skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never given my birthday or gender to a hotel, so my best guess is that they just have this info for some people but not most (rewards programs, perhaps?). It's possible they write it down when I give them my ID, but it seems like a lot of work for very little payoff.
Preponderance of the evidence is only used in arbitration, if he's suing then this is litigation. In reality, if he has a contract requiring arbitration or mediation instead of litigation then he has absolutely no power and no chance of winning because arbitratators/mediators are always hired by the company.

Even discounting all of that, the judge/jury/arbitrator/litigator would have to agree that sending him into quarantine and not others constitutes retaliation. To be completely honest, this kind of job is a huge joke. If you take too many bathroom breaks you won't hit your quota and they cN fire you for that.

The only way to win isn't to prove he was treated inconsistently, that can be ignored so long as the reason they stated for letting him go is true.
I know almost nothing about seismology or geology so forgive my naiveté here: Could the lack of movement caused by everybody staying home actually inadvertently induce greater than normal seismic events?

By that I mean I'm wondering if all of our moving around normally may be like nano events that cumulatively ease pressure on fault lines? Almost like all of our movements sort-of force the faults to gently slip all the time instead of making giant movements, thus releasing an earthquake. But if we're not moving around much then that pressure starts to build up.
This is achieved via a JSON schema definition with self reference to the schema.
I made a N95 respirator for face mask
Who decides what information is accurate?

There are many purveyors of misinformation. I think the CDC and the WHO are rather dishonest about viruses. All they recommend is washing hands and wearing gloves and "social distancing", so that we can "flatten the curve" and "slow the spread" and survive long enough for a vaccine to become available for "herd immunity", so that we can prevent old people who are likely to die of something soon anyways from dying of Covid-19.

I refuse to believe that Science hasn't figured anything else out about how to be healthy. One doctor's video about Chloroquine said it works by carrying zinc into cells [3]. Maybe zinc supplements would be preventative? I don't know, I'm just a simple retired taxi driver. Why doesn't the CDC provide an official list of known anti-viral lifestyle adjustments, to help us all be resilient against inevitable viruses?

There is a difference between official misinformation, well-intentioned Chicken Little-ism, and those who are just along for the ride and follow whomever they find most credible.

Chicken Little [0] meant well, he was just a simple chicken who didn't understand what he experienced, and was adept at recruiting followers to his simplistic ideology: The sky is falling! The terrorists are coming! The super-virus is going to kill us all!

Official misinformation is when the news media deliberately misleads its audience: "Cheeto Hitler only got elected because the Russians helped him", when in fact Hillary Clinton manipulated the DNC [1] to be the Democratic party's presumptive nominee in spite of her having a fraction of Bill Clinton's charisma. Imagine how that election would've turned out if the Democrats had held a primary rather than a coronation. IMHO Cheeto Jesus/Hitler (Donald Trump, depending on your perspective) won the election because he ran an smart campaign, unlike his opponent [2].

My latest readings of the situation in Italy is that they are likely to have to restate the cause of death of many of their recently deceased, so that Covid-19 is only a factor instead of the primary cause. I don't think they'll admit to irresponsible medicine: oxygenating and ventilating old people to death.

But it's too late: official misinformation has grabbed onto the preliminary statistics and used it to shut down the economy. In a video I watched earlier today, a German doctor said Covid-19 (SARS v2) is not even as potent as SARS v1 or MERS (the super-viruses of years past). Maybe I'll find that video and submit it here.

People believe things fervently, and it's difficult to get us to believe more accurate things. Accuracy is objective, but also a matter of perspective. Most of us are just along for the ride.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henny_Penny (Europeans: 'Henny Penny'. Americans: 'Chicken Little')

[1] https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-b...

[2] Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign - https://books.google.com/books?id=OmS0DgAAQBAJ

[3] Chloroquine Is a Zinc Ionophore - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4182877/
FWIW, the monitor I talked about is the standard issue monitor for most employees (~500) at my office. My company has MBPs ranging from 2016 to 2020 of varying sizes and I've never heard anyone say anything negative about the connectivity to their monitor.
Thank you, this looks really good.
Some public domain books for kids at Gutenberg, by grade level
Vim rendered on a cube for no reason
There is no good point for "redundant" microservices.

They are, by very definition, an additional point of failure as you're always adding an additional interface. They're good for scaling, not for redundancy, and even that's wishful thinking for most applications.

EDIT: You could argue that microservices might free up the UI thread from locking mistakes, but if your team is going to make locking mistakes, you're also going to make mistakes in the microservice interfaces, so what's the point?
While this is a possible scenario- in my experience most people know to call multiple times - especially if they know that the recipient won’t recognize the number.

