skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zoom integrates with a number of things pretty well (e.g. "Add Zoom to Meeting" button in Outlook create appointment interface) but it's not bundled with systems organizations already have, like O365 and Google Workspace (or whatever they're calling it these days).

I'm sure Google Meet is used in most of K-12, I don't know about higher ed. The university I work for licensed Zoom pre-pandemic because it was superior to other videoconferencing systems like WebEx and GoToMeeting.

The city council uses Zoom and my impression online is a lot of other local government functions that are now at least partially online do too.

Don't Teams and Google Meet both require everyone to have an account just to join a meeting? Being able to join a Zoom meeting just by clicking a link, no account needed, is very good for user experience.
Nah Google doesn’t care about that. Spammers have been doing it for years on Google Drive/Docs and Microsoft Sharepoint.
My fault. I misunderstood your search for gossip as another example of the strange outrage from other commenters here. “They didn’t publicly drag her name through the mud! Those duplicitous assholes!”

Interest in what actually happened is totally reasonable.
The world is crazy.
Megacorps feeding stories to journalists is not a “conspiracy theory.” It isn’t even a secret!
Maybe take some time to think about why you find the need to try and insult people by saying stuff like "[I] spent too much time immersed in books instead of a glowing screen" instead of just acknowledging your gap in pop culture knowledge and moving on with your day?

"Ah, I see Teller is a well known pop culture figure. My mistake." would be a more appropriate way to respond. Searching "Teller" on Google outputs the magician as the first four results. It's not like it's some super small name.
> What I don't understand is why I'd ever want 1920x1440 (4:3) monitor over 2560x1440 (16:9) one, unless I'm really space constrained

For me, for monitors and PC work, it comes down to OS UX. Sure, I can have all of my windows display at 4:3 with gaps either side, or on one side, but: (a) configuring that to be persistent is a pain, and (b) whatever fills that gap is either wasteful (empty space) or distracting.

The default on the other hand is to have anything maximised span the full width, which means that unless I'm reading a well-designed webpage (or reader mode), I'm inevitably straining to traverse a much bigger horizontal context with my eyes all day long.

Yes, 2560x1920 would be by far the preferred option of all 3, but if I need to choose between 2560x1440 and 1920x1440, the latter is a worthwhile compromise.
My own narrative and the accuracy or correctness of it was something that I thought about frequently. Then I had a child. It really helped put my experiences and my actions into context. I now find myself thinking more about the narrative of my parents, and previous generations in general. I feel like I give myself and my parents a lot more grace than I used to.
Actually, selling masks during the Gold Rush might have been good for some of the diggers' lungs.
Considering I have many pictures I took from the latest Spider-Man movie (for my own collection), if they had to do something about it from a legal perspective, they would have done it already.
Earth is getting a black box to record our climate change actions
It did include me.

freeCodeCamp was 5 years ago the foundational first step on a path to my current 6 figure salary in a job that enjoy a lot more than any previous one of my other careers.

I never learned well with videos, so codeCademy interface (which I think inspired freeCodeCamp’s) was a great innovation for me.
What do you think about Synology only allowing their rebranded Toshiba drives to work in their NAS? That's a deal breaker for me.

EDIT: Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29596179
Challenging projects every programmer should try (2019)
Apple's CSAM would scan your offline photos.

Google scanning photos you upload to their cloud seems fine to me. Not a slippery slope.
They already do the kind of scanning Apple was going to do. Only with far less privacy.
> Edit: After writing this comment, I remembered that Snaps on Linux have automatic updates that can only be deferred up to 90 days. However, Snaps don't handle Linux kernel updates. I don't recommend using Snaps.

