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Building Native React App on Twilio
We are trying to build an iOS and Android app for multi streaming video using Twilio. It seems Reacts WebRTC is a big behind Twilio and we are struggling with the libraries. Has anyone built an iOS and Android video app on top of Twilio?
That's true, but it takes more than one example of confusion to justify the label "ambiguous." Otherwise the label would have no meaning; it could be applied to anything that had ever caused anybody confusion, which is everything.

For example, the meaning of the word "ambiguous" is not ambiguous. If somebody were to ask what the word meant because they did not know the definition, it wouldn't make the word's meaning ambiguous. It would make that person uninformed.
> Based on the observed IFR, if Covid had run wild this would be more like 600,000

I think this is largely over-estimated. Such high fatality rate hasn't happened anywhere in the world, regardless of the lockdown policy or absence thereof. That being said, I concede that this wasn't known at the time of the first wave when strict lockdowns were put in place.

Another point to take into account is that the vast majority of covid victims had very short remaining life expectancy. Not to say that their death don't count, but it is to be taken into account when comparing with suicides. Rather than number of deaths, maybe we could count number of years of life lost.
But that is to decide on resource allocation, i.e: I have 2 people, and 1 me, which one do I help.

That isn't used by governments to decide on health or economic policy. Else we'd ban old people from hospitals (and save trillions in the process!) and in general make their lives a misery (high tax, low benefits) because their "value" would be approaching 0.
Lars is a game developer, so is presumably talking about interactive/multimedia content rather than pure animation. I fully agree with him that JS doesn't hold a candle to Flash even now (for rich media apps in the browser).

But I don't think Flash could exist nowadays online anyway in the same way - the hardware ecosystem is much more diverse, you can't make a keyboard/mouse game and call it quits so easily, because people with tiny-touchscreen phones might also end up on your site. Trying to treat the web as a single platform is...it's a lot of ground to cover.
One who does not get paid directly by the government. E.g., a contractor doing work for the government
The other thing missing from all this is that, most people who started with Flash, in my experience, all started with a cracked/pirate version ... the SaaS model killed that.
Is there a follow up book to it? Like that you’d recommend, not that they wrote.
That seems very unlikely. 'AI' driving systems are subjected to millions of hours of simulated driving. A very good human driver will have a few thousand hours of experience after decades of driving.
Has someone made a JS/WebAssembly implementation of Flash in order to allow Flash games to be played?
We also made software for farmers and we have an awe-inspiring 1 (one) user!

Same as your experience: farmers don’t care about software or computers in general
Review sites are legal, but you’d almost certainly be at risk of defamation lawsuits from unhappy businesses. You’d most likely be in the clear, but it won’t stop them from trying.
I'm always a bit baffled that any increase "suicide during COVID" is supposedly something that can be neatly blamed on lockdown measures. Isn't it at least possible that people could be committing suicide due to reasons that are directly causally connected to COVID - whether that is fear of illness/death, a sense of the world ending, death/serious illness of a close relative or friend and/or having been sick with COVID themselves?

The last possibility seems particularly unnerving given how many people have had COVID and the fact that there do seem to be a good number of 'long-haulers' (some of whom report psychological effects).

I don't know if there's a good way of quantifying this, but the idea that every suicide during COVID is 100% casually connected to lockdown measures (or the knock-on consequences of lockdown, such as job losses) seems like an article of faith.
[..] Ahmed Mahamud, 46, an Uber driver from Federal Way, said he’s looking forward to the wage increases, as he’s responsible for nine children, along with his wife who works part-time.

“I believe this will help my family to live,” Mahamud said.[..]

This man needs another job.
Suffering is not the same as having a reward function. If the outcome is a reward, people would opt in for suffering to get rewards. Some even cheat their ways to rewards. People do hustle porn, virtue signaling, other fake sufferings. Some push to the extremes like running triathlons. But at some point, reality will wake us up. Our personal struggle is always there. It never ends. We'd be forced to make intelligent choices. Or we'd die wasting our time on useless endeavors.
Wasn’t there a mathematical proof that if we are in a simulation then the universe stimulating ours must be drastically different?

[0] https://www.seeker.com/tech/physicists-prove-that-reality-is...
Apparently the author can’t either. On the other hand, the outcome showed that it doesn’t really matter for this team in particular.
> The prior probability of voter fraud is so low

Why?
They did one after SARS for folks who had to quarantine in China and Toronto.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3320456
to each their own. i personally like direction they took. it's minimal and gives more of a teaser. like a movie poster or game box art. I'd find adding screenshots everywhere is a little too much towards a specific niche detail
You could automatically import a table from the web into the sheet, or alternatively create some custom data types for currency conversion.
To be fair, if you don’t want to read grand proclamations about opinions which make zero sense except for people in roles tightly related to surveillance capitalism, perhaps this isn’t the site for you. (Us...)
This is such a dumb law that I'd think a case of jury nullification would be within the realm of possibility. I had absolutely no idea this was supposed to be illegal.
> Robot cars don’t make human mistakes, they make alien mistakes like running down kids on the sidewalk in broad daylight, things which don’t make any sense at all that make people feel like they aren’t anywhere safe.

