skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's very unlikely this has anything to do with middle-managers or even C-level "schmucks" at the contracting companies. I can assure you that Accenture (dunno about Wipro but I would imagine they are similar) has a strong remote work culture and has been encouraging their people to WFH if at all possible. However, Accenture is beholden to contracts and has to defer to the client for situations like this.

What's likely happening here is that FB is insisting that the work be done in the office (from doing similar contract work myself, this sounds like it is because due to security reasons FB doesn't allow some of its contractors to take home their computers and can only connect via in-office networks), and Accenture either has to go along with it or break the contract. FB is trying to blame the contracting companies to avoid PR, and since one of the reasons you hire a contracting company is because it's a convenient way to place blame when things go wrong, Accenture probably won't rebut.

Since these contractors work as content moderators, I think there is also a certain level of thinking that the work they are doing is critical at a time like this (both because of upcoming election and because of misinformation spread about coronavirus), so while they might just send home other contractors, these ones need to stay).
Shouldn't the restriction be placed on the use of the shared resource (the air)? That is, modifying the transceiver should be fine on its own.

What I'm trying to point out is that your comment seems to suggest restricting users from making any (all) modifications, even if they wouldn't affect anyone but themselves, because they might make a modification would affect others. I think one should be allowed to make any modifications as long as they're made responsible for how those modifications affect others. And even if a modification potentially (not through every use) negatively affects others, they should only face consequences when the use actually affected others or went against regulations of the shared resource (the air).
But hey it just can't be really compelling if it is Apple device only.
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Thanks for sharing! I was also curious if you apply your paper-pen markup style to digital content. Btw, is there a way to send private/direct messages here on HN? thanks.
They start making the flu vaccine the year before. It takes six to nine months, and lots of chicken eggs.

Here's a Planet Money rerun that talks about how they make the regular flu vaccine:
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/06/812943907/episode-977-wheres-...

Transcript:
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/812943907
> Meanwhile, patients are left to die alone after a final video call with loved ones.

Dr Cortellaro, head of the emergency room of the Borromeo hospital, told the Journal.

"Do you see the emergency room? COVID-19 patients enter alone, no relatives can attend and when they are about to leave they sense it. They are lucid, they do not go to narcolepsy.

"It is as if they were drowning, but with plenty of time to understand it."

This is heartbreaking.

We need at least a temporary right to assisted suicide for these patients. It plays horribly. But the alternative is so cruel.
Anyone know if the `smuggler` tool used is available online? Can't find any reference to it in github or elsewhere, and I'm not familiar with it.

Edit: Found it here: https://github.com/gwen001/pentest-tools/blob/master/smuggle...
Maybe it would take a lot more work to get the data into a publishable format and they don't think that's their highest priority right now? Being charitable here.
I mean mathematically of course the 6 digit is better than the 4. But they bring up some good points about how humans artificially shrink the search space.

But what is vastly superior is going into the settings and enabling the alphanumeric longer pins (aka passphrase).

It's variable length and does not give any clues as to the length, and it allows for a much larger character set.

This vastly increases the search space. I don't even know how long my passphrase is (never counted), but it is long enough that my wife still can't remember it despite repeatedly telling her what it is.

Before the biometric unlocks I never used a pin because it was a pain, but now with the biometrics I so rarely need it that I think it's a great compromise.
Agree. For me although it's not great as of now, it's already a huge improvement. I have confidence about my actions now. Notifications can be located and managed more easily.

It's good enough now for me. I hope they look into Gist next. So many missed opportunities there. Head over to Show HN and you'll find code snippet management softwares there from time to time. Almost all problems they are trying to tackle can be solved by a better GitHub Gist.
You can be much more creative if you have a strong foundation which is something an apprenticeship can give you.
> When it comes to TFS vs Git, even Microsoft will choose Git. (e.g. it is the only version control designed from the start to handle a major operating system kernel)

Microsoft used an internal fork of perforce for most of Windows' history. Substantial changes were needed for git to handle the windows codebase. I don't know of any major project that used TFS internally, Source Depot was the primary source management.

Linux is quite small compared to many internal Microsoft code bases.
Yes.
https://www.inc.com/glenn-leibowitz/in-a-rare-23-year-old-in...
I could swipe your phone and go make purchases with it. iPhone thefts would be off the charts
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Sure, but this site is organized around the emotion of curiosity, which flamewars trample.
If they got laid off, they'd write about how they lost jobs.

