skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After the issue was resolved the reporter was asked to wait before disclosure. The reporter waited three months before asking about it again. After that there was response but it took another month the approve the disclosure.
> Then vote for a different set of politicians and leave the EU. The UK paved the way. I believe in you!

That's nice of you. I am not a leaver, I believe in European cooperation, maybe even federalization - but I don't believe in centralization.
There are people who simply can't afford or don't want to put any more than a few thousand eur into a car. The other thing is that you can buy a 10-year-old car that is in good condition, and drive it as long as its lasts.. which can be many many years. (My first car was about 20 years old when I got it for free, and my current car was more than 10 years old when I bought it -- now about 13 years, and still feels almost like brand new to me :P)

Taxes are higher depending on emissions, but it's rarely enough to offset the purchase price. For example, if you buy a stinky 90s car that emits 200gCO2/100km, tax would be around 300 eur/year today. A new car that emits 120g/100km is going to be somewhere around 150 eur.
Why not send them forward in time, to a point where it’s been fixed, and bring back the solution?
Sourcegraph CEO here. Thanks for the kind words, GitLab CEO Sid! :)

We are very happy to have Sourcegraph deeply integrated with GitLab so you can get native code intelligence right in GitLab files and merge requests (https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/11/12/sourcegraph-code-in...).

(edit: Also, just emailed the HN mods to fix the typo in the title. Someone else posted it.)
> Technically lowering the SS age doesn't cost any money either. The government controls the money supply; they could just print money and hand it out.

The government doesn’t do this though. That’s why there is confidence in the USD.
We are potentially looking at upwards of a half a million people dead. 13 months makes zero sense no matter how you slice it.
I'm wondering if China is shooting itself in the foot by being on lockdown because they may just be delaying the inevitable now that it's pandemic and at risk of becoming endemic.

If we assume this will become endemic and a vaccine is a ways off, it would seem like the best approach is to flatten the curve just under the healthcare system capacity and get it to "pass through" most of society quickly (i.e. everyone who is at lower risk gets infected and quarantines until viral shedding stops).

Doing this would allow us to return the economy back to normal as quickly as possible and prevent all the fallout from an indefinitely stopped economy. Once most people have had it, we'll essentially end up in a state of herd immunity and it becomes statistically less likely than other health concerns at-risk populations had before COVID-19 was even a thing.

Meanwhile China, being on lockdown the entire time is still susceptible to having it become a pandemic within their own population as soon as they lift the lockdown and try to return to normal because they citizens haven't had the opportunity to develop antibodies as broadly.
> Ever hear the expression "Your right to your fist only extends as far as my face?"

Equating physical violence with someone who called another a "looneytune" is completely unreasonable as they are NOT the same thing. The uncomfortable truth is, the freedom of expression guarantees the right of someone else to say something people disagree with, hurt your feelings, offend, or even make others angry.

Also, who gets to decide when someone is being a jerk? In this case, it's a group of people who are comfortable deleting almost all evidence of Eric's supposedly offensive remarks, thereby ensuring that no one can even debate the subject reasonably. That alone, would keep me from jumping to their defense even if I agreed with their actions.
I'm just trying to do the right thing.
Just lol'd at the concept of a 'verification tweet'... Seriously folks - just because someone on Twitter sounds authoritative, doesn't mean they are spouting facts.
I just got stuck on a "Loading" page with an animation of little squares falling down to form a larger square.

What exactly is this supposed to be?
I am maybe the only one opening that page, expecting to see a good design and then looked twice to the header image trying to find some hidden beauty but couldnt?

I am not a designer but somehow this header image is not what I would have expected from Apple in the last years. Is it a statement of some kind or a deign trends that I am missing?
Unless it's a very small company, or you're very senior, you possibly just aren't aware what the company is considering.

I'm reasonably senior in a large global company (I'm based in the UK) and what we are doing, versus what we are officially allowed to say that we are doing, differ pretty widely.

We are also, largely, asking most folk to keep working as usual unless there are specific reasons not too. And we are tracking all those decisions centrally.

And, although I disagree with some of what we are doing, most of it is for very good reason. We have a duty of care, both legally and morally, and, as with the government, public safety sometimes clashes with individual wishes.

Having said that, I'd be pretty surprised if we get through next week without a much larger contingent working from home, but there's an awful lot of wood to chop before that will occur.
If a payday loan required full collateral this comparison would make sense.
Wait, please explain/expound on using Zig contained within Elixir?! Is this running in or out of proc? What is your dev/edit cycle like?

I love Zig, but it doesn't have the security guarantees (yet) of Rust, so I would recommend either running it out of proc or within an in-proc Wasm environment, which actually has other interesting properties.

edit

https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/e955jw/zigler_zig_n...

https://hexdocs.pm/zigler/Zigler.html

So this is an Erlang Nif [3] which runs inside the VM, akin to JNI in Java. This also means that errant code can bring down the entire VM.

