skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you really think it's a good idea to concentrate almost all of your medical and semiconductor manufacturing on the shores of one of your biggest geopolitical rivals? Particularly when they've been saber rattling in the Pacific and are already making threats about withholding manufacturing?

>China is already returning to work

Don't be so sure. This is an authoritarian regime which went to great lengths to cover up the outbreak for the first month. And they claimed return to capacity weeks ago when pollution maps still showed little to no productivity. The world isn't all rainbows and sunshine - nation states are still competitive and do not always work in each other's best interest.

None of this even begins to go into all of the IP fuckery and socialization of US companies going on in China.
Game developers' experiencing the misery of crunch time and layoffs is something I've heard about firsthand since the early 2000s at the latest. Reading accounts from earlier games' development cycles suggests that this has been common for even longer than that. Game development has always had cyclical labor demands and tight deadlines.

I think you need to qualify the claim that these experiences are worsening. In fact, from most of the veteran developers I've talked to report the opposite: before the proliferation of the internet crunch time was way more serious since patching was not a viable option. Nowadays it's pretty much the norm that games have significant bugs for the first week or two and still need to mature after release. This creates greater room for error and less pressure to fix every bug before release.
So on average this offset is going to take as many bytes as the output data
Personally, I'd be less concerned with the furries than with the flying penises: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/20/sadville_flyers/
To be completely serious, no it doesn't.
I do not see an appointment of someone who is clearly both richer and smarter to be the frontman of the largest crisis to hit the country in recent history.
Interesting! That's definitely something I missed, thank you.

I still wouldn't expect an Electron app to subvert basic browser sandboxing by default, particularly where they wouldn't have expected to need to redirect users to other domains with cookies intact. It seems like they'd need to go out of their way to enable that.

I wonder if it has to do with the sign-in tokens they send or otherwise allowing the user to move between the browser and the app within their account. For example, when you're in the app and click "Manage Users" and it sends you to a management dashboard in the browser. or when you click a link with an auth token in the browser and it launches you into the app.
Please don't post flamebait to HN. It's not what this site is for, and reproduction and parenting are some of the more inflammatory flamewar topics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Do any Fortune 500 boards have diversity in socioeconomic status?
Forcing all employees to pay dues?
A self-evidently false assertion.
Yeah, I mis-spoke.

Swappable is better.
Seems microsoft is jointly controlled by a whole bunch of other companies.
I don't say this lightly, but it's irresponsible to report on this without addressing the possibility of the Texas Sharpshooter effect.
Kill the virus with a strategy pattern Java Strategy Pattern with examples
Most of the board members seem to be partners at various investment firms. Many of them don't seem to even remotely tech people. It's kind of sad that the Microsoft board lacks any external visionaries.
Sounds interesting! I, too, would like to know why you didn't continue with this. Also:

> scheduled them video chats

Does a service exist where you can programmatically schedule a video-chat/meeting for two parties?
This is apparently incorrect. https://twitter.com/Google_Comms/status/1238574670686928906

There are apps and websites that do this e.g. https://www.buoyhealth.com/symptom-checker/
It has an extremely active indie development community, still. They’re mostly huddled at AtariAge.
My internet connection is slow, i couldn't load it, i gave up and still can't figure out from the comments what it is
He'd obviously consult top doctors. Why would a doctor be better at organizing a large response than a proven business leader who pivoted to disease control?
Added above now. Thanks!
He would probably like to know why it makes sense to hire these external heads. If you were talking about the most outlandish of these board members, why would you say they deserve to be on the board? (I'm genuinely asking here as I don't know why myself)
>They're generic usage scenarios and clearly intended as such.

Based on what? I assumed they were real users because there was no indication otherwise. This is why we have words like "actor portrayal" displayed at the bottom of our screens when a person makes a claim about using a product and it's actually just a person reading a script.
Probably works as a prophylactic. Unproven. I'm actually taking it at the malarial prophylactic dose (500mg/wk).

There is some info here from a doctor https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/fbfj0r/covid19_pr...

There is some evidence that hydroxychloroquine may be better as a prophylactic. Here's medcram talking about it from in vitro results https://youtu.be/vE4_LsftNKM?t=192

Re real patients I thought this interesting on lupus patients using hydroxychloroquine at a hospital in Wuhan:

>In the early stage of the study group, through the clinical analysis of 178 patients with new coronavirus received by the hospital from December 2019, it was found that none of them was systemic lupus erythematosus. After that, in the consultation of 80 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus treated by dermatology department of the hospital, it was found that they were not infected with new coronavirus pneumonia. https://www.jqknews.com/news/388543-The_novel_coronavirus_pn...