I don’t usually answer my phone from unknown numbers, but when I get three calls from the same number within 3 minutes I’ll pick it up.
I'm encouraged to see this. I don't really have anything profound or witty to say, but this makes me feel like we're probably going to be okay.
Probably because it was so easy to use. In my professional capacity I have used probably a dozen different conference software, and Zoom is by far at/near the top in terms of stability, usability and client install experience.
Ask HN: Best React Native UI component libraries?
Here are a few I've found, I was wondering if anyone one has had experiences with any of these:

- Kitten UI: https://akveo.github.io/react-native-ui-kitten/

- Ant UI: https://rn.mobile.ant.design

- RN Paper: https://reactnativepaper.com

- React Native Elements: https://react-native-elements.github.io/react-native-elements/

- Shoutem: https://shoutem.github.io/docs/ui-toolkit/introduction

- NativeBase: https://docs.nativebase.io/

Interested to hear personal experiences with these libraries or others that I have not included.
Asking for the "incredible" rate of test refusal is not a personal attack. Calling Japanese stupid is not okay, but you don't warn the person who does it. You warn the person who takes the bait. You then retaliate by warning me only after I call you out on it.

Shouting fire in a crowded theater is not free speech. What you are doing here is not protected.
Apple always is rough with acquisitions of consumer stuff. Workflow is a great example, many of the third party integrations and Apple Watch support went poof.
Does Zoom let you put a password on the room? Could that room have a password that is only known to the participants?
Thanks for assuming my background. Rest assured I grew up in poverty that few have experienced, even in the third world country where I grew up.

Moreover, i don't really care about your lived experience and I don't think you should care about mine either - I think in these types of discussions its better to take a statistical approach and see the effect of Airbnb at a societal scale - its the only way to make just decisions that aren't short sighted.
I find modern c++ tooling to be great compared to even 10 years ago. I love the language. Between it and python I stay very busy with both.
SHAKEN/STIR + Whitelisting is the best solution. SHAKEN/STIR by itself isn't going to change things too much I think. But it is a step in the right direction.

Whitelisting without SHAKEN/STIR is still extremely functional.

There are billions of unique American numbers possible, and with 250-500 average contacts per random dial, contact spoofing is not statistically significant.
This is nice but I'd also like some kind of detached evaluation of how well they function in practice, in terms of pros and cons. My sense is that in the videochat/conferencing area there's a big difference between feature offering and how well those features actually work at any given time.
Not just of its time: Kodachrome works remarkably well for archival. Or "worked", since it's not made anymore and you can't develop it.
You sound like you're reading from the RIM playbook circa 2004. It's not a matter of IF, it's a matter of WHEN the product that kills them shows up. The only reason that Facebook hasn't already supplanted them is their horrendous record on security - eventually a player without that track record will come along and eat their lunch. Facebook messenger became "good enough" just about at the exact time the Cambridge Analytica scandal happened - at which point even the non-nerds started deleting their accounts and abandoning their messaging platform.
Weather Timeline used to be awesome, but it used Dark Sky APIs and got shut down during this whole Apple acquisition thing. The app got acquired by MyRadar and they say it will be back using the MyRadar APIs, but will probably never be as good without the Dark Sky data behind it.
Stores that sell equipment for working from home are considered essential, and Office Max definitely counts.
US passports do not have SSNs printed on them.
I know it's beside the point, but who are these people heartless enough to break into Alcoholics Anonymous meetings to tell them how good Alchohol is?

There isn't even any monetary benefit. Who the heck thinks this is funny?
Ah I see, so that's where the misinterpretation come from. Sorry, that's not what I meant.

I meant to say that if a minority gets offer without being able to pass even Easy/Medium questions, then yes it is a diversity hire.

Thanks for the clarification.
Zoom lets you require passwords or require the host admit guests in meeting settings. This is the same as anything else you might find on Shodan. Secure defaults hurt mass adoption, and insecure defaults result in this. Zoom is part of one of our oldest industry traditions in this respect.
Were you required to remove stars already on the resume? If not, then I know just what to do.

Where on my resume should I put the two stars? Are those the traditional hand-written style, with the lines crossing to make a pentagon in the middle? What sort of pen or pencil should I use?
The parent comment seems to be saying that C99 does allow type punning with a union, with an explicit clarification as you say. In C89 it was ambiguous and in C++ it is explicitly disallowed (you are supposed to use memcpy).
I used the wiki extensively in my last UE4 project. It had its warts, but it also had valuable information that did not exist anywhere else. Taking this down without a torrent mirror or a grace period is phenomenally harmful to the community. Bad move!
How about not trying to organize a strike in the middle of a national emergency? Is that an option?
WebEx is challenging - I work with industry partners who use WebEx and it just seems clunky.