Would you be open to a fork of Zigler that targeted a Wasm environment running inside the Erlang env?

[3] http://erlang.org/doc/man/erl_nif.html
Depends on if they're done or not.
Yes, but only if it's a common practice. Doesn't work if you're an early adopter.
Hi Pete,

Some questions:

1. Is the price $5 for life? Or is that monthly fee?

2. Do you get to switch buddies if it doesn't work out?

Also, I enjoyed your interview on the IH Podcast.
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We had a similar sounding issue involving where the token is passed in the Stripe client. Are you using the API directly or through a client library? We were using Go and there was a field that was pretty clearly not needed in the documentation but pretty clearly needed to make the customer step work.
It's just a cash grab. Created yesterday, stock photos, a '50% off' deal at $5 since inception with no demo of how it works. A lot of people will pay $5 and just not think more of it, but that can turn out pretty nice in these times.

I do like the idea, but I feel that a Discord chat with separate rooms where multiple people can hang out and find eachother again would be cheaper and more useful.

Edit: Actually, if someone feels like setting one up, just ping or reply here. I'd love to join and talk to all sorts of devs from all over who are remoting. My best coworker just had his last day today so doubly interesting personally.
TL;DR, IANAL: Buzzfeed is suing both ICE and DHS because Buzzfeed FOIA'd information related to solitary confinement, and have not gotten the proper response yet. The FOIA request went out in September of 2017.

If I had to speculate, this is because Obama had a review of solitary confinement practices done in the summer of 2015, and then in January 2016 said that it was going to end in some cases. They're interested in seeing if this actually happened or not.
> Surely this should be considered a major public health emergency in itself?

Indeed. There's an episode of Sam Harris's podcast with Matt MCarthy from last summer. The episode title is The Plague Years, and they go into quite a bit of detail on this sort of thing and ruminate about how low on the radar it is for most people (if it even registers at all), despite the seriousness of the situation.
I think it's supposed to look like a laptop lid, presumably open because you are sitting somewhere teleconferencing. It definitely hasn't had the love put into it that most of their conference announcement art has, I would not be surprised if it was thrown together quickly over the past day or two as they decided to do this...
One of my podcasts recently said something that I found very fitting: Americans really love themselves some socialism when they get it.
Obviously a lot of the banned PINs are years... interestingly they start at 1956 (and end at 2015). I guess 65+ year olds are in their target demographic.
There is almost certainly no liquid black market for this bug, even though Slack is very important to lots of businesses. It had no half-life at all (the fix was one-and-done) and doesn't fit into any existing business/operational model (nobody has an infrastructure where different targeted Slack bugs are pin-compatible drop-ins).
No, this is short term lending (e.g. overnight).
An in-memory database essentially
On Mid-Career and Managers
Listen to yourself trying really, really hard to believe this lie.

(Yes, of course, strictly speaking you are correct. We're not in the strictly speaking land anymore though.)
The black market does not outbid bounties for this kind of bug.
The important sections extracted from this rather hard to read PDF:

> Solitary confinement, also known as segregation, is the total or near-total isolation of prisoners, often in small cells for 23 hours a day. The United Nations Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council has found that prolonged solitary confinement can amount to torture. Solitary confinement of more than 15 days may lead to irreversible psychological damage. ICE policies state that placement in segregation should occur only when necessary and in compliance with applicable detention standards and requires additional review and oversight of decisions to retain detainees in segregation for over 14 days.

> On September 15, 2017, BUZZFEED requested from ICE, for the time period beginning January 1, 2016, all written notices to each ICE field office director of instances when a detainee has been held continuously in segregation, and all subsequent reviews conducted by the field office director. As of October 2, 2017, ICE had acknowledged receipt of the request and granted expedited processing, but had not provided a determination or estimated completion date. During the time period of October 2, 2017, through February 26, 2018, BUZZFEED contacted ICE multiple times to obtain an estimated completion date but ICE failed to provide one. On February 26, 2018, ICE provided an estimated completion date of December 20, 2017. That date is not a typo; ICE provided an estimated completion date that was two months in the past. While no administrative appeal was required, BUZZFEED submitted an appeal on March 16, 2018. In response to the appeal, on April 4, 2018, DHS provided no estimated completion date, instead stating that “[i]n many instances, an agency cannot meet [the twenty day] time limits due to a high volume of requests, resource limitations, and other reasons,” and remanded the appeal to ICE for a direct response. ICE has provided no further response to the request and no estimated completion date.

References to exhibits omitted

TL;DR: Buzzfeed asked for a records of which detainees have been placed in solitary confinement, ICE/DHS did not respond.
Thank you, I was looking for this as well.
Congrats!

