skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my understanding of the ADA, my employer is only required to make some "reasonable accommodations" available, and not tailor them to my specific needs. As stated in the link provided, "An employer is not required to provide an accommodation that would involve undue hardship (significant difficulty or expense)." I would think it would be possible for my employer to argue that setting up remote work would involve undue hardship...
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I heard that the virus isn't attacking the lungs or the heart, rather it's the immune systems response after the main infection has done it's business? Probably makes it more bizarre.
> No. In the same way that my directions to the mall don't include "maybe take this turn" at all turns.

I think that's a really poor and simplistic comparison. You're content not considering every possible outcome of trying to go shopping because in the face of changes to your circumstances, you can easily come up with a new strategy and adjust your goals on the fly.

> I often do not want* to acknowledge that every step could fail.*

That's what you want, but I have often found that the demands of quality software are different. I've seen too much software end up in strange and unconsidered failure modes because it threw up at the wrong time.
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I agree. This is a perfectly appropriate notification. Its impossible to design systems to be beholden to everyones feelings.
So that's how that works :) Thank you.
Seriously a June conference announced now?

Edit: Too blind to realize it is online 8-/. Now makes sense.
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It doesn't have to be, though. Just like iMessage is hugely successful despite being limited to Apple devices, and even then widely differing in features and reliability, for example, between iOS and macOS.

A wonderful collaborative experience could just be a USP for the platform. FWIW, the now obsoleted iChat was way ahead of the curve compared to the current iteration of FaceTime in group settings, anyway.
Really depends on their condition when purchased, but 15+ year old cars is pushing it. Not worth buying imo, but I guess as long as they're allowed people will buy them. I think the taxes are higher on really old cars?
> That email seems very human

Does it? If a human composed and made the decision to send an email to a student who's roommate had recently taken their own life and said "we've detected a vacancy" there would be some serious questions asked around their emotional capacity.
I'm sorry, but its in court records under sworn testimony in Ukraine and the NYT reported on it back IN 2015.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/world/europe/corruption-u...

The Mueller investigation turned up no evidence, that's pretty much proof the media and Congress chased a conspiracy theory for 2 years with no real evidence. There's hard evidence that Hunter was getting paid lots of money for a do nothing job he wasn't qualified for, and that Joe Biden did interfere at some point (for whatever reason, he did use his political power and got involved). That much isn't a conspiracy, his son got paid for a job everyone questions why he got it.

The real estate deals Trump Jr does now gets a fair pass because its the same thing, same as the $250k paid speaking engagements for Wall Street and corporations the Clinton's and Obama's get post Presidency. It's pretty obvious the pay off just comes afterwards.

People act sanctimonious about Trump, but they fail to realize Trump is a symptom, the cancer started from within.
Well one concerning statistic is the 20% of cases that require hospitalization. Not sure what that is for the standard flu but I suspect its not that high. If the hospitals are full like what happened in Italy and China and people who need medical help can't get it, it seems like the death rate is much higher like 3.5% vs. .1% for the standard flu. The virus really is mostly a danger for the elderly and so the public health goals are slowing the spread, flattening the curve so that the people who get it whose immune systems aren't able to overcome it as well can get the medical help that they need vs. being told to go home and die like they have had to do in Northern Italy.

Also the difference in asymptomatic incubation is a lot higher than the flu so people can spread it w/o realizing it. I read flu has max of 4 days incubation with typical period of 1.5 whereas this has a mean of 5 and max of 14, and possible shedding during asymptomatic period so you could be infecting people a lot longer before you get sick and its harder to trace all contacts.
No you can't, that's precisely my point.

A passcode or touchID is needed to make a payment with Apple Pay, irrespective of whether or not your phone is unlocked.
Ground effect aircraft are usually designed with enough extra power available that they can temporarily climb to higher altitudes to avoid surface obstacles or high waves, at the cost of increased fuel consumption.
I perfectly understand your concern and support the attentiveness to suspicious activities. However, as Nick's colleague (and I'm honest in that), I see nothing bad in supporting his work this way. Even if it seems controversial. :)
This all seems reasonable. Frankly, though, imagine the benefit we would see if this was also enforced for consumer network equipment, like routers...
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I used to be like that but over the last few years I found the Microsoft world more and more uninteresting and intellectually stifling . Maybe using git and node was the turning point where I saw how simple things can be with the right tools vs what Microsoft offered.
Not only that, but I'd argue that downtown San Jose and the surrounding area probably get an economic boost with events at the convention center as large as WWDC.

