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Hey everyone!

I’m Cody, one of the founders of WakaSaba. Traditional video conferencing platforms like Zoom assume that you’re right in front of your device. We created WakaSaba for “distance first” video conferencing and have built novel ways to interact with your room and control your device from afar:

- Hand Tracking: Turn your hands into a mouse and use it to point, select, and click. Supports basic room controls like muting / unmuting yourself and more advanced features like controlling a countdown timer that’s shown to everyone in the room

- Gesture Recognition: React to anything that happens with your hands. We capture certain hand gestures and broadcast them to everyone in a fun, engaging, and minimally(?) intrusive way

- Phone Pairing: Scan a QR code to turn your phone into a remote with access to additional controls and interactive features

Another core feature of our platform is that it’s all in the browser. We explicitly designed WakaSaba so that users wouldn’t need to download additional software or install any apps.

We originally built this for online fitness instructors, but recently have been thinking about what other industries and use cases might benefit from our technology. As a result, we’ve reoriented our landing page to focus less on “why” you might use our platform and more on “what” you can do with it. Now we want to get it in front of people to collect thoughts and general feedback.

Instructions if you want to try it out:

1) There’s a `Try a Free Room` button on our homepage

2) Clicking it will create a room that you can join / invite anyone to for 40 minutes, no email or sign up required

3) Before joining the room, there are some tutorial screens that go over our core feature set

Sorry in advance for any rough edges! We’ve deliberately prioritized getting this in front of people above all else :)

If you encounter any issues or have any questions / feedback I’m all ears! I should be around for the next couple hours.
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Very cool. I now have a reason to get my hands on a Jetson. Also great work on the detailed readme.
CSV files are terrible, but I love them. I love sites that offer an "Export to CSV" option, because I know I can take that export and start working with it immediately. I can give that CSV file to my Dad, who can open it in Excel, or I can run a single command[0] to import it into a sqlite database.

It is a lowest common denominator format. That type of thing is incredibly hard to kill unless you can replace it with something that is simpler. Good luck with that.

[0]: https://github.com/psanford/csv2sqlite
How many of the second guessers there have actually been in physical struggles where they are trying to restrain a person "gently" when the other person does not want to cooperate at all?
That exists and I know at least police use them. Called spit hoods.
It's counterintuitive, and I also thought like that.

Because there is more choice, and diversity people are more acceptable of accepting a less than ideal fit jobs.

In US, IT workplaces, and especially dotcoms are all very much alike, thus people put much more effort to fit into the system as alternatives aren't going to be much different.
People pass private keys on command-lines, particularly with ecc crypto (because the keys are short). It's a really bad idea, but that doesn't mean it isn't sometimes done.
I was thinking the Frame TV had better color grading for the color temperature of the room. Does your video output not take advantage of this?
> The whole idea of a perceptual hash is that the more similar the two hashes are, the more similar the two images are

If that is the case, then the word "hash" is terribly mis-applied here.
Apple has special iPhones for security researchers.
Or they'll just grow a bunch of opium, which earns them billions despite lacking infrastructure.
Even if we were to call this a "backdoor", it's a backdoor that creaks quite loudly. I mean, what's the attack vector here? The plan, as far as I'm aware, is to upload a list of hashes to each device that have been vetted by multiple child protection agencies. In order to surveil other things, additional hashes would need to be transferred that wouldn't be vetted by these agencies. That would be noticed, and that's the point where I would consider my trust to be betrayed.
Any reason why the OS couldn't require menus to be registered only to draw them along the top of the application window?
it's Amazon isn't it? lol
Sadly I haven't had the time to keep up with SID music or demoscene in recent years. Just checked out Influx Deluxe -- very impressive. Hard to believe it came from just 2 SID chips.
In pursuit of an acceptable phone, I've eyed the Fairphone with its laudable stance on repairability in the name of eco-friendliness as well. Problem is it comes with Google's spyware (Android), a much bigger threat on privacy than anything Apple does. The solution seems to be to buy eSolutions Fairphone with de-Googled Android.

I can live without free GPS navi but I'm wondering what to do about the few cases where you need a "trusted" device (a misnomer if there ever was one), such as banking push TANs or other mobile banking TFA apps, TOTP apps, vaccination pass apps or Covid contact tracing/registration apps (I've managed to evade the latter kind of apps until now).
I seem to be getting a lot of heat for this comment - fair enough, but I will expand on that.

Before joining this company, I hired and managed teams across various startups. I don't think I would be speaking out of turn to say in every company we looked for aptitude and intelligence. I don't know what my previous or current colleagues literal IQs are, but you know a highly intelligent person when you meet and work with one.

Through my entire FOUR MONTH interview process, I met a dozen people, all of whom would be considered highly intelligent. Maybe I am naive to assume that's what that interview process was designed for.

