skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A company doesn't lose control of their spending the first time they incur expense that's 1% of an employee's salary.

It happens the fortieth time they do it - but the logic is the same as the first time they do it.

Then all of a sudden it's a $$$$ chair at a $$$$ desk with a $$$$ computer and a $$$$ screen and a $$$$ company phone and $$$ in snacks and $$$ in soft drinks and $$$ in beer and $$$$ in lunches and $$$$ in dinners and $$$$ in training and $$$$ in conferences and $$$ in free laundry and $$$$ in parking and $$$$ in the annual corporate ski retreat and $$$$$ in premium office space, and of course we extend the same benefits to the janitors and receptionists, they're employees too, and of course we drink beer and play foosball on company time that's team-building....
You would be surprised, but fox news is what is coming out of America. And currently American president is taking facts from there and disseminated them in press conferences.
This is a really well-worded comment, thanks!
I had to login to my windows once. I had to install itunes to backup my phone.

The button to install itunes was not working. It threw a very generic error message. And that seemed to be the only way to install itunes (Apple's webpages pointed to Windows store).

Took me hours to find and install an alternative third party itunes installer from random untrusted sources.

Windows, quality-wise, is simply unbearable for me in terms of usability, reliability, performance and UX.

Disclaimer: I have had small contributions to KDE.
At full zoom, every image is grainy.

The part of an image you want to look at, unless you've asked for a specific image to be made, is usually in shadow and in the corner -- Murphy's Law of documentation.
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Given that I learned about this from a British law firm putting out a short paper for interested parties that began by analyzing "is this legal in the first place?", I tend to doubt that it was directed by the CCP.
One person in the meeting can be (re)assigned the host role, which allows them to end, record, and let people into the meeting. Kind of like a meeting admin.
AFAIK, Zoom meetings have a concept of "host", which is typically the person who creates the meeting, but I believe the role can be passed around (host can select another participant and make them a host).

Hosts are privileged to have control over the meeting, e.g. can toggle recording or shut it down (so everyone gets disconnected and sees "was ended by host" or something like that), etc.
Love this!
Check some of the deals here - may be useful: https://www.notion.so/youteamhome/f96b7c7136d44558b2b646046b...
Yes, but 999 of those 1000X requests are scammers and spambots.

Craigslist has failed. They are not a good example of anything except the staying power of network effects... and how even that fades with time if you let your community turn into a cesspool.
The "labor market" is a social construct created by laws and customs. Collective action is one of those customs, and it's supported by laws. That the company paying workers has an app shouldn't matter.
If you've been remote, there is only one question... I've been impacted an no interest in those who have been remote
Would be cool if this resulted in some nice enterprise-focused improvements/advanced user features in apple's native apps
Yes, you can read more here: https://docs.simpleanalytics.com/bypass-ad-blockers
I wouldn't say it's not one, just that it's a very minor one. Mixing of privacy contexts is a common problem on the social side of security. If it warrants an alert notifying you that you are saving both private messages and public ones if it notes both when saving locally (and I think that is definitely warranted), then not doing so is a (minor, most likely) security UI problem (if you accept that actual people and their common behaviors need to be accounted for as threat vectors).
Reminds me of the film Good Bye, Lenin. A kid has to trick his mom when she comes out of a coma to believe that East Germany still exists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIjSaHUKD5I
I found most of my meetups through Facebook.
An always broadcasting satellite may give away position.
I wonder if the companies who make these products use their own product on their employees? I can't imagine them not (hard to sell a product you don't even use), but on the otherhand, it would be especially insulting as an employee to be developing the very tool that is being used to spy on you.
My mom is responsible for updating all of Los Angeles' numbers. It's literally "someone sent an email with updated new numbers, put them on the government website/in the database". There's no "making sense of the data" phase, just copy, paste, and hope whoever delivered those numbers did it correctly. She described the situation "all hands on deck, extra shifts, and losing staff to sickness daily"; the last thing they care about is some number on a screen.
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I don't understand why. No birds would still be present in an environment where you have so many bombs and guns going off, they would be far away by then and take long time before they are brave enough to come back.
> Couple of thoughts to your reasoned response.

> "The likely result will be substantially reduced payments to care providers as well as significant delays in payment, which then likely causes some providers to stop accepting from these systems, thus overloading other providers who may follow and do the same."

> Fed can print money and helicopter it out.

> "Everyone needing medical care is reliant on the healthcare system receiving so much money for its services, but given that U.S. healthcare is tied to employment, a lot more people won't be able to pay their bills, so the providers will then increase rates to those who can pay, and employers will be forced to further shed employees to cover premium hikes. Even in the short term, this will reduce new investment in healthcare, such new facilities, equipment, and even equipment maintenance and repair, so the facilities will perform more poorly. Number of beds available will fall because there will be fewer beds per person."

