skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your employer enrolled "your" phone in MDN/Device Management, then they can do whatever (inc. remote wipes). But more than likely it is their phone if they did that. Simply logging into GSuite doesn't allow that.

Individual apps can wipe their own data, but apps don't have the arbitrary ability to wipe the entire phone. Even Google's apps.

To quote the docs:

> [0] Before you can wipe a user’s mobile device, you need to turn on mobile management. For details, see Set up mobile device management[1].

PS - I'm responding because this myth that simply retrieving GSuie/Office 365 email allows device wipes just won't die. That isn't how any of this works. Enterprise device management requires special device enrollment, simply signing into a random email app isn't it.

[0] https://support.google.com/a/answer/7542661?hl=en

[1] https://support.google.com/a/answer/7396025?visit_id=6372178...
Perhaps an on-campus or company-affiliated clinic?
I doubt that boy's clubs will save you right now. But maybe I just have not found the right clubs yet.
http://archive.md/k3zNE
BTC reclaims $7k as Global efforts against the Coronavirus start to bear fruit
Never waste a good catastrophe, I guess
Does this mean that the main course of treatment is a blood transfusion? Or can you take medication to clear out the blood?
I tried ordering some things from Home Depot the other day, and they silently cancelled half of my order while still charging me the same amount for delivery from the store and while saying that some things can only be delivered from a warehouse and that some things can only be delivered from a specific store and that delivery from each store has a $45 minimum purchase before they'll even consider delivery despite the fact that they're charging the same amount for delivery from the store no matter how much you order. That of course makes it difficult to then order the remaining items even if you call them and demand a refund for the first delivery fee, because the remaining items now don't meet the minimum. Then the delivery from the warehouse is some weird arbitrary calculation involving a nominal+ amount that then gets divided up across the items you're ordering (3.77 here, 2.83 there, and so on) such that if you remove any item the delivery fees for the other items all go up, and then there are some items that deliver for free if you order more than $45 worth from the warehouse which of course doesn't help you if some items can only be purchased from the individual stores. And then there are still things like cans of spraypaint that you can't get delivered at all and you're only allowed to pick up in person.

I know that right now is an exceptional time, but this kind of shopping experience is part of why people choose Amazon first.
Can an employer set up a microphone in the break area without letting you know?
If Amazon has shipping delay in US, then it is unlikely other smaller shops can fare it better.
At one point in my vimrc I decided that P and p needed to be swapped...
That’s awesome! I did the same a couple of years ago (took about 1 year to complete) and it’s one of the things I’m most proud of, so I hope it feels as fulfilling for you too!
There is a huge industry devoted to knowing the patterns and logic behind google search to sell expertise around changing the results behind google search. A business would want this to ensure that they could be the first result when a potential customer searches for something that would indicate that they are ready to make a specific purchase that the business can handle. Politicians and other public figures would want to know how to make sure that given pages or topics do not show up like how some people theorize Boris Johnson does: https://kottke.org/19/10/boris-johnson-shady-seo-master

The issue with the industry around Search Engine optimization is that if commercial and marketing interests are too good at determining what get shown to a user, then Google loses it's value to a user. API's by design are machine readable, so if Google built its site in a way where other people can query this api directly, then marketing and PR firms would be able to query this api to build datasets on the relationships between different site, their content, and their pagerank to create rough models on how to 'game the system'. Instead by only offering a server-side rendered page for search, to collect the same information for data-mining purposes, you would need to 'scrape' the page and hope that format of the page's html is consistent for a long enough period to build a scraper, and then collect the data that they need. This combined with html and css obfuscation which is common with ssr apps and webpack in general, as well as rate-limiting and some other techniques, it can quickly become infeasible for somebody to data-mine google search for these kind of uses, and Google gets to keep their value.
You pretty much nailed it. My CEO revealed something he wasn't supposed to. Asked my help in removing his own message at his own request. I'm the only one comfortable with this kind of manipulation (I'm CTO here) and I'm happy that there's an audit trail of it as well to keep my position honest too.
And not just in living creatures. Ships sunk before atomic tests are valuable source of "low-background steel".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
What works for me is a step I find most people like to skip and that's planning.

As a number of other folks have said, if you have small things then you're more likely to get them done. Often though you'll need a bunch of these smaller things to make a product that someone might be worth paying for.

So what I do is I plan the project out into modules or blocks of functions that take a few days at most. I know for myself I take great pleasure in crossing things off lists (this is literal, I write things down in a TODO and physically cross them out). To me it's satisfying to see the list get smaller.