I didn't even know that. It's one more item on the list of reasons to not use Snaps.
Into what topic? I have no problems using Kyiv if that's what Ukranians want. I do not require any other explanation or further discussion. I am just no that politically correct that I care either way.
Any time someone else has control of your content or you need them, they can get rid of you. It's not limited to Big Tech; I was 12 when COPPA went into effect and I lost everything online because I hadn't lied when I signed up (because it was perfectly legal for an elementary school kid to have things like an email address and web hosting). All my contacts/friends, all my work that wasn't stored locally (which was a fair amount), etc. Similarly to things like Tinder bans, there WAS an option in law for me to keep my accounts, but it would have required effort on behalf of the companies, so they just deleted everything.

Any centralization, policy, or algorithms that work based on an assumption of default/normal behavior will punish outliers (unless this is accounted for). This guy obviously was one such outlier for Tinder.

> In the future, people will be trying to please the algorithm. They will double-check if what they are doing right now could be considered by algorithms as something strange, something that most people wouldn’t do.

Assuming people understand the algorithms; there's an incentive on the part of companies to keep them opaque. It will be more akin to a religion where people GUESS which actions anger the algorithm and companies and get very mad when others don't agree. Which is worse.
Banning + refund for the remainder credit, sure. Scummy, but sure. Shadow banning, taking peoples money while they still think they get a service, not even banning at the end of the billing cycle, without giving notice, nah, that’s definitely fraud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N51IAYnlNK0
I'm too lazy to read the court document.

Did non-math teachers have to pass the proficiency test? If not, did the math proficiency test contain material irrelevant to material the math teachers were expected to teach?
Porsche Working on Synthetic Fuel to Make ICE Cars as Clean as EVs
Leonid Sirota a Canadian law professor at the University of Auckland, has a good dissection of the decision: https://doubleaspect.blog/2021/12/20/the-law-of-bonkerstown/

From a Canadian legal perspective, the notion that a test could be discriminatory and so unconstitutional is not note-worthy in itself. It all follows standard case law there. The legally interesting bit, is the card seemingly dropped in the shuffling, where the court recommends a less intrusive alternative policy that was also considered by the government:

> There is a plethora of evidence in the record highlighting the disproportionate impacts of standardized testing based on race … In contrast, there is no evidence to suggest that these negative diversity impacts would exist in the context of a mandatory math course …

Of course, no evidence exists because no one has looked for it yet. This reliance on single-example small studies to suggest possible less intrusive remedies is probably a path to much legal madness. This will likely be appealed. Politically this is a bit heated as both Quebec and Ontario's governments have recently rubbed up against the limits of the Charter in different areas.
Hi pjmlp!

Please take this as sincere advice: avoid comments that show contempt and disdain. They're disrespectful, distract discussion from main points and are not good for you or anybody else.

It's not the first time I'm a target of such comments from you.
> Please tell me it's not this way across the US.

Waffle Houses are located primarily in the south-east U.S., none on the west coast or upper Midwest or plains states for example.[0] Although I was surprised to see some in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

[0]https://locations.wafflehouse.com/
> “Black Girls Code's board said that Bryant *remains on the company's staff* while "serious allegations of workplace impropriety are being investigated."”
Can you define AAA in a way that excludes Fortnite, and "AAA studio" in a way that excludes Epic Games?
> Did you imply that claim?

No, I didn't. I was comparing full virtualization to Jails. However, I realize now that there may not even have been a full virtualization solution available back then anyway, at least not for consumer hardware. I'll have to dig a bit on Wikipedia.

I've never used Solaris Containers / Zones, but my understanding is that the implementation was similar to FreeBSD Jails, so I have no reason to believe the performance was different.
Once a tech company has greater than, say, 60% market share, it probably makes sense for society to give the company an ‘I won’ sticker and start treating them some what like a utility.
You want the best intersection of: language you know, features you need (core or extensions), documentation and quick start examples, lots of answers on stack overflow. Choose one and get to work.
Of course, that is an edge case which Google would need to figure out and perhaps, one of the many reasons they haven't done it.
-Hinge: Seemingly the only viable competitor in the college scene

-Bumble, OKCupid, POF, Match: 40+ only.

