skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes, recall the era of 'Your password must contain at least 8 characters and one numeric character'. So you can get rid of all the passwords under 8 characters when you run your dictionary attack, and put a 1 on the end of every password that doesn't already contain any (since everyone just adds the digit 1 to their normal password when that happens). Want your users to use a symbol? They will put a dot.

Sigh. Shoutout to all of the people who's passwords end with 1. or .1

Time makes it worse - since all of the sites in that era had roughly the same rules about passwords, people adapted their passwords and just always used a password with dot one on every site. So the goal of protecting passwords from dictionary attacks became completely moot.

I mean, it's not as bad as I make it sounds but still. And as always, relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/936/
With Gates' departure, the Board will consist of 12 members, including John W. Thompson, Microsoft independent chair; Reid Hoffman, partner at Greylock Partners; Hugh Johnston, vice chairman and chief financial officer of PepsiCo; Teri L. List-Stoll, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Gap, Inc.; Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft; Sandra E. Peterson, operating partner, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice; Penny Pritzker, founder and chairman, PSP Partners; Charles W. Scharf, chief executive officer and president of Wells Fargo & Co.; Arne Sorenson, president and CEO, Marriott International Inc.; John W. Stanton, chairman of Trilogy Equity Partners; Emma Walmsley, CEO of GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK); and Padmasree Warrior, founder, CEO and president, Fable Group Inc.

SO DIVERSE.
We did the opposite in Seattle and have seen impressive results. In 2014, we voted--in the city, after a countywide measure failed--to tax ourselves to buy a whole lot more service hours from the county transit agency. Originally this was because slumping sales tax income was going to force the county to cut service but, instead, sales tax income came roaring back and the city was able to buy so much extra service from the county that we hit the limit for number of buses, places to put them, and drivers to drive them.

Routes that had been 15-minute some of the day and dropping to 30-minute or an hour on weekends (or did not run at all) were upgraded. Major trunk routes, not just ones to downtown but crosstown routes and routes through underserved areas, got upgraded to sub-10-minute frequency during peak commute and many now run all day at no less often than every 15 minutes. Add in two new light rail stations opening in the densest part of the city and ridership has been up.

But, of course, no good thing goes untouched. Last year, statewide voters approved an initiative that guts Seattle's ability to tax ourselves for transit ("$30" car tabs, which are nothing of the sort since even that initiative doesn't reduce vehicle registration costs to $30). If the initiative is upheld--still in doubt because the sponsor of the initiative is not known for writing initiatives that are legally sound, because if they stayed in effect he wouldn't get paid to keep running them--it's going to not only blow a hole in our light rail construction but also cut local bus service by 20-30%.

In any rate, we've proven that if you invest in good service that runs a lot of the time, people will use it.
please share when you're done, we've started using Zoom and it's unusable for any non trivial feature on my linux machine.
Whichever poster it was the other day saying that this was the optimal time to send out bad news as a company seems to have been astute.
Thanks for posting this. I was initially very negative about the UK strategy yesterday, but on reflection today I think they may have a very sensible long term approach to the situation, although highly risky to balance correctly.
>even if single payer is magically wonderful, it doesn't necessarily make a natural disaster like this cheaper to deal with.

But...it does?

Healthcare is more expensive across the board in the US than South Korea. If all the same care was delivered in the US as has and will be in South Korea, it would still be more expensive in the US.

This is like arguing that a hundred of one thing that costs five dollars in South Korea is the same as a 100 of one thing that costs ten dollars in the US.
Employees usually receive shares as comp, don't they?

I will say that the horror stories and bad press coming out of the video gaming industry will possibly have a chilling effect for new grads who would otherwise jump straight into it. Eventually management will run out of non-union workers to hire. Or the non-union workers themselves will demand better treatment.
Now applies to the full region, Quim Torra (president of Catalonia) announced it today, you can read it in any Spanish news site
I would guess that Bill Gates has been looking to do this for a while now, and this is just a good time PR-wise. It won't tank the stock anymore than it already has because the market's crashing, and people have other stuff to worry about.
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Not trying to be snarky, but what rights do unions have that others don't?
Maybe you eradicated them just by telling them to leave?
Notes from UCSF Expert panel – March 10
Those were wars against nouns, with no real focus.
The good SaaS times will end and challenges are coming
Whole Foods Suggests That Workers Share Paid Time Off During Coronavirus
How does the DJIA prevent future deaths from 2019-nCov?
Currently on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22570909
Isn't it optional? I guess it can be turned off in Android settings, but I don't know, because I actually want it.

