skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Realistically Google is doing Mozilla a favor and the money is a donation.

Firstly, Firefox's remaining userbase is pretty technical. They aren't the sort of people to blindly use defaults because they don't know how to change them. Even if Google cut Mozilla off entirely, tomorrow, 90% of Firefox users would continue to search on Google by default.

Secondly, what would Firefox switch to? Bing? What if MS don't care about paying Mozilla either, or only are willing to pay a fraction of what Google pays? What's Mozilla going to do? They'd have to go with Bing anyway because it's that or nothing. There are no other search engines willing and able to pay lots of money for browser traffic.

So Mozilla would be in a double bind: even if MS paid them to replace the Google deal, (a) most of their users would change the default back again, so they'd refer very little traffic and (b) Microsoft could cut them a very bad deal and they'd have to take it anyway. They'd still suffer a huge drop in income overnight.

No matter what Mozilla does, they will be depending on one of two companies BOTH of which make competing browsers and frankly, both of which would be quite happy if Mozilla just went away and died, given that from their perspective Mozilla's primary contribution to the web is telling the Chrome/Edge teams they can't do things.

I don't get the anti-trust angle. There is browser competition: Chrome, Edge, Safari, Brave, Vivaldi, etc. If Mozilla tried to claim that Google ending their deal was anti-competitive, they'd just immediately lose in court.

My guess is that Google continue to be Mozilla's sugar daddy for legacy reasons. They've done it for a long time, cutting Mozilla off would upset a lot of techies and the money is irrelevant to Google. But one day that calculus will change.

What might cause the calculus to change? Most obviously, if Google decides that Mozilla is no longer actually developing their browser properly, or if Mozilla's management just upsets the relevant point-person at Google badly enough. Baker obviously stopped caring about web browsers years ago, if she ever did at all, and is now treating the Google deal as a piggybank for pushing her political ideology. All it takes is for the person responsible for the Mozilla deal to be replaced by someone who hates anti-white wokeness and they've got all the ammo they need to just defund Mozilla completely. A less sympathetic organization is hard to imagine.
Many Americans think NASA should prioritize asteroid hunting instead of moon
Zoom is the standard tool I've seen therapists use. I wonder if they use a hippa compliant vl variant.
If you’re downvoting, please also explain your arguments and contribute to the discussion. I think it is more beneficial if we talk instead of shutting people down because their views are different than what you expect.
Instant Pot is great while it lasts. I had one die on me (the electronics), and after asking for photo evidence they denied warranty coverage. A year later they went bankrupt.
The removal of "This..." from the title here really confuses it.

With "This", it's obvious the title is "(This code) smells of desperation". The submitted title is ambiguous; it could mean "(Code smells) of desperation".
edit: I'm retracting my earlier comment. Earlier I wrote that the headline didn't seem to match what was in the TOS, since OP never mentioned which part they're concerned about.

I'm now assuming the part they don't like is §10.4(ii):

> 10.4 Customer License Grant. You agree to grant and hereby grant Zoom a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license and all other rights required or necessary to redistribute, publish, import, access, use, store, transmit, review, disclose, preserve, extract, modify, reproduce, share, use, display, copy, distribute, translate, transcribe, create derivative works, and process Customer Content and to perform all acts with respect to the Customer Content: [...] _(ii) for the purpose of product and service development, marketing, analytics, quality assurance, machine learning, artificial intelligence, training, testing, improvement of the Services, Software, or Zoom’s other products, services, and software, or any combination thereof_

Notice that 10.4(ii) says they can use Customer Content "for ... machine learning, artificial intelligence, training", which is certainly allowing training on user content.
Indeed. As someone who (in the past) struggled a lot with eating, fasting would not have been a solution - it was the entire problem!

This is the first cookbook I've read that seems to get the effort level vaguely right for a meal you still might be able to make after not eating or drinking anything for 40+ hours. In fact, the "literal depression cooking" meal is close to what most of my meals were, but I rarely even had cheese to add.
Forget basic human right. Think basic public health.