This expresses well the perceived difference between catastrophic human and machine errors.

I have two cars, a ’99 4Runner and a Tesla Model S.

When driving my S, I’m at an involuntary elevated state of alertness compared to my 4Runner. I think it’s discomfort at driving a car that might suddenly kill me through failure modes that I can’t possibly anticipate.

While I think my S’s technology is much more likely to result in my safe travel than my dumb iron 4Runner, my subconscious maintains a different assessment.

I expect this dichotomy in perceived risk is generational and will disappear after a decade or two of lower accident rates in autonomous vehicles compared to human drivers.
ah cool. i just had a look in the project's releases, 2013 was the first nonzero version they had listed there. I did wonder why they didn't list a v1.0 though.
There's definitely a focus on cost. It is just misguided. Short of not having security clearances, I'm not sure how you can avoid paying people to wait for them. Simple projects, like properly paying people unemployment benefits, have become not viable for the government to execute. There are many reasons why this has happened, but I think the erosion of technical expertise in the government is a big contributor. Rather than paying market rates for engineering talent, the government hires a bunch of individually cheaper non-engineers to oversee technical projects. The government could save a lot of money by hiring a handful of competent engineers rather than a ton of nontechnical management.

Relatedly, I think the government could probably save a ton of money with some in house technical talent to execute basic projects like the systems in this article rather than going through the crazy procurement process. It isn't clear to me that contractors are providing any added value to justify the added cost for their profit.
If we’re codegolfing dotfile setup, then really go crazy: `cd; ln -s source-location/{.,}[A-z]* .`
App not available in my country (the Netherlands).

Sad. We have money too, you know
> Apple wanted to kill flash because it was CPU intensive and Jobs hated it.

Of course he hated it, because now everybody is writing software specifically for Apple instead of for the web.
And as they mentioned above, the book (short story actually) from Ted Chiang is possibly even more profound
I mean it very literally took Apple refusing to support Flash to start its rapid decline.

Voting with your wallets has never really worked. Consumer preferences do change overtime but getting millions of people to act in unison is an exercise in futility. Until someone with actual market-swaying power brakes the wheel it will keep on spinning.
>>"International trust in anything related to the Chinese government is currently very low"

- there is a long track record leading to this low trust. Based on this we should place a very low prior belief in what ccp says
Yeah, for some reason we as a society really dig the whole "good with the bad", "beauty and the beast" style narrative. As if people can't be that good without also being that bad.

It's an extremely old meme, and it will take a long long time to die.
Why not switch to WooCommerce and I host it for you for €49/year. ;-)
I don't really see any evidence for the fact that foreigners are being squeezed out of China. FDI in China is actually up, even American investment in China.[1] under the current administration no less. Number of foreign students in China has steadily risen, and only slowed somewhat down but it's still the fifth most popular country for foreign students[2]. I personally plan to return in the next few years in all likelihood. (I don't have family in the country, and I'm not Chinese for what it's worth, and I rarely had problems).

I see absolutely no evidence in the numbers, or personal experience, but only in narrative that China has become a worse place for foreigners. Business climate is way better than it was mostly due to rule of law improvements. I have no idea to what extent the corruption reforms purged antagonistic party members or whatever, but it wasn't just a stunt, it actually did help private businesses.

I also find the elevation of Deng over Xi odd, given that Deng all his economic reforms aside, also used to roll tanks over students. The current administration doesn't even seem close to go back to the old methods.

[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/188629/united-states-dir...

[2]https://monitor.icef.com/2019/04/chinas-foreign-enrolment-gr...
Thanks, I updated the post. I've been using JS since the 90s so I'm not sure how I managed to forget that!
I like your second point thinking of "human life years". It's an interesting perspective.

As I commented in a sibling. Drs need these kind of tools to know who to treat first. But governments don't (and shouldn't).

There is a moral point here about the meaning and value of human life that can't be ignored.

As a government you can (and sometimes do) reduce lives to economic value (young will pay more tax over their life time), but other times you need to assess life on a more humanistic level. If we all know we hit the age of 60 and society stops giving a fuck, then I'm going to do very different things, converging on 100% selfishness as I approach 60, as that is the logical thing to do... but a society would fall apart if we did that.
Lots of applications used it. I recall Wacom having some art applications made with it, I remember League of Legends used it in the early days. The link you sent also specified quite a few uses.