What infuriates me, on the other hand, is that since some Android version the fucking thing demands me to enter the PIN after some time (72 hours, I guess) of successfully using fingerprint-lock only. And I don't think you can turn it off in the settings, I tried, I didn't find a way. And this is really stupid, both because it's not their fucking business if I don't worry about my device security so much, and because the attack vector it protects from is exotic to say the least: so the attacker already has my fingerprints, is successfully using them for the last 3 days to unlock the phone, didn't let the phone to be turned off during that time, but somehow still didn't steal all my data and can only do that after 72 hours after last I unlocked my phone with a PIN? Fuck you, Google, or whoever thought this is a good idea.
That doesn't work anymore. I wanted to get access to some old emails after I let my account lapse. Recreated the same account with same password: completely empty.
Was thinking about it. I think at the end we go back to pay the "master" to train the junior.

Why? If computers, ai etc take over more and more "simple" tasks. You won't need a junior anymore.

You only take one if you get paid..
That is not the point. Consumption based charging would be fine and which is exactly what we had before. These 'unlimited' plans are not that. These are a free pass to ditch your more 'undesirable' customers onto your competition. Yes, that can be because they use more, but also because they use less of your 'value-added' high margin services, because they use 'non-mainstream' data (less edge-cached), less data for which you receive kickbacks, consume not more but at peak times, or simply because you do not like them for whatever.
Wren (YC S19) is hiring engineer #1 to help build solutions to climate change
There are an infinite number of valid offsets, so you just keep looking until you find one that's sufficiently compressible, e.g.
10^10^10+42
Surprised to see the author suggest that the C64 keyboard did not include the graphics glyphs on the keys.

Both the VIC-20 and the C64 both had them, albeit printed on the front vertical face instead of the horizontal face like the PET.

Moreover, the VIC-20 and the C64 keys include the box glyphs as well so you could see what character you’d get via CTRL and the ‘C=‘ (“Commodore”) key.

The Wikipedia page* states PETSCII includes 192 characters, but the author seems to suggest it’s at most a 7-bit charset. I was a little surprised to find that out after reading the article.

Fun walk down memory lane.

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETSCII
From what I remember of Laozi, he also describes entering an indescribable state of mind. Zhuangzu also explores themes of accepting the world as is, and accepting death.
The optimist in me wants to believe that this means he's about to be appointed as the head of the national coronavirus response.

There's probably no better qualified person in the world to manage the coordinated effort.
Archived copy that works in EU:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200313212516/https://www.chica...
But the security hole is not that you can access someone else’s email messages.. it’s that you can do ‘I forgot my password’ flow for accounts associated with an email address that was previously owned by someone else!
It doesn't matter whether the creator underwrites their own costs or a corporation does it, the same problem applies. If those who fund creative works cannot collect returns on their investment they will stop funding the work.
Oh, come on. Are we actually going to be on the side of these huge corps that nickel and dime us for everything? There's better hills to die on.
"never had to deal with a war on US soil since Lincoln"

That should have a footnote. Pancho Villa's División del Norte invaded the US in a raid on Columbus, NM in 1916. The Japanese Army occupied the small and remote Aleutian islands of Attu and Kiska during WWII. These are both minor incidents, hence a footnote.

If we expand "US soil" beyond the U.S. continent (or the 50 states), then the Japanese occupations of the Philippines, Guam and Wake Island should also count.

The Commonwealth of the Philippines was not fully independent from the US. Guam is an organized territory of the US, and Wake Island is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the US. (I'm not sure about their exact territorial status in WWII though.)
Even if we go with this strategy, pressure won't be kept off the NHS and they need to start building extra hospitals extensively right now:

Maybe 10% of cases are serious from what I read (rough estimate). If their plan is for 40 millions of us to get this then this means 4 million people in need of hospital treatment.

They would need to "flatten the curve" over several years for the NHS to be able to absorb this.

Apparently the UK currently has about 6.6 ICU beds per 100,000 people, i.e. less than 5,000 ICU beds in total.
Friday afternoons are generally a time when they'll dump out bad news.
Try to order groceries online for delivery or pick up. Same with Walmart or Target or use Amazon.
Interviews and onboarding have gone remote, otherwise business as usual.

We have new starters scheduled for next week, and this is the first time we’re onboarding people remotely. Sure is going to be interesting :-)
Link: meetophelia.com
That sort of data while it doesn't prove hydroxychloroquine did it, it does give some hope. If it was the other way that they - that they'd treated everyone with that and had a bad death rate then that would pretty much prove it didn't work.