Which suggests it may work in real life. Lupus patient get a pretty high dose but looking at the in vitro stuff it looks like a low dose say 400mg/wk might work.

There may be a possibility here to save millions of lives - if this does go full pandemic with 60% global infection, taking say weekly hydroxychloroquine might reduce the effects to something mild flu rather than ICU death. It seems to me enough upside to make it worth doing a serious research effort which I don't think is being done.
The term is 'heroic' for acts of leadership that sacrifice one self for the greater good.

In my experience, if the move "benefits the company" and the overall company governance is not dysfunctional, then the leader responsible does not get hurt by it. At least not in the long term.
what ? that’s not remotely close to reality
Others may change how fatal the infection is (in either direction)

This is actually one of the reasons that viruses generally become less deadly the longer they circulate through a population. A less-deadly version will spread faster (by not killing it's hosts), and will tend to outcompete a deadlier version
That's how boards of directors work.
That's fair, perhaps conditions haven't been substantially worse than in previous console generations. But it sounds like there's something driving the push towards unionizing/organizing, whatever it is. And it sounds like the general public is more aware it being a brutal industry.
Or you could just be extremely finicky about the numbers you choose to compress.
Why? Being an MD isn't a huge deal in these cases. Not to say that having knowledge of the fundamentals of biology or healthcare isn't useful, but managing thousands of people, complex human systems, mass organizations, and building a plan to eliminate a disease is not something they teach in medical school.

Gates has done more to battle malaria and other diseases than anyone currently alive. His track record is second to none, in terms of building a huge strategy, managing complex systems, and executing a pragmatic plan. And I suspect he has many MDs in his close circle of advisers who he relies on. A leader doesn't need to be a specialist -- they need to be a leader, a generalist, and rely on a team for specialist knowledge.
Reminds of an internal Amazon system that would pop-up a question every morning when you open your computer asking some bullshit HR or “culture” question. Man, I hated that thing.
Jeepers, grocery shopping is going to become impossible/dangerous? Where do you get this?

Many countries have been or are in much worse shape and society hasn't broken down. This isn't Mad Max. If anything having the entire population simultaneously buy two months of food is going to cause far more problems than it'll ever solve.
GP probably read your post the same way as I did:

> Why are the 2 related? I'd like to use ApplePay without TouchID or a PIN.
Wash your hands ;)
Will Korea sell us tests?

Will anyone? Has this been discussed anywhere?
> Are you implying that public prosecutors have the option to not interact with criminal defense attorneys,

No, I'm implying that working for an actor’s counterparty compromises your ability to represent that actor in adversarial interactions with the same counterparty, which is a core function of unions with respect to employers as it is with defense attorneys with respect to prosecutors.

> companies certainly have the option to hire employees that do not work for unions.

Not in the US; even where union shops are prohibited by state right-to-work laws, adverse employment decisions on the basis of union membership or union-related activity by an employer are prohibited by the National Labor Relations Act. That is, in some cases, employers are allowed to hire employees who aren't members of a union, but they aren't legally permitted to hire employees because (even in part) they aren't members of unions.
What do they do exactly?
Verily: We’re developing a tool to help triage individuals for Covid-19 testing
no no... good for her
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The value in pointing out their fakeness is to make sure people don't get misled about their realness. People are still trying hard to prove the Shroud of Turin real [1], and until that's a dead argument, we should always be clear about the truth.

I do agree that it's worth keeping the fakes, though. If the Museum of The Bible were bigger on "museum" than "bible" this would be a great centerpiece for an exhibit on the long history of profitable religious forgeries.

[1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/researchers-hung-men...
Bruce Schneier posted a summary today that referenced a great write-up by Matthew Green of Johns Hopkins.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/03/the_earn-it_a...

[2] https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2020/03/06/earn-it-...
It was announced that Idaho could test 800 to 1000 people. Not a day, total. The state has a population of 1.8 million people. It is the only state with no confirmed cases besides West Virginia, as of this morning.

> It takes anywhere from hours to days to get test results. A doctor with a patient in Boise could have results in a matter of hours, because of proximity to the state laboratory. But samples that go to private labs in Utah and Washington take longer, due to shipping time and the hours it takes to run the tests.

https://www.idahostatesman.com/living/health-fitness/article...
Mozilla VR meeting thingy, too?
Think of it in terms of something like the second amendment. Unions are similar to weapons in that they're the only real limit on the power your management has over you. The last line of defense, if you will. Without coordinated response provided by unions you _can't_ make your employer change their labor practices. If they want to make you work 16 hours a day for the same pay, there's nothing stopping them.

