skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to have empathy for the person on the other side of the table.

Your relationship when questioning is very conditional. Answer question right == get the job.
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>"Unlimited data, free international roaming (with data!), and you can bring your own phone to any plan."

A couple of years ago an American company I worked for had T-mobile phones with a plan that included the free international roaming. This international roaming was 2G data by default. In many countries we had to visit these data plans for internet access were simply unusable because they were so slow. Opening pages a browser would simply time out. This would happen in large countries China, Australia and many European countries as well. The company ended up ditching T-Mobile as a result. While it was free in the sense that it allowed them to advertise it as such it was not functional.
I don't see a solution that puts a swift end to this. The power asymmetry between employers and workers is so vast that situations like these are inevitable.

We can't continue to live in this fantasy where companies have so much power over workers and their futures. But changing this involves organizing labor, which is deeply stigmatized in the US.
Oh that is an interesting approach...

Skype for business threw an error: "Sorry, we couldn't open the link".
Good memories of the late 90s - decoding SSTV images on 14 MHz on my 386DX40 with "JVfax" (DOS - now also available for Windows http://www.jvcomm.de/index_e.html). All you needed was a little converter that connected to the serial port, no sound card!

Back then it was kind of a big deal to see "live" pictures from all over the world, building up line by line.

Today SSTV is not much used any more on the shortwave bands but the ISS regularly transmits SSTV pictures and it's still fascinating.
Sure, but that's like saying "valgrind exists, so C has out-of-bounds checks". It doesn't. External tools have just found ways to add optional safety that the language lacks.
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If Zoom was done well it would be a confined app, and controlling the Zoom process wouldn't give you access to everything the user has access too, let alone allow easy root privesc. It's just rubbish software.

(WebEx is as bad if not worse.)
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I have always wondered how invasive the TSA scanners are and whether one can have an opt-in medical reports that flags potential serious issues from those scans directly sent to you (if something really stands out).
> you aren't at risk from coronavirus

We don't have sufficient information to determine this definitively - some of the folks that have "recovered" have had serious respiratory complications.

Also, just because the farm worker is alright is their mother fine too? What about the rest of their family? Are they going to be treated in a wonderful modern hospital or is a doctor going to send them home to be cared for by their family?

If they don't have insurance any medical costs they take own will come completely out of their own pocket.
> The HN crowd over-represents in the tiny group of people that would bring an outside phone to their carrier.

IMHO, not really - HN is niche compared to everyone who was using HowardForums to hack on their Motorola and Nokia phones back in the day, myself included. T-Mobile was on the 900/1800 (?) spectrum which matched Europe and other places you could buy eBay phones, and T-Mobile was always free and open to people doing this. You could call support and get someone to help you with adding the right APNs and whatnot, they were always the "un-carrier" to many of us.
British American Tobacco is trying to make a coronavirus vaccine
The merged company is being run by T-Mobile's COO.
How to completely remove zoom from a unix system...

https://www.fosslinux.com/3534/how-to-completely-uninstall-a...
Surely it's fine for the user to say where they are willing to relocate.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22751336.
I've described this to others as "a horror movie for fathers". This movie just ruined me, and still bothered by it.
I'd (seriously) like to see how it stacks up against Camtasia, which I've just discovered in my new job that I have no budget for.
So.... non-responsive?
I'm not sure it really is a key aspect, maybe it is a risk. With such a small time difference you can continue - for the most part - as you did before. But there's always the question if what you did before was really a good idea or just "we always did it that way", e.g. many conference calls probably could (and should?) be replaced by written text, which isn't as ephemeral and can be worked on asynchronously.

That is a change at first, but not more of a change than going from a very small company, where everyone talks to everyone and maybe even sits in the same office, to a bigger one where you have to establish processes to ensure information still reaches everyone in the company (if it needs to).
Zero exposure for someone working on a farm is utterly unrealistic.
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> How do we put a swift end to this nonsense?

When every healthcare worker starts defying these types of rules. What are they going to do? Fire all of them?
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Probably any of the education-specific tools that are maintained similar to enterprise software platforms, where they add 'online video tutoring' capabilities to check off a feature/table-stakes box, but it has a painful UI that makes OBS look like a dream to use, and adds an extra few thousand dollars to the school's bill every year.
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np! It's quite a frustrating state of things.

To be clear, only the rendering engine is fixed on iOS. Chrome, FF get some leeway to build other bits of the browser themselves on iOS, such as the netstack and the UI. But all new web features are limited to what webkit supports bc, well, it's webkit.
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In case you were not aware, when English is selected as the site language, the chat popup remains in Deutsch.
This may increase your Internet speed too since they won’t have to do an extra hop to intercept all of your traffic
Tutorial: Lynis Security Audit for Linux
> 4) will people abuse the system such that it ruins it for everybody else

> I can see a far more likely implementation of this would be a mixed case -- "work from home wednesdays" or something like that.. not friday or monday because then basically people would assume there is a certain amount of abuse of people working for 1 hour on Friday then starting their weekend early..

This is a pretty fake concern in my experience driven by butts-in-seats culture. I'm gonna take hours off and work when I feel like it when working remotely. If that means working 8 hours, sure. If it means I don't do any work on a Tuesday, who cares? All that matters is if I'm delivering what is expected of me (e.g. my spring tickets) and available for communication. If I spend 4 hours a day working & 4 hours studying & playing mahjong online, what's it to you, you know?
Not necessarily. Newer Linux distros have ptrace disabled on all non-child processes. You can still turn off this protection if you need to.
Your %'s are off by a startling amount.
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>We already shut down our entire civilization so that the healthcare status quo could be maintained and bills can keep getting sent to the correct address.

What a garbage interpretation of what is going on. Jesus Christ, I'm jaded and cynical, but that's just too much.

Saying that we don't want to overwhelm our medical capacity because of the billing, versus the actual reason of human deaths. Too much. That's just too much.
> Bones don't produce a strong MR signal, and usually show up as black. While people occasionally try to interpret these (e.g., https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3500787/) I'm not confident you'd be able to find a hairline fracture on most scans.

MRI is superior to x-ray for fracture detection. It’s just vastly too expensive and slow.
Bone shows up great, dense cortical bone has little signal but most bone isn’t cortical. When bone breaks it produces oedema which is perfect for MRI. When it’s hard to work out clinically and/or the x-day is inconclusive, patients end up in MR.

Bone tumours and other pathological conditions are also imaged with MRI very effectively.

I’m an MR radiographer.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12690778_Diagnosis_...
I'll become interested in the kabuki once there is any indication of an actual increase in competitive pressure on ATT or Verizon, of which there is currently close to zero.

But I'm betting there won't be. (Literally.)
I received emergency alert messages on all of my cellphones all night last night begging for healthcare workers to register at a state website to help. Whom the power lies with is clear.
"Expect" is a word that has different meanings depending on the context: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/expect

> To predict or believe that something will happen

In this sense, I do not expect most websites to work without javascript.

> To consider obligatory or required.

In this sense, I do expect most websites to work without javascript. At the very least, for accessibility reasons.
> The points you mentioned are coming from a place of privilege

The fact that I disagree with you is not evidence of "bad faith." But since you bring up privilege, I think you're just making poor excuses. Your Visa situation does not represent the majority and dismissing every successful negotiation as "privileged" just breeds learned helplessness.

If you have authorization to work in the country you live in and you can demonstrate that you're being underpaid, the onus is on you to approach your boss and make a case. You can always start looking for another job if they politely refuse. Or start looking first and come back with offers. This doesn't require any magical privilege.

I'm also mildly offended that you believe yourself familiar with my situation. "Privilege" is turning into a racist and/or sexist slur. It's a blanket term used to excuse failure and breeds complacency when people hide behind it. There was no need to make this argument personal.
He also explains why you should do so.
On many systems, and by default, yes - but the other part of what's going on is that Wayland allows applications to be sandboxed like they couldn't be before, as they can no longer use your X server as a conduit to spawn an unsandboxed shell and run commands. You can, today, run e.g. Firefox in a sandboxed environment and be certain it can't access anything you don't want it to.
Interface is similar across the platforms; I had to do a few test streams on macOS before I could find settings that didn't cause streaming hiccups or problems with other software. I also had to make sure the OBS app interface was on a monitor separate from the one I was streaming; otherwise sometimes it would have some weird stuttering issues.

No matter what, you'll probably need to spend a little time tweaking things to get it all working like you want. But the 'scenes' and preferences are pretty good about letting you lock things down once you do find something you like.
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I think the doom to failure part is due to a scarcity of resources (especially an environment to pollute), which inherently causes distribution issues.

If the world had an infinite number of detached single family homes in places with fresh water and secure food supplies and good weather, making things "fair" would be quite easy. We can certainly do better than we currently are, but the underlying reason things aren't fair is that nature doesn't offer fair.
I'm not personally familiar with Google's culture, but I came to USDS from AWS, and you're right that government work culture is pretty different from what you would see in the private sector.

One of USDS's core values is "Go where the work is," and we embed people with expertise in agencies to work on those agencies' priorities. Frequently, that means joining existing projects and working within the agency's culture (while also pushing that culture to be more flexible when necessary). USDS engagements tend to have a lot of support from agency leadership, and USDSers tend to learn ways around agency practices that get in the way, but we're very much joining and working within an existing, government work culture in each engagement rather than importing our own.
Remote on-call doesn't have to be stressful
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again preaching to the choir. I agree.
Keep in mind that those "work from home" jobs depend on people in China labouring away to produce your cheap computer hardware.
> unconvincing satire, so much so that I didn't realize it until about 1/3 of the way in

Hum... I have some news for you.
What is the rationale for not being allowed to bring stuff from home?
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FaceTime and iMessage are resilient against spam because Apple requires them to authenticate using a hardware-specific token that can be banned independent of which iCloud account is being used. It is extremely expensive to try and spam on Apple’s services as a result, which is a competitive feature in today‘s free-for-all marketplace.

Opening them up for non-Apple devices would introduce the same problems with spam and malicious attackers that we see with telephone calls and public Zoom meetings today. Without the hardware-locked identity enforcement, FaceTime would be a garbage bin of endless spam calls to everyone everyday.

It seems unlikely that Apple will take any such step, as no one has yet offered a solution that provides for defense against spam that functions without hardware identity verification.
Thank you so much :)

> I am a big believer that Lambda has so many different areas to grow

Yes, I intially created it as a free tool for website monitoring since it can alert you in real time via email / telegram if your website goes down or doesn't look as expected.

But as I developed the idea i found another benefit that since these are puppeteer scripts they can even do a login to the member's area and check the insides (most website monitoring sites only check for uptime of http codes).

Now I'm also using it to monitor the price of a motherboard on Newegg and alert me if it changes (the script is in the examples folder) just for fun.
I find stories like this bizarre and exasperating. You don't have to be any kind of expert to know that a pandemic would devastate the world. And it certainly isn't something that was discovered in 2019. Planners have been contemplating this sort of thing for decades, if not centuries.

The question is not "Should we not have done more knowing this might happen?", which is useless. Rather it's "Considering all of the various awful things that might happen, are we allocating our resources correctly?" It may very well be that we forseeably did not, but there are a lot of other really serious risks, and getting this tradeoff right isn't trivial.

We can't spend an infinite amount of money on everything.
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Technical reasons aside, it still meant Verizon/Sprint phones were effectively locked to their networks until recently.
Also watch Trump backtracking on his stance: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/31/politics/trump-coronavirus/in...
I'm not sure about "either", but Google-Fi is both - ie service from both Sprint+T-Mobile on one device.

Unfortunately, given the shutdown plans for the Sprint side of the combined network, I'm not convinced (though remain hopeful) that this will be competition to AT&T and Verizon.
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Several doctors I know are prohibited from wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) such as masks because the administration at the hospitals where they work think it will scare the patients. These doctors aren't working directly with Covid-19 patients, but given the nature of a doctors work and the fact that they are working in hospitals it's very likely that they are at a higher than normal risk for being exposed to the virus. It seems incredibly irresponsible and dangerous that they aren't allowed to wear any protective equipment at all.

None of these doctors want to create a fuss and risk their jobs so they aren't fighting back.

Do you guys have any ideas or strategies that can be used to persuade hospital administration to allow their employees to protect themselves? I've thought about calling local news stations on their behalf, but is there a better way to persuade them?
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It seems insane to me that most working front end developers don't know how to manipulate a DOM with javascript.

Not saying this is or isn't true, but it seems insane.
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I see what you mean. I think the dying moment or few years before it are a good judge whether one lived a good life that one can be proud of. I struggle to see how corporate career is something that would get one there. This is purely my viewpoint of course, I have only my mindset and values. But its clear to me personally what I want in life and care about. That traveling (long term backpacking in India and other places) also gave me pretty good knowledge of myself.

As they say, 'whatever makes you happy'. Just consider long term happiness, and not only momentary kick.
I'm not sure how those two statements go together. Do a lot of people really refer individuals they don't know at all outside of a cold outreach just for a shot at a referral bonus?

All three jobs I've gotten in the last 20 years have come through people I know. (One was a referral; the other two were getting hired by someone I knew.) But these were people I actually did know and had worked with in some manner.
Assuming equal value created, companies should pay remote workers more: normal pay + savings from not using office related overhead (rent + equipment + amenities)
for sure, it's the dynamic that matters to keep coercion in check, which is broader than any one constituency. but that constituency is important to the dynamic too.
I would agree... Because in my opinion it is the same as religious belief. People in first world countries are getting more and more secular because they have more time, more willpower to decide about life on their own. If you are poor or sick you spend all mental energy on caring about here and now and you let "higher power" to lead everything else.
The pandemic is the result of unsafe handling of infected meat in in China. It had to cross the Chinese border in order to be present elsewhere.

Moreover, it was predicted that such a pandemic would start in China, for exactly the reasons that it happened, yet China did nothing to prevent it.

Smithsonian Magazine, 2017: "Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic?"

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/china-ground-z...

On top of that, the egregiously deadly 1918 Spanish Flu, and numerous other viral epidemics, have historically come from China.

National Geographic, 2014: "1918 Flu Pandemic That Killed 50 Million Originated in China, Historians Say"

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/1/140123-spanis...
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China acted relatively speedily. Even then we don't know the extent of the public health damage caused in China. Countries like SK, HK, TW, SG acted relatively quickly and for that are now able to still carry out business with relatively low community spread.

The countries that responded with inaction must now pay the price, or will pay the price.

I don't think it would be a 3-4 month shutdown anyway. I expect a gradual loosening of rules starting in a month or earlier, as new cases drop, and as we understand more about the virus, as well ad the efficacy of various lockdown measures.
I apologise for being off-topic, but what's it like being a dev in Costa Rica? I have considered packing up and moving my life there but last time I checked the average salaries, I was a bit put off.
Isn't video-conferencing a commodity by now, given that we have Web-RTC implementations for a while now?
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