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> When you have people getting £130k for doing React at a fintech company...

How much is that as a fraction of the value of an average family home in your location?

If there's a big fall in salaries, there's also going to be a big fall in property values.
If you, fully aware, won’t prepare accordingly for special circumstances, why should strangers do it for you?
This is the difference between leaking and whistleblowing. Leaking is for one's own personal benefit. Whistleblowing is to expose something you feel is wrong for no personal gain.

I wouldn't call this a leak unless the news agency paid him or something else that benefited him.
At first I thought this was a "how-to" brag from bird themselves. Based on what they actually did, would you have been surprised?

Please put a little conscious effort into reminding yourself that the way people perform in difficult times is how we should judge character. This doesn't mean not doing hard things, it means a focus on compassion, empathy and aspects outside your own immediate environment. The simple act of truly giving a sh!t gets you a long way towards the ideal.
Your first point is correct, second is definitely not.
http://dpointernational.com/the-differences-between-halal-ko...
Yes... https://www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-local-foodbank
> Nope. The point is if I am inside their OODA loop, I can make decisions and react quicker than the adversary. Now they are reacting to my decisions and I have the advantage.

Yes you'll have the advantage because they'll be making bad decisions as the situation will have changed by the time they've decided to act on older information. It's not sufficient to simply act faster you have to be making good decisions as well.

> The keyword there is "could be". That's what makes leadership hard. You have to know when is enough information to make a decision, and when you need to wait. Or if you made the wrong decision, what can you do now?

Yes exactly so acting isn't axiomatically the thing to do. Although making a great folly seems like a great way to get lionized in military history. :D
Your point about the fallibility of self-reporting sense of smell is valid, but please don't talk about real and serious food sensitivities in such a flippant way. They aren't subjective in the same way as smell, and there are medical tests available and widely used to verify intolerances (such as the hydrogen breath test for lactose intolerance, or the intestinal biopsy for Celiac disease).

For testing by sense of smell to work with any degree of certainty, there would have to be similar tests beyond self-reporting.
Apple does not have access to FaceTime keys or iMessage keys for that matter. They are truly end-to-end encrypted, and I don’t think there is any need to cheapen or muddy the term for the sake of marketers.
Uh no. One of the primary reasons why kosher is more expensive and logistically difficult than some other dietary requirements are the requirements for separation of kitchen space, rules around treatment of utensils and so on.
possibly related, https://web.stanford.edu/class/ihum40/cave.pdf
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one additional problem (which I guess is a corollary of your first point): they are too expensive for the end user. in my area at least, renting a scooter to go a short distance is 50-75% as much money as an uber/lyft, and you might have already walked a quarter of the way there before finding one with a decent charge. over longer distances, the scooter is a lot cheaper, but also much slower. they only make sense for a narrow range of medium-length trips that are too long to walk, but still short enough to get there in a reasonable amount of time at 15mph.

I do enjoy using them sometimes when I'm feeling lazy but still want to get some fresh air, but it's not really an economical means of transportation.
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You've linked to the dodo bird hypothesis, but the dodo bird hypothesis does NOT claim that all psychotherapy is placebo. It claims that all or nearly all established evidence-supported treatments given by trained professionals produce very similar outcomes.

If you read deeper in the page you linked on the subject, it goes on to the actual conclusion that the common factors of psychotherapy - empathy, positive regard, strategic alliance, and others - are predictive of psychotherapeutic outcome across therapies. In addition, it is shown that many key features of modern psychotherapies including awareness of one's thoughts and emotions are essentially universal therapeutic components.

In the book on the subject by Wampold and Imel, they found real and significant difference between therapists on their ability to produce outcome based on these common factors. So while modern therapeutic models may be indistinguishable in terms of outcome, modern therapists are not. And there IS such a thing as better vs worse therapy. And this is an ongoing research area.
Aren’t most of their developers in China?
I think that is exactly what Reiki is!
Feeding people will always be a matter of profit: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-dairy-...
Yeah, they were probably worried that you were sick.

But overall, it helps signal to everyone that you are taking precautions seriously.

And the more people who wear masks, the less stigma there is associated with wearing them.