Is there plan to improve the performance of the github integration? Really was slowed down because of the slowness...
I fail to see how this really improves anything for the average consumer. Government getting involved in this sort of thing just feels like more of the same TSA-style security theater nonsense. I'd prefer my network device manufacturers focus their efforts on the actual hard stuff rather than spending time and money getting certified for some bullshit box label.
A lot of the future-proofing and high quality of the work is due to Joseph Bazalgette. The decisions made and the reasons behind them are really interesting. The Great Stink, The Princess Alice Disaster, London’s lost rivers etc. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Bazalgette
How to Delete GitHub Artifacts
No. You would still get infected from the other strain
Yeah, except that’s not true at all. SS is not in a risky position.
The worst that can happen to it is current SS receipts do not pay out enough money for the current SS recipients to live a reasonable quality of life. SS is a transfer of funds from current earners to current retirees.

People trying to scare people about SS talk about the trust fund depleting, but the trust fund is simply a bonus that was created to account for the fact that when the baby boomers started retiring, their numbers would be much greater than the numbers of working people to maintain a healthy SS system. So they set aside some additional money so the large number of baby boomers, who in their prime had to pay for a relatively smaller number of retirees, were paying some money towards their own retirement and so wouldn’t place too much of a burden when they retired.
They do provide a map download, so that could be mirrored, I suppose. Then you can view everything offline.
The design theme for WWDC2020 may be in flux currently, I imagine the graphics is going to be way more nice and involved closer to the event.
These loans have to be paid back almost immediately. Unless the people receiving social security early pay it back, you haven’t solved anything.
"Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2020 kicks off in June with an all-new online format"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22568601
It was my understanding that the $2.6 ($2.89 actually) trillion is the total asset balance. That includes everything “owed.”
for the record: yes, that was sarcasm. the "m(" is a face palm. :D
Oh right because all of our pensions systems are based on people actually dying after 60, keep forgetting that.
Since it's not clear from the title: the lawsuit is over a FOIA request related to the use of solitary confinement.

The FOIA request was first filed in September 2017. According to the complaint, ICE pushed back the deadline to complete several times, and has not responded to communication about the request since April 2018.
Covid-19 Is Nothing Like the Spanish Flu
Similar. Also discovered Docker (Compose) for local development. Didn't like it at first, because most of the projects I worked in had some huge and slow setups, but for my own projects I tried to keep it very lean and it makes development more fun.

Was using PHP / Symfony for a long time, but Django seems to have some of the kinks solved better (e.g. Django REST vs. FOSRestBundle or django-allauth vs. FOSUserBundle or django-admin vs. SonataAdminBundle).
Probably our biggest disadvantage compared with 1918 is widespread air travel.
Took me a second to wrap my head around what you were saying, so I'll point it out: they'd be pointing their CDN account to your origin server, and making requests through it.
Sure, here's a compressed animated GIF:

http://gregorywieber.com/assets/images/art/3d-cells.gif
> focus their efforts on the actual hard stuff

The trouble is, they (or at least, a good number of them) aren't doing so at the moment. This will get them to at least address the easy stuff.
Sorry you are seeing slowness on our GitHub integration (which adds hovers, go-to-definition, and find-references to GitHub code and PRs; see https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sourcegraph/dgjhfo...). We are not aware of any general issues there. Could you please file an issue at https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph and mention the repositories (if public) and languages where you're seeing slowness? We will look into it ASAP.
Not to mention, people can still go to low-density venues outside. I wonder if both neighborhood parks and county/state/national parks will experience higher rates of attendance.
osquery is great and, while it does not tick precisely the same checkboxes as Jamf or Fleetsmith, it'll almost certainly suffice for evidence generation for compliance (osquery is in fact much better at producing "evidence" than most MDM tools are).
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Please indicate where WWDC was previously announced then.
We developed software to solve the problem of counting growing plants
Website's down, here's the archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200313175548/https://oyestartu...
It would be quite interesting to know what treatment those persons received... Steroids? Chloroquine? Lopinavir/Ritonavir? Something else? I suppose not remdesivir since the article seems to imply they're going to start trials of it.
His channel is well worth watching for anyone who dreams of being so fearless to sneak into factories and climb unbelievably high structures.
Basically they’ll be using a massive multiplayer online game as a gateway (proxy, almost) for censored content.

Whether this is a genuine avenue, an in-your-face hack, and/or whether it will lead to illiberal regimes banning access to aforementioned MMOs remains to be seen.

It’s definitely clever, though.
> We built open source video apps so you don't have to

^^^ sounds like they did a one-off.

> We build open source video apps so you don't have to

^^^ sounds like they're now in the business of doing this for steady revenue, which I don't think is true.
(Sorry, please see my edit just now.)
No, it means they'd want affected customers to hear it from them first.
The trial numbers are referenced in the sciencedirect paper but I really wish they would share the outcomes of the trials. WHO should be on this one would think!
> what is going to stop the virus from spreading once again?

