skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am fairly certain that Bamford did not even come close to making the claim that PRISM was more about corporate espionage. If you have a citation that contradicts this, I’d love to see it.

Yes, not only do I doubt that the post 9/11 government is spending billions (or even millions) to spy on corporations, but I’d flip your question and ask does anyone really believe that they are doing that.

Before someone brings up the Petrobras example, I’ll pre-emptively point out that this isn’t in any way suggestive of what’s alleged above, and it wasn’t related to PRISM.
Google has killed daydream, Samsung also killed GearVR and their VR video stuff. I don't know if there are others that will still work in this kind of headset, so not sure how relevant is anymore.
IMHO, the acquisition was mainly for two reasons:
- signaling, to its customers and the market that they are taking this issue seriously
- management "cover-my-ass": if somehow the overhaul is taking longer than expected, someone can claim "we tried everything we could"

There are secondary benefits, the acquisition did bring some probably-helpful talent around encryption/infosec, but as you said the rollout seems really fast vs acquisition time for a product that size.
Very simplified:

Client sends a video stream to zoom. Zoom reencodes the video on the fly in different formats and forward to the 10 participants separately.

Participants have different devices and network connectivity, that's how the dirty real world is, so zoom has to do that. It's development work and it's compute intensive but it's a hard requirement to have "good" videoconferencing.

Imagine the same thing with E2E. Client sends a video steam to zoom. Zoom can't do shit with it because it's encrypted, it can't be decoded it can't be reencoded.
> And if you subscribe to Spotify but don't listen to Rogan, Rogan also gets none of that. If you believe otherwise, please explain how.

Rogan's not being paid per stream like song artists are.

If I pay for Spotify, my $10/month revenue goes to pay their expenses. One of those expenses is Rogan's $100M contract.

The mere act of shopping at the grocery store doesn't send money to Coca-Cola. I have to specifically buy one of their products.
I am not calling Snowden’s leaks bullshit either.

Nothing Snowden leaked actually corroborates DocPangloss’s claims.

Snowden showed that these orgs were compromised by prism, not that they willingly joined.

That’s the point.
O really? Morgan Stanley has mortgaged they originate and sell directly to individuals?

I’m learning new things
It's just a slight update on the Bill Gates chain-letter emails from the 90s.
The Head on the Side of the Road
> While I understand that no one wants to wait a few hours for a response to their question, if you’re bootstrapping with a small team you’re likely not going to be available 24 hours per day.

In my experience, customers who sign up, demand immediate customer support, then cancel a few hours later because they didn't get it, are doing you a favor - imagine what a drag on your customer support efforts they'd be if they stayed!

My rule of thumb is customer support thru email should aim for 24h turnaround, except if they're paying for "premium support". Great if you answer in 5min because you were just at the helm, but you shouldn't set unreasonable expectations.

Live support is murkier - if you do have set it up and are offline, falling back to email that gets answered tomorrow does seem slow, just by the fact you've just anchored me to "live". In my opinion, don't do it (or hide the widget!) unless you can really provide near-realtime response (even if via outsourced 1st level support agents).
With over one million polling booths it was about 3 booths per a square kilometer.
I decided not to mention each Ergodox design -- as far as I know, Ergodox / Ergodox EZ is pretty much the same thing. I don't also list, for example, Falba.Tech's wooden versions of several of the keyboards.

I should probably remove the ErgoDone and Ergodox Infinity for consistency.
Glad I didn't let you down :) In my defense, I did call the segment "Good Idea, Terrible Idea". This solution did end up being much better than what I was initially considering, but sometimes it takes a few bad ideas to get to the good one.

We also discussed the eventual solution I ended up with (which is summarized in this post) in this week's Bike Shed if you want to hear a bit more about it: https://www.bikeshed.fm/264.
So the new thing is that hacking bluecheck account basically gets official Twitter stamp of approval on anything on that twitter account. And since display name and bio can be easily changed, basically the only think bluecheck is confirming is that the handle at one time belonged to a real person. And if somebody chooses a "witty" handle which does not identify the person clearly, you won't even know which one.
Yea - I'd be unwilling to use Oculus unless I could specifically tie it to a fake FB account (or no account at all). I barely use my FB account but I never want gaming integrated with social media in a manner I can't control simply due to personal preference and privacy.
We do a lot of customer-facing CMSs using it. We're rebuilding the Social Security Admin's customer-facing blog system... it's already WordPress, but we are building out additional functionality and creating a more accessible theme in addition to some other work.

