skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I notice the author doesn't even pitch any improvements like writing their ideal version of that email.

Because I think they, too, know that they are making an impossible ask. They may have even tried but realized it's too sheepish to encode some one-size-fits-all Hallmark card into an automated message of a system that simply informs you that it will be assigning you a new roommate.

"Condolences!"

"We [, the developer who wrote this automated message 2 years ago,] are sorry!"

I think the opposite approach is better and more sincere: remove all half-attempts at sounding human from automated notifications, no pretense or deceit. Just a computer doing its job under the same expectation of empathy and understanding as your electric toothbrush.
Eh, I honestly don't think he has to care how much any news would marginally affect the stock or not. Unless he actually cares if he or Bezos is the #1 wealthiest person -- both being anyways astronomically rich at the end of the day.

I didn't in fact even know he still had a role in Microsoft. My understanding was first Ballmer and then Nadella took over running the show years ago. So I don't think it's not even going to to affect investor sentiment that much.
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> What if they forget or do it tactlessly?

Then they are incompetent at their job, and require either better tools/support or replacing with a competent professional.
By definition it's not going to be diverse for the economically part of socioeconomic since no matter where people began if they're on Microsoft's board they're doing quite well. In terms of where they began, looking up a few of them real quick, a couple of them are immigrants, a few of them (including the chairman) seem to have gone to public high schools and or universities. I won't deny that most of them didn't start out with head starts, and of course all of them are 1%ers now probably by board pay alone, but this isn't a super homogeneous board, especially compared to the rest of corporate america
Prior to this, and at Kickstarter, there were no high-profile tech unions. Now there is at least two. Now you might not consider that substantially more, but that's still definitely more.
Grandiose politicized provocations are flamebait. There's no actual information there. Your comment does contain some, and I wouldn't have replied to it that way.

Sensationalized political fights are one of the worst poisons here, so when an account is showing signs of using HN for that, it's not good. Substantive discussion of divisive questions (which your comment is more touching into) is a quite different thing, and much more likely to be ok.
I really hope we don’t start getting into a parade of dialogs going “X app requests permission to use Y”.

I get why it’s important from a privacy-perspective, but most people aren’t going to care. They’ll just mash the “Allow” button until they get what they want.
Yep, I think that makes sense for Basecamp users. We're differentiated by the fact that you don't need to be a paid user in a closed ecosystem to be able to check in. Everyone is already an email user and only the asker is a paid user if they're asking enough questions to enough people. We have smaller teams in product development using Basecamp but aren't paying for other teams (operations, sales) to access our projects since they're just design/development focused
For a union, it's concerning when some things are more tailored to the whims, edge cases, personal niches of the most vocal, rather than shielding the common denominator of the cooperative from management's business decisions.

I'd like to explain what I like, and what I'm concerned about:

> Employees at major American tech and game companies have grown increasingly active and outspoken about workplace issues,

Very union related, that's what unions are for.

> including sexual assault and harassment,

Already unlawful. They are addressable to the NLRB and civil legal system.

> ageism,

That's vague, but there are protections against this

> unequal pay,

Not sure what this means, pay between workers of the same level of seniority performing the same responsibilities? Overtime? A lot of things factor into equal pay. A junior employee isn't going to make as much as a 20 year employee.

> “crunch time” (i.e. long-term overtime and overworking),

Looks right. These are covered in union contracts

> poor treatment of contract workers,

If they have union membership? Wouldn't it be about defining a standard of what a salaried employee is?

> inadequate racial and gender diversity,

What does that mean? Inadequate to whom? What makes those characteristics worthy but other characteristics not?

I find it very hurtful and insensitive to people who struggle, suffer, overcome odds, from difficult upbringings, but not member of some class or facet. Why reduce the struggle, character, and worth of someone down to those things? Where does this come from?

What does this say to your colleagues who don't have these traits? Do they have life easy? Have you walked a mile in their shoes?

> and lack of transparency and inclusion in decision-making around controversial contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

That is not the kind of decision I think employees should be deciding. Though if a larger organization wanted to allow someone to move somewhere else in the org, that seems fair
Are you implying that you think kratom should not be available otc? If so you’re completely going against your mission of helping people get off opiates. I can add to the pile of anecdotes that I personally know 10-15 people who’ve used kratom to kick serious years-long addictions to oxycontin.
I wonder if Walmart completely thought out what is going to happen when they turn their parking lots into drive-up testing, implying that every sick person with a fever is going to be in a Walmart parking lot soon.
> Also alarming is all the Apple crap where the hard drive, that lasts at most 2 years

Source? I’ve never experienced this using even low quality hard drives. If you’re including SSDs, then between 15 to 20 Apple products over the past decade plus have not had an issue within 2 years.
Good point, I wasn't thinking about altars. They absolutely have the character that you mention.