DTSJ already has SJSU, but it wouldn't surprise me if having regular, large conventions helps quite a bit.
the announcement is about the conference being virtual. WWDC is in June every year.
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The more impactful and subtle part of this discussion includes what constraints, rights and responsibilities does this place on manufacture?

If we decide you have an inalienable right to repair the phone I made for you, does that mean I have to facilitate it? Does it mean I can't put technical barriers in place to make it harder for you? Do I have to offer you any sort of support & warrantee if you have modified it?

Can I refuse to offer you a sale on the object, and just offer a lease? Etc. etc.
It's not the people using HackerOne to be concerned about. It's the ones who don't use HackerOne because they realize they'd get more money on the black market.

When it comes to vulnerabilities with a large enough impact it isn't enough to learn about most of them, because all it takes is one financially motivated actor to weaponize things.
Some of the language wasn't clear but "Apple also announced it will commit $1 million to local San Jose organizations to offset associated revenue loss as a result of WWDC 2020’s new online format." makes it sound like there will be no in-person conference.
Woah dude, slow your roll. I was saying M4A doesn't exist in the states at this time so, insurers will still expect payment if you get treated. That's all I'm saying.
This is how Apple always announces WWDC. Last year's announcement was on March 14th.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/03/apple-to-host-annual-...

The announcement is really just for confirming exact dates. Everyone thinking about attending knows that it's in early June and isn't being surprised.
From a link at www.copper.org :

Paper in American Society for Microbiology from 2018 :

Rapid inactivation of human coronavirus occurs on brass and copper nickel surfaces at room temperature (21°C).Brasses containing at least 70% copper were very effective at inactivating HuCoV-229E (Fig. 2A), and the rate of inactivation was directly proportional to the percentage of copper. Approximately 103 PFU in a simulated wet-droplet contamination (20 µl per cm2) was inactivated in less than 60 min. Analysis of the early contact time points revealed a lag in inactivation of approximately 10 min followed by very rapid loss of infectivity (Fig. 2B). As observed previously for norovirus, zinc demonstrated a slight antiviral effect compared to that seen with stainless steel (neither metal contains copper).

As I said, looks like can do better than 4 hours, copper is the key metal for the action. There is much more, I had thought anyone who was interested could find it all for themselves, but apparently not.

Further info is available by searching "copper coronavirus inactivation".

Like this from the ICU Management and Practice Bulletin, origin Southhampton Unisversity :

During simulated fingertip contamination, the research team observed that the corona virus was inactivated within a few minutes of being exposed to copper or copper alloys (collectively termed "antimicrobial copper").

There is more, but a picture emerges, and it might be useful.
It wasn't rhetorical.
I know it's a running joke about how Apple tends to exaggerate in their marketing speak... but the way how they're trying to sell this as "all new, innovative way of presenting a conference" without mention of current crisis is a bit distasteful :/
> Superdeterminism is much weirder and harder to accept than non-locality.

I disagree, with the following example to back up why I believe it is less weird.

Superdeterminism can mean that faraway events can be correlated by a common ancestry. For instance: if you suddenly create a massive object, it will attract massive objects indiscriminately spherically; most points in space will be eventually affected, and so, they all are limited in the space of possibilities, no matter whether you can actually detect gravity.

In the case of quantum mechanics, there may well be some currently-undetectable field similar to the gravitational one, which is very chaotic at a nanoscopic level, but that is severely constrained in the shape it can form, even across large distances.

It is similar to how a large-space LCG (the PRNG) may look extremely random, but if you plotted consecutive numbers as coordinates across the complete cycle, you would get a lattice. Locally chaotic, but globally constrained.

On the other hand, non-locality means superluminar information, which really breaks the common understanding of spacetime and of causality.
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I haven't heard 'feature phones' since I used to read consumer electronics news sites (like Engadget, then This is my Next/The Verge) years ago.

I don't think anyone else uses the term; to the layman, they're 'dumb phones', to contrast with 'smart' (although increasinly 'smart phones' are just 'phones').