Another interesting bit of data along those lines is the Chinese added chloroquine to their their treatment guidelines on feb 19th and their death rate dropped about 3 or 4x shortly after https://neutron-assets.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/img/c...
Why on earth would he be the most qualified person for that?
Uh yeah, especially on the 4. Tineye shows they're stock photos, which seems incredibly shady because you know the quotes are totally fabricated as well. This seems very opportunistic, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but opportunism + shadiness is a bad look.
This is why they were masks in Asia. The problem is we don’t have enough masks so we need to save them for healthcare workers.
His foundation has also been fairly active in the response to COVID-19 ($100M spending commitment so far), I wonder if he'll be taking a more direct role in the foundation's response to it: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/TheOptimist/coronavirus
I just double-checked, searching my email archives from everything from Envoy, a common front-desk app. Some of these places were interviews; most were just visiting somebody. All of them had NDA language, including these companies: Asana, Blink Health, Lever, Lyft, NerdWallet, Reddit, Slack, StitchFix, and Twilio. Just to walk in the door.

Maybe those folks are all outliers somehow. But I doubt it.
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I think these real-life anecdotes of the downside of unions are helpful data points, because they should be addressed if new unions are to form, whether in tech or elsewhere.

The important thing to remember though is that bad experiences in of themselves are no reason to write off a category of organization, or to assume no improvement is possible. Where would our industry be if we just assumed riding taxis would always be a bad experience, or making payments?
I think this is far too cynical.
The "dick moves" can probably be tracked and forbidden, but IMO it's not the main reason why modern gadgets are hard to repair. Rather if you optimize for size, price, power consumption, performance, security, IP protection, development time etc., and just don't prioritize repairability, it naturally grows up this way.
No it hasn't. China is already returning to work. America is just starting to deal with COVID19. We would literally be shutting down manufacturing right now. The fact that we have these worldwide supply chains makes us more resilient to these pandemic like shocks because they take time to spread across the globe.
DO NOT DO THIS!

This is crazy FUD that will only make the situation worse. Stockpiling rarely, if ever, helps, and overwhelmingly hurts the poor and disabled. The absolute worst of "fuck you got mine" mentality on display here. Please do not do this, and please do not advocate for this kind of panic. You are actively contributing to a terrible situation.

To repeat: there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to stockpile rations, food stuffs, common goods, etc. In no country as of yet has this been necessary, even in the most hard hit areas. Do not do this. Going to the grocery store once vs four times is not going to make the difference between you getting the virus or not, and it's absurd that people would even consider this. The virus has been in and around our communities for months now, engaging in prepper fetishes now is closing the barn door after the horses have left. Stockpiling goods is completely ineffective anyway. The majority of our supply chains are JIT, and suppliers are already rationing and metering out goods. Stockpiling is pointless, you're just going to look like an idiot in the check out line.

Limit large social engagements. Keep up mild exercise, get plenty of sleep, and eat healthily. And for the love of God wash your hands. If you have frequent contact with immunocompromised people or the elderly be more vigilant about hygiene, wear a mask, disinfect any surfaces the both of you touch frequently. Consider doing their errands for them as well.

Everyone will eventually get the virus. It's almost certain. The goal here is just to prevent a thundering herd problem with medical resources.
Likely because of the work the Gates foundation has done on infectious disease across the world.
I'm not quite sure what is "flamebait" about GP's assertion. The number of criminal investigations initiated by the IRS has dropped from 5,314 in 2013 to 2485 in 2019:

https://www.goldburdmccone.com/blog/2017/06/what-are-the-tre...
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/2019_irs_criminal_investigat...

It seems to me that white collar crime, and the increasing impunity with which its perpetrators operate in the US, should be a legitimate topic of debate here on HN.

If GP had written "we need a functioning public school system", would you have considered this "flamebait" as well? That kind of assertion seems to be basically an article of faith among the YC crowd.
I mean, it is pretty diverse for a corporate board. About a third women, couple people of color including the CEO and chairman. That's well ahead of the curve.
Not sure he'd be the most qualified, but he seems like a person who take advice from knowledgeable people well and has the experience and current position of leadership to take advantage of it. He also lives right near a huge local outbreak, and so has obvious personal incentive to make sure that it gets cleaned up ASAP.
I think 3d asset creation is probably the most game-specific role, and even that is something that is used by special effects companies and design firms.

Game industry working conditions are generally significantly better than VFX and can be better than design firms looking for similar skillsets.
I think it has to do with the amount of jazz music he has performed over the years.
One of the motivators behind GOAL (Lisp dialect used on Jak & Daxter games) is to allow programming the PS2's various processors very close to the metal in a single language.

The Jaguar might benefit from a GOAL-like language of its own.
Thar guy takes out his phone and says something along the lines that the phone is way better than that, believe me.

Really? Is phone hardware capable of transmitting that far? I have hard time believing that. Processing power? Sure.
Excuse me if I have offended you, my intent was rather far from that.

The bike-shedding is to which one to pick right now, when there doesn't seem to be a clear superior choice.