Conversely, in NetHack you can pretty much ignore which specific god you worship over the course of the game, which is less true for Crawl.
It's a little known fact, but the altar in every Catholic church contains relics of a saint. But almost all of them contain relics from relatively modern saints, not the bones of St. Peter or something.
I started programming in VB6 so this is a little sad, but I'm actually surprised it has made it this far. I see C# everywhere but can't remember the last time someone told me they were using VB.
Thanks for the reply! So what I don't understand is, in your explanation, you appear to tacitly assume the rest of the brain matter is (in some sense, maybe statistically) "[mostly] independent" from the electrons we're measuring. As if, maybe they were behaving independently before, and only now have become a teeny tiny epsilon bit entangled due to the entangled electrons they're interacting with. But I don't understand what this assumption is based on; it seems to directly contradict the Big Bang idea. Presumably we all came from the same Big Bang, and were all completely entangled with each other at that point, with everything tied directly to everything else. Why should it be that after the particles got away from each other, this would stop being the case? I just don't understand. To me, if literally everything in the universe was entangled at some point, it will be forever—to my understanding, there's no way to "reduce" entanglement unless you have a source of particles with "less" entanglement to interact with, right? Which I understand would not be the case in this universe, because everything would be fully entangled with everything else.
Can anyone who has watched the whole thing give a summary for those of us not sure if we should dedicate a full 90 minutes to this?
I think economically they'll have boards with people that started out at different points in life, probably vastly skewed towards people that had head start of some form or another, and you can probably tease apart economic diversity through figuring out where people started. In terms of in the present day though, the pay for being on the board is alone enough to knock these members into the 1%, and by definition they've succeeded in the current system, so I don't know if it's physically possible to have that sort of diversity
Go make some nice word macros in VBA =)
I hope nobody uses it like that! One thing we've done is made it so the recipients of questions have to explicitly subscribe to them, otherwise they'll never actually receive the question in their email. They can do that by just clicking a "subscribe to question" link that goes out when the question is created or users are added
This is basically treating GoL as a one-way function for which you want to search for inputs that produce a desired output. Sounds just like cryptocurrency. Is there a GoL coin yet? I know there are tons of searches for novel structures but couldn't find a crypto in my quick searching.

Recently just discovered Cure Coin which is a crypto based on folding@home units of work. So that made me wonder about it for GoL too...
The end of Visual Basic.NET, that is. "Classic" Visual Basic has been ended for a long time now.

(And VB.NET is much less of a loss -- it was never as popular as classic VB. Even when it first came out, it was clear that if you were a VB developer, Microsoft really wanted you to move to C#; VB.NET always felt like an afterthought, a fig leaf they could use to say they really weren't abandoning VB when they obviously were.)
I think what they meant was that the board does not usually interact a lot with employees, or in a directly employee-facing way. Usually directors will interact with the board, both in terms of informing them and soliciting advice, and that turns into company direction, which funnels down through multiple layers before getting to ICs.

Few people can have more impact on the company than a board, but it's very typically abstracted away.
Marriott is a typical example of the type of large corporate customers who buy a lot of Microsoft products and services. Having customers on the board is one way to help validate market strategy and gain insight into future IT purchasing trends.
Worst-case coronavirus models show US toll
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I just read that as "aggravated".

So, I get aggravated answers in my email. Yay?
Yes, look at their numbers: more than 5000 ICU beds (and more being added) and less than 1000 in use.

https://www.linkiesta.it/it/article/2020/03/11/italia-corona...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/italy-coronaviru...

https://www.newnotizie.it/2020/03/12/coronavirus-posti-letto...
And that's fine — but it still empowers people who do care.
Seems to be taking off, and saving HN users $500. See you there monday.
Clever. Could be useful for people who do a lot of email.
Interesting - I thought that mapping apps on smartphones would change the trend of decline at least a little. One of the challenges of buses is knowing which routes are which, which is often far more difficult to figure out than subway if you are not a regular user. But mapping apps say, "catch the XYZ bus at this stop and get off here" and real-time bus prediction apps that tell you when the bus coming solve those problems. I guess that hypothesis was wrong (though it has been true for me personally that I take the bus a lot more often).
People will likely not flip sides but might be disillusioned enough to not vote or vote third party
Can't read. Some popup banner.
Wouldn’t that be more of a problem if security is standardized though? If everyone has the same security, the same flaw makes everyone vulnerable. Multiple competing security types diversify the pool and prevent one flaw from causing all devices being susceptible to the same attack.
HTTP/3 for Everyone [pdf]
Show HN: Convert dates between timezones using emoji
But he came into that position because he's rich, not because of any particular expertise, and he's been able to accomplish more than others for that same reason. He's done a lot of good, but there is not really any oversight into what his foundation does and no reason to believe he's doing the best possible job. He's just pouring a ton of money into a lot of very hard problems.

