1. Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out
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The article discusses the various features and solutions offered by Zoom for collaboration, communication, and hosting events. It highlights tools such as Zoom Meetings, Zoom Team Chat, Zoom Phone, and Zoom Whiteboard for working together virtually. The article also mentions Zoom Rooms, Zoom Webinars, and OnZoom as solutions for meeting spaces, hosting events, and virtual experiences. It emphasizes Zoom’s industry solutions for teaching, client engagement, healthcare, and other verticals. Additionally, the article mentions Zoom’s partner programs, developer platform, and expert support services. The article concludes with information about user registration, terms of service, and user responsibilities.
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The article raises concerns about the use of Zoom for telehealth operations, particularly in terms of privacy and compliance with healthcare regulations. It mentions that some telehealth services may use Zoom because it allows clients to connect without downloading an app or creating an account. However, by joining a Zoom session through a browser, users may not sign a Terms of Service agreement. The article assumes that licensed medical establishments have their own terms of service that comply with HIPAA requirements. It also highlights the privacy implications of using voice-to-text transcription technology in therapy sessions. The author suggests that unauthorized access to training data and the potential accessibility of that data by employees or contractors raises privacy concerns. Finally, the article prompts readers to inquire about Zoom’s privacy policies with their healthcare providers.
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The article discusses the Terms of Service of Jitsi Meet and highlights that it does not contain any objectionable clauses. The author expresses surprise about companies choosing subpar software.
2. Postgres Language Server
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The article discusses the development of a language server for Postgres, specifically designed to support the PostgreSQL syntax. The server aims to enhance the developer experience by providing code intelligence tools such as code completion and syntax highlighting within code editors. The server utilizes the libpg_query library to parse SQL code reliably. This project is still in active development and is seeking input from the community. The article emphasizes that the server is not yet ready for production use and provides instructions for installation and usage. The goal is for the language server to become the user interface for various tools within the Postgres ecosystem.
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The article discusses the use case for libpg_query, a library that allows the Postgres parser to be used outside of the server. The author, who is the original creator and helper of libpg_query, expresses excitement about its use and appreciation for the mention of pganalyze. They also mention that there is a range of libraries and projects available for using the Postgres parser outside the server, including bindings for Ruby, Go, and Rust. They provide a link to further resources on GitHub.
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The author expresses excitement about the continuous advancements of Supabase and the lack of good SQL/database tooling. They mention that there is no decent formatter that supports plpgsql and does not mishandle queries, while noting that TablePlus and DataGrip are the best options currently available. The author is interested in seeing what else Supabase will release during launch week.
3. Replace peer review with “peer replication” (2021)
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The article proposes replacing traditional peer review with a process called “peer replication” in order to address the lack of replication in many scientific fields. Instead of sending manuscripts to anonymous referees for review, preprints would be sent to other labs to replicate the findings. The results of the replication attempts would be included in the published paper, and the researchers who undertook the replication work would be credited. The article argues that this approach would incentivize replication, promote collaboration among colleagues, reduce fraud, and improve the overall quality of scientific research. However, there are potential challenges and considerations, such as the additional time it may take between submission and publication, addressing failed replications, and preventing authors from submitting rejected manuscripts to other journals. The article suggests that an organization like Review Commons could organize a trial of this approach. Overall, the author believes that peer replication would lead to better science and make papers vetted only by peer review less credible.
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The article discusses the difficulty of replicating scientific papers and the time-consuming nature of the process. It points out that non-scientists often underestimate the amount of work required to replicate published papers. Although the time needed varies depending on the field, replicating a paper can take months of effort. While some time is saved by not repeating dead ends and by receiving samples, replicating a paper still requires significant effort, especially if there are issues that need to be troubleshooted. The article also mentions that this work does not directly benefit the scientists replicating the paper; it only costs them time and money. However, if someone wants to build on the research and cares enough about it, they will replicate it anyway. This indirectly supports the original paper, even if subsequent papers do not specifically replicate the results. However, if replication attempts fail, it is more challenging to publish negative results, as creating a solid negative result requires more work than simply trying the experiments and abandoning them if they are not promising.