-CoffeeMeetsBagel: ?
I think you're right that it doesnt fit perfectly but damn still, it's a self reproducing structure interpreted by a complex hardware to transform inputs into outputs.

If we cant use programming metaphors to understand how to patch it, at least maybe to explain exactly what we are fundamentally this is interesting no?

We are software running on a hardware (the environment, the interpretation precursors in the womb on startup, the rest of the machinery ALSO created by the software), are we not ? I feel it's cool we can encode some useful messages as RNA for vaccines with headers, commands, checksums even if ofc it's not exactly like electronics.
Yeah, I got thrown off by the "per DC supply is 50% of the actual limit"

DC = Datacenter? makes no sense, so my head replaced it with "Power Supply" instead of "DC Supply", second sentence does make sense as being datacenter though.
This is for teachers.

I think it isn't a huge deal if an English or French or Social Studies teacher isn't great in math, but is otherwise a good candidate.

But should someone who fails the math proficiency test be a math teacher? Probably not.

Society should try to match everyone with jobs which they are capable of doing, teaching is a good job. We shouldn't unnecessarily exclude people from doing A just because they lack the skills for doing B.

Here is examples of what is on the test:

https://cpl.oise.utoronto.ca/course/mathematics-proficiency-...

Video discussion of the test questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-7fnPD_c7w
Yes, using the keyboard “Close all other windows”
And they’ve been blocking files exceeding a download quota (common for publicly shared pirated video content) for ages. Basically the quota is zero for certain files now.
Is that what they call us-east-1 nowadays?
That's as far as I read before deciding the author had no idea what they were talking about and closed the window.
There's a pretty big difference between israel, the country spying on somebody out of national interest, and israel allowing what is essentially an arms-dealer based in israel to help random other people spy on countries they are allied with.

I highly doubt that israel the country wanted this turn of events, for the simple reason they are not stupid and the cost-benefit ratio of this seems bad for them.
TCP Ex Machina: Computer-Generated Congestion Control (2013)
Funding the next million open source contributors
Still waiting for my request about my adsense ban for violating not a single ToS to be processed. 15 years. And I'd like my money back, plus interest as well.
Yes, I guess I just meant "squareish". That's embarrassing. I'll try to edit my post to reflect that.
Exactly. Some places, like the UK you can just order a bunch of SIMs from Amazon. Though who knows if they'll ban you again if you keep signing up from the same wifi and/or if their app fingerprints the same phone. But worst case is throaway cheap phones and pay as you go.
Yes, in this GPU market that's essentially a new car's worth of cash.
At big cloud provider scale like Amazon, Azure, and Google they probably aren't even running PSUs at each server, they're probably doing DC at the rack these days. No point in having a million little transformers everywhere, far easier maintenance centralizing those and have multiple feeding the bus bars going to each rack.
Should the COVID protocols remain in place until the heat death of the Universe? Do we expect that new variants of COVID will ever stop? Do we expect COVID to be eradicated rather than being endemic? If the answer to all of those is "no", then what else should Amazon have waited for before doing this?
that's kinda how most successful businesses work? you succeed in one area, move into another related area, repeat ad infinitum
Bumble is a public company (BMBL). Where are you seeing they are owned by match?
NFTs only assure ownership of the NFT data itself, not what the data may represents off of the chain or otherwise. The only people who think/claim that you now own a PNG or a lease by storing a link to one in a blockchain are idiots or people trying to sell things to idiots.

Assuring ownership of the data itself in a decentralized way has value outside of this current fake / grifted meme of owning a random PNG. It's tiring that a community that seemingly prides itself on technical understanding gets so hung up on an overused fake use case.
That reminds me of a quote from Trumps 'the art of the deal', that goes something like: the receipt for success is under-promise and over-deliver.
Right now we have mini crisis in Poland connected with this US/NSO war.