We have quite a few NGOs and large enterprises which we do that kind of work for.... it's a very popular and easy to use system for non-technical users who need to manage content.
SculptGL has been around for a few years. I think it got popular when Pixologic (makers of ZBrush, the original free-form sculpting application) bought and mostly neglected Sculptris (the original free clone of ZBrush).
In my opinion, I'd say being in a "varsity" sport is more valuable than being in an arbitrary club but being in a "club" sport is similar to being in an arbitrary club.

Varsity football in a state like Texas or Florida where football is king? Definitely a huge value add even if you are not going to play football in college.
I'm familiar with Knuth's argument. That argument was primarily based on the fact that it's hard to replicate the exact control flow of a goto statement with structured programming. While the argument certainly has merit (a relatively more recent example is Duff's device), 2020 compilers are more often than not able to find the most optimal structure anyway, making it largely redundant. It's like saying programs should be allowed to rewrite their machine code just because in a Von Neumann architecture you are technically allowed to, there is a point but it's not in contradiction with goto statements being mostly the inferior way to solve the problem.
From a 2020 perspective I'd argue that if you really need that kind of performance you are probably already inlining assembly, so it's kind of a moot point.

> gotos and state machines (which are considered best practices) are basically equivalent

WTF? State machines can be implemented in a lot of ways: mutually recursive calls, pattern matching, function pointers... In what sense are they "equivalent" to gotos? Also what does it mean that state machines "are considered best practices"?
That is horrible way of dealing with it.

First, you are literally punishing kid for being overworked, while claiming they are slackers are teaching them to overwork themselves even more next time.

The harder the kids try, the more the kid will be punished and claimed to be lazy.

Second, you are lying to the kids, they have no way to actually figure out rules.
Imagine if we, somehow, had the technology to make humans live for 5000 years (bristlecone pine trees somehow manage it). Would you then say that we should still commit suicide at 90, in order to make room for the young?

My dad is in his 70's, and I consider his mortality to be a preventable tragedy, like a death from smallpox before the invention of the smallpox vaccine.

There's already a lot "unnatural" about humanity (unnatural only if you don't think of humanity as being part of nature). It used to be the case that about half of your siblings would die before reaching adulthood. Perhaps at the time, people felt that this gave their own life more meaning, and perhaps in some sense, it did. I'm still glad we don't have to go through that anymore, and grateful to generations past for spending the resources to make that so.

Children would have to be much rarer if we solve longevity, but our engineers and scientists would also be far more capable than they are right now, as they'll be able to accumulate far more knowledge and experience. Perhaps, once we solve longevity, it will be time to start the long term project of colonizing the solar system.
Do you have a counter proposal on how they should make money outside of Google's charity?

Would you rather they sell your data than show you an ad?
I find I can't watch shows with season+ long arcs at all. It always ends up one way: rage-quiting at 3am on a work night never to watch another episode. All due to the fact that usually the episode boundaries are placed in the most suspenseful places.

However, shows like ST:NG or Stargate SG-1 I enjoyed completely. I'd watch one or two episodes at a time and leave feeling good.
Don't forget the revolutionary off-ear audio. It's fantastic, and as far as I know, there's still nothing out there like it.
I'm not so confident anymore about WordPress's future ever since Gutenberg got integrated.
That's actually an excellent point; I was really talking about "external" engineers, rather than internal ones, but yeah, the attrition (or even loss of agency) amongst internal engineers is another huge problem. A closely related problem google's created is that there's been a big loss of self-determination - google likely has the engineers capable of tackling something like that, but they've sunk into more of a standard corporate leadership model where these engineers really aren't allowed to work on something like this - instead of having a free-floating surplus pool of them, freely able to attach themselves to different projects, they're mostly hired on a need-based rationale.

If you're doing a standard corporate model (in the interest of cost control), where you've got exactly the number of engineers you need to maintain/develop certain products, then you've got no flex/slack in the system - everyone you've got is necessary for the projects they're on, and can't be pulled off without hurting those projects.

I remember reading about one of Google's last big bets - which was the major, AI-driven upgrade to google translate, and what was terrifying to me about reading the article was the artificial darwinian survival model applied to it. Firstly - the folks who wanted to work on it had to beg management for buy-in to get anyone the clearance to work on it, and then second of all, they were given a deadline where they had to produce meaningful results within 1-2 year's time, or the whole thing would have the plug pulled.