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The article discusses the purpose of science publications, which is to share new results with other scientists for the advancement of scientific progress. It explains how the process of publication has evolved from an informal mailing system to the establishment of formal journals. Peer review, where experts in the field review and validate papers, became an essential part of the publication process. However, the article points out that the focus on publication as a metric for measuring the productivity of scientists has distorted the original purpose of sharing results. The author suggests that instead of criticizing the occasional incorrect intermediate results, efforts should be made to improve the promotion metrics and maintain the efficient sharing process.
4. New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy
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The article states that the owner of the website www.bleepingcomputer.com has banned access to the website for the autonomous system number (ASN) that your IP address is in, specifically ASN 4134. The website is using performance and security services provided by Cloudflare, and they have identified the Cloudflare Ray ID 7f2d8237fefe76c5 and the IP address 14.22.11.162 associated with the ban.
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The article discusses a study where researchers trained a model using data gathered from a laptop and microphone setup, and then tested the model using the same setup. They also trained a separate model using data from the Zoom platform. However, the researchers did not explore whether this approach could be applied more broadly.
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The article discusses the potential for acoustic side-channel attacks and the different methodologies that can be used for such attacks. It mentions the use of geometric models, statistical models, and language models to achieve good results. The article also provides links to several papers that explore different aspects of acoustic side-channel attacks, including using a phone’s speaker to profile user interactions, retrieving passwords from encrypted SSH traffic using statistical models, recovering text based on keyboard acoustic emanations using hidden Markov models, and estimating physical locations using a geometric approach.
5. The Sad Bastard Cookbook
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This article introduces a free cookbook called “Sad Bastard Cookbook” by Rachel A. Rosen and Zilla Novikov, illustrated by Marten Norr. The book provides recipes for people who are going through tough times and need help with meal preparation. The cookbook aims to offer support and make the reader feel less alone during mealtimes.
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The author emphasizes the idea of applying engineering principles to cooking in order to enjoy elaborate meals more efficiently. They suggest making larger portions and utilizing tools like Pyrex and freezers to save time. The author also believes that planning ahead and logistics can make a significant difference. They mention their personal experience of spending one hour in the kitchen to feed themselves once, which they now find insane. They mention learning about concepts like “mise en place” and applying manufacturing/lean/six sigma principles in their kitchen. They highlight the benefits of using tools like pressure cookers to reduce cooking time and argue that cooking is both science and engineering. Overall, the author encourages people to create incredible meals using robotic methods, as they believe the quality of food in America’s shelves and restaurants is declining.
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The author suggests that for quick and easy meals, they buy multiple Costco rotisserie chickens, frozen veggies, and add sauce. They also recommend adding additional protein sources like Premier Proteins, Fit Crunch, and Clif Builders. The author provides a template for their “I can’t be bothered” meals, which includes half a pound of veggies, half a pound or one fruit, one protein source, and condiments or spices. They provide options for each category, such as frozen mixed veggies, apples, oranges, bananas, chicken, tilapia, tuna, pork chops, eggs, salmon, shrimp, bread, rice, pasta, avocado, mixed nuts, and various sauces. They also seek recommendations for sauces that will give their meals the taste of different cuisines.
6. I went to 50 different dentists: almost all gave a different diagnosis (2022)
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The author’s young son had a dental accident, resulting in bent teeth. The local dentist initially recommended removing the two front teeth, which caused distress to the author. Seeking a second opinion, they consulted a former cosmetic dentist and head of the dental association. This expert disagreed with the initial diagnosis, stating that the teeth may heal naturally over time. Eventually, the teeth did return to normal as the ligaments healed. This experience shattered the author’s trust in the dental industry, as they believe dentistry involves subjective judgments and the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the situation.
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The author shares their personal experience of going to a new dentist who claimed they had nine cavities, but they didn’t have the money or dental insurance to get them treated. They haven’t been to a dentist in 25 years since then and their teeth have been fine. They also tell a funny story about another dentist who filled a supposed cavity but another dentist later found no evidence of a cavity or filling. The author later discovered that the dentist who performed the filling was part of a dental practice management program run by the Church of Scientology, known for ripping off non-Scientologist patients. The dentist was later arrested for molesting children and is likely still in prison.
7. Water
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The user is questioning the significance of a certain innovation and comparing it to an earlier iPhone app that simulated drinking a beer. They express confusion about why people are impressed with this new innovation and want to understand the reasons behind it.
