skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found the meetings I do have seem more productive with everyone remote. In my case, most meeting I attend always have someone remote. This also isn't entirely new to me, because my team has be unofficially practicing the "one person remote, everyone remote" rule, but now it's company-wide, and it's awesome.

First, it puts everyone on a level playing field. Everyone hears the same thing. If we're using video, everyone is a face in a box, instead of getting the "fly on the wall" view of a bunch of people in a conference room.

It forces you to talk in a slightly different way to avoid talking over each other. Once you get a turn to speak, you have to speak more complete thoughts, and don't put in short pauses between sentences that confuse others making them think you're done talking.

I'm way more productive using my multi-monitor, full-size mouse and mechanical keyboard setup than I am on just my laptop. I can take notes faster, lookup details faster, etc. And not just me -- I've noticed a couple times where we were able to solve an issue during a meeting because others were able to lookup detail needed for a decision/action (that we didn't realize before the call), where often in the past that would have been done after the meeting and then we'd have yet another follow-up discussion.
Because of managers like you I get all of these things nicely into the contract so no one can say to me that they 'give me something like flexibility'.

What you wrote doesn't have even 0.1% of balance you speak of.
This is what I'm wondering, too. Montefiore botched their first case on Feb 3rd and then weeks later was still ending up with coronavirus patients potentially contaminating others in ways that should not have happened. This is more than just a lack of PPE and other equipment (which could be partly due to hospital administration incompetence too).
With modern medicine it appears that this will have a much less fatality rate. Only limited by the capacity of our hospitals. However, I still wonder why a few people passed away although they were young and healthy.
I'm not sure why you're calling the author's character into question here...
We are all stuck at home and therefore you cannot just drop this comment without elaborating.
It may not be clear, but "X-ray elastography by visualizing propagating shear waves" is the actual title of the paper. pavanagrawal123 shouldn't be getting downvotes.
The publicity alone from something like this will backfire so so so hard. Those doctors or nurses fired will have no problem getting jobs. The people who do the firing will be roasted over a metaphorical fire for this.

No, keep yelling about it loudly to everyone! We get that a hospital can't magically fix PPE issues - but that doesn't mean that you can just suppress stories about it.
Air pollution eases in 4 Canadian cities as pandemic measures keep people home
Their latest Windows version has some weird DLL blacklist which blocks the ffmpeg DLLs used by the virtual camera. I made an inert version of the DLL[1] but this will break screen sharing due to a set of digital signature checks Zoom does before screen sharing.

https://twitter.com/R1CH_TL/status/1243734261628383232
Ask HN: Advice for YC Batch Working Remotely with YC
A YC Partner has publicly stated that YC S20 might be the only YC batch to be selected, funded, and conducted remotely [1]. This includes: admissions process, individual office hours, dinner talks, and Demo Day.

Given the final weeks of the W20 batch were over video, including individual office hours, dinner talks, and Demo Day — I was wonder if anyone including YC, YC alumni, or others with similar experiences have any advice for startups facing the challenge of making the most of the situation.

[1] https://dalton.substack.com/p/how-yc-will-be-funding-the-s20-batch

Lastly, worth noting that while the deadline for submitting an application for the YC S20 batch already passed, YC applications [2] are still open:

[2] https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/
DiaMonTech AG | Software Engineer | Berlin, Germany | Full-time | ONSITE / PARTIAL REMOTE

We are an innovative, venture-capital backed team with the goal to revolutionize the healthcare market for Diabetes.We have developed a new method to detect molecules in liquids and soft matter based on photothermal spectroscopy. Our first application is a non-invasive blood sugar monitor, that means we can detect blood sugar levels without finger pricking, pain, and blood. Our founders are a world-wide renowned professor of bio-physics and a serial entrepreneur with decades of experience in building high-tech startups.

Currently we are looking for Software Developer, who can write code in Python and/or C++, like to work in many different areas from HW/FW up to the cloud implementation and is dedicated to develop high quality medical software.