If we weren't right at the cusp of that technology wave cresting, and ML-driven translation being viable, it'd have gotten axed and set us back by quite a few years. What we need is a company willing to genuinely "no strings attached" commit resources to things like this - because maybe something simply can't be ready for another 5 years. But if it is on a 5 year timeline, we really want them to just put in the 5 years of work so we can have it - instead of cutting all funding and turning it into a 15 year delay.

Because again - if someone like google isn't doing it - nobody else will. The whole cost-cutting rationale on R&D stuff is really a bet that someone else can do the hard work in the meantime, and then once it's close to being ready, you, the company, can hop onboard and cash in. But if you're the only one with the means (be it cash, or in google's case: data sets) to do that hard work, and you're not doing it, then we're all screwed - it means nobody's doing it.
You have to pay a premium for the night shifts, so no grocery store will support that (unless the owners work themselves or their families for submarket rates).
We now live in world where if Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t like your Facebook posts, he (or some nameless flunky) will delete all your video games.
Some people felt burned by Vault where it looked like the free version could be used in production but it couldn't and then the enterprise version is very expensive.
Yep. I didn't believe those messages when they first came out, but over time they've mostly been proven true.
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Yep, so the answer to the GP's question is "no".

This is one of the biggest PITAs with hosted Postgres - you can't just use whatever extensions you want, or indeed whatever version of those extension. Invariably AWS and Azure (presumably GCP too, I haven't used it) have only the most popular extensions available, and invariably woefully outdated versions.
It does have a lot of empty space. But I would presume it also has a lot of heavy metal structure to keep that space pressurized to a human-breathable pressure and allow entry and exit. Satellites don't need to keep much under pressure except maybe their maneuvering fuel in a small perfectly-shaped container with a single small hole.
Misleading title, not actually creating a CDN, just using Cloudflare’s free CDN service.
I have a few fakebook accounts and they're active even though I rarely log in to them. They're completely empty and have obviously fake names.

Maybe they ban them if you try to buy something (because the name doesn't match or something)? Which would be a ridiculous thing to do, but hey, I've seen worse...
Blizzard is asking me for government ID before they'll DELETE my account. It makes no sense. I feel like there should be some government agency that is interested in this misuse of their ID's/info, but I haven't found it.
Taleb has deep insights about some things, is laughably ignorant on other things, and doesn't seem to know which is which. His followers definitely don't.
An interesting idea. I know this will cause issues with Devise or something similar when the login token needs to be refreshed and it needs to update a record for that. I guess it depends on how the auth is set up.
Identifying a coin from orbit is almost certainly physically impossible due to the diffraction limit[0] and the maximum payload diameter of existing space launch vehicles.

As for the PRISM replacement, it's fair to assume that the NSA simply buys whatever social contact graphs it wants from Facebook and commercial data brokers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction-limited_system
We host several hundred WP sites as part of our client work... it's not super hard, but then I also have a lot of experience doing it.

There are plenty of commercial hosts at all price points that manage this stuff.
As @asymptotically3 said, community banning doesn't take away your games, and in-game banning only blocks you from that specific game's multiplayer. In the past you could risk account suspension if you chargebacked purchases or redeemed stolen keys, but even that got changed years ago to just remove the specific game/license from your account instead.

Only large-scale fraud would get you banned, and even then I doubt they would disable your account entirely and not just disable future purchasing.
Lmao thats fucking hilarious. Facebook is one of the worst companies there is and you have to be stupid to buy anything from them
One of the fundamental things occurring when getting near or entering black holes is that mass gets reconstituted down to the subatomic level. If you thought chicken nuggets were nasty, wait till you cross that event horizon!
I'm not sure I'd agree.

From personal experience speaking with larger companies (not FAANG, but larger "start-up"), I was always seeing an even larger difference. Think "~150-170 in Austin, 225-250 in SF". You may want to knock my negotiation skills, and perhaps you have a point there that I could have pushed their initial non-SF numbers up, but these were at earlier-stage discussions and sharing those numbers seemed "reasonable" to them. And this was Austin, a city which the aforementioned salary calculator only gives a -20% "adjustment".

Note that even that 30% is for a "large" AR city. Anyone else in that state is given a 37(!)% reduction.

In my opinion, which I've been trying to wrangle into a coherent blog post over the last couple of days, any adjustments like this should be an absolute-dollar-number figure. Percentages don't make sense at _either_ extreme. A 60k/year position with a 20% "move to SF" upward adjustment? That is unlikely to even cover the change in rent. 400k/year with a 20% adjustment? Calling that "cost of living" is bonkers.
It's not dead, but it's not mainstream either. It's a bit like quidditch - there are a bunch of people interested in it, and they have their own ecosystem, but don't expect the Olympic Committee to be calling anytime soon.