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The article discusses a person’s guilty feeling for requesting numerous features after witnessing a fascinating display involving surface tension, viscosity, air bubbles, foam, energy loss, 3D liquid, sound, haptic feedback, and appropriate light beams. Additionally, the person mentions the option to choose between water, beer, wine, or whiskey. The author concludes that exceptionally cool things often generate a desire for more features than they can actually provide.
8. My favorite Vim oneliners for text manipulation
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The article discusses several Vim one-liners that the author finds useful for enhancing their workflow. These one-liners include counting the words in a file, using Python’s JSON library to format JSON documents, and removing blank lines from a file. The author encourages readers to share their own Vim tips and one-liners.
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The author of the article recounts their experience of attempting to teach their coworkers how to use the vim editor efficiently during a lunch and learn session at work. They describe it as the worst lunch and learn they have ever done, finding vim to be unintuitive and difficult to teach in a way that would save time. However, the author also strongly believes that vim is the editor that best interfaces with their brain, making it easy and the ideal way to edit code. They explain that trying to describe the process of learning to use vim to someone else is pointless, likening it to learning to use your fingers to pick something up for the first time as a child - it requires repeated attempts until it becomes familiar.
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The article discusses an innovation in the Vim space called which-key by folke for Neovim. It explains that which-key makes keybindings in Vim discoverable by providing a table of various commands that follow from a specific key press. The article also mentions that there may be a long lineage of similar tools that came before which-key.
9. Jupyter AI
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The article is about Jupyter AI, which allows users to explore generative AI models in Jupyter notebooks. Jupyter AI offers features such as a magic function that turns the notebook into a generative AI playground, a chat UI in JupyterLab for working with generative AI as a conversational assistant, and support for various generative model providers and models. Each major version of Jupyter AI corresponds to a major version of JupyterLab. The article recommends upgrading to JupyterLab 4 for users who want the most advanced Jupyter AI functionality.
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The article discusses the author’s experience with GPT4 with Code Interpreter, a tool that allows users to write code in dialogue form. The author finds the tool frustrating as the sandbox environment resets if they take a break and there is a quota, which, when hit, forces a break and reset. The author compares the experience to a roguelike and text adventure, where they try to accomplish something before running out of quota. Despite its beta status, the author hopes for a better version of the tool that offers a notebook-like interface and focuses on writing tutorials about problem-solving. The author mentions Jupyter AI as a somewhat more practical alternative that doesn’t have the same limitations but is not the same game.
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The article provides a helpful page that shows what can be done with Jupyter AI. It also mentions that this feature is a nice addition for developers and machine learning engineers. The link to the relevant page is included in the article.
10. Memex is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed
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The article discusses the concept of memex, a hypertext system proposed by Vannevar Bush in 1945. Memex was designed as a memory expansion device, allowing users to store and link documents, annotations, and records. While the World Wide Web and HTML were influenced by the concept of memex, they are not an accurate representation of Bush’s original vision. The article explores various projects that aim to create a modern version of memex, but emphasizes the importance of interoperability and working with existing tools and software. The author suggests that creating a shared folder and organizing documents within it can serve as a practical memex trail, allowing for easy collaboration and efficient knowledge management. The article concludes by highlighting the benefits of creating a memex system and encourages readers to build their own using available software and a personalized system of organization.
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The article discusses three main features of the Memex that are currently lacking in existing technologies. The first feature is annotation, which allows users to mark up hypertext documents. While HTML claims to support annotation, it does not allow for document modification once it’s read-only. The second feature is the ability to edit and extend annotations, which includes actions like highlighting, circling, and attaching links. The third feature is trails, which enables the storage of a sequence of annotations and linking different parts of multiple documents. Lastly, the article mentions the ability to publish and share collections of documents, but acknowledges that implementing this feature would likely face opposition from copyright holders. The author suggests the possibility of creating a proxy system that records all local HTTP(s) traffic and keeps only the tagged or linked sources after a certain period, but notes that it would face challenges due to copyright concerns.
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The article discusses the need to adapt a method of working with documents called linking around. It highlights that the average person, who primarily uses a PC for work and some personal activities, would not be interested in this method that involves complex linking and multiple colors. The author criticizes the cult-like behavior of the proponents of this method and argues that it will never become mainstream, even among technical skilled people. The article concludes by stating that while passion and a real need for this method exist, it has not gained widespread adoption in decades.