Hacker News with Generative AI: Zoom

Zoom bias: The social costs of having a 'tinny' sound during video conferences (phys.org)
Most job candidates know to dress nicely for Zoom interviews and to arrange a professional-looking background for the camera. But a new Yale study suggests they also ought to test the quality of their microphones.
Zoom, Video Conferencing, Social Impact, Technology, Communication
140 points by bookofjoe 6 days ago | 159 comments
Amazon shuts down Chime, its Zoom alternative (techcrunch.com)
Amazon Chime, the tech giant’s underwhelming alternative to Zoom and Google Meet, is shutting down for good.
Amazon, Zoom, Video Conferencing, Business, Technology
29 points by bookofjoe 34 days ago | 13 comments
The difference between zoom and scale (css-tip.com)
Do you know the zoom property? It works the same way as a scale transformation but unlike scale, it affects the page layout. In other words, the page layout is recalculated considering the new dimension of the scaled element.
CSS, Web Development, Zoom, Scale
11 points by t_afif 45 days ago | 6 comments
Versal Letters (wordpress.com)
The January Edmonton Calligraphy Society zoom workshop was led by Leslie Winakur, who shared her knowledge of decorated versals.
Calligraphy, Art, Workshops, Edmonton, Zoom
4 points by escapsesequence 81 days ago | 0 comments
Four causes for 'Zoom fatigue' (2021) (news.stanford.edu)
Even as more people are logging onto popular video chat platforms to connect with colleagues, family and friends during the COVID-19 pandemic, Stanford researchers have a warning for you: Those video calls are likely tiring you out.
Zoom, COVID-19, Video Conferencing, Fatigue, Psychology
34 points by yamrzou 87 days ago | 54 comments
Show HN: Zoom Meeting AI Assistants Powered by OpenAI's Realtime API (github.com/nsaigal)
This project features a real-time AI assistant for Zoom meetings, powered by OpenAI’s Realtime API API and the Recall.ai API. The assistant joins meetings and provides intelligent, context-aware responses based on the ongoing conversation.
Zoom, AI Assistants, OpenAI, Realtime API, Software
6 points by nsaigal1 163 days ago | 1 comments
Zoom to reduce stock based compensation (bloomberg.com)
Zoom Video Communications Inc. is reducing the practice of paying workers with company stock, joining peers such as Salesforce Inc. and Workday Inc. in limiting their reliance on a common compensation technique in the tech industry.
Zoom, Compensation, Stock Options, Tech Industry, Business
3 points by darth_avocado 193 days ago | 1 comments
Repack Zoom .debs to remove the `ibus` dependency (hashman.ca)
For whatever reason, Zoom distributes .debs that have a dependency on ibus. ibus is the "intelligent input bus" package and as far as I'm aware, might be used for emoji input in chat or something?? But is otherwise not actually a dependency of the Zoom package. I've tested this extensively... the client works fine without it.
Linux, Software, Debian, Zoom, Dependencies
10 points by egorpv 198 days ago | 0 comments