Billions of people still must work in offices. These probably get paid more than others who work in similar conditions
The UK has 500+ confirmed cases. It’s safe to assume the virus is widespread in the population. You’ll have the same numbers as Italy in a few weeks. There is no way to avoid that outcome.
Sure, you can randomly shotgun a bunch of potential solutions and hope for the best, but any systematic improvement process relies on quantitative measures and root cause analysis.
Not doable unless Apple also wanted to delay release of the iPhone. New iPhone means a new iOS which means new APIs, and Apple wants those APIs in developers' hands as soon as possible.
You can email the mods using the footer Contact link to fix the year and they'll do so. (I emailed them this time.)
Nailed it, zero notes.
They're not 'complaining' about the amount in the way that you're thinking.

They're suggesting that the severity of such a bug warrants a larger payout, because not doing so creates possible incentives for future explorers to consider selling these sorts of things on the black market.

This person may be satisfied, the next person that finds something similar may think twice.
Agree. In fact, actually playing the game is rather boring and frustrating. Just enjoy reading the guides and then skip the tedium of playing through.
Typical practice seems to be having a large collection of ad hoc local transformations that look for specific combinations of operations. I've only really seen more general static analysis aimed at not materializing intermediate arrays in academic research.

Expression tree IR is maybe the wrong setting to do this sort of fusion for APL. What you want for a+b+c is a 3-argument scalar function applied to a, b, and c, but you need something other than actual APL expressions for that.
Hi there thanks for the comment but this is my first blog I wrote this from experience I may have spelling mistakes that I can correct but have not had time also if you do some more research and look into what I have spoken about you will understand where I'm coming from I will be making more blogs going into more detail about things and the images were put on there to just split it up abit but thank you for pointing things out helps out more
As for the guy regretting it, the only real issue is the possibility of getting kidney disease going up from 0.1% to 1.0%. He is greatly over exaggerating the risk. You are screened for potential kidney risk factors before donating.

Your life expectancy is not affected.
Things change fast. Schools closed as of next Monday. Good on them.

Next, do movie theaters and other large gathering spots.
I think this can reasonably be described as a footgun rather than a bad design. Instance methods should relate to the state of the instance. If they don't that's a poor design choice. This is a pretty easy code smell to reject in code review.

Perhaps Java would be cleaner if it had free functions. But this isn't so different than a big class that has a pile of static methods.

C++ also addresses the "you have to wonder what members might be read or written inside the function" by encouraging the use of "const" as much as possible. You get really nice invariants preventing surprise state changes in receiver objects and other parameters through judicious use of "const", even if everything is a class or object.
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Eh, I think classes are closer to Eukaryotes having mitochondria than something as fundamental as cells. Cells seem to be a prerequisite for complex life while classes are definitely not a prerequisite for complex programs.
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My assumption is that it was some form of doxxing.
I think they also prescribe phosphate binders I was on "Sevelamer"

I suspect this may vary in the USA depending on your insurance it was costing the NHS about £300 per bottle (about a grand for two months) - I suspect the price in the US might be a lot more
>Don't buy from bad companies and it doesn't affect you.

Don't eat at bad restaurant and you won't get poisoned! You do not need warranty for your phone, don't buy from bad companies. We do not need safety checks for foods and medicine just don't buy from bad companies.

The issue is that companies put billions into PR, so even if Apple is a bad company it has a good image and it's products are a status symbol, the consumers can't compete with those billions.
Uranium glass. Radium-dial watches. Gas-lantern mantles of urania and thoria. Lindane. In California, denatured alcohol. The meat of the heath hen or the baiji dolphin. Opium. Caribbean monk seal oil. Spermaceti. Ivory billiard balls. Low-radioactivity steel. Most patent medicines. Old-growth wood of some kinds of tree. Chemistry kits. The Revigator. Large sheets of monocrystalline mica.

It's probably going to be more difficult to find something that is still widely used and is manufactured, but cannot be manufactured in a particular city in 1918 but not 2020. It would require deep knowledge of the industries of a particular city or of a particular industry. For example, right now I think all three of the ruling engines in the US capable of cutting a research-grade diffraction grating into glass are in the single Richardson Gratings lab in Rochester, New York, but one of them was built at MIT before 1918. So perhaps Boston (or Cambridge at any rate) was capable of producing such artifacts in 1918, but not today; but, if that is true, rigorously establishing the truth of that claim would require considerable investigation.

Similarly, many US cities have many fewer watchmakers, compounding pharmacists, and piano tuners than they had in 1918; in some cases the number is indeed zero.
Most likely because this is a general notice and when situations are boring their bureaucracy can take them 6 months.
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I went there too, trip of a lifetime. Of course, the disaster tourism angle makes it hard to get too excited, especially if you've spent time in Ukraine and spoken with the people affected.

Either way, the pictures do not do justice to the true scale of this thing. You come around the corner of an old single lane road through the woods and suddenly you can see part of it. It just keeps on getting larger and larger looking as you get closer.