But most notably there is a focus on desktop/mobile applications when the real dichotomy ended up being web/mobile applications and a ton of internet companies were dumping money into their own frameworks at the time because who wants to pay rent to Adobe? If artists don't want to pay for their proprietary crapware, imagine tech companies.

AIR was yet another closed platform to throw on the pile of failed closed platforms.
On Corruption in America: and What Is at Stake
Your observations are interesting to me because #2 and #3 have virtually zero overlap with my life experience.

#2 - working at a major tech company, there was a big emphasis on progression for each level up the engineering org, as well as the expectation that anyone (with at least say, 6 months experience at a given level) would be capable of stepping up to fill a hole at the level above them on short notice. This happened from time to time and often was an opportunity to accelerate career progression -- if you did well filling in short-term at the next level up, you'd probably get some extra training and get promoted to make that permanent in the near future.

Also #2, in my 10+ year career I've never met an engineering manager (at any place I worked, or in my extended network) who got in via any path except spending >= 5 years as an engineer first. I'm aware that such managers exist, but I've never encountered one.

#3 - Every place I've worked has had a management training program of some sort. Where I worked most recently, if you wanted to move into engineering management you must be a Staff Engineer and you must apply (and get a supporting recommendation from your manager) to the Apprentice Manager Program (AMP). During AMP, trainees get assigned a small team to lead, and that team is part of the training program, as they give regular feedback. The managers in training attend weekly training sessions, have homework, etc., and are getting feedback from multiple directions throughout. At the end the candidate may or may not be approved to move to the manager track - and they also have the chance to decide it's not for them and go back to the IC track with no problems. They can also apply again in a year if they fail the first time through.

My understanding is this kind of stuff is pretty standard among major software companies.
I don't really need it in this universe - I've realized that I'm a loser and wouldn't benefit from it.
Are you sure? Twinkly is doing fine I guess. Maybe focus on xmas lights.
China has claimed that COVID started in anywhere but China.

Australia: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9024311/China-claim...

India: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8993667/Now-Chinese...

Italy: https://www.the-sun.com/news/1824950/china-accuses-italy-sta...

US Army: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-claims-that-the-u...

Since the common belief is that COVID originated in China, they stand to benefit from an independent inquiry that proves any of their above claims.
Not my experience at all. All kinds of random people - including HR office clerks, janitors and receptionists, this is no joke - end up sneaking into the product org via personal connections.

The bar to become a product manager is incredibly low in tech, as demonstrated by the mere existence of roles such as “junior PM”, often filled by kids straight out of arts college.
Loved the post. I spent more than a year trying to pull a prominent reinsurer on the rock, out of spreadsheet hell, and into the modern age. Baby step #1 would have been to transfer critical data to a database environment and baby step #2 would have been to extract business logic and very-poorly written VBA code into an external code library (Python) that is source-controlled and auditable... I can still hear the Chikadees laughing at me. Last I heard said firm was still deep in spreadsheet hell.
Heh, dunno, seems quite a few folks claim minimal sales for linux. I have noticed the finding linux support for humble bundle games is MUCH less than it used to be.

Steam seems to have pretty hard numbers and the linux number are tiny.
> To save your changes, purchase a trip slot for as low as $10

Yet the price directly to the right of that says "Trip Slot $5".
I think this site gets emotional content. It might not be political flame war baiting topics. There's plenty of rust is great, microservices suck, npm continues to be trash, hot new thing considered harmful. Reinforces the my team wins ideas
Eh. I'm in the southern hemisphere, and the Github Globe first appears in the middle of the Philippines Sea. They're just assuming everyone is in the northern hemisphere.
The problem isn't feasibility, it's resources. Building and rolling out a standardized environment, and maintaining it, will cost millions of dollars. It shouldn't, but it does. And for what added benefit? The end-users don't want it, you'd have to spend another couple million for a lateral move at best. More than likely, you'll end up with a pile of Python spaghetti code that runs slower than the spreadsheet (see point #4 about massively recursive calcs).
Like I said, I'm not disagreeing with your premise... but you presented the numbers as something other than they actually were. And I agree that there was way more travel than was necessary.

But those numbers aren't about total air travel, they're about air travel at the holiday at that highest point since March was _still_ a 50% reduction (which is pretty minimally impacted by business travel, so not sure why you're bringing that up at all.) Again, from your latest link:

> The number of travelers flying Wednesday was half of what it was on the day before Thanksgiving in 2019, before the coronavirus was a threat in the United States
Which seems unlikely?

Do AI drivers face the same variety of conditions as humans? Or is it millions of hours on near [perfect] roads in a temperate climate?
Seattle's policy avoids that complication by setting very high wage requirements for the actual trips with the expectation that idle time and expenses will pull down the "true" compensation. The requirements add up to about $29.90 over an hour of driving, which the city believes will get drivers to the $16.39 hourly minimum for traditional workers. (https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/sea...)
> For 95% of applications you can just distribute a single SWF file

You can do the same with HTML5+CSS+JavaScript, all in a single file. You can even include images, audio and video e.g. with data urls.
I'm well aware the Adobe Animate still exists, a fact I'm glad for. I'm well aware that it can export to HTML5, and even Haxe/OpenFL, an open source project I've personally invested a ton of time and money into.

