skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft’s Skype Struggles Have Created a Zoom Moment
> I want to live in a world in which more time is spent increasing merit and competency rather than advertising some sort of proxy.

does such a world exist?
I have this irrational disgust of .pkg installs, and this is is a good example why. Every time I have to install a .pkg, I wonder what crap it's spreading all around my system.

What's wrong with dragging .apps? Does your app really need to spread its tentacles beyond an app bundle and (maybe) some preference files?
This is a generational thing. Just as my mom won't expect me to understand "where's the beef?", I don't expect her or my students to understand this reference.

But for my generation, a more perfect name has never been devised.
No. Incentives matter.

Sick leave = "stay home if sick, still get same money"

"higher pay + unpaid leave" = "stay home if sick, get less money"
High smog in all of California? Or just in those awful cities? Seems crazy to dictate taxes across the entire of a large state just because the urban areas have smog.
I think there are actually a lot of Paula Beans in FANGs, they just perform at an entirely different level. In short, in order to be called out an incompetent liar, someone needs to make an assessment, but if the domain is too complex, if the knowledge is spread across 100 people, nobody will ever be able to assess or even notice the incompetent do-nothing types. Senior management don't understand the technicalities, middle managers see only their own area, very technical architects are very technical only in their domain and so on.
So crawl the Wiki pages, grind out static HTML copies of them, and make those available. Not many security risks associated with static HTML.

What am I missing here?
Terminal Emulator for Occulus Rift
My family, several of my friends, and I use Thunderbird. Which doesn't allow remote content from non contacts, unless you click enable. It also prompts for read receipts and only sends them if you click send.
I wonder if in the fight against SEOs Google didn't accidentally punish actual experts. SEO organizations will relentlessly hound changes to Google's algorithm in ways that regular users do not.

In the old days it was cost prohibitive to setup a massive network of interconnected fake hosts to boost your rank, but these days with cheap VPSes this is entirely possible and probably even profitable. I'm certainly not the only person who has searched for something and found a ton of differently styled blogs all hosting exactly the same content stolen from some legitimate website and clogging up pages of Google results.
omg same here...

with the current confinement situation in the world, my podcast episodes list has been growing. i caught up with some of it over last weekend but i feel like i don't have a dedicated time for podcast anymore.

twitter & the web have replaced that time.
An Engineer’s Critique of Global Warming ‘Science’ (2011) [pdf]
You're not referring to this show perhaps are you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_IT_Crowd

It is of course a comedy. The Brits in IT that I've met can compete with anyone on the planet.
So much contradictory information through this epedemic.

CNN just ran an article highly critical of decentralized approaches. (They were advocating top-down, unified actions on a country-wide basis.)

Here, NPR tells us Germany is doing well because the regions are able to act autonomously.

Hard for us armchair quarterbacks.
Monopolies aren't the issue, anti-competive behavior is. Buying out a company and then shutting out your competitor's customers is pretty anti-competetive and also clearly bad for consumers.
The current situation is the furthest from being convenient in regards to layoffs. No company wants to be seen as heartless during a truly global tragedy.
I've used some of their Android apps (Apple Music for the longest time). It feels like someone made them as a weekend project and then Apple forgot to take it down.
Apparently Canadian oil sands oil is so unsaleable that in some cases they're paying to get rid of it.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/oil-price-plummet-monday-1....
I can picture the 22nd Century...

Shakespeare, and other great works of classic literature... are now classified as "malware"...

Essays (like those of Emerson, Voltaire or Thoreau) are now classified as "malicious essays"...

And, much like a box of Cracker Jack, or bottle of Tequila, you get a free "surprise" with each one... you get a free worm... (well, it's a computer worm... but same difference...)

Well two things are for sure in this "Brave New World" (a book which is also banned by the way!)...