If the quarantines last long enough, the virus will be dead. The hosts will either be dead or will have successfully fought the infection and destroyed the virus. Unless it happens to behave like some viruses that can hide in the nervous system and similar – but there's no indication that that's the case.
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Could you elaborate? Why is there no value to a locked iPhone? Can you not still wipe it and reuse it?

My n=1 experience with people stealing phones is that they couldn't care less whether it was locked or not. I presume worst case it is sold for parts.
Thanks for injecting some sanity into this. Benefits drop to about 75% when the trust fund is exhausted around 2026, and we'd simply need to take the salary cap off Social Security taxes and possible transfer some monies from the general fund.

It's an entirely solvable political problem.
So where can one apply?
Fixed, thanks for that! I'm not really a frontend developer and whipped this up during breakfast...as you can see :)
9. So in addition to the >1M dead this strategy likely entails (several 100k in the case of a fatality rate below South Korea's 0.6%, which sounds completely unachievable), what long term damage scenarios for the survivors has been factored into the analysis?
Meh.

With Jitsi I can self-host. In my view, that makes Jitsi better from a privacy perspective.
But they are open source (Apache licensed), so that can be changed.

Potentially, one could make a fork that can use either one’s own backend or Twillio’s, while Twillio’s own can only use Twillio’s.
I like the idea. We will try it out Monday
> No. The engagement will be governed by a contract, and those contracts will often require they staff a certain number of people for the engagement - especially if it's a "butts in seats" kind of engagement, which this looks like it is.

Yes. Multiple years in big 4 consulting much spent writing statements of work - Accenture is not powerless and can definitely make the call here for a few weeks. Takes an engagement director with backbone and managing partner + maybe executive buy in but it's definitely very doable for a many billon dollar company.

> Whomever is managing the engagement from Accenture is shitting the bed and communicating poorly, for sure, though.

Agreed.
Jitsi: Multi-platform open-source video conferencing
Do you have a reference or source for this? Thx.
The Ugly Duckling of 2020
Duplicated:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22562462
Not audio, but there is a community in #NetHack on FreeNode (IRC) where player deaths, ascensions, etc. are announced by a bot.
I don't see how it will make long lasting changes other than your first point about WFH and virtual meetings being even more normalized.

Travel and entertainment, doing these in-person is interwoven in our DNA. These industries (lol at how Trump says this word) are gonna take a huge hit, but will of course rebound.

I do think people will be more hygenic for many years to come because of this.
So future arrives even faster with robots to the rescue.

(Nano-technology sector should also see a huge boost in investment, says my crystal ball.)
One would think there would be easier ways to get Zinc into a cell. Does one really have to go for a drug for this? There have to be alternatives?
Great idea, and seems to be solving a problem. Not to be a jerk though, this is not a $10k MRR business, it's a business with $10k of Monthly Revenue. Unless I'm completely misunderstanding what's going on, there is no subscription, and therefore nothing recurring about the revenue.
Or the silver/black split could represent their consumer/professional split, as in the color of the Apple stickers and keyboard/mouse that come with the consumer/professional Macintoshes.

You really can't accurately guess what the symbolism in Apple's WWDC banners might mean. It's intentionally too vague to decode.
What is the average person going to do with an overnight loan?
Real estimates of mortality following Covid-19 infection
After it loaded, I was able to grab this blurb incase others have the same issue:

"Providing access to independent information to young people around the world through a medium they can playfully interact with. Journalists from five different countries now have a place to make their voices heard again, despite having been banned, jailed, exiled and even killed.

Their forbidden articles were republished in books within Minecraft, giving readers the chance to inform themselves about the real political situation in their countries and learn the importance of press freedom.

Let’s empower the next generation to stand up for their right to information and give them a powerful tool to fight oppressive leaders: knowledge. Together with the ever-expanding gaming community, we will show the world that the truth will never be silenced!

Visit The Uncensored Library:
On our Minecraft Server: visit.uncensoredlibrary.com"
Yes, no mention of virus, corona, anything :)

I've been doing that too
Individually we are small, powerless people (one in billions) being faced with insurmountable existential challenges (global warming, etc).
> when they notice that there are many engineers that wanted to get help, but they couldn’t afford the travel to California

I think the restriction for a lot of these bigger conferences (WWDC, Google's big Android conference) is how many people the physical space can hold. The tickets always either sell out really fast, or they have to hold a raffle for them. So they're definitely aware that there are lots of people who want to attend but are unable.
Typically viruses mutates to less severe variants because it allows them to infect more people.
You got bored of collecting an easy paycheck? But do you think tech hiring will really slow down? I feel like there is just too much momentum in the area. We are the force multipliers.
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