skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Fi can do most of the things Voice could, certainly I can call or send SMS from any device.
I believe it's the latter - a fast spread will overshoot past the minimum herd immunity, while a slower spread won't, thus resulting in fewer overall deaths and ICU visits.

In other words, shrinking the area under the curve while flattening the curve.

Of course, that's a highly simplified model, might not be true, etc., etc. But it gives me, a leftist, some support for my belief that some "social distancing for as long as it takes" is a more reasonable viewpoint than no social distancing.

(I replaced "strict" with "some" because I prefer the Swedish model - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22768170 . I just haven't a clue for how things will turn out.)
Think of it like banking reserve rules. The program is officially open to everyone, but how much we cook in a day is based on demand.
I would say LinkedIn, Glassdoor, and then WelcomeToTheJungle and ChooseYourBoss.
AOC is not doing you guys any favors
Hey - not the OP but where can I DM you? Do you have an email?
That model doesn't account for other countries not following the same (presumably strict) procedures. We aren't islands, and even if there is a short term suppression in your current country, it seems unlikely you're going to quarantine every incoming flight (and its crew!) for 2 weeks per flight. I suspect any model that doesn't result in the majority of the population getting it eventually is probably wrong.
old, adj: Having lived or existed for a relatively long time;

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/old

Old doesn't have to mean extinct :)
It's "rolling your own crypto", not "rolling your own encryption algorithm". That includes using "secure" low-level primitives incorrectly to build an insecure higher-level protocol. In this case, using ECB mode has been known for years (decades?) to be a bad move regardless of the underlying encryption algorithm.

As the classic article says, if you type the letters A-E-S, you're doing it wrong.
It’s a very good time for all of us to start listing our old crap on EBay. Just sold a couple things that have been listed for over a year.

1 was a Xiaomi Android box. Another was a vintage video game.
Sure, but credit is cheap and easy. You can get a HELOC easily.
Not just about ethics though, also about making sure a commercial provider doesn't sell you out.
Sorry, I guess I should have been more clear. The thruster and comms issues were also examples of hardware related issues. I can't say for certain that the comms issue couldn't be fixed in software, but it seems unlikely. The thruster issue was related to overuse and is arguably mitigated by "not doing that (via software changes and training for human pilots)", but it really shouldn't have been an issue in the first place.

The software issues were the more serious issues that grabbed more headlines. The capsule incorrectly grabbing a time value from the rocket. The control logic for whatever reason didn't understand something was wrong, but instead "proceeded as normal" as if it was further ahead in the mission. Finally there was some other error that was caught before it happened but was something related to the thruster control logic and could have caused the loss of the capsule during re-entry.
People also aren't factoring in that, while the death rate may be low for young healthy people, the hospitalization rate is still quite high, and recovery time is long. And the death rate even for young people goes up substantially if the hospitals are so overwhelmed that they can't even provide oxygen and nurses for young healthy people.
"Wow. What could all of these people possibly be doing?"

There are 20,000 google engineers working in "research and development", what could all of these people possibly be doing?
Oh please. They used the fb auth sdk without realizing the implications. That's hardly malicious just incompetent and rushed.
Kubernetes Helpers for Bash Terminal
Better than having to choose an IDE, is to not have to choose an IDE.

It’s pretty liberating to put some text in a single file, pass that file to a compiler, and have a single executable binary.

A devolved workflow I know.
I mean sure and I get they are catering to a very large audience with users with all levels of knowledge/skill sets but that's also why they needed to put a lot more work into security up front. If they want to make it easy for users that don't know/care much about security it's on them to make it secure for everyone.

I know it's easy for me to sit here and arm-chair quarter back and I don't have a solution for them. If I did I'd be working for them instead of my current day job! But lacking the ability to assist I still think it's fair to publicly criticize them so they pay attention and fix this ASAP. The more people that do the more emphasis they will put on getting past this, if nothing else to stop the negative PR.

When the FBI steps in and tells people to think twice about using an online service I hope even the most uniformed user will pay attention.
Obviously but for now I still have many contacts on LinkedIn and former colleagues wanting to refer me to their current company.

So yeah it's entirely subjective and I guess it'll heavily depend on how many times the lockdown is extended ...
One of my two co-founders is Canadian. He has just been "visiting" very frequently, but it's a constant concern. What is the best way to start the process of trying to get him here to the US, legally?

We have already raised some VC money from US-based investors (not sure if that helps at all).

Thanks!
That's the sort of amazing focus on user experience I expect from Free software, unfortunately.
I don't get your point. If you're going to lay off someone, what's wrong with leaving a paper trail about it? It's not like you have to include everything you never liked about each employee.
It's more native than an Electron app.
The cars thing I get, but most can carry quite a bit. Storage...you pile them, under the bed, corner etc etc. Whatever. We are living in horrible times

Of course you also need money to buy food for weeks, easy to say to others buy this and that)
I tried this game before, because I wanted Transport Tycoon, but with smarter train logic, but I found this unplayable. I tried this new version, but the problem persists.