1) Computer virus protection companies will never go bankrupt, and

2) Perhaps old-fashioned, printed on physical paper, virus-free (well, computer-virus free, not necessarily "mind-virus" free!) books (in addition to actual education) will make a comeback!

I am not holding my breath for this, however...

(Disclaimer: I am kidding about most of the things I said above...)
HTTrack (https://www.httrack.com/) makes tasks like this trivial.
Anyone else have a hard time believing the official inflation numbers? Housing, food, restaurants, electricity, hotels,... anything I can think of that I buy regularly all seems significantly more expensive than it did 10 years ago - much higher than the official numbers would lead me to expect.
Agreed that 8 weeks is not generous in any sense, especially for employees that have been at the organization for a year or more.

Layoffs are different from performance based firings. My rule of thumb for layoffs is mandatory 3 months + 1 month for each year of service. Someone at the organization for 6 years deserves 6 months of severance if laid off.

These are standards you have to build into your financial model. I'm afraid we've been in the crazy world of terribly run startups for too long. When I look at some of the standout startups from 2005-2010 and some from 2011-now, the startups coming out of this recent decade are far less efficient with their cash than their counterparts from the decade before.
"Pretty sure" is not a good position to bluff from. Especially given the events of the third book, it's obvious that it wouldn't have worked unless the Trisolarans knew you knew.
While I am sure he can, I personally like to see reasons that are more general than picking on particular people.

Amazon can spare a billion or two.

What would be even better is a country-wide system for essential workers, but I imagine that negotiating that at the political level won't be timely.

EDIT: Even a recommended essential worker policy from the top would be helpful guidance for both companies and workers trying to quickly resolve these critical nation-wide issues.
I've been thinking the same thing. It's really nice being able to go for a walk or bicycle ride without so many cars out on the road. It's neat hearing about people starting gardens, and exciting that businesses are finally being forced to take telecommuting seriously.

Obviously people dying is horrible, and the economic damage could be problematic, but I do hope that whenever this is all over, some good may come of it.
are you fucking serious with this 9 year old climate denial trash?
No, gas tax in California is just 2 cents higher per gallon than in Pennsylvania, while the price at the pump is 80 cents higher (as per https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/02/06/states-with-... ). The oil companies claim it has to do with the special formulation decreasing the competition in the local market. Then again, maybe they're successfully acting as a cartel.
How do you feel when you watch a political debate?
The last hotel I stayed in, a W, did it as I checked in. And hmm, just realised they’re owned by Marriott.
I think you're missing the point the parent is making. The parent is talking about total compensation.

An employer has x amount of dollars allotted for an employee. This x includes everything that the employer needs to employ you: your salary, your vacation time (and pay), you tools etc. If you require that employers provide sick leave then x is still going to stay the same. That sick leave will simply come from some other pool, such as the salary or the money allotted for training or tools.
Zoom for Windows leaks network credentials, runs code remotely
There is so much misinformation in your mind.

Those supposed manufacturing issues are outdated rumors from the early days of the production lines when they were getting off the ground.

>went with completely touchscreen based cabin

Absolutely false. There are plenty of buttons and other physical controls in easy reach on the steering wheel and in other convenient and sensible places. As well as optional (you don’t need them) voice controls. It’s not “completely” anything based.
Are getting seeds from seed exchanges also better than the seeds at the building supply store?

I'm 5 days into gardening and that's where I purchased my seeds.
The article blames the corona lockdown, but other sources I’ve seen have the OPEC-Russia price war. Does anyone have some good analysis articles that break down the factors?
I hope this addresses the abuse.

See [1]

It basically asks the telecom operators to implement
digitally signed certificates.

So it would work, if I understand it conceptually, like your web browser, when it receives https traffic unsigned certificate, or https traffic from a domain that's not part of the certificate chain.

Therefore, this mandate will prevent 'spoofing'.
And without spoofing, the spammers would necessarely have
to reveal their identity, and there are already bunch of
existing legislation to prevent them from doing this type of business.