Full job description: https://dl.diamontech.com/Software_developer_(m_f_d).pdf

If this offer sounds interesting to you, email me directly at bartosz.plotka@diamontech.de.
> It needs the holes Zoom abused fixed, so that it can no longer circumvent asking for the user's final consent.

but... installing zoom is already asking for my consent, through an OS prompt. Do you want to have to type your user password two times for every app you install or what ?
Coronavirus is driving drug users to the dark web and Bitcoin
Yes being able to freely buy a product that offers a different point on the security / openness continuum is slavery, and phrasing it like that doesn't undermine either the meanings of the word 'enslave' or 'authoritarianism'.
Congrats on your dedication to your cyberpunk larp!
I am aware of what responsible disclosure is; Patrick Wardle doesn't really care for it because he prefers writing up his blog posts as it gives him a chance to speak. But even putting aside his personal flaws, Zoom should fix these issues.
5 year olds shouldn't have unrestricted access to the internet anyway. For children that young you should be using whitelists, not blacklists.
> potential to help the community

Did you start the project with a conversation with that community?

> project for a year now...
> audience of 0

Stop. Move on.

Talk more to potential customers. Don't start another project until you get several enthusiastic yeses from reliable sources. (you'll probably get a few "meh" and the rare negative comments too).

Most people don't care, even when they're figuratively on fire. Best to find something really compelling to work on before one line of code.
most people don't start X from the TTY, they use a display manager that starts X and manages the login.
Location: Denver
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: NO

Technologies: Trading API, (TDameritrade, Interactive Brokers) Stocks, Options, Futures, Trading, Python, Mysql, Finance

Résumé/CV: http://www.strategic-options.com/chads_resume.html

Email: chad.humphrey@strategic-options.com

Algorithms / Strategies

-Volatility Algorithm, deploy across $150 million portfolio

-Options Implied Volatility Arbitrage strategies

-Stock & Equity Algorithms, Current tracking over 500 stocks.

-Futures / day trading algorithms

Software & API:

-TD Ameritrade, Interactive Brokers, Etrade, Ally

-Scraping techniques
It's impossible to make these sorts of judgments without an understanding of what the end goal is. What the off ramp of Coronavirus town is in best and worst cases.

e.g. If a vaccine is realistically a year off (which is realistic, though we clutch onto every bit of preliminary news when in reality most are failures), in the relatively near term we will start to all have to take more risks, and the majority of us will go through COVID-19.
So people who choose not to have kids can have immortality? ;)

It would be pretty unethical to prevent people from getting the best available medical treatment just so there are more children, on the other hand giving people a choice would have many social implications.
The Internationalized Deliberately Unreadable Network NOtation (I-Dunno)
> No one is saying anything about proof or guilt.

Sure you are. Discovery is really expensive. The point of throwing out cases prior to it is to keep the court system from being used as a mechanism for harassment or extortion. Otherwise if you don't like somebody you could file a frivolous case against them and require them to spend thousands of dollars on discovery even though you'll never win, or use that expense to extract a settlement from them because it's cheaper to pay you off than win the case on the merits.

So the question is whether something the plaintiff does should be considered as evidence against the defendant. But the plaintiff could do it even if the defendant is totally innocent, and has an incentive to do it if it would allow them to bring their frivolous case, so it has no evidentiary value. It conveys zero bits of information because you could reasonably expect it to happen with equivalent probability regardless of the defendant's liability.

The reason this really messes people up is that it's one of those "this statement is false" things. If it can't be used as evidence and it still happens then it's much better evidence, because the plaintiff in that situation wouldn't have a motive to do it just to manufacture evidence. But as soon as you do allow it to be used as meaningful evidence, that motive reappears and destroys the evidentiary value.
I'm not quite understanding the protocol here.

If the client sends only a hex/base64 string, how can the server trust that it's the result of a password being fed to a KDF?
"It's a good thing there is no history before the coronavirus."