If we incentive workers to come to work when sick, they are more likely to spread illness, worsen their conditions where they need more expensive care (which we will provide in most cases one way or another — letting sick people die in the streets leads to revolution and John Q Public type hostage taking), and of course can disrupt unemployment which has many wripple effects for something out of workers control.

All of society benefits from paid sick leave, not just the human rights of workers.
For sure. I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't have some form of communication toward that end, either. What I mean is that the black border appears as if there is something wrong with the webpage. That is not clear. I am not saying that the idea of what it is trying to communicate is bad or wrong in any way. I meant that it is unclear as presently implemented.
Thunder [1] is also worth checking out. IMO its UI is even slicker than Sync's, plus it's open source and not ad-supported/freemium. If you ever used Relay for Reddit, you'll feel right at home.

[1] https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder
> I've had good experiences with competitors

That's flipped for me: I've had good experiences with zoom on occasion.

The only time we use Zoom is with US customers, so a handful of times per year I'd estimate. Before covid, I only ever heard of Zoom in the context of laughably bad vulnerabilities; then during covid, suddenly it was a new verb used online to mean video calls. In a world where there are many established players (until 2019-12-31, I had already used: skype/lync, jitsi, discord, signal, whatsapp, wire, telegram, hangouts, webex, jami/ring, and gotomeeting) are already established players, why in the world would anyone ever choose to go with specifically the company that we all laughed at? I don't get it, and it seems most of our customers (mostly european) either
The ‘greatest credit bubble in human history’ is set to pop
please stop using "MM" it's not in line with decimal prefixes and unnecessarily confusing
Nostr is better, doesn't need Instagram, no shadowbanning. Nostr wins.
Pre-Olympics swimming test competition in Seine cancelled due to pollution
If every person worked collaboratively on things pretty much everything would work better but collective action is intrinsically difficult to achieve.
Given how many large companies outright ban using AI for codegen etc (including Google!), will this cause some of those large companies to find alternatives to Zoom, or is it just too ingrained?

(I remember when WebEx was the default choice for large companies, and now that's largely changed, but that was because Cisco allowed WebEx to mostly wither on the vine, while Zoom is still a great product, if not company.)

What about in govt, US or otherwise? Is Zoom still going to be used?
> Also I'm no longer near the people who I actually work with

I think herein lies the divide between people who find the office valuable vs those who don't (or at least part of it). Back in the pre-pandemic days, I worked for large Megacorp1234, and my team was distributed throughout the country. Most people in my immediate office vicinity were not the people I needed to collaborate with to do my job. We were essentially a remotely operating team, who nevertheless all had to have a butt in cubicle for some reason. Being able to occasionally work from home (each specific instance had to be approved though!) improved productivity dramatically.

Fast-forward to today, and I work for a small company. My team and I work next to one and another in a nice, quiet office space, with breakout rooms with whiteboards for noisy collaboration. Team cohesion is good, and we all actually know each other beyond a profile picture on a computer screen. In this environment (which I'm beginning to learn is quite rare), you simply cannot beat the benefits of in-person collaboration. The office does actually provide a real benefit, and I do actually enjoy coming in. As do my colleagues. We all have the option of working remote, yet most of choose to come in more often than not. However let's not understate that being hybrid is a big part of what makes this whole thing work. Pretty hard to beat the flexibility that provides.