I missed important business calls when in US. Because they were calling using same area code where my sim card was registered, so I thought it was from the area local to me.

It is horrible, I am sure people actually lost not just business value, but also had negative health impacting incidents, due to this abuse of telecommunications.

[1] https://transnexus.com/whitepapers/understanding-stir-shaken...
This is a good point.

The importance of sick leave isn't the gross expected balance of pay and work -- as the grandparent points out, for some values those things will be equal, and employees won't prefer one or the other. (Or, better yet, employees might prefer the higher wages because there's more optionality to it -- they get paid more if they're healthy, and they get paid the same if they're unhealthy.)

That misses the point, though. The real importance of sick-leave is about marginal incentives. If an employee is sick, they don't need to weigh one more day of pay against the risk of infecting their coworkers -- they have no incentive to come into the office.
The Curious Case of Japan in Covid Times: Where It Went Wrong for the Abe Admin
ModelOps Is the Key to Enterprise AI
I found this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51083356/does-the-c-stan...

What if it's not an "invalid pointer", but a pointer to a memory-mapped IO address, ROM, etc? I grew up learning C on 16-bit machines in the early 90's. Hard coded pointer values were very, very common.
There's lots of discussion here about the benefits or otherwise of analog switches etc, but it's not about the failure or otherwise of the input device, it's about the affordance to the pilot.

Well designed physical UI allows pilots to use touch and haptic feedback independent of sight. Whether the switch/dial/whatever is analog behind the scenes or is a digital input to the control infra is not the important thing.
apex costco - $1.49
Best Places to Stay in Dharamshala: Home of Dalai Lama in India
Ever heard of groceries delivery?
When Compiz came out about several years ago this kind of thing was all the rage.
I think in the end the number I'll judge countries by is how low they held the death rate per population. A better number would be a population death rate weighted by demographics, but I don't think that'll be easy to construct.

Increasing the denominator by testing lots and lots of people is important only if testing lots and lots of people helps you prevent more people from dying. Germany is doing pretty well on this front compared to its European neighbors. But if you look at its absolute death rate graph it is headed up and to the right, like everywhere else. It'll be a little while before the dust settles and we can actually see whose public health policies were effective.
Media giants should give away their money instead of their opinions
> A pair of fuel-powered generators inside the central fuselage produce the electricity that powers four ducted fan propulsors mounted on top of the aircraft's flying-wing fuselage.

Is this efficient?
It's both :)

Saudis and Russians have decided to increase their output of oil at the exact same time that most companies and businesses are choosing to reduce their oil consumption.

Additionally, there are not a lot of cheap ways to store oil long term, and it is difficult and costly to shut down production as well.

In Western Canada, pretty soon there will be negative oil prices, because the oil there is of a lower quality than others. Basically, they are paying for it to be trucked away so that it doesn't harm future production efforts.
FTA:

This article answers two seemingly paradoxical questions.
First, how did Japan control COVID-19 for so long while defying WHO protocols? Second, given that success, why have they recently lost control of the virus?

And concludes:

The early implementation of moderate social distancing — combined with a culture of mask wearing and a strong sense of personal space around the hands slowed the spread of COVID-19 in Japan. Unfortunately, those same policies and cultures also allowed the government to get away with a pandemic strategy that was based on bad data, poor logic, and worse implementation. Under-testing, a deliberate part of that strategy, prevented the government from being accountable, meaning that just as COVID-19 was taking root in the country, people began abandoning the very social distancing which protected them in the first place. One hopes that Japan has managed to retain plenty of medical supplies with their conservative approach to fighting COVID-19, because soon, they might need them.
For all the rage against algorithm programming interviews you see here on HN, at least those interviews are far more objective than perf and promo reviews.
Useful to whom is the question of course. I stopped using google a while ago because it gave me a useful response less and less frequently and I had to scroll over a lot of cruft to find a good answer if any. When google started it had the best results and no cruft.

