skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “There’s a problem with X, it matters, but I don’t personally have the fix handy AND YOU ARE EVIL FOR USING X

This is a straw man.
On video you could for example show a child very extreme images of violence. I think you could seriously harm someone in just a few seconds doing that. Not the same as phoning someone.
This is all second-hand, etc., but from what I've heard, NJ's IT systems are a mess across the board.

The most shocking story was about their system for tracking Medicaid patients. Their system had a fixed-width field for the patient's ID, and they ran out of identifiers - so they just started to recycle them again from the beginning. This problem was multiplied by the fact that, to say money, they didn't have backups of the original, clean data before the recycling. Thus it became pretty much impossible to understand what benefits had been afforded (or not) to whom.

Governmental budgeting seems biased strongly in favor of labor expenses, especially those with seniority, to the detriment of the maintenance of capital assets. This is pretty much a recipe for technological debt.
I find it incredibly uncommon to see real repercussions (even temporary ones) resulting from cyber security failings of companies.

In this case, some large part of the issue was in deceptive (at best) promotional material. Does that mean people understand messaging, even if they don't understand encryption?

I'm sure many readers here have seen incredible breaches of trust and security, such as Equifax, go almost entirely without punishment. This is an interesting case in the opposite direction. It is worth noting for balance that Zoom does appear to have favoured usability, and successfully so.
The Dutch word for doing gymnastics is "turnen".
Pg_hint_plan: Execution Plan Hints for PostgreSQL
https://scrapinghub.com/guides/web-scraping-best-practices/ may be of interest to you.
I guess mild forms of such, technically speaking.
Sorry, I meant the price it sets for the api calls. The article calls out $10/1000 so the current price is a penny per call. I’m interested in how they set that rate.
It's roughly 7500 daily in the US. another way is the Ave global CDR calculated at the mid point of the year.

1.8% Birth
0.8% Death

~360M * 0.008
The way I see it is those doing the executing were handed an impossible constraint. Immediately upon having that constraint loosened, the keyboards became pretty much perfect.
Sadly you are required to use their browser rendering engine. This has been their stance since the start, horrible for developers, great for their dominance.
> Again people not on the front line criticise those who are.

The people on the front lines often don't have a great view of the entire battlefield.

There's a good reason the general is typically at a command post a ways back from it.
The ecosystem would be the harder part. It's either a 360 mainframe, AS/400, HP MPE, etc. The editors, compilers, runtime, batch schedulers, etc, are all different.
I saw this used as some Python library inside another app, didn't quite understand it.
Well, the invention of fracking solved that!
What we need is an AI agent that runs locally, crawls the web, figures out what you want to see, and turns off any javascript when you look at it.
Assumptions based on early results using these tests can be problematic. https://mobile.twitter.com/zbinney_NFLinj/status/12457896728...
That’s simply false. The aftermath of the American civil war for example worked out fine for large swaths of southern elites compared to the general population. Social disorder generally is bad for everyone, but the elites often recover faster with fewer problems.

Looking at say the fall of the USSR it was well connected elites that ended up making vast fortunes.
Intern or junior-level in a COBOL environment, unfortunately. Like others are saying, the problem with COBOL isn't (just) the language itself, it's all of the decades of very delicate cruft that has grown up around it. COBOL-the-language is absurdly simple to the point of being a little brain-damaged; but you have to be able to work in an environment where there's really close coupling between COBOL and its host operating system, and where minor code changes can have unintended consequences in seemingly unrelated applications, and the database isn't transactional, and there's no version control, and...
Having a hard time understanding why prank calling someone and threatening sexual violence against them not being not a big deal.
This will not be shocking to you in the slightest, but: It'll look exactly the same!
Sorry, I can't find it.

Maybe that's because it's already 5/04 here.
Awesome intentions behind the idea, but I've got to be realistic: how on earth are you going to motivate enough people to report on availability?

I'm a huge fan of crowdsourcing, but I'm having a hard time seeing how the math works out even remotely here. It's very, very different from Waze in this aspect.
The Theory of Everything explained in a less painful way
Maybe I don't know the numbers. Maybe I only work for a startup because it allowed me some flexibility I wouldn't have had otherwise. Maybe I didn't know that a global pandemic was going to shut down the economy. Maybe I'm fresh out of college and don't know better. Maybe I lost my last job and had to take this job because the other option was to go bankrupt. Who knows?

My point is the same as it was in my gp; your attitude is grim and you're misplacing your negativity onto real people. This is the wrong time to do that. In this situation, there is only one explanation for schadenfreude and that explanation is that the person feeling it is an asshole. I'm glad I've only head the pleasure of speaking to you on the internet.
There was no "aggression" in Crimea. Not a single shot was fired. And Russia did in the past "afford" several sustained wars of the scale unimaginable in this day and age. It was much weaker then that it is today, and fought much stronger adversaries (Napoleon and Hitler, to name just a few).
There's definitely a difference between yelling profanities at someone and flashing them. A video call is different than audio and I believe it would be disingenuous to argue otherwise.
To be fair, most Americans don't believe the official 'lone gunman' narrative: https://news.gallup.com/poll/165893/majority-believe-jfk-kil...

But what can anybody do about it?
In the US, the right to travel is one of the most basic. The right to work comes along somewhere close to that. I couldn't have imagined Americans would ever stand for such a thing, but current attitudes seem poised to easily fall over to that.
I think there's a difference in ignoring and trying to avoid being bombarded by media that aren't interested in reporting the current situation (in a toned, objective way) but getting clicks and profiling people with loud headlines and cheaply done content all the time.

We do all live in a huge stress now but it's important to remain sane and not let sink ourselves into some depressive state by being spoon-feed by media - that definitely won't help anyone in long turn.
Because they are making the same short-sighted and overly-optimistic decisions practically every other country has made so far?
Not saying it can't be harmful. But "cyberattack" just isn't the right word.

I can email awful images to you too.
Of course it requires a critical mass of people reporting before it becomes widely useful, and thinking cynically, I could see people "InStock-bombing" their local store - saying it's out of everything - in hopes of driving people away and keeping it for themselves.

But if you've solved both of those problems and/or found them not to be problems, I think this could be really helpful

Edit: Also, I just tried to search for it on the App Store by "InStock" (what it's called on the website), and it didn't come up. Then I searched for "whats in stock" and I think the one that came up (named "WhatsInStock") is this one, based on the screenshots. I think greater consistency would probably result in greater discoverability and trust.

Edit 2: I just opened it up and the nearby stores it found didn't include HEB, which is the most common grocer in my region (Texas), nor Whole Foods nor H-Mart. And while there isn't one close by, if it doesn't have HEB it probably doesn't have Central Market either. Just fyi.
I think you're somehow right, it's just that society is used to phone and potential jokes whereas they expect web stuff to be more secure and intimate. It's more relative psychology.
What a fall from grace.
a naked guy joining a school lecture or someone in a virtual AA meeting encouraging people to drink is much more than a prank.
> Having a hard time understanding why prank calling someone and threatening sexual violence against them not being not a big deal.

I don't really think I said that, did I. You're either imagining something I didn't said or you're deliberately misrepresenting.

I said:

> Not the same as phoning someone.

And it's not the same. It's surely far more harmful to be able to show someone an image than just audio. You can literally do everything you can in audio in video, and then more.

You don't have to listen to me - I think you'll find that flashing someone is prosecuted more severely than an obscene phone call in most societies.

Also, threatening sexual violence is never a 'prank' - don't do that.
Ellison Is an Asshole
I believe that YouTube's algorithm can exacerbate mental health issues. Watching too much dark or otherwise unsettling material can absolutely lead to a downward mental health spiral for some people.

After many years of dealing with mental health issues, I am constantly monitoring the effect that my behaviors and activities are having on my mental state. I have personally experienced watching YouTube contribute to a decline in my mental health.

I've developed a few strategies for mitigating this:

First off, I monitor my urges and behavior for warning signs. If I find myself drawn to dark or unsettling things, I try to determine the contributing factors. Often, I come up with things going on in my life or unmet needs that are likely contributing factors which I can then work on addressing, or at the very least acknowledging.

Second, I only watch YouTube videos via the web interface while not logged in to a google account, with cookies being discarded at the end of the browsing session via incognito mode or a temporary browser profile. This helps ensure that any darkness I stumble into doesn't follow me around and drag me down. It does result in YouTube's recommendations being useless, but useless > harmful IMO.

Take care of yourself. This pandemic is not only going to be hard on physical health. My email is in my profile if you ever wanna chat about anything at all.
It seems like that would be cyber harassment and attacking someone.
Emails to myself.
People will come to the wrong conclusion and suggest that Zoom should have defaulted private from the get-go.

However, it is almost certain that default public was a key contributor to meteoric rise.
There is a surge in support for economic nationalism due to this pandemic citing lack of medical supplies as the reason.

However while if everyone had their own factory meeting their own regular needs that would mean everyone gets a fairer share at the moment. It wouldn’t mean everyone gets 100% of their needs, because demand is through the roof. (Yes there is some scaling up that could be done, but point still stands).

It also doesn’t seem an automatic given that while some industries should be viewed as critical for security reasons, that all industries must be local.

It seems there’s need for much more nuance to this. Countries need better cooperative systems for handling such events as part of negotiating trade treaties. A kind of economic NATO (for a probably terrible analogy).
Dissecting Black-Scholes Formula for Object-Based Pricing System Design
Weak on the cyber but possibly quite strong in the attack.
Take a look at Vietnam and Singapore. Both clamped down hard back in January. They were keeping their numbers quite low (<100), especially impressive considering Vietnam is 100M people.

Once the virus spread to other countries and they started to shutdown, a lot of Singapore and Vietnamese nationals returned home. Contact tracing indicated that almost 100% of new cases were people returning from overseas.

Last I checked Singapore has close to 1,000 cases and Vietnam almost 300.

To answer your question, yes, stopping international travel can have a big impact on controlling the disease.
No face masks so California’s farmworkers are left unprotected
Not to mention that East Germany still suffers from economic stigmas that still haven’t gone away 30 years after reunification. It doesn’t get the same kind of investment or attention that West Germany does today.

One fairly high-profile (yet topical) example of this is the top flight of German Football. East German teams rarely even make the German Bundesliga[0], and my understanding is that there’s currently only one Eastern German team in the 20-team league.

0: https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/oct/17/west-g...
Each result will at least be a Places Query. That's $0.017 per request, or $170 for 10000 visitors making 1 request each. So your $200 free quota is enough for a day and a bit, if we ignore the nearbysearch.
You don't often get sprints where you are typing consistently, those are usually your most valuable "zoned-in" sessions.

I don't see why you would interrupt that, it takes awhile to get zoned back in.

Go walk around after you have a good session. This seems really annoying.
> big leagues and land that $300k FAANG job that allows you to buy a home and raise a family in the bay is infinitesimal.

$300k/yr is nowhere near big leagues to buy a home and raise a family in the Bay area, just fyi. It's more like a comfortable single income where you aren't worried about paying rent or going out to dinner.

You try and raise a family on a mere $300k in SF/SV, you're one layoff or recession away from being completely screwed.
It's not really the point of a zombie movie, or any movie or story containing magical, free-energy beings/things/spells/doodads for that matter. It's just an accidental consequence of the magic/fantasy.

For zombies the point (and the plot) should always revolve around the existential dread of relentless, never-ending hordes of beings who want to eat your brains.

It's like the old story about the very best thing superman could do is simply turn a crank powering the world's energy. All that flying around saving people is actually a massive, inefficient, effectively people-killing, waste of time.

Try writing many series of comics about that though!
"Like many Unix users, I long ago created a ~/bin/ directory in my home directory"

No, this is my laptop - /usr/bin is the place for that. No, this is a simple server - /usr/bin is the place for that.

Perhaps I'm missing something after 23 odd years of using Unix systems including this Arch laptop.
To me the most pertinent question is how long is the impact going to last. Are we ever going to get this under control? If it takes 6 months can any of the service businesses survive that long? What about startups?
I've been reached out to by Google recruiters with COVID-19 specific messages. They know this is the time to hire software engineers.
They 20x their users in one month. 10MM to 200MM
I'm on a couple facebook groups for teaching during this and some people are freaking out about this. Lot's of FUD spreading around when some of my peers do not seem to be very technologically savvy and stressed during this.

I can see why K-12 teachers would be worried about it but I teach college and if it happened in one of the classes I teach I would probably laugh.
Yeah this would be about extending it to columnar analytics funcs, like `df['x'].apply(f)`, `df.query("x > 10 && y < 10"). I realized I may be wrong about the compiler speed part, not sure if it'd be faster than numba for codegen nowadays :)
Same here. I don't recall ever seeing anything about them in newspapers or on TV news except in entertainment news sections/segments.

I think that a lot of people nowadays don't really have news sources. Whatever news they get is whatever shows up on their social media feeds which include hard news, sports news, entertainment news, satire, opinion pieces, and come from a variety of sources including what their friends post or like, wire services, newspapers, blogs, and paid promotions, selected according to what the social media site's algorithm predicts will keep them most engaged.

For most people, they will be a lot better informed if they pick a handful of news sources that either are just news, or that clearly separate news from other content, and skip the "news" that shows up on their social media--just use social media to see what your friends are saying.

Also, there is no need to constantly follow the news. That's another problem with the "news as part of social media" approach. It's just mixed in with everything else that way, coming in 24/7. It's easy to get overwhelmed.

Best, I think, is to watch the first half of one of the daily news broadcasts on your local TV station. That should give you all the important things you need to know for your city. Do the same for the national news broadcast of one of the major over-the-air TV networks to keep up with the major national issues.

You can even do this while doing other things, like reading or web surfing. Just make it a habit to put on the daily local and national news broadcasts, and give them enough attention while reading or surfing to notice and watch when something important goes on.

In addition to, or instead of those, use a major newspaper if you want more depth.
Surgeon General also said masks aren't effective:

https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/12337257852839321...
I whole heartedly agree. The problem with government tech positions is they are not even competitive. Instead of hiring three mediocre or less than mediocre engineers at $60k, why not hire an amazing $150k - $180k engineer? I’m pretty sure they have ceilings on positions just so people don’t get outraged at government salaries, but incidents and times like these prove government needs to be competitive with private business to attract talent. Especially in national security and healthcare roles.
Look: you just got slammed with ~10 mil unemployment in the USA. Call it 10% of workforce. Most developed countries are now running at 15-30% and it's about to get worse.

Entire industries are pretty much relying on bailouts or they fold (leisure, air (non-freight), cruise, hospitality, restaurants) and the people who own the real estate (or lend it out, Reits / Mortgages) are going to get hit by their tenants / clients being unable to pay.

You're not in the "ramp to land" scenario - you're in "this VC is going to look at the contract and claw back the largest % of capital they can, in the next 4 weeks, due to margin calls and other commitments".

Anyhow: no-one will read this, but it's fair warning to you guys. You're about to get frack'd, hard.
Honestly this feels bizarrely knee-jerk and media-driven to me.

First of all, Zoom has been used in education for a long time. The quote about switching to Teams because it's FERPA-compliant is disingenuous -- Zoom says they are too. [1]

Second, Zoom has been receiving tons of scrutiny recently while e.g. Microsoft Teams hasn't received any. (Nor has Google Meet.)

I'm really not sure how I feel about this. It's been hard enough already on teachers to adopt remote learning, now they're expected to switch platforms after a couple of weeks, presumably mostly because of sensationalistic media reports of "Zoombombing" which a teacher can trivially prevent?

[1] https://zoom.us/docs/doc/FERPA%20Guide.pdf
Many high-status politicians are clueless fools with no idea how to avoid infection, or how to minimise the risk of contagion within their immediate circle.

Most won't die unless they're in a vulnerable age group. But they will spread the infection to friends, family, and colleagues, some of whom will die.

The median age in the House of Lords is 70.

As for elite panic - armed gangs are already a thing in the UK and US. The suggestion they wouldn't move into a power vacuum left by the police/military when they're already battling for turf with violence, extortion, and intimidation is hard to take seriously.

Yes, there are plenty of people who will help others, especially in nice middle class enclaves. But you only need a small minority of dark triad types willing to use violence to create an immediate problem for everyone.
Have you recently used the app store? It's horrible. Most of the apps are just ad filled junk. Some of them outright try to scam you with bait and switch tactics like taking advantage of Touch ID to get you to start a trial and then charging for 70$/week after your 1 week trial ends.

And I've recently came across a lot of "free" apps with good reviews that are only free to download but requires you to pay the moment you start using them... and pay for a subscription. They seem to wait for the app to get good ratings and then push an update that essentially turns it into a paid app in disguise.

The layout and the UI of the app store itself are just horrendous too imo.
Having android and apple devices I always prefer using the google play store, because at least the UI is usable.
Hello, what version of Firefox are you using ? This is an example I just recored: https://vimeo.com/404161208
[..] The mask shortage may leave farmworkers vulnerable to the airborne fungus that causes Valley Fever, Coccidioides immitis. The disease’s symptoms are similar to the flu, including fatigue, shortness of breath, fever and sometimes lethal lung problems.

Unlike the flu, however, Valley Fever attacks the weakest part of the body. While most people who inhale the fungus may simply think they have a cold, in others, the effects can last a lifetime, and result in death or amputation.

It’s not just Valley Fever. Dr. John Balmes, a professor of medicine at University of California San Francisco, said farmworkers can be bombarded by dust and dirt while sowing, tending, picking and packing produce, and the particles can be dangerous to their health, setting off asthma attacks and irritating airways.

Many field laborers prefer to put on N95 or dust masks when heading out to work in the open, exposed to the elements. According to Balmes, N95 masks protect against vapor particles, such as sulphur, a common fungicide applied by farmworkers, or Coccidioides. Dust masks only protect against larger particles and simply guard against irritation of the throat and airways.

Now, however, many say they have switched to bandannas, which Balmes said offer little-to-no protection.

“That exposure can trigger an asthma attack, even if it’s not diesel or infectious particles, just plain soil,” said Balmes, who also is a professor of environmental sciences at UC Berkeley and a co-investigator on the CHAMACOS study, a long-term research project that investigates the impact of pesticides on children in the Salinas Valley.[..]
> I personally thought the screenshot labeled "have to do better than this" was the most readable. The one after that just looks faded.

It looks like they're using the darkest background ("pure" black or nearly so) for code blocks. Seems like a reasonable choice to me, given that the need for clarity is strongest there.
why does postgresql use a process per connection? Is there some advantage to doing this over using threads for each connection (or even asynchronous connection handling)?
How does your hypothesis apply to, for example, Mexico? Seems that "eventually" may mean decades, if not longer.
So why not Webauthn?