skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah it's type II in the Loughry schema. Still unfortunate if you're operating a high security air gapped network, but not squirting out secrets without being compromised first.

It seems almost quaint to worry about this when so much software has web spyware baked into it -- but maybe we need a virtual spyware led that lights up every time something talks to Facebook/Google/etc tracking. The light would be blinking non-stop for many people.
Yes, I'd consider that as part of doing some more systematic work on the Who Is Hiring threads, and on the whole HN approach to jobs and hiring in general. It could all clearly be done in a way that was more valuable to everyone, probably an order of magnitude more valuable, which would be a nontrivial thing.

This is definitely near the top of our list of long-term intentions. It's not at the top, though. First there are some major technical projects that need to get out. Those should enable a next version of the API. After that I'd say the hiring stuff is probably #1.
You must be one of those people who believe that "corporate bailout" is straight up cash, and not an equity-secured loan. Because this is exactly what medium and large companies are getting. How would you like it if federal government took, say, a decent chunk of your brokerage account until you pay back its loan with interest?
That’s also partially a reaction to so many rules and laws being utterly counterproductive and/or corrupt. Respect for rules and regulations depends on those rules and regulations having respectable motivations and effects in the first place.
Ask HN: Video conferencing for small talk in groups?
Is there a "professional" tool that would allow 5+ people come into the same room and split into groups "casually".

Normal tools are focussed on one speaker at time.

Zoom supports breakout rooms, but they are a bit clunky.

I'd imagine something where you can "move closer" to certain speakers which would increase their volume, but still listen in to others.

Your "position" would be visible to everyone, so you could move around in the room and leave/join dicussions more natural.

This would be a replacement for we are all having lunch in the same room / company event.

Reminds me of second life ...
Nothing official yet, but there was this yesterday:

Windows by the numbers: Windows 7 holds fast as pandemic upends everything https://www.computerworld.com/article/3199373/windows-by-the...

"As Windows 10 moved nary a whit, Windows 7 actually grew its share during March. ... Microsoft might be pressed by customers, including its very important commercial, enterprise-sized customers, to restore security updates to Windows 7 for, perhaps, the duration of the pandemic."

Barring such intervention, it is still very easy for small businesses (with even a single computer!) to enroll in Windows 7 Extended Security Updates:

https://tinyapps.org/blog/202001220700_windows_7_esu_smb.htm...
So lay off the employees, have them collect unemployment. What are your operating costs? Really just the lease on the building. So don't pay the lease for a couple months. Who suffers? The commercial real estate holder. What are they going to do? Lease it to another restaurant while your doors are closed? So the commercial real estate investor loses out on some profit and/or defaults on their commercial mortgage payment to the bank. Now who is suffering? The bank! But what happens when the big banks don't get their real estate loans paid? They can always just put loan payments on hold for a couple of months, and instead of making $300 billion in profits that year, they make only a measly $100 billion.

When it all blows over, the small/medium businesses can re-open and re-hire all of the people back again, and they can all stop taking unemployment. Life continues on as usual.

Why should the average person have to suffer so that these big banks can keep charging interest on their loans every month? Why can't we just legally mandate that they have to put the loans on pause and suck it up like the rest of us?
Nearly every large company has those merely competent people that they can't really justify getting rid of from a performance perspective, but these people are a bit too comfortable and the company feels like a new hire is likely to be more productive.

A downturn provides great cover for the company, since they can get ride of a bunch of these people en masse with minimal legal fuss. HR and Legal can be prepared and do it as efficiently as possible. Plus, it will look good on the balance sheet for the next quarter (if that's important to the company).
From the employer side yes. Mean wages can vary depending on geographical area for the same SOC code. You can do a quick search to see which soc and education factors into the mean wage here: https://flcdatacenter.com/OESQuick.aspx .I'm unsure what to do if the wage of the employee is lower than the mean wage listed through the department of labor.
Well, you have to take into account more stuff than what's one the prima facie, like when all businesses have to run on 1/3 revenue, and (like in the example in the link) can't even afford the interest payments that are due. That tends to make capital more expensive.
Financing isn't related to capital structure or leverage.

Your assumption is kind of predicated on the belief that people lending to PE are making rational choices...they aren't.

The reason why LBOs took off was because S&Ls needed high-yield paper (and, to a lesser extent, there was a big buildup of Middle Eastern funds in US banks). All these deals allow the lender to risk up their portfolio, and take (in retrospect) equity risk. If you were an LBO firm, you can just sit there, create this paper...maybe it works out, it probably doesn't, and (tbh) you don't care because you get fees either way (most PE firms aren't really fund managers, they generate transaction fees for principals...that is why they employ bankers, instead of people with any experience of business). Btw, if this isn't convincing this same dynamic also caused a bubble in emerging market debt (i.e. banks needed high yield paper, bankers went to EM govts and got it).