There's plenty of history and plenty of examples.

"China is responsible for this whole thing"

This is actually pretty racist.

More importantly, China's 'authoritarianism' has nothing to do with the origin of the outbreak.
Focusing on external actors instead of internal corruption is missing the forest for a couple of trees.
Best eCommerce customer experience examples
Lest anyone think this is pure hypothetical, this happened to me. When I was 6 or 7 years old, my parents let me have an account on the family computer. I couldn't do anything particularly destructive, and didn't spend an overt amount of time on it. Mostly, I would press random keyboard keys into the browser's URL bar.

One day, I ended up at a website that said 'must be 18 or over to access'.

(I suspect it was a credit card scam, not porn, but the point still stands.)

Next time I logged into that computer, I found myself unable to start the webbrowser.
How many jobs can be done at home? [pdf]
I am a grumpy git, but…

Please also do not email. It feels like every week I'm removing my corporate contact information from some obnoxious website which sells my email address having not obtained my permission to store or process it.

Presumably somewhere, long ago, there was a CEO or founder who responded positively to cold outreach from a Ukrainian outsource dev team or Indian QA company, but I find all cold outreach to be unwelcome. Making it more personal just means I have to type my "politeno" text shortcut instead of "gdprsmash".

People celebrate and mythologise the 0.1% of cold outreach success stories and ignore the fact that 99.9% of it is irritating spam.
The idea that every one of the millions dead from COVID-19 would've died anyways in the same year is... unsupported, to say the least.
Not sure why you're being downvoted - I expect more meat from a submission than 'here's a context-free few sentences on a tweet!'
The COVID Tracking Project
For one thing, it looks like your decoding is not being done the way SOTA systems do it (usually nucleus sampling). Yours appears to be doing top-1 or top-N sampling, but please correct me if I'm wrong on this. Even if you are doing it with nucleus sampling - you need to expose paramaters to control the generation better. That way you have a lot of cover for it not working as expected in the form of responding to dissenting users with "just tune the parameters better"

The reaction you're getting from this system is so negative because it appears to be less good than write with transformer - which implements exactly what I'm describing.

For what its worth, this mostly isn't your fault. NLP is a crapshoot of hype and implementations which disappoint.
> Zoom’s troubled year just got worse.

This is an odd way of describing a year in which Zoom's stock has doubled in price.
I watched The Quiet Earth in a theater when it first came out. Great flic! Thanks for reminding me to watch again
It was actually a March 31st commit.
Ask HN: Which role in your startup hires freelancers most frequently?
Hi HN,

I'm working on an autistic-friendly freelancers' platform and I'm trying to figure out to which type of clients (mainly in startups) should I reach out first. Is it the CEO, the marketer, the product manager, developer etc.

Thanks,
Arik
Yes, although they should be proficient in C first. There's some info about internships at the bottom of the linked Jobs page (don't let it scare them off from applying though; I don't like the language we use there).
Exactly. If there's ever a time for propaganda, it's not now.
For those who are looking to further dumb down their worldview, I’d also recommend the black book of communism and the works of Thomas Friedman. Don’t ever actually read Marx, or Hegel, or Kant, or any of the writers of the Frankfurt School, because those are badly written and hard to read, and toxic for free thinkers and hackers like us.
It's healthy to call out the flaws in products that you use and like.

Ideally the flaws get fixed, and you end up not having to compromise.
Opinion: FaceTime for Android and Windows could make it the new default
Authoritarian regimes are a common by product of socialism
I think this is a broad generalization. Too broad. It depends on what type of work you do. It depends on your personality, etc.