And to be clear, those folks I interviewed with and many other people around me are highly intelligent. But the people I work with on daily basis, whom I did not meet in my interview, are categorically less intelligent and honestly at the root of most of the problems I've dealt with since starting.

Sorry if it is rude, but I think it's an honest depiction of the situation.
TPG was sold out to bankrate first in 2012. Then all of bankrate was sold to RV five years later.
Makes me wonder why not put that into a will, as well as how legally binding a tattoo is when it comes to estate management.
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> Humans don't poop in a box and have someone else handle it?

Well.. not usually. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedpan
Indeed, but there’s also the Afghan people there, and their conditions won’t improve without working economy.
Why would you assume Russia when we don't even know what the cause is?
Please don't blame Islam for this. There are oppressive fundamentalist Christian organizations that also want to actively keep women barefoot and pregnant.

The struggle for equality continues even in developed/Western countries where even relatively well-paid and famous women tend to make less than their male counterparts and have added their testimony to the #MeToo movement.
I've got a Pixel and a Dell XPS 13 Dev Edition. I really only use Signal, so I don't miss iMessage/FaceTime. I don't know if I'd say it's perfect, but everything seems to "just work" for the most part. I definitely have less issues with my setup than with my fiancés MacBook Air.
Thinking that the majority of organizations will ever have a decent remote culture is, in my opinion, nothing but wishful thinking.

Of course, a huge number of companies will append "work from home" to their job descriptions, but for non other reason than to avoid to lag behind others.

Yes, that's a bit harsh and the reality may be that in fact, most companies will think they have a remote culture for one reason or the other, but will lack the... well... culture, to support it.

If you think I'm being pessimistic, think about agile. Certainly you can name companies that do agile properly (good for you, please share names :), but most companies claim to be agile only because anything else is a blocker to hire these days.
The Musical Remix of the recent ducktape event, told by Alfredo Rivera:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aitLrOPSoI8

(original interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFoXmnBuLw0)
I'm in favor of the duct tape as well (as a step after requiring a minor's parents to manage them), but in these types of situations there isn't much time to assess and respond appropriately. For all anyone knows the 13 year old could have been attempting the next 9/11 in a coordinated effort.
That's a very nice story that you have there. Thank you for sharing.
Them. Us. Politics. How I wish politicians lost all affiliation with a party after they were sworn in (and of course that lobbying groups took a long dive off a short cliff).

Of course I also wish people wouldn’t conflate political parties with religion. Both sides are a gradient of believers, non-believers, agnostics, etc. There’s even gradients within those who claim to be religious. People will do stupid things because of religion and in spite of all religion tries to do to prevent its followers from being stupid. Religion is just a scapegoat and a pretty useless one in conversations like these. It doesn’t help anyone understand Abbot. Abbot’s actions are probably simpler stated as those of his party have chosen a position and he’s doing his part to dig in even while surrounded by bad omens. This last one striking home.

Will he change positions? Seems like his party has been teetering on a “maybe”. I’ve noticed more people caving to vaccination. Most because they, now, can no longer drown out the noise of reality. That’s my hope for him because as a leader he could be a force for good in a rather populous US state, instead of just another sheep towing the party line of the flock of his party.

People being rational. Leaders leading. Wishes.
Came here to note that, and show off my poor russian language skills (bulgarian here) :)
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If you need a judicial review to confim that a slightly altered Bernie in Coat and Gloves meme is not the same image as the picture of a child being raped that they have on file then we have way bigger problems.
Wow. I have noticed that the social media links they use for some celebrities are also wrong at times.
People have, and possibly, some of the people here have done so, but it is INCREDIBLY unlikely that HUNDREDS of people have all decided that they're just going to make it up and lie to try and get a medical retirement. That's utter nonsense. There have been medical examinations of these people that have confirmed brain trauma. Nor have these people all even tried to retire early as a result. Some (many? MOST?) of them still want to work, though some are still medically unable.

This is a bad theory. It's really fucking stupid to be frank.

We should feel 100% comfortable calling out nonsense as such. I'm aware this comes off as arrogant. But "There is nothing wrong, it's just hundreds of people making up a disease / international attack to get out of work" is so pathetically ungrounded that such aggressiveness is, imo, justified, if the broad consensus isn't immediately that the idea is nonsense.
In the same article, earlier in it, they say that the scanning is just iPadOS and iOS. macOS is just getting a generic nudity detection AI model for protecting children from new content that doesn't require contacting Apple about anything.

"Next, iOS and iPadOS will use new applications of cryptography to help limit the spread of CSAM online, while designing for user privacy."
That infrastructure they have...and the $/weight is much easier to manage.
The best thing about the Telegraph is MATT.
Again, it is what happens after that which has people worried. Apple is simply bringing attention to it.
> Apple won't leave even the russian market in case the government demands to expand capabilities of the system. And they will never leave chinese market.

