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Hi HN,

Creator of Watercooler here. Happy to answer any questions!

A little more Watercooler:

For the past couple of months I’ve been doing a lot of video calls. Personally, I didn’t quite like any of the video call apps out there. The ones done in JS/Electron/Browser always felt sluggish/slow and Zoom has a very unintuitive UI and seems to be made for boring corporate meetings. I eventually decided to make a minimal video calling app of my own and hence Watercooler was born.

Watercooler’s three main characteristics are that it’s:

A) Completely, 100% native (uses the native WebRTC library)

B) High-quality video

C) Extremely simple to use (No account needed, for example)

I’ve been doing a lot of tests calls during the last month or so and almost everyone who uses it mentions one of these during our calls.

A couple of quick takeaways from working on this project:

1. The native macOS APIs (AppKit, Cocoa) are pretty good, but not a lot of people out there are using them, which makes it hard to get questions answered or find examples for things.
2. WebRTC is an amazing project. It really does solve a lot of problems. But it’s also extremely complex. One example for this is the logic for how video resolution is selected and adjusted over time.
3. Debugging video call issues can be extremely challenging without the right tooling because issues are hard to replicate and tend to “fix themselves” once they start happening.
4. While building Electron Apps seems way easier (HTML, CSS, JS over native APIs + automatic cross platform apps), integrating with the host OS makes for a really pleasant experience.

There are still some minor, hard-to-reproduce bugs that will get fixed in the next couple of days/weeks. If there’s enough demand, we’ll build out some of the big missing features like group calls and calendar integration.

Glad to answer any questions and hope you give it a try,
J.
I agree but HN does work rather well without JS enabled, so credit where credit's due.
I'd pick a lawyer over either. At least he has to make a living delivering results. The other two have their existence perpetuated by law.
In 2020 specifically quite a lot of schooling has happened with the kids being quarantined at home. It's been quite messy, especially at the margins, but it provides a sort of natural experiment on what's actually going on.
Considering that user agents are far more powerful than servers if you divide their power by the number of users, and considering that we have WASM now, one should wonder why these tools even need to run on a server.
> schools were formed in the first place.

you mean how they ended up. babysitting wasn't an issue when public schooling started
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Hopefully they can figure out how to make this work with sound!
We have about 20k hits a day. Or do you talk about dmca ?
It's only a crime if you are convicted. No matter the circumstances being accused of something is not a crime. Seizing some property upon accusation and then returning it intact and unchanged if not convicted or no charges filed might be fine, but selling the car would not.
Hide is important to me too. I don't want to be worked up by the threads that I know will br charged that I'm tempted to click on.
If my body was failing and I could make younger copy with same knowledge, as an old body I would want to be killed so as not to suffer.
He spoke not just about JWTs , but also thinks like e.g. certificates. He also mentioned data format displaying tools (e.g. inspect msgpack/json)

Internal only certificates might very well point out some internal only details by what fields extension they used with which value.
Are "KMA 367" plate holders still a thing in Los Angeles?

https://www.straightdope.com/21341883/in-los-angeles-why-do-...
I went to SUNY Buffalo and while it isn't purely commuter, there was a significant commuter population. I lived with my parents nearby and had an 8-9 minute commute. If I had an 8am lecture (before the majority of commuters were there for the day), I could typically leave the house at 7:49am and still usually get to my seat as the professor began the lecture around 8:01am.
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This isn't a big distinction to me? Either way, it's still true that it's nigh impossible to generate a realistic rendered every day scene. Whether that's because the environment modeling isn't there yet or the ray tracing isn't there yet doesn't make a big difference to me. Maybe the super detailed modeling will be the "last stand" prior to achieving general photorealistic renders, and the final breakthrough will be some kind of improved ML procedural generation algorithm for everyday lifelike objects.
This is one of those APIs that I am equal parts excited and worried for. It'll enable awesome abilities for apps, and it's going to be a whole new level of exploits and browser fingerprinting for the malicious.
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Robert Greene, the author of the book, did a bunch of original research and analysis. He then synthesized his findings and wrote a book.

The author is the original source.
I have hundreds of favorite comments.
What userspace do you see written in Rust?
It's not a discovery platform. Essentially (and I know Jack Conte would like to evolve this but it already works without such an evolution) there's no reason to even be on a Patreon page unless you were already fixing to pay the creator. That makes it pretty self-selecting.
I agree with everything you said about communication and still stand by my original point and suggestion.

Camgunz would have a more productive conversation if they added more context to their post, describing how it relates to the parent.

I agree that the other posts could be improved as well.