If I had to pick someone, I would probably go with the guy who's already done this exact job less than two years ago and has experience with both global health and government service: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Timothy_Ziemer
I want to name and shame Verizon (as they own Yahoo) for this shitty policy.

I lost 15 years of memories and documents. I didn't login to YahooMail for a year, and it was all gone when I tried to login after that. Everything was gone without a single warning to my secondary email or linked mobile number.

I understand they simply wanted to get rid of all free users asap. Someone at Verizon management came up with this stupid idea of deleting all inactive accounts. What a way to ruin a brand.

Not sure if it's related but they also have a Customer Data Security Breach Litigation Settlement ongoing. If you had a Yahoo account at any time between January 1, 2012 and December 31, 2016 and are a resident of the United States or Israel, you may submit a claim for a cash payment up to $358.80 , and You may additionally provide documentation or proof to receive reimbursement of up to $25,000.00 in out-of-pocket losses. [1]

[1] https://yahoodatabreachsettlement.com/
Could you explain more by what you mean by Facebook requires a third party certification? What type of third-party certification and why are you having trouble getting this certification?
As a software giant Microsoft's products intersect most parts of most economies. A hotel chain has its own technology needs and has views of the technology needs of its customers.

Whether a high-placed member of Marriott has specific insights to Microsoft I don't know, but I don't think it takes much imagination to fill in hypothetical reasons the person could be helpful.
This is really useful! Nice work on keeping the service simple and thanks for the really clear data usage detail. I really like this feature in Basecamp, but not every situation warrants a project management tool.

Edit: any plans to allow sending the email to everyone? It can just be forwarded in the meantime, of course.
Sorry, I didn't realise that other friend in this incient was Steve Wozniak specifically. I saw his interview after his return to Apple.
It's always mostly about business/decision making, once you surround yourself with competent people who you can trust - you don't need to be a world-class expert.
> Recent versions of Chrome show a prompt when websites do this in javascript.

Yep, and here is the spec for others who might be wondering about how it works:

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/03/clipboarda...
One could built UV-Lightmasks.

A transparent hose, add UV-LEDS to sterilize the flowing air.
Dry the air at the start with silica gel.
All that is needed then is a battery.

The silica gel can be heated every once in a while to loose any moisture bound it and sterilize virus particles attached to it.
Great now I have to choose a new word. And make sure it doesn't say aggravated anywhere hah
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Yup I have been wondering about this too. If my community has 10 beds and 2 docs what is anyone supposed to do if there are 100 positives?

Other weird thought I had was how does security deal with some lunatic who gets tested positive and runs around infecting others...just walks into some critical hub like a hospital and pat's everyone on the back.
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That's a major hole in web authentication...not Yahoo!'s mail service.
With exponential growth of the disease, lack of testing, and poor healthcare infrastructure in the US, that would’ve happened anyway when people needed groceries. I guess they decided they might as well cash in on some testing stations.
Uh, sorry to be that guy, but if you have no experience with lab techniques, microbiology, lab instrumentation, or analytical method validation, this isn't the sort of thing you can reasonably expect to accomplish without dedicating several years of your life to getting the necessary technical skills, to say nothing of the huge sums of money it would take to set up your own lab.

It's kind of like deciding you want to build your own 3 story house by hand. You can do it, but buying a bunch of lumber and tools is a far cry from having the necessary skill to actually build it. Science is hard.

There's also a major ethical issue about the medical implications of testing someone for a stigmatized disease if you're not clear on the validity of the test. False positives and false negatives have a major impact on your community. And hand-waving away the implications of reporting a false positive or negative with the statistical caveats of the results doesn't cut it.

Patients tend to take test results at face value, so the responsibility to of weighing the ethical ramifications of when it's strictly necessary and when it's irresponsible to administer an unreliable test for a given patient fall squarely on your shoulders. (Not that that excuses the current administration's policy of negatively biasing reporting by not testing anyone.)
> Already unlawful. They are addressable to the NLRB and civil legal system.

> That's vague, but there are protections against this

> Wouldn't it be about defining a standard of what a salaried employee is?