Seeing the list get smaller, and knowing there is an end, keeps me motivated. Now I still have moments where it can feel like a grind, the worst seems to be when something is just over half done. That's when it's the most important for me to tell myself, well I'll just work on this one thing and I grind through it. Then when I'm about 80% there, that's when a lot of motivation comes back to finish it.

Hope this helps.
Computing Across America (1983)
Facebook “We’re never lost if we can find each other.”
There's a great book called "Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold" that talks about medieval cooling using salts, and later with ammonia and other chemicals. INAS but it sounded like the key thing was circulation and ventilation. So if somehow you could keep a pump working, by crank, solar, wind, water, you could keep it circulating. Likewise to some type of air displacement.
Uncanny, I was looking for something exactly like this yesterday to upload screenshots automatically to Google Drive. Ended up using Dropbox's screenshot save feature but I'll switch to rclone instead.
The Color of a Meteor
Has there been any work to get a native browser implementation, either in JS or Wasm?
I think one of the biggest not-talked-about factors that has contributed to Nintendo's and Switch's success has been the amount of exclusives, especially in modern times.

Looking at the PS4 and XBOX debate, going forward the architectures of these two consoles will be increasingly similar, which is translating to a very low amount of exclusives for each platform. This is harsh as exclusives used to be one of the best signals for console performance.

With Switch focusing on portability infra + Nintendo's strong portfolio of exclusive IPs, its a winning combo for sure.
>For local backups it's unnecessary and if you forget the password all your data is lost.

As bad practice as it is, I'm guessing I'm not the only one with a super weak recycled password for instances like that.
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There is a huge bias against women as can be seen by statistics of women in C-level positions, or on board seats, or as founders. The few that _do_ make it often make a strong point of supporting more -- and many statistics have proven they're often better at long term performance than men.

<---- I'm a dude

It's continuing the problem by criticizing someone helping women. Regardless of what "time" it is -- it's damn awesome she's willing to help, whoever she helps.
Interesting distinction between "dreaming" and "fantasizing". Does the author define the two as the same process with the only difference being the effect the action has on you (e.g. destructive/unsatisfying)?
Yeah, this logic is used often in epidemiology, and this thought comes to my head every single time.

We also don't probably know all the possible heart conditions out there!

Finally, while someone might not have a condition (disease), they also might not have good function of the heart, this is not considered a pre-existing condition. This tends to happen with people who are overweight, leading to arteriosclerosis, but since the norm has moved so far in one direction, our criteria for disease might have moved as well.

Finally, the lungs and heart work in coordination to bring oxygen to the rest of the body. If the lungs stop functioning (which may not have direct symptoms that we expect)... I think it's pretty easy to fill in the rest.
I can relate this to part of my experience picking up stuffs and putting down in a couple of weeks.

Sometime I can feel that I'm in this or that because of some ego or future bragging and they dropped dead quickly.

But then again this probably roots from my childhood as I tended to appease to my teacher or parents to do a lot of things I don't enjoy. So it's really difficult to tell nowadays if I really enjoy doing this or not.
This also extends to iPhones, depending on the way your company's MDM is set up.
If there is no question, why is this dehumanizing practice completely illegal in many European countries?

The productive part of the population is treated like children in the US. Daddy gives you health insurance and reads you diary. If daddy no longer likes you, daddy cancels you health insurance but still reads your mail.
I agree 100% with this. It's appalling how many other sites (esp. the direct manufacturer ones, like you mentioned) use dark patterns with their shipping/handling prices. It really does make you understand why everyone wants to use the big sites like Amazon, at least they are pretty straight fwd when it comes to the price, shipping, fees, etc. Nothing worse than getting down an e-commerce funnel only to find you wasted 10+ mins filling out stages of forms to then find the shipping/handling cost is absolutely ridiculous, and have to bail.
at least you don't waste much time...
>Peter Gollwitzer, Paschal Sheeran, Verena Michalski, and Andrea Siefert published an interesting paper on this topic in the May, 2009 issue of Psychological Science. They argued that important goals like pursuing a career path involve a commitment to an identity goal. ...