The macro impact can be huge:

"If 50% of the population were to wear masks, only 50% of the population would be infected by the virus. Once 80% of the population wears a mask, the outbreak can be stopped immediately." https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258525804_Testing_t...
You think he went to lecture in Hanoi in the middle of the Vietnam war for shiggles?
I think you raise an excellent point, that many don't really think about.
Detection is hard, and research on microbes is hard if you can't grow them in-vitro. There is research in this space. A few years ago, I had a lecture from Slava Epstein, a professor who has made some major inroads in this space[0].

[0] https://experiments.springernature.com/articles/10.1038/npro...
Perhaps Apple aren’t doing this so much for you-the-individual-consumer, as for government buyers who don’t want devices that might, if root-kitted by some foreign government, become listening devices even when nominally “off.” Hardware interlocks like this ensure that, at least, the device can only be recording audio while in use, while making it evident by their physical state (lid closed), even from across the room, that they can now no longer possibly be recording. That makes them more interesting to such buyers.

(But if Apple cares about this market, wouldn’t you expect their laptops to have a lot more security features to appease these buyers? Not necessarily. This sort of thing is pretty much “enough”—governments are used to having signals intercepted by foreign intelligence, and so they have mitigations in place, like shutting off all electronic devices before having important conversations, or creating secure rooms known to not leak emissions, and then requiring that nobody bring anything electronic into them. For non-classified but “off-the-record” conversations, the ability to say that there’s no known hardware in the room actively recording the conversation is usually “good enough.”)
> Is ECB any worse than any other deterministic encryption?

Yes, it's objectively worse than literally any other AES mode. You wouldn't need to depend on compression to protect your data.
You need a lot of people to distribute and pick up scooters as well as do maintenance on them.
Under what circumstances would you expect an infection in the future to be more likely to cause death than an infection right now? Maybe some fad treatment will be embraced by everybody that does more harm than good? Maybe the world economy will collapse and nobody will be able to manufacture ventilators any more?

Any scenario I come up with seem very implausible compared to the idea that as we learn more about the virus our ability to treat it will improve.
You are never guaranteed privacy.
Reasonable if evaluating your treatment options, and those are the only two available to you.

Not reasonable if you are trying to determine the best treatment options and others exist, such as "anything with actual clinical trials that show it more effective than placebo", which is hardly an unrealistic alternative.
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An atmospheric railway would not be silent. Steel wheels on steel rails make a lot of noise, especially before the development of continuous welded rail, and also when without the dampening effect of being on the ground.
Use Nasicort for a few weeks. Smell came back in about a week for me. (Previously, stuck my nose in fresh coffee grounds, nothing at all. Scary.)
Yes: https://www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-local-foodbank
And do said wealthiest Americans get a say? They are going to be kicking and screaming (and rightfully so).
> Zoom will be placing the Web Client into maintenance mode and take this part of the service offline.

Good. Take that web client offline until further notice, because there's no way I'm installing that ZoomInstaller.pkg malware on my Macbook since I can just use Jitsi Meet instead.

> We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause.

No need to apologize here, I think they've done quite enough. A great reason to use Jitsi Meet.
I would be really interested to no what the cost of this program is. Even if it's above a modest cost I think it's something the city should look into providing going forward. We should consider providing basic services to all our residents no questions asked starting with food and hygiene services. I also think New York could be greatly improved by providing public bathrooms and showers.
Many things have become " just-in-time", production, so much that depends upon things ticking along and any bump like this, sure does start toppeling many a dominio.
There are lots of places where common sense and intuition fail us. Experts are important. The issue here is they tried a hamfisted approach of lying to prevent panic buying.

What should have happened was "masks work, here's an approved pattern you can make at home with just some cloth, and we're nationalizing PPE production and distribution for the time being; please know that's so the healthcare workers who may save your lives can stay alive".
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"We found that force can activate genes without intermediates, without enzymes or signaling molecules in the cytoplasm," said University of Illinois mechanical science and engineering professor Ning Wang, who led the research. "We also discovered why some genes can be activated by force and some cannot."
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Very awesome, not checking IDs so immigrant friendly. I think this is sorely needed with as many people out of work, especially immigrant families that aren’t getting stimulus checks, unemployment, mortgage moritiums, or any of the other benfits.
Best of luck for your business, but here are my counterpoints:

I do not want businesses I interact with to be sending me texts or e-mails unless it's about an order I already placed or if something is wrong and requires my immediate attention. I have already more than enough things to worry about and spend my limited time & attention on to have to waste it on your marketing communications.