One prosecutor, who is fighting for indepenend judiciary and against her political boss, head prosecutor Minister of Justice, smaller party Coalition member, got notification her iPhone has been hacked multiple time by Pegasus. She angried the rulling coalition, after she wanted to investigate illegal vote by mail election, that didnt take place at the end but cost Poland 23 mil USD.

The other person that was hacked more than ten times, is famous attorney, previous politician. He was an attorney of opositionfuhrer Donald Tusk, former PM. He was representing multiple high level clients that were suing the government, including one that was scammed by the head of rulling party Law and Justice. Hacking took place in times of campaign before elections.

Poland is such a crazy country right now. If you can write an email to ur congressman to fight for biggest US investment in Poland, TVN tv station that sheds light on this corrupt government. They are trying to make the owner (Discovery) sell TVN, worth one billion USD
The board might have run its own internal investigation that is already conclusive enough. They may have more strict limits than what the law dictates as offensive or even criminal.
I think they probably meant to write GameCube there.
time for saturday morning math school
You really don't need almost any of this stuff. If you have small on-prem needs just grab a couple fiber links, try for diversity on paths for them (good luck), add some power backup if it fits your needs, and be done.

If you are going to the level of the above, you go with co-location in purpose built centers at a wholesale level. The "layer1" is all done to the specs you state and you don't have to worry about it.

On-prem rarely actually means physically on-prem at any scale beyond a small IT office room. It means co-locating in purpose built datacenters.

I'm sure examples exist, but the days of large corporate datacenters are pretty much long over - just inertia keeping the old ones going before they move to somewhere like Equinix or DRT. With the wholesalers you can basically design things to spec, and they build out 10ksqft 2MW critical load room for you a few months later.

A few organizations will find it worthwhile to continue to build at this scale (e.g. Visa, the government) but it's exceptionally small.
I have to be pedantic about this distinction because otherwise I feel like my point will be lost.

Not local government, self-government. Local government is still politicians and bureaucrats. Self-government is the exercise of your own political power, private property rights and capabilities and rights as a citizen. These are not limited to ticking some names on a ballot once or twice a year.
Gradle hook to auto-mitigate log4shell in legacy projects
Not really, I don't dwell on it. If anything it was a series of life changes that has nothing to do with crypto that caused me to reassess life in a different way and question and challenge thoughts and decisions I had made in the past. You could just put it down to my personal growth. At that time my friend recommended I read the Bitcoin standard and rather than arrogantly believing I knew better, I read the content as an exercise in humility and curiosity.
That the google search formula excludes new websites so efficiently that the web is getting smaller every day.
Uhm… I think that's something I assumed when I saw that they cited sperm counts for only 35 men in a study with over two hundred thousand participants.

Thinking about it now: Even if there are only 100,000 men, it seems implausible that only 35 of 100,000 would be able and willing to wank for the progress of science and the benefit of mankind. So there must be some other condition, some strict other condition.
Yes, and not without cause!

Things like the Patriot Act, which is about as unpatriotic as could be, were rolled out in response to 9-11. We also have the ludicrous Bank Secrecy Act; not to mention the Wagner Act following the Great Depression.

I've found many people don't understand the truly limited scope of the Federal government, as most Ameicans don't understand it either. But our Federal government has only a very narrow set of responsibilities and those responsibilities are the only things they can do (10th ammendment). They are quite clearly enunerated in Section 1 Article 8 of the Constitution, which in itself is not without controversy over the wording, specifically regarding "general welfare of the US". But thankfully we have a letter from Madison to Pendleton in, I think, 1712 which specifies why that specific language was adopted, and it was done so to remain consistent with the Articles of Confederation, and that specific wording was thought to be the least controversial (how wrong they were!).

Thus, programs like Social Security, ACA, and all other social welfare programs that I can think of are unconstitutional, and day-by-day our federal representatives push for more.