Our tour was allowed to climb up a few levels, but most of us chickened out at the first platform.
Thanks.

I was under the impression that it a well known saying when I first heard it, but google doesn't come up with many hits for me (and some with wrong spelling) - likely because of my google bubble / history.

Is this a common/well-known saying?
The whole hospitality / entertainment industry is going to be hurting. I know pretty much all conventions in mini-convention center attached to my building are canceled.

Lay-offs seem inevitable and you are right most people have no safety net.

Plus lack of sick leave...

Now Andrew Yangs universal basic income would be useful.
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I'm not a doctor just spreading the word as to what has helped me and tons of others. It may or may not work for everyone but eating healthier is something every being on the planet knows that's the best thing to do for overall good health. I can't see how it can hurt you to eat healthier, but again I'm not a doc.
At risk of sounding like a jerk, I agree and think this whole reaction is overblown.

A vacancy has been opened up. That will trigger numerous consequences across the system. Yes, every time you observe such consequences, you will be reminded of its cause -- the roommate's death. But it's unrealistic to expect every other subsystem not to do anything that reminds you of that death, which, as far as I can tell, is the extent of this email's "wrongdoing".

"Woe is me, how dare you, the housing system, refer to my roommate's death as just another vacancy." Come on, now.
This strategy could be helpful for future pandemics, if more governments learned to be much more proactive about public health. In other words, we can forget about this strategy.
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Perhaps the "Go Lions!" valediction is insensitive, but that's all.
Copying from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22562362

The part of Italy hit also has air quality, per aqi searches, that is comparable to the region in China that was hit hard.

Have people looked that it is not age, but baseline damage to your lungs that is the main factor in serious cases? Older people will have more exposure to local air pollution, just from having lived longer. That existing damage can be what contributes to complications, right?
The psychology of Donald Trump is no small trigger.
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Yup gotta keep those numbers down, right?

But seriously, the only way to get ahead of this is to test everyone. Didn't you learn anything in epidemiology?
It depends on the part of the US you live in. In Florida (where I am from) air conditioning is common. In Boston its only common in offices.

If he reduces spread, it will be helpful on the margin and may help flatten the curve
Well yeah if your comparison is that the person's morals allow them to just turn around and sell it in the black market, maybe they could've paid more. But the reality of HackerOne is that most people are really just doing it as a hobby or side project that happens to generate cash.

Some people build 10 different static website generators, others do bug bounties. It doesn't mean they'd go on to sell these exploits and risk going to jail.
Some contractors. My gf started as a contractor at FB in January and she is now working from home and was asked not to come in unless it was absolutely necessary (she was in yesterday to pick up some gear).

But she's not in moderation or anything; she's a research scientist. So there may be a class system involved.
Part of the problem is the uncanny valley of emails that look human-written, but aren’t. Nobody expects, eg, a piece of hospital equipment to display empathy when a patient dies. It can just beep and display HR 000. But people expect an email that’s not obviously a form to be composed with empathy for the receiver.

So you can improve it with either more empathy or more automated-form design.
The 3rd one makes sense, the first two are system questions rather than device questions. In an open system there may be multiple service providers who's security should be judged separately from the security of a device.
Thanks, I just pushed the fix!
I disagree. Both the email and the alternative you mentioned sound callously insensitive to me. The school should not let either of these situations take place. This notice and the handling of the housing situation should have gone to a properly-trained school administrator handle with sensitivity.
Some people have a natural ability to repair teeth - I'm one of them. I've never had a dentist find a cavity in my mouth, though I've had perhaps a half-dozen cavities over the years. (I'm in my 50s.) When that happens, I just get double up on brushing (I usually just do two quick brushings a day), and the cavities heal over within a week or so.

I realize I'm fortunate, but my teeth do heal cavities on the rare occasions I get them. I haven't been to a dentist in over 35 years (my Mom paid for the last visit!), and with the exception of the inside of my bottom front teeth (where a small amount plaque flakes off every couple of months), I have no significant plaque buildup or discoloration. So, long story short, this is definitely possible, and should be inducible in others once we understand the mechanism.
From what I understand MS never had a problem using tools that weren’t the ones they give to their developers. They used perforce while selling SourceSafe for example. I don’t think they used Winforms or WPF much either except in maybe a few projects. I always wondered what would have happened if they had made the UI libraries Office uses available to third party devs or beefed up MFC so Office could be written with it.
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I think there are several reasons, but one big one might be that the coronavirus has a relatively quick physiological impact on the person, where the virus can spread to others.
I believe the flu virus is susceptible to UV exposure which may correlate to warmer weather?