The graphics don’t scale to modern resolutions, and so I literally can not read the screen or see what’s happening. I have to sit six inches away from the screen to read anything. I’ve tried wiki instructions before, but they didn’t work. I ended up having missized windows and text.

Such a shame.
Yet you wouldn't know it based on the stock market. Apperently all of this is "priced in"
In this case, the insult is in how one chooses to perceive it. It's not present in the words themselves.
The Craziest Challenges StayAtHome
Makes you wonder if you could pool together a bunch of low-risk samples, and only re-test if the pool comes back positive.
Makes you wonder how someone could approve that pull request...
Google is many orders of magnitudes larger than Zoom. Zoom has one product, Google has thousands of products, many more complex than Zoom.
In a similar vein, I played a factorio game with https://github.com/afex/graftorio - It was useful, but also un-useful as I ended up spending more time making pretty graphs than they could possibly have saved me in noticing resource bottlenecks.
Okay, I just experimented a little further (I didn't bother the first time, just switched to a different text editor), and it's slightly narrower than I thought:

1) Enable dark mode

2) Open a new note

3) Tab twice, then type text which will be invisible

It appears to be any line with two or more tabs of indentation. Not two or more relative to the previous line, but two or more period.
https://omnidb.org/en/
Using AES in ECB mode is clearly a bad choice, but honestly it's not that horrible for high entropy data like compressed audio/video. I'm sure someone could prove me wrong one day, but it seems hard to extract any useful patterns out of compressed audio/video. It does check the box of "uses encryption" for regulatory reasons (while missing the intent). It's pretty egregious considering how easy this is to get right.

The 128-bit key is not inherently wrong if they were rotating these out during the stream. That being said, there's no reason not to do it right and use a mode like GCM with a longer key - most hardware supports acceleration for AES-256 these days. It can actually be slower to use a 128-bit key on 64-bit systems.

While I respect the decision not to disclose the waiting room vulnerability, it's pretty obvious what's going on given the context. They probably shouldn't have mentioned where the vulnerability is.

I'm honestly surprised anyone with technical knowledge thought that Zoom was actually doing end-to-end encryption given how the software works. All of the video transcoding/downconversion is clearly happening on the server. Your client is not sending multiple compressed streams for varying connection bandwidths. That's the main reason a lot of people like Zoom - it actually works well with dozens or hundreds of participants.
There is a difference in how this affects the broader economy. A business failing and going through bankruptcy still generally continues to exist if the business can be profitable long term, and the shareholders lose money.
Introduction to the Science of Covid-19
This was clearly not an accident, but a dark pattern.

There are way too many complex dark patterns which have been exposed to excuse them as oopsies. This is a company where product managers overruled developers into creating security-breaking implementations for the sake of "usability".
This is exactly the type of bailout Germany is considering. Maybe it's better than giving a loan (certainly better than handing out free money), but also creates an incentive for the government to invest a lot of money and political good will into the company afterwards so its shares won't become worthless, which can be dangerous if others are still calling the shots, because those are suddenly motivated to take way higher risks, knowing the government probably won't let them fail.
> Plus, since a NAS isn't going to be doing any desktop-OS things, the software for it can be slimmed down enough to run on lower-specced hardware, making the appliance itself much cheaper than the sort of machine required to run Server.app smoothly.

Really Server.app would run fine on the same slimmed down hardware, but Apple doesn't make that. The cheapest Mac is what, $800 for a Mini? $250 in PC hardware would more than suffice.

If you're on an even tighter budget you hardly need to buy new hardware at all, just set aside one of the old machines the next time you do a desktop hardware refresh and install any of a dozen free Linux or BSD NAS solutions on it.
Start a small railway running a tiny profit, go and have dinner, return to heaps of money to take over the world!
The prevailing belief is still that this will only be a several week ‘pause’ on an otherwise strong economy. Most seem to expect a V-shaped recovery.
Umm, but the activity is still lower than the baseline of normal day.

There is no reason to expect a sudden increase in cases because of those two days in particular
Bird? https://dot.la/bird-layoffs-meeting-story-2645612465.html
China Pushes for Quiet Burials Amid Questioning Over Death Toll
That doesn't explain why they were there.
Would be cool to have a podium that a user can step up to and speak to all with no falloff. Perhaps with some sort of permission or nomination.
Thanks! I also read this study a year or ago or so, thanks for reminding me.
Ron Rivest, Cryptography Pioneer Seeks Secure Elections the Low-Tech Way
Any documentation in a Latin American language?
You could actually have an e2ee conference. Even with FaceTime you trust Apple to give you the users' private keys, and not MITM-ed ones.