And in a downturn, this process goes into reverse. People rush into cash, and sell whatever is liquid. It isn't anything close to rational (I feel like this should be obvious, I am seeing stocks with close to monopoly positioning selling at 3x earnings...is that rational?).

Now, the complexion of these deals has changed but what really drives finance is supply and demand. Another good example is CDOs, that was all supply-driven...banks wanted paper (there was a huge build up of dollars in exporters like Germany/Japan...China too but the state controlled dollars domestically), Basel rules meant there had to be some trickery i.e. banks needed to say CDOs were AAA but there was not enough AAA supply so CDOs had to convert junk into debt...but the point is...they needed the paper, so it was supplied. Totally irrational, no-one looked or cared about fundamentals but...the fundamentals don't really matter. Liquidity drives everything (if you have liquidity, you buy anything...if you don't, you sell anything).

Btw, understanding this is pretty key to successful investing. Once you realise what is occurring, investing is fairly straightforward. It is only when people try to introduce artificial concepts like rationality that they lose money in large sums.
Ah, ok thank you for clarifying. I thought you were originally talking about the thruster mapping issue that was another example of software issues
The perceived safety of a full time job is a fallacy that many business owners rely upon in order to build their businesses.
That wasn't clear in your comment. I read it more as a snarky way of complaining that you applied and didn't hear back.

I agree with you that job applicants should get responses.
It's so much more important to make things right than to have something "good enough" (which is never actually good enough) that reducing it to that simplistic binary is not all that drastic.
Just before the dot-com bust, I decided to return to college for my masters degree. This turned out to be a good decision because soon after the bust so many were clamoring to get admitted but I was already established in my studies and I had cashed out some investments to fund my education.
It is pretty bad now, low signal to noise ratio. Lots of trolling.
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But you brought the argument that radios have "a phone mode of operation". The "voice" mode [0] is colloquially called "phone" because of the telephone-like functionality. This is why it's also called radiotelephony and not just telephony. To highlight the similarity to telephony but still make it clear that it's a radio and not a telephone.

Now the article is written in 2020, when "wireless phone" means only "wireless telephone", something different from the radio presented in the article. And clickbaity titles are all the rage. Which was my point.

[0] http://www.arrl.org/voice-modes
On Ubuntu would installing Zoom via Snap be preferable than as a normal package when it comes to security / sandboxing, should the case be that they turn evil?
This will definitely hasten retails shift to the web. In 2018 the US had 23.5 sq ft of retail space per person. Most countries are in the 2-5 range. We have already been seeing malls closing as things shift online. This shutdown will definitely speed things up.

https://www.businessinsider.com/retail-apocalypse-is-still-i...
Gates is being super tone deaf right now. We don’t need a billionaire telling us what to do. For some reason reddit is eating it up.

He even mentioned Microchipping everyone To prove our vaccine status to be able to enter businesses.
There are competing processes in nature even without life (in the usual sense of the word) - atomic nucleus fission/fusion, light absorption/emission, crystal nucleation vs. decay, molecule synthesis vs molecule decay - each process operating towards getting more ground. Life fighting (or helping) other life can be looked upon as a more complex variant of the same process dynamics: one set of atoms and processes interacting with other set of atoms and processes, sometimes this looks like cooperation, sometimes like a battle.
Show HN: Node.js task scheduler for multi-server infrastructure
Irrelevant, but I spent the entire day reading this headline as NVim, i.e. Neovim.

These comments make a lot more sense now.
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Can you elaborate on what you mean? The understanding I was referring to comes from publicly available information corroborated by NASA
I don't understand this reasoning.

I could point to all kinds of wrongdoing by corporations. Does that means corporations shouldn't exist?
Maybe attitudes are changing? I feel like a few days a go a post like yours would have been downvoted to heck.
How is this different from the browser?
We must lockdown Africa now to stop Covid-19
Thanks. It's just weird that I can't easily find it by googling. Or maybe I'm doing something wrong...
Not CL but still lisp > WASM: https://github.com/roman01la/clj-wasm

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21604850
I don't understand. Why do you need to wash your hands but you can't get it through food?
I was sad to see that matrix wasn't on the list.
Another great feature of Matrix, is that it is a lot easier to setup that xmpp.
Looks great! $10-$15/month hosted Saas (like Zoom).

- Shareable URL & calendar integration

- Breakout rooms

“Create up-to-20 small group working sessions as part of an ongoing meeting where participants can be assigned randomly or designated manually.”

If we’re talking hosted SAAS as a zoom competitor, this looks to be the most serious contender.