>They suggest that when people announce an intention to commit to an identity goal in public, that announcement may actually backfire. Imagine, for example, that Mary wants to become a Psychologist. She tells Herb that she wants to pursue this career and that she is going to study hard in her classes. However, just by telling Herb her intention, she knows that Herb is already starting to think of her as a Psychologist. So, she has achieved part of her identity goal just by telling Herb about it. Oddly enough, that can actually decrease the likelihood that Mary will study hard.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ulterior-motives/200...
Maude fascinates me to no end. Currently I'm actually re-learning kdb+/q as I want to implement some things related to bioinformatics using it, but at some point I'd really like to do some things with logic/dependent types in biology. Happy to chat further grant <at> eonias dot org
With a lot of employment contracts they not only have access to everything, but also own the copyright/patents of anything made with their equipment.
The equity involved makes almost all small business owners at least upper middle class.
https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/judicial/admin-decisions/2...
Ask HN: PostgreSQL config generator pricing model
I'm making a postgres config generator to help people tune RDS databases for performance and efficiency. By nature, it is mainly a one-time or low re-use service, yet basically all current Saas pricing advice says you should go for a subscription model. Does anyone know what this service would sell for or how it might be turned into a recurring revenue service?
>So it seems odd to me that IT administrators, who are often such sticklers for security and opponents of the idea of trustingly granting overly-broad permissions, would even want the ability to do an end-run around information isolation.

You're not wrong but:

* It's necessary for someone (or some group) to have these powers in order for anything to work.

* Usually everything you do as an Admin is logged just like for the users and you cannot purge those logs or not without drawing a lot of attention or making it obvious you did so. So you too will eventually be caught and punished if you abuse these powers. You have more power but not infinite power as there will be other admins watching you and if a log file suddenly disappears at the same time you make some strange stock purchases you may be asked difficult questions...

It's also worth noting that humans are surprisingly honest. Millions of workers have access to your medical records, your bank accounts, information useful for insider trading or state\company secrets. And it's pretty rare that anyone steals any of it. If anything, humans are too willing to keep company\state secrets and we'd be better off if people leaked MORE (e.g. Sherron Watkins or Edward Snowden)...
Exactly, and even if your employer doesn't have logging software, they can get physical access to your laptop and look for logs and data manually. Importantly, you can't predict when and if this could happen.
How to Use a Differential Analyzer
Not a crash, but don't miss this one of a locomotive being dropped. Oops.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvyIrsZ7Zhs
If you ever find an ACM (or IEEE) paper that you don't have access to, chances are you can find the preprint on one of the author's website.

The easiest way is to search for the paper on Google Scholar and see if there is a link that says "[PDF]" or "All X versions".
I knew about the audit route, and I should add that at least for this method, the fact that you accessed the e-mails is permanently saved in the audit records.

While this means that yes, "the company" can read your e-mails, it also means that they can't deny doing it if it actually happened. Neither can a rogue employee do it without there being a record, assuming you have accounts properly setup and don't share account passwords.
Can someone please explain to me like I'm 5 why adults have to be told that other retail outlets exist besides Amazon?

If you are one of these people, please kindly explain to me how you forgot there are other shops.
I've done this. It doesn't work for some third party shippers who claim to ship immediately (cancel option removed) even if they don't.
I didn't get laid off due to the pandemic. But I've got a very generous notice at the end of January that I have until 30th of April to find a new job (I was told they have to reduce costs and can only guess it's due to investor pressure).

I started looking actively for a job somewhere at the start of February and had several very promising leads and eventually, at the start of March, several pre-offer stages of the interviewing process with several companies.

And then the whole thing happened. Some companies told me they are freezing hiring, others didn't say anything, and my best lead had to leave me hanging even though it was clear (signs that I read during our real-life meetings) he wanted to hire me for two separate projects and a full-time job.

I waited for about 3 weeks, thinking to wait out the initial panic. But it became increasingly clear that is not going to die out anytime soon.

I wrote a very short intro of my profile (with a link to a CV) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22752249

Not sure I will have enough savings to last me several months so not going to rely on that and will be looking to start a new job -- or consulting -- as early as possible.

Stay strong, people.
Yes. These links are shown in the video :-)
Using the Mozilla Build VM
Yeah...no. In the situation I was in, I tried this. Only to find out that my supervisor's manager was sleeping with her. Worse yet, he gave her the password to his e-mail and she was reviewing them when he was travelling - including the one where I asked to have a meeting when he got back (and the reasons why).