So I guess my point is if businesses want people to come back to the office, they need to provide real tangible benefits to actually coming back. I've worked in an office like yours, and if I still did, my stance on the matter would be the same as yours.
You must eat some giant lunches.
Buildspace – build your idea over six weeks
That’s how representative democracy works. Generally speaking no country has citizens vote on specific foreign policies, with some exceptions.
ever bought a car in cash?
Rest in peace, Bram! QQ Thank you so much.
I have tried most of them: Google Meet, Teams, Slack, Discord, Skype, Jitsi and so far I liked Jitsi the most and Skype the least.
And that is only on the personal level. The hypothetical societal benefits from tightening up streets and houses (no need for a garage) are probably big too. Hard to realise once a city is built though. Just look at the amount of prime land locked up for traffic. It is pretty amazing to think about how much dead space there is in a typical city.
Isn't readability and comprehensibility the job of the editor/journal to check. (after all they're actually paid) maybe not for conference, but peer review is more for checking if the methodology, scope, claim, direction, conclusion and relevances is sound&trustable.

At least that's my understanding
> Yeah, because those don’t exist in third world countries.

Of course they do. That's just a natural part of human existance. But dealing with those issues is vastly different. Nowadays in „developed“ world people are pretty much left to their own devices. And some asshats go as far as saying that trying to help those who suffering is bad. „Fat acceptance“ is one of the worst.

> You base your assumption on a belief of good birth rate=good life=what nature thinks is good, which is completely incorrect.

That's how it goes in nature, doesn't it? Life form in a suitable environment starts replicating till it meets natural boundaries. Once environment is no longer suitable, it starts to shrink. I wouldn't call it „good life“ or „bad life“. That's just how the world rolls.

> Give me at least one reason why me and my girlfriend should sacrifice her health, career, mental well-being, money and time to do something we both don’t want to?

I don't have to give you a reason. Your environment was supposed to. But this is a very interesting. You're basically saying that a good part of your quality of life relies on not having kids. Not on your high-quality-of-life environment. Vice versa is correct too IMO. People in poor countries would have higher quality of life if they stopped having kids. Less resources towards kids/education/whatever, more towards nice stuff. But this is a bit like maxing out credit cards. And then calling that high quality of life. Just on a societal level. But some people deep in debt seem to enjoy high quality life, don't they? cough US federal debt cough.
What does "control" mean?

We have wildly disparite income in society - I don't place blame on people that say can't program computers for not knowing how.
The big problem with files is that they are linear. Up to computers, the standard interface for people to work is the sheet of paper, which is a two dimensional surface. In fact, it was even better because you can organize papers into books or collections, which gives a 3rd dimension. Files, being linear, make it difficult to parse and analyze, which is always the problem we need to solve with computers. This problem is much easier to solve when we can work on 3 dimensions and organize data spatially (this is the guiding principle of charts and tables).
Ask HN: Refurbished Devices
What does HN think of refurbished devices?

I recently bought my first refurbished iPhone and I could barely tell any difference from when I bought my iPhone from Apple directly except the minor decrease in battery health (90%) but it was barely noticeable.

I see this as a win because of how much money I saved, yet, people I've spoken to regarding this tell me that they would never buy any second-hand devices because it feels cheap and sort of unsanitary?

Is this is a common feeling?
Well if traditional wisdom is to be believed, the first movie is one of the "bad" ones (being an odd number).

Though I have to admit disagreeing with that rule of thumb on almost every point.
I also think that it's important as a remote worker to set boundaries and communicate them. It's really hard to know when you are working from the other side of the monitor. So, you have to be like: "Okay, it's 4:30pm, I'll take a look at this in the morning" and then leave like you normally would.
What are Discords terms? Any app like phone calls, IRC, or real time communication - is scary.

Are AI really just our souls stolen into big data holograms? Do Artists think their work is an expression of their souls? Is talking on video, smiling, telling people we love them, an expression of our souls?

Do they really want to actually seperate our souls from our digital selfs for just $? There must be a higher purpose here - like AI being on the edge of enlightenment.
As long as your a straight white male with great health and a wealthy background, it’s lovely.
Insect size increases in higher oxygen environment (2010)
Ask HN: Do We Need an Embedded Distributed Key-Value Database?
One problem with key-value databases is when values become large enough (e.g. 10MBs), and applications needs frequent access to the latest values, network bandwidth becomes an obstacle.