Of course, we amended the Constitution out of relevancy with the 16th Ammendment, giving the government the perfect gunpowder for the spark which was "reinterpreting" S1A8.
The image thing is the most frustrating one. Most of the time someone sends me an image, I can see it in the chat, but as I click on it, the Teams UI bugs out and displays nothing.
Today's gentle reminder that there are things other than network or service outages that can and do occur that might necessitate an outside backup.

What happens if AWS or [insert other megacloud] decides your account needs to be nuked from orbit due to a hack or some other confusion? We almost had this happen over the summer because of a problem with our bank's ability to process ACH payments. Very frustrating experience. Still isn't fully resolved.

What happens if an admin account is taken over and your account gets screwed up?

What happens if an admin loses his shit and blows up your account?

What happens if your software has a bug that destroys a bunch of your data or fubars your account?

There's a ton of cases where having at least a simple replica of your S3 buckets into a third-party cloud could prove highly valuable.
I would be very much interested in seeing the IRB submission/application that was submitted for this study. I wonder whether or not it was mischaracterized to the IRB, or written in such a way as to diminish the problematic aspects.
If you can screw somebody over just for asking to comply with a legal request, the problem is the law.
Google already scans for CSAM on stuff uploaded to drive. The idea that they'd start using it for copyrighted material is a spurious claim considering they've made no indication of doing so in the past.
The point was to say it without saying it, to provoke introspection in their arbitrary associations.

The "it" being that the issue wasn't that they - and the future potential partners - didn't have a day job. And yet, this person chose that specific aspect of the relationship and elevated that to relevance for other relationships. Even further, they are applying this to people in other cities and geographies, amplifying the absurdity.
I have a bolt lying on my desk.

It hasn't failed since 1970 when it was produced.

It must have been built better than Space Shuttle, then.
Large ones have more metrics to look at than code written. They have room for someone who's a force multiplier, which is usually where generalists fall.
The whole reason we switched to 16:9 is for more real estate for side-by-side apps.
Perhaps with the age of insane ads embedded with everything, that extra vertical space is more important.

Not sure I agree with that.
Raspberry is not really cheap anymore. The start package (rp4 4gb + charger + sd + ethernet/hdmi cables) is 100 euros in my country.

Meanwhile you can get a GK3V mini pc on Aliexpress with a j4125, 8gb LPDDR4 and 256GB SSD for 180 euros, which probably has 3x-4x the performance of the pi.
Maybe NSO didn't allow it to be used on US numbers. How are they supposed to know the nationality of the user of a phone?

> NSO has always told its customers that US phone numbers are off-limits. In this case, all 11 targets were using Ugandan numbers, but had Apple logins using their state department emails, according to the two US officials.
Eventually wet bandits turn into sticky bandits
Someone asked this question to Leonard Susskind once at a Q&A and he said the chances are basically zero. When the guy kept pressing on the idea Susskind got kind of exasperated and seemed like he was on the verge of calling the idea woo.
Tech is literally the infrastructure of the 21st century. Of course it matters and has a huge impact, I’m saying that this is true for much of the tech industry and doesn’t require the “big tech” qualifier.
> They are relevant as they were released with the same kind of party "we will take Windows down!"

I really don't think that was the case.

This one, OTOH, was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icng5MHp7T4
For even regular datacenters they'll often have UPS systems the size of a small car, usually several of these, to power the entire datacenters for a few minutes to get the diesel generator started.
A movie you've probably never heard of became an internet legacy
So, this guy set up a fake profile and interviewed women who matched with him, without disclosing he was doing research? Ethics aside, he doesn't discuss his methodology at all. How did these interviews turn into a Gini curve? How could they, without some heroic statistical assumptions?
Haskell mini-patterns handbook (2020)
The web really needs a truly cleansheet, non-invasive, open source browser written in a modern language. It’s disheartening to see the consolidation in the web space on Chrome. We need an alternative. There has to be someone who can counter Chrome’s dominance with a modern, fast browser engine.

(PS - I am and have been a Firefox user for many many years)