As explained to me by an M.D. this is why flu infections go down in the summer
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Just use keycloak.
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Are NoSQL DB's like Mongo or Dynamo still popular and viable options for a database? It seemed as if a year ago everyone was advocating for them. I see less of that now, but I don't see anyone giving me a legitimate reason not to use them either.
isn't dropping out far more likely than a sad event?
How could it though? Without (bazel) BUILD files, it couldn't even know how to build everything.
> It could be that measures less severe than "masks and gloves and stay away from each other" are enough to bring R0 below 1.

That is a very good point. I think you're right, focusing on R0 is the right thing and that might just be the key since estimated R0 was ~1.x-3.x, so perhaps masks, gloves and some common sense can indeed bring it down to <1.
I think the GP is suggesting that as soon as you are moderating speech, a powerful moderating authority can quickly lose trust by deleting discussions. Or it could be that the moderating authority already is untrusted so deletions legitimate or not are always suspect.
We have plenty of toilet paper in the US – so why are people hoarding it?
"Testing is NOT a solution. Testing will not make a sick person better. ... Tracking this is a waste of resources"

This is just wrong on so many levels.

First, on an individual level, if doctors know you're infected with COVID-19, and your illness is severe enough, they might be willing to try an experimental treatment (like chloroquine) that they wouldn't for seasonal influenza or some other illness.

You might also be offered to participate in one of the hundreds of research studies that are ongoing in trying to find a treatment for this disease. You would not be a candidate for those studies unless they knew that you did in fact have COVID-19.

If doctors know you are infected with COVID-19, they are also more likely to isolate you and wear protective equipment that is essential to keep the disease from spreading to our precious medical personnel and vulnerable hospital populations.

Then, on the public health level, we need to understand how this disease is spreading, who is the most vulnerable and who is the least vulnerable and why. We also need to understand who has recovered and why they've done so, and if people have gotten sick again from re-infection, and why. Alternatively, maybe people have had been re-exposed to the disease but not gotten sick. Why is that?

We need to effectively plan for future outbreaks, to allocate precious resources to places that are the most affected, to quarantine areas that are hardest hit.

None of that can be done unless we have a better grasp on who has the disease and who doesn't.

Testing is critically important for all of this and more.

To advocate for the abandonment of testing simply because it's not perfect is madness. It's better to drive with one eye open than both eyes closed.
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>It's hard for me to think of a situation where a dorm-room vacancy-notification email to a student would be a good idea. I can think of only sad situations that would produce a vacancy, in addition to the one in the article (for example, someone having to quit or pause college due to a family crisis, or running out of money to pay for college, or flunking out.)

Not true, this happened to me because my roommate found a different dorm hall he preferred and requested a move to it. (Similarly, deciding that you'd rather be in an apartment off campus.)

Hey, maybe that was, in part, driven by how he couldn't stand me. Still, not something I'd call "sad".
Maybe try:

1. Start -> Settings

2. Network & Internet -> wifi

3. Find the WiFi adapter, and click 'Advanced options' link

4. Set 'Random Hardware Addresses' to 'off'

On Android (well, at least on Pixel), this can be turned off on a per-wifi-network level, so you can turn it off for your home network, but still have it on (default) for all others.
I think the real reason behind the ruling is here:

> ... the German Weather Service, based in Offenbach, Hesse, had exceeded the legal mandate for its activities with this offer ...

In other words, if DWD's mandate had included offering this service to the public then it wouldn't have matter that it undermined competition. Even if you think a service like this ought to be subsidized, it isn't a good idea to have rogue government departments "competing" with privately funded alternatives at public expense on their own initiative.
> Re: disclosure - a redacted disclosure will be fine, but we'll need to hold off for a little bit while we perform our investigation. We'll keep you updated in the meantime, and once we've concluded there wasn't a customer impact we can disclose this. Thanks for your patience!

Does this mean they wouldn't want to disclose it if the same exploit was used against users by another hacker?
And let us consider how 'rash' a conclusion you are making when you assume that that is literally the only thing I ever read, apparently, as opposed to merely one of the most egregious, and ignore that I don't feel the need to reiterate the many excellent objections, theoretical and practical, which refute Marxism and show that it provided little to the world except error, in what is a page about myself and not Karl Marx.
They may not have a choice, depending on how things are going in China.
Maybe I was too harsh but I do get tired of hearing about Patrick O'Brien. Frederick Marryat was the real deal as a sailor. He even devised the flag signaling system, Marryat's Code. He was the real deal as a writer as well.
Also, spreading of flu during "flu season" is marked by holidays when long distance travel happens. This causes slightly different strains of the flu to be brought into regions where people do not have a natural defense to that strain.