To address this, I think it's not a bad idea to scale database and application together in one node either as an embedded library or as a container side-car.

I found an example of this setup in Hazelcast (https://hazelcast.com/blog/hazelcast-sidecar-container-pattern)

What are your thoughts? Is this a valid configuration? Can a better design help us solve this?
We need nuance in everything. I'm a happy "European" but I see worrying trends everywhere, including in my country.

Take your same thoughts but think about how you can say it in a way that reaches your intended target group. Communication is never easy.
I think so, given that it mentions the case of the client being a paying customer:

> 31.3 Data Processing Addendum. If you are a business, enterprise, or education account owner and your use of the Services requires Zoom to process an End User’s personal data under a data processing agreement, Zoom will process such personal data subject to Zoom’s Global Data Processing Addendum.

Though it limits the scope of the data collection: https://explore.zoom.us/docs/doc/Zoom_GLOBAL_DPA.pdf
The very first thing I did with Kagi was block Pinterest. Very satisfying to see that the top 6 most blocked domains are all Pinterest.
That's a question for you company's legal department, not HN
That makes Zoom basically a no-go for any company. IP needs to be protected, if your video conference provider can use all data you share using his platform for AI training, meaning he has access to it, he is most likely out.

Microsoft says thank you.
Abstract: The giant dragonflies of ancient Earth with wingspans of up to 70 centimeters (28 inches) are generally attributed to higher oxygen atmospheric levels in the atmosphere in the past. New experiments in raising modern insects in various oxygen-enriched atmospheres have confirmed that dragonflies grow bigger with more oxygen, or hyperoxia.
Long ago I read about cruise ship passengers sending their luggage via FeDEX to the ship. In that case it was to avoid airport workers pilfering the bottles of pills that many cruise ship passengers need for a long voyage. If I could, I would send my bags by almost any other means than "checking" the bag with the airline. Every other service has a legal obligation to deliver the goods, or at least try to get my bag to the destination, rather than pawn it off on a fly-by-night local delivery van service.

I had a choice last year to take a 4-hour flight via commercial airline, or an 8-hour flight in the back of a military transport. Everyone else opted for the 4-hour commercial flight. But for me, I would rather spend an extra four hours sleeping in the back of a C-130, sleeping literally on top of my luggage, than risk losing yet another bag to an airline.
Good catch jxf! but what is that boundary line between SGD and Customer Input/Content? Is it blurry or clearly defined? It seems like things like translations or future enhancements might fall into that area (it also seems like training AI on diags isn't as useful), so this might be expanded in the future now that they have that language in place.
Sure, architecture is the process of actively creating a blueprint, not passively rendering an existing piece of code.
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”

― Paul McCartney
After wasting much time on fixing the bookeeping you'd get to the next basic issue - content search across devices. Then to tracking changes done by various people. Then... backtracking a couple of steps and dropping the whole thing
Any signs of rif is fun for Lemmy? I've tried reaching out for the source code myself but got no response.

Edit: Oh! The developer is working on a tildes app: https://www.talklittle.com/rif-is-fun/whats-next Guess I'll just be waiting patiently, then.
That doesn't really seem like a good-faith reading of the parent comment.
you seem to know about "kilo", "mega" and "giga" why use "MM"?
If there is a recovery mechanism that isn’t horribly annoying and secure, the yubikey is worthless.
good luck finding the telemetry in the decompiled meeting connector server
Commutes are also a stress and danger. I used to commute ~1.5hours in and out of DC and had to stop after getting home one day and realizing I couldn't remember anything from the drive I just did.
Do you still do A/B testing? As in, was this a specialty or just a project you were assigned?
IRRC there used to be far slower domestic parcel shipping options but I think as things sped up it really didn’t make sense to keep it around. The whole pipeline was working faster regardless.
To be fair, there's no way Microsoft isn't doing something worse with data from Teams. And the only reason google "products" exist is to mine data to sell ads. I can see how we'd expect better from a company focused on video chat, but it's not like any of their big competitors are actually treating your data respectfully.
I was stretching the goals to go from engineering to in place restoration
It kinda depends on circumstances.