Who will? Google? Microsoft? HP? Dell? Huawei or Xiaomi or Lenovo (lol jk)? Which computer or phone manufacturers or service providers refuse to do business in Russia and China?
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Other than reading references and tutorials, how do you actually practice it?
For knowledge panels, perhaps yes. Google is presenting them in a way that people unfamiliar with how Google operates might think it has verified the information.

But if you have an unusual name but share $FIRSTNAME $LASTNAME with a couple other people and one of them has been convicted of notable $CRIME, that person will turn up in searches for your name. I mean, that's what search engines do. It's up to the searcher to figure out--if they care enough to--that you are a different person.

But if your name is Jeffrey Epstein and all someone finds when they search on your name is that Jeffrey Epstein, I'm not sure what Google, Microsoft, or DuckDuckGo is supposed to do about that.

I'm not sure what accountability you're looking for in a straight web search. (Again leaving knowledge panels out of it.) You plugged in a name and a search engine returned the most popular/authoritative results for that name.
The formats you describe sound interesting, but in the big corporate/government world the barriers to adoption are high. For example, the software package Cognos which is owned by IBM and connects to database servers. To extract data from it, you have a choice of csv, Excel or pdf. The pdf is only used if you have done a perfect job creating a report in Cognos and don't need to edit/adjust it further in Excel. So really, only 2 output formats.

I realize that this is a specific use case here, but I was on Cognos for years, and then when they started shifting over to Tableau, it wasn't any better.. csv, MS formats, proprietary formats, etc.
Their approach is so poorly targeted at the claimed problem, and so ineffectual, I don’t think it is reasonable to take them at face value re: what they say they are trying to accomplish.

For the folks who are interested in stopping abuse of children, there are many other approaches that would break the market for new abuse and new CSAM. This just isn’t going to move the needle and I have to assume they know that.

I’ve completely lost trust in Apple because I can’t understand what their motivations are. I _do_ understand the technology, so I’m pretty tired of articles suggesting this is some sort of misunderstanding and not Apple taking a giant leap towards enabling authoritarianism, and of course building literal thoughtcrime enforcement into end user devices, which is beyond even what 1984 imagined.
Max Fischer? By any chance did you petition to keep a Latin class at your private high school? ;)
Wouldn't that mean that gp's body is only able to absorb energy from blood sugar floating around the body and has lost the ability to use other sources of energy in the body. Hence has physical addiction to contionous blood sugar supply.

or maybe there some other medical condition ( other than insulin resistance) that is causing this. Curious to know what that might be.
The issue is CSV is not compatible with CSV. It's not possible to write a spec that covers all CSV files in the world. CSV means things that are mutually incompatible in the less common cases, and the only way to really parse them correctly is to know which variant generated it. But you can't even tag that variant in the file by your criteria, as existing CSV parsers won't understand it.
"...moved to social media platforms and content have thinned down a lot."

You're right and it's a damn nuisance as I don't use social media. Nevertheless, there are still some good sites about (like several of those I've mentioned in my post). That said, I've noticed in recent years they're no longer updated as frequently as they once were. It's a shame really.
My one and only encounter with unruly passengers (no duct taping in this one):

A guy was standing in the aisle screaming, using obscenities and saying the terrorists stole his luggage in LA.

A voice on the intercom asked if there were any off-duty cops on the plane. There were. They asked for the people in one block of seats to volunteer to be moved.

I heard one of the cops talking to the guy. He said "Do you understand what I'm saying to you?" (I guess he was ranting about the terrorists.) The cop said "Do you understand what I'm saying to YOU?"

They moved him to a window seat and occupied the other two seats in the block so he couldn't move. He was quiet. When I walked past his seat on the way to the bathroom, I deliberately didn't look at him so I don't know if he was cuffed, but I think he was (see next paragraph).

The plane made an emergency landing and some cops came on board and took him off. He went quietly. I think he was cuffed but I'm not sure.

So did the off-duty cops "de-escalate" the situation? I guess they did, but the duct taped kid was a different story and we can't say if that would have worked on him.
To point 1, I'd argue that a SQLite database is a great next step beyond CSV despite being a binary format.
I was looking at the lg gram 17 too but in the 2021 version they soldered both the ram slots and the wireless card, which is bad imho.

Like I cannot even find a version with 32gb of ram and if I buy the 16gb version I will never be able to upgrade it.
Once my CSV parser blew up because there was a monetary value bigger than $1000 (I mean bigger than $1,000) in a field and the field values were not quoted.
because it's a brain booster. Too much boosting leads to problems. I really expect there to be a line underneath which sugar consumption is net positive
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Something is ready: https://esolutions.shop/

Seems like you have no such excuse anymore.