In an industry known for abusing its employees (which, BTW, does not extend to software engineering in general, in my opinion - software engineers are treated well almost everywhere else), you _need_ pushback to end abuse. It's as simple as that. Even if unionizations fail, they still serve as a signaling mechanism - if things get bad enough, they'll start succeeding, and that's the outcome employers would like to avoid. The solution is simple: they should pull their heads out of their collective asses and start treating employee abuse as a real problem. If there's no downside for them to not doing this, they won't do it. It's as simple as that.
MDs are good at treating patients, but they're not necessarily good at leading people.

Good leaders know how to draw on the expertise of others to organize a coordinated response... which the Gates Foundation has proved themselves very capable of doing, particularly with public health issues. The Gates Foundation employs lots of healthcare professionals.

I'd highly suggest looking up some of the talks Gates has done about his work with his foundation. He definitely has his shit together.
I think this is true for very lethal viruses that have risk of killing host before spreading.

For virus that can spread before any symptoms and long after symptoms disappear and survive so long on the objects and in the air I think there will be no evolutionary pressure to get milder.

And we can get harsher version just by random chance because this virus is so infectious that it has a lot of leniency whether and when to kill the host.
I'm happy to pay a reasonable amount to replace a failing rechargeable battery. If it's 20 or 30 bucks to get another three years out of a pair of wireless headphones, okay. I suspect that with standardized cells (perhaps a few dozen sizes? certainly more than the gamut of A/AA/AAA/C/D etc cells we currently have in the consumerverse, because device form factors vary widely) they would be cheaper.

But having to essentially defeat an end-user-hostile industrial design should be strongly discouraged.

I can dream.
Did they win?
They do. In a healthy company board is a sort of dampening force that steers CEO away from bad moves and advice him/her so that opportunities are not missed. Elizabeth Holms would be at much better place if board had excercised its authority. They are legally required to be part of almost all big decisions that are being made and they have the authority to at least bring in stockholder vote if they lose confidence in CEO.
The situation in Stockholm, Sweden right now is:

“You who have symptoms similar to coronavirus will not be tested in the future. This applies regardless of whether you have been in the areas that were previously exposed to infection or had close contact with someone you know is ill in covid-19.”

There are no test kits. Hospitals have run out of face masks. And it’s only just getting started here.
Kind of hard to unpack such a vague/terse comment...

If you’re trying to say “who cares about money when lives are on the line”... in this case a strong, life-saving, response begets a positive market response.

People drying en-masse is not good for the economy, or anyone really. Also, recessions are generally not good for people’s health.
Other that for China, do you have any evidence the numbers are doctored?

Especially South Korea, which has been very transparent and done a ton of testing.
There can be other explanation for this difference http://www.savespain.eu/italy-vs-germany because there is huge disparity between Italy and Germany infected population demographic.

My hypothesis is that this comes from bigger inter-generation connections in Italy.
The questions to ask for any test:

- What is the false positive rate?

- What is the false negative rate?

- Considering the above, what is the efficacy of mass testing?

(Not saying it is or isn't effective, hard numbers are necessary)
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22202110

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22505302
I really despise the US habit of worshipping of the wealthy.
Well, there's 29 German companies in the Fortune 500, and all of them are required to have half of the board be elected by the workers, so I imagine some of them should have socioeconomic diversity.
Patagonia closing all of its stores and its website because of the coronavirus
Coronavirus: The truth about the virus and what to do about it
Boards are required, and there are different kinds of board members, some of them are are appointed and/or voted in by shareholders. So it's not exactly a question of being "deserving". While Microsoft is probably going to have some sway, this process is not necessarily about Microsoft picking people to guide their development strategy, or picking people who are in their best interests. This is sometimes shareholders putting in people who can (among other things) - 1) oversee the corporate governance, make sure the company is playing fair with their stock, 2) put in people who are successful and can guide the company toward business success, 3) create a network for hiring & replacing executives when they leave for any reason. That said, having diverse input from other large businesses seems like it's always going to be an advantage.
Basecamp (the project management software) has this as a built-in feature. My company is small enough that I always disable it. As we add more people and lean more into remote work I'll probably give it a try.
When I pay for bandwidth to my house, I should get that bandwidth, and be able to use it for whatever I want. I don't care if they oversold their network. It's not my problem. I should not get punished for using the bandwidth I paid for. If people who barely use the internet are paying the same as me, that's not my problem either.

If ISPs are suffering congestion, that's because they did a bad job designing their network for the amount of demand they have. Throttling is just a way for them to cheap out on their network, but sell "gigabit" internet to everybody. If they can't serve me 1 gigabit, they are selling shitty service.