I am working from home third week right now, and I dislike it A LOT. I've worked from home for 6 years in the early 2000s. I love office. I love socializing. I love walking from one floor to another. I actually like my morning commute, etc.
Maybe try to read the blog post https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x56.html instead of a Twitter thread. People trying to glean information from truncated 140-char messages (often written in the most attention-grabbing way possible) is one of the main reasons why Twitter is full of misinformation.
Can someone explain why I keep seeing Zoom on the frontpage? What sets it apart from the rest that it gets discussed on HN so often recently? Is it a YC company?
Designing a Minimalist Home Office
>If you assume that your conscious experience is somehow arising from your neurons, then generating a set of those neurons that are genetically identical and cannot be distinguished in any way (except location in physical space, which is an ephemeral quality that doesn't appear to change neuron function), then we can assume we are creating, or will create, beings who are having conscious experience on some level.

I think that's a bad assumption. Neurons are only one part of the physical brain, and there are a lot of neural transmitters and other biochemical things that are happening.

That is not to downplay the ethical concerns at all. I agree completely with you there.
Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: NodeJs, ReactJs, React Native, Coffeescript, Angular, Docker, ExpressJs.

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/t6xyj62rn5x0dq5/Iyanu%20Tomiwas%20...

Email: durotolaiyanu@gmail
> but for better or worse you find this everywhere in the world, even singapore[1]

What relevance does that have to whether or not these workers should get reasonable protection from coronavirus risks, and treatment if they get sick?
Perhaps it hasn't been necessary to force them because he is capable of explaining _why_ they're important, i.e. he is capable of engaging in a dialogue with his children.

Also, what kind of weird country do you live in where there even is such a thing as legally mandatory vaccines?
BitMEX | San Francisco | VISA | On-Site | bitmex.com/careers

What is BitMEX - and why do we exist?
BitMEX is a derivatives trading platform that offers investors opportunities using only Bitcoin. We are not a spot exchange where you can buy Bitcoin with USD or other fiat currencies.
Across the globe, and particularly in Asia, we have over half a million open accounts, of which approximately 100,000 belong to active users.
Effectively, BitMEX offers commercial hedgers, Bitcoin miners, and professional and retail traders the ability to speculate on the price of Bitcoin, and to exchange Bitcoin risk, with other market participants on a level playing field.
Our platform was developed by ex-bankers who were (and are) well-versed in computer science, financial engineering, and traditional finance. BitMEX launched in 2014 and subsequently has grown to become one of the most important marketplaces in the crypto space.
Our hottest positions are listed below. Please apply if you are interested in learning more. For questions, reach out to people@bitmex.com

Technical Program Manager (IT) https://grnh.se/a960712e2us, Kubernetes Engineer https://grnh.se/0dae03e22us, IT Corporate Applications Engineer https://grnh.se/f5b318c62us, SRE Database & Distributed Systems https://grnh.se/f8bb2a292us
Cool, I've used Webhose and NewsAPI, but it's always good to have another structured news feed option.

The one thing that sets these services apart is the ability to provide the full text of the articles vs. a snippet.
How coronavirus is disrupting public transit by time-of-day and city comparisons
Nothing about the workers owning the means of production?
> Pragmatically one could argue that economically and socially it would be fairer to just let people who contract COVID die. But politics intervenes and forbids that.

Really? And what if two thirds of the world contracted it and ~3% of those died. I ask you to provide your own proof, models or what not, that letting this virus run rampant won't have equally or even more disastrous affects economically and socially.
The mistake people and companies will inevitably make is believing that because, on net, having everyone work from home makes people more productive, it will make a specific person more productive.

In other words, companies may misinterpret this study as "everyone working from home" is the optimal solution.

But the optimal solution is some people working from home and some people not.
> easier to develop and maintain

wayland may be easier to maintain than X. But from what I've seen writing a compositor for wayland is more difficult than writing an X window manager, because things you got for free with X have to be implemented by the compositor in wayland.