Unions can be an additional safety net/layer of protection/tool against these discriminations and abuses. In a time when HR departments are often derided as existing to protect the company instead of workers, and it often takes either media exposure or self-publishing (as with Susan Fowler) for discrimination against protected classes to be acknowledged, a union could be a place for the discriminated to turn to where HR reps fail. At least then you don't have to hire your own lawyer.

> unequal pay,

This might be a gender gap criticism meaning unequal pay between workers with the same title but of different genders.

> That is not the kind of decision I think employees should be deciding.

Why? The stigma of culture war and political battles aside, why shouldn't employees take part in making business decisions in general?
Can't we just "check in" to a bus stop on an app, then have the bus create a route based on that?

How about a button at each stop, with a live estimate when the bus will arrive?

Currently, the bus system is like a newspaper. Inconvenient, messy and smells bad.
I use Hangouts Meet on a daily basis with Firefox, and AFAIK everything works. Screen / window sharing, live transcripts, recording, etc. all work fine.

There was a period a few months (over a year?) ago where Hangouts Meet would reject Firefox and tell you to use Chrome, but certainly not anymore.
These have been posted recently, maybe you can join those teams

"Crowdsourced list of tech projects relating to Coronavirus" https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/ and

"Show HN: Engineering group to help medical staff against Covid-19" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22537426
These are interesting accusations to come from a throwaway account.
Deprioritization can be pretty technically hard to achieve, especially when you don't want every edge node to have to do connection tracking... Even if you solve that, you still have to set up queuing rules at every node in your very diverse network, and deal with the fact most routes will be seeing packet loss most of the time on some queues at least. Managing that is possible, but harder.

Some network architectures involve fragmenting and reassembling packets, and there it can become nearly impossible to implement 'priority' correctly.

"We limit you to 10Mbps at just one bottleneck location if you use more than 50 gigs" is far far easier to implement, not to mention easier for the business managers, and customers, to understand.
It's not clear from your post what you're implying when you say you're restricted by regulations. Are you saying they are regulations you're unable to comply with? Why?

It's also not clear what the relationship is, if any, between those regulations and third-party certification. Likewise, is third-party certification something you're unable to comply with? Why?
Pi-Hole is a DNS resolver that blocks whole domains and sub-domains.

You just need a raspberry pi.
There still aren't any high profile tech unions. Glitch is 120 people with the highest estimates. Kickstarter is 258 as of March 2020 [1]. These are small companies - medium at best. By comparison there are over a million software developers in the US [2]. And that's just one of many "tech" jobs ("Computer Systems Analyst" has another 600k, "Computer Programmer has 250k). Even if we assume that every employee at these companies work in tech roles, these companies represent less than 0.02% of the tech workforce.

1. https://craft.co/kickstarter

2. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...
Doctors are people who are trained and have experience diagnosing and treating individual patients. I'm not sure why those skills are necessary for fighting an epidemic?

The person in charge of the epidemic will not be doing patient diagnosis and care. The person will be doing some aspects of: Logistics, managing a ton of people, political wrangling, PR/media relations, setting and achieving organizational goals.

Of course some disease and medical knowledge will be required, but not being an MD doesn't seem relevant.
I agree. I have an older mbp with a glued battery and trying to get it replaced has been horrendous. Apple Store wants a lot of money and they then 'forgot' to call me when I went in with an appointment resulting in a bunch of wasted time, the authorized independent shops are super hobbled in that they have to keep the laptop for days and order a battery, and the online market for replacement batteries has been shady. It is plain and simple planned obsolescence and I really despise it. Edit: my personal laptop, a HP Elite X360, has a user-replaceable battery - I wish I could persuade my work to let me use/buy another for work stuff. Edit2: text fixes.
HTTP/2 also works to fix this, right?
I'd have full confidence in Gates taking on such a role.
Are there any particularly good interviews with Jaguar developers? I love getting into all the tiny nerdy details of old game systems.
Interesting idea. I wonder how one might easily explore it?

Google trends has data to 2004. "living nonliving"[1], aside from being a school-year detector, seems to show a 3x increase in the 2010's?

I'll also link [2], but I don't know what to make of it.

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=living%2...
[2] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=living+and+non...
I fail to see how standardizing how long products are supported and how vulnerability reports are processed would cause everyone to have less security.
Bankers Go Home, Tellers Stay: Virus Exposes Office Inequalities
Bill Gates steps down from Microsoft board to focus on philanthropy
Thanks! That's funny, I just wrote down "Ability to email all the recipients the answers" in my notes so I guess +1 for that idea.
We as a small business use IPad Pros and Google Jam Board. It’s honestly fantastic. Quick to jump into, export, and share. Especially for those moments where you only need the whiteboard for 30 seconds to get a point across