It's great those initiatives exist, I've spent years of my career supporting them, but at replicating what Flash did in its prime, it's still not quite the same. The abstraction leaks around the edges and the community and singular simplicity and straightforwardness of what Flash had is long gone and a tiny open source community always heroically struggling for funding and contributions can't be expected to replicate it.

Also, RE: Animate, updates randomly break things with previous versions, and being proprietary I have no idea how long Adobe is going to let it continue existing and keep it compatible with anything I might want to use it for.

Anyways, the main point of the thread was just that the claims that HTML/JS was this perfect go to replacement for what we really valued about Flash just rings hollow to me 10 years later.
According to the feds, they had CIs inside that organization.

No illegal mass surveillance necessary for that, unless the CIs being there were illegal parallel construction in the first place.
change the title to reflect that they claim that it was an accidental leak. Or just use the page title: "What is the source of COVID-19?"
Some extra interesting stuff:

[Pie Barm] One of the things I miss most about living in the UK is its breakfast sandwiches from manchester. Usually some mix of sausage, egg, bacon, beans on a big white barm/bap. Can't seem to get anywhere near as good sandwiches here in Canada. [1]

[Erstwhile] There word ere is still used almost the same as its Aer root word [2]

[Ogden's Basic English] XKCD had a play on this [3] using the first 1000 most common words. The Simple english version of wikipedia also feeds off of this basic 850 set [4]

[boh!] Was referenced in the most recent spider man movie [5]

[Why we can smell copper] Nile red had a video in 2019 where he synthesized the organic compound that is created by touching copper [6]

[1] https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/great-british-breakfast-...

[2] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ere

[3] https://xkcd.com/1133/

[4] https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_write_Sim...

[5] https://youtu.be/NBuPOofPplY?t=139

[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqLH-nTZEOc
Yeah, I wonder if flat orgs are similar to open plan offices in that they're a good idea when you're small, but don't scale. On paper it sounds nice if there's only 3 people between you and the CEO, but that often becomes an excuse to avoid implementing any process for bubbling ideas upwards. "We're a flat company, just go talk to the CEO!" doesn't work when there are a thousand people trying to talk to the same person.
Yes: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle
I love Anker. I remember when I discovered them around 2013 and started making purchasing decisions on Amazon by just looking for their brand name, it almost felt like cheating, since I knew I wouldn't need to do an hour of research to make sure, "ok is this charger going to be the kind that explodes." So I just buy Anker and it works like a dream.
I had to stop watching Scotty Kilmer because of his thumbnails/titles. At one point it felt like every new video was click baited with him being sent to prison, dying, retiring or being forced to shut down to business.

I'm willing to tolerate the o-face from channels who put out good content on a regular basis tho.
Just quantum supremacy experiments. Running things on quantum hardware instead of using a simulator will just be slower and more expensive for the foreseeable future.
I'm not convinced anyone has good evidence for this particular claim at this time, but labeling it "batshit crazy" is premature. Michael Osterholm, a respected epidemiologist, explains in his book "Deadliest Enemy" his belief ("no doubt in his mind") that the 1977 Russian flu was released from a bioweapons lab. If it happened before there isn't any reason it couldn't happen now.

EDIT: I misspoke slightly by referring to "bioweapons," so I decided to post the full quote here:

> It turned out that the Soviets were conducting vaccine studies using live, attenuated H1N1 influenza viruses in the very area where the new H1N1 was first detected. During our research, we uncovered a letter from the Soviets to the US government requesting that we share with them the 1976 Fort Dix strain of H1N1 for their vaccine studies. I have little doubt that the appearance of the 1977 H1N1 virus and its rapid global transmission in just several months was the result of a release of the virus in the course of the Soviet vaccine studies. We don’t know exactly what they were doing with the virus. What we do know is that it got out, either accidentally or on purpose, causing a local outbreak in lab workers that subsequently spread around the world. Either way, the powerful lesson here is that if an influenza virus accidentally escapes or is intentionally released, expect that it will spread around the world in short order. This is the proverbial single match being able to light a global forest fire. The possibility for a DURC research study using a potentially dangerous influenza virus should scare the hell out of everyone.
how does Python require source control? I guess you can just drop your files on a sharedrive... just like ... EXCEL!

Also you reference an existing report? What's exactly the problem of serializing your data after a run of your python program? Actually, if you think this through, you would probably establish some pipeline architecture to just continously integrate your results.
That might be true if you didn’t actually get power over your team.