I do think WebEx does some things better than Zoom (I like to share 2-3 apps - for Zoom it's 1 at a time or entire desktop) but Zoom has led to better client adoption for us.
Then again, this car is in Malibu, California, a general region where you get a ticket for failing to display a front license plate, on a vehicle that has a front license plate.
Awesome book! I learned a ton from reading just 200 pages!
Curious can gif be used as a zoom background? And can you hotlink to images?
Largest Study to Date of Covid-19 Susceptibility Launched
I used to drive a convertible. I liked Dark Sky because I would get a warning notification if it was going to rain right were I was and I could go put the top up.

I haven't been able to find this type of notification in Flowx. Am I missing this, or by chance is it cmoing?
A badly made ventilator can kill you a lot faster than the virus.
Apple has not described themselves as a services company. Tim Cook has said that growth in the company will come from services. So the company focuses on that. Apple provides some services, it is not a services company.
> A mechanical switch is easy and cheap to fix or replace.

Not if it is in an airplane. Think of all the QC steps required to track the production, storage, shipping, installation, testing, etcetera for the replacement of a single switch. If a switch has failed it needs to be inspected to understand the reason for failure (no switch should fail; tracked to understand if it is a batch failure, plus other steps). I am only making an educated guess here.

> A switch can usually be cleaned easily, to restore its function.

Ummm, you think they put known failed parts back in planes? I think not. They do fix major parts, but the QC for that would be insane. You would make a switch to be hermetic and add anti-tampering - a manufacturer of any safety related device doesn’t want it to be “fixed”. Items are designed to be maintained (with proper schedules), or replaced.

> And proper quality switches can be actuated millions of times before failure.

On average? Or does it have a bathtub curve? Yes, quality switches are insanely reliable, but so are touchscreens.

If you have a variety of 50 switches and knobs, then the reliability is worse than 50x worse, because every item has it’s own reliability curve, and it only takes one failure to muck up your day.
Persuasive Cartography Collection
Added The Mom Test in my list of books to read / listen!
Ask HN: Why so many negative news about Zoom on HN recently?
Seeing an uptick of negative news about Zoom in HN. Any specific reason?
[Follow up]. They just released gerbers, BOMs, and other documents. Some key parts are still unavailable in quantity, unfortunately.
Aligning BDD with Continuous Delivery
You don't, you just forward your current number to protect it.
Some people think that it adds to security. Some people want to reduce noise in logs.
I suppose they could have assumed I lied about the assistance, but surely they could have reasoned that would be less disqualifying than delivering nothing.
That song is in constant rotation on Rochester radio. The annoying part is how he decries "all the crap he learned in high school" while lauding a technology that very much depends on people being educated enough to conceive of and produce it.
I let the call go through once just to see what kind of extended warranty they were willing to give me on a '93 Ranger with 250,000 miles.

I even hit them with "But YOU called ME with this extremely urgent notification! It's my last chance, you gotta help me!", but sadly I couldn't get her to give me a quote.
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What engines are you suggesting make it easier to create those games that compete? My experience is that UE4 and Unity are both enabling of indie developers to make very high quality games. The only real limitations are how much effort you put into the art. UE4, while hard to code for, is still orders of magnitude less work than coding all the rendering, animation, and hardware logic from scratch. There are of course other engines, but they are either devoid of the features you need to compete with AAA titles, or have severe performance limitations.
Yes and (in my experience) it displays it at the top of the screen!
How is iOS in any way, shape or form a monopoly?
Garmin has quite a few certified touchscreens these days, some intended for panel upgrades (e.g. https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/67886) and even some in new light jets (e.g. https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/66916).

Also, some airlines now have officially certified iPads as EFBs, meaning pilots no longer need to carry paper backups.
Yes, and it did (according to somewhere else on the internet).
On time. Business pushes unfinished and partially tested features out all the time. And they get concerned when there are production support issues. It’s a compounding issue, to the point everything is a rush and an emergency. Pure chaos every single day.
Isn't the firing an accusation in and of itself and as such the burden of proof is on the company?
I’ve heard a sentiment from people that it’s ok to drink lots of bottle water, use plastic utensils, etc. because they can be recycled. Plastic won. Try to tell people that they’re wasting their time trying to recycle and they’ll freak out.
Apple's walled garden is more and more a shiny cage. Vote with your dollars and support more open alternatives. I switched to a Note 10 recently after using iPhones for years and I'm really enjoying the overall experience and the flexibility to do many things with my hardware that Apple feels I shouldn't be allowed to do.
Different data source and as stated in the article they use a different and more accurate technique. I guess that’s the interest.
All they did was put the analogue A/C controls back. I don't see this as a big deal and I kind of like that some of the basic controls don't require digging through menus. One of the drawbacks of touchscreen controls is you have limited screen space to cram everything that used to cover the whole dashboard.