If you’re mainstream attractive, healthy, and above median income, the US is pretty nice. If any of those things are missing, it pretty much sucks.
Yep. I am so glad this is happening because hopefully it means this is also the last time. RIP Digg and Reddit.
Their mouths must be watering at this thought but the legal repercussions are obviously company destroying
The abbreviation of "MS Build" is not working well. msbuild is the build system (as in make, ant, Gradle, ...) of .NET and VS generally.

Mixing msbuild and Java would be so wrong.
I started using matrix internally (with element as a client) which uses jitsi under the hood for video/voice chat. Quality is amazing.
Does this mean that ZOOM is basically using every attendee's audio and video stream to train their models? How do they define the "Service Generated Data"?

I made a video-conferencing app for virtual events (https://flat.social). No audio and video is ever recorded, packets are only forwarded to subscribed clients. Frankly, while designing the service it didn't even cross my mind to use this data for anything else than the online event itself.
That’s the difference between voting and democracy. Unions are a form of democracy, as it’s the people who are determining their own rights. But yes, unfortunately rights often have to be hard fought for rather than simply voted into existence.
By preferring someone else, you are treading on my fundamental human right to have to care for the parrots I chose to have.

At minimum you should make up plausible-sounding fake reasons for why you prioritize parrotless applicants over me.
:%!python -m json.tool

I prefer

:%!jq .
With Neovim, you can configure bindings for Treesitter-based actions.
I think my uncle knew about the Cult of the Dead Cow.
The 'equivalent to an 8% pay rise' in the UK loosely matches the after-tax cost of an annual rail ticket on an hour commute or longer.

That's a ticket in the region of £6000 per annum, which is about £10,000 of gross salary. So not doing that commute and working from home is quite a bit of money.

And some anec-data: my former employer, after 3 years of WFH and a couple of non-London offices that they embraced with out-sourcing the work "since we're all remote anyway", has told people to come back to the London office at least 3 days a week.

Almost all of my former colleagues I'm in contact with have told me they're now looking for new jobs with WFH.
All by himself?
I clicked expecting a joke article about Code Smells, I was a little disappointed
Tech unemployment is trending differently but still in the general ballpark it has been at around half of overall unemployment.
You will have to excuse me if I don’t trust a company that kicks off users at the behest of the PRC!

https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/11/zoom-admits-to-shutting-do...

Quibbles over the definition of phrases like “Customer Content” and “Service Generated Data” are designed to obfuscate meaning and confuse readers to think that the headline is wrong. It is not wrong. This company does what it wants to, obviously, given it’s complicity with a regime that is currently engaging in genocide.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-22278037.amp

Why do you trust them to generate an AI model of your appearance and voice that could be used to destroy your life? I don’t.
Thanks for sharing. Do you think being a subject matter expert is a crucial part of job satisfaction?
Back then well regulated meant equipped. English has evolved over time. Of course if one day we had six liberal judges they might use the modern meaning of regulated.
If you have access to somebody's email you can just click reset password and then click the "2FA" in their email and then you have access to their account

Does that happen with SMS? Hmm...
You're both misquoting and misunderstanding. Misquoting in that you clipped out the "to the extent and in the manner permitted under applicable Law". And misunderstanding since the text was talking "service generated data", not about "customer data". That's basically data generated by their system (e.g. debug logs). It's not the data you entered into the system (contact information), the calls you made, the chats you sent, etc.

Also, the linked document is effectively a license for the intellectual property rights. The data protection side of things would be covered by the privacy policy[0]. This all seems pretty standard?

[0] https://explore.zoom.us/en/privacy/