Or since those are American sites, perhaps it's actually a variation of regional colloquialisms.
Brain could certainly learn to do it :)
Yes. Now a bad response would have been: "A vacancy has been detected. As you are now a single person occupying a double room, you will now be billed at the higher single-occupancy rate for a double. Payment must be made by the end of the month."
Honestly, probably a bit of both.
In a way our eyes ARE chips doing post processing. What is sent to the brain is heavily preprocessed.
Also keep in mind that if you use IP-based whitelisting, an attacker can register their own CF/Fastly account and target your origin server with whatever CDN settings they want (assuming they can discover your origin server). With Fastly at least you can even do this from the free tier.
Can someone explain the redirect/cookie-stealing part of this? I read through the post explaining request smuggling, and then re-read their exploit description, and the request smuggling part all makes sense. However, I don't fully understand the significance of the 301 in relation to the browser sending the attacker's server the cookie with the request.

If the back-end server is already proxying whatever request it receives from the front-end proxy server, why was it necessary to first get it to redirect an HTTP 1.1 header to an https request? The only thing I could think of was that maybe it has something to do with getting the unencrypted cookie, but according to their description, the forwarded request with the cookie doesn't happen until after the redirect to https anyway.

I know I'm missing something obvious here.
Actually if it works it may be a tuning point. It just zoom. They can package it.
How many people have signed up so far?

Honestly, just having a Zoom call going for the entire day, with different breakout rooms and multi-person screenshare, would go a long way towards companionship. You don't even need your own platform! $15 / mo. for 100 people for a 24 hour long session :D

If it's something like that, and you have DevOps and Full-stack people signed up, and we can switch breakout rooms by host request, I think I'd sign up!
> The current health situation has required that we create a new WWDC 2020 format
HAARP isn't the same type of installation as the Soviet example in the article. It is a radio transmitter, not used for radar.

Alaska had the "dew line" which was an installation similar to the Soviets for detection of ICBM's. It covered the perimeter of the horizon towards Russia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distant_Early_Warning_Line

Clear AFB in Alaska has (maybe had) an operational radar station that looks very similar to the Russian one. Saw it in person a few times driving by as a kid. Not sure if it still exists or was upgraded with something smaller.
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It's also still Spring-ish in Qatar, so not quite as hot as it can get.
“Some countries” is of course South Korea, which has had one of the lowest mortality rates of covid19.

1. http://m.koreabiomed.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=7428
I think the world wants 'right to repair', not just Europe.
The goal isn't to stop those people from being infected, it's to delay their infection. A massive spike of infections would overwhelm the hospitals. The same number of patients, slower, is doable.
The cytokine storm that honeycombs your lungs (like with SARS) is a doozy.

I'm not in my 20s... but I'm not "old" either. I'm also in one of the at-risk groups (I take an ARB for high blood pressure, which seems to make one more susceptible to corona viruses like the common cold and COVID-19).

Don't spread this virus around. It isn't just about you getting it. It's about your parents. It's about your friends and coworkers who you may not know are especially vulnerable.

We really don't want a COVID-19 season every year.
Disclosure: I have no public health credentials, but have been following this carefully. Please be especially careful about information sources. To quote [1], "There is a ton of bullshit being disseminated. Please do not disseminate anything you can’t verify. Science must prevail."

It seems inevitable to me that we will be in a similar situation in the US soon. According to graphs that are all over #epi Twitter and very consistent with each other (example [2]), we are approximately 11 days behind Italy in progression. Already in the Seattle area they are finding their capacity strained[3]. And it is clear it will get considerably worse before it gets better.

The best projection I have read is [4], by a UCSF expert panel. Key quote: "We used their numbers to work out a guesstimate of deaths— indicating about 1.5 million Americans may die." but please do read the whole thing for context.

I'm trying to avoid getting to anxious about this, but the facts on the ground are extremely concerning.

[1]: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dispatch-3-dr-shlain-reportin...

[2]: https://twitter.com/HumeField/status/1237941418909257728

[3]: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/short-staff...

[4]: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/notes-from-ucsf-expert-panel-...
But if there are a hundred million compromised TVs, toasters, refrigerators, and thermostats, liability for those few enterprises is largely a moot point.
Another reason to stop is that most people in America at least simply don't understand war or the military very well. Since the end of the draft in the 1970s only a small percentage of the population has sufficient experience to talk about it sensibly.