Also: https://store.google.com/product/pixel_5 + https://calyxos.org/
The US will be going back to war as soon as it can find a casus belli. The US Dept of defense is the largest single employer on the planet. Our arms industry is enormous. If there is no war the industry faces the threat of reduced employment and ultimately income.

Aside from that, here's a quote from Biden's speech about Afghanistan I find relevant.

"Today, the terrorist threat has metastasized well beyond Afghanistan: al Shabaab in Somalia, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, al-Nusra in Syria, ISIS attempting to create a caliphate in Syria and Iraq and establishing affiliates in multiple countries in Africa and Asia. These threats warrant our attention and our resources."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/20...
My gut reaction to this is hell no. I absolutely do not want a camera on me while I'm trying to concentrate and get work done. I also don't do well in open offices with my back to the room.

Maybe I'm just old but I need some privacy to be really focused, creative, and productive. Feeling like I'm being watched just kills my focus.
I would argue the opposite! The elm slack is very active with people who frequently contribute to the ecosystem. I don't think the "a lot of libraries aren't updated to the last lang version" is true, the vast majority are.

Debugging elm-JS interactions is not really a problem when using the standard interop methods of ports and webcomponents. It's just not something that comes up often.

Source: have been writing elm professionally for the last 2 and a half years.
Leave?

I work for a FAANG, and have for a while. Maybe I have below average IQ, too, but I've met and had the pleasure of working with some of the smartest, hardest working, kindest people in my career here. Some assholes too, of course, but we're all human.

Everything is built in-house because it needs to solve problems at a scale that you've never worked at. Be humble. If the tooling is terrible, congrats! There's a bunch of impact in your future making the tooling better. And because it's a big company, it cares a lot about marginal productivity improvements like better tooling, and will reward you for it. That's pretty different than my experiences at startups that are struggling for survival.

Maybe you picked a bad team. That's a possibility, because large companies are less homogenous than startups. But that also means that there are good teams, whereas if you pick a bad startup the whole thing is bad. Sounds like you didn't do the homework you should have before choosing a team. Maybe, again, be humble and accept that you have things to learn, even if it's just how to see red flags prior to joining a team, and use what you've learned when choosing a team next time.

Good luck!
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The kid is arguably too stupid to know better so taping him to a seat and making him look like an idiot is more appropriate (especially considering the parent asked for help in this case) and physical violence is less appropriate relative to an equivalent situation with someone old enough to know better.
If you did all of the analysis on device, even quite cheaply, you could just transcribe key words and phrases into a text file and upload that. That would only be a few kilobytes of data tops per day of unique words and phrases, I should think. And if you've ever tried to monitor data usage on an Android phone, you'll know that the monolith of Google Play Services phones home all the time with all kinds of pings and datapoints, so it wouldn't be hard at all to upload that data.
There are a lot of deranged internet tough guy vigilante fantasies being displayed here today, but the most fantastical idea of all is that airline aisles are big enough for someone to properly kick a window, or do anything other than be squeezed or hunched over uncomfortably.
Those organizations don't have the widespread adoption that the extreme Islamists do...which is the Taliban and they now control a country of 38M people. What you are talking about is small cults in isolated pockets of society.
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I recently discovered a generalization of this approach, which allows mapping a single hash to multiple independent numbers, each in their own range, while maintaining various uniformity properties.

A write-up is here, in case anyone is interested: https://github.com/sipa/writeups/tree/main/uniform-range-ext...
One thing folks in the US constantly seem to forget when denouncing other systems is folks in these countries are measuring against alternatives. What was the quality of the alternative the US provided? Did it inspire loyalty?

Were the police we paid for helpful, or did they take our weapons and extort folks on the side of the road?

Did police commanders take our money and pay their men or loot it?

Was justice fair, or did the dollar win?

Are there any places in Afghanistan where huge displays of wealth spring up set against grinding poverty (this is not uncommon when a western power allows elites to loot).

Did Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo help us communicate our values effectively to the locals?

Now we are going to cut them off and try and starve them. Biden and team think that will work better - we'll see.
> we should blame the drug makers?

No, of course not.

What I am saying is that our best shot at getting pharmaceuticals out of fresh water is better sewer & water treatment. We can control that. It is implausible to control people who are, within the privacy of their bathroom, chucking random things down the toilet. The only thing that would stop that behavior is immediate consequences to them personally.

Edit: And this assumes it is all people chucking drugs down the toilet. If it's coming through their urine, then we're definitely back to water treatment being the only plausible answer.
"Arithmetic coding is much, much simpler." Let us agree to disagree.
"And decompression speed is not a limiting factor in most applications of data compression like this". It depends on the application. Zstd and Brotli are certainly aiming at the fastest decompression speed possible.