> Nationalize the healthcare system and move to single payer.

> "There will also be increases in suicide from the increase in unemployment as well as the social isolation

> Drug overdoses rise."

> It will be interesting to track these numbers over time and compare them to the COVID-19 death toll.

The way that the term "helicopter" is used in this comment and elsewhere recently suggests people using it may not be aware of its etymology. I believe it was first used when Milton Friedman used it euphemistically to describe the best way to generate inflation to consumers. It is highly undesirable. I'm pretty sure nobody takes the threat of inflation seriously, because the real issue is how to get out of inflation. The Fed had to increase interest to 20% the last time there were issues with inflation.

Nationalizing health care and single payer are different. Nationalizing something typically refers to having it managed by the Federal Government. Single payer refers to having the National Government pay healthcare providers.

This will not affect the funding issue because the money still has to come from some place, so either it comes from increasing the number of dollars in circulation or taking it from other sectors, resulting in layoffs.

I will be one of the skeptical ones in reports on deaths to COVID-19 because the government is now fully invested in maximizing the numbers to justify the incredible expense. A similar situation exists in current wars, where they claim every male killed over a certain age to be an enemy combatant because they need to justify their actions. They may likely claim that every person who dies with COVID-19 in their blood was a victim of COVID-19 (SARS2, or whatever the correct term is).
I know a guy who is trying to arrange serological testing for Union employees in the LA port area with this exact idea.

The problem is bulk ordering tests - you need a massive investment (about 750k for minimal order size of 100k tests), which he's been trying to find some philanthropic money for.

Those finger prick tests are convenient, but they only show results if your body is already producing antibodies. The really good test is an RT-PCR or RT-LAMP test, which uses a pretty invasive swab technique. It's pretty unpleasant.

Colormetric RT-LAMP is the right method for that startup (probably) because you can deploy it with pretty few resources and get rapid tests. However, it can be finicky, and isn't approved by the FDA AFAIK.
Let's see how accurate YOUR predications are:

1. I teach in higher-ed. In a classroom. Working from home is the last thing on my mind as it would be detrimental to the teacher-student relationship.

2. I enjoy shopping. I browse bookstores, record shops, try on clothes at the mall, enjoy selecting my own produce and wine at the grocers.

3. I prefer learning in seminars and I use the socratic method with students. I do not let them use technology in the classroom unless they have a demonstrated need.

4. Not sure how you inferred this from my statement. It is reasonable to assume that persons in the U.S. who are unemployed or have limited access to healthcare will make less use of it, thus contributing to conditions that allow pandemics to spread. That is not a political statement.

Thanks for your input.
OK, good point. Looking them up, it's effectively a fairly simple hunk of metal. However, they are restricted parts.

It reminds me of a story from a friend about how strange some laws about gun registration are in the US. He was telling me of one model of gun which became restricted, but existing instances were grandfathered in. To get around this, before the ban went in place companies manufactured "unmachined lower recievers" which were literally just hunks of aluminum or steel with serial numbers on them. However, because they are registered firearms those specific chunks of metal are heavily regulated and can't be taken on planes without being locked up for instance.
My Amazon delivery order arrived perfectly this morning. But I support their meager demands and will double the tip on today's order.
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They might have had bigger brains in relation to body weight than humans, but encephalization quotient isn't a perfect measure of intelligence. Without having a living breathing Neanderthal to compare us to we really can't say. We might have a unique brain structure or some of difference in our brains that fill make this difference meaningless or irrelevant. The wikipedia on encephalization quotient actually has a section dedicated to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalization_quotient#EQ_in...
I agree with you about the scams but as of today it still seems to be almost non challenged for the housing rental market for example. I would not call that failed.
Plenty of Fish was being run by one guy out of his condo but still was giving the large players like match.com a run for their money. Of course match's parent company bought up most of the dating market, including Plenty of Fish, so the headcount probably went up since then.
Kitematic / Docker desktop creators are building a Kubernetes tool
And 3 hours later, VisionShot finished importing my 2,000+ screenshots lol.
Slack DMs aren't guaranteed to be private from server admins
Office pictures from the Great Depression are not very convincing ;-)
Open UI
>He was thinking big: houses built in factories (like cars) and delivered to the site by helicopter. You could roll out a whole neighborhood in a week or two.

Eastern block panel building settlements were built from per-fabricated segments mass produced in a factory. Then assembled on site from these segments by cranes rolling on rails.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panel%C3%A1k

You can actually tell quite easily in many cases where the crane rails were & that their most efficient location was the factor, not stuff like ergonomy or aesthetics.