With a conference, the server could generate a private/public key pair for each dialed-in phone number. That way you could retain hope that they were giving you non-MITM-ed keys for participants when no phones are involved.

Generally though, Apple's "end-to-end encryption" is a false promise and SHOULD NOT be trusted. If they wanted to provide privacy and weren't bound by the government (like they were when they tried to encrypt backups), they'd follow whatsapp and allow offline comparison of keys via QR codes and notify of changes. But they didn't.

Apple won the marketing battle on privacy, but please don't trust them. They have access to all backups, all your pictures, and they can MITM your iMessage/FaceTime when the government requests it (or whenever they want to, really).
Does he qualify for a TN visa?
I don't see a false dichotomy.
It's only slightly smaller and 50% thicker than an iPhone 8.
Now if only there was a decent UI mod of playing on modern 1440+ screens. (Yes, I know there are mods that double the UI size but they make everything super-pixelated)
I don't have much information. I was told frontend and backend.

Edit: given the subject matter, I imagine there is demand for data analysis expertise, but that is my own speculation.
I didn't read it as suggesting it was "shady business". I read it as an insinuation that the company didn't know what it was doing from the top down, so they didn't hire smartly or manage well; they just threw numbers of people at the problem (and got predictably bad results).

With good management, a team of 50 should be able to provide what Zoom provides.
Hi Peter, I have been waiting for my I-485 AOS interview (currently on H1B) but it got cancelled due to USCIS's response to Covid-19. My application has been pending for less than 6 months. If I get laid off before the interview, how would it affect my AOS application? Is AC21 an option?
>Since when is this ability to dial-in such a hard requirement?

Any time you have groups at two companies calling each other it's going to be a decently common requirement. Each company has X people in a conference room. Those X people need to all be able to talk and hear. Thus you use the room's audio equipment which is basically an expensive telephone to dial in.
> Otherwise, they would be out of business in the long term.

... that would be a fine incentive if we don't bail them out. Otherwise...
I'm not sure what your proposal is -- use functions that use prototype this or no this, and arrow functions for ones that use contextual this?

It's easier to use arrow functions for everything except for the tiny minority of cases where you want prototype this.
I agree - all security is assembled from lower level primitives and can be insecure despite using good building blocks. AES (even AES-128) is a fine choice, ECB mode is even okay in some contexts, but using that a stream cipher is not appropriate.
Despite some court verdicts (or memes resulting from them) claiming otherwise, companies are not people and should be held to different standards.
Can't apply to the Paycheck Protection Program bc my startup's bank is Azlo?
Azlo is not participating in the Paycheck Protection Program, and other banks are requiring a business account established before February 15, 2020 in order to apply. This means my business is unable to participate in this program, even though it qualifies!

I just spoke with Azlo customer service, who told me they are not participating in the PPP. Essentially I am being excluded from federally-mandated aid because I chose to do my banking at Azlo, and not another major bank.

Does anyone know how to apply for the PPP without having a pre-existing business bank account (at somewhere other than Azlo)? And yes, I am already kicking myself for choosing Azlo.
Layoffs Tracker/Feed
I think you are confusing this with data tx/rx lights for exfil[0]? I've never heard of a tempest attack (that is, revealing the data written via a side channel) on a hard drive light.

[0] Guri et al, LED-it-GO

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.06715.pdf
Comprehensive PPE Project List
This is why I'm still putting money into my investing accounts, but not buying anything. If it's anything other than a V shaped recovery, stocks are going to be hammered, and there'll be even more buying opportunities than there are now.
The phenomena you're refering to is real. I acknowledge that this set of things exist. There also exists a set of regulations and administrative agency issued laws which are fundamentally political- coersive towards a political or social end and not a safety or public-good end, except in the expansive vision of the annointed who created them. People get pursued and punished over this set of regulations.

Anyone can convince themselves that such a set must exist just by answering the question - are there likely to be people in administrative agencies who had the specific ambition to put themselves into those positions to achieve a purely political, not "good public policy", ends?

In otherwords are there crusaders in the adminstrative agencies?

It's like asking if some politicians are crooked or if some people are criminals.

That's why it's an error to dismiss the cries of foul play when they're raised. We know those people are there somewhere.
Also, the risk of getting COVID from food is very low. You're more likely to get it from people near you standing in line.