If they want to charge for X amount of bits per month, that should be the up front pricing scheme. I should not be paying for a "1 gigabit" plan, but have the amount of bits that I can use be buried in the fine print. Especially when bits per month is the REAL indicator of what they are selling.
As web browsers have gotten more privacy-aware, native apps have fallen behind. This is just another example of that.

Recent versions of Chrome show a prompt when websites do this in javascript.
Meanwhile in Oklahoma:

> The coronavirus tests run on the Utah Jazz’s players and team employees came from a good portion of the state of Oklahoma’s supply.

> The 50-plus tests that were run on the Jazz’s traveling party after Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19 were from the state and not a private lab. And the number of tests run on Jazz players represents over half of the state’s daily peak capacity testing levels.

> “We have the capacity to run about 100 tests a day and we have a number of test kits,” Oklahoma commissioner of health Gary Cox said at a Thursday news conference. “We're ordering additional reagents at the time. So, we have the current capacity I think for about 300 tests.” Oklahoma has had three positive cases of the virus so far with four still pending. Thirty-six tests have returned negative.
I think if you own a certain percentage of total equity you still need to file disclosures.
Just because you're seeing more news stories about unionization or organizing, doesn't actually mean that there's more interest in unionizing and organizing. It just means that people producing news are writing more stories covering unionization and organizing.

Take this story for example. Linkedin lists Glitch's size as 11-50. The highest employee count I've found claims 120. This is small fish in a very large pond. This press release name drops Google, but these companies are three orders of magnitude apart in terms of size.
Your theory is that people are always honest about their motives? The guy behind this is the world's largest benefactor to evangelical causes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2012/09/18/david-g...

I read it as very much a move in the culture war. It's not a museum about religious texts in general. It's very much a sectarian enterprise, whatever the PR people write.
The Atlantic drops paywall for coronavirus coverage
Thanks for the understandable breakdown.

This is very interesting indeed, but at an equivalent f/555 I don't see many practical applications for this either. For context, usual photography uses apertures from f/1.2 to f/11, with lower numbers letting being a larger aperture and thus more light in. It'd require a massive amount of light to get a usable image.

Maybe the images could be sharper with this lens, or have very good macro? As you stop down (increase the aperture number) images become sharper up to a point where the diffraction limit steps in and quality degrades; usually this happens at f/9 to f/11 (which is why I mentioned f/11 as the lower range of commonly used apertures; although almost all lenses can go smaller, for pixel-peeping quality you'd want to use an ND filter and f/11 aperture).
Chat, meet and get a ton of money. E.g. stop crazy managers to buy a Finnish mobile phone company if they are good ;)

https://www.thebalancesmb.com/what-does-a-corporate-board-of...
Remember any government/law enforcement in the USA has the right now to read any email that is over six months old in your account, without a warrant or oversight thanks to the 1986 Wiretap act which has been abused (this is why the clintons had their own email server in the basement, everyone should, I don't understand why that is never pointed out)
Nothing super authoritative; mostly from talking to people who've done it. But: there's Maor Schwartz's excellent Black Hat talk from last year:

https://i.blackhat.com/USA-19/Wednesday/us-19-Shwartz-Sellin...

And you can always look at things like the Zerodium Price List. I don't know that it's taken very seriously in its particulars, but the general structure of it mirrors what I've heard from other sources.

You'll notice on the Zerodium list that they will pay for serverside RCE in web apps --- but only a particular kind of web app: the kind that is deployed in lots of places. National IC agencies will, for instance, pay for phpBB RCE, because they have targets that use phpBB, and there are lots of phpBB's (when you hear people talking about how valuable a web bug is, ask yourself whether that person has mentioned the weird market for phpBB bugs --- something I've had firsthand [refused!] experience with). What you won't see are bugs in SAAS applications. Again, the reason is that a phpBB vulnerability has a half-life: everyone has to install the patch once it's burned.

I have no evidence for what I'm about to say here, so take it with a grain of salt:

I assume you can get paid for a vulnerability even as esoteric as this Slack ATO bug. But you'll get paid for people who are buying Slack accounts, not Slack bugs. That is: you'll have to be the one exploiting it, and you'll be making one-off deals to use it to get targeted accounts. People sell all kinds of accounts; it would not surprise me even a little to hear that there was a market for company Slack accounts.

But to participate in that market, you'd almost certainly have to directly enter a criminal conspiracy. You wouldn't be selling a bug to a market; you'd be participating.
The administration turned away from the German designed/WHO standard tests everyone else is using, so I don’t think any international ones are FDA approved.

Today’s presser sure gave me the impression that the delay in testing was so they could roll out this nebulous private-public partnership drive through testing and I guess boost CVS’ stock price or something.
South Korea is providing “quarantine kits” with food, masks, and checkups