Anyone able to talk to video quality/user experience from actual use of this product (especially vs zoom)?
The former. Events might come minutes apart, and session establishment costs peanuts compared to having a TCP port open for minutes.
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Free courses

https://www.pluralsight.com/offer/2020/free-april-month

https://learn.oracle.com/ols/learning-path/become-oci-archit...
While that may be true, 1% of Americans hold 50% of total US equities. The wealth gap is wider than it has been in 130 years, that is not good.
In a bankruptcy, the stock-owners lose all their equity, and the bond-holders take a hit. The parent appears to be proposing that the bond-holders take a hit, in an attempt to preserve some equity for the stock-owners.
Just read this. You definitely find a good problem to deal with

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/347661
Oh yeah! I'm not using Common Lisp but ClojureScript to build the entire frontend for https://bravostudio.app

Basically using Clojure(Script) because it's a way faster way of developing software and frontends in particular. What you see inside of the platform (the frontend), is all built by one person since the start of the project.
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Was GM bailed out? I don't think it was... the original company went bankrupt, the government effectively bought it in bankruptcy to preserve jobs (and US car manufacturing capacity), but I though the original shareholders were left with nothing, so not exactly a bailout.
> all the debt we've created to fuel these policies will need to be paid back, either explicitly or implicitly through inflation.

And if you've been watching prices for staples or the big mac index, prices have already reflected inflation from the last decade's worth of quantitative easing. I left a cushy fed job with a full secret clearance because of the TARP bailout back in 2008 and they are about to do the same thing in spades again, ugh. They should've just let Goldbag Sacks and the rest of their filthy lot fail, let the economy feel the recession pain like it's supposed to and let a reset happen. I don't really want to see the other side of this one. For sure I'm not saving too many USD in 0% interest accounts...
I've been developing peercalls.com on and off on since 2015. It's an open source peer to peer WebRTC audio/video calling service, allows the users to chat, share their desktop and send files (sending files is a little buggy at the moment, works best in Firefox).

It has gotten a lot of interest in the past month and I noticed a spike in web traffic so I'm actively working on making it more scalable. I'm planning on implementing an SFU to support calls with more than 3-4 people. Right now the peers establish a mesh network and it quickly gets expensive to send video to more users.

I've also been paying attention to the criticisms of Zoom and other WebRTC conferencing services and am hoping to implement end to end encryption for intermediate servers using Insertable Streams once the functionality is supported in most browsers.
Found this which lists some other options with "breakout rooms", will check them https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22754935
Yes, let's continue the trend of dragging the desktop PC down to the level of functionality available on a cell phone. We'll be so "secure" that we can't get anything done.
with positional audio:

right now on Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22772800

Mozilla has something like this as a "VR" demo: https://hubs.mozilla.com/

Mumble in combination with a game like Minecraft can do it.

Not aware of anything more finished.

without:
Jitsi at least makes creating new rooms frictionless, but would need an extension to show an overview of who is where.

EDIT: since you mentioned it, I guess Second Life still exists
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Stellaris (a space grand strategy game) has "fallen empires" which are powerful civilizations that you should absolutely not challenge early and "crisis" which are galaxy-wide threats that happen late-game to maintain engagement as you progress (it does have a ton of micro-management though).
Ahh, my mistake. I will say hi for you :)
When FB news appears on HN I can't help but feel there's a curated tone/narrative. A mixture of "everyone's doing it" and "they clicked agree on the ToS" to "you should've known it would happen".

Anyone want to take bets if FB runs sock-puppet accounts across the web? It'll be plausibly deniable and run thru a third party but still. Would anyone be surprised?
Hello Peter,
Thanks for being generous with your time!!

I have EAD/AP because of approved EB1A. My AOS interview got cancelled because of USCIS shutdown. I recently traveled outside of US and because of my H1B stamp expiration, I used AP to enter (current status on i94 is "DA").

I am changing jobs now. The new employer's immigration lawyer recommends to file H1B and I should be joining when we receive the H1B receipt. They prefer that as that keeps my non-immigrant status intact in case there are any issues with Adjustment of status (AOS).

My question to you are:

A) What will you recommend, whether to use EAD or H1B to join the new company?

B) Does filing H1B after EAD approval have any negative impact on my AOS interview or on EAD/AP Renewal?

C) My spouse has EAD because of my EB1A and is utilizing it for her work. Will my H1B have any impact on her work visa eligibility?

D) When do you think USCIS will start doing in person interviews? Do you anticipate some interview waivers ?

Thanks for your help :)
As much crap as Michael Milken has gotten, I agreed what he said on junk bonds: Dollar by dollar, junk bonds did create a lot jobs. They funded risky businesses, in the same way venture capital does today. Problem arises when they are used in deceptive ways.
You just have to start small, and eventually you might get there. It was like that for me with Signal. I was able to get a couple of my more willing close contacts to begin using it. After a couple months, another began using it, and eventually after two to three years the vast majority, most whom I never tried convincing, are using the application actively.
To add to this: it will be forever impossible to provide low latency to all sites of any large, distributed organisation.