And many applications are more difficult to target wayland, because there aren't (at least yet) standard protocols for things like screenshots, screencapture, etc. So they have to either choose one desktop environment to target, or have implementations for all of them.
To help with the understanding around the name, as we mentioned above, we actually launched Global Belly with a different concept. It was our own food brand, direct to consumer food products to help you make global cuisines at home. We pivoted over the last 6-8 months into this current model and we felt that the name still worked but it could be something to explore in the future.
Everybody says this, and then proceeds to buy the cheapest, most convenient products possible.
X11/Xorg was the default on many distros, so often it was preconfigured in a working state. I started my Linux journey around...2004? And booting into Mandrake or Slackware (or a Knoppix Live CD, my true beginning), X would work fine. But as soon as I had to install it myself (minimal Fedora, minimal Debian, or my fave, stage 1 Gentoo), I'd hit all kinds of issues with configuration and starting the X server.

As a counterpoint, I tried to set up Wayland a couple years back on Ubuntu and Fedora before it was default anywhere, and that was also a nightmare.

It's easy to forget sometimes just how much the distro maintainers make our lives easier.
SEEKING FREELANCER | Streetlives | Remote (NYC-based)

Streetlives is seeking a freelance developer with lived experience of homelessness to help build out a mobile web app to help people who are homeless or living in poverty find social services in their area. You would be working with our distributed team based in NYC, Israel, and Spain. Remote OK. Our technology stack is full-stack JavaScript (node.js and React), on serverless AWS (cognito, API gateway and Lambda). If interested, please email your CV to adam@streetlives.nyc
Suspected Mask Profiteer Arrested for Coughing on FBI Agents
1-St April Joke:)
When did Zoom sell their users to investors and advertisers?

Zoom used the Facebook SDK to provide a social login button. When they discovered that the SDK sends device data over to Facebook even when users are not utilizing the feature, they removed the SDK and reimplemented it using the native browser. Almost every app on your phone that has a Facebook login option has this same privacy leak. Facebook deserves more of the negative focus here for not explicitly stating to developers that they're bundling spyware on their apps.

Every negative coverage of Zoom that I can think of has shown that its flaws were the result of its focus on streamlined/dead-simple user experience rather than any kind of advertising or selling of user data. Meanwhile people suggest alternatives from Google and Microsoft. After Facebook, I can't think of two companies that have a worse track record on privacy than those two targeted advertising companies.
I work from home for about a year. I found it quite hard at first. I think working part remote is preferrable (under normal situations I appreciate at the moment it isn't). However this is what I found worked for me:

* Having a routine. Getting up to work, commuting, working, going to gym, eating dinner, relaxing etc. is a routine. I find it gives me some structure to the day. If you are working remote I would encourage you to work out a routine and stick to it.

* You need to have a separate work space and have "working hours". I have a completely separate PC and office setup for work. Once I am out of that office it helps me mentally switch off from work. A friend of mine who runs his own business rents a small office (these can be inexpensive). However I am freelancer / contractor and this can be considered a business expensive.

* Make sure you go out for a break during the day. Make this part of your work routine.

* I typically have to drive about 1hr 30 minutes to the office. So that is typically a commute of 3 hours everyday. Doing this 5 times a week is tiring and adds up to 15 hours each week. That is 2 working days. However I do like the social aspects of an office. So being able to go in maybe 2 days a week, talk through solutions work face to face helps. But obviously not possible at the moment.
Can someone explain the difference between an S-expression and an X-expression? Even after reading the blog post I'm not following, seem like the same thing to me.
We're hoping sooner than later thanks to Tobi's bounty on this. You can follow the design spec at https://github.com/obsproject/rfcs/pull/15 if you're interested.
>Government needs a revolution to change.

Again, this is wrong. Governments can change in all sorts of ways. In the current hyper-polarized political reality in the US, it may seem like a revolution is required, but just look at the number of changes that have actually occurred under Trump and Obama.

If we could muster the political will to actually address corruption, then it would change, and it wouldn't require a revolution.

The problem is people just don't care.
I'm not trying to be rude I'm just offering feedback. Brace yourself. I went to the site and couldn't instantly figure out what handsy is. I tried for about 10-15 seconds. ...something about alcohol. eh, I don't care. and then gave up. Still don't know. I think you should make it more clear what it is.