skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Then after a while I started contemplating going to grad school, more of a nice to have for personal development reasons.

Out of curiosity are what is your major? WGU undergrad degrees dknt seem like they would qualify you. Many CS Masters I've seen require 2 or 3 courses of calculus where the WGU C.S. bachelors looks like it only has 1 course.
The “EARN IT” act of 2020, possibly?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Section_230_of_th...
Good to hear. Curious why Fauna is being looked into by your team, since it appears to be a much newer database (and also not open sourced AFAIK)?
Mongo makes sense given its obvious popularity.
From one of the Screenhero guys https://screen.so/
I think what GP is trying to say is that because your average airlines has around 10+ km of altitude to loose before rapid disassembly commences, which takes a non-trivial amoun of time, compared to a car, which can go on a short and unintentional offroad trip within a few seconds or less.
People are not trolling Zoom meetings as part of a high-minded awareness campaign.
Summary:

The Federal Communications Commission adopted new rules requiring caller ID authentication using technical standards known as “STIR/SHAKEN.” These rules will further the FCC’s efforts to protect consumers against malicious caller ID “spoofing,” which is often used during robocall scam campaigns.
The US just has a lot of VoIP providers, English speakers, and is a high income country. It is just an easy target.
I disagree, that is not interesting.
Some people looked at China and Italy, extrapolated, and sarted preparing before SHTF?
I have to grudgingly agree on this single point. Amazon are still actively deceiving customers and generally being horrible though.

But hey, enjoy Prime.
You could start a company and hire people on other standards, and I suspect it would work, as long as the "other standards" are painful in the same way as the current ones. For example, you could require candidates to learn ten pages of Chinese poetry by heart, or anything else that tests their ability to keep their mind on-task for long stretches of time. In my experience, people with that ability can become good programmers if they're inclined to.

What won't work though is hiring based on only past experience. The bullshitters will eat you alive. You really do need some kind of "underwater basket weaving" as a test.
I'm not sure if keeping it in the fridge leads to a good starter, at least initially. I'd let it sit on the counter for the first week or so, to give it a chance to develop.
The Apple Weather app and Siri currently get data from The Weather Channel, not Yahoo.

(At least, in the USA.)
>Sure, that’s exactly what an internship is and it’s why these companies

I don't think so, to me an internship is temporary by nature and does not have a "guaranteed" job at the end based on good performance.

>you would have a major adverse selection problem where the better candidates would never pick a “probationary” job with second-class status over a normal job

The selection process is so competitive right now that I think plenty of people would be happy for such a change if it meant a more reasonable interview process. Plenty of strong candidates are being thrown away over arbitrary metrics right now anyway.

Personally I'd take a non-leetcode non-white board interview with a probationary period over the typical grueling 2-5 round FAANG process, and I'm sure I'm not the only competent developer who expects to have trouble with the typical FAANG process.
Half Life: Alyx usage figures suggest it's not VR's killer app after all
My biggest worry is the aggressive advertising ministry that of for-profit degree mills. Even just filling out an interest form leads to a mass of spam email, phone calls and even snail mail.
This should still be available, though it will likely take some work from the underlying software provider to be compliant.

The goal of the regulation is to cut down spam/scam calling, not legitimate uses, and the telecom providers know these uses and lobby heavily to make sure they'll still be allowed to work.

The telecom providers don't like scam calls either, or more specifically they don't like short calls. All the work and compute power in telecom is used to set up the call, then the cost of keeping it going is minimal so the longer the call goes on, the more economical it is for the provider
Not wasted. Those people will learn a lot of new things, right ?

Should work optimization be primary goal in this universe ? I guess not, or you will have hard time defending existence of movies, board/PC games, all sports, all baletristic writing etc. That is not very interesting place to be.
Shrug. You can define "safe" as an absolute and then argue absolute is impossible, yes. It's a bit of a straw man argument though.

Or you can drop the binary label and start developing statistics about known effects and outcome ranges. These things can be done; further understanding of bio-chemical systems and simulation makes discovery by widespread experiment less and less extant.

The issue isn't that looking for and finding effects positive or negative is hard, the issue is that few are trying and few are interested in the effort. (i.e. most people either have the conservative, 'everything is safe' attitude or the luddite 'everything is bad for you' attitude, and neither involve much discovery)
24 hours isn't days.
> It is not clear to me that a company needs to say they don't support illegal behavior by the users.

Not just that they "don't support illegal behavior", but more specifically that if you give them your money for a service, and then use that service to do something illegal, then they want to be able to cancel your service while keeping the money you gave them for that service. (Or, similarly, if you buy a product from them, then use that product to do something illegal, they want to be off the hook for processing any potential refund on that product.)

