skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm willing to bet that the events described here will not be a mortal blow to Zoom, whether the event is isolated or only semi-isolated. To make it concrete, their market cap will still be above $10B on Jan 1 2022. I'll put up to $20 on it, to a non-religious charity of your choice. If you want to take the other side of that bet let me know.
> No abstraction is better than a bad abstraction.

I misread that at first. At first I thought you were saying that there is no better abstraction than a bad abstraction. Gotta love the ambiguities in English.
Different lipid nano particles, or maybe just stability testing. The vaccines could be stable at lower temperatures but the companies haven’t had time to prove it by letting the vaccine sit in a fridge for months.
All of this CCP poison inside Zoom must be a huge gift to Microsoft Teams.
Nepotism and using administrative power to tilt the distribution of good in your favor is not new.

Blaming “algorithm” is new. I think even use of the term algorithm is misleading to obscure the truth. To make it seem like it some sort of soulless machine, that made a mistake. It was probably done by some administrator in excel, reviewed by a senior staff member to make sure the “right” cohorts get the vaccine.

Also 5000 is a small number, you can easily asses how reasonable the result of the algorithm is. Heck, a couple of decent PMs from any tech company can prioritize distribution of 5000 doses in a fair way in couple of days.
I guess it ensures he isn't on that plane in the future. Or on a plane to cooperating countries. (Which for an executive may be a serious problem)
It's newsworthy that PRC is recruiting Chinese citizens in executive positions of American companies to pursue the intelligence interests of the CCP by disenfranchising Americans of their constitutional rights and in willful violation of American law.
Interestingly, the number of CCP members employed is way over the baseline quota demanded by Beijing (where usually companies like Jet.com and alibaba will struggle to retain and meet this quota, Zoom has never seemed to has this issue...)
Start by reading about the technology you want to use and develop with.

I would suggest Jameson Lopp's pages about bitcoin[0]:

[0]: https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information.html
> By staying home you help reduce transmission and the deaths of others.

This is not a science based belief. You spread the virus when you’re sick, generally noticeably so - coughing, etc.

We don’t even have strong evidence of this being strongly spread with asymptomatic people.

Anyone that’s not rich cannot afford to stay home. They have family to feed and unfortunately to people above a certain income level, they interpret this as being “selfish.”
Google now offers weekly Covid-19 tests to every US employee
> Everything old is new again right?

Not really. All this shuffling to "custom hardware" is due to the fact that Moore's Law broke a couple generations back.

Custom hardware makes no sense if you can just wait 18 months and the performance of a generic chip will double.

Once you can't just "wait for performance increases" then building your own silicon starts to make sense.
Steve Jobs on Privacy
Go 1.16 Release Notes (Beta 1 is released)
Did you intend to use https://bitcoinpaperwallet.com instead of https://bitcoinwalletpaper.com?

The former site “looks” legit (one can never be sure though) while the latter looks like phishing scam.
Can you imagine the stress of being on-call for this? Shudder!
If this is being asked: “Do other countries have jurisdiction in China?” the answer is a flat no. You could go ahead and try. Nothing will happen.
Totally disagree about the last part. The more pain we suffer now, the longer the lesson will last.
From various influence? It appears that the Dothraki is based more on stereotype than any real historical influence.

Even if we judge the Dothraki by itself, they lacks verisimilitude. They are not believable as a society, fantasy or otherwise.
I don't think you'll ever see the answer to your question if that's how you're framing it
Yeah but there hasn't been the level of vertical integration that the M1 laptop has before. The same company is building the silicon, the laptop and the OS they can leverage whatever they feel like and don't have to account for processors that have differing features.
I think the point is not having to remember to go in to DND mode.
This is a brilliant sales page. A landing page isn't quite the same thing.
CEO is an American citizen[0], Zoom is headquartered in San Jose[1] and listed on NASDAQ.[2]

[0] https://blog.zoom.us/navigating-a-new-chapter-for-zoom/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Video_Communications

[2] https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/zm
That’s terrible messaging given that reinfection is rare but possible and occasionally deadly. We want everyone to take it.
Don’t worry, a fastidious HN’er nipped your thing in the butt
According to the Washington Post:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/18/zoom-he...

> Prosecutors said the China-based executive, Xinjiang Jin, worked as Zoom’s primary liaison with Chinese law enforcement and intelligence services, sharing user information and terminating video calls at the Chinese government’s request.
It depends on many factors (teeth being devitalised, expected complications during the surgery, and other non-teeth related factors as well). Some people do get a local anesthesia (not knocked out), others have no choice.
Cool thing about HN is that often a downvote can be a signal you missed something obvious. As was the case here. The data returned was compressed using brotli, as indicated by the content-encoding header value "br". Duh.

curl https://sqwok.im|brotli -dc
The most BA conspiracy would be if the CCP thought about releasing a virus and said to themselves “hey, what will everyone need in a pandemic? Videoconference!” They funded Zoom, then released the virus and boom - they suddenly have access to every company and academic discussion out there.

