skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, "be a good manager" (basically what "coach people" means) is kind of hand wavy. As is any statement of "be good at your job".

But if you want specifics: A good manager doesn't need to drop a nuke on the situation: They've paid enough attention to be continuously evaluating their operations and, in the case of meetings or any thing else, asking themselves and their employees, "what are we doing here? what is the value of this activity?" and pruning things as they go. So, again: Maybe the nuclear option is needed in some situations, but if so, it means things have been poorly handled to get there.

"Cancel all recurring meetings" shouldn't be passed around as some trite startup productivity "hack" like the cliche "have all meetings standing up", like something everyone should thoughtfully consider as an insight into modern business culture norms. It should be spoken of in whispers to organizations so mired in their own incompetence that, in recognizing a problem, they can't even think of a good solution except to drop a nuke on themselves.
This is really puzzling to me. How did they not see this coming? I watched Zoom's CEO on Jim Cramer's Mad Money. He was not convincing.
Makes me wonder if Signal moved elsewhere to avoid the EARN IT act, could they still publish their app to the Android and IOS stores?
Trello: Non-admin users will be a paid feature
1MB of the flash is used as a swapfile and creates virtual RAM space to the emulation through a MMU caching system

That sounds like it would wear out the flash very quickly, especially given that the embedded flash on MCUs like these are not really designed for much in the way of write cycles (the usual case being firmware updates and configuration changes, both not high-frequency operations.)

Interesting hack nonetheless, it reminds me of this: https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linux%20on%208bi...
The Fed did end the short-term targeted lending programs once markets stabilized and alternative financing become more available. Not really enough to dent the balance sheet though due to the size of the govt. bond and MBS purchases from QE.
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Apple apps can only be developed on Apple computers and if you pay a fee to Apple for the privilege. And they own the app store. There's lock in and then there's complete vertical integration.
True, but one cannot deny the explosive growth of Disney+ (´･ω･`)
> So how is the neighbouring comment wrong or worth ignoring?

Well the neighboring comment raised none of the points you have. The neighboring comment did nothing more than draw attention to the username/karma of the 'jsjddbbwj' user, and insinuated that the user was part of a conspiracy by calling the comment ironic.
It's worth mentioning KIPR BotBall.

There are three major STEM promoters in the guise of a robotics competition: Offerings from FIRST, competitions sponsored by Vex, and KIPR BotBall. FIRST is the most well known at this point, thanks to excellent promotion by Dean Kamen. And Vex is great. But I think Botball has long thought been historically the best of the three, if the goal is to inspire, teach, and enable students who otherwise wouldn't have had an such opportunity.

BotBall is a shoestring nonprofit which was out very early doing competitions using Lego, motors and sensors, and MIT Handyboards: essentially a middle-school and high-school version of MIT's 6270 class. Botball competitions pit one robot against another and the robots are fully autonomous. Once the lights go on, the robots are completely on their own. Botball doesn't do teleoperation at all. This forces students to think of robots as complete systems of mechanical, electrical, sensory, and computational elements. I think this is good.

But BotBall has a critical additional big plus: it is very cheap. BotBall is a shoestring nonprofit and costs very little for schools to get started, and they work hard to allow schools to reuse most of their kits the next year even as the competition changes, so the rewnewal cost is extremely low. This means that BotBall is a very good choice for Title-1 and other disadvantaged schools, as well as non-school entities. One problem I've seen with some STEM ventures is their high cost, which is then offset by corporate sponsorship for schools. And there are a lot of problems with that model, often resulting in bias in selection of schools, or in kids' educational experience getting sidelined in the name of corporate success. BotBall is not only cheap for schools, but it's so cheap that corporate, private, or academic sponsors can jump in without a need to win at all costs. I myself have funded several Title-1 schools several times as a (mediocre) line item in NSF robotics and AI grants I've received, and highly recommend it.
>There are no technical measures for Signal in place that allow anyone to verify the build all ends of said end-to-end encryption

There is no technical measure in existence that allows that for any application. This is called a nirvana fallacy.

> nor any technical measures to ensure the software they are running won't be updated with compromised end-to-end encryption by the vendor in the future.

That applies to all software that requires automatic software updates, i.e. networked TCBs. You want something that doesn't require updating, you use stronger model like TFC.

>The measures I talk about address both points by removing trust from the vendor and distributing it across many independent entities.

And users are going to compare diffs of multiple vendors for every update to see nothing malicious was added? Give me a break.