The end result was indeed a lot of housing capacity built at record time. On the other hand the quality of the flats was often disputable and the new high density neighborhoods often lacked basic public amenities, at least initially.

In a more modern context there are also issues with lack of parking space (no one expected so many cars back then) and lack of thermal isolation (usually fixed by replacing the windows by modern ones & isolating the sides).

>hyper-efficient "fog" showers. ( Legend has it that the project was spiked because it would put too many electricians and carpenters and so on out of business. )

Modern Japanese showers are pretty much like that. Japanese toilets are also much much more water efficient than what you can see here in Europe, not to mention mostly including bidets and other civilized living amenities still mostly considered extraodrinary around here.
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Actually it is not a lot, considering. But looks like prices are down, Pentagon bought 8000 of them for $84M. https://apnews.com/1fd6413c9615da74d44d971075ebf4ff You'd stagger the purchases so not every possible thing is bought at once. Or offer 50% of cost to states if they commit to buy xxxx machines over y years.

For scale: Hospitals got some $100 BILLION from Congress for CoronaVirus.
So do you agree with goto8 when he says ""this" has lexical scope just like regular parameters" and "Nevertheless, scope wise it behaves like an implicit parameter with lexical scope"?

Explain just how "this" is lexically scoped, what "lexically scoped" means, and then explain why they had to add fat arrow to the language, if "this" is "just like regular parameters", please?

If "this" is lexically scoped, then why can call and apply change it at runtime?

And how do explain this stackexchange discussion, which directly addresses and answers the question? The detailed answer "yes" got five votes and was accepted. The other answer "no" got one vote and was not accepted. What's your answer?

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3961...

Question> Is `this` in JavaScript an example of dynamic scoping?

Accepted Answer> To be clear, JavaScript does not, in fact, have dynamic scope. It has lexical scope. Plain and simple. But the this mechanism is kind of like dynamic scope.

>The key contrast: lexical scope is write-time, whereas dynamic scope (and this!) are runtime. Lexical scope cares where a function was declared, but dynamic scope cares where a function was called from.

>Finally: this cares how a function was called, which shows how closely related the this mechanism is to the idea of dynamic scoping.

And you ironically wrote:

>(it does not have dynamic scope[1], that would be terrible)

Whatever you call it and however you define dynamic scope, the dynamic way "this" behaves IS terrible, and undeniably causes lots of easy to make, hard to diagnose bugs. That is why Brendan Eich called it a "footgun". That was my point, and that was why they had to add fat arrow to the language.
Cloudflare’s Current Expansion Is Different from the Others
Today you learn: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is good news for Meetup. Wework is as good as gone now, let's lay aside how troubled they were before Coronavirus, now they're sitting on a tonne of long term leases, with all their tenants on short term leases and guess what? Coworking spaces are right there with Cruises and airlines in how well they work when everyone's under lockdown. Huge fixed costs. They're going to have to eat months of expensive leases and there's going to be 0 demand. I wonder if there are other parts of Wework the're looking hive off.
Love this! Thanks
Building houses in factories doesn't really solve a big problem. We're actually really, really good at building on-site. Just look at the experience of Factory_OS and their building that was "built in 10 days"[1]. While it may be the case under a narrow interpretation, it's also the case that the project spent a year in site prep, 5 years in planning and permitting, and six months after "building" it they are still detailing and finishing and are another 6 months away from occupancy.

https://factoryos.com/press/housing-development-erected-in-w...
I must be so nice, even just having a abusive partner.
I don't think CL has failed in the slightest. I probably buy something, sell something, and hire someone each by using CL a few times a year.
Arch is on 5.5.13 and has already been marked out of date: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/linux/

I would guess that we'll get 5.6 in the coming days.
"she may accidentally include the transcript of her Bob-mockery"

According to my reading, she will by default include everything she typed and any messages sent to her. That's a horrible default if true.
"There was no fresh Basil and I got reprimanded for trying to put my Pringles on the end of the belt before a compatriot had finished bagging"

GoldCD, "Dinners under Corona"
Can this meme die already? Durr Google is just a static webpage with a textfield. Why do they need X engineers lmao
Covid-19 corpus of research articles annotated with biomedical entities
Part of me can't help but suspect that they are also doing this because, believe it or not, many computer science researchers don't know that these paywalls exist, because they are subscribed through their university. Now that they are stuck at home, these researchers could start noticing how inconvenient and ridiculous these paywalls are, given that they are the ones who write and typeset the papers and review the research for free.