My local grocery store doesn't contact me to ask me if I would like a certain product. I go there when I decide that I need a product and buy it. My takeaway place doesn't contact me to ask me if I'm hungry - I contact them when I want a delivery. Similarly, the doctor doesn't contact you to ask if you're sick, and the fire brigade doesn't contact you to ask if your house is on fire.
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Is one plus 7 pro on latest snaP dragon? https://youtu.be/Ic8q1kPseVE
The menu lists mostly prepackaged prison food, nothing fresh to prepare
There is already quite a bit of literature on the placebo effect. I think the effectiveness of Reiki is just another form of the placebo effect. It appears something is being done, and sometimes that's enough to make the patient feel better and help their recovery.

More research is absolutely warranted, though. The hows and whys of the placebo effect are still largely unknown.
Is that fundamentally different from going to the grocery store?
>What I love about SpaceX is that they truly take on the start-up approach of fast iteration, in complete opposite to most of their competitors.

What has convinced you that this is optimal, or even "good", in either software or space technology?

>This fundamental difference is why SpaceX is slowly coming to dominate the industry.

They're making progress in the industry, sure. But dominating it? In what sense is this true?
Once such compromise is PilferShush Jammer for Android/Windows. There might be a similar iOS version, but I haven't found one yet.

Android. Also on Play Store.
https://github.com/kaputnikGo/PilferShushJammer

Windows 10 app.
https://appforwin10.com/pilfershush-jammer-app-for-windows-1...
Is there a relationship between this and the situation at Bird?
At least if they implement UBI then the need to build the wall on the border will increase.

You cant give away money for free and NOT have strong borders.
I thought these people were usually "gig economy" workers, so bird doesn't actually have to pay them if no one is using the scooters.
Why is virus transmission via aerosol such a controversial thing? When you cough, microscopic water drops get suspend in the air and studies have proven other strains of coronavirus can survive in these particles, especially in office conditions.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32226116

And there's at least one study that found healthcare workers are at higher risk of infection during medical procedures that create aerosols.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3338532/

Perhaps it's some human bias and we dread the idea that simply sharing the same atmosphere puts us at risk?

This could be something very positive actually, and lead to rapid non-invasive testing. Imagine virus testing as part of the air filters on planes and cruise ships, could be a very powerful tool for preventing outbreaks.
So, if they work at less than six feet, they probably work at six feet or greater too, right?
With more people obese than not in this country, keeping people well fed is not a problem that we have.
No, now would be a terrible time to start testing this.

Now would be a good time to ramp up deployment of such a program if it was already consumer-ready, but testing? No.
Their competitors have 10x the costs and don't get anything done on time either. This is normal for MIC contractors. They all underbid on their contracts and put their hand out for more money when the phony schedule slips.
If you have a stable tech job and are in a good position right now please donate cash to your local food bank. Many people have lost their jobs and schools are closed, lots of kids in lower income areas get most of their food from school meals.
If there's any organization that could do this well, it's the NYC public school system.

Now, it would also be great if there was a way for the city to set up a voucher system to support the local restaurants as well, so that they'll be able to survive this crisis.
There are plenty of people with real allergies and real intolerances. There are also plenty of people who don't have any allergy or intolerance and convince themselves they do. Those people make it harder for those that have real allergies and intolerances.
>one study of 10-15 year olds in the US found that those who intentionally viewed violent X-rated materials were nearly six times more likely than others to report sexually aggressive behaviour

Isn't that a biased selection? It's a bit like finding that swimmers are more likely to drown or vice versa.

The way that first citation is worded makes me question the validity of the source. Looking into it further it seems like the researchers went in there with the answer and looked for supporting evidence for it:

>A meta‐analysis was conducted to determine whether nonexperimental studies revealed an association between men's pornography consumption and their attitudes supporting violence against women.

Keep in mind that these are fields that are very close to a lot of bs science. If you look up the first author on the study the first keyword that appears is "gender studies". All of this kind of stuff has to be looked at with extreme skepticism, especially when it's a politically charged topic.
Would 1) work if the tap water has chlorine? Can a dead or inactivated virus still be tested for?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-does-chlorine...

"To ensure continued protection against harmful organisms, a certain amount of chlorine must remain in the water after treatment. The remaining chlorine is known as a residual chlorine. It is this tiny amount that you sometimes smell in your tap water."

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/water.html

"Can the COVID-19 virus spread through pools and hot tubs?
There is no evidence that COVID-19 can be spread to humans through the use of pools and hot tubs. Proper operation, maintenance, and disinfection (e.g., with chlorine and bromine) of pools and hot tubs should remove or inactivate the virus that causes COVID-19."
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This is dangerously wrong. ECB is a non-starter no matter the entropy of the plaintext. Trivially broken is accurate. I hope you are not teaching students that it is ever ok.
> Frustration reaching a tipping point and boiling over is my gateway into the code these days.

Couldn't have put it better myself. Thanks for the work you do!
> iPhone is able to keep all apps in suspense, whereas android unloads them

Android also saves activity state for fast resume and keeps activities running until there is memory pressure. I've heard people complain about iOS devices in this regard because they do the same thing but don't have enough memory to do it effectively.
https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/facts

> More than 38 million people are living in poverty in America. In 2019, most families living in poverty earn less than $25,750 per year.

> More than 37 million people struggle with hunger in the United States, including more than 11 million children.
I figured it was something like that.

It's also kind of ironic that the more people become involved in the refinement of documents like this the less and less obvious their contributions become. For example, old official hand-written documents were delegated to scribes. Then authors in this era sent their work out to type-setters who used hand crafted tools created by another layer of artisans. Then to printing presses full of machines which were designed by artisans, built by artisans, and operated by artisans. Now in modern times the layers are as deep as the technology sector, with thousands of people having contributed to digital publishing equipment and thousands of programmers writing and re-writing better and better software to create a better and better product.

It's interesting seeing generations of compounded human knowledge side by side with earlier generations.
I think SwiftUI was a waste of genuine effort that Apple could have put toward making their existing component model easier to work with. Things like adding stylesheets or simplifying layout constraints, or just adding @State binding to existing components. SwiftUI tries to look like react but really it's just normal databinding+restricted access to the direct component tree.
But taking a week to do it costs money. People won't work productively if they might get laid off any second. By laying them off atomically without any advance warning, they can get back to work quicker.

Back-of-the-envelope calculation: It takes a week to lay them off. During this week, productivity will be down 50%. You have 654 employees (ex-post). Say they each cost $200k/year (taxes, office space, etc), that gives (1/52) * 0.5 * 200k = $1.92k/employee in lost productivity, or almost $1.3 million in total.
Exactly. There's no denying that. And that's the public statement that we all deserved. But we're all too used to accepting misinformation from the authorities because we trust that they know better and that the ends will justify the means, which is a highly dangerous mindset because it damages our ability and willingness to distinguish reality of fantasy. In the worst case, it means that we'll accept anything.
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There seems to be a new broad trend of stretching feature names. Shopping for headphones, "noise cancelling" began to be used recently to mean "pretty good seal" and now I see "7.1 Surround Sound" on headphones with two drivers to mean "has some fancy audio processing."
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It's 6 months since the last thread, so time for another. Previous threads we've done: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts.

I’ll be here for the next 5 hours. As usual, there are countless possible topics and I'll be guided by whatever you're concerned with but as much as possible I’d like to focus on the impact of the pandemic on U.S. immigration. Please remember that I can't provide legal advice on specific cases for obvious liability reasons because I won’t have access to all the facts. Please stick to a factual discussion in your questions and comments and I'll try to do the same in my answers!

Edit: I am going to take a break for about 30 minutes. Thanks.

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Yes, burying the lede was strange, but I'm glad he got in Danzig's theory that singing might be one of the ways that this thing spreads very effectively.
At Apple Stores. Not developing their software.
This is a great program, but also it is so so sad that this needs to be provided after 2 weeks of lock down. Really shows inequality in American society
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> Yes exactly so acting isn't axiomatically the thing to do. Although making a great folly seems like a great way to get lionized in military history. :D

Usually when battles are studied in military history, they try to look at it based on what the leader knew then versus what we know now. Hindsight is always 20/20. There are examples of famous battles where even studied now, military strategists say that the losing commander did the right thing, based on the information available.
When would the first wave have happened? If it were in the last year we'd see immune response to the virus in the antibody tests now rolling out. And if happened before the current wave we'd expect to see a substantial degree of herd immunity and not be having the current epidemic spread so fast.