>It's not just legal anywhere in the world, it's what a lot of software already does.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proofs.

>Anyway, if end-to-end encryption requires the exact same level of trust as TLS, there is no point in it.

And this is the general whataboutism propaganda I run into all the time. "There is no perfect E2EE model, therefore using it doesn't matter".

Forward secrecy and risk of legal trouble are two perfectly valid reasons to use just opportunistic E2EE, even if you don't authenticate the keys.

May the rest of the community credit your "ideas" with the silence they deserve.
I'm glad that's what you meant, and I apologize for reading it otherwise. There's an ugly strain of "it's just a flu" around here and "better" is ambiguous. :)
One tip I’d like to add that has helped my writing tremendously: read the sentences you write in reverse order. It basically simulates the taking time away from what you wrote process.
Hi there,

In 3 weeks we’ll begin to roll out a change that affects your Trello team by expanding the permissions of free team members.

Starting on April 30, 2020, all members of free teams will have admin permissions. That means that all members of the team will now be able to:

* Add or remove team members
* Change team-level privacy settings
* Upgrade the team

(This change does not affect board-specific permissions, including privacy settings.)

If your team requires more granular permissions, such as controlling who is and isn't an admin, changing permissions is available as a Trello Business Class feature.

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The above is the contents of the mail I got from Trello and the link is copy-pasted from the message. If someone has a link with a better description of the change, please post it here and wait for the mods to change the submission link.
Damn. Dwellito have done a really good job here. I was trying to figure out how anyone "wins" in this space and it looks like they've aggregated all the supply to create a comprehensive marketplace for the built environment. Nice work to whomever made this.
Never heard of it...it's like a rainbow in the dark.
My sms sound as well, IT people regularly turn and look at me very confused.
First-ever live stream of ALPHA CENTAURI
This might be an unpopular opinion on HN, but I don't only pay Apple for the smartphone's hardware. I'm also paying Apple to curate my experience.

As a developer, I understand wanting to get access to a large user base. I understand wanting to keep costs down, especially as an indie dev. And I definitely understand wanting to keep my margins high, to fund better development but also retire early!

As a customer, I'd prefer even stricter controls on the app store and even more curation to keep pushing the application quality higher. If Apple needs to charge developers to ensure the quality of applications is constantly improving, then I'm happy they do. I'm also happy to wait for a killer app[1], deploy it to Android first and then bring it over to iOS when the demand is enough to negotiate with Apple.

[1] e.g. When I switched over to iOS I had to give up Swiping to type on my keyboard, for a few years till iOS was able to catch up. I understood Apple's rationale and waited. Now with iOS and a Swipe keyboard I am an even happier customer.
I don't agree. SARS-1 and SARS-2 are both highly contagious and had similar effects on decimating hospital staff.

You can read the effect on Toronto hospitals in 2002 by SARS-1 to get an idea of the panic it caused, wiping out whole ICU teams. Just like SARS-2 (Covid-19.)
Still, the total reported cases in the US is 460k, so if there are 100 unreported cases for every reported case, that's 46 million, or 1 in 5 people.

But I'm open to new evidence. At the very least, we'll know in a week if this still makes sense. ;-)
Decodova Museum loans art to its corporate members.

https://decordova.org/join-give/corporate-membership

They rotate the art through the year. Its DeCordova so the quality is highly variable, but its kind or decent. The artists don't get a lot out of it, membership and publicity...

https://decordova.org/join-give/corporate-art-loan
Tab width arguments are amusing, because it's always between 2 and 4.

There’s actually a number between 2 and 4. For some reason it's never considered.

I've got a summary of all the indentation arguments here: https://cthor.me/Indentation
It's not hard to find precedents: Nintendo owns the platform and games.
The same person also has a C-64 emulator working on the same board.

https://mcuhacker.wordpress.com/2018/03/03/running-the-c64-o...
So don’t participate in that market. You have that choice.
A founder's perspective on how extraordinary this time is – and isn't
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22411324
I would like to see some data on that. I worked in a few different factories and never saw that; the best I recall is coin-op vending with dubious sandwiches. And I've consulted for a whole bunch of companies over the years; the ones that provided free on-premises meals were rare indeed.
Magic Mirror?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7696017
> I've worked at companies were every line of code has to be reviewed and approved by a lawyer. Yes a lawyer (usually a former engineer that the company paid to go to law school) is reviewing some dumb little javascript or python script for license and legal compliance.