It's sort of like the rule most companies have where swearing at the tech support worker allows them to hang up on you, when they'd otherwise be obligated to stay on the line. The TOS allows allows a company to, upon seeing that you've broken it, immediately claim everything in your account-receivable, and to close your account-payable without making it current.
Yeah Homebrew is kind of a bad example. I wish there was at least an option to use descriptive names instead of tortured analogies.
Is linking to stolen content allowed on this site?
> iMessage is fully E2E

To be fair, this part is 100% true, unlike Zoom's claims.

The iCloud Backups issue is separate and should probably be made more clear by Apple but the technology is certainly E2E encryption.
That headline, geez... remove the last four words and I guess it could be much, much worse :o
Things that end up on the front page of Hacker News get fixed.
> seeing we are a PHP shop it was the obvious choice

A Google search for 'php saml' has php-saml as the top result. I'm curious to know why you chose simplesamlphp over php-saml ?
I wonder if Jaron Lanier has played one of these? :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW1BBbvrEYA
>"the primary way people communicate and gather for personal or professional reasons",

I would be curious to see an article about why this happened? Is Zoom better than their countless competitors? They all seem pretty similar in my experience so why is it Zoom that is blowing up because of this and not any of the other companies?
> parts of vscode on the backend to even function

?

If you talk about extensions reuse, that hardly qualifies.
How to Write Multiple AWS Lambda Handlers in a .NET Core Project
I only ever shot one roll of it. In 2006 film was well and truly on its way out. I had just graduated college, and was bicycle touring the United States. In or around Yosemite, I picked up a roll at (I believe) a gas station of all places.

Even in 2006, the last place you could get it developed was Dwayne's Photo in Kansas. Kodachrome is a completely different process than any other film. The crazy thing about the film is that the development process actually removes layers of emulsion depending on what color light the film was exposed to. You can actually see this with the naked eye looking at the emulsion side of the film; it looks a little bit like a relief carving.

I'd like to say the results were magical, but honestly, my inexperience with the film meant they looked pretty normal. The color rendering really is different from other emulsions, and getting the most out of it probably requires some practice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodachrome
Summary:

Y Combinator has been making changes to adjust to the post COVID-19 world. For admissions this means that we won’t be doing our typical in person interviews in Mountain View. Founders instead have their final YC interview as a video call.
This is exactly what I found it didn't work for. I live in Seattle, and basically gave up on it (with today's news, I'll uninstall it from my Android phone). I could look out the window at steady rain, and Dark Sky would still be telling me it was going to be clear all day. Like that more often than not.
Does this work if my laptop screen is closed?
We have the same laws in Italy. I don't see the big deal.

Hungary just gets bad press—along with Poland—because they're not on board with your/Germany's agenda.

Sorry!
100% of the spam calls on my work phone in the last six months have been trying to sell me Marriott time shares.

I don't know if it's actually Marriott or not. I suspect it's just one of those "affiliate marketing" scumbags, but it still makes the brand look bad.
+1 on Velvia. Ektachrome was also pretty, especially for landscapes and green eyed people.
Thanks for the steps. This is the clearest explanation I've seen anywhere. Please do share your recipe.
Heh, my wife has some sourdough starter that she got from her Mom who got it from here Mom etc. It's like pre-civil war sourdough starter. Except that like anything that grows it evolves over time. So I presume it picks up local yeast as it grows and eventually becomes a "local" variant. I find it particularly interesting that different starters make for bread that tastes different.

If you are bored you can do the same thing we did which is to take your ingredients and make loaves from different people's sourdough starter. All the same ingredients except for the starter and experience that for yourself.
That argument just suggests that the US has more scam operations, not that it has all of them. Crowding out is still an effect, so scam operations are incentivized to target other countries as the US becomes fully 'supplied' with scammers.
I always wonder why companies do stupid things—like this.

At the very least, put it in read-only maintenance mode, with a big disclaimer at the top saying so.

But to just destroy information, information about your own product, is…well, it's stupid. Profoundly so.
I think you're right, but we'd eliminate plastic- paper and metal are economically recyclable.

Paper is a huge problem, too. It's one of the most polluting industries, up there with mining. And, I believe, that is just the production of paper- not including the forestry that is also required.
This varies significantly on a state by state basis.
Maybe... maybe not. It sure is bringing about awareness though, isn't it?
What business reason is there to support Dark Sky for non-Apple purposes?

If the API and apps were profitable, why did they sell to Apple?

How much did Dark Sky for Android cost? Was the 50th percentile revenue per Android user $0? Was the 90th percentile, too?
Yeah, that's my fear as well - I'd miss signal in the noise filtering.
We can't reasonably priced which is superior for selection, but in our opinion the process is much saner and less resource intensive on our part.