New features like navigation and music makes sense when moved to the touch screen, but adding things you don't need to just means I have to switch away from navigation or music controls just to change the A/C.

I think Honda is making a good choice in terms of User Interface design.
It's also a bit of a silly point, even if no expensive software existed. Cars will always be more expensive than, say, bakery items...
It feels like the tech news cycle is so predictable...

Stage 1: This company you probably hadn't heard of before is blowing up / changing the world!

Stage 2 (current stage): Actually it turns out this company has some unexpected problems!

Stage 3: Actually this company is actively contributing to society's One Big Problem!

Stage 4: Actually here is why Zoom actually isn't as bad as everyone thinks!

Stage 5: This OTHER company you probably hadn't heard of before is blowing up / changing the world!
Zoom isn’t end-to-end encrypted
That was my thought, too. I mean, if there was a deliberate falsehood or even a misrepresentation, why not point that out? That is how you make your point - by bringing evidence to the table.

Pointing out the political alignment and reliability of the site is an interesting mash-up of the “poisoning the well” and “ad hominem” fallacies, and does indicate that the commenter has no ammunition with which to refute the published statements.

The political alignment of the reporting agency might point out the motive behind making the article in the first place, but unless there is an explicit falsehood or misrepresentation, why would this affect the veracity of what was written?

China fucked up in a typically dystopian pro-power, pro-cronyism, anti-citizen, anti-communism manner. Full stop. Not much else that can be said here…
I don't miss the limitations of a roll of film, I usually took about 10-12 rolls of 120 film on a trip. thats 120-150 frames. Never bracketed, sometimes took two pictures of the same subject from different angles. The habbits carried over, with digital i shoot maybe twice as much (with about the same number of good pictures per trip, so for me more shots != more pics).

What i miss is the experience and workflow of a mechanical 6x6 TLR camera. You hold the camera at chest level, look down on the viewscreen, frame, then decide to take the picture or not. Nothing in digital does this yet.
Supermarkets are quite essential in the current emergency. Essential workers can't strike for obvious reasons.
> I'm not against huge screens in the car, as long as I can turn them off or dim them to the point where I consider they don't impede my driving.

This is an excellent point. Screens always emit more light than analogue gauges and buttons. When driving at night, dashboard lights annoy me so much that I avoid turning on the high-beams because the blue alert cluster light is so bright. I went so far as to wire up the dash lights to a toggle switch so I can shut them off independently of the headlights. This is on a 2003 VW Jetta, which has no back-lit screens.
No, it's generally a bad idea to carry it around in a foreign country when you don't need it that day, as having it pickpocketed would suck.

Having it pickpocketed in the US would be far less of a headache, minus lacking an ID for a few weeks.
I expected a joke project dressed as the latter but poking fun at the former
> So, you're saying racial slurs are better than diverse hiring?

I answered this question:

> 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.

> Thanks for definitively putting the "Are you a racist?" question to rest. I think we're about done here.

This kind of rejection of different worldviews is the antithesis of inclusion. You're branding people as racist for looking at the world from a different perspective.

If you met an Asian man who graduated from a boot camp and failed to get phone interviews while his diverse peers got interviews and jobs, would you tell him to his face that he's racist if he thinks he's getting a short end of the stick? If he felt that having a job, even if it meant additional bullying or harassment, was better than not having a job at all would you genuinely tell him that being unemployed and Asian is better than being employed and black, female, or Latino?

Let me turn this question back to you:

> So, you're saying racial slurs are preferable to diverse hiring?

Between getting a tech job but being subject to racial slurs vs. not having a tech job at all, yes many people conclude that the former is the better outcome. I think the former is more disadvantageous. But I'm speaking from the privileged position of already having a tech job. People who don't have the security of already having a tech job often think differently. And it's not right for me to dismiss their views as racist for being different from mine.

Not to mention, non-diverse people are subject to slurs too. I've witnesses more hostility towards Asians than any other race, yet diversity hiring penalizes them hardest.
I said battling deflation. I didn’t say undergoing. The reason you have negative rates are specifically to avoid deflation. It’s like you didn’t even read what I wrote. But thanks for the smug, and wrong, response.
'Detectable' isn't the same as 'infectious,' though. There is zero evidence of actual transmission from mail and packaging materials.
Downwell Trails
Al and MA Are Handing the Addresses of People with Coronavirus over to Police
‘Zoom-Bombing’ Hijacks Online Class Meetings in Massachusetts, FBI Warns
You say this like trade imbalances (driven by FX) have no bearing on inflation...it’s the same side of the coin.
About time. How will SS7 get fixed though?