I don’t think that there was any dog whistling. As I understand the the term, it Requires a hidden meaning, and rape is simply inflammatory and hyperbolic. The exception is if you think that the poster was intentionally using “rapists" as code for blacks and Hispanics. If so, I didn’t pick up on the intentional racist angle.
So do you think there is no benefit if we can avoid projections entirely? Also won't using 3d make working with great-circle paths easier?
The US has a history of handling territory back after invasions, which makes people less nervous. China’s invasion /annexation of Tibet for example made everyone on it’s borders very concerned.
Sure - as soon as we allow IQ and other such metrics to be valid for job-applications (I would love to just sort-by-IQ when filtering job and team applications). There most certainly is an over-abundance of individuals willing to work for the available spots, and we're artificially handicapping the methods by which the pool can be pruned. That's why we have leet-code type quizzes in tech, they're essentially proxies for memorization, IQ and determination. Consequently, degrees are a secondary proxy for the above 3 criteria, so no wonder employers have been relying on it.
IIRC, there’s actually evidence that homework is negatively affecting learning for most age groups.
> Police in Australia arrested a 28-year-old woman on Wednesday for publishing a Facebook post that promotes an anti-lockdown protest in the country’s state of Victoria. Footage of the arrest was captured by her partner and shows police officers handcuffing the woman and saying that she’s being charged with “incitement.” The woman’s phone and computers were also seized.

> “I didn’t realize I was doing anything wrong. This is ridiculous,” the woman says.

> Australia remains the only wealthy democracy in the world that doesn’t have anything equivalent to America’s First Amendment protections for free speech.

Wow. That's draconian.
I feel it was more replaced by- Linux/Windows developer friendly vs Apple ruthless dictatorship.
> When I talk to friends in the US, the UK and the Netherlands on the other hand, Greek and the classical Greek works (including Homer, of course) seems to be much more popular and also part of normal young adult education.

In the US they are all read in translation unless you are in a classical studies University program, which is an area few pursue, or attend an old elite private primary or secondary school.
What do you think about the problems some are having with panels coming off?

Yea the stock is insane, it'll be interesting to see where it goes.
Don't invade other countries which is why they got kicked out of G8. They also need to stop poisoning people in other countries and shooting down civilian aircraft.
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I own a model S. Yours changes lanes without you telling it to? Yours exits the freeway without you telling it to?
Hm. I don't think protesting lockdowns right now is productive. Yes, your freedom is curtailed and officially I think no government has the right to enforce it to the letter. I also don't think safety from infections is something individuals have the right to expect from society. That is a personal risk and you can stay home if you are that afraid. Not saying dangerous infections don't need to be communicated to health officials, but there is a limit what you can expect and it does concern bodily autonomy.

But given the situation it might be prudent to just accept it for a limited time. Not for your government, just for your fellow citizens. If we are still locked down a year from now, I would join the protests without further thought.

What really sucks is getting arrested for a facebook post. That is plain government abuse in my opinion. I am very convinced it will bite people in favor of such measures in the ass one day. Actually I hope so because sometimes stupidity needs to be painful and it might spawn real progress for once.
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Of course, from now on we won't detect any "that's odd" types of Supernovae ...
I wonder if you have really tried to understand the intellectual case for Brexit. Your 'if people at large ... ' is merely an exercise in wishful thinking.

For serious analyses of the Brexit question by extremely well equipped academics (I rather think they 'understand') and others try https://briefingsforbritain.co.uk/
I think that the popularisation of hero cops in media leads directly into these movements.

I believe people would be more willing to examine the actions of police critically if they weren't being sold as "the good guys" for several hours of primetime television a week.
I admin'd some SunOS 4.x boxes in the mid 90's. It came with a C compiler, but from what I remember it was K&R, pre-ANSI only. About the only thing we used it for was building gcc.

The Solaris (meaning, SunOS 5.x) situation was different. I remember needing a licensed compiler, or installing a packaged gcc.
Terrible idea. They're not a content hosting platform, they're a content creator payment system. Why become a bandwidth provider and directly fight Google in a domain that Google has already scaled into?
Lund, "Bible on the Dash": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S00y75ebq8
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IANALC (I am not a literary critic) but I share your impression of Wilson's translation.

I thinks Wilson makes things a little too clear in her effort to produce a modern story. This erases a lot of purposeful vagueness, allusions to background knowledge, innuendo, and general openness to interpretation that makes classics "feel classic."