I wonder if the modern interview process at large orgs is built on a false sense of security. They are possibly overly selecting and perhaps successfully choosing above average candidates but missing exceptional cases who fail to conform to their rigid criteria.
Yes, I'm not saying it's not horrible, just not horrible in this one way.
There are clear arguments that Bell was managed like a national utility and they ended up allowing all use of their massive parent portfolio for free
https://mobile.twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1244985949534...

Yes, shared by the Prime Minister, number and all. What a time to be alive.
Oh there! See that? It’s the point you missed that just flew over your head
If, for example, Trump had set up a blind trust when he became president, how would that impede him from making decisions that are "convenient" for his businesses?
Why is this problem unique to the USA?

Every time this topic comes up on HN, someone asks that same question.

Then there's a bunch of responses that are lots of suppositions.

Then several people from small European countries chime in saying they've never had a spam call.

Then a bunch of Europeans from large countries show up saying they get spam calls, too, and it's not just an American thing.

"Why is this problem unique to the USA?" is pretty much a meme at this point.

Also...

You start with "Why is this problem unique to the USA?" Then follow immediately with, "I'm not saying I never get spam calls" which means it's not unique to the USA. So your first sentence is invalid.
There's no question that the technical results of a top digital camera blow film out of the f'in water. But that's what makes me nostalgic for the film days, in some ways. Getting a really fantastic film picture used to be a special occasion. I'd get an average of one a roll and that cost money. Now I get literally hundreds of amazing images a year and have to print them into big hardcover books to store them. So the special experience of finding that one amazing slide in your box is gone. Same thing with CDs and records. The vinyls are dominated on every parameter and that's what their charm is, like an old, lame, dog.
I think in those times of corona plastic proves to be very beneficial, I wish shops still had those good old plastic bags rather than me carrying around my "recyclable" bag with who knows what kind of diseases and contaminations. That's assuming I remembered to take one out of the 20 I got which I bought every time I forgot to take one.
I don't know that he can work from home, as a fulfillment center employee. It seems to me that Amazon was just trying to find a way to keep him away from other workers in order to collapse strike efforts. And I don't know that it's reasonable for a company to bar you from the office if you're trying to get the company unionized.
Apple has shown they are not afraid to build products that are 100% services (TV+, Music, etc). Just because a product is delivered as a service doesn't mean the correct strategy is to spray it everywhere.

It's not a matter of seeing past the walled garden. So long as there is a roadmap for deep platform integrations (identity, payments, AR, GPU, etc) and the desire for those integrations to be 100% available to _anyone_ with a blue bubble, the service will not leave Apple. IMO, it's about protecting the path of innovation while keeping a key feature (compatibility across all users) in play. Available is key because feature adoption spreads virally. Nobody wants to see someone do something in iMessage and then learn they can't do it.
I didn't investigate this requirement, but it's probably insufficiently thought out. Presumably you need E2E encryption so that the SP can't intercept (either willfully, compelled, or as a result of compromise) en masse. If that's the case, then you also need to have a way to verify keys of both parties, and you need a way to do that for group communications.

This is hard.

So even if Zoom is E2E, this is checkbox compliance. (if my assumptions are correct for the reasons behind it)
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Canada's non-telemarketing list that was implemented in 2004 is essentially a copy of the US legislation that was passed the year prior. It doesn't help though, as neither the US nor Canada have jurisdiction in India, et al.
Any surprise that its original icon seemed to be a hybrid of the Instamatic Brownie and the Polaroid logo?
Funny, I saw the title and was hoping this article was about social signaling rather than signaling in software infra.
Especially with a service like Google Voice that will transcribe your voicemails. I will look at those; it takes a fraction of a second to dismiss the spam.

Fortunately, I only get a few of those a week, so far.
php-saml is a toolkit for making your application a service provider (i.e. able to accept Responses/Assertions from IdPs) so that users can single sign-on to your application.

SimpleSAMLphp is a framework/application for creating your own SAMl IdP (i.e. able to send Responses/Assertions to service providers) so that your users (e.g. in an enterprise) can login once and then single sign-on to the rest of your applications.
Concurrency in Python
Is this now just a problem on mobile phones in the USA now that we have the no call list legislation?
> As it turns out, over the past academic year, cybercriminals targeting the field of education tried to attack our users more than 356,000 times. Of these, 233,000 cases involved malicious essays downloaded to computers owned by more than 74,000 people. Our solutions blocked them, of course.

Note that you can only detect malware you block. Successful malware bypasses detection…
Nytimes daily podcast covered this today. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/podcasts/the-daily/corona...

Super frustrating how the interests of the healthcare industry aren't aligned with national health.
Summary:

Over the past academic year, cybercriminals targeting the field of education tried to attack our users more than 356,000 times. English textbooks were the most common malware hiding place K–12 students encountered, with 2,080 attempted downloads.
"The memory layouts are very different."