For some categories of applications, it'll always be much more performant to have local servers, even if the network is 100Gbps symmetric fibre.
I had the T400 and the physical WIFI switch was more of a bug for me instead of a feature
My mother-in-law had an absolutely BRUTAL flu in early February. It was so bad my sister-in-law had to live with her for a while and take care of her. She had really, really bad fevers and an absolutely horrible dry cough that seems to have left some lasting damage even now. It took her about 3 weeks to get better.

There's no evidence that it was Covid-19. But she is a nanny for a family of doctors in Boston so it's not impossible that it's it.
Indeed, I had friends who used it (I never did), from what I recall (this was over 20 years ago), the tunnel could not be removed and in some cases would get in the way of some construction later.
germany is certainly more advanced than the US in regard to responsible corporate governance.

governments taking equity positions in corporations can be bad because of the risk of corruption, self-dealing, and regulatory capture, not the principal-agent and subsequent sunk-cost risks you mention, imho.

unlike other shareholders, governments aren't strongly motivated by attaining the largest return for themselves, particularly since taxes and bonds are much easier revenue sources. and in crisis, the government has the negotiating leverage to stipulate stricter conditions upfront that aren't normally part of non-crisis investments.
On the ASPSP side
Yeah, I'm not really suggesting that they failed entirely to encrypt the UDP traffic. But I am curious if what they have done has been scrutinized recently. Jitsi was formed in 2003 according to Wikipedia, there could be outdated choices in there somewhere. That they use widely deployed tech is not really enough, we've just seen that Zoom is using ECB mode when they should not, etc.
> Culture should be free,

Tell that to the artists who want to make a living making this stuff.
>>Keynesian fiscal stimulus is a decision by the government to increase government spending financed by government borrowing

>Quite a far stretch equating those.

In reality it really isn't.
A new kind of light in the universe? Light that exceeds limits of natural law
Is it possible to use Zoom on Linux from an ordinary user without sudo rights?
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They can't tell you your results because you're anonymised.
The intended meaning was obvious to me, fwiw. I think the "alone" also adds emphasis to the key discovery.
Ruby most definitely wouldn't, it doesn't come pre-installed on almost any AMI/server/Docker Image/etc.

As for perl, it does come "with the system" more often than Ruby, but also not as much as bash.

Even if it did, I reckon bash is something that nowadays people are more accustomed to than perl, and would consider it more of a no brainer.
Hmm, others are pointing towards PWAs, but to me this looks more like a way to "install" scripts (python, ruby, PHP, powershell etc).

I guess this is trying to open the Windows Store to more devs, giving them an option other than UWP - which is certainly a laudable notion. But I really wish the article was clearer about what the end goal is.

This actually sounds pretty cool... but I'm not sure who it's aimed at; scripts are typically for command line tools, not GUIs. And for those au fait with the command line, I'm not sure what the benefit is, beyond signing the package (which, technically, could already be done if you packaged your script in an MSI/MSIX installer).
> the latest macOS update
TIL about most of this. Thanks for the detailed explanation.
... v3 hot
People with a small amount of savings will be curtailing spending until that savings is back, so I doubt it. This adds a guaranteed lag time to returning economic activity. The only way to fix this is give a free month or two of rent or mortgage payments (and not tacking those onto the end) which is the same as giving them cash. Worst case would be that people feel the need to save more.

This is after you get over any initial caution of going back to crowded places.
CDC recommends people wear cloth masks to block the spread of Covid-19
It's nice until you want to reassign some global variable externally for in-production debugging via a browser console.
Laughs in Apple.
How many times have you seen this salary?
I really hope the GP doesn't work on anything handling financial transactions.
Don't a nontrivial amount of people use their macbooks closed in a vertical docking stand? This will require them to use an external microphone.

Wouldn't they have to use an external microphone anyway, since in clamshell mode, the microphone is facing directly into the closed display? AFAIK, MacBooks of any flavor don't have external microphones.
You cut down as much of those as possible (e.g. not making people pay utilities, as many countries/localities have done), treating nonessential employees as laid-off and needing government aid like anyone else, adding tax and insurance-premium holidays.

Lots of places have approached this model very closely; there is almost always some little bit that falls through the cracks, but it's doable.
PhotoStructure maintains SHAs of all files, but I currently assume the user has updated the file if the SHA changes. PhotoStructure validates files before it imports them to keep corrupted images out of your library.

How do you think I could discriminate between file corruption and the user making an edit to a file?

(Perhaps if the mtime and filesize doesn't change, but the SHA does?)
Cool concept, but the books I compared were 20-50% higher than Amazon, and they charge another $3.50 to ship in 7-10 days.
The comment there by "Impossibly Stupid" is at this moment the one most worth reading, if you read just one.