For example, the first few lines of Pope's translation says that Odysseus, "Wandering from clime to clime, observant stray’d, Their manners noted, and their states survey’d." In Greek mythology, Odysseus was said to have been an unusually curious man. Even in his far-flung travels, he took note of the natural and human elements he encountered, as if he was Charles Darwin! Unlike Darwin's, though, his surveys were neither methodical nor preserved for posterity. His days were unnumbered, and we can merely glimpse a few portions of his exploits that a muse can snatch up for us. There's plenty of blank space for us to fill with our own imagination and interpretation. Indeed, we fill it with a sense of grandiosity and timelessness, as we do when we read any good epic from Homer to Tolkien.

This introduction to the main character is completely missing in Wilson's translation. Odysseus just becomes a "complicated man" who filmed five Die Hard movies in a row to save his crew and get back home. Wilson's opening feels... hollow. It leaves little room for imagination. It sets us up in popcorn mode, merely waiting for the author to fill us in, punch by punch.

Perhaps, everyday English has co-evolved with modern science for too long to avoid sounding matter-of-factly.
> The future of the Solar City division means that part of the company can be viewed almost as a utility co.

That would surely lead to a lower valuation, if anything? Utility companies are not generally massively profitable, nor are they typically valued at hundreds of times P/E.
all of your examples are places you go to. things are happening in front of you. Onlyfans? not so much. You pay for digital entertainment that is the same as any free digital entertainment. It's sad for both parties to be honest.
It's not real multiple exposure HDR, it's just whatever default faux single exposure digital HDR the Pixel phone does. If it were real HDR the photo wouldn't be so blown out and over-exposed from the sunlight on the left side, particularly on the leaf.
I find the entire concept of an epic poem covering the events of one of the many wars of the Bronze Age Collapse absolutely riveting - that we have such a thing, such a record, even if through the lens of fictionalised drama, is remarkable.
There seems to be huge resentment on this site over the fact that kids being in school allows one of parents to get employment. No, it really does not mean the babysitting is the only or primary function and it is definitely not something bad.

And if quarantine changed anything, it is that I value school more then before. And I am not one of those people desperate to somehow making remote school and work function, thankfully we had no stressful deadlines during that time. But the kids still missed it and still learned better when in school then home alone.
I mean, why do humans collect the shit we do? Maybe the machines just like the aesthetic appeal of a field filled with encased humans attached to a virtual reality. They call it “art”.
Guarantee there's probably some obscure clause in lease agreements that allow the dealership to sue you (or allow them to seize collateral from you) if you can't produce the car at the end.
> A company named Caldera renamed itself to SCO in order to create confusion. A few years later, during the (in)famous SCO vs IBM lawsuit, and covered by Groklaw, SCO considered naming itself USL. I would suggest that idea was simply to create more confusion and give an appearance of legitimacy to the company.

Caldera paid SCO for the "rights" to the Unix IP, it's not like they just bought the name. Arguing about what the "rights" for Unix actually meant (and how much could be charged to license that IP to people who thought they had already paid for it) was the point of the braindead lawsuits that followed.
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Thanks for the step by step instructions and explanations of early failed attempts and what works.
Agree 100%. At my company, I've deployed the open source version of JSONLint.com internally to prevent any accidental exposure of internal or confidential data.
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Looking for team lead type role that involve wearing other hats (T shaped roles).
It might depend alot on the distribution and how kubernetes is started. How much CPU time to reserve for system services from the scheduler (Allocatable as you pointed out) needs to be passed to kubelet, and I think only really applies to guarenteed pods.

What I did on the distribution I work on, is tune the cgroup shares so control plane services are allocated CPU time ahead of pods (whether guarenteed, burstable, or best effort). We don't run anything as static containers, so this covers all the kube services, etcd, system services, etc.

Before this change in our distribution, IIRC, pods and control plane had equal waiting, which allowed the possibility for kubelet or other control plane services to be starved if the system was very busy.

There are also lots of other problems that can lead to kubelet bouncing between ready/not ready that we've observed which wouldn't be triggered by the limits.
Removing features to decrease maintenance overhead is also a pretty legit reason, and you don't have to be a corporate site for that to apply to you (I would say it applies even more to a hobby site).

That said, I really hope favorites isn't removed because even though I only discovered the feature a few years ago, I really cherish the comments I've favorited.
JWTs are in end like passwords.

Sure they have a limited duration.

Sure they might not work for all actions.

Sure they don't need a password database on the side of the receiver.

But it's best to treat them like temporary password + some arbitrary metadata.

So no, they don't protect you from corrupted clients, they just limit the damage in what can happen and when it can happen but the corrupt client can still do all kinds of bad things.

Edit: I need a different Android keyboard, this is driving me nuts.
If the US declared Iraq to be part of America, then yes.

