt they'd risk doing this if they didn't already have most of their silicon ducks in a row.
Can anyone explain where this getting fired culture of America comes from, do people see work there as a privilege? It's difficult to understand, even people that I despise still have a right to work in my eyes.
> Teams behaves a lot more stable in an enterprise environment, whether that is by design or neglect I'm not sure.

Teams is based (used to be shared code) on Skype For Bussiness, and it was designed to work better in office environments. A while ago they were struggling with the opposite- working over slower unreliable lines.
There isn't any.