I saw your suggestion as just as a bit half-baked as the ad-hoc stuff I actually use now, and the other in-chimings in the discussion. (io-ts, utility-types, runtypes, etc. all are great, but as the title indicates it feels there should be one schema system specifically designed for TS. That can be used for description and validation of all interfaces of a TS system, including incoming requests, static and runtime configuration, outgoing data, and mapping these to internal domain modeling.)
How should you handle those groceries to ensure that they're not covered with something from the delivery guy?
Just too inconvenient. I was tired of driving my teenager 15 minutes to her job, so I looked up the bus route. From our house it is basically straight down a single major road to her job. But to get there on the bus meant transferring two times and would take her an hour and a half. Insane.
Maybe not the (emphasis) but his foundation is doing a tremendous amount of work in medicine and disease. He has a lot of knowledge, experience and contacts to set something up.
How could an accommodation be "reasonable" if it didn't actually address your specific needs?

A lawyer would be able to give you a more definitive answer as to what constitutes "undue hardship" and what your employer's obligations would be.

> Their current work from home stance is "it is not currently possible to allow all employees to work remotely"

That it's impossible for "all employees" is irrelevant. You'd only be asking for an accommodation for a single employee, yourself, not a change in their overall policy.
I think it’s the same as the effect of a really good book and a really good tv film adaptation.

I can count on one hand where the TV/Film adaptation lived to my imagination - most recently been the expanse and altered carbon both of which absolutely nailed the source material.
In my neighborhood something like this is already getting started on Nextdoor. Not a great tool for organizing people, but it's better than nothing.
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Ask HN: How can we (developers) help in the fight against CoronavirusPandemic?
Technology is contributing in shaping the business, but how can it help in the fight of current problems such [Corona virus](https://weileizeng.github.io/Open-Source-COVID-19/)?.

I can see many ways to help limit the spread, e.g:

- Fighting misinformation
- Educating people on what to do
- Drug Discovery

I would like to know if you have any idea on apps, website or organizations working on fighting this virtus.

For those who live in China, Iran and Italy. People in other part of the world would like to know about some of the local apps that helped, these apps can be localized.
> There are more potential employees than potential employers

This is exacerbated by employers either overtly colluding with each other (as in the lawsuit several years ago over tech companies having an agreement not to hire each other's employees) or simply setting compensation to "industry averages" and following "industry best practices".

To the extent that every big tech company behaves the same as every other big tech company, there's effectively only one big tech employer.
The link skips over the part explaining that this is part of a series about how Another World was implemented on many platforms: http://fabiensanglard.net/

Also, in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiq0OL8rzso&t=2m the person who implemented the SNES version tells the story first-hand.
The brain, like the objects you described, poses no mystery to physics. There isn't anything about the atoms in the brain that suggests there would be consciousness, or indeed, anything in physics that predicts consciousness arising, the way that the properties of any other macro object can be understood in terms of physics.
Sorry to hear about the loss of your girlfriend. This is an amazing way to honor her life, and important work you're doing to help solve a painful problem for millions of people. I've lost a family member to this disease, and have friends who have as well. I'm going to share this with someone I know who is also battling opioid addiction today. Thank you for building this.
Large scale tissue damage (to the lungs) can lead to a change in blood chemistry that disrupts the hearts rythm.

Remember doctor houses infarcted muscle leading to cardic arrest?
Among porteins and shredded cell dna-rna, potasium is disloged from dead tissue, and weakens/disables the powerplants in muscles. The effect may be hidden beneath the general achiness of a viral malaise.

https://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/hypokalemia#1
In New York, specifically, it's not much of a mystery - the incredibly close stop spacing and inefficient boarding procedures make it so the bus is barely faster than walking.

Most buses stop almost every block, they board through a single door, and they use the two slowest payment methods available in almost any system (cash and magnetic strip cards).

However, I don't expect this to change anytime soon, because many existing riders are very invested in keeping buses the way they are. To be clear, their concerns are valid - for a variety of reasons, it may be difficult for many people to walk an additional block to their local bus stop, vs. having a stop in front of their building. Many of the current riders are also long-time residents who are more likely to go to community board meetings, contact their city council members, and protest changes in other ways. If you're a policymaker, it's hard to weight the costs that would be imposed on this vocal set of people vs. the benefits that would accrue to a much less vocal group of people who would benefit from a faster and more consistent bus.
Wikipedia is always is good start and it is better written than what I can type just now. Take a look specially at the "limitations" section. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossless_compression#Limitatio...
Whats the advantage or strategy behind having someone from Marriott?
Because he's been managing large scale responses to infectious diseases via his foundation for a decade or so now.
We use Expensify and I often wonder if any adults work there.
Strategies for Shifting to a Work from Home Model During Coronavirus Outbreak
"No, I don't take responsibility at all," said the President of the United States.

JFC.