OTOH, the regulators are getting quite serious in recognizing crypto - including reporting requirements and enforcement. The era where it was tiny enough the IRS basically didn't care except for tiny amount of outlier cases is gone.
LDM: My Favorite ARM Instruction
The perfect personal task manager by an indie developer. Reminders meet Kanban
There are supporters then there are people making memes about Elon Musk the God King and using their entire paycheck to buy weekly options.
Amazing and terrible I think it is pretty fitting.

As a Swiss I have voted almost every single time (about 4 times a year) since I was able to, but I have never even left the house for doing that beyond dropping it off in the next regular or official mailbox. I don't know what a polling stations look like from the inside after 15 years of voting, and being completely honest, I probably couldn't be arsed for the majority of votes/elections to go stand in line somewhere in the rain for doing so.

Potential manipulation risk for mail in voting in general aside, what I found baffling doing a quick google search on administrative cost of an election is how much more the US seems to be spending per citizen than Switzerland.

Switzerland spends a little less than 2$ per voter whereas the US spends 10$, at least according to this article

https://electionlab.mit.edu/sites/default/files/2019-01/mohr...

What would make it so much more expensive? Staff cost? Much larger geographical distribution of voters? Or just being inefficient?

As a reference, in Switzerland 80-90% of votes are mail-in.
It's not a choice the patient gets to make.

Almost all of the state mental hospitals are for criminal patients. AFAIK only one is open to non-offender patients and they only take referrals.
I immediately thought of BeyondCorp as well, and I have only read the papers about it. At my employer, which isn't even that large, we have on-prem hardware running VMs and k8s, some stuff in AWS, some stuff in Azure, and employees all over the world with various devices coming in through a VPN.

The old distinction of "internal network" and "external network" doesn't make much sense.
Building an ecosystem of O'Neill cylinders is probably more viable means of space colonization than colonizing mars.
I wonder where angels would fit in?
The Future of Wood in Electric Guitars
Amazing workshop recommended along with reading the EKS developer guidelines and watching the content from https://containersfromthecouch.com — Very high quality material overall.
Is there any less individual screening in law? Passing the bar is the minimal standard for an applicant, but I’m sure they still need to demonstrate a lot of other things to get hired.
I mean maybe but if you told me you could take my code that runs in less than a second and make it more readable but it would take 30 minutes to run instead . . . hell no I'm not taking you up on your offer. I'll just comment and document the existing solution better and call it a day.
Wonderful video, really clear!
The space is thriving in that people are working on it, but I wouldn't say it is thriving in terms of non-crypto people actually using these products.

It's a pretty self-contained bubble of geeks building things for other geeks. Which isn't not interesting! But the expectations set by the cryptonauts was that this was all going to change the world.

And then ran face first into the reasons the existing systems work the way that they do, haven't communicated well to "average" people, can't tell a non-theoretical/ideological story of why what they build exists, etc.

There are some great people working on crypto projects, but I wouldn't say it is thriving. The only mainstream company is Coinbase and they make money based on trading, not any underlying tangible value of the coins.
That looks interesting, I may try it. Got GTA V and an Oculus Go, both of which are collecting dust.

I played NFS The Run just in big screen mode (with a PS4 controller) and it was pretty nice. But other than VRChat and the occasional movie (3D is nice), I don't use the headset at all.
Yes leggins are allowed now....
Isn't the whole point of end-to-end encryption -- not to have to
trust any third party -- undermined by secret source? If
one does not trust Zoom not to snoop on content passing
unencrypted through their servers, why should one trust them to
provide true end-to-end encryption? And, if one does trust them
to provide true end-to-end encryption, why might one not as well
trust them not to snoop on unencrypted content?
That statement's a little misleading--they only have ~100 million paid users, for whom one would think they'd prioritize support requests.
I think the Reformation/Enlightenment opened up a space for a lot of materialist, atheist thinkers to talk about meaningful ideas, and as long as they left in God and the King as metaphors or symbols they could get away with it, blending into the bizarre background of the myriad Protestantisms. They still couldn't be openly atheist or anti-royal without being tortured or murdered, but before the Church had been weakened, you couldn't even stray a little bit from Catholic Aristotleisms without being imprisoned and killed.