Like people who complain that the latest macs are “terrible”, perhaps I’m simply not google’s audience any more. That doesn’t make google, or me, wrong.
Do Yelp Ads Work for Non Restaurant Businesses?
Urban areas tend to have higher smog concentrations, but most gases aren't known for their tendency to avoid travel and diffusion. Emissions have non-local effects. Some might even say global.

Additionally, gas taxes are about the most straightforward road use fee right now.

Still, non-metro areas tend to get a break. Never understood exactly why but my theory is either additional county/muni taxes, or real estate tends to be cheaper and with it station overhead. This goes out the window if it's an isolated refill chance, though, in which case it's whatever the market will bear.
This is scary. I'm just starting gardening and I've heard similar stories from other amateurs.

Have you found any mitigative actions you can take to continue growing (shadecloth was new for me)?
> Inflation of 2-3% is actually desirable - it is a sign of healthy, growing economy.

Why 2-3% and not 5-7% or -1-1%? Source for this assertion?
please tell then to stop
They called my wife, who didn’t have that set.

They actually also emailed and texted us both so in reality there was no chance of us missing that specific message...
Its both.

Demand shock is leading to a loss of places to put it, so the price must fall to a low enough price to make it profitable to pay increasing amounts to store it until its worth something.

The price war has depressed the price enough that to keep revenue up companies must continue to pump flat out.

Quite a nasty scenario to find oneself in.
> This seems like the same instinct that makes OEMs put mobile modems in laptops, as if I would ever have my laptop but not my phone to which to tether it.

A cellular radio in a laptop gets access to better antennas and a vastly larger battery than what's found in a smartphone.
Where are you seeing these numbers, a simple check of the AAA national average puts it at 1.997 and the lowest average at 1.556.

https://gasprices.aaa.com/state-gas-price-averages/
You could just travel on your bday :D
In the long-term it might also be important to look at the economy at least a few years down the line. It might be that some countries will find it very difficult to recover from the crisis because the lockdown hurt the economy too much. That has a cost in lives too.
Sorry.. Forgot to mention that.

Yes insertion/deletion is required and the frequency may be higher. The exact usecase is that group membership is dependent on some conditions. We schedule this check every 15 minutes and based on it, we are adding/deleting the members.
40 Percent of N.Y. Tenants May Not Pay Rent This Month. What Happens Then?
Customers are getting what they are paying for (and couldn't get the same service and yet pay less, since saving money would cost them money).

You do sound resentful, though. Is it because you think an aws customer has a moral obligation to divert money they would save in aws costs into salaries for their own employees as opposed to finding aws employees so that bezos doesn't get his cut?
Basically, they claim to distribute a Wagyu beef discount coupon. Terrible idea because ... people would want to go out to buy one...
perhaps centralized vs not isn’t a first order concern? maybe how educated the population is and or what they value in their elected officials is, or other cultural things.
The real question I haven't seen much discussion of, is who covers state and local govts massive loss of tax revenue. They cant print money like the fed.

Is the fed going to monetize their debt as well?
Wikipedia actually has a reasonably good summary of the interplay between COVID-19 oil demand destruction and the recent Russia-OPEC / Russia-KSA oil market turning point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Russia%E2%80%93Saudi_Arab...
I can give you one tip.

--Over a period of many years I found out that you can't please everyone and you can't be everybody's friend. So don't be afraid to speak up. Get informed, make a decision and speak up. You may be right or you may be wrong but follow thru and lead by example.

Think about this and act on it.
The Art of Code – Dylan Beattie (video)
I've written a fair amount of vanilla JS over the past 20 years and know what you're talking about.

But in the circle of people that I've talked to, everybody else uses frameworks, and I doubt they could make surgical changes in the browser console.