So it may be a smart move for ACM to avoid making researchers aware of paywalls, and continuing to drag this outdated publication model for a few more years... (If I'm not mistaken, most subscription money comes from universities, which subscribe annually, and there's very little revenue from individual downloads, so most likely this measure isn't actually costing ACM much in terms of revenue.)
If you want cheap film for large format, shoot x-ray film.
Thank you for the reply. Knowing which keywords apply helps. Much appreciated!
Any political movement outside of socialism
Indeed. Scientists and policy makers know that decisions are taken by policy makers.
Paul McCartney had his original Hofner Bass stolen and wondered the exact same as you.

He had a really funny theory about this that if you visit some German castle way up in the hills of Bavaria, after dinner the host will invite you into a room where his bass is hanging over the mantlepiece. [1]

I'd be willing to bet that in cases like this painting, the thieves were probably hired by a billionaire client. So, the buyer was the one who initiated the heist in the first place.

[1] https://youtu.be/5Pf19jV1NYw?t=849
This headline is SOOO garbage - seriously - what is up with HN and Zoom these days. Just trash headlines.

Edit: In case it is removed this was the original headline "Zoom private chat text between attendees is actually public"

From the zoom docs.

"If you save the chat locally to your computer, it will save any chats that you can see-- those sent directly to you and those sent to everyone in the meeting or webinar.

If you save the chat to the cloud, it will only save chats that were sent to everyone and messages sent while you were cloud recording."

This is TOTALLY different than all private chat text is public. 100% false. Private chat text is available to the folks who were participants in the private chat. That would be a much more accurate headline.

Now if the recipient of a chat first downloads it to their computer (zoom auto-scrubs if you upload to cloud) and THEN uploads it to the cloud - then whoever has access to it can see it. But this takes a number of steps. Download your chat and then publish your chat publicly. The headline is completely wrong.
Bucky was so far ahead of his time. I’ve been reading Critical Path again and it’s as enlightening now as it was 20 years ago when I first discovered it as I’m sure it was 40-some years ago when he wrote it.

Add his Ultra-High Voltage World Electric grid to your list.
Seems to be redirecting to itself, likely a miconfiguration, strange it's been 12 hours+.
> I mostly agree, but it says a lot about a company's command of their expenses.

To me it says they either a) value their employees, or b) want to look like a.

Either one makes for a better workplace than 'justify every time you used the copier in the last 2 weeks, and have the spreadsheet updated with that info by COB'.
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That's the theory, but that assumes all stakeholders aligned incentives (or it ignores employees as stakeholders). In the real world it is far easier to fire lots of employees than it is to stop paying the bank loan. So being only sort-of wrong by giving a company a loan they can't quite afford to pay back doesn't hurt the bank at all - they still get their money.

The entity "pricing" the consequences has few consequences if they get it wrong, so why wouldn't they err on the side of doing more business and making more money?
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Check out Norwegian chairs made by Håg and Varier.
For better or worse, it's hard to imagine there'd be much demand (even if there's arguably need). I've been in a situation sort of like this, and reaching out to a shelter would have been the last thought on my mind.

Rather, we're pretty much taught and shamed into "sucking it up", both by women and men. That's usually what happens, and those who no longer can generally just end up as statistics.
I don't watch movies often and do not really keep track of what I watch, but the latest one I saw is Frontier(s) for whatever it's worth. Its rating is NC-17 and it's included with Amazon Prime. As for a movie I wanna see soon, it is "The Platform". Looks really interesting. Also excited for new Saw, Candyman & Purge. All coming soon. I am not sure what kind of genres you're into, but I watch the following youtube channels to catch up on what's hot from time to time:

-- spookyastronauts:

https://www.youtube.com/user/spookyastronauts

-- Flick Connection:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT09qC2vwlbJvofZRIdLalg

-- Top 5 Scary Videos:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChE2XVkaaQBR-ly3LaDjheA

-- WhatCulture:

https://www.youtube.com/user/whatculturevids

For hilarious reviews, I like:

-- Decker Shado

https://www.youtube.com/user/DeckerShado

The last youtube rec'd video I liked is

-- 50 movies to distract you from the corona

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4joWeYHjogg
We already do. It costs a lot but we've been paying it for more than fifty years.
I'm really curious how such an organization can ever maintain their copyright in the future as the defense could always say the defendant obtained the pdf from the free trial.
As for 5. - this has been suspended for 4 months in Europe, so that airlines can stop running empty flights & still keep their slots:

https://www.euractiv.com/section/aviation/news/coronavirus-e...
We usually have some idea of what's coming, but with varying degrees of accuracy. Apple presumably wants the public to know as few details as possible, and that's a sliding spectrum, not a binary.
Well they say it’s not transmissible via the digestive track, but my family is doing the same.