If I plotting things, that’s how I’d do it at least. But alas reality isn’t a Bond film.
Microsoft Teams might have you covered, including potentially your API needs.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/choose-online-meeting...
Any Design Pattern identifies a failing in the core language or its standard library.

Were the language up to the job, the pattern would have been captured in a named library component, and no longer be a Pattern at all. Use of a well-designed and -tested library component is always better than re-coding the pattern again at each new use.

A classical example is the hash table. In C, and similarly limited languages, you cannot write a useful hash table library. Instead, custom hash tables are re-coded over and over again in thousands of individual programs and libraries wherever they are needed.

In other, similarly limited languages, the pattern is pulled into the core language, as a "dictionary" or "map" type, eliminating most need to re-code it, at the expense of flexibility in its design.

In more expressive languages like C++ and Rust, hash table libraries arise, and the most commonly useful forms appear in the standard library.

We have continually added to C++ and its library as we have identified patterns. New patterns arise in composing existing features and library components, so adding to them creates new opportunties for patterns to arise. As each new pattern is identified, it may be captured. Sometimes this demands new core language support for abstraction, as is seen in new Concepts and Coroutines core features. So, we naturally expect to see new library components that use the new features in commonly seen ways.

The expected addition of pattern matching to core C++, similarly to what appears in Rust and certain other languages, represents a lapse: a failure to discover and specify core language features to add that would enable implementing usefully general pattern matching as a family of library components. Conflict over, e.g. simplicity vs generality, in design of the core feature is unavoidable, where, were it implementable as a library, different choices could be captured as different library components.

Anytime we lapse and fail to discover core language primitives needed to implement a high-level construct, we should remember and see each use of it as a rebuke, and motivation to invent core features that would have made it redundant.
Why does CNN persist with its 'Fake News'. I suppose they think it's funny to deny the existence of a dangerous predator.

Departmental Warning Poster:

https://external-preview.redd.it/HQW6PVRFKBiRI17RpL6MbdJJsEF...
Clearly Zoom is on paper American but functions as a party organ of the CCP. That should make you curious about what other companies, or individuals working at companies, might be analogous.
The question "Do other countries have jurisdiction in X?" is "no" for all countries X.

I presume you meant that as an informal straw man to represent the question as less pertinent than it is?
Andy Grove. Moore's first name is Gordon.
Spanking is just low level physical abuse. There's plenty of evidence and it's widely accepted among healthcare professionals and governments (the US included) that corporal punishment of any level (spanking included) causes development problems.

Corporal punishment of children was outlawed in the US in 1969. That is two generations ago.

Here's an fairly solid statement that should suffice:

"By 2000, research was proliferating, and the convention had been ratified by 191 of the world’s 196 countries, 11 of which had prohibited all physical punishment. Today, research showing the risks associated with physical punishment is robust, the convention has been integrated into the legal and policy frameworks of many nations, and 31 countries have enacted prohibitions against the physical punishment of children.1 These three forces — research, the convention and law reform — have altered the landscape of physical punishment.

The growing weight of evidence and the recognition of children’s rights have brought us to a historical point. Physicians familiar with the research can now confidently encourage parents to adopt constructive approaches to discipline and can comfortably use their unique influence to guide other aspects of children’s healthy development. In doing so, physicians strengthen child well-being and parent–child relationships at the population level. Here, we present an analysis of the research on physical punishment spanning the past two decades to assist physicians in this important role."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3447048/
That’s been the case for a very long time. Even ignoring the civil war, US citizens for example fought on both sides of WWII both before and after it entered the war. As soon as you start talking millions of people you end up with some extreme outliers.

The only thing that’s changed is we have a slightly better idea who we are shooting over time.

PS: Somewhat more bizarrely, letters of marque and reprisal mean private citizens can get the rights to kill other Americans who happen to be working on non military foreign ships.
USA really needs to do something about its regulatory capture problems. At this point the FAA has zero credibility.
I had a similar experience with a SaaS. They let us run fine for months, then started degrading our service. When we contacted them, they tried to convince us we had a bug in our implementation. No, we confirmed we were using their service exactly as we intended to. They seemed to have designed their service with a particular use case in mind, and ours wasn't it. We tried multiple times to explain our use case and why their service was useful for us, because we didn't want them to think we were using the service in bad faith, but if they understood, they never let on. After much grumbling, they would lift the restrictions on us, but apparently not far, because we'd run into them again weeks or months later as our traffic increased. They were obviously unhappy with the way we were using their service and determined to cause issues for us, so we gave up and stopped using them.
What a completely ethnocentric and asinine perspective. I am not defending China here - obviously they are up to a lot of problematic atuff.