So you're excluding most of today's working front-end developers, and appealing to "edge cases." I guess you could pre-screen candidates by asking, "Are you familiar with vanilla JS?"

http://vanilla-js.com/

Note: the author of that page should add React.
seems like the week before corona forced wfh is when saudi arabia decided to increase oil production. one of the first stock market drops was in response to that if i remember correctly.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/08/saudi-arabia-to-hike-oil-out...
You set your OS' system theme to Dark, and the browser should pass this information on to websites.
First Experience with Mypy
In inflation-adjusted terms, crude prices have fallen to the lowest since the 1930s
Is that why they are suspending payment? The BuyBack Guarantee?
World’s most essential open-source code to be stored in Arctic vault
How Much Does It Cost to Build MVP in 2020
They also carry risk of default.
DNA by itself doesn't produce a human or a cell. You need another functional cell or human to create a replica. I would compare DNA with instructions to create a new car: the instructions are incomplete and assume the existence of a car factory. DNA tells "now paint the car with of these colors", but it doesn't tell how.
Farmbot.io has had me intrigued for years
Croatia also does well. Croatia has both land and maritime borders (also ferries running back and forth) with Italy.

Croatia is ranked number one by Oxford for government responses to the epidemic: https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/research/research-projects/oxford-c...

Note: HRV is Hrvatska which means Croatia in Croatian. It is the three letter ISO country code.

The Croatian government website on coronavirus is: https://koronavirus.hr/en

There is an interesting interview by a Croatian epidemiologist here: https://www.total-croatia-news.com/lifestyle/42484-igor-ruda...
The one big difference between USA and Germany i got from article is one place found a test and shared it and every German state adapted it, they didn’t have to wait or rely on FDA or CDC like we in USA with our early problems exposed in Washington state outbreak and still present at time of NYC outbreak. Other places I’ve read each German state is reporting deaths differently so that death rate could be misleading.
thanks for the idea, I will try it because it looks like BLOB is smaller than base64 and looks like maybe faster to render too due to not having to decode/encode. It is unfortunate I was not aware of this sooner with regard to the "data format juggling" but still...

I'm having an issue where there's too much data being loaded/pulled from Indexed DB so I have to do stuff like pagination, but this will help no doubt.
Does that model still hold up when there’s company wide layoffs because of financial issues?
I think the better question is: Is this efficient enough?

If this design brings the noise levels they want, perhaps they are only worried about small distances to be covered?
In a way they've always been subsidized because nobody prefers WCS. Measures like Keystone XL are just part of the gargantuan efforts that governments and companies make to make them viable.
Different people in the US have different experiences. Why is some random anecdote (assuming it's not made up) good enough to define xxx million people? I don't get 2-5 calls per day. My experience is more like what you describe with the UK. But that could be affected by my being on the do not call list on one hand, and on the other, occasionally answering a telemarketer by accident when I'm waiting for another call.
> Bombing this meeting in particular seems to be in especially bad taste during a pandemic.

For what it's worth, it likely wasn't targeted. My understanding is that the search space is so short that you can just cycle through it until you find something.
>Do you really think that a company can achieve 50% women in tech without biasing their interview process in favor of women?

I strongly recommend looking up the word "bias" in the dictionary.

Systemic and institutional bias in tech hiring isn't disproven by of the existence of female-dominated fields. Yes, some fields are female dominated while others are male-dominated. (Such a revelation!)

It sounds like you're angling for the "male nurses are oppressed by the matriarchy!"
trope, or some kind of gender essentialist nonsense. I'll be sure to adjust my insults accordingly, now that you've moved on from blatant racism to sexist dogwhistles.

Do go on, I'm curious to see at what point you move on to full-blown misogyny. I'm looking forward to seeing how many words you write insisting that you're not misogynistic either, while making offensive guesses as to the root cause of these biases in hiring.
whats worse is that oil sands have some of the highest production costs because you need to add steam and a bunch of other stuff to separate the other junk from the black gold
A Retrospective on "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming"