skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience at large corporations, it's mainly used when you're participating in the meeting from your cellphone, because you're on your way to the airport, on the train, in a hotel lobby, etc., but it's crucial they don't make a decision without you or that you hear all the details or correct misunderstandings. Obviously this is more common day-to-day for management/sales who are constantly traveling, than engineering.

For whatever technological reason, cell phone calls tend to be far more reliable than internet calls. Especially if you're in a taxi or on a train, you may get so many dropped packets it's literally unusable. While an actual phone calls works perfectly fine.

Not sure if it's how carriers prioritize traffic, or different technologies, or what. I'd be curious if anyone has the answer.

I'm also not sure why this would be any different in Europe.

(It's also, of course, the option of last resort when you can't get the damned app/microphone to work for whichever of a million reasons.)
Are you guys taking applications from South America?
How the fuck does one even arrive at the possibility of using ECB mode? Even knowing nothing about encryption, I know enough not to do that.
See how precious little I know about encryption? And yet even I know that ECB is a terrible choice!

(In minor defense of self, I should have said CBC or "later").
In all of your discussion, you never actually took a policy position. It's clear the OP is advocating for a public program to ensure no one in NYC/the US goes hungry, and that the government is the responsible party in that obligation.
> would you say "always use gc:arc" is a safe bet?

This is the first release to offer `--gc:arc` so there are still some rough edges, but I would follow @treeform's and @rayman22201's advice from sibling comments: give it a try, it might work for you without any problems, and if not - report it.

The long-term plan is to make it the default.
Yes.. except I get more matches here.
I see no reason why you can't start a new job, you can have another job and receive the furlough pay as far as I can tell [1]. This may be in breach of your first employees contract but as long as its a job in a slightly different industry few contracts would prevent you starting a new job.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/claim-for-wage-costs-through-the...
It's hard to say what the world will look like next year but I've heard from colleagues that a number of their clients are not going to proceed with H-1B filings because of the economy.
This will undoubtedly help a lot of people - something worth emulating in other places as well!
You wouldn't have to let go everyone who doesn't take the deal if some people did. But everyone who doesn't would be taking the risk that they're not as valuable as they thought. I'm sure some of the 40% who were let go would have been valuable to keep around for their talent, even if their actual job disappeared with the customers.
Conversely, Plaid has been pretty successful here.
Hi Peter, I'm a dual citizen Canadian(born)/Italian (passport) with 20+ years experience in Tech. Co-Founded and sold my own business and now CTO of the company that acquired my business. I don't have an actual degree and my highest education level is a private college degree from a tech trade school called a DEP and some industry specific certifications like CISSP, CISM , CEH, MCSE. What's the easiest way for me to get visa sponsorship, if any?

Thanks
> All it tells me is something about the publisher and their target audience.

Yeah, that their demographic is weebs... I'm not sure what your point is, but mine is that waifu2x is effectively branded, not poorly branded.
There's no delivery. You have to pick the food up.

According to NYC:

> Starting today, 3 free meals will be available for ALL New Yorkers in more than 400 Meal Hubs, Mon-Fri: http://schools.nyc.gov/freemeals.

Since it's being run by the Department of Education, the pickup locations will probably be at public schools (the same as when the program used to be only for school children).
I am on OPT but think I may be laid off soon. Would I be eligible for unemployment benefits if so? Separately, am I eligible for the relief payments of $1200 per adult? Or am I excluded from both because of my immigration status?
I'm not sure if you are in the US, but if you are apply for unemployment and apply now. The sooner you do it the longer your savings will last. And having gone through this before, you need to cut spending to the bone. Beyond not going out to eat since that is handled, but see if you can reduce your car insurance, drop online recurring services, etc.
Ask HN: Extremely good at logic but can’t understand classes, objects etc.
What should I do? I am extremely good at logic. Mensa IQ 130. The thing that breaks my head is dealing with classes, objects , abstraction and stuff. (Self taught wanna be coder.)
Thank you, that's useful to know!!!
> Why get so combative in responding?

Because you were arguing tens of millions of deaths "changes nothing."
I asked this the other day

>Am I misunderstanding the product, or are the streams not being merged on the server into a single feed?

Are they not recompressing streams depending on the receiving device? I find that somewhat unbelievable?

Its interesting if what they say is true. Each device encodes their feed exactly once, and then when you are on a call with 50 people, you are receiving 50 separate encrypted feeds, which your client all decrypts separately? With one common key for the whole meeting, and the server has the ability to decrypt for ptsn and recordings, it just chooses not to when those features are not used?
The statement wasn't about how Apple's phones compare with other phones. It was (pretty clearly I thought) about how long Apple phones with new batteries last against those without new batteries (and throttling applied).

>Seriously - can you tell me how long you received updates on your android phone?

I've used Apple computers exclusively since about 2005 and phones since around 2009. So no, I've never owned an Android phone. In fact, my small apartment has no less than 8 Apple devices in use between my partner and I.

Why do you assume I'm not an Apple user? Because I said something mildly critical of them?
Coronavirus forces Florida farmers to scrap food they can’t sell
This is great stuff. I am currently learning React and will try to clone this, thanks for the inspiration!
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>when the article says that

"study reveals"

>physical stretching of force-sensitive histones

"physical force"

>can influence gene expression,

"spurs gene expression"

>without the assistance of any other factors

"alone"
I'm of the same opinion. I keep one on at all times, especially for those moments when someone's teleconferencing software turns on camera by default and I'm not in a work-safe outfit or environment.
Why does Apple allow this?
Think of it as aiming a phone at another phone. Apple would decrypt everything and then reencrypt it.
I doubt there is any definitively proven date of the start of the spread. It very well could have started sooner than claims.
You would still proceed with her green card application because she would still be eligible for a waiver and immigrant visa even if DACA goes away.
Thanks, Alex. That site/map is by me.

It's a cached / high availability version of the "Meal Location Search" site. As that site was crumbling under traffic (response times > 10s) and did not have a map, I've decided to publish its data to GitHub and redo the site. Above the map, there's a link that opens the map in the Google Maps app on mobile.

The geocoded data is here: https://github.com/gregsadetsky/nyc-free-meals-covid

Ping me for any questions / comments -- gs@gregsadetsky.com

I would love to make this nationwide. Where do we start?
That's interesting-- I hadn't heard that sugar or salt might counter satiation. I have seen a bit of correlation between sugar intake combined with fat intake, though. Which makes sense some given fast food menu items (high fat food + a soda).

Do you have any links to papers about salt and fat counteracting satiation?
I'm just a viewer of that course. I guess for Mac users, it's easy, cause MacOS already comes with Python (3.x?) preinstalled. The course author himself video streams from the MacOS system.
My impression was that using "choosenim" switching between versions is easy already, but I might be missing something.
Yeah I try to only use analogies to explain something that's a bit abstract to a layperson. You could say Covid-19 is like a war in the sense we are being attacked, but the enemy is hidden and attacks with stealth, and I often hear the term 'frontliners' to refer to medical staff or medical staff working 'in the trenches'.
2) That's correct.
Show HN: A simple Vue app I made for visualizing NY Times's Covid-19 dataset
Absolutely -- one of the tools I wish more classrooms used.

Even in a CS program, its surprising how difficult it is for many students to provision the correct software.
Sweat is not a problem. Droplets from respiratory tract are.
Don't you know? The coronavirus is a "hoax." It's perpetrated by the libs. /s

Of course the people who would believe something like that would still vote for this moron. They are not exactly intellectually gifted themselves. Nor do they have values or principles to speak of, choosing to elect someone who is likely a serial rapist, among other crimes, as president.
My deferred order for nonessentials says otherwise.

I believe Amazon is prioritizing necessities but still has to deliver other items. Everyone has different needs. They also still want to effectively operate after covid-19
Announcing a new Sponsorship Program for Python Packaging: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2020/04/sponsoring-python-packag...

Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22772410
> Recommendation: better document binary and add an intent to remove text data types.

I would note that it's required in Postgres for custom types to implement in/out (text encoding), but not required to implement send/recv (binary encoding.) In case send/recv isn't implemented, the datum falls back to using in/out even over the binary protocol.

Given the number of third-party extensions, and the ease of creating your own custom types even outside an extension, I'd expect that deprecating the text protocol will never happen. It's, ultimately, the canonical wire-format for "data portability" in Postgres; during major-version pg_upgrades, even values in system-internal types like pg_lsn get text-encoded to be passed across.

Meanwhile, binary wire-encoding (as opposed to internal binary encoding within a datum) is just a performance feature. That's why it's not entirely specified. They want to be able to change the binary wire-encoding of types between major versions to get more performance, if they can. (Imagine e.g. numeric changing from a radix-10000 to a radix-255 binary wire-encoding in PG13. No reason it couldn't.)
I use Common Lisp and Clojure(Script) for personal projects. Lisp can be a tough sell in a corporate setting, however, some large companies do use Lisp. To my knowledge both Walmart Labs and Cigna use ClojureScript for at least some of their products.
Yes. We shouldn't draw firm conclusions from sketchy data, although we should "play it safe" based on preliminary data. More creative, ethical, larger sample-size studies on transmission modalities need to be prioritized to focus remediation. Perhaps massive testing across the populace, symptom characterization and measuring virion shedding as directly as possible. If we don't know how it spreads or what kind of carriers spread it, fear and anxiety of the unknown will only compound the situation.
It can be straightforward if you maintain two entirely separate kitchens forever :D It seems like the complexity comes in trying to chart a path through the grey area between 100% separate and 100% integrated.
It's so weird to me that you can dismiss people 'at will' but not offer them reduced responsibilities and pay to stay on.

I get that we don't want people doing the professional equivalent of being an awful partner until your S.O. initiates the breakup, but surely it would be useful to let firms get creative when drastic measures are genuinely needed.
This is from 2007, which is apparently the year they opened Sturdy Gertie's new twin bridge. Sturdy Gertie replaced Galloping, after Galloping galloped into the water.
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I'd assume the solution was introduced with the iPhone 6. The problem was there much earlier, due to the way Li-Po batteries work.

As such, it could even be counted as one of the touches Apple is known for that other OEMs don't bother with. It just needed better communication.
I’d rather see a $15 minimum wage, and an EITC run in reverse, where anyone that hires someone who is struggling gets a $10 credit for every hour paid.
(posted this on ShowHN last week)

I was on track to have this paid service offering launched in the coming weeks, but the economic uncertainty brought on by COVID caused me to rethink the go to market plan.

I iterated quickly on something I could offer to those in need now and in the coming weeks. This is one way I can give back.

If you have been impacted and will be, or is already scheduled to, interviewing soon, I want to help. If you know someone for whom this would be helpful, please share.

https://www.interviewat.com/prep-service-special-offer

Any and all feedback welcome
Space is fun and rockets are cool.

Let people enjoy things.
Given the limited options, I would refile the H-1B petition as a change of status. (You would lose the already aproved petition.) This would allow you to stay past May 22nd and there's a chance it could be approved by then or soon thereafter.
Elixir :)
Have some empathy. If you worked in the warehouse or have a family member that does, you might feel different. The issue is not that grocery stores are better, but that if someone get's sick, at least sanitize and deep clean if that makes your workers happy.
Build Some New Habits
Yet another great reason to always play speed metal really loud :-)
Will Covid-19 Kill the Whiteboard Test During Job Interviews?
Being white isn't correlated with merit despite what you think.
Yes, I understand that, but that doesn't change the fact that if you are able to manage your money effectively (and if the alternative is using a debit card, you are, since, as I noted, the money has to be there in your bank account anyway), then you can take advantage of the credit card's benefit of not giving anyone direct access to your bank account, as a debit card does.
If you email us at hn@ycombinator.com I can send an intro.

Same offer for anyone who would like an intro to Peter by email.
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>It's about the government controlling everything from the size of your soda to your toilet seat size to the way your kids are educated to how you get your healthcare.

I see these things as falling under "consumer protection laws." There are lots of areas where the free market creates perverse incentives and society has created regulations in order to address these issues. We have food regulations because companies used to lie about the food they were selling, we have building codes because companies were constructing unsafe buildings, we have education regulation because schools were failing to provide a base-line education, and we are pushing for healthcare regulations because the private sector has fucked healthcare industry so badly that most of us feel that we should nuke it from orbit.

You might not agree with my take, but I assure you that we are talking about the same thing. You may not think the public agrees with these things, but regulations like this didn't appear out of thin air and private companies certainly didn't put them in place. What happened was the public got tired of dealing with these problems and elected politicians who did something about it.
The problem is they were already operating on razor thin margins. Imagine people walking through their lives with only $10 of savings, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. First time something happens, boom, you go bankrupt.

Same with PE companies. They leverage up to the highest possible values, and then a bit more. They knew the risks of doing so, but the risks were worth it because they would make so much money if they paid off. But they didn't paid off. Why should we bail them out?

In fact, is there something we can do to PREVENT these colossal leverage figures? Banks don't care, regulators can't do much about it, PE companies don't care, the companies being bought out don't have a say, and neither consumers.
"Oracle's DB2" - Do you mean Oracle's DBMS? DB2 is an IBM product.
Or severely deflate. The instruments and people and equipment will still be there, just much much cheaper to get. Companies will be owned by defaulted bonds rather than stocks.
That's just a bald statement by the entity that would have to be deceitful. It doesn't even specify how the key exchange is done.
I don't see that (and there aren't any and really can't be any valid statistics on this since there are no real measures or controls).
“Effectively branded” would be branding for the audience that are ripe for using the tool: almost everyone who watches video and has a high resolution screen.
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State your point clearly please.
That's only true for free trials.