Or the next time American claims a chunk of Mexico or Canada for themselves.

Iraq was a huge mistake, but it is not the same as trying to seize land from your neighboring country.
> Java isn't portable for example because it depends on the JVM

By that logic C isn't portable because it relies on libc.
Yes! I recall reading "Commentaries on the Gallic Wars" (Commentarii de Bello Gallico) in Julius Caesar's original Latin in high school and being thrilled to be able to actually understand his account nearly 2000 years after he wrote it. 56 years after encountering it in Miss Shaw's Latin class, I can still recall the beginning of the first sentence:

>Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres...
Here are some personal data points from Australia and The Netherlands:

Australia:

* My high school in Melbourne had one class (15 people) learning Latin to year 12 level. Funnily enough, almost all of us also studied advanced math, and more than half were left-handed. By the end, we were reading the Aeneid, Catullus and Cicero.

* Why did I pick Latin? Well, at my school, two foreign languages were compulsory for years 7-10, and optional for years 11 and 12. In year 7 and 8, everyone had to do Latin, and either French or German. In year 9, around half switched from Latin to Mandarin.

* Two of my friends also did Ancient Greek. They were taught by the school headmaster, who was a Classics scholar.

* That year, in the whole state of Victoria, the total number of year 12 students taking Latin and Ancient Greek were 70 and 6 respectively.

* At university, my engineering school required us to take one subject in a non-technical faculty. I chose Ancient Greek, to complement my Latin from high school. That class had around 60 students. 2/3 of them were of Greek descent and already spoke modern Greek.

* The only Greek word I remember now is κῠβερνήτης (helmsman). You may recognise it as Kubernetes :)

Netherlands:

* My partner, who is Dutch, studied Latin at high school there.

* His school was a "gymnasium", a category of very academic high schools which traditionally taught Latin and Greek. Check out [1] for the background to these gymnasium schools in the Netherlands and various countries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnasium_(school)
“The manager gave some weak excuses and practically begged me to take the job, even contacted my current manager at the time to pressure me.”

Whoa, to tell your current manager you were looking around? This is a good example of pushing on one part of bad culture and finding a bunch of others but wow, not cool.
Instead, they just plant military bases in the country and set up a puppet government that supports the US. Amounts to the same thing.
And Hegel likewise has high praise for the translation of Homer into German by J.H. Voss:

"Luther made the Bible and you have made Homer speak German. This is the greatest gift that can be given to a people; for a people remains barbaric and fails to see the excellence it knows as its own true property as long as it does not come to know it in its own language. If you want to forget these two examples, I still want to say of my own efforts that I will try to teach philosophy to speak German. If it ultimately comes to do that, then it will be infinitely more difficult to give triviality the appearance of profound speech".

- Hegel, ‘Letter to Johann Heinrich Voss’, 1805.
Favorite is one of my most used features. Please don't remove it, dang! :(

I frequently go back to these stories, whereas I don't often care to find things I upvoted again. If the two features become conflated, I'll probably stop upvoting so that I can use upvoted stories and posts as a bookmarking system.

Please keep favorite stories and posts around.

If you're worried about feature utilization, maybe name it "save" for better discoverability. That's essentially what I use the feature for.

I don't trust or use browser bookmarks much anymore. HN favorites are high quality bookmarks that work across all my browsers and devices.
I find it unsurprising but disheartening that this was flagged.

The entire administrative bureaucracy is in on this racket and it's unfair to pick in the police alone for it. In my state it's not just the police that peddle influence like this. Many state agencies have little identifiers that range from IDs to bumper stickers that they give to their employees with the unspoken purpose of signaling "don't screw me, I work for your team". The most coveted are the court system ones because no matter what agency is trying to screw you none of them want to piss off people who work for the courts. My state also has all sorts of ways to wave fines and whatnot for economic hardship reasons (which I fully support). This creates effectively three classes of people, those who are part of the in-group and treated decently by government. Those who have money and are preyed upon by government. And those who don't have money and are ignored by government unless they are committing serious (i.e. violent) crime because the government gains nothing by cracking down on them. Why can't the government just treat everyone like the former or the latter or, even better, repeal all the stupid laws that have wildly low compliance rates?
Well, some neutron stars are spinning at a substantial portion of c, the record being 1/4 c. In an object the size of a city, that some serious force pulling against collapse.
All I want is that 50% idle timer that the laptops do.
Related: "Traceroute Lies! A Typical Misinterpretation Of Output" [0], previously discussed here on HN [1].

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[0]: https://movingpackets.net/2017/10/06/misinterpreting-tracero...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15474043