I like baseball or football analogies much better. People who use them are a lot more likely to know what they are talking about.
It's very beneficial for a nation to have a skilled workforce and so funding from the top via something like this, is the general idea: https://www.dol.gov/featured/apprenticeship/grants

That is to say, the nation benefits, the government offsets much of the burden from the master, and the industry can still be competitive to attract (or retain, in the case of the master) the trained talent.
You know what else would help? Since the risk curve bends sharply upward at age 60, immediately allow anyone to start drawing full social security payments at age 60, without any sort of penalty. Those companies that value their older workers would now be in the position of making work-from-home a full-fledged option, because the bargaining power would shift to where it belongs - the worker.
They mention it in the second paragraph:

“The current health situation has required that we create a new WWDC 2020 format that delivers a full program with an online keynote and sessions, offering a great learning experience for our entire developer community, all around the world. We will be sharing all of the details in the weeks ahead.”
Be careful - an overdose of quinine can cause cinchonism, which has some unpleasant symptoms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinchonism
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This is also the reason that numpy is fast.
I think a reasonable basic set of requirements would be the following:

- There is no non-free firmware or other software on the device.

- The consumer is provided full source code to the software and can effectively replace the preinstalled version with a version they have compiled themselves.

- The manufacturer provides updated versions of any software or firmware (again, including full source code) to patch any discovered security vulnerability for the expected life of the device: at least three years for most devices, but perhaps as long as 30 to 60 years for some devices. This lifetime is disclosed.

- The device does not transmit any personally identifiable information back to the manufacturer in its default configuration; for example, audio recordings, power usage measurements, accelerometer readings, temperature readings, or customer login names or account numbers.

Unfortunately, I don't think such requirements are viable in the current political situation. That doesn't change the fact that any device that fails to comply with them introduces a serious security vulnerability: there is no way for the users to defend themselves against malicious actors who penetrate the manufacturer. The Dieselgate scandal and the Huawei prohibition are only the mildest taste of what we are in for.

Of course it is not practical for every person to audit the source code of the firmware for every TV remote control and power brick they use, but it is possible for people to organize consumer watchdog agencies that do perform such audits.
Dr Racaniello is also the host of the This Week in Virology podcast, which I highly recommend.

They've had a series of episodes on COVID-19 recently, all highly informative. Episode 590, the most recent one, debunked the "two strains" rumor that's been going around.

You can hear the episode here: [1] and read a transcript of the portion of the episode where the rumor was debunked here: [2]

[1] - http://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-590/

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22564199
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Africa generally being a poorer continent also means a lot less travel to spread the disease, especially international travel from Asia and Europe, and the potential for local outbreaks to pass unnoticed due to lack of medical care, especially if symptoms for most young people are benign, and elderly people dying at the first sign of infection is a common occurrence
Related, here's a video of an ascension w/ commentary in ~ 1hr 50mins by Mikko Joula (aka Adeon): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIB0y_kwFuY. It was filmed at the annual Roguelike Celebration at GitHub HQ.

Another entertaining talk from that event, more focused on the code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y_IAdOwaYs&t=1258s

All of the talks (if you like roguelikes, gamedev, or programming in general): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKv_QzXft4mD6TXmQBZtzIA/vid...
One core challenge is that there is no good data on the spread, at least in the USA. No testing === no data.
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DCSS is also my favorite. More polished than others in the early game, but still absolutely brutal.
I've seen a lot of active open source users talk positively about the new design. I personally disabled email notifications completely and wouldn't want to go back. Having a clear separation between unread, read, and archived is a huge step forward.

Also, I'm not sure why it matters to have notifications grouped by repo. At least for myself it rarely made sense and only wasted space in the UI.
What would be tasteful in a conference announcement about the conference? They mentioned it just fine.
This is obvious for all but the most obtuse. A university education does very little, if anything, to prepare someone for a career. After all, that's not the purpose of a university.

Many big tech companies hire candidates straight out of school for very high salaries and signing bonuses simply because they need the raw intellectual material. These new grads are mostly useless in terms of what they are capable of contributing, and the company uses signing bonuses as golden handcuffs to keep them at the company long enough to make their sunk cost worth it.

Take it from me, when I'm hiring people with little experience, I'm hiring them for the energy they possess. Are they passionate, curious, and good at working with others. Do I think they will fit in, and will they enjoy the kind of work they will be given. Then I place them on easy starter projects and they progress from there.

That is essentially a de-facto apprenticeship. The only difference is that apprenticeships of old were a much more intimate relationship between the master and apprentice. Wouldn't that be nice! Our culture has really, drastically, moved away from intimacy on all levels.
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Onboarding was done onsite for remote employees. Now onboarding is being done remote.
I should say that my want there is local to the directions. For the trip, I definitely want them handled.

So, for the function, I want to be able to say the happy path. I would also like to be able to say what could go wrong, with advice to the user on how to proceed.