Jesus, what company was that? And how about libraries included... Will this lawyer now also need to go through that?
As a non-native English speaker, using a thesaurus is often a great help. I do have a pretty decent vocabulary, but sometimes the right word just doesn't come to mind.

Besides using a thesaurus for writing, I occasionally also find it useful for naming things when programming.
Like food, health care, and education. Encryption is not the reason human trafficking exists. Poverty is the reason it exists. The separation of wealth is the reason it exists.
But they'll flee to Texas at the drop of a hat when they see how far their housing dollars will go. That makes California suspect as a national identity.
"guise" implies misdirection. What is their true intention?
And how's that working out for Sweden? 20x death rate to date compared to neighboring Finland which has a lockdown in place, and an ever accelerating rate of infected. Cool, cool.

Also China today is nothing like China pre-covid. Mandatory mask wearing everywhere, temperature checks every few blocks, in every shop, mobile codes to scan certifying your virus free status before being allowed to buy anything. They're not exactly planning their next Disneyland trips over there.
Did the Economist hire a new writer? The style in the article doesn't fit in with the Economist
> Full native apps are absolute svelte in comparison.

Unfortunately, going by current trends… it will be a full native app wrapping a browser containing a web page trying to look like native UI.
In this environment, if all the affected business had done the same, the insurance companies would have all gone broke and we'd be at square one.
Machine Learning Street Talk
I use Elm on two large websites in production with users.

Elm helps me come back to these projects after months and, in two cases, a whole year, and get immediate work done without recredentializing in the whole codebase (which I have to do with my React projects to a greater extent).

You definitely can't be a fragile developer to use Elm, and I think the small community size makes people feel like others are obligated to listen to their opinions. Meanwhile they don't expect this from an ecosystem like React because they know nobody is going to listen to them, the ecosystem is just too big with too many people with hobby horses.

I've patched the compiler one two occasions for the 0.19 release. One was to allow me my Debug.crash calls. Elm is updated so slowly that it's trivial to maintain your own patch. Though I ultimately factored out my two patches.

While TFA makes some good points, just like I can enumerate the downsides of all technology that I use, a large bulk of it is just emotional catharsis. And I think this kind of exodus is a good thing. A lot of the people who supposedly leave stick around like a turd circling the drain just to give their aggressive two cents any time something negative can be said about Elm. I've always felt that to be most tiring of all. Kind of like the people who show up in every Typescript-related thread to say how static typing is for lazy developers and what not.
I think it's worth separating web components and shadow dom from asm.js. The former are trying to improve the browser and the later are taking browser open philosophy everywhere. Browsers have full support for WebAssembly and keep working on optimizations. It's also taking off outside the browser too (WASI, Cloudflare, etc). If WebAssembly succeeds it's precisely because innovations in the browser did not, and we had to break it open.
I think using the shorten version is perfectly valid only provided the context is correct.

If you are talking to someone about cryptocurrency, referring to it as crypto later in the conversation in context is perfectly valid and doesn't lessen the meaning.

I do however agree with you when outside of it's context that these shortened names are horrible and effectively buzzwords.
> So, again: Maybe the nuclear option is needed in some situations, but if so, it means things have been poorly handled to get there.

When we've done this, everyone on the team was on-onboard and bought in. It's not like people walked in one day and all the meetings were gone - that would break trust.
I just shared the video with my children who are studying film and animation, it was just great
This loan is capped at 1k/employee and disqualifies you from getting the PPP loan...
I actually really appreciated the honesty, rather than hiding and pretending that you had a bunch of users. Refreshing!

It also makes me think of Michael Sebel's comment (paraphrasing) about how if you have $0 revenue or other metric" if it's zero, that should fk you in the face"

Keep up the honesty, our industry needs it!
Even then it only impacts them to the extent that it causes inflation, which at the moment it's failing to do.
Not legal or not reasonable?
>> cheaper workers work for less, but that's not exactly efficiency

> It is efficiency, really, because it's making better use of an underutilized resource. Over time, of course, the price of labor evens out because the resource is no longer underutilized.

It's not efficiency at all, it's stagnation. Since the 80s instead of trying to innovate and automate production lines too many companies have been hopping from country-to-country looking for the cheapest labor pool. We lost 40 years of manufacturing innovations because they were economically unnecessary due to offshoring.
thumbsup!
PSK31 Radio Teletype Mode
If they had users in the US, they would be operating in US jurisdiction. I think the only answer, if the law turns against us all, is to move to a decentralized system like Matrix. Signal as a centralized system has a single point of failure.
http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2014/the-reason-for-the-se...

They stuck a bunch of guinea pigs into a box, one box at 41F, a 2nd at 68F, and a third at 86F.

The box with 41F had the highest transmission rate. The box at 68F and 86F had lower transmission rates, even 0% transmission rate in the presence of 80% humidity.

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No such experiment exists for COVID19 yet. But because COVID19 continues to exponentially grow in the southern hemisphere (Australia in particular), there doesn't seem to be a relationship between temperature, humidity, and COVID19 like there is with the flu.
Web apps have always sucked and always will suck. With decades of development and thousands of frameworks, it still sucks.

Instant apps take the one advantage web apps have (you don't have to install them) and brings that to the native platform. I think that makes a ton of sense, vs "just fixing" something that people have been trying to fix for decades.

How often do you go to uber.com to call an uber? If you want to build a product people actually want to use, make it native.
due to the widespread inlining and the use of templates

On the other hand, this often causes a huge increase in code size, which means less code can fit in the instruction cache, and - even worse - when the system is on the verge of swapping, can make performance drop even faster. It's unfortunate that microbenchmarks often tend to favour such globally-inefficient code that's only slightly faster in isolation but bogs down the system as a whole.

This article is related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18777735
> Takeaway: Any Google product has a very very short lifespan, so don't get too attached...

While that's true, it's not the takeaway from this article. In fact, Google has surprisingly not killed Hangouts yet. This finally seems like a move in the right direction:

- consistent naming, i.e. "Google [One-word Product Function]"

- "Meet" and "Chat" are business/group tools

- "Hangouts" is a personal/social tool

This is the kind of clarity they could've used years ago, instead of creating Allo and Duo.
> frankly I don't see any argument for less than proportional representation that isn't predicated on the notion that some people are more equal than others

Consider two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. That's why the Senate exists.
How about responding to the words I wrote instead of the ones you imagined? I did not advocate "upvoting articles from blithering conspiracy theorists."

I have advocated two things:

1. Not flagging/censoring/de-platforming people for their screwy opinions. Most people aren't stupid, and can assess statements well enough without your assistance. If you downvoted him because you disagree, great! That's what votes are for. However, flagging this is an abuse. His synopsis was mostly consistent with the research, and there was nothing uncivil in his "blithering."

2. If an idea is incorrect, attack the idea, not the person. Going after the guy's politics and his (lack of) credentials is just a lazy, thinly-veiled, ad hominem when the idea is of an objective nature.

And if you are going to ding him on credentials (not that you should), what exactly are yours?
I had a friend that worked on FIRST two teams (one after another..). The enthusiasm level was high, but from what he described it didn't seem super great at teaching as the mentors ended up doing a lot of the work, Especially on the software side.
We compared notes, as I was volunteering at the time for science olymipiad.

I went to the FIRST competition and it was fun. Maybe I'm wrong and those who participated got more out of it than I suspect.

edit: It some people got more out of than my friend indicated. Maybe better structured teams than his..
What position are you applying for?
I was involved in FRC all through highschool, and later volunteered with a team for several years. Woody truly was the star. I hadn't heard that he passed--I am saddened to learn of it now. As a volunteer in FIRST, the highest recognition you could hope for is the Woody Flowers Award. As a student I was incredibly fortunate to be around several (then-or-later) Woody Flowers Award winners as mentors.
I completely agree with the bureaucrats for once.

Make up new names. Give them (pseudo) Greek names, Dilute trademark and genericise whatever it takes, but don’t undermine the meaning of well defined nouns for the sake of marketing on the coattails.
You could say it's heaven and hell
Unrestrained capitalism leads to slavery (J. Pournelle). So we have to regulate it so that it doesn't get to that state. Capitalism is built around exploitation; either workers, physical resources, or knowledge. This has the benefit of increasing prosperity over time, though at a cost. As unfortunate as these costs are, Capitalism is the worst economic system, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

(Apologies to Sir Winston Churchill)
> a scarce set of resources

Making paper masks and gowns is not like building an aircraft carrier.
they cover this in the FAQs, which are worth reading. They indicate that, if distancing measures are maintained, the first wave will be done by early June. They explicitly say that a second wave is likely unless extra measures, like contact tracing and mass screening, are taken. I also think anyone who is using this model to make (edit) healthcare resource allocation decisions knows about the limitations of the model, and is using multiple models.
Reddit thread where dropbox was first announced (2008)