It got unpleasant for awhile, but I was fortunately able to move to another group and watch from afar as the sandcastle she and her paramour had created crumble around them. They were both asked to leave at the next round of layoffs.
Link for anyone interested in applying: https://www.globalgiving.org/redbackpackfund/

It looks like they're closing applications once they receive 5,000 so time is of the essence.
Can someone enlighten me on where would the money come from? Spain annual revenue from taxes seems to be $320B a. If they spent all of it on UBI, it would translate to just $500 a month a person.
I'm spaniard, and havent read anything alike on the Spanish news.

What they want is to roll at some point some budget for affected bussiness but thats all... but isnt any different of what other EU countries are doing at the moment.

My suspect is that Spain relies heavily on turism, which is affected in the short term and probably in the long term, so people will have to find another source of income otherwise they wont be able to sustain their families.

Probably there will be some bugdet for that sector, but everything is just speculative atm.
"WhyTheLuckyStiff" - although off topic, let's remember the time of the cheery comics and the epics of Ruby programming :-)
Agreed, I have found that as well. I have tried to define how much momentum I need to stay engaged. For instance, I started a YouTube channel. The process of creating videos was a short enough feedback loop (a few days max to start/finish a video) that I was able to stay engaged for longer than normal. I fed off of each finished video as the momentum to keep working on the project of "growing an audience around a topic I was passionate about".

I have also found that I am able to stay engaged in other applications where I have a shorter feedback loop, to maintain momentum.
Can someone enlighten me on where would the money come from? Spain annual revenue from taxes seems was $320B in 2019. If they spent all of it on UBI, it would translate to just $500 a month a person.
Google’s auto-complete for speech can cover up glitches in video calls
Agree with you, but just one small nit pick is that Mahindra (Indian car manufacturer) is now making ventilators too, and Anand Mahindra (CEO) has been exchanging tweets with Elon.
Foursquare Merges with Factual
Same. I put in a big order figuring if I have a three week turn around, better buy three weeks of stuff. Two days later I see the poor delivery guy unloading all my stuff.

Now I am an inadvertent
horder.
Depends on the state. I believe there are several in which the answer is "yes".

https://www.justia.com/50-state-surveys/recording-phone-call...

Also, depends on to what extent that room can be considered public. (IANAL TINLA)
I like https://www.appsmith.com/ which provides front end as a service for publishing internal tools.

The good thing about appsmith is it comes with self-hosted version. For data-conscious companies, it's the perfect solution.

Developers can collaboratively build internal tools and publish them.

The vast library of UI components on appsmith gives you enough flexibility to build the apps the way you want them with simple drag and drops.

You can build your internal apps by connecting APIs as well as databases. I personally like the API support as it gives me control over input validations and flexibility to add business logic as well.
Maybe we'll realize through this pandemic that a huge number of existing jobs are bullshit and totally unnecessary and finally start transitioning to a basic income.
It wasn't difficult to know, was it? Gates and some other were already alarming about this, even some documentaries were produced about this.
Ask HN: Do other people have days in which they're dumber than usual?
I know the title sounds foolish but...I think I noticed this during undergrad, and it happens every once in a while now, years later:

most days I'm my usual self, but every now and then (maybe a day every few months?) I'm just...dumber. And I can pick up on it pretty quickly, for example when I try to think about something that's not ingrained in my routine (such as a work task), it just feels like my mind is...foggy?

And it's not food or exercise or sleep, because especially with the pandemic, my routine is the same.

Does this happen to anyone else? Google searching warranted no lead on the matter.
Your second point was my first thought - mostly because of an experience I had.

I used Pushbullet's recipe for "Google acquisitions" up until the night I got the notification "Google acquires 4chan". After being perplexed for a bit and a few more "acquisitions" were made, I discovered the recipe just used Wikipedia's List of mergers and acquisitions by Alphabet[1] page as a source.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
Hopl I: https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.1145/800025

Hopl II: https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/154766

Hopl III: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1238844.1411838 (use next button on the left to proceed)

Lots of absolutely fascinating stuff in there.
Would be interested to know if you can do all this by using their open-source conmmunity edition, or would you need to use their paid / Pro version. Since the pricing for the paid version is not given, not sure but assuming it would be fairly expensive to use / deploy? My preference is for an open source tool so we are not locked in to a propreitary platform for the long term.
That's a non sequitur though. The fact that the CDC and WHO have made mistakes does not imply that the models of J. Random Asshole are worth anything.
I’m convinced they do this on purpose. The more time you’ve invested, the more likely you are to acquiesce and pay their exorbitant shipping fee.