Clarification: the memory layouts between C++ dynamic dispatch and rust dynamic dispatch are very different.

Rust imposes no requirements on the structure layout, whereas C++ adds some magic data. The magic data means it's awkward to make C++ do dynamic dispatch on a C struct pointer; but rust can do dynamic dispatch on a C struct pointer with no problem.
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The annoying thing is that with the bar exam, there is a clearly defined test with criteria. Whereas what you have in the software industry is a vaguely-defined set of expectations that vary widely. There's no standard.
This is interesting, especially begs the question whether Apple or Google browsers that no longer allow anything more than filter lists would be able to defeat sophisticated anti AdBlock attempts.
This is what happens when an economy pays essential workers like throwaway workers and then the throwaway workers realize it.
Ahh yes, the old ends justifying the means.
If anything good comes out of this ordeal, I hope it's the realization that you most certainly do not have to fly across the country and burn metric tons of kerosene just to have a business meeting.
I think they're referring to this: https://developer.apple.com/icloud/cloudkit/

It kind of flew under the radar, because it's not super clear how to use it from the landing page.
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> disclosure timeline guarantees.

depends on your definition of "guarantee".

what you really have is externalisation of risk.
By the looks of the most recent snapshot on archive.org[0], that’s what they did.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20200329185200/https://wiki.unre...

EDIT: It seems like the main problem is that they didn’t do a good job communicating their intention and timeline for removing the old wiki.
Out of curiousity regarding the beans, are they doing well? Have you grown them before? One thing I learned that nobody seems to mention is that legumes don't necessarily fix their own nitrogen. In my soil, for instance, beans do poorly and leaves get chlorosis because there aren't any appropriate rhizobium for them to utilize (I've checked the roots - no nodules at all). If you can innoculate the beans before planting they do much better. Adding nitrogen fertilizer hasn't actually helped as much as I would have expected, but does help somewhat -- unfortunately that also inhibits any use of any existing rhizobium. Even so, pole beans give me a 15-fold return on my seed planting (that's actually pretty poor compared to what is expected, but I still think it's a great return).

Zucchini is easy and you'll be amazed how fast they grow. So is squash (same family).

Tomatoes, peppers and cilantro don't grow well where I live. They like the heat.
And this would be a total reasonable defense if they quarantine any worker who has any contact with anyone who is infected for any amount of time for 27 days.

But that' isn't a policy the company follows. Also they let him work during the 2 weeks he was most likely to be contagious.
> And you do realize that you're equating diverse hiring efforts with getting called racial slurs on the job, yes? Those are two very different definitions of "actual" racism.

Right, they are different. The latter makes people uncomfortable or alienated at their job. The former keeps people from getting jobs in the first place on the basis of race and gender.

Which one is more serious? Someone who gets bullied for their race at their workplace probably has a very different opinion on this than someone who can't get an interview because they aren't diverse. The proverbial grass is usually greener on the other side. Someone who's non-diverse and can't get a job in tech might look at a diverse worker talking about bullying at their job and think to them selves, "well, at least that have a job.". That doesn't mean they are racist. That means they have a perspective different than your own.

> Forgive me, I didn't realize they were subject matter experts on the nuanced sociological facets of unconscious prejudice during hiring. And here I thought psychology researchers or African American Studies professors would be the subject matter experts, not a blog.

This reads like a total non-sequitur. Interviewing.io compared non-anonymous interview performance of women to anonymous interview performance, and found that there was little discrepancy (in fact it found a slight positive bias in favor of women). Why are you referring to sociology and psychology in a study focused on anonymous vs. non-anonymous interview performance? Also, why would African American Studies relate to studying potential gender bias in hiring? It seems like you just assumed that this study was focused on black candidates, when in reality it was studying potential bias with respect to gender.
More to the point - while signing certs are part of the SAML spec (and your IdP can choose to use a different one for each SP), looking at attributes in the Assertion and making decisions based off of them is one-off for every SP - a few do this, but they each do it differently than the last.
Availability Cascade
Hope they include milkweed on the lists for endangered Monarchs.

https://monarchbutterflygarden.net/how-to-start-monarch-butt...
Not quite. OSB actually is more like "I need a mysql database, give me one, I don't care about the implementation". This is more like service discovery. The GCP OSB-like solution nowadays is https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes...
I'm in Santa Clara county, CA. Where it first started and the first restrictions were put in place (a short walk from the first case in a hospital in the US). I can imagine that there are a few places stricter, but I haven't heard of any of the traditional big box stores closing (at least any of them which would have a banana for sale).
Unfortunately, none of this will change much. Maybe for small companies.

This type of software tends to come from top down.