If it wasn't the CCP, it would be Russia again, or if not Russia, then another emerging power. In 10 or 20 years it could be India, or the fragmented parts of European Union that combine to form authoritarian regimes if the swings toward autocracy continue.

Every military force is investing in drone technology because any military force in the world is investing in drone technology, and while the US was the leader for a long time, the push to outsource manufacturing and globalization led to a broad distribution of the skills, tools, and manufacturing base to build modern drones.

China is no more the root cause of the arms race than Thog was when he hit Ugh with a stick some time in ancient history. Its humans and tribalism all the way down.
> Now, an interesting side effect of the quantum version is that the first measurement of the original system is necessarily destructive. As such, it's not like you'll end up with two copies of the same thing (which is what would happen in the classical version) so there's no discussion necessary around the distinction between teleportation and cloning.

Is it possible to have three entangled systems? It seems that would allow sending the state information from one to the other two, thus destroying the original but leaving two "copies".

Apologies if the answer to this is obvious, I'm a total layman when it comes to this stuff.
Nah probably not. But if you use IBKR, you can use their best efforts VWAP execution algo: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=1124
The executive fabricated illegal user activity on Zoom, to include distribution of child pornography, falsely attributed to opponents of China’s Communist Party:

>Jin’s co-conspirators created fake email accounts and Company-1 accounts in the names of others, including PRC political dissidents, to fabricate evidence that the hosts of and participants in the meetings to commemorate the Tiananmen Square massacre were supporting terrorist organizations, inciting violence or distributing child pornography.

Imagine if it had been you. Imagine if you logged into a Tiananmen Square Massacre commemoration from your couch in Sunnyvale, and days or weeks later, American police knocked down your door and arrested you in front of your family for distribution of child pornography. Imagine going to trial against a prosecutor armed with “authentic” Zoom logs of your criminal activity.

The potential for this type of attack does not only exist within Zoom.
Why would you fund a “tech” company when you could corner the market on PPE? According to my local news a company told the federal government the US lack N95 manufacturing.
Bitcoin and Ethereum just got smarter with this new tool
Interesting, although I was more thinking about FPGA's in things like acquisition and processing rather than overall logic as the PC seemed to imply.
Using an IDE is a superpower that separates the 1 vs 20. Love the product!
Again, zero evidence of this is provided.

I won't be surprised if Covid ends up being slightly more or slightly less correlated with post-infection issues, but we have seen no credible evidence of this at all, much less evidence that we should worry Covid turns you into a "mentally-challenged cripple."
Same. I agree. I bought the 2019 as well and imo this is the first macbook PRO worth buying since the 2015 model.
Many people (including myself and I assume the original commenter) feel that judging is supposed to be an apolitical duty. So saying "Randy Smith, also a Bush appointee," sounds problematic to me in the same way as "Randy Smith, also male" would: it's not false, but the mindset where it matters is deeply concerning.
First of all, video conferencing is one of the most challenging software products to deliver, at the latencies that people expect and the price they're typically willing to pay. It's not a CRUD app.

Second, F, A, A, G, and M do provide rock solid video conferencing. Apple being the most rock solid of all of them, but limited to Apple devices.
Me too. My first computer I/O device was an ASR33. 1978

Only drawback was lots and lots of waste printout paper.
This is obviously made for people with much more exciting lives than me.
This advice describes how pernicious corruption and incompetency are. Instead of insisting on mechanisms to improve competency and trust, you're insisting the spread of distrust is the best course of action.

It will be interesting to see whether this aircraft is recertified under substantially similar conditions by EASA, et al.
Side note: AWS STS has had regional endpoints for years. The global endpoint is vestigial at this point. I didn't glean anything special about Google's endpoint that requires it to be globalized like this, but I can't really criticize it without knowing the details.
Jetbrains deserves all the good things people say about them.

It's the only software I continue to pay as a subscription because they bring awesome software and they keep it coming.
Yep, I've had this happen. The "rough patch" has been going on for years, with down round after down round. At some point, you have to accept it's not working out.
> Apple allows you to buy a computer with more than 8 GB RAM, but I think it's just a trap how to satisfy and charge those who don't believe the reviews and just want more RAM whatever it takes.

Just spitballing here, but I’m guessing the OP doesn’t spend much time using DAW sample libraries or editing video.
Given an unknown state, it's not possible to know if the parts are entangled. There is no experiment to determine this. The "facts" of quantum have this weird disconnect with reality.

If you have access to many copies of the same state, then you can do tomography to learn if the state is entangled or not. But this is a different situation to what you are asking in your question. Actually I'm not entirely sure what your question is asking, but I won't delete this comment just yet.
Oh yeah, I've heard about that book before! I keep putting it off, maybe this time I'll actually read it over the holidays.
The AGs of 10 states don't understand how the web works. This is a technology site, so we can do better. How are you going to beat prerendered pages in speed?
^ This. I try to keep corporate device strictly corporate. No personal sign-in to any service.
If you think someone born in China who hires Chinese people in China to do all the engineering work isn't still Chinese then you haven't been paying much attention to how the CCP operates.
I'm pretty sure it just calls Java. Whichever interpreter pops up it'll use.
> "the middle-brow dismissal" HN is famous for.

Famous amongst what group?
Nowadays there are increasingly many memory buses. I think the top-end Epyc uses 8 of them, that may each simultaneously have an operation in flight, each with its own queue. Lesser Zen2s have four memory buses.
I like to say that the opposite of DRY is PYIAC: Painting Yourself Into A Corner -- because you often only notice a situation like this once it becomes incredibly difficult to get out of.
It still has plenty of credibility, just less than before
Correlations are "transmitted" faster than light speed. You could call this information. Quantum information theory is way more complicated (and many open questions) than Shannon information theory.
I think Gov should buy the vaccine and provide it for free. Private companies should rightfully charge a premium to the governments as they took: 1) Enormous risk 2) Expediency 3) Investment of talent 4) Demand is through the roof; all this even if the governments were involved in hedging the risk for spinning up manufacturing lines.
You're completely avoiding the question of whether this is an isolated incident or not.

I have no doubt people are stupid enough to continue using 'Video Conferencing by the CCP'(tm pending). That just means they're dumb.
> This is definitely more verbose and arguably uglier, but it hews closer to the object-oriented style because it’s visibly falling a method on an object. Of course this is happening in C# as well, but it’s hidden by syntactic sugar.

It's hard to appreciate how addictive the sugar is if you never had it.

Frankly, language level auto properties -alone- would get rid of 25-33% of the pain I feel writing Java.

Of course, there is always Scala on the JVM Side; which gives you all sorts of sugar, but in some ways -too much-.
The same thing happens all the time with pulsars. "Astronomers detect radio signal in space" and don't mention that the signal's frequency is similar to a pulsar
When you're screen sharing, you could receive company notifications that you don't want everyone.

Firstly, you don't necessarily coworkers to see some notifications. A manager might not want underlings to see their notifications, for instance, like that such and such is going to be laid off.

Secondly, who says the screencast is always for coworkers? You don't want a client or investor to see internal company notifications.

So, yes, there is a use case for suppressing notifications even if you have no personal logins.
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LOL ignore all this crap. The government courts are using Zoom. Just buy their stock.
Not a good look
Wrong. COVID-19 is most contagious in the first 5 days after infection. Symptomatic and asymptomatic people have the same viral load.

Source: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/11/covid-19...
The processor is not a magical thing that changes how much memory is needed for workloads. When the first reviewers did not look at your workload it's meaningless that they did not complain.

People sometimes forget that macOS has had automatic RAM compression since Mavericks (10.9) [1]. Think about how fast this must be using Apple's SoC combined with the extremely fast SSD at 2190 MB/s writes and 2675 MB/s reads. With compression, the effective speed is at least double.

It would take a whole lot for there to be any appreciable slowdown running lots of apps simultaneously with 8 GB of RAM.

[1] https://www.lifewire.com/understanding-compressed-memory-os-...
Even if they are not an isolated incident, the Crypto AG story suggests the company could carry on for quite some time.
Apropos. And welcome to China for the past few years.
The high level NASA requirements cast a pretty wide net (to include data acquisition and processing) as to what falls under the purview of those requirements. From 7150.2:

“ A.30 Software. Computer programs, procedures, scripts, rules, and associated documentation and data pertaining to the development and operation of a computer system. Software includes programs and data. This also includes COTS, GOTS, MOTS, reused software, auto generated code, embedded software, firmware, and open source software components.”

https://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/displayCA.cfm?Internal_ID=N_PR_...
This role does not sound like an "executive" in the sense I think of it. It sounds like an individual contributor role, and not one that sets company policy either.
Why not both?

And in some cases you don't even need to corner the market - just abuse your adversaries' psychology. For example, Canada, was sending tons of PPE to China in February. [1]

This turned out to be an awful decision and Canada was caught in a terrible shortage weeks later. China gladly sold PPE to Canada though.

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/global-affairs/news/2020/02/canada-...
Most of the "FAANG" companies do already have video conferencing apps. Netflix being the notable exception, but they're only included in the group for the sake of an edgy acronym anyway.
I always feel insecure what things will show up in auto-complete in browser address bar during my live demos.