> According to multiple health and safety organizations worldwide, including the CDC, the USDA, and the European Food safety Authority, there is currently no evidence that COVID-19 has spread through food or food packaging. Previous coronavirus epidemics likewise showed no evidence of having been spread through food or packaging

https://www.seriouseats.com/2020/03/food-safety-and-coronavi...
I did a CoderPad interview one week ago. Both me and the interviewer were working from home (as everyone else, I guess). From my point of view, it was a great experience. I could google how to sort a dictionary in python, and use it right away. It was a workflow just like a regular day at work. You don't know a small syntax details, you google it, use it, and move on with your life. A whiteboard doesn't allow this. It looks like the interviewer was happy with my performance, I got scheduled for a follow-up. Wish me luck :)
Got any screenshots?
Is compressed audio/video actually high-entropy (in the time domain) though?
This looks like great progress but it ends abruptly, apparently without the system fully booting. (The last two screenshots don't load for me.) If this reaches the point of getting launchd to spawn processes, it will be a terrific feat.
Yeah, moments after replying I realized there is a more charitable read :-)

Of course, with this read comes the age old question of "I can build Google/FB with 20 good men, what are they doing?"
IMO Apple deserves all the hate on this one. It was good once. Thank god I moved on to proper servers with linux. They should just kill it and let the community take over.
There has been much debate/controversy over a paper published recently suggesting that perhaps half of the UK population has already been infected with Covid-19. The popular press here went mad over it; you can get a reasonably good overview from an opinion piece in The Guardian from March 26:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/26/virus-...

Again, until this sort of huge unknown is properly addressed, I would be reticent to speculate on outlook.
nice, congrats! looking forward to use it when it releases in brazil :)

side note -- it's interesting that you guys are focusing on LATAM but hiring in europe (i looked through your jobs page because i know some really good LATAM python devs that are looking for new challenges)
It doesn't make a ton of sense to heavily discount the value of a company based on what you believe will be a short term global event.
Are you sure about that? I thought it was pretty much common knowledge that your battery going bad would degrade performance and it was time to get a new battery.
This is a really complex game, don't let the "old school" graphic fool you!
https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1986/03/12
because the argument was that with UBI you would have a loss of income tax and since that is the only tax available to the government, you have a complete loss of tax. if you are shifting to a consumption tax, you would not have a loss.
Well, my question was rhetorical. But I imagine you have no trouble understand why the stock market stopped free-falling before it hits 0.
Perhaps the C library is awesome, but I tried using Go implementation and it's a car crash.
Also a protocol with no session control is just weird.
That page doesn't load. It says:

(insert vkrt_tutorial.md.htm here)

Meanwhile the repository readme actually loads and shows useful information when loading from https://github.com/nvpro-samples/vk_raytracing_tutorial_KHR
> H-1B petitions are still being processed since there's no labor market test associated with these but PERM-based green card applications could be put on hold because a labor market test is central to this process and layoffs by the sponsoring employer can result in the end of this process.

Can you please explain what this means? I'm in the process of changing my work location with the same employer, and uncertain how this could affect me since we've to restart the PERM process. I've my I-140 approved and H1b approval till 2023.

Also saw this: https://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/pdf/DOL-OFLC_COVID-1...

But I am not sure how this affects the situation.
M4 is so impotent and crippling difficult to use, that it led me to create my own dumb templating engine[0] because there is no standard POSIX tool that will let you, simply and in the dumbest way possible, substitute strings within a file.

If you try using awk or sed, you will need to figure out a magical way to escape whatever arbitrary value you are trying to replace, so you don't break sed's regex or awk's syntax.

M4 was one of the last things I tried, and it was an utter disaster. If any of M4's magical characters collides with the syntax of the file you're trying to template: tough luck. And there is no way to escape your file for M4 either, it's syntax doesn't support that.

I eventually discovered that Bash 4.4+ has some built-in functions for "dumb" string substitution[1], which is exactly what's missing from the default POSIX tools.

Since then I wrote this little wrapper around that functionality, as a simple, single-file, dependency-free Bash script. If you find something like that useful, it's on the link below:

[0] https://github.com/luizberti/templ

[1] https://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/string-manipulation.html
Matthew effect in full flight.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect
>In 15 years of being in the workforce I have never seen any diversity initiative having so much as a modest effect on people taking classes or employment

Well, start here [1].

>this a racist tirade from an ignoranimus who clearly has no real life experience in neither academia nor industry. It's stupid, delirious, and forgettable.

You are throwing a lot of vitriol my way but not discussing any of my points. Though it should not be relevant, I am not white. And I am the son of immigrants. There is no need to make this personal.

The entire position between diversity and inclusion is inconsistent. The claim is that diverse teams outperform homogeneous teams - this implies that diverse people's perform differently. If they perform differently, why should we expect them to be equally represented in merit based roles?

1.https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/08/why-me...
I’ve never had any issues with the Linux client on 16.04
The meaning of sentences is also influenced by the space of what they might possibly mean. While you're correct that the headline, interpreted according to the normal rules of English, implies that nothing other than physical force can affect gene expression, this interpretation is easily ruled out by the fact that it's impossible. It's not a long stretch to the intended meaning.