skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not quite sure what you're trying to say. OpenMeetings has been around for more than ten years. The feature set and ecosystem didn't appear out of thin air.

What makes you think that the ASF is supposed to only support "already succesful|relevant" projects? The ASF doesn't "support" projects. A project either is or isn't an ASF project (though it might be incubating or retired). They have over 300 projects. Some of which are very successful or relevant, some of which are less so. But it's always up to the ASF to decide which projects to keep going.
Click the download button and roll the dice expecting to see a Linux version available. No luck.

The product looks great, by the way.
Is the distinction important here, if both happen simultaneously?
You can track the outage here: https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/
It also seems to be this way too. If I am using Tor, it seems like I need to swirl my mouse around a few times to pass a recaptcha.
Why use it then? (api is crap, uptime is crap, limits are crap... politics?)
Well, those aren't necessarily orthogonal. Firefox fits squarely into Mozilla's Internet freedom and privacy goals.
Well, VW does sells tricked out VW Golf, straight from the factory (GTI, R) :) Though it is more competition to M135i than M3.
Nursing is not that complex. The bulk of the work can be offloaded on semi-skilled labor with on the job training. This is what the army does, it works fine. This is not rocket science here.
Report on a paper in Science Advances: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/6/47/eabc94...

From the linked article: """
A group of scientists have discovered a “more elegant chemotherapy” that can accurately target cancerous cells in a first in the battle against the disease.

The research successfully killed cancerous cells while leaving healthy ones around it using a technique which relies on DNA editing tools.

The technology has already been used in mice and could be used on humans as soon as within the next two years, the scientists said.
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I've used this and it's a great idea, and works well in some contexts.

One downside to be aware of is that it routes your slides/screenshare through your webcam video feed.

In some apps (e.g. Teams) this can dramatically reduce the quality of the slides, relative to a 'normal' screenshare.

There's a setting in Teams to increase video bandwidth, which mitigates this a bit. But the slides will still look less good (at least, that's what people have told me).

There's also a mix of compatibility - generally if you access the video conference in your web browser it works (because the browser can see the 'software' webcam they've set up), but the software webcam is inaccessible in some desktop apps.
It would do absolutely nothing whatsoever for the legality of any collection they might want to do.
Yep, 100% agree.

If you've ever worked in a small organization (~50 employees), it's amazing how much money, time and energy is spend on health insurance. Every single HR person in the country needs to be an expert on these esoteric insurance edges or you get taken for a ride and your employees and balance sheet suffer.
Worldwide? And since when? I've never hit one of these, I get reCaptcha'd to ~death~ anger all the time.

Although having said that, maybe I am hitting it and that I've been unaware and uninterrogated is high praise! Hm.
> Man, this thread really bringing out the worst of Hackernews and its so disappointing but unfortunately not surprising to see the complete lack of capacity for empathy from some of the other heavily downvoted commenters.

That's an improvement over the usual HN COVID-19 threads, where 'it's just a hoax-flu, bro, stop spreading fear' usually gets upvoted and posts pointing out the dangers of SARS-CoV-2--and of SARS-CoV-2 disinformation--are downvoted, flagged, or removed.

The most generous interpretation is that HN has a severe Dunning-Kruger problem. The more likely explanation is that HN is host to a lot of people who are completely incapable of empathy and are unable to protect themselves from disinformation in areas outside of their own expertise.

This doesn't say much for HN or the tech sector in general.

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A contagious biological virus is not conceptually different from the Morris Worm. If there was a neo-Morris Worm loose on the Internet, those of us on the sysadmin-side of the IT house would take all reasonable measures to protect our systems from it. Indeed, failing to do so would be negligent.

Failing to take protective measures (social distancing, masks, WFH) against SARS-CoV-2 is no different from putting unpatched systems directly on the internet while a worm is active. It's so clearly negligent that no one whatsoever should advocate for it.
Props to newslaundry.com for posting this story. They show nuances that aren't covered by popular news channels in India. e.g. they explained Krishi(farmer) Bill, Citizenship Amendment Bill in a fun and logical way.

Meanwhile many popular TV news channels in India are busy shouting from top of their lungs to seek attention. It's hard not to damage your ears and logical thinking when listening to some Indian news channels.
Ref - https://www.thequint.com/news/politics/trp-scap-indian-news-..., https://www.vice.com/en/article/nn9yjw/the-newshour-arnab-go...
Even that would be meaningless at the scale of AWS.

"A top of rack switch let out the blue smoke and it'll be ~30 before we can re-rack it" would impact what fraction of a fraction of a percent of canaries? Irrelevant to me, unless of course my VM lives on a box backed by that switch. ;)

The status dashboard exists for us to laugh at when things break and to convince C*Os that everything is fine. That's it.
If people want a self-hosted alternative:

https://mattermost.com

We use it. Its great.
Well even if Epic are the bad guys by violating the ToU willingly, it still impacts the user. As a user I don't want my apps (which I depend on) to stop working, because of a business disagreement.

Revoking signatures and disabling the apps on user devices to protect your business model is definitely anti-consumer in my book.

You could easily see Apple revoking signatures because of DMCA claims. Even faulty ones, like the claim RIAA made against youtube-dl on GitHub.
Search is the one service easily replaced. Took me ~5mins to switch to DuckDuckGo.
This. Distributed consensus is easy and cheap to implement when all participants can be trusted (as opposed to the Byzantine problem that I.e. blockchain tries to solve). It’s even easier if you’re ok with approximately eventual consistency with a reasonably high probability of convergence. Page state seems like it fits into this category
Not really. People will automatically assume they were in that impacted percentage and that what was happening with their stuff was entirely AWS's fault.
Because US hospitals treat their employees in a way that would be illegal in pretty much the rest of the developed world.
You forgot gets tedious after a short while.
This sounds kinda nitpicky but I think it's an important distinction. We're talking about the web, not the internet, right? Or is hcaptcha also used for iOS apps, Android apps, etc.?
For reference, 50 hectares (123 acres) is a small farm for an ag community/family. It's not the least bit surprising that they are low profit. Several members of my extended family farm at and above that acreage and a majority of my grandfather's farmland is leased out to a larger family operation since he's retired. Those family members mostly have regular 40/week jobs, since they're just hobby farms.
Seriously, I wish TVs stuck to being a dumb display with a modular computer that you can swap or simply pull out if you don't trust it.
I agree with you.

I was in Spain, and Maradona played there while he was not yet the shadow of himself that became later.

Lots of people admired this man but when he started doing stupid things like being totally drunk and stoned on public, most people stopped admiring him in all places but in Argentina.

I traveled to places like Bariloche and specially Buenos Aires for a very sort time,a month or so, and I could not understand almost the deity that such a bad example represented there.

But then an Argentinian friend explained it to me: You do not understand. It was because of the Malvinas, the English, Maradona represented something like a general that won over the same that defeated and humiliated us and so on...

And then it made sense. I had not made the connection before that.

And yes I agree with you that South America in general follows terrible role models. Places like Colombia or Venezuela look like paradise and are extremely wealthy but then the environment is Hell.

It is very interesting that Argentina and Chile are somewhat like the US and Europe but in reverse, the more to the South you go, the more serious people are, only that there is less and less people and land there to become significant.
0k, if an entity starts grading the claims of others for truth or falsehood, would it be held responsible for those claims it does not grade or for incorrect grades? Or is the grading “caveat emptor” and the recipient of information has no guarantee of truth or falsehood anyway?

Is a lack of a label on the below an endorsement of Theranos’ technology?

https://twitter.com/SenJohnMcCain/status/654714209360437249
This story is a few days old. On the 24th the Select Board had a meeting. Cavacco put forward a motion to do a security investigation into the issue. Not a single other board member seconded the motion.
>That would make no sense.

Hiding such feature without option to turn it off would also make no sense to me but they did it.

>If they wanted that information tied together, they would send it together.

sure, unless they wanted to hide the fact they wanted information tied together. In that case they can always provide the line of argument you provide once they caught and say "Oh, if we wanted to spy we would do it openly and brutally. There is no sense for us to make it complicated." But something is telling me that one who wish to spy would do it in some sophisticated manner. The bottom line we do not know and we _can_not_ know since we did not see _all_ sources.

You also cannot know what they wanted, so your guess is as good as any other? Or somehow you know something we don't?

The bottom line here is the same: who knows.

But I think if they wanted to make it open and secure they would simply put option in GUI with clear text explaining what it does and how it does it with ability to turn this thing off. And they didn't do it this way. For me it can mean 'they are hiding something' possibly. What else they hide and why we simply do not know.
15% return on 5 billion is much higher than 100% return on 1 million. Its economics. Secondly, economics has nothing to do with investing, and is worthless. The sum of managing 1000 small strategies is way more work than the number you would manage with billions.

And yes, there is easy money laying around if you know what youre doing. There are dollar bills laying on the ground for smaller scale strats.
I started using emojis in business email 6 months ago after not using them for my entire 20+ year career. Why? They convey tone better than any carefully crafted sentence.
> Somehow Zoom made the jump to being a consumer brand because of the pandemic

Because of the same qualities that made it successful in the corporate world!

• Zoom is for one thing—it doesn't try to also sell you on a new service for managing documents, calendars, or VR bitcoins.

• Zoom is extremely easy for new users to set up and quickly enter a video call. It works even on very old hardware and operating systems.

• Zoom's audio quality is unmatched in calls with lots of participants. It's relatively adept at dealing with poor network quality and audio equipment.

I really think there's a lot of lessons here for other companies.
I watched this game live in 1986... the atmosphere that day, in that heat and altitude they had to play in, even on the little 14" TV we had in our house was palpable. There was something about the quality of the colors, the weather, the camera work, even to this day you can distinguish the video from the '86 World Cup at a glance of just a couple of seconds. It still brings back such amazing memories from my childhood - even though we lost. I collected the Panini World Cup stickers religiously and put them all carefully in the sticker album. I was heartbroken to be knocked out by someone I considered to be a massive cheat, but even so, I can't take away from the brilliance of this goal. It was an incredible run. He deserved the goal. I wish I could've said they deserved the game without feeling that tinge of bitterness.
Good to finally hear from the inside what everyone on the outside sees.

It's a shame they are killing off the server products to push everyone into the cloud.
Collecting the data based on IP would basically have the exact same legal status as doing it based on other identifiers. No browser is involved here, so no fingerprinting. And finally, Apple is not in the advertising business and has no need for advertising profiles.
Guess I fell afoul of Poe's law on that one.
Analyzing Disk and File I/O performance with ETW traces
Corruption? In my republic? It’s more common than you think.
Or maybe from a place where football is played by armored guys mostly using their hands ?
BotStop by hCaptcha (enterprise). AFAIK there's also a Google reCaptcha frontend that doesn't require JS. Neither companies offer those solutions because of privacy or security benefits, but to support old IE versions of course.
True, but it was a split-second decision. Can he really be accused of premeditation?
That's great to see! At Plausible Analytics, we had a wave of spam attacks two months ago or so and hCaptcha saved us. Great product and great service both for companies and for users. We're very happy with how it works. And great to have a quality de-Googled alternative for this use case!
It's pretentious and awkward. Wouldn't even bother trying the app.
>with 2020 shaking up to be one of the "worst years" in history...

Really?

No. Not even one of the worst in living memory.
hCaptcha runs anywhere, even works on Telegram groups: https://github.com/hCaptcha/telegram-bot
That is not correct. It does a live check when presented with a certificate, to make sure that certificate has not been revoked for signing malware. It doesn’t store anything. Apple are not saving information. It’s just an online blacklist check. That’s how OCSP works everywhere, it isn’t an Apple thing. They are using the standard protocol as documented in the RFC.
You're not wrong but the Mac Pro went a particularly long time between updates.
Well said, especially sad to see this from the same folks that burnout because they are dealing with a code base with no unit test and told not to rewrite.
Firefox's WebRender has mixed results for me on Linux
I appreciate at least having a good option that doesn't involve putting a Google product on my website. We tried to use our own captcha back in the day, and then used some third party, and they just weren't good enough. I'm glad to see them getting this market share because it means that they will get the opportunity to improve based on a large set of users similar to how Google is able to make their products so good.
I'm a little surprised you're being downvoted. I thought you captured the philosophy of neoliberalism well and explained how that mapped onto the US political parties.
Webauthn may make it easy because it supports platform authenticators like Touch ID / Face ID. Two good demos are at http://webauthn.me/ and https://webauthn.io/

It's now supported in all major browsers but platform authenticators are likely not supported on all OS yet.
It's been terrible, when Cloudflare switched to hCaptcha it not only broke our app but it seems every time they make a change it breaks something else. We might be a special case but it's hard to say since all they say it's "quirks" and they keep making changes without announcing anything.
Multi-AZ doesn't help when a whole region is down, unless you're referring to multi-region AZs (e.g us-east-1a and us-west-1a)
Panic has a really nice approach with their Nova app. They keep updating it all the time; you pay once and get free updates for a year. You can choose at checkout time to stay updated for 50% of new-purchase price each year, or you can choose to pay for a new year of updates later on, when/if you need/want it.
https://library.panic.com/nova/purchase-faq/
1) End users are not the buyer. It's the Head of Delivery, Iteration Managers, Agile Consultants etc that are. For them JIRA is great because it's heavily customisable and scales across the enterprise. It's actually quite hard to balance this with a great end user experience.

2) They are in the middle of a complete UI rewrite and I've only briefly used it but it's definitely much better than the previous versions. I imagine the Trello acquisition is also going to help them here.
Why did you choose this way? A free software reimplementation of Flash seems to me like a much better idea than emulating all the interfaces required to run the old and unsupported binary blobs from Adobe - possibly on foreign CPU architectures. (Unless you compile to WASM, which it seems that you do - but the emulation overhead is still there.)
Well, holders of any particular coin are calling all the other coins a scam ... an example of how truth is hard to come by in a world governed by interests.
Laws are supposed to be systematic invariants, and to specify them requires a comprehensive vocabulary containing the union of all the things people do in a life. This language is necessarily bound to your time and place, and it may not translate well in the future. (I feel like laws that live long enough to outlast the language in which they were defined hasn't actually been solved! Certainly we should have to reword the Constitution at least once every 200 years!)
How about the biggest: Android?!
I reject that, yes, because they could just collect the reliable information. The unreliable information is no value.
Same story over in Australia today https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/i-am-far-from-perfect-be...
> I wonder where anti-abortion people come down on this.

I don't think it matter whether you are pro-abortion or anti-abortion since it's a chicken we are talking about. The abortion debate is about human life. Why post such flamebait?

> In their view, isn’t destroying the male egg the same as culling the male chick?

Fundamentally, a male chick dies/ceases to exist/etc.

I'm "pro-abortion" but the problem with fundamentalists like you is that you give everybody a bad name. Stop trying to turn everything to push your agenda.

Would you be okay with someone stepping on an egg with a male chick inside it? Probably not. Does it make pro-abortion view hypocritical? Not really. Because at the extremes, things get uncomfortable for both sides of the argument.
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What would a useful productivity metric look like?
The daughters goof reminds me of a quote from Lawrence Durrell: 'She showed him the difference between knowledge and understanding'.

The idea of this ingrained understanding from experience is so much more intriguing to me than trying to pull knowledge together with the conscious mind. I like the idea of the conscious brain orchestrating the training regime for the subconscious, but once it is time to perform it just steps back and watches.
Champions league is by far the best competition in the world. Number of world cups won is not a good criteria.
Huh, for some reason I thought this was the same thing as element.io. I guess they're different.

I was pretty impressed with mattermost in the brief time I used it. Shame it looks like their starter package is twice the price of Slack...
I'd be glad if the big shops (Mouser, Digikey, Conrad) could set up some pool solution... everything one can do as a private person opens up a hellhole of liabilities: international shipping (and tracking), return rights, warranties, import/export tariffs, import/export arms control (GPS receivers come to my mind), CE/RoHS compliance, international taxes (VAT, sales taxes, the US with their mind-boggling state/county/city additional taxes), supply chain integrity (people don't want their "pool buy" for 20 bucks turn out a counterfeit, and it's hard enough for big companies to secure that one).
I haven't heard a spin off of that meme for almost a decade.
Citibank Analyst Says Bitcoin Could Pass $300K by December 2021
Not to mention it doesn't take a technical person to update the status page.

Its even more frustrating when you are aware of problems early on and start talking to support and THEY don't even know about problems yet.

Maybe the thousands of people is what prevents status from being updated, everyone tries to hide their own faults internally even
slack projects 4b revenue w/in a few years so yeah, maybe SF is drinking the same kool aid?

even in the cross-sell case, 'slack doubles the value of salesforce' is a stretch

I suppose slack has way more customers so if even a few of them convert, salesforce grows tremendously? but the downside is this pushes SF into the freemium market.

'we're buying slack to help us grow our free tier' isn't ultra compelling.
I wasn’t trying to address the resale value. Only the tax part. The perception of the tax comes from Apple simply not offering compromised parts for a particular set of parameters. And other manufacturers willing to sell at large discounts regularly!
Disclaimer: I've been an engineer at hCaptcha for a few years now building out the service. I'm just as interested in you as hearing about customer and user success/pain stories!

> Worth noting that this title is primarily due to Cloudflare having switched to them from ReCAPTCHA, and Cloudflare is... well, relatively popular, to say the least.

That's definitely a part of it, but we also have a number of other large sites and services that use hCaptcha to protect against bots, and more that get added every day because of our more advanced bot detection special sauce.

> I'm curious what kind of data may exist on the experience of switching for larger providers; do the users like it? how much more/less time do they spend solving? do they care, let alone even notice that it's not Google's ReCAPTCHA?

From what we've seen, the integration process is generally smooth, especially if you're a previous reCAPTCHA user, since we keep the interface and workflow largely the same.

Solving is roughly the same although we have a number of other protections that irritate bot maintainers and get activated when we detect them.

Not sure if the majority of people are aware of the change, I'm sure some technically savvy people pick up on it more than not.

> Regardless, as ReCAPTCHA is not only terribly annoying but also built for surveillance from the ground up, I still view this as a good improvement.

That's actually one the top reasons we've had a lot of customers come over to us; we put a heavy emphasis on user privacy / security, including adopting/supporting privacy-preserving protocols (PrivacyPass, Tor), and minimal retention of data (see our data privacy policy on our site).
As someone who raises crickets for pet food, I can confidently tell you that you needn't kill crickets. Just give them a water dish and at least 10 will promptly drown themselves. They're either suicidal, or so painfully stupid that the only reason they haven't been wiped off the face of the planet is the incredible rate they reproduce at.

In a less facetious sense, I do believe that insect neurology is substantially different. Crustaceans have a nervous system web, which is why you have to cut crabs and lobsters in half to kill them rather than just stabbing them in the head.
Use `nproc` and not grep /proc/cpuinfo