If you pay for Apple TV+ / Apple Music / Apple News and then cancel, you can keep using it through the end of the period you paid for.
Can we just do an expedited chapter 11, so the company is still functional when things come back online, but instead of the current shareholders you would have the current credit holders at the helm?
If people are getting free food and shelter during a crisis, it's one thing. But if they are getting it 24/7/365 year after year, it's a red flag that they aren't self-reliant.

The solution is not to pour more money into ensuring their needs are met but to examine why they are not able to sustain themselves. Maybe they have no skills because they dropped out of high school. Maybe they are in and out of prison and can't find a job so they keep turning back to illegal activities to make money. Maybe they are truly have a physical disability and cannot help themselves.

But there are a LOT of people that would benefit from being paid to work and learn some new skills (even if it's janitorial work at government facilities or indexing/archiving work at museums, etc.) vs. a check in the mail. Of course, a check in the mail is much easier to implement than evaluating an individual's circumstances and helping build them up in a way that will make them more self-reliant in the future.
> you are the enemy of treating people humanely

As opposed to, what - exactly? This is quite a forced dichotomy you are presenting here, and I really don't think it is helpful, nor informative. I would expect this kind of commentary on Twitter, but I would have had a higher standard for HN.

Twitter makes money off of lighting fires under its users' asses, as does much of the media today. What you are doing here is trying to protect what THESE companies stand for. I find that to be much more revolting than those who are defending Amazon.
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> Yea, it really isn't great. But it's far from clear how to do it inline in a robust manner.

How would you feel about Postgres listening over QUIC instead of/in addition to TCP?

It seems to me that having multiple independently-advancing "flows" per socket, would fix both this problem, and enable clients to hold open fewer sockets generally (as they could keep their entire connection pool as connected flows on one QUIC socket.)

You'd need to do something fancy to route messages to backends in such a case, but not too fancy—it'd look like a one-deeper hierarchy of fork(2)s, where the forked socket acceptor becomes a mini-postmaster with backens for each of that socket's flows, not just spawning but also proxying messages to them.

As a bonus benefit, a QUIC connection could also async-push errors/notices spawned "during" a long-running command (e.g. a COPY) as their own new child-flows, tagged with the parent flow ID they originated from. Same for messages from LISTEN.
Can't find anything dark mode related on that page
Works for the ISS and OpenBSD users
this seems needlessly complicated. it would be a neverending game of whack-a-mole to get the whitelists / credit multipliers adjusted for every food sku.

if we're already assuming people can budget reasonably well, why not go with a UBI-like food stipend and enroll every citizen? calibrate it so people with zero income get a reasonable (possible COL-adjusted) amount to afford a month's worth of healthy meals and phase it out smoothly respective to income. can't really be abused unless you hide your income and also avoids the fiscal cliff.
Not the author, but have some experience with the mailgun api. AFAIK there's no sla/guarantee/redelivery for the webhooks, and they have to be setup for each domain. Looping the account to fetch all logs for the last 48 hours is relatively simple and robust.
Cook takes Jobs’ zealotry for pruning (which he probably developed in reaction to the struggles of “first” Apple) as religion. Anything that doesn’t make boatload of money gets cut or left to rot.

Macmini and OSX Server were products for niche markets that “second Apple” is completely disinterested in.
>a job search in the middle of a recession does not sound like any fun

During the dot-com bust, I was very lucky. I had lunch with someone I knew just a few days after I was laid off for dot-com bust related reasons. And he ended up hiring me about a month later.

However, during the interim I was job hunting, including meeting with various other executives I knew and I don't think I had so much as a nibble. And, of course, at least at the moment, there aren't a lot of service sector jobs you can take just to keep some money rolling in.
I have no idea where you got this idea that being "tested daily for COVID-19" is some sort of requirement for preparing food right now.

Nobody is getting tested for COVID-19 unless they are symptomatic, or they are rich and get to bypass the normal testing process.

More importantly, testing asymptomatic people every day is just a gross waste of tests...
It's not really about my metaphor being better, though I apply this approach to problem-solving just about every day and it has played a part in a pretty successful career. It's not even about any particular one metaphor being better. The real point is that finding a metaphor/slogan/mnemonic that can be applied usefully to a particular situation is a perilous exercise. OODA is just an example of trying too hard to "borrow success" from a completely different kind of endeavor. It sounds smart at first, but doesn't hold up to serious scrutiny.
Yeah, I'm surprised how this post doesn't make HN front page. Because of the number of people downvoting this post?
The effective phase of infection only starts when the first symptoms occur. The virus is not airborne, it relies on liquid droplets to be inhaled by the next victim, thus even infected, as long as the individual does not exhibit sings of sneezing